| One of Edgar Cayce's insights about reincarnation | | | | mistakes made in past lives that caused others injury |
| was that souls incarnate with other souls with whom | | | | or death. A typical Pluto in Virgo will be so afraid of |
| they are closely related and have soul bonds. For | | | | making a mistake that they keep themselves in a kind |
| example, we may incarnate with our "soul family" | | | | of prison. They take perfectionism to an extreme that |
| members in our family systems, friendships and | | | | creates paralysis. |
| relationships, tribal cultures, national systems, and even | | | | Pluto rules the astrological sign of Scorpio. It is named |
| within corporate structures. | | | | for the Roman god of the underworld, and it |
| I believe that we also reincarnate within specific | | | | represents our unconscious mind. It takes |
| astrological generations. These collective soul | | | | approximately 250 years to go around the Sun and |
| contracts are constant reminders of what we need to | | | | stays in a given sign for up to thirty years. |
| learn. Two generational planets, Pluto and Neptune, | | | | Pluto represents our deep desire to probe the |
| help define generations and provide us with invaluable | | | | mysteries of life, including death, sexuality and passion. |
| information about our group karma. | | | | It symbolizes the source of our karmic guilt, which |
| Each generation has a larger purpose to fulfill which will | | | | becomes part of our shadow self. This must be faced |
| propel its evolution and awareness. This article | | | | to be integrated and brought to the higher vibration |
| explores modern day generations over the last sixty | | | | associated with Pluto: transformation. Pluto is the |
| years. While it is essential for us to better grasp our | | | | alchemist. |
| one-to-one relationships, we also must have an | | | | Because our Plutonian issues are unconscious, these |
| understanding of our generational karma, the | | | | patterns are often projected onto others, especially |
| unconscious ethos that we manifest as members of | | | | those in our generation. For example, if we have |
| one of several karmic groups. | | | | unconscious control issues, we may repeatedly have |
| Each generation shares archetypal karmic guilt as well | | | | trouble with people who try to dominate others. We |
| as the paranoia that results from this guilt. Pluto | | | | incarnate into our generation to learn and to share our |
| provides us with the information we need to tell us | | | | collective experiences and ultimately to become free |
| where the karmic guilt is. For example, a person with | | | | of karma and to change the way we define our world. |
| Pluto in Virgo might have guilt based on careless | | | | |