Also part of the Cap stellium here. My chart is attached.
I am definitely part of the less achievement oriented split (in the conventional sense anyway) though as a child I was committed to making a name for myself as an artist and would draw nonstop for most of the day everyday, wanting nothing but blank white sheets of paper as birthday presents for quite a few years. I had two goals then; to be a famous artist or a devoted priest (I was raised Catholic and didn't see much else outside of the 'box' at first). My parents discouraged me from the art thing, saying fame rarely happens for artists and I struggled with that assertion for a while before becoming enamored with my personal quest for direct spiritual experience. It's still a ghost of the past that comes back to haunt me but is not as important to me as it was then.
When puberty hit, Pluto in Scorpio's energy really dominated my life. I became an avowed atheist completely rejecting my Catholic upbringing, my parents divorced (took 5 years to finalize the legal process and ended with my mother having sole custody), I became addicted to computer gaming, was placed on tons of psychiatric medications, began struggling with assertions from my mother that my father had drugged and sexually abused me (was diagnosed with dissociative PTSD by one shrink, called a liar by a few others, very confusing and still is), destroyed all the art I had created up until then, fell into severe depression, had a few close calls with death (from attempted suicide and other sources), some unnecessarily intense relationships for someone so young and just generally experienced quite a bit in a short span of time. Many of my friends were hardcore drug addicts and I also experimented with everything under the sun but derived a sick satisfaction out of never succumbing to addiction to any of those drugs (all the while never being able to tear myself away from video games and the information overload of the internet).
While I wasn't gaming, doing drugs or in a shrink's office I was searching for as much spiritual, philosophical and occult truth as I could digest. Despite identifying as an atheist my search for spiritual knowledge actually intensified and I became less self absorbed (and more self deprecating).
I had my first acid trip at age 16 and it completely changed my outlook, astrally projected for the first time at age 17 and at age 18 attempted to establish a commune to do what I could to avert what I saw as a frighteningly wasteful culture on the verge of total destruction. Finding most of my generation to be either too concerned with personal achievement or too cynical I found one already being constructed by a group of older people into alternative medicine and Buddhism and spent 2 years working my *** off at the farm and doing obtuse spiritual practices and participating in rituals misappropriated from numerous different spiritual systems. I became disillusioned with that during the time spent there, went back home and got a job at an herbal apothecary to further enrich my interest in natural healing methods. While there I discovered the husband of the owner was an out of commission astrologer due to having had a serious stroke, so I spent my lunch breaks perusing his astrology books. That was my first introduction to astrology.
When winter hit, there was no work for me and I went back home to spend all my time researching astrology and making art. I fell in love with someone from the Sagittarius generation and am currently working on establishing myself as a shamanic counselor. I'm most interested in working with dying people and veterans with PTSD using a highly unconventional approach that hopefully some would prefer to receive.
Life's roller coaster has certainly been very bumpy and I have tried to leave out as many bumps as possible to make this short and sweet. Nothing about anyone of my generation's life stories is short and sweet though. Or at least, I haven't met many for whom that is true.