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Uranus Conjunct Neptune

Everyone born in the early 1990s carries this conjunction, which fuses the impulse to break form with the impulse to dissolve it, and which speaks about an individual only through house and personal contact.

These two bodies meet about once in every hundred and seventy years. They last did so in 1993, in Capricorn, and with orb the contact belongs to everyone born from roughly 1991 to 1995. It is therefore not a description of character. Told that they have it, a native learns nothing about themselves that is not equally true of several hundred million contemporaries. The honest reading begins one step further in, with the house the conjunction occupies and with any personal planet close enough to be wired into it.

The house is the practical answer. Whatever the conjunction touches is the department of life in which this native does not accept the given structure and cannot find a firm edge either. In the second house it is money, held loosely and reformed repeatedly. In the seventh it is marriage, approached as something to be reinvented rather than inherited. In the tenth, career: a series of vocations rather than a profession, each abandoned once its outline hardens. The generation shares the instinct. The house decides where the native personally pays for it.

A personal planet in aspect is what turns the shared signature into a temperament. Mercury on the conjunction gives a mind that dismantles orthodoxies and struggles to state a settled position. Venus gives unconventional attachments held with genuine tenderness and very little regard for form. Mars gives sporadic, idealistic action with poor stamina. Without such a contact the conjunction sits in the background of the life, real but not personal, showing chiefly as an easy assumption that established arrangements are provisional and that certainty is something other people pretend to.

What It Gives

  • ◆established forms treated as provisional
  • ◆imagination unbounded by convention
  • ◆quick sympathy with the unfamiliar
  • ◆reform pursued without cynicism

What It Costs

  • ◆few firm edges anywhere
  • ◆positions abandoned before they settle
  • ◆a signature shared with millions

This is one line of a whole chart. The rest of it — every placement, house and aspect at once — is a birth date away.

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