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talking
about my generation
As
a professional, practicing astrologer with over ten years experience,
the bulk of my work is based on the individual's birth chart, or horoscope
with the purpose of discovering personality, potential, life direction
and motivation and the trends for the future.
A
chart is drawn using the position of all the planets at the time of
birth, all of which move through the cosmos at various rates.
The
moon, for example takes approximately two and a half days to cover an
entire zodiac sign, whereas Pluto, our furthest planet in the solar
system takes many years to travel through a sign. Consequently, all
people in a generation will have this planet in one particular sign.
Pluto,
although it is physically small, is the planet with the most power to
transform. Here we find crises and disasters in our lives, depending
where it is in the chart, and also it will show our potential for healing
and transforming ourselves, sometimes over many years and through many
different crises
It is the Plutonic experiences, associated with death and rebirth that
can have the most profound effects on our life's experiences. In simple
terms, Pluto symbolises the power to change and transform.
If
you were born between 1938 and 1957, Pluto was in the zodiac sign of
Leo. Leo, a fire sign, is about creative self-expression, youth, creativity,
the inner child, the ability to shine as an individual.
Does
this sound familiar? When this generation reached its teens and early
twenties, in the sixties, we had the rise of flower power, youth culture,
new forms of music, anti-war demonstrations, shocking new attitudes
to love and sex, (Pluto also represents sexuality!), space exploration,
and we began to make inroads into the established culture of the time.
The
older generation had been through two world wars, and fresh new ideas
were bound to take shape at this time. In the seventies, the Women's
Movement gained ground with established female roles as wife and mother
began to change society.
The
women with Pluto in Leo demanded a political voice and liberation from
the kitchen sink. The 'burning bra' became a wonderful symbol of this
new freedom. (It is appropriate that Leo is a fire sign!)
And
then in the eighties, women began to successfully (sometimes!) combine
work with parenthood, giving more financial independence and our first
female prime minister. This era was known for its 'yuppies' and many
women began their own businesses and self-financing venture.
In
the nineties, we saw the rise of alternative and complimentary therapies
as the Pluto in Leo generation reached their forties and fifties.
The
realisation came that the youth culture had become the New Age generation,
bringing some of the ideas and concepts that began to surface back in
the sixties.
So
we have seen a burgeoning of psychotherapy, personal growth workshops,
crafts and creativity, and women in business combining economic and
management skills with an holistic approach to understanding and relating
within the workplace.
According
to the US Census Bureau, there are currently 310 million women over
the age of 60. In twenty five years, there will be 645 million women
and 546 million men. This means that the older woman will have more
political power than any other group of people.
So
where do we go from here? It will be no surprise that this dynamic generation
will be responsible for bringing value and status to the older woman
that has been sadly lacking in the generations before ours.
Older
women have been derided and discounted by attitudes and beliefs in society
for too long, but our generation is now producing some wonderful role
models in their forties and beyond.
You
can rest assured that this will continue and the wisdom, value and experience
will begin to shape the world for the next millenium. We have come a
long way when barely a century ago a woman in her forties was approaching
the end of her life!
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