Millennial Fever – Part 5 – On The Generations
Despite the very challenging configuration of Uranus and Neptune in the sign of Capricorn the Millennials – like all other generations – have some additional variety and tools to call on. For example the earliest of the cohort escape the consequences of those planets in Capricorn entirely, enjoying this exact same co-presence but in the wildly different sign of Sagittarius. That should be good, right? The notoriously stable mutable fire sign, ruled by the affirming Jupiter (go for it, he whispers in your ear), with a dose of Uranus shock and Neptune fog? These ones run face-first into disasters of their own making but are at least okay with how it works out for them. It is a different problem, but the one they almost all share is the presence of Pluto in Scorpio.
Pluto is the magnifier, the one who takes all to an extreme case. Scorpio is fixed water, ruled by Mars. A notoriously intense sign, Scorpio has a persistence that is unrivaled. What Scorpio really does not need is to be more Scorpio, but that is what Pluto brings to the table. All of the significations of Scorpio will be increased by the presence of Pluto, turning this into the most obsessive, fixated, and sensitive position possible. Scorpio is “mysterious” and to unravel that mystery we must ask the question: what is it to fix water?
Many say that water fixed is ice, or mutable is steam. Steam is a gas, and ice is solid – these are not water. For water to be fixed – held into position and persistent – requires it to be contained. Scorpio is also ruled by Mars, which penetrates and separates. Many interpret this to be a piercing flow of water, like a firehose, a waterfall, or an erosive stream. These are also not fixed as they are clearly water in motion. The key to Scorpio is to recognize that it is a feminine sign and inherently receptive as a result. Scorpio is a vast body of water with a still surface and great depths which are able to contain, absorb, and be separated by that which it receives. When water is penetrated it easily arranges itself to envelop that which is penetrating it, swallowing it in its depths, immediately restoring the fixed, calm, and still surface.
Underneath the still surface continues to lurk that which has entered. The depths of Scorpio are nearly limitless and it goes all of the way down. “Still waters run deep” as they say. When Pluto is added to this formula we get a wider lake, with deeper currents, and greater and faster objects penetrating its surface. I am reminded of a concept found in nearly every world religion – that we will receive only that which we can handle, but also all that we can handle. Pluto in Scorpio is the greatest receptacle, able to contain even the penetrating blast of a meteor, and therefore it must.
It is appropriate for this generation to be known as the “Millennials” as the turning of the longest date in the Gregorian Calendar is always met with nervousness and apprehension about an entirely new era to come. Great end-of-times cults always emerge as the climactic date is approached and the people are imbued with a kind of pressure to achieve something at such an apparently significant time. You have to party like it’s 1999 when the New Millennium is coming, it can’t be just any old New Year. This exaggeration is precisely the effect of Pluto, who makes everything such a big deal that it is destroyed in the process. How can New Year’s Eve, 2001 ever compete?
It turns out that it can. Pluto in Scorpio, for this cohort, is always present and always the initiator of the sequence of disruption and choice. The first thing for the Millennial is the Pluto in Scorpio event, the great, extreme penetrating of the surface, invariably dashing the ever-so-carefully cultivated stillness and throwing the entire body into question as it reorders, separates, and absorbs that which has come.
A handful of the earliest of the Millennial Generation carry Pluto in Libra, which we will examine in another chapter, but the entire first half of the generation shares the subsequent disruption of Uranus in Sagittarius. Sagittarius is the mutable fire sign and is a very different response to this initiating Pluto in Scorpio event than Uranus in Capricorn’s earthquake, but is it any more effective? The mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, is the carrier of the fire. It sets off with the affirmed certainty of Jupiter to set things alight, and with Uranus present this will be shocking, disruptive, and fiery. Because aspects to this placement will always be preceded by Pluto in Scorpio it is the response to Pluto in Scorpio that is shown here. Powerful and extremely destructive penetrating of the calm, still surface comes and it is immediately followed by the most disruptive carrier of fire, which as a mutable element is inherently influenced by that which sets it off. Altogether it seems that this might trigger something of an overreaction.
Uranus in Sagittarius is a destructive placement which must be directed effectively, like a flamethrower one must aim carefully. In this case it is rarely going to be aimed carefully because it emerges in response to the extreme emotional event preceding it. Do you want your flamethrower wielder to be in a heightened emotional state? Probably not, but here we are. I sure hope they do not overreact and set fire to the wrong thing after being emotionally upset. In Part 3 of this generational evisceration we will explore if Neptune in Capricorn provides a fitting way to conclude their response to events (it doesn’t).
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