Everyone born across those seven or so years carries this, which makes it a description of a generation and not a personal distinction. The previous pass fell in the late 1890s, the cycle being about eighty-four years. The recent window closed with the loosening of the Cold War order, and the cohort came of age as travel became cheap, borders became porous, and religious authority lost much of its remaining grip on educated opinion.
The collective temperament is restless about meaning. These cohorts left the country they were raised in, changed faiths or discarded them, and treated the university curriculum as one option among several. What they broke was the idea that a person inherits a worldview; what they rebuilt, patchily, is a habit of assembling belief from many sources. The corresponding weakness is a taste for the next idea over the current one, and conviction held loudly but not always long.
The house and aspects give it particular form. In the ninth house it brings abrupt changes of belief, unplanned emigration, or education taken outside the usual channels; in the third, a mind that will not stay within its discipline. Contacts from Jupiter enlarge the whole disposition into something evangelical, producing a person who genuinely cannot be assimilated into an orthodoxy and who tends to leave any group at the point where it starts issuing rules.
What It Gives
- ◆belief assembled independently
- ◆ease across cultures
- ◆appetite for unfamiliar ideas
- ◆resistance to orthodoxy
What It Costs
- ◆conviction that keeps moving
- ◆commitments abandoned for novelty
- ◆preaching in place of practice
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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