Everyone born across roughly seven years shares it, most recently in the mid 1950s to early 1960s, and before that in the 1870s. The planet's circuit is about eighty-four years, so each pass returns the same argument to a new century. Both windows saw an assault on inherited authority and a flowering of popular performance: new music, new stages, new claims that ordinary people were entitled to be looked at.
The collective temperament is theatrical and stubbornly individual. These cohorts refused deference to kings, headmasters and record executives alike, and produced a great deal of art in the process. They rebuilt the idea of the celebrity as self-made rather than anointed. The corresponding fault is a strong appetite for attention dressed up as principle, and a tendency to mistake personal flamboyance for genuine political change.
In an individual life the placement takes its shape from house and aspect. In the fifth house it brings unconventional creative work, irregular romances, or unusual circumstances around children; in the eleventh, friendships that keep rearranging themselves. Contacts to the Sun make the whole disposition personal, producing someone genuinely unwilling to be assimilated into any role, and generally more comfortable being disliked for their own manner than admired for a borrowed one.
What It Gives
- ◆original creative expression
- ◆refusal of inherited authority
- ◆confidence in unpopular positions
- ◆generosity toward other originals
What It Costs
- ◆attention mistaken for principle
- ◆erratic romantic conduct
- ◆dramatics in place of substance
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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