OK, let's wrap up this series with the youngest Pluto generations your business might be catering to.
To back up a bit - I think astrology could be a good way to analyze "generations" if we look at the
natal placement of the planet Pluto (
where Pluto was hanging out when we were born)
.
Pluto is a slow moving outer planet. The furthest planet from earth (
yes, Pluto is a planet, don't get me started!) and represents karma and the "soul".
We experience a compulsive attention to matters related to the sign where Pluto resides when we are born.
NOTE - Pluto moves in and out of a sign as it retrogrades, stations and
moves direct so a person born within the first couple years Pluto is in a
sign may be more in tune with the previous sign and a person born in
the last two years more represented by the following sign. And of course
each person has their own individual chart with many aspects and
placements including the energy of Pluto's
house that may work against this collective energy - still, this way of looking at generations will be helpful when we
think about our customers as a group.
See Part I Pluto in Cancer, Pluto in Leo generations
and Part II Pluto in Libra, Pluto in Virgo generations
Pluto in Scorpio (
1984-1995) - The Pluto in Scorpio generation (
Pluto rules Scorpio) are
intense. Charged with going down into the underworld and coming up
alive (
which they mostly do, but not always) - they often work through dark and unsettling experiences very early in life - their growth (
and the growth of the collective from the energy they carry and transform) is mountainous.
Scorpio (
and Pluto) rules banking, big money, other people's money - taxes, loans, insurance, spouse's income, collective money, inheritances - death, rebirth, sex, gender, the resources of others, surgery, metaphysics, reproduction and regeneration. These are the areas this generation is here to reshape.
This is a connection energy like Libra - but Scorpio connects us in ways that are deeper, more transformative and often more
uncomfortable.
Born into the energy of "
I did not have sex with that woman" and Real World MTV escapades they have turned pornography into "porn", sex into "hook-ups" and invented "friends with benefits". IVF became more mainstream as more and more reproduction issues are surfacing. Faced with a future without enough jobs and with huge educational debts - energy and beliefs around finite resources and what belongs to "us" and what belongs to "them" will morph mainstream thinking as this group comes into their own. Endless war, media fear mongering and video games has made them more immune to violence than other generations and sometimes a little cold, determined and often brave. It also leaves them open to going too deep and too fast into Pluto's underworld through loss of hope, drugs and escapism.
If your creative business services this group - think about some of these Scorpio buzzwords. What do they need/want now?
They will not chase the bright and shiny thing. They need/want to be lured and are drawn to the mysterious, interesting and
different although celebrity culture and their interest in "big money" and "what other people have" could attract them to more mainstream things branded in these ways as long as nothing appears too superficial.
They need to feel "deep" and like things with messages and meanings and will think about the things they own and what those things say
about them in these ways. They are drawn to the ancient and esoteric but want the latest iphone. They want to feel different, because they are, actually, and although they need to fit in less than other generations, they are still a connecting force with a need to "fit in" somewhere.
Born into fast moving energy that idolizes - because it's all anyone has time to look at anymore - the stuff on the surface, they will come of age with a need to really see/know/experience what is underneath the glitz and casual conversation. Anything lasting that your business offers this group should best be geared to what is
real and what it
says about them that they purchased it.
Those plucky, inspirational quotes on Pinterest and Instagram appeal to and are made by this group,
as long as it makes them feel strong and powerful. They don't like wimpy sentimentality. Scorpio is about change, so products that are changeable or that grow
with them or that they can change and make their own in some way would appeal.
Pluto in Sagittarius (
1995-2008) - The Pluto in Sagittarius generation are (
or will be, many are still children) all about freedom and philosophy. They are easily bored and not so easily restrained. With brains wired differently (
please let's stop drugging them) they will birth new ideas and inventions and things no one has ever thought about. I would say the sky is the limit, but with this group it really isn't.
Sagittarius rules college, higher education, philosophy, foreigners and foreign travel, churches and religion, air travel, publishing, charities and international commerce. These are the areas the energy they carry is here to transform.
Pluto in Sagittarius is about BIG thinking. Growing up connected to the world wide web at all times through their cellphones and ipads not much will feel 'foreign' to them. Their educations may be more limited so they will learn and grow in new and unique ways. They won't be pigeonholed. They want adventure. They want travel. Their thinking will be more positive than the previous generation and so they might be a little more "lucky". This is the wanderer, bohemian, gypsy energy. They will reinvent how and why we travel and how information and products move around the world.
If your creative business services this young group - think about some of these Sagittarius buzzwords. What do they need/want?
This is very young energy - they are age 8-20 right now - so much of this will be future based with them as they come into their own. There are also some of the younger Pluto in Scorpio people who fit in better with this group. The youngest people alive now - born since 2008 are the Pluto in Capricorn generation who are going to transform business and security and those safety nets currently falling apart! Then in 2025 Pluto in Aquarius children will be born to hold that new humanitarian energy and usher in a new age. Yes, it's a long process!
Every generation holds the generational energy they are born into to transform and is shaped by the previous generations - in this way we carry the gifts and sins of our fathers forward. We can only start from where we are. I think science will someday, maybe led by a Pluto in Scorpio person (!), link astrology and DNA the way quantum physics is linking beliefs and DNA.
I hope something in this series is helpful to makers and business owners.
Thinking "What does this person
need?" is a much better starting point than "Who do I sell/offer this thing to?". xo all
