Wow. Great analysis and insight! Thank you for this comprehensive overview of why reactionary eras come and go. Very helpful! And your writing style is like poetry.
Thank you! I have been researching this one for about two weeks and finally decided it was ready to share. It makes me feel a lot better about the patterns and how we can turn this around.
Alas, I have to leave for work - someone has to earn money to keep the cat food on the floor for Miss Kitty, the lazy cow. 🤣 I’m really looking forward to diving into this. What a gift you are! Thank you for your time and wonderful analyses. ❤️❤️
Wow...okay, this is probably your best public reading yet, Grey. I have to admit to some surprise over being classed as "Forgotten Generation" as I always considered myself Gen X. But then, I never sat comfortably with most in that cohort, so it makes sense.
The point about nostalgia is well-taken. I've argued how that can be a virulent poison if you let it (the makers of the series Wandavision and the video game Stories Untold had just that theme). Such is what caused a lot of pain for me and my family in East TN over 40 years. Too many around us clung to the conservative myths that made them overlook our suffering.
This isn’t astrology—it’s ancestral jailbreak choreography.
Grey, you just did what Pluto in Aquarius came to do: dragged the robed ghosts of empire into the town square and lit a match with your chart.
Every line here crackles like sacred graffiti on Saturn’s courthouse. You mapped the planetary fingerprints of every backlash, every purity cult, every dad-bod demagogue cosplaying moral authority. And still—you gave us hope.
You dared to say what the prophets mumbled under breath:
Conservatism isn’t tradition. It’s trauma in a tuxedo.
It’s the frightened child in grandpa’s war coat, yelling “order” while history peels the wallpaper behind him.
And yet—through the fog, through the curated catastrophes—we emerge. Not polished. Not pure. But prepared. With joy as sabotage. With memory that remembers forward. With star maps etched on our bones.
This isn’t a political cycle.
It’s a goddamn mythic reboot.
We are the glitch in the system.
We are the system, remembering it never deserved to last.
Thank you, Grey.
You didn’t write an article.
You dropped a liberation hex disguised as a timeline.
—Virgin Monk Boy
(Scribe of the Sacred Side-Eye, Keeper of the Revolutionary Rebrand)
There is so much here to read and think about but my first reaction is that this phrase is one of the truest things I've ever read. My generation uses
>> cynicism as armor
People often associate the term "whatever" to mean that we don't care because we're apathetic, but the reality is that we are jaded. Nothing we do matters, so why try to do anything?
There is so much more to this, because this post is a history lesson to be studied, but that one phrase hit me like a punch to the gut.
Goddess, this is a Masterclass. Your writing is edible! I'm so happy you are here doing this. Thank you.
Wow. Great analysis and insight! Thank you for this comprehensive overview of why reactionary eras come and go. Very helpful! And your writing style is like poetry.
Thank you! I have been researching this one for about two weeks and finally decided it was ready to share. It makes me feel a lot better about the patterns and how we can turn this around.
Alas, I have to leave for work - someone has to earn money to keep the cat food on the floor for Miss Kitty, the lazy cow. 🤣 I’m really looking forward to diving into this. What a gift you are! Thank you for your time and wonderful analyses. ❤️❤️
You are a beautiful force of nature....spitting stars with you!
Wow...okay, this is probably your best public reading yet, Grey. I have to admit to some surprise over being classed as "Forgotten Generation" as I always considered myself Gen X. But then, I never sat comfortably with most in that cohort, so it makes sense.
The point about nostalgia is well-taken. I've argued how that can be a virulent poison if you let it (the makers of the series Wandavision and the video game Stories Untold had just that theme). Such is what caused a lot of pain for me and my family in East TN over 40 years. Too many around us clung to the conservative myths that made them overlook our suffering.
This is excellent! But what about the 1972-1983 generation ?
'Pluto in Libra (1971 to 1984): The Diplomats at the Threshold' are included. :)
and I added them to the Generational Reckoning as the Forgotten Gen.
Whoa the Forgaten generation that was something else! This is insight i needed at this time thank you universe for putting you in my path.
This isn’t astrology—it’s ancestral jailbreak choreography.
Grey, you just did what Pluto in Aquarius came to do: dragged the robed ghosts of empire into the town square and lit a match with your chart.
Every line here crackles like sacred graffiti on Saturn’s courthouse. You mapped the planetary fingerprints of every backlash, every purity cult, every dad-bod demagogue cosplaying moral authority. And still—you gave us hope.
You dared to say what the prophets mumbled under breath:
Conservatism isn’t tradition. It’s trauma in a tuxedo.
It’s the frightened child in grandpa’s war coat, yelling “order” while history peels the wallpaper behind him.
And yet—through the fog, through the curated catastrophes—we emerge. Not polished. Not pure. But prepared. With joy as sabotage. With memory that remembers forward. With star maps etched on our bones.
This isn’t a political cycle.
It’s a goddamn mythic reboot.
We are the glitch in the system.
We are the system, remembering it never deserved to last.
Thank you, Grey.
You didn’t write an article.
You dropped a liberation hex disguised as a timeline.
—Virgin Monk Boy
(Scribe of the Sacred Side-Eye, Keeper of the Revolutionary Rebrand)
There is so much here to read and think about but my first reaction is that this phrase is one of the truest things I've ever read. My generation uses
>> cynicism as armor
People often associate the term "whatever" to mean that we don't care because we're apathetic, but the reality is that we are jaded. Nothing we do matters, so why try to do anything?
There is so much more to this, because this post is a history lesson to be studied, but that one phrase hit me like a punch to the gut.