Pluto in Virgo

Het Monster: Pluto in Virgo
Many of today’s parents (born 1957–71) have Pluto in Virgo, the sign of work, health, and the associated techniques and technologies. The beginning of the computer revolution signaled transformation in the organization of labor. Increased automation accelerated production but left many workers unemployed. Medical technology made significant advances. The birth control pill, which separated sex from conception, contributed to a rise in the number of working women. The revolutionary 1960s influenced children born during this period. They carefully and purposefully examine the results of the technological explosion in work and medicine, striving to understand whether it has gone too far. Pollution and chemical additives in food, for example, pose a serious problem.

Pavlo Globa. Planets in Zodiac Signs

Generation of 1957–1972 (15 years in Virgo). Here, Pluto is in the domicile of Mercury and Proserpina, with Mercury also in its exaltation, in an Earth sign. During this era, mass energy is spent on minutiae. Acceleration occurs (Virgo is the sign of Proserpina, symbolizing physiological reserves). At best, your energy is directed toward work, technology, and science. This period is marked by disillusionment with doctors and the emergence of new ideas in healthcare. Health issues will become paramount for this generation. You tend to have a liberal attitude toward morality and love, avoiding binding commitments with partners. Your ideals are derivative, as Jupiter is in detriment in Virgo. Materialism and pragmatism characterize your personality. You are a sober, cold person, often involved in small business. In the best case, you retain sound judgment and mental energy into old age. You are frugal and capable of consistently limiting your resources. You are not particularly ambitious or romantic. You possess an excellent mind and a clear head. You tend to have a very permissive attitude toward children, allowing them to grow like weeds, almost without needing upbringing (information “is in the air”). Overall, Pluto’s placement in Virgo manifests as a revolution in science based on computers, sensational discoveries in medicine, technological re-equipment, and changes in employment conditions. People of your generation will become new alchemists, capable of reviving alchemy at the dawn of the Aquarian Age. You will harness new cosmic energies both in physics and in the realm of health. With minimal means, you can achieve significant results. You may become an excellent doctor, a medical reformer, or a remarkable astrologer (astrology being the alchemy of the soul). In the worst case, you may exhibit wastefulness of public property, misuse of work and official positions for personal gain, or become an idle person with a sterilized consciousness. You belong to a generation that will age prematurely. Freedom in love may manifest here as detachment from relationships and cold promiscuity.

Absalom Podvodny. Planets in Zodiac Signs

This placement is far more constructive than Pluto in Taurus, as here Pluto’s transformative influence extends not so much to forms themselves, but to the methodology of working with them and the elements that constitute them. This generation (especially combined with Uranus in Virgo, 1962–1968) will completely transform our understanding of the foundations of existence, space and time, will materialize the laws of karma, and derive from them the laws of physics as karma imposed upon space-time. Progress should also be achieved in understanding the relationship between thought and spirit, and in clarifying the structure of the mental and astral planes in general, and of humanity’s corresponding bodies in particular. In an individual horoscope, this placement indicates an interest in the foundations of existence and the principles of assembling large forms from small components, a desire to examine and radically alter the basic principles of reality construction, and to create a new, better reality. Without proper development, all this remains as vague dreams or nihilism toward existing structures and formative principles.

Francesca Sakoyan. Planets in Zodiac Signs

You were born during a 14-year period (1957–1971), when people were born with a compelling need to find an ethical standard and clearly discern what is true from what is false. You possess a subconscious drive to eradicate all evil from the world and establish perfect order everywhere. You feel disgust toward everything ugly, dirty, or senseless. Yet paradoxically, you are often fascinated precisely by what is distasteful, and frequently experience feelings of hopelessness and despair about the way the world is structured. These inner emotional conflicts manifest in your generation’s lifestyle. Most people in your age group are conservative and ethical, while only a few represent the opposite extreme—enjoying being odd, unusual in manner and outward expression, even unkempt and irrational. It seems there is no middle ground between these two extremes within the generation. Typically, rebellious behavior appears in youth and gradually fades, so that in later life your cohort tends simply to be conservative. Your generation does not easily compromise and tends to have strict criteria about what is right and wrong. You have a strong sense that you must destroy evil in the world. Of course, good deeds are highly commendable, but a categorical and one-sided approach to complex issues is unacceptable. Your generation significantly reevaluates its views on Good and Evil, swinging from one extreme to the other. Your cohort will make substantial contributions to the fields of medicine, ecology, and education. On a personal level, this placement stimulates analytical abilities, criticism, and a drive to get to the root of things. It involves rethinking one’s mind and subordinating it to collective opinion. Changes come through social systems, attention to unemployment, national minorities, and personal and public health. A generation of reformers of everyday life.

Planets in Signs. The Art of Forecasting. Semira and V. Vetash

Your generation can control its passions and regulate the use of its energy, directing it toward practical service to society. It is less emotional than the previous one.