Forecast for Tuesday 22 September 2015

Tuesday 22 September 2015

\Overcoming Impatience/

Moon in Capricorn   ***

/moon goes void-of-course at 4:14p PT | 7:14p ET | 11:14p UT  ** /

(until afternoon of Wednesday)

I was interviewed for a radio show, thanks to its host Suzanne Montalalou, a couple weeks ago, and thought I might broach the subject of the "astrological generations." These I regard as marked out by the transits of Pluto through the signs. Here is a sketch I worked out for the program:

Pluto in Cancer   June 1914--June 1939    Current ages 76-101

Pluto in Leo         June 1939--September 1957    Current ages 59-76

Pluto in Virgo     September 1957--October 1971     Current ages 44-58

Pluto in Libra     October 1971--November 1983     Current ages 32-44

Pluto in Scorpio   November 1983--November 1995   Current ages 20-32

Pluto in Sagittarius  November 1995--December 2008   Current ages 7-20

If you ponder people born in these times with the meanings of the signs occupied by Pluto you will get amazing insights. I do not have time tonight to spell them out.

Then, three weeks later, I saw, yesterday, in the New York Times, the following:

"Generational study being more art than science, there is considerable dispute about the definition of Generation Z. Demographers place its beginning anywhere from the early ’90s to the mid-2000s. Marketers and trend forecasters, however, who tend to slice generations into bite-size units, often characterize this group as a roughly 15-year bloc starting around 1996, making them 5 to 19 years old now. (By that definition, millennials were born between about 1980 and 1995, and are roughly 20 to 35 now.)"

Please notice how closely that non-astrological, commercially-demographically determined demarcation of the generations fits the astrological demarcation I worked out above! The so-called "millennials" are the Pluto-in-Scorpio generation, and the so-called Generation Z are the Pluto-in-Sagittarius generation, now in grade school, high school and early college years. 

My only remark about this at a meeting of Seattle astrologers last Saturday was, "I hope the Pluto-in-Sagittarius kids will invent a cheerier kind of music than the morose, death-dealing lamenting and wailing of the Pluto-in-Scorpio generation," which are all the rage in popular music at the present time. The only new singer who has Pluto in Sagittarius, of an immensely popular sort, whom I have discovered so far is Lorde, the teenager from New Zealand. Her songs are not exactly all cheery (she has the sun in Scorpio, somewhat muddling the characterization) but some are quite pleasant and uplifting in tone. 

For Tuesday: The moon in Capricorn hits a snag when it squares Uranus, and then goes void-of-course (at the time given above). This is not till evening in the east of the U. S. Still, the square with Uranus is not comfortable, so all day we may need to beware of lashing out at people or being overly sensitive. People need to be themselves and will not want their particular characteristics, tendencies or habits questioned or ridiculed.

Personal relationships could thrive, to some degree, on a somewhat professional level, that is, as related to work or projects one or the other is focusing on at present. Differences of viewpoint might be intense, yet could expand the minds of the disagreers by the very friction created between them by differing orientations.

Mercury retrograde has been intense for me recently. Computer problems and delays, none of them fatal but time-consuming; sidepaths which take too much time away from main interests; and so on. A friend on Monday bought a tool to take care of a problem; it was expensive and I wondered if he should buy it but he was in a hurry; he took it home and could not make it work. Just one example of the sorts of things which happen over and over while Mercury is retrograde. I went out for a few hours and forgot to take my smartphone; this was not fatal but an inconvenience, and I have not done that in weeks but the time I did it was, of course, the Mercury retrograde period. We stumble, catch ourselves or fall, and pick ourselves up again.

{Tuesday} /Overcoming Impatience\

Cosmic Piper

P. S. "The rules which the intellect of men lays down cannot apply to the liberated soul,--by the external criteria and tests which their mental associations and prejudgments prescribe, such a one cannot be judged; he is outside the narrow jurisdiction of these fallible tribunals. It is immaterial whether he wears the garb of the ascetic or lives the full life of the householder; whether he spends his days in what men call holy works or in the many-sided activities of the world; whether he devotes himself to the direct leading of men to the Light like Buddha, Christ or Shankara or governs kingdoms like Janaka or stands before men like Sri Krishna as a politician or a leader of armies; what he eats or drinks; what are his habits or his pursuits; whether he fails or succeeds; whether his work be one of construction or destruction; whether his life and deeds are approved by his contemporaries or he is condemned as a misleader of men and a fomenter of religious, moral or social heresies. He is not governed by the judgments of men or the laws laid down by the ignorant; he obeys an inner voice an is moved by an unseen Power. His real life is within and this is its description that he lives, moves and acts in God, in the Divine, in the Infinite."   ---Sri Aurobindo