The Astrological Roots of Conservatism *Time Line*

How Conservatism Rewrites the Past to Escape the Future

Dressed in Tradition, Built on Fear

The False Gods of Order

They rise not because they are right, but because they are afraid.
Every time the world changes shape, conservatism reanimates.
It cloaks itself in duty, in sanctity, in nostalgia.
But it is always…always a spell against the future.

The stars do not pick sides, but they do tell stories. Stories of rise and rot, of empire and aftermath. If we follow the long arcs of Pluto, Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn, a pattern emerges. One in which conservatism doesn’t just happen…it arrives, like a tide, at specific celestial crossings.

When people feel unmoored, when money disappears, when culture refuses to stand still, conservatism offers a siren song:

Go back. Back to safety. Back to structure. Back to myths that never existed.

This is the story of those tides. And why the ocean is about to pull them under.

Note for the reader: The planets explored here: Pluto, Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn move slowly, shaping entire generations, not individuals. Their transits last years, even decades, and sculpt the mythic terrain beneath politics, culture, and collective identity.

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Pluto’s Law: Conservatism as Power’s Rebirth Ritual

Pluto does not whisper. It excavates. It drags upwhat has been buried in the bones of empire and holds it to the light, demanding transformation. When Pluto moves through Earth signs, its work becomes architectural. Power structures are not only revealed but reforged, sometimes in darker, more desperate forms. Conservatism, in these moments, does not simply reemerge. It is rebuilt, hardened, and baptized in the myth of necessity.

Pluto in Capricorn (2008 to 2023):
This was the empire’s autopsy dressed in executive drag. Pluto in Capricorn oversaw the global financial collapse, the erosion of public trust in institutions, and the rise of strongman politics across the world. In the United States, it incubated the Tea Party, laid the groundwork for Trump’s election, and witnessed the weaponization of surveillance capitalism. Conservatism during this era mutated into something new—less about policy and more about identity, tribalism, and control. It preached “return to greatness” while stripping the meaning out of both return and greatness.

Pluto in Virgo (1957 to 1971):
This was the age of moral purging disguised as progress. As civil rights movements surged, Pluto in Virgo laid the foundation for backlash. White flight, suburban sprawl, and the rise of evangelical megachurches formed a sterile counter-myth to liberation. Conservatism found its strength in rules, order, and performative cleanliness. It was the beginning of the “silent majority,” whose silence echoed with fear of change.

Pluto in Taurus (1852 to 1884):
Here we find the ideological cement poured around racial caste systems. The roots of Confederate pride, property worship, and agricultural purity rituals took hold under this transit. Conservatism became deeply entwined with land ownership and racial hierarchy, justifying cruelty through the language of tradition. It was not just about preserving the past…it was about embalming it, then using it as a bludgeon.

Pluto in Capricorn (1762 to 1777):
A prior echo. In the years leading to the American Revolution, colonial conservatism clung desperately to British rule. The rigid hierarchies of monarchy and mercantilism were upheld by elites even as the cracks formed. True revolt did not arrive during Pluto’s Capricorn years. It surged forward only after Pluto departed, when the illusions of control finally collapsed. This is the hidden lesson: conservatism clings hardest right before it is broken.

Pluto brings the rot to the surface. But it is Capricorn that polishes it, frames it in gold, and calls it civilization.

Uranus: Rebellion in Service of Control

Uranus is the cosmic saboteur, the planet that strikes with lightning and screams freedom from the rooftops. It disrupts whatever has calcified. It breaks the spine of old systems. But rebellion is not always revolutionary. In certain signs, especially the earth signs and the fixed cross, Uranus does not liberate. It reorganizes. It rebrands control as revolution and installs new cages dressed in the language of change.

Uranus in Taurus (2018 to 2025):
This is the rebellion of the soil, the uprising of the past in digital clothes. Uranus in Taurus has brought us crypto-feudalism, aestheticized doomsday prepping, and the fetishization of self-sufficiency. It is the age of eco-fascism cloaked in floral print. Beneath the surface of homesteading tutorials and minimalist off-grid living is a deeper hunger to retreat from collective obligation. Taurus governs value, land, and safety. Uranus distorts these into an obsession with purity, often racialized, territorial, and exclusionary. Rebellion becomes a return, not a break. It offers comfort instead of courage. It sells order as insurgency.

Uranus in Capricorn (1988 to 1996):
This was the era where disruption became doctrine. Capitalism donned the mask of progress, and conservatism mutated into the ideology of efficiency. Deregulation was preached like gospel. Glass-Steagall was gutted. The World Trade Organization rose like a temple to global capital. Uranus in Capricorn did not shout in the streets. It crept into boardrooms and rewrote the rules. It built a new kind of conservative machinery that believed profit was proof of divine favor. Tech billionaires were crowned prophets. Vision was reduced to quarterly returns.

Uranus in Virgo (1962 to 1969):
This was rebellion in a lab coat. The counterculture roared, yes, but the system took notes. Uranus in Virgo structured protest, drafted its own bureaucracies, and birthed think tanks alongside communes. It automated change, then filed it away. The civil rights movement was surveilled, fragmented, and commodified. Government agencies grew new appendages under the guise of protection. Even revolutionaries began to speak the language of data, discipline, and functionality. Here, Uranus did not explode the machine. Oh no sir! It optimized it.

When Uranus moves through earth or fixed signs, the chaos is not loud. It calcifies. It turns into algorithms, land deeds, dress codes, purity tests. It does not burn the old world down. That would be ‘wasteful’ so It just teaches it how to hide better.

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Neptune’s Fog: The Dream of a Sacred Past

Neptune is the haze that turns myths into mandates. It does not shout like Uranus or rip open the ground like Pluto. Instead, it seduces. It enchants. It dissolves the edges of reality until belief becomes more powerful than fact. Neptune governs dreams, faith, and illusions. In the hands of the conservative impulse, it becomes a holy veil that wraps oppression in the language of destiny.

Conservatism thrives when Neptune offers not just nostalgia, but sanctity. People begin to believe that returning to the past is not only preferable, but divinely ordained. Neptune builds churches out of memory. It turns cultural rot into sacred scripture.

Neptune in Capricorn (1984 to 1998):
This was the age of the prosperity gospel. Wall Street prayed in suits while televangelists cried into gold-plated microphones. Spirituality was no longer a path, it was a product. The New Age movement married itself to bootstraps ideology. Crystals were sold as cures for systemic failure. Reaganomics merged with metaphysics. In this fog, conservatism put on a new mask: self-help saviorism. Individual success was framed as spiritual superiority. The state’s abandonment of the vulnerable was cloaked in divine rhetoric…if you were struggling, perhaps your vibration was simply too low.

Neptune in Virgo (1928 to 1942):
Here, the dream curdled into purification. As the world spiraled into economic collapse and fascist regimes gained ground, Neptune in Virgo whispered that cleanliness was not just next to godliness, but necessary for survival. Eugenics flourished in both America and Europe. Bodies were measured, judged, and discarded under the illusion of scientific morality.

Conservatism in this era did not scream tradition as much as it offered charts, white coats, calm logic and lobotomies.

It rebranded hatred as hygiene. The sacred past Neptune invoked was one of imagined perfection, stripped of difference and bleached of complexity.

Neptune in Taurus (1874 to 1889):
The land was mythologized. Agrarianism became spiritual law. Under Neptune’s dreamy eye, the American South romanticized the plantation. The Lost Cause narrative took root, swaddled in songs, statues, and sermons. Jim Crow was not just legislation…it was cast as a moral ecosystem, necessary to preserve the so-called harmony of the land. In Europe, similar ideals formed around blood-and-soil nationalism. This was the era of divine property, where ownership became sacrament and exclusion was portrayed as balance.

Neptune cloaks cruelty in higher purpose. It sells the story of natural order while erasing the violence needed to maintain it. It makes people believe they are protecting something sacred, when in truth they are defending a fantasy built on bones.

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Saturn’s Gate: The Rules of Belonging

Saturn is the architect of boundary. It writes the contracts, seals the borders, and sets the clock ticking on what is earned versus what is owed. In myth, Saturn is the devourer of his own children. In the chart, he defines the limits of who gets to be claimed, protected, punished, or cast out.

Where Pluto burns the empire to reveal its bones, Saturn chisels those bones into law. And conservatism, more than any other force, thrives inside that architecture. It draws strength from certainty, structure, and a shared agreement about who belongs inside the gate, and who is locked out.

When Saturn transits signs tied to heritage, control, or institutional memory, it activates the fear that something vital will be lost if the rules are not upheld. And so new rules are written. They often wear the costume of care. They often use the voice of a parent. But the message is clear: obey, or be exiled.

Saturn in Cancer (2003 to 2005 and 1973 to 1975):
This is the era when family becomes a fortress. Saturn in Cancer restricts not just resources but emotional expression, narrowing the definition of kinship. In these years, we saw the consolidation of “family values” rhetoric, the rise of pro-life absolutism, and a resurgence of nationalism framed as parental duty. Political messaging blurred into parenting advice. Queer families, chosen families, and communal bonds were painted as threats to the sacred nuclear unit. Cancer is the sign of homeland, womb, and memory. Saturn placed here builds borders around all three. The message was subtle but brutal: you are either inside the family or you are a danger to it.

Saturn in Capricorn (1988 to 1991):
These were years of high scaffolding and cold ambition. The Berlin Wall fell, but in its place rose the skyscrapers of corporate dominance. The Soviet experiment collapsed, and western conservatism declared itself not just victorious but holy. Capitalism was no longer an economic system, it was proof of moral superiority. Saturn in Capricorn rewards discipline, but punishes deviation. During this time, the United States framed poverty as personal failure and wrapped austerity in the language of responsibility. Conservatism became sleek, professional, and merciless. It no longer needed to shout. It had charts, suits, and a permanent seat at the table.

Saturn in Scorpio, Libra, and Virgo
While not the central focus, it is worth noting that these adjacent transits built the emotional, legal, and bureaucratic frameworks that conservative ideology would later weaponize. Saturn in Libra (1980 to 1983) hardened cultural debates into legislation. Saturn in Scorpio (1982 to 1985, and again in 2012 to 2015) added a layer of secrecy and surveillance to the system. Saturn in Virgo (2007 to 2009) reinforced the gospel of personal responsibility and framed illness, poverty, and burnout as individual errors.

Saturn conserves by deciding who gets to be real. It assigns value to obedience. It praises those who stay in line and punishes those who dare to redraw it. When Saturn is activated in the collective field, conservatism grows not from anger but from fear, fear that something sacred will unravel if the rules are not enforced. It tells the people: safety is found in compliance. Freedom is dangerous. And change must be earned through suffering.

But Saturn can also be subverted. When the people write new rules…when mutual aid becomes law in the heart, when community replaces punishment…Saturn becomes the steward of justice. It becomes the builder of unbreakable networks. And in those moments, conservatism loses its most powerful ally.

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The Mantle Inherited: Pluto Generations and the Shape of Reaction

Every generation born under Pluto’s gaze carries a myth inside them. It is not a prophecy, but a pressure. Pluto does not guarantee fate, but it does carve the terrain. And each cohort responds to that terrain by choosing to become either the conservator of dying systems or the rebel who buries them.

Pluto generations are not simply born. They are forged in the collapse of what came before, inheriting not just culture but shadow. When the world breaks, Pluto writes the new rules in marrow. And those born within its long grasp are tasked with either enforcing those rules—or shattering them again.

Pluto in Leo (1939 to 1957): The Monarchs in Decline
This generation was born into the theater of World War, raised on the doctrine of national identity, and crowned with the myth of exceptionalism. They were told they were the future, the golden children, the shining example. And so, when time began to move without them, many refused to yield the stage. They became the architects of nostalgia politics. Their memories were canonized as gospel, and their decline became the rallying cry: make it great again, make it theirs again, make it stop changing. Not all succumbed to the fantasy. But those who did wielded their inheritance like a scepter.

Pluto in Virgo (1957 to 1971): The Analysts of the Apocalypse
Raised in the fallout of war and the shadow of the Cold War, this generation absorbed the doctrine of improvement. Clean, precise, and skeptical of grandeur, they questioned everything, but often in private. They are the cohort that invented systems to replace institutions, but sometimes ended up policing the very change they hoped to manifest. Conservative currents here arise from the desire for order amid decay. When threatened, they do not shout. They correct. They do not protest loudly, but may quietly reinforce the walls of a dying system if they fear chaos will breach the gates.

Pluto in Libra (1971 to 1984): The Diplomats at the Threshold
This generation was raised to believe in balance. They were shaped by divorce, compromise, and contradiction. With Pluto in Libra, the core myth is justice, but justice negotiated, weighed, and compromised. Their conservative expression can often be found in the worship of civility over substance, neutrality over action. They may reject extremism and still reinforce the status quo. For many, survival has meant choosing silence over rupture. And yet, among them also rise the courtroom witches, the community organizers, the ones who forge justice from the ruins of false peace.

Pluto in Scorpio (1983 to 1995): The Alchemists of Shadow
Born into the era of AIDS, mass incarceration, and suburban rot, this is a generation intimate with death and transformation. They are obsessed with the hidden, the taboo, the forbidden. They tear apart lies for pleasure and power alike. Many have become truth-wielders, witches, trauma surgeons, and shadow workers. But there is another face, those who fear their own darkness and turn that fear outward. Some within this cohort seek to control identity, to purify movement, to cleanse culture through rigid frameworks. The intensity that fuels radical liberation also burns with authoritarian edge if untended.

Pluto in Sagittarius (1995 to 2008): The Zealots and the Firebrands
This generation was born under the sign of dogma and diaspora. They came into a world defined by moral crusade and boundless misinformation. Raised on open tabs and burning skies, they crave meaning like oxygen. Their sacred fire can illuminate or incinerate. Many are rewriting religion, queering mythology, dismantling colonialism. But others, lost in search of ultimate truth, fall prey to cults of certainty. Conservative expression here can show up as ideological rigidity, weaponized spirituality, or the burning desire to be right at any cost. Their test is discernment. Their danger is fundamentalism disguised as vision.

Don’t think of these as simple destinies, but gravitational wells. Pluto pulls at the soul of a generation, but what each cohort builds, fortress or funeral pyre, is still a choice.

And conservatism, in all its forms, is fed by gravity. It thrives where collapse has gone unnamed. It flourishes in generations who mistake survival for salvation.

Generational Reckoning

Boomers (1939–1957)

• Pluto in Leo

• Neptune in Libra

• Uranus in Gemini/Cancer

• Core Conservative Theme: Personal glory as national identity

Gen X (1958–1971)

• Pluto in Virgo

• Neptune in Scorpio

• Uranus in Virgo

• Core Conservative Theme: Surveillance as safety, cynicism as armor

Forgotten Generation (1971–1984)

• Pluto in Libra

• Neptune in Sagittarius

• Uranus in Libra/Scorpio (depending on birth year)

• Core Conservative Theme: Compromise as control, aesthetic balance masking systemic imbalance

Millennials (1984–1995)

• Pluto in Scorpio

• Neptune in Capricorn

• Uranus in Sagittarius

• Core Conservative Theme: Collapse of faith in institutions leads to alt-belief traditionalism

Gen Z (1995–2008)

• Pluto in Sagittarius

• Neptune in Aquarius

• Uranus in Aquarius

• Core Conservative Theme: Rebellion against chaos through rigid identity policing or techno-order

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Pluto in Aquarius: A Break Too Vast to Be Controlled

We are no longer waiting. We are inside the initiation.

Pluto has entered Aquarius, and with it arrives a trembling in the bones of every empire. This is the tension before a new shape emerges. Aquarius rules collective intelligence, shared vision, and the architecture of futures not yet written. Where Capricorn built the cathedral of power, Aquarius smashes the stained glass and asks why the altar was ever needed.

The old order feels the shift. And it panics.

It fights back not with innovation, but with recursion. It tightens its grip on the stories it told us about who deserves to rule and who must obey. Its last desperate offerings are dressed as protection, but reek of decay:

• Banned books and sanitized syllabi, silencing histories too potent to forget

• Forced births, imposed gender, and the policing of bloodlines under the guise of biology

• Surveillance systems that watch the people while shielding the powerful

• Billionaire prophets and algorithmic gods who demand obedience disguised as convenience

But Aquarius is not Capricorn. It does not kneel before kings or build monuments to lineage. It is the sign of sacred interruption. It honors the spark found in the collective. It speaks in code, in uprising, in network, in glitch.

The last time Pluto moved through Aquarius, the world was cracked open. Monarchies fell beneath the boots of revolutions. Science was unshackled from superstition. The idea of liberty was torn from the hands of the elite and offered to the people, incomplete but alive. It was not perfect. It was not finished. But it was a break.

We are in that break again. And the forces of control can feel it.

This is not a return or reform. This is rupture.
A sacred fracture.
A collective exhale after generations of holding breath.

Pluto in Aquarius reminds us that the future is not inherited, but summoned.

And it will not arrive through obedience. It will arrive through defiance, through imagination, through the refusal to keep pretending that the past deserves to last forever.

What comes next is not a question of if, but of who will dare to shape it.

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Chaos Witch Notes

For Those Who Remember the Future

You were not born to preserve the spell of a dying world.

Every law that says you must be small, every border that tells you to stay quiet, every institution that weaponizes order against life itself…these are not sacred. They are scaffolding around rot. And Pluto in Aquarius reveals the rot.

Do not let the fog of nostalgia trap you. Conservatism wears memory like armor, but what it defends is not truth. It is comfort soaked in violence. It is hierarchy singing lullabies. It is fear in ceremonial robes. Don’t mistake the sound of marching boots for the rolling rumble of an ocean and allow them rocking you to sleep.

You are allowed to want more than survival. You are allowed to exile the rulebook. You are allowed to speak in the tongues of ancestors who also wanted freedom.

So remember this:

Rest is resistance.

Mutual aid is spellcraft.

Joy is disruption.

Refusal is sacred.

Love is a weapon they cannot confiscate.

If they offer you the illusion of safety in exchange for silence, spit stars.
If they demand you pick a side, choose the one that makes room for all of us.
If they tell you the past was holy, remind them it was stolen.

We are the ones who plant seeds in rubble.
We are the heirs of collapse.
We are the architects of what comes next.

And we do not wait for permission.

Stay Stellar,

Grey Galaxie

Your resident Chaos Witch & Astrological Alchemist

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