Love will tear us apart*

Remember back in the day when I talked about the weird cosmic joke that exists between parents and children, or, more broadly, generations of people, this century**? Basically: parents have Neptune in a sign that their children have Pluto in. Neptune's a blind spot and Pluto's a bullet wound, energetically, so the Neptune people don't understand what the big deal is and the Pluto people get incensed by this. You can see it play out in the 'parents just don't understand' arena, or you can ask me about it and I'll rant at you.

It's gotta be weird to have a parent with Neptune in Scorpio, which is the death-is-not-so-bad generation, as someone with Pluto in Scorpio, because death is annihilation. There's a pretty big divide between those two, wouldn't you say? The fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius) are not subtle. This is also extremely visible in the Pluto in Leo generation (boomers), many of whom had parents with Neptune in Leo (greatest generation). Neptune in Leo = no ego, as well as finding ecstasy in simple pleasures, while the Pluto in Leo generation makes an olympic sport out of both having an ego and the simple pleasures of life. So, doing the math here, Neptune in Leo people had no idea what to do with the egoic creatures they gave birth to. I'm sure there was a lot of "I don't get why this means so much to you" but in far less straightforward terms.

A calling card of Neptune is salvation, and if you run across someone who is counting on something outside themselves to save themselves (I don't care what it is), begin to suspect Neptune. Don't get me wrong: we all need to believe in stuff, but saving yourself is an inside job, and believing otherwise is dangerous. The sign Neptune is in in someone's chart at least gives you a clue about where to look to detect distortion.

I'll admit the hell out of all my biases, but I struggle with the generation with Neptune in Libra and Pluto in Leo (they are one and the same, not two distinct populations, and I still mean boomers here) because Pluto in Leo tells them that what their heart wants is the be-all-end-all and Neptune in Libra is unrealistic about Libra things: what love should look like, how much someone should put up with in the name of love, and what one should sacrifice (Neptune theme!) for love. So, love + love = love is the equation***, but when you really look at it, it's "I love this to pieces" + "I will give up beyond what's reasonable on behalf of this love." SOMETIMES it works out. Other times, it turns into something grotesque, because Neptunian martyrdom has an extreme dark side. I would advise these guys (if they would ask me, which they don't) to look really deeply into their definition of "love" and begin to detect inconsistencies, because the cure for most of the problems I'm enumerating here is really thinking things through.

I say this because I come from the *Pluto in Libra* generation (gen x***), which is when love can turn dark and deeply unfair, and I've been told by the Neptune in Libra population that being miserable is to be expected, and I should have tolerated it. Anyone *without* Neptune in Libra would not agree with that sentiment, and they'd be appalled at the suggestion. So, I, with Pluto in Libra, mutter things like "these hoes are trying to kill me" and it's like chum for the Neptune in Libra sharks. "Don't say hoes!" "That's not nice!" "Maybe if you were nicer to the hoes, they wouldn't try to kill you so much." (If you think I'm kidding...)

The real message here is that what you believe is The Way often doesn't translate across generations. You can see evidence of that everywhere the light touches, and it's basically just a fact of life, right? Being in touch with what you believe will save you and here's the key: not projecting it on other people (especially not your children) will save you a lot of grief.

*This song came out when Pluto was in Libra**This won't be true a few decades from now, nor was it the case in the 1800s. It's specifically because Neptune is about 60° ahead of Pluto and has been for about a century, but it's not lasting much longer in a macro sense.***The Leo + Libra combination means this generation has serious hangups about love, but that is not particularly the case for other generations.****Technically I'm a millennial but I think generations should be sorted by Pluto sign, and Pluto in Libra people are gen x. Fight me.