The Neptune Generations

The planet Neptune takes about 164 years to make one trip around the Sun, spending about 14 years in each sign of the zodiac along the way.

In astrology, Neptune governs faith, mystery, confusion, and disorder.  Each 14 year generation has Neptune in a different sign, and each of these Neptune Generations experiences their encounter with faith, mystery, confusion, and disorder in a different way.

The generation born between 1942-1955 had Neptune in the sign Libra. It was their destiny to experience confusion, uncertainty, and disorder when it came to the Libran issues of gender roles and marriage, and to broadcast that confusion throughout the world. Right on schedule, they did just that when they reached adulthood in the 1960s and 1970's, ushering in the Woman’s Lib movement, elevated divorce rates, and blurring of the traditional cultural distinctions in gender roles. This generation is now between 59-72 years old, so their impact on our cultural development has already seen its peak, and is starting to fade into the background of our cultural dialogue.

The next generation, born between 1955-1970, have Neptune in Scorpio, and it was their destiny to experience confusion, uncertainty, and disorder when it came to the archetypal Scorpio issues of sex and banking, and to spread that confusion around the globe.  This generation also did so right on schedule, first ushering in the Sexual Revolution in their youth, and then muddying the waters of banking and international finance as older adults, introducing such complexity, confusion, and disorder into the international banking system that it almost collapsed under its own weight in 2008. This generation was between 38- 53 years old in 2008, just then only starting to reach the height of their authority in the professional community when their innate tendency to sow financial confusion became manifest. Astrology suggests that the world’s financial systems are unlikely to return to firm footing until this generation reaches retirement age, which won’t be until 2020-2035.

The next generation, born between 1970-1984, have Neptune in Sagittarius, and it is their destiny to sow  confusion and uncertainty when it comes to the Sagittarian issues of religion and law.  This generation is currently between 30 - 44 years old, but as soon as they reached adulthood, the world started seeing an explosion of Islamic terrorism.  The modern age of Islamic terrorism appropriately began when Neptune was in Sagittarius, but didn’t start moving outside the Middle East until the 1993 World Trade center bombing, when the oldest members of this generation were just 23.  This generation was between 17-31 years old when the 9/11 attacks happened, and all the terrorists involved were within that age group.  Now that this generation is between 30 - 44 years old, the news is full of stories about Islamic Sharia Law starting to be introduced into Western nations, which is was second shoe to drop for their Sagittarius Neptune generation.  Astrology suggests that it is unlikely that either Islamic terrorism or the infiltration of Sharia Law into Western cultures will stop until this generation grows old, which means these things won’t start fading away until 2035-2049.