The Pluto in Sagittarius Generation

By Sol Jonassen

Pluto in Sagittarius
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If the boomers and the Generation X, the Pluto in Leo, Virgo and Libra, are the Facebook generations and the Pluto in Scorpio, often associated with the millennials, is the Instagram generation, then Pluto in Sagittarius, Generation Z, must be the Tik Tok generation. Social media habits change with each generation, and it certainly doesn’t take long before anyone is a dinosaur at the speed of which things are moving for the time being.

Tik Tok’s river of short videos can take you down a flow where time flies and you get lost in the vast world of challenges and reels about how to get the best abs. Despite the incredible political controversy this Chinese app has been facing, it is widely popular with two out of three teens using it. This is their space to explore teen culture without being interrupted by adult supervision. In its frantic pace it moves too quickly for most brains to follow, but it might be fitting for the restless and ever-expanding Pluto in Sagittarius mind. This is the generation that you can see on the streets walking while watching their phones at the same time.

We can surely say that for the generation of Pluto in Capricorn as well, but this is the first generation who were brought up with the internet at their fingertips. Us «boomers», as we would be called (which is basically anyone older than they are), might be worried that the Pluto in Sagittarius peeps one day would step into the streets without considering their immediate environment, or Gemini as we astrologers say, and get hit by a car whilst immersed in the bigger world which is on their phones. They seem to be less interested in their surroundings than they are interested in the vast world seen through their phones. For reasons that could actually lie deep in their astrological gene pool.

Pluto entered Sagittarius for the first time in 233 years on 17th of January 1995 as Uranus and Neptune hung out in late Capricorn. Later on that year it dipped back to Scorpio to finish up some old business, and just after re-entering Sagittarius, Uranus entered Aquarius in January 1996. Neptune followed suit in January 1998. And that was when the future officially was here! The seeds of a new humanity were born, entering little by little in the form of walking, talking souls whose biggest fear seems to be losing their phones. Now, when they are taking over the world, we can see the outlines of what’s to come as we get to know a generation that embodies the Sagittarian archetype at the very core of their being.

The world after wi-fi has been changing fast and spearheading a lot of these changes stands the one generation who will fight over what is right and what is wrong in a zealous fashion that we haven’t seen for some centuries. Sagittarius is known for being bombastic and opinionated, and this generation grew up in an increasingly polarized world, getting updated instantly and constantly through their phones, catapulting them into a world of debates and disagreements.

It could fit their constant search for knowledge and hunt for stimulation as they are looking for something deeper than what their immediate environment can offer. At the core of the Sagittarius heart lies the Quest for Truth. That sounds really nice and honourable, but the trouble begins when truth becomes subjective and coloured, and not relative, unifying, or all-encompassing. The seasoned astrologer knows how incredibly convincing any Sagittarius can be, and somewhat annoyingly so, especially for those who understand that there are other perspectives that are valuable as well. And herein lies the challenge as this generation is probably going to fight about everything from genders to politics. It has already begun.

Kylie Jenner in 2021
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Some of them will be powerful visionaries, influencers and social media moguls ranging from the philanthropist MrBeast to billionaire socialites like Kylie Jenner. Actress Zendaya, who was on TIME100 most influential people list in 2022, has been a powerful voice for this generation. Born with the Sun in a wide square to Pluto, she displayed some of the raw emotion of this generation, many struggling with mental health and drug problems and trying to find their way in the world. Through her magnetic portrayal of Rue in the massive hit series and cultural phenomenon Euphoria, she has become the voice of a dystopia that haunts a generation growing up constantly hearing that nothing works, that the rich screwed everybody over and that there is no future. There are the dark visionaries in Sagittarius, and they will sprinkle their nihilism on everyone they meet. Little wonder Nostradamus’s dark musings are still being read. If Sagittarius is faith and Pluto is abandonment, it is easy to do the math. The gods have left and earth is on its own now in the hands of the greedy and under some half-fascist rule.

Environmentalist Greta Thunberg, not exactly an optimist either, was born within the midst of those Saturn-Pluto oppositions that hit in the early 2000s. She works hard to awaken humanity to understand how excessive materialism ruins the planet, and at the same time others in this generation cannot get enough makeup or money. This is the generation who wants to become billionaires because being a mere millionaire doesn’t really cut it anymore. Or they want to walk to Rome instead of taking a private jet.

Welcome to the world of Sagittarius. Strong opinions can easily become truth and fundamentalism in one way or another lurks behind every corner. And even though the Sagittarian souls are looking for wisdom, a lot of them will only listen to what they want to listen to. Selective hearing is one of the major features of Sagittarius, one that makes them filter out that which fits their underlying search for truth. It is amazing what you find when you just want to. The dark side of Sagittarius is cherry picking and selective hearing, but the marvellous side of it is intuition. In this generation we will see all of it to an extreme degree. Sagittarius energy is big, have no doubt about that. From the most fabulous mature visionaries and intuitives, wardens of ancient wisdom and teachers of mankind to the radicalized angry and materialistically greedy social media moguls that only want what they want and when they want it. What unifies them on the spectrum of Sagittarius is that they will be loud. And they will go big!

Nostradamus
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If we look back in time to find other Pluto in Sagittarius people who have walked earth, we find in particular one interesting being: Nostradamus. Thanks to the genius of Gutenberg, who curiously and not surprisingly was born with a Pluto-Neptune conjunction in Gemini in the year 1400, Nostradamus could, half a Pluto cycle and a hundred years later, enter a world where there was the printing press. And that presented an ample opportunity for the astrologer Nostradamus to spread his prophecies. Or as Dan Jones said to the Guardian:

His time was comparable to ours. He lived when there were also massive social divisions and catastrophes. It was also a time in which the new invention of the printing press made the transmission of ideas, and crazy mad bullshit, incredibly easy. It was the social media of its day. (1)

Nostradamus was born with more similarities to the current Pluto in Sagittarius generation than just Pluto in Sagittarius. His Neptune was in Capricorn, which goes for the first batch of this new generation born between 95-98. He was born with Uranus in Pisces, which includes the Pluto in Sagittarius people born between 2003 and 2008. They marvel around the internet just like Nostradamus had success with the printing press and probably share some prophecies too as the mind of the Sagittarius is keen to know the future.

Dan Jones makes it sound like we are looking at a generation born in similar times to our current situations, except now it moves so much faster - it moves with the speed of internet, as fast as lighting. After Y2K the analogue modems were replaced with wi-fi in every home and this first decade of the new millennium connected humanity through gadgets. It fits perfectly with the Uranus-Neptune conjunction in Aquarius that was prominent in the 2000s - science (Uranus) connecting people (Neptune) in the sign of the Water Bearer, representing the future, and at an insane pace.

A pace that this generation is used to, but one that could potentially change the neurology of the brain. One that could very well take them to the brink of exhaustion, unable to focus on anything for more than two minutes. The mindfulness business will have their hands full helping these fast-paced people to focus and to be present. Phone addiction is real and a little peek into the future could make us realize that this generation will deal a lot with that type of hang-up, and in that way, potentially create a global movement towards meditation and inner exploration. A lot of them will ditch their phones to travel inward and the journey out becomes the journey in. That is the spiritual potential in Sagittarius, and it could very well be a part of the mysticism and spirituality that they seek. Once materialism stops being satisfying, there is only one path left. This is the potential in this archetype, and many will get there, eventually.

What the future holds we do not know. But what we do know is that this generation is coming of age in a world where housing prices are soaring, inflation looms everywhere and where survival of the fittest have turned into a lucrative biohacking mindset. Of course, they want to be billionaires. They want to travel. They are hungry to find the real meaning in life as the Sagittarius impulse moves them towards freedom and they are not willing to settle. Life must be meaningful and one way to find its true meaning is to have an opportunity to free themselves from the hamster wheel of society. 9-5 is perhaps not the dream they will opt for, but working remotely from Bali might seem like a much better option.

If we look at Pluto in Sagittarius from an evolutionary perspective, we could argue that these «Citizens of the World» are restless to begin with. According to Jeffrey Wolf Green, Pluto in any fire sign will carry a feeling of a special destiny inside of them that needs to be fulfilled. Fire is the holy spirit, the primary mover, the vision.

Many of these individuals have travelled far and wide throughout many lifetimes in the pursuit of truth and knowledge. Many have incarnated into diverse cultures all over the planet. It is also common for many to leave a culture society or nation in which they felt inhibited or stifled. (2)

This particular phrase from the Pluto book is very interesting in terms of how we now, after years of getting to know this generation, are able to understand their thirst for knowledge, their willingness to confront ideals and their hunger for traveling. Rootless and restless, they yearn for more, for something that is real and beautiful, and for freedom.

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Deep in the Sagittarius archetype lies the Pilgrimer. The eternal back-packer. Seeking home only to find yet another new culture that doesn’t entirely fit. Alice Bailey describes Sagittarius in the following way:

I see a goal, I reach a goal and then I see another goal.

This would be a mindset that works for a searching soul and that helps the individual to accept that it is neither this, nor that that they are looking for. They are actually looking for the polarity point to Pluto in Sagittarius - Gemini. In other words, they are looking for relativity and tolerance, not bombastic ideas and cultural splits.

Their chronic restlessness is a problem when it comes to committing to one path. The intuition is high, and this can challenge the journey of life because there is always this underlying feeling that there is something over the next hilltop over there that could be the big one. And looking for the big one is hard to avoid for this particular batch of cosmonauts. This is a hyper-active generation with a huge thirst for life and some of them will never stop for more than a minute before they are on to their next adventure, stimulated by the promise of a wonderland lifestyle seen through the lens of the SOME winners.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart came to earth last time Pluto waltzed through Sagittarius. He was born with the Moon and Pluto in a very tight conjunction at 17° Sagittarius squaring his Uranus and Asc-Dsc axis, making him sprint through life while incessantly creating. He is the definition of a soul on fire and those who know a bit of his history, realize that this was a man who had absolutely no time to waste. From an early age he travelled a lot, establishing his career equally early, and his taste for fine dining, wine and partying eventually got him into financial trouble in good ol’ Sagittarius fashion. Why stop when you are having fun?

But he wrote over 600 pieces in his life, and they stand as pillars of classical music to this day. It is also speculated that he had a genius level of intelligence with an IQ of 155 and that he died quite young from a relapse of a childhood illness due to overwork. It would not be surprising that the incessantly thirsty, hungry, and restless soul of the Pluto in Sagittarius generation would at one point burn out.

There is also a connection to ADHD with the whole mutable cross and the number of kids who were diagnosed with ADHD have skyrocketed for this particular generation. Scientists think that it is either because the signs are being picked up earlier by parents and the system OR that more kids today actually develop ADHD. Some claim it to be a genetic condition and if that is the case, then the Pluto in Sagittarius generation might have this deeply embedded in their historical DNA.

The EA theory is that the Pluto generation that we are born into reflects previous cycles that Pluto spent in this sign, and that a part of this psyche is brought back into the lives that we live now.

Justin Garson Ph.D. writes about ADHD for Psychology Today:

ADHD traits, such as novelty seeking, exploration, and vigilance, might have been an evolutionary benefit to our ancestors who had to move from place to place in search of new resources while being attentive to threats. (3)

This suggested theory of the evolutionary thesis of ADHD fits well with the mutable signs, always on the move, and even more so with Sagittarius, the hunter-gatherer, the freedom lover, the explorer, the nomad, and adventurer.

If you have nomadic blood, no place feels home, and it can be hard to root down anywhere. It is not the same kind of rootlessness that occurs in Aquarius or with Uranus on any axis or with the Moon, which is more of a traumatic rift in the root centre caused by suddenness and being completely at odds with consensus thinking.

The wound of the nomad is that of never being able to really sit still. And add the philosophical layer of Sagittarius, it could also be that the constant travelling and exposure to different cultures creates a sense of not being able to connect to the culture where one is born. To be connected to each other is to get each other. When someone gets you, you feel at home. If you are constantly at odds with the cultural norms, you will neither feel very welcome nor at home.

This generation entered the world at a time where travelling was more accessible and the exposure to different mindsets was easily available through the internet. It was also a time of great political and moral debate in our societies, and we all remember the tragic event that was 9/11, an event that solidified the tension between the Muslim and the Western liberal world. Pluto opposed Saturn from Sagittarius to Gemini. The world was a bit more polarized after that and it hasn’t really subsided since. This particular event set the tone for a debate that will follow this generation around - the moral, ethical standards of life and how freedom for one could be imprisonment for another.

The expression Culture Wars has become a trendy thing to toss around lately, but it is not without reason as cultural polarization seems to be part of the Gen Z’s daily philosophical menu, ranging from gender disputes to political and moral differences. We are clearly seeing the signs of the upcoming battles as the fight for diversity and tolerance triggers incredibly strong opinions, and this generation will be on the forefront of these wars, having been fed all kinds of propaganda and conflicting ideas and ideals while growing up.

This particular batch of individuals is looking for freedom in a world that is more and more under surveillance, and it is this author’s educated guess that we will see a lot of intense debates coming from their engagements. These are the visionaries that could either heal the world or the zealots who could take fighting to the next level. We are already deep into a time that is tying down free expression and when Pluto progresses through Aquarius for the next two decades, they will be feeling this more intensely as they want to express themselves freely in a culture that easily cancels out unpopular opinions.

We might see fabulous solutions coming from their incredible genius, but this is a generation of extremes, and they will only work out their differences if they manage to embody the polarity point of Pluto in Sagittarius - Gemini. This will be providing relief from the core desire to find absolute answers through understanding that the only way forward is unity in diversity and that everything is relative. Uranus will soon move through Gemini as well, creating ample opportunity for this generation to understand that it is through really grasping the core gift of Gemini and the art of creating bridges instead of gaps that true freedom is found.

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No one is free until everyone is free, and they will have to hold space for more than one valid idea at the same time. Earth is increasingly more and more densely populated and some of these nature-loving, freedom-loving Pluto in Sagittarius people will be on the forefront to defend nature. They will search for natural law as opposed to manmade laws, fight censorship and formulate the philosophies that will guide humanity in the future. They seem to love astrology and will perhaps live in a world that is more enchanted. The grim contrast is the hedonistic materialistic underbelly of Sagittarius. No one can eat more than a proper Sag, but no one can share more generously either. If they cannot be speaking the truth, we might see a whole lot of truth disappear from our culture. I do not think that this is going to happen on their watch. These are the visionaries and some of them will shine so brightly that they will light up a whole world with their hopes and visions for the future. It is absolutely needed.

Endnotes:
1 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/oct/10/why-nostradamus-predictions-are-still-winning-converts
2 Jeff Green: Pluto Volume 1 page 166
3 https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-biology-of-human-nature/202211/did-adhd-evolve-to-help-us

Published in: Timelords Magazine, November 2023.

Author:
Sol Jonassen is an internationally acclaimed evolutionary astrologer, teacher and lecturer, residing in beautiful Bergen, Norway, being a full-time astrologer since 1999. She teaches both at the Polaris Astrology School and as a regular teacher at the NPA School of Astrology. She has also hosted Polaris Astrology Conference and you find her regularly speaking at international conferences. In her practice she combines astrology with several other healing modalities such as energy healing, meditation therapy and bodywork. Her heart is aligned with esoteric teachings and she is offering this work at retreats and workshops around the globe.
Website: https://sol-with.com/

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