Growing beyond a materialist, reductionist worldview.

Journalist Richard Louv found that many people entering adulthood want to resist the rapid slide from the real to the virtual. Andrew Sullivan spoke to the crash he experienced in his media job working as a web obsessive, publishing blog posts multiple times a day where his brain was occupied insistently by so many different subjects fully immersed in the stream of internet consciousness, jumping from site to site and tweet to tweet. After quitting his job he went to a meditation retreat and recalibrated his life.

Many of the architects of our internet world take a reprieve from Silicon Valley each year to spend a long weekend at Burning Man in the Nevada desert, where no cellular signals penetrate. There is a spirit of radical self-reliance (you survive for seven days or so only on what you can bring into the vast temporary city) and an ethic of social equality. You are forced to interact only as a physical human being with other physical human beings — without hierarchy. They dance, they experiment; and they build community in various camps.

Richard Louv spoke of the synergy that can be found between nature and technology if used consciously:

"The ultimate multitasking is to live simultaneously in both the digital and physical worlds, using computers to maximise our powers to process intellectual data and natural environments to ignite our senses and accelerate our ability to learn and feel — combining the resurfaced “primitive” powers of our ancestors with the digital speed of our teenagers."

Rumi, challenged individuals "to stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion." Millennials and Gen Z can learn to code and make an app, create a social initiative or documentary using their mobile phones. Victor Hugo said that “No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.” But as Greta Thunberg has shown, it usually requires technology be harnessed to make those ideas known.

Millennials are the generation that encompass the zodiac archetype of Scorpio residing in Pluto (from 1983 to 1995). Both Scorpio and Pluto are fascinated by the numinous, the supernatural and the unknown. They also involve death, rebirth and transformation.

While Western society has produced marvels and great artistic expression it has also contributed to ancestral trauma, ecological destruction and the impacts of a disparate social hierarchy based on oppression, manipulation, inducement of fear and disempowering others.

Astrology expresses complex ideas about personality, life cycles and relationship patterns through the shorthand of the planets and zodiac symbols. Technology is allowing greater accessibility to learn about astrology and keep abreast with the changing cycles which affect us. It is not just this Pluto generation that has tired of the hollowness of a life stuck in the web or cut off from greater meaning. A move towards minimalism, permaculture, plant medicine and greater respect for ancient wisdom has led to a resurgence in symbolic languages such as astrology to offer alternative thinking and perspectives.