Generational planets

Definition

The generational planets are Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, the three slowest-moving bodies in the zodiac. Uranus takes about eighty-four years to circle the wheel, Neptune about a hundred sixty-five, Pluto about two hundred forty-eight. Their sign placements change so slowly that whole birth cohorts share them, so they describe cultural and collective tides rather than individual character traits inside a single chart.

In context

If you and someone born ten years apart compare charts, your generational planets probably sit in the same sign or one sign over: that placement is the shared mood of your generation, not a personal signature. The generational planets only become personal when they hit one of your angles or aspect one of your personal planets closely. That contact is where collective tide meets individual life.

To go deeper

Generational planets sit inside the broader grouping system:

• Personal planets: Sun through Mars.
• Social planets: Jupiter and Saturn.
• Personal-transpersonal: the umbrella polarity.