3 sexual revolutions: A century ago, the Pluto in Aries generation enters adult age and they began to break victorian rules about courtship (i.e. dating and in their cars or automobiles) in the roaring twenties after the H1N1 flu pandemic.
That was the Pluto in Gemini generation, not Aries. Last time Pluto was in Aries was 1853. So, the last of that generation came of age in the 1870's, a whole 50-some years before the revolution of the 1920's.
Sexual revolutions actually follow a Pluto/Neptune pattern. At least, they have in the last century. Pluto and Neptune have been running two signs apart, pretty consistently, since the early twentieth century.
Neptune's sign indicates what's idealized in the current zeitgeist. Pluto and Neptune moving in sextile means whatever Pluto's current sign is was the Neptune sign of 28 years ago. What Neptune idealizes, Pluto exposes and cuts down. So, by the time each generation reaches their late twenties, they de-idealize what their parents idealized.
Pluto entered Cancer in 1914. Nationalism, previously idealized (Cancer is a "my people, my country, my roots" sign) really showed its ugly side with World War I (and that ugly pattern continued on the world stage through World War II). The revolution of the 1920's meant some serious overturn of traditional family values. Neptune, meanwhile, was moving through Leo for most of the 1920's, facilitating the idealization of Leo-like individualism.
The 1960s-70s-80s period involved Pluto lodged in Virgo and then in Libra was the time after the pill or artificial female birth control and before HIV or AIDS became an endemic the world has to live with.
When Neptune was in Virgo, austerity and frugality and, to some extent, domesticity, got idealized. That was the Depression and World War II era. Neptune in Libra covered the postwar period, when marriage and traditional gender roles got idealized. Pluto moving through those signs represented a wide scale repudiation of those things.
More tellingly, though, the 1960's sexual revolution coincided with Neptune in Scorpio. Sex idealized, drugs idealized. Pluto moving into Scorpio in the 1980's brought the AIDS and crack crises: dark underbelly of the sex and drugs revolution.
And this third one in the 2010s when Pluto is in Capricorn now entering Aquarius in the 2020s? Liberation of the LGBTQ in western cultures and the acceptance of online dating, but we're entering a sex recession-depression or the rise and peak of the incels (mostly young adult men) blaming "PC-SJW" feminism and retroconservatism reviving biblical-based mores for a more rigid method of having any casual relationships with the opposite sex.
Neptune is in Pisces now. We're seeing gender fluidity enter the public consciousness like never before. Pisces is like that: "I don't want to be labeled, why should I have to pick a gender?" can be one manifestation.
Boomers were born under Pluto in Cancer and then Leo, two known signs represent coupling, procreation and formation of families.
More to the point, they were born mostly under Neptune in Libra. That's the sign that really represents coupling. And then they came of family starting age as Pluto hit Libra, breaking apart that idealization of coupling. That was when the divorce rate really went up, and it became more common to try alternative families: cohabitation instead of marriage, commune families, polyamory, alternate child rearing arrangements, things like that. Neptune, meanwhile, was in optimistic, variety-loving Sagittarius.
I'm convinced the 3rd sexual revolution should be around the corner, but numerous incels complain about women's concerns of sexism or misogynism in romantic relationships with men and Americans tend to hold more religious conservative values than other developed nations - a land in the after times of "free love".
Sexual mores are probably going to most closely match the Neptune sign. And change from previous generations' mores according to Pluto sign. So, what do you think the combination of Neptune in Aries and Pluto in Aquarius will mean for sexuality? That's where to look.
