#generational change

[fozmeadows]

the older I get, the more the technological changes I've lived through as a millennial feel bizarre to me. we had computers in my primary school classroom; I first learned to type on a typewriter. I had a cellphone as a teenager, but still needed a physical train timetable. my parents listened to LP records when I was growing up; meanwhile, my childhood cassette tape collection became a CD collection, until I started downloading mp3s on kazaa over our 56k modem internet connection to play in winamp on my desktop computer, and now my laptop doesn't even have a disc tray. I used to save my word documents on floppy discs. I grew up using the rotary phone at my grandparents' house and our wall-connected landline; my mother's first cellphone was so big, we called it The Brick. I once took my desktop computer - monitor, tower and all - on the train to attend a LAN party at a friend's house where we had to connect to the internet with physical cables to play together, and where one friend's massive CRT monitor wouldn't fit on any available table. as kids, we used to make concertina caterpillars in class with the punctured and perforated paper strips that were left over whenever anything was printed on the room's dot matrix printer, which was outdated by the time I was in high school. VHS tapes became DVDs, and you could still rent both at the local video store when I was first married, but those shops all died out within the next six years. my facebook account predates the iphone camera - I used to carry around a separate digital camera and manually upload photos to the computer in order to post them; there are rolls of undeveloped film from my childhood still in envelopes from the chemist's in my childhood photo albums. I have a photo album from my wedding, but no physical albums of my child; by then, we were all posting online, and now that's a decade's worth of pictures I'd have to sort through manually in order to create one. there are video games I tell my son about but can't ever show him because the consoles they used to run on are all obsolete and the games were never remastered for the new ones that don't have the requisite backwards compatibility. I used to have a walkman for car trips as a kid; then I had a discman and a plastic hardshell case of CDs to carry around as a teenager; later, a friend gave my husband and I engraved matching ipods as a wedding present, and we used them both until they stopped working; now they're obsolete. today I texted my mother, who was born in 1950, a tiktok upload of an instructional video for girls from 1956 on how to look after their hair and nails and fold their clothes. my father was born four years after the invention of colour televison; he worked in radio and print journalism, and in the years before his health declined, even though he logically understood that newspapers existed online, he would clip out articles from the physical paper, put them in an envelope and mail them to me overseas if he wanted me to read them. and now I hold the world in a glass-faced rectangle, and I have access to everything and ownership of nothing, and everything I write online can potentially be wiped out at the drop of a hat by the ego of an idiot manchild billionaire. as a child, I wore a watch, but like most of my generation, I stopped when cellphones started telling us the time and they became redundant. now, my son wears a smartwatch so we can call him home from playing in the neighbourhood park, and there's a tanline on his wrist ike the one I haven't had since the age of fifteen. and I wonder: what will 2030 look like?

#millennials #technology #personal #generations #generational change

[pratchettquotes]

Many people feel called to the priesthood, but what they really hear is an inner voice saying, "It's indoor work with no heavy lifting, do you want to be a plowman like your father?"

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

#omnians #om #brutha #small gods #discworld #terry pratchett #priesthood #priests #religion #calling #employment #generational change #office job #indoor work #inner voice

[nayladoodles]

Wow disney/Pixar be coming for everyone with generational trauma. Encanto, Turning Red, Strange World and Elemental. Also, the nods to non-traditional couples and dating outside your culture are *chef's kiss*

#encanto #elemental #turning red #disney movies #pixar films #generational change #generational trauma #they do be comimg for us lol

[texaschainsawmascara]

breaking generational curses girlies

Girls s6e7

#girls hbo #marnie michaels #allison williams #tv #lena dunham #generational trauma #generational curses #generational abuse #generational change #generationalhealing #generational healing

[360degreesasthecrowflies]

"But just"/"Why don't you just?" is not always the magic solve you think it is, boomers

Feeling a little disheartened today by the way that my mum point-blank refuses to acknowledge structural barriers. And I do think it is at least partially a generational thing.

The thing about the deck being stacked against you that has the most impact, and that certain folk of a certain age seem unable to put together is that...

You reach a point in your life, or in your career, or in your day to day financial situation where not only is there no magical solution, there are also no good options.

And it's the kind of situation where it's not the case where there are no good options because you, the individual, made mistakes or burned bridges or wasted your starting out nest egg or your initial savings so you have only yourself to blame - or even where if you just reduced your basic outgoings down several levels you'd be able to build a nest egg (back) up in order to give yourself more options again... There just aren't any good options from the jump.

Recent solves my mum has put to me as if I'm not an adult, in my 30s, living independently in another country from her with over 10 years' working experience, include:

Why don't you just get a higher paying job?

Why don't you get a pension?

Why don't you buy a house?

Why don't you move further away from your work (and your established community and the amenities you rely on) so you can buy a house?

The undertone implication is a) that we haven't already considered all the options before us, done the calculations and concluded that (unfortunately, as if it worked out it would be helpful) it isn't viable right now, and b) that by not doing these things you are somehow deliberately crafting your own misery and setting yourself up for more hardship, instead of the reality that we are making the best of what's available to us within the system that is how our generation are asked to live and exist.

I don't 'just get a higher paying job' because the structural barriers are my lack of education and my lack of social connections among the higher strata of the demographic that, by their wealth-funded access to as many qualifications as they would like to pay for, and by being able to buy the time to complete them, holds a monopoly on hiring. That's something that's come from making education something available to the highest bidder, rather than grant-funded and obtainable by anyone with the capacity to qualify for the course.

I don't have a pension (right now) because I can't afford one. The minimum contribution that I can make by law to a pension is 10% of my income a month, and I can't afford to lose an extra 10% of my income when I'm already paying around that out of my salary to a student loan with compound interest that was sold to me as a loan that wouldn't have compound interest added. I'm also paying 50%+ of my income per month on housing alone, and more on bills. Where am I supposed to find more? And of course, if my salary goes up, so too does the amount I'm meant to pay back the student loan.

I don't buy a house because I can't afford one, despite saving for a deposit for several years. Unfortunately, Liz Truss crashed the economy last year and as a result, the banks don't offer mortgages as high as they used to, and require larger deposits for properties. As such the amount that I have saved up might have been enough to put down a healthy deposit two years ago, but now, isn't. And I can't save any more because of the aforementioned draws on my income above.

And if I was to move further afield to buy a house, what's the benefit to me? I'd have to spend more money on my commute, I'd probably have to live in a much less safe area, and it's going to be cold comfort to me that I own a property if I end up getting assaulted or stabbed on my way home at night.

Trust me, I would love to live in an era where I didn't have to overthink these basics. Where the fact that I have a college degree and multiple years of specialised work experience across multiple sectors including private business and government would actually count for something and afford me a solid and stable standard of living.

But it doesn't any more. And this is my life, and the lives of many of us nowadays. And we can't just sit and mope about it, we have to accept it, and adapt, and do the best we can to keep going until something gets a little easier for us, until the luck of the draw rolls our way or until someone with the power and ability through government or big business to effect a real change takes that shot and acts to make things just that bit less bleak for us.

Until then, a little empathy wouldn't hurt instead of a lecture.

#text post #whew this became an essay #boomers #generational change #uk #structural barriers #millennials #personal #society #2023 #liz truss #uk politics #anti tory #cw violence #tw violence #generation gap #adult life

[trollarcany]

i don't know why i don't want children

is it because i fear they'll be too much like me, or is it because i'm scared i'll be too much like you

or is it that they would be how you were growing up, and i wouldn't know

because how can you look past the damage and destruction and see a child instead of a parent?

#daddy issues #parenting #poem? idk #delete later maybe #poetry #omg #i'm sad #sadcore #generational trauma #generational change #2000s kids #gen z things #depressing shit

[tweetingukpolitics]

https://enterprise-sharing.ft.com/error-pages/expired-link?contentId=c361e372-769e-45cd-a063-f5c0a7767cf4

#john burn-murdoch #political twitter #generational change #conservative party #uk news #uk politics #uk economy #millennials #gen z #long thread

[plutobabyy]

Imagine the hopeful freedom Millennials will feel once Pluto leaves Capricorn & is no longer transiting our Uranus/Neptune in Capricorn conjunction.

Then Gen Z will step up with Pluto transiting their Uranus/Neptune in Aquarius. The innovation that will take place, I tell you!

Our generations will begin to come together to reimagine & rebuild a better world.

#magic #pluto’s moonchild #astrology #pluto in aquarius #gen z #millennials #generational change #pluto in capricorn #uranus in capricorn #neptune in capricorn #neptune in aquarius #uranus in aquarius #dark night of the soul #there’s a universe inside of you

[sufferthesky]

breaking generational curses by choosing not to have children

#trauma #generational abuse #generational change #generational curses #akimi.txt #akimi 4444 #autonomy

[dreamanduality]

Astrology heading into 2025/6, post 2020…

Change doesn't have a light switch, but if it did it would be when the air signs come together. Part of this does include Neptune moving into Aries, fire, and air can be an explosive combo.

All of my astrological musings of transitional delineations of the past several years have been on the premise of what we are seeing now into a 2025 shift. A visible, mundane transition.

Before we begin, I want to share something that I have kept around for quite a while. It was printed in an issue of Adbuster at the very beginning of the Occupy Movement, by Darren Fleet the editor and chief. Jupiter will be meeting up with Uranus in the second half of 2023—their last conjunction was 13 years ago, during the Occupy Movement.

Your mom tells you a story before you go to bed and you believe it

She tells you that you can be anything you want when you grow up. She says that you are a unique and valuable individual and that you are to never forget it. She says that you are very lucky and the world is your oyster. And she is right. You live in an exceptional time. You will travel greater distances in a single day than most people only a century ago traveled their entire lives. You will have food choices that English kings and Ottoman princes couldn’t have imagined. You will casually flood your system to the point of illness with sugar, once the currency of the world and the prize of empires. You will live longer than any generations before. Your wardrobe will contain cloth from what was once beyond the reach of the greatest civilizations. Broken bones won't render you a cripple. If you were born a girl you can become a boy. If you were born a boy you can become a girl. You can break Tradition without death. You can upgrade your biology and change your organs. You can assume any identity you wish. Her words comfort you into a wonderful sleep. She is careful not to explain that this oyster isn't for all children of the world or that such good fortune is making the Earth sick. 

That would ruin the story.

Broaching in January 2020 the fractures in the imperialist structure was noticeable to many for the first time. This is when Saturn met up with Pluto in Capricorn, by March co-present with Jupiter, Mars, & the South Node (Mars having a notable recognition in Aspects to Saturn & Uranus) articulating the dismantling of unstable systems.

The fact is that we are still dealing with c-19 while our global social systems are not there to support us. Most no longer masking and convinced by the media portrayal that we must go back to normal—that capitalism doesn't have an expiration date because you can be a Corp King too. Just 3 years ago the world became accessible for a time and we looked to disabled folks for how to survive—now having pushed this community back into the shadows, but it won't be soon forgotten.

We witnessed changes in communication/how social media can radicalize the thought of a Generation (majorly Pluto in Virgo & Libra) and a new breed of propaganda through the lens of Rahu & Ketu in Gemini & Sagittarius. Stirring the pot of fear-mongering in online spaces, coupled with Neptune holding space for spiritual escapism.

Something that I find absolutely fascinating is how one planet will manifest something only for another to come in and say “excuse me?!” And when the issuer makes it back around, hahaha…

With the Outer Slow Bois, I find the movements and influence they had when they were unseen clever, as they are out of bodily sight, holding their own tone—in themes…that the other planets have personal influence to and in.

It’s uncommon for the transpersonal planets to all move into new signs so close together—which issues an un-potting effect. If you keep house plants then you know sometimes the plant has to be removed from the pot to check the health of the roots because it's not growing right, and in this case, there is root rot. Globally there are places that are on the mend and will heal faster than others economically, some taking longer based on History and Astrological impact.

Pluto in Aquarius

Pluto will visit Aquarius come the end of March (23rd) 2023, for about 3 weeks, and then in the classic planetary process when a planet wants to check the scenery, heading back to Capricorn to clean up before moving out.

I have been holding off on writing about Pluto in Aquarius. We have seen a lot of talk on Pluto returns these last years, correlations to historical milestones of modern empires falling et al…and whereas I love talking about economic theory vs universal ethics, many folks seem to forget that its a theory or they presume that it must be political—just because something can be doesn't mean that it also can't be other things.

Pluto is small but mighty. Transformation and reclamation take time, as well as manipulation.

Pluto takes small things, even the microscopic, and makes them noticeable.

Because of Pop psychology, I think that folks automatically beeline to this ideal of manipulation, so let's take a moment to frame this out: Manipulus, means “handful” leading meaning to hold a skillful manner—we manipulate a pencil when using it. Manipulation is not consensual, but do Planets ever ask for consent? Manipulation can be artful, but it can also be insidious. When we try to project human emotions onto a planet, everything should be deemed unfair.

In order to be mighty empowerment is needed, and in order to manipulate there must be distortion. The mode itself is magnetic destruction with a positive and negative force to transform, incites evolution, and generalized regeneration.

While Pluto has been in Capricorn we have seen a heightened theme in deconstructing systems and thought in the way of Tradition—which leads me to assume that the Blackstone Group has an astrologer and knew that investing in Ancestry was an excellent move for them—with other events on the historical horizon.

With Pluto things are forever changed, and not a cycle we get to repeat or witness in our lived experiences, further emphasizing that this is social and cultural in astrological delineation. With our assimilated and forgotten histories, there is no lived experience or accurate depictions to bring to the table.

Through the framework of Aquarius, we see Society itself, since Capricorn is Social Structure and Aquarius asks what is beyond that garden wall in a humanistic tone. It’s the role of the Mad Scientist, the Radical Visionary, still ruled by Saturn but having the desire to innovate the wheel. So of course it is safe to say that we may see reinvention in technology as we know it—possibly even in the line of Back to the Future II, jk, well we could hope.

…though probably not because Aquarius is about reformation and community effort. There of course will be further power struggles and amplified progressiveness waving through commonality. The uptick of Greenwashing and Green or soft propaganda is something I am very curious about, though I don’t attribute this to Pluto particularly. It will reach a higher recognition in this era. We are already seeing the redefining of intellectual property and cryptocurrency ‘rights’ and this will continue. There will be a resurgence of peer-to-peer information, remember lime wire or Napster?

There is no objectivity in the land of Aquarius, and the “Age” of it sang by the cosplaying Pluto in Leo's generation can't be further from the truth.

Since, I have been writing on Frankenstein (the upcoming Saturn in Pisces transit), the passing of St Albertas Magnus in 1280—he inspired Mary Shelley who was born with Pluto in Aquarius, having reported that he built an android & discovered the philosophers stone. According to his followers, his body did not deteriorate.

I suppose it is time for a reminder that everything is always a reaction to something.

Back on point, shall we? Aquarian energy is about equitable change…or at least the attempt at such. With Saturn leaving and Pluto stepping in it’s like we have long work ahead—but it's the work’—(Im thinking in the context of the 7 generation teaching)

Notable points in History: The undercurrent of trends is interesting. Unfortunately, the way that we write about these histories is through a very particular perspective and depending on where you are in the world this will look different… but revolution & imperialism are a common theme throughout this entire post:

The Iceni Revolt (also mentioned below), the Edict of Milan & the Council of Nicaea confirmed the orthodox Christian doctrine throwing out a bunch of stuff, the start of the Carolingian renaissance, the astrolabe gained recognition and use, the moveable print was invented in China, permanency of the catholic & eastern orthodox churches, block printing, the invention of eyeglasses, codification of English common law and Britain parliament gained the ‘right’ of taxation, the imperial measuring system, Henry VIII was able to marry Anne Boleyn (this DUDE is all over the place), Protestant Reformation, The Inquisition was established, the heliocentric theory, Machiavelli’s The Prince, Nostradamus’s predictions where worked on, the transatlantic slave trade began, Spain invaded the Incan’s destroying everything.

Margin Notes: The ‘crisis’ of the 17th century was influenced by the secession from Pluto in Libra but really noted itself in The Affair of Postcards—We must keep burning the nonbelievers, you see. Aiming for the first colonies of “religious freedom”. Napoleon was elected the Capt. of the French Army, The Observer was first published in 1791, and the dawn of the Scientific Revolution brought about nothing ever being or looking the same again.

In the Age of Enlightenment (Uranus in Gemini, mentioned below), Cathrine the Great had settled into her throne encouraging these ideals. The US Constitution and Bill of Rights, the French Revolution, the Cult of Reason, complexity, and embellishment in art and music loosened.

Knowledge of Self will be required to proceed as the issues continue to surface; we will need this, Pluto is like a magnet pulling out the unseen. The thoughts of future generations are already a part of our dialogue, in order to make this happen we need to build community. In the wave of technology, this will continue to advance, keep in mind time waits for no one. And the last thing we should be doing? It continues fighting over resources.

Simply, in the ways of borders and technology by the end of Pluto in Aquarius the world will be unrecognizable.

Neptune in Aries

Our sneak peek of this motion will be in Mar 2025 for 5 months, with the ushering of passage on Jan 26, 2026.

Mmm, coming out of Pisces, I have talked a lot about this over the years because of the Modern Magical Movement in correlation to the Victorian Spiritual Movement. There were also so many things that were birthed, appropriated, and dissolved in this time—but need not forget the motions further back. Being discovered during this time, ironically so, but something curious is the homogenous keywords of Pisces & Neptune.

The induction of escapism is apparent, with the motion picture being invented…and street lights opening the night—to dissolve the dark. Those are rightly ruled by Neptune along with water itself and the sign drawing the boundaries. Setting aside the idealistic notions that root themselves in religion is something I suppose should be done—but what do I know? In turn, the distillation toward redemption can get out of hand creating paranoia and psychosis. Something that can be brought through impossible hyper-idealism is seeing what might land—hoping it could.

Neptune in Pisces brought animistic fog over a placid lake or the mist in the forest that makes you high in fantastical tales—to be consumed by the kind folk or the forest itself. In Aries, it will be more confined or rather condensed in the disorientation & Dissolve of structural facilities.

The land of hope where you don’t see any danger or you might be escaping to not see it. We add spiritual attributions to this space. You know that episode of The Magicians, about the Lunatic’s that live on the Moon—I actually kept thinking to myself…might that be more Neptunian in Nature? And really, breaking the Moon is Neptune in Aries getting carried away, hahaha…

Adding the Role of headstrong, impulsive Aries to the Time Warping Celestial Body creates something juxtaposed with assumption.

Neptune’s purpose is confusion and I’m confusing myself while writing this. Forgetting my train of thought and having to grab for straws. Will we talk ourselves into an idealistic war, forgetting the lines being drawn or the outcomes of charging into uncertainty? We probably won't wake up from the lasting effects of this Piscean dream until years into Aries. Aries is the Pioneer over the Discoverer (since nothing is really discovered but found) willing to fight for Independence in a sense but this is through the individualist’s lens. Some say for fairness and fervid, but fairness is subjective because fair for whom? Impulsivity can be violent.

On the best of days, Aries is Guts from Berserk:

We have seen the dissolution of many things that were not suited for basic human rights through this discourse. We clutch to Utopian Idealism in truth, but even in the coining of such there was an undercurrent, so what must be considered when throwing this term around loosely (I do it too)—do words not have Nativities? In Utopia, slavery is required and atheism is not tolerated, so… From this, there was deconstruction and adaptations were made by Marx in Das Kapital published in 1867. Critical thinking requires us to look at the arcs of such things that we pronounce loosely. We would never consider Utopia, Utopian today—and this is idealistic deconstruction in action.

So could we premise this in a fantastical connection? If Neptune in Pisces is the Movie theatre, being enveloped in a story not your own, then Neptune in Aries is after the credits when you walk out into the blinding light of reality. Depending on the movie that alone takes a certain level of courage. Or after a night out when the hangover or comedown sets in Neptune in Aries is what you stack to cope with the night before—things that help your head or things that make you fast. One to make you Smaller and one to make you Larger, my dear. It's the action of bringing utilitarianism to Pioneer throughout the day.

Alice in Wonderland was published in 1865, 4 years into Neptune in Aries…noting it takes a while to wake up and share the dream.

One major, mundane consideration is the water crisis—I think this is where we will see aggressive fronts (not that we haven't already, iykyk). Unfortunately, this is one of the things that we must choose sides on. Support water protectors, water is life. Speaking of water and crisis…the Mars Rulership taking action particularly over bodies of water…like fast-moving rivers, or drawing boundaries or drawing borders with such. In this case for a large-scale conflict to begin or end specifically there are additional attributes needed.

Notable points in History; Neptune in Pisces historically has coincided with war some of which happen to include Pluto in Aquarius & Uranus in Gemini and some that do not:

The Peloponnesian War, Democritus’s atomic theory was developed, Iceni revolt against the Romans, the Jewish uprising in Palestine, Christianity spreading followed by 320ish years later (both Neptune in Aries) becoming the imperial religion of Rome, the destruction of Sarapeum, THE CRUSADES, Genghis Khan began the conquest of Eurasia, the Hundred Years War, the Catholic Church divided, the Bible was translated to English, the Peasant Revolt, I already mentioned Utopia but this coincides with Henry VIII and him deciding from the hand of Anne Boleyn that it was his divine place to be closer to god than the pope and the Roman Inquisition was established, finally the Civil War, Homestead Act, Civil Rights Act, Abolition, the KKK was formed, the Swiss Red Cross.

Plainly dynamite was invented, along with antiseptic which you know already existed…but the Medicine of Neptune in Pisces was ‘cool’ right?

Neptune in Aries brought the dream of color to photographs and the impressionist movement.

You know I really hate modern history—well, what I consider modern. It puts my head in a tale spin of, “have humans always been this horrible to one other?”…sure there are beautiful things like love but monolithic points in our modern historical doctrines only use love as a mask to hide greed.

The thoughts and dreams of Neptune in Pisces find action in Neptune in Aries.

We are really getting slapped with it…but those who proceeded survived and so will we. It’s all about the experience and not the purpose right?

Uranus in Gemini

Let’s get into it.

Our first taste will be July 2025 for 4 months and officially April 26, 2026.

Uranus is electrifying change and principle revolutions, they're not slow or sudden but shock. The desire for freedom—I think because of Uranus being Revolutionary in ways of an accident. I know I know we like to say ‘unpredictability’. Spontaneity isn't always calculated—I say this because Uranus brings the element of predictable surprise. The brilliance of innovation creates stimulating excitement. While Uranus has been in Taurus we have seen the nature of basic needs or the issues highlighted; housing, food, water, and rights to life itself. Uranus disrupts how we socially view value. As we are still in the thick of it in this sign we will see expansion and possible bust of these themes when Jupiter meets up in 2024. Fixed Taurean simplicity is not comfortable for Uranus making the transition into Gemini a noticeable swift-footed difference.

The expectation of sensation is a rapid change in how we think and move in the world. Communication is the focus, so if you are someone who speaks on the inequities of basic human rights don’t lose hope—you are just a little early to the conversation; after all, when Uranus was in Gemini the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was made. The duality of Gemini will be ignited in addressing polarized positions, loudly.

When Uranus is in this sign a common factor is petty civil arguments and revolting parties. Many of these historically involve territorial division, technological and scientific advancement, and the infrastructure of trade and travel. Taking the weaknesses shown during Taurus apart and analyzing them for change in how we think & speak on them.

There will be breakthroughs in technology, at a more rapid rate may be even more widespread than we see currently—but as seen through history it will be in the ways of communication and transportation. Communication not only being how we speak but how technology ‘speaks’; ie phones, algorithms, AI, AR, VR, Deep Fakes et al… What does this mean for the age of information? And who owns the right to regulate such? Reframing our ideas around Piracy, which we will probably have seen an uptick of with Saturn in Pisces.

I collect Deepfake accounts like Pokemon on TikTok, Keanu Reeves being one.

With transportation I would like to see more social infrastructure, someone who can't drive can only hope. But Gemini is localization, so this could mean delivery with a drone instead of trucks and that sort of thing.

This coincides with a larger trend of the Jupiter Saturn Air sign cycle, so we won't be seeing grounding in any attempts of globalization—think city-states and new economic thought in the potential of dialectic materialism. It's the time of figuring things out because there will be no stability, and progression will happen quickly.

The below isn't all war, but for whatever reason, the urgency of war pushes for innovation. Much of what is to come is already happening, and I can't say enough these things aren't like a light switch.

During Uranus in Gemini 1941-1949, World War II had already begun with the US joining as soon as Uranus moved in Gemini briefly, attacking Peal Harbor and when heading back into Gemini for the Battle of Midday—with the Cold War on its heals.

Honestly, we can't talk about any astrology today without looking at Russia and the Soviet Union—or the fall of—the points are so on point. During this time we saw great strides in the invention of computer technology, becoming programable and used for general purposes. Project Manhattan found success in the nuclear chain reaction, and 2 atom bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Notable points in History; again some that overlap with the former:

Socrates, both taught through dialogue to the people and executed for teaching people. Athens defeated Sparta in this same breath. Gutenberg’s printing press, The Learned Ignorance was published, the Scientific Revolution, the telescope was invented by both Lipperhey and Galileo who announced his discoveries in Sidereus Nuncius, Astronomia Nova was published, Harriot first observed Sunspots, the first regularly occurring Newspaper, the King James Bible was published. Isaac Newton stepped in as the influencing course with the movement of Neptune into Aries during the Scientific Revolution. The wave theory of light was published, the theorem for differential calculus, differential equations, probability + statistics, and John Locke was at his peak. The American Revolution as well as independence from Britain. Great classics were written; Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Dickens…much of Darwin. The first recording of sound, Au Clair de la lune, and the first telephone. Colossus and the Space Age began. The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered and Gandhi demanded independence from Britain.

Pluto in Aquarius, there what a transition between the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.

So many civil wars…

Uranus was discovered and the same day a comet was first photographed.

It's the combination of these energies that make the soup of Revolution.

I think that it's funny, when I was young we really wanted to burn it all down, and now we're here and tired. With the best possible outcome, we could see free decentralized energy post a potential solar flare and weather crisis…not the mention how we’ll have to get it. Education reforms, social media will look foreign (not that it already doesn't, but it will be unpredictably different), and wars are very likely—both Civil & World unless we get it together—but as it appears we just like to do the same over and over again. If we can embrace understanding how we think and move we can create what we need for quality of life.

We, myself included, have a tendency to fixate on the yucky parts, as if bracing for impact. And we know this doesn't have to be the case—look at all the cool shit that happened in the schools of thought!

There will be new and evolved ideals, if we navigate in our means and love our neighbors Saturn may just approve.

In-Joy

-K

#traditional astrology #astrology #astrologer #2020 vision #generational planets #generational change

[doctor-seamonster]

Different generations watching Scooby Doo.

Boomers: Funny dog and weed.

Gen X: Weed.

Millenials: Anarchist polycule.

Zoomers: Anarchist polycule and funny dog.

#Scooby-Doo #animation #shitpost #generational change #queer

[little-homestead-in-the-suburbs]

In Which the Archaic hits home, OR digitizing family recipe cards

Recipe for Poinsettia Bread, basically a fancy gumdrop bread at bottom

Thanks to the arctic freeze busting multiple pipes at my apartment/work, I am staying with my family while the pipes get contained enough so that i can have running water.

While at my parent's house, I got bored and decided to finally start digitizing all the recipe cards from my mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother (around 100 years of history, possibly a bit more), it's fun to see how the location, historical context, and available ingredients has changed.

For context these cards come from women raised in the Ohio river valley area, think Cincinnati and Illinois in small town, lower income farm family. And covers basically all of the 1900's including the Great depression, and both world wars, and poverty levels that include sending the brothers to hunt squirrels and rabbits on the edge of town for meat.

I have come to realize a couple of things:

We are losing basic cooking knowledge. Most of these Recipes are simply a list of ingredients with volumes, usually the oven temperature, and sometimes the cook time and pan size. BUT NOT ALL. Some are just the ingredients and how much, no other information.

Some of these items were simply implied to be included. The most notable one is the utter lack of Blueberries as an ingredient in the Blueberry Muffins Good recipe, not once but twice, as two separate cards of the same recipe were in the box in two different hand writings.

If we don't take action, many of our cooking skills may go the way of some of the ancient cities. the "everyone knows were town such and so is, so why would we ever say where it is or even include it on maps" adventures.

Anyways I have had a grand evening deciphering some recipes with my mom, including almost an hour of deciding how the instructions and order of steps went for my great grandmothers Poinsettia Bread went, and how much flour should be in the recipe.

Esther Whannel’s Poinsettia Bread

Makes 2 breads

1 packet yeast (1 Tbsp)

¼ cup warm water

⅓ cup + 1 tsp sugar

¾ cup milk

1 tsp salt

⅓ cup butter

3 eggs

5 ½ cup + ¼ cup flour

Lemon Zest

Spiced gum drops, with some chopped for decoration

Chopped nuts

Frosting

Red sugar

Mix packet of yeast in ¼ cup warm water with 1 tsp sugar, set aside until active. Meanwhile, scald ¾ cup of milk, then add ⅓ cup sugar, 1 tsp salt and ⅓ cup butter, removing from heat once combined and let cool until tepid. Beat 3 eggs and add to milk mixture followed by the yeast sponge. In a separate bowl, mix lemon zest with 5 ¼  cups flour. Mix 2 ½ cups flour into wet mix then work in remaining flour until a workable dough forms, knead until smooth and let rest 1 ½ hours.  In the dry bowl, combine ¼ cup flour with chopped nuts and gumdrops. Punch down dough and knead in gumdrops and nuts. Divide dough in half. Using 1 portion of dough, shape a small round center for flower. Cut the remainder of the portion into 12 pieces for petals, shape into petals and layout in flower shape. Cover and set aside, repeat for other portion of dough. Let rise 1 hour, then bake at 375*F until golden brown. Frost while warm, decorate center with gumdrop pieces, sprinkle petals with red sugar. 

This recipe was not the clearest set of instructions, and so We spent a while trying to determine the most likely method. We based the above instructions on a Stollen bread. The ingredient list is also an estimation as well.

#family #heritage #cooking #recipes #deciphering cursive #lost cooking knowledge #adventures in family memories #cooking through time #generational change #holiday traditions

[protoslacker]

I’m reminded of how when we talk about the decline of local news, it’s natural to frame the conversation around the hunt for sufficient substitutes to fill a civic role traditionally played by local newspapers and tv/radio stations. But maybe we shouldn’t be so fixated on substitution—which implies a one‐to‐one comparison—when much of what we’re seeing emerge from that vacuum is actually superior to traditional local news in a variety of ways.

Paul Matzko in Cato At Liberty. TikTok and the “New News” Media

Rare to point to Cato Institute and I am probably not as sanquine about this shift as Paul Matzko appears to be, but his observation is important. The TikTok video by Nick Drombosky he points to concerns the recent train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. It's short and worth viewing.

#news #media #generational change

[bitter-letter]

I am becoming a safe space, and while you may feel safe around me in ways you should have made us feel yet never did, it is not for you. I will be safe for me, and I will be safe for my sister. One day, we will thrive, not just survive the trauma you inherited and multiplied.

#mental illness #mental health #mental wellbeing #abuse #self growth #self worth #safe space #survival mode #defense mechanism #self healing #trauma #generational change

[metaphorical-goblin]

Another Woman in the Long Line of Women

"I will be the one who breaks the cycle,"

you whispered (I assume),

standing in the middle of your half-prepped nursery,

smoothing your hand over a slowly-swelling stomach.

A nice sentiment, really.

But you are the amalgamation of everything they ever taught you.

Even if you didn't know it

and even if they never sat you down at the table and spelled it out for you

(and sometimes I wonder if you did the same thing I did, clutching your hands close to your chest and begging your mama to please, please turn back around because we need you at home and I know you taught me how to take care of our family but I'm just not tall enough to reach the stovetop on my own)

(and sometimes I laugh, because it's ironic, really, that you did break the cycle. you stayed.).

"I will be the one who breaks the cycle,"

I whispered (alone, in bed, praying to God to keep me from acting like you).

A nice sentiment, really.

But I am the amalgamation of everything you ever taught me (and they ever taught you).

(And good God, I'm not mad at you. I don't hate you. I could never hate you. I know that was hard. I know it wasn't easy.)

(I know, I know.)

But it terrifies me, to see your hand in my hand,

to feel your anger in my anger,

to bring bubbling, boiling impatience to the surface, threatening to overthrow me

and it's a nice sentiment, really.

To say that I will not raise my voice against a child of mine,

to say that I will not raise my hand against a person who does not know they are wrong.

And it is so scary to already feel that temptation, rumbling just below the surface.

I will not add my daughter to the long list of women who claimed to be the last woman.

I can't.

#original poem #poems on tumblr #poetry #generational change #generational trauma #lets goooo #journal #ramblings

[lady-courtney-blog]

I don’t know who needs to hear this but

-Raising a child entails much more than food, shelter, clothing and schooling. Those are legal obligations, genius .

-“Adulthood” doesn’t start at 18, no we can’t move out, get a car, and a house with a job at an ice cream shop because at 18 we aren’t qualified for much more than that, be fucking for real. Like have you not seen the economy?

-your children are not you, they are not your property, they aren’t here to fulfill you or make you happy, they aren’t an extension or an expression of your legacy. They are people, human being, individuals that didn’t ask to be here to begin with.

-being in a loveless marriage for 40+ years with someone who is actively abusing you physically, mentally, emotionally is not a flex, you can leave there is still time.

-Making your children suffer how you suffered doesn’t mend the pain, it passes it on. This is called generational trauma, Google is free.

-Men who cheat, beat, and groom susceptible women are not good men just because they make good money.

-People keeping their distance from their families aren’t mean and selfish. They have exercised free will and has done what is best for them. You should try it sometime.

-Calling members of the family who are struggling with their mental health “crazy” is the most unfunny, dry ass joke in the book.

-Mental Illness isn’t caused by a “chemical imbalance” it’s actually a build up of unaddressed childhood and adolescent trauma and the lack of a healthy support system.

-Therapy is for everyone of all ages. Seriously look into it. We aren’t lazy, we are depressed and fighting to survive.

-Calling this a “family” yet bickering and nit picking over petty shit at every single family gathering and it turns into some of the ugliest most volatile fights is pure madness.

-If every time your child does something that you don’t particularly like and you threaten to kick them out. You’re a bad parent.

-If your child’s sexuality, belief system, gender identity, preferences in people, style, music, pets, are the reason you and your child don’t get along. You’re a bad parent.

-“Respect your elders” is a manipulation tactic used to fuel authoritarian style parenting which is a form of narcissistic abuse.

-Emotional Incest occurs when a parental figure is dependent on their child to meet their emotional needs that would otherwise be met by a partner.

-Getting called out for toxic behavior is not disrespect or the “attack” that most of you think it is.

-Evolving past the need for familial approval will make you an outcast/black sheep and you will be left to fend for yourself. It is not for the weak and you will need support. (I got you)

-the whole “Blood is thicker than water” thing is bs. Go to where you are loved, respected, revered and valued.

-Your inherent value as a human being doesn’t lie in how much you can produce or how much wealth you can

#families #generationalwealth #generational change #healing #therapy #self help #self love #trauma #journal