Generations

The Science of Prophecy

Generations Evolving

As a spiritual counselor, I often have to answer the question, “Why would a generation have to experience war and deprivation?” “Why do children have to experience poverty, abuse, or hunger?” Is it simply karma? I believe that sometimes people volunteer as angels to help US do the right things in life. A brother dies in a car wreck to bring his family closer together. A woman gets an illness so she can learn how to receive. A child is handicapped to teach his parents unconditional love and acceptance. A group of people live in poverty to give us a chance to perform right actions. Ridiculous, some say. But, no, if you talk to kids in poverty, sometimes they don’t know they are poor. They just think this is how life is; they know happiness too, at times. We are the ones who feel guilty when we see them. We, in our wealth, cannot imagine happiness without wealth. And of course, this is not to say that they don’t need our help. They do, but perhaps we need theirs as well. It’s about perspective.

Karma does have a lot to do with what happens to us, but not always in the ways we think. Some formerly rich persons or those unappreciative of lower classes may indeed need to experience poverty or hunger or lack of some kind. They may also need to learn to hold onto money and handle it if they have been careless in previous lives. Sometimes it’s necessary to experience poverty to know what that’s like. But it’s not punishment, merely learning compassion.

As far as war, the peoples experiencing a genocide may have been prejudiced and careless of peoples in other lifetimes, but they may each, as individuals, have other things to learn that are not indicative of “bad behavior”. They may be learning courage, endurance, the ability to inspire or survive in troubled times. I’ll never forget the part in Paul Pearsall’s book Superjoy where he talks about a positive, inspiring, and joyous woman who had endured the Nazi concentration camps during World War II. She loved life and taught people the beauty of living and how to enjoy fulfillment in every moment. She did not dwell on the past but inspired those around her. That was her legacy to us all.

Each person has a specific lesson and challenge as an individual: to learn how to take a stand, make a sacrifice for love, or experience dying for a cause. Those experiences can happen on either side in war. Yet such wars may not only balance karma but also create it. Peoples who stop genocides may have allowed them before. In this respect, Americans may have to atone for the genocide of North and South American Indians as well as slavery.

Euro-Americans, as do all peoples, have a lot of karma, because Euro-American peoples have taken resources from so many. American tourists will have to spend a lot of money and will be “taken to the cleaners” only because Americans have taken the resources of poverty stricken lands to the bank. When we go abroad and spend money, we are balancing national karma.

What was the karma of slaves? Why were they taken from home and family? In one respect, learning the importance of family is the answer. Learning to stick together. Learning to become family with people who are not blood related is an important message to give and receive. This really puts them way above others on the scale of compassion. Many African American people who travel to the Motherland or teach Black Studies or take people to Africa were former slave owners. They are required to learn about Africa and Africans and to bring people back home to the land from which they were stolen.

I was very aware during my years in France that I knew the land and had been there many times. I knew that in performing as an entertainer for the peoples, I was allowing them to judge me. (And, sometimes, they did so quite harshly!) Just as I am helping people find relationship after having in my past done anything to gain relationship, I recognize that the things we do in this lifetime are karmic adjustments and deals. Most of the time, the Chiron in an astrological chart will show what we can do for others but cannot do for ourselves—so that also has something to do with karma—what we have to pay back. If one took money from others, one has to pay it back. If one took food, one may have to be a cook or a mother or a farmer. You can honor the angels who have come to teach us about pain, poverty, and hunger, by being an angel to them.

The 60’s generation—hippies—has been called the “me” generation and did have some good qualities of fighting for what’s right for people. They brought in the Era of Civil Rights, but they also had incarnated as a group during the Civil War too. How fitting, then, that 100 years later, they had to right the wrongs. “The train from Washington” as the song says, was indeed “100 years overdue”. They still had lessons to pay, just as I do, but many of them were teaching non-violence and people power, as well as love. The people from that time are here to show that we CAN change the world. Perhaps the Me Generation was here to stand up against authority, because in the past they were authority. Many hippies were reborn from the French Revolutionary times and from the Civil War Era.

In the ancient book The Thunder, the speaker speaks of being the whore and the virgin, the victim and the murderer, the parent and the child. Karma teaches that we must experience all sides of the story to gain compassion. You cannot know why a person is driven to kill until one becomes the killer. You cannot know the suffering of the victim until one becomes the victim. Each of us must learn perfect compassion for other beings, and we do this by experiencing every experience.

Understand that, in many cases, we are learning detachment—learn the importance of the land but lose it, learn the importance of family but lose it, learn the importance of life but lose it. Learn courage, learn to honor oneself, learn to honor one’s ancestors.

Note that those who go to war often band together more strongly afterward. I believe that men go to war rather than women because they need to experience intimate emotion and bonding. Nowadays, women are taught to be more like men, and so they too have this necessity to go experience war and the quick bonding experience.

The importance of karma is to create compassion, not to punish or judge. The importance of karma is to create balance and to create a balanced person. Mother Nature does not judge the storm although it kills, uproots, and destroys life. There is no punishment there, only experience and balance. This is an evolving process. Really, we are part of this planet evolving.

A very spiritual friend of mine told me about a dream she had about the planet littered with plastic bottles and paper trash, cigarette butts and toxic waste. In the dream, she turned her head and then looked again to see the earth transformed to clean and clear beauty. She said she felt the message was that Mother Earth would be all right, after all. Nature breaks things down, even if it takes thousands and millions of years. Also, nature knows how to mutate and refurbish itself.

Man may not survive its changes, since man carries karma in that he has not cared for his planet-home. Remember the lesson to respect it or lose it. However, ultimately, life is one of cycles. Even death is a cycle in the wheel of life, and from death, new lives—whether they be worms or flowers—are born.

After Hiroshima, scene of such horror, the next spring the bombsite was yet covered with beautiful wild flowers. This is how nature is. She is not conscious of destruction or sorrow. Destruction is merely part of the cycle of creation, and so, life never truly ends, a lesson for the spiritual of the spiritual.

Pluto in Leo (1938-1957)
This was considered the “me” Generation. Although this was considered a generation all about pleasing the self, please note how these former royals served the world in their time. Originally from French revolutionary tmes, they taught Christ-like virtues and sought to help the poor and downtrodden and fought against earlier abuses. Note that the Leo generation—all about royalty and appearance—dressed like poor people, with long hair, ragged jeans, fur vests, and hand colored T-shirts. Now, unfortunately, many Pluto/Leos have returned to their “it’s all about me” philosophies and have dropped out from their movements to become very involved in this money money money world. That does not mean that they won’t reawaken later, but it does create a situation in which they probably will be removed of their power and brought back to the level of love, not ego.

Pluto in Virgo (1957-1971)
is a money-oriented generation, somewhat flexible as they are in a position of changing times, but very negative and analytical of life. This generation came of age during the seventies and eighties—a transition from hippies to disco kings and queens. These people were the real peacocks in spandex and platforms and shiny fabrics. Virgos are not known for such showy-ness, but notice how the Leos presented themselves as the opposite of what they were. In Virgo, it is all about appearances—appearing glitzy, appearing to have money in a time of the recession and oil crisis. Details—recordings—did in the leaders of the time. Appearing to be religious but not really behaving that way. There is a veneer without much depth. This generation must learn to be more spiritual rather than monetary and practical. They do have a curiosity that has both brought us much knowledge (computers) and much trouble (AIDS).

Pluto in Libra (1971-1985)
should be about right and wrong, law and order, and a growing dualism. These people came of age in the late eighties and early nineties. Libra is about harmony and beautiful things, books and music, education and law, and extremes…so we have the rise of the Fundamentalists as well as homo and bisexual lifestyles. The Pluto in Libra generation, now 21-33, has to learn about independence, breaking away, thinking outside the norm, outside the box. They may want to follow the rules and be all caught up in consumerism and beauty, but, bottom line, they need to recognize injustice and the power of one. Crime and upheaval become rampant in this generation. They may look to beautiful things to solve their woes, but soon they realize that this does not gloss over the harshness of reality. Libras who follow the status quo must break out of this box to revolt.

Pluto in Scorpio (1985-1995)
is a highly psychic and mystical generation. Born in the 1980’s and early 90’s, this generation has to learn about responsibility and flow, rather than aggressiveness. Very psychic and intuitive, they need to be grounded to make sense of life. Respect for the physical must become paramount. As a result, drug use, alcohol abuse, sexual promiscuity and poisoning of the earth (including global warming) will create a world which then must mandate them becoming responsible or watching the earth and themselves and their children die. This generation must learn right use of will also. A generation trying to force others to bend to their will, a generation of passion, must learn to live and let live, to respect others, and to let go and let God. This the generation that faces death from misuse of the earth, so this is the generation that must secure life.

Pluto in Sagittarius (1995-present)
will be a happier light energy. This is the era of the indoors outdoors, the dirty laundry being aired, lack of privacy, and the internet. These people do not know privacy, but they do know fundamentalism and rules. This group needs to learn how to communicate with others on a personal level and to learn mutual respect for other human beings. This group, a missionary group, needs to let people have their own values and beliefs, otherwise they risk a new Stalinist era. Respect for the individual rights of human beings needs to be learned by this generation—perhaps by having them taken away. This is a generation brought up under Big Brother—their every move is monitored, there are constant wars so that the powers that be can keep the money rolling in—it doesn’t matter who the enemy—that changes. The media is no more than a propaganda machine that keeps repeating the opposite of how things are—if we are hungry, cold, and miserable, the propaganda machine says we are prosperous warm and happy. We know we are not, but we are constantly told otherwise. We hope there is a Winston who will stand up and say hey. The world will get much smaller.

Past generations:

The Pluto in Cancer (1915-1938)
generation transformed the family. This is the group that fought World War II. They wanted to create a secure world and so this is a generation that held on, that held firm, and that still do. Never say die is their motto, and all was done to make the world safe for the family. This was an especially nurturing group. This included the after war era of Beaver Cleaver. The nuclear family comes of age.

The Pluto in Gemini (1890's-1915)
generation lived in two worlds—they straddled the old ways and the new—the industrial revolution and labor laws changed. They worked hard and played hard. This was the group that emphasized new means of communication and innovative ideas that changed the world. The jazz era and the rise of Hollywood gave everyone the dreamy fantasy that all would be okay, but the Depression came nonetheless. Still, the dreams of this generation built a network for the solid Cancer generation to build on. Practicality rather than emotion ruled the day under the Cancers, but under the Geminis and communication, we became aware of our position in the world.