tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post9045580971785847592..comments2024-03-17T03:42:21.277-05:00Comments on LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC: "Thinkin' 'bout my generation..."Twilighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-63085863070742854422014-08-03T23:56:39.630-05:002014-08-03T23:56:39.630-05:00RJ ~ Ah! Your're nobbut a lad still! :-)
O...RJ ~ Ah! Your're nobbut a lad still! :-)<br /><br />Oooh! Fancy that! Chatting up Cilla!<br />You might have had a lucky escape there, and would've missed your chance to live in this lovely Land of the ,,,,erm. Scrub that.Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-11698699438555867652014-08-03T22:30:58.324-05:002014-08-03T22:30:58.324-05:00I guess I just missed being a "War Baby"...I guess I just missed being a "War Baby", born in May 1946. My sister was, though. She was born in '41. We always said she was the last thing my father did before he went to war, after he'd put his boots on, and I was the first thing he did on his return, before he took them off!<br /><br />I missed conscription by four years (thank the gods!), but not the 11-plus. Like you, I scraped through and ended up in something called a 'Grammar School' (founded in 1636 for the 'sons of gentlefolk'. It had gone 'downhill' by the time I got there!)<br /><br />Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Probably one of my greatest recollections, as a teenager working in Liverpool, was attending the Cavern Club each lunchtime. The Beatles played there three days a week, with Gerry and the Pacemakers filling the other two days. The following week they'd swap days. I had the dubious pleasure of once trying to chat up Cilla Black ( or 'White', as she was then) who worked as a coat-check girl at the club. Needless to say, I got nowhere.R J Adamshttps://sparrowchat.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-55715324990209956742014-08-03T08:50:51.288-05:002014-08-03T08:50:51.288-05:00ex-Chomp ~ Yes, agreed - all peoples, throughout t...ex-Chomp ~ Yes, agreed - all peoples, throughout the ages, have lived "up and down" existences in company with a grand mixture of others - human as well as the rest of earth's creatures.<br /><br />I like your "Hi Conics"...lol!<br /><br />You mention of "shapes of things" and it reminded me of a song by the Yardbirds - and the words are appropriate to this topic too:<br /><br /><i>Shapes of things before my eyes,<br />Just teach me to despise.<br />Will time make men more wise?<br />Here within my lonely frame,<br />My eyes just hurt my brain.<br />But will it seem the same?<br /><br />Come tomorrow, will I be older?<br />Come tomorrow, may be a soldier.<br />Come tomorrow, may I be bolder than today?<br /><br />Now the trees are almost green.<br />But will they still be seen?<br />When time and tide have been.<br />Fall into your passing hands.<br />Please don't destroy these lands.<br />Don't make them desert sands.<br /><br />Soon I hope that I will find,<br />Thoughts deep within my mind.<br />That won't disgrace my kind.</i><br /><br /><br />Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-55525079761799774482014-08-03T03:57:54.628-05:002014-08-03T03:57:54.628-05:00Yes true, many High Conic people in that generatio...Yes true, many High Conic people in that generation but myths ended up and down and will rise again to end up in other ways... <br /><br />I guess what, though a thought passed and was not passed off, that our moment in history is that of a mixture, a complete mixed up and down moment in the course of mankind. <br /><br />To an unprecedented sort of fall, a soft fall, without myths or explanations or High Conics. <br /><br />Icons in fact do exist to picture out and figure out shapes of things but now it seems the movement itself of generations was passed off. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />ex-Chompnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-40350102143217002252014-08-02T13:03:10.112-05:002014-08-02T13:03:10.112-05:00mike ~ Astrologically, I agree that Pluto is a goo...mike ~ Astrologically, I agree that Pluto is a good, broad-brush marker for generational changes. We have to allow for other ingredients too though, as we are supposed to do in interpreting natal charts : differences in background, ethnicity, experience etc. Hence lots of sub-sections will exist.<br /><br />USA experiences are different from just about any other country we can name, so any common historical experience will be broad at best.<br />Without a lot of reading and research on every single country it's not possible to compare, or even to discover whether the Pluto in Leo yardstick works every time.<br /><br />The world doesn't revolve around the USA or the UK, or Europe. Until someone writes a book or books on the topic, we can only surmise, and work with what we've found out so far.<br /><br />(I wrote this post really as a counterpoint to "The Peculiar Generation" piece I linked.)<br /><br />Even regarding the Pluto generational marker, those born on the cusp are going to be fairly similar. Anyjazz is at the end of Pluto in Cancer, I'm at the beginning of Pluto in Leo - our outlooks and sensibilities are similar, though our experiences are very different. I think the cuspy changeover periods are going to be quite wide, possibly in proportion to the particular length of the Pluto transit.<br /><br />It's a great big cauldron of stew - our lifetimes - cooking together several generational groups. Difficult to pick out individual flavours with precision.<br />Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-71627817513109401442014-08-02T12:09:55.924-05:002014-08-02T12:09:55.924-05:00Pluto was in Taurus 1854 - 1884 and in Gemini 1884...Pluto was in Taurus 1854 - 1884 and in Gemini 1884 - 1914. Each of these two eras had their identifying generational definitions, with each duration lasting about thirty years, similar to Cancer. Things were slow to change!mike (again)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-67358913580267148002014-08-02T11:26:53.346-05:002014-08-02T11:26:53.346-05:00anyjazz ~ You are at the tail-end of the Silent Ge...anyjazz ~ You are at the tail-end of the Silent Generation. Hmm. ;-)<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_GenerationTwilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-77795262840003836842014-08-02T09:05:07.610-05:002014-08-02T09:05:07.610-05:00A good read. All those iconic people born in that...A good read. All those iconic people born in that era. It is something to think about. <br /><br />Hm. I wonder what generation I am in; PRE-war babies, maybe? anyjazzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03319237414264543250noreply@blogger.com