- From 1979 to 1999 it was closer to the Sun than Neptune was. This is itself very comet-like behavior, crossing through the orbital bounds of the planets proper, and it also included the entire period when Pluto was in Scorpio (its rulership). This may go a long way towards explaining the 1980s.
- When Pluto is near perihelion, it more or less matches speed with Neptune, Since roughly the onset of World War II, Pluto and Neptune have been locked in a more-or-less sextile (granted, there are periods where it's been wider than a true sextile). This sextile went exact in the early 1950s and late 1970s, and will go exact again in the early 2030s. However, if this means anything, we should have seen a "reprieve" from Pluto's influence on Neptune from around 1995 to 2009, when there was a fairly substantive separation. I don't know of any such reprieve, but do note that the early 1950s were the peak years of baby boomer birth and that the late 1970s where about the time when everything started to change...
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Date: 2023-04-01 01:14 pm (UTC)- From 1979 to 1999 it was closer to the Sun than Neptune was. This is itself very comet-like behavior, crossing through the orbital bounds of the planets proper, and it also included the entire period when Pluto was in Scorpio (its rulership). This may go a long way towards explaining the 1980s.
- When Pluto is near perihelion, it more or less matches speed with Neptune, Since roughly the onset of World War II, Pluto and Neptune have been locked in a more-or-less sextile (granted, there are periods where it's been wider than a true sextile). This sextile went exact in the early 1950s and late 1970s, and will go exact again in the early 2030s. However, if this means anything, we should have seen a "reprieve" from Pluto's influence on Neptune from around 1995 to 2009, when there was a fairly substantive separation. I don't know of any such reprieve, but do note that the early 1950s were the peak years of baby boomer birth and that the late 1970s where about the time when everything started to change...