Collective Souls Podcast

Welcome to Episode 13, a special release to honor the 4th of July and America’s 250th anniversary. We step into Part Three of the book to explore the astrological reckoning of America’s Pluto Return. In astrology, Pluto takes roughly 248 years to orbit the sun, meaning that while no individual human lives long enough to experience a Pluto Return, a nation can. In 2022, Pluto returned to the exact...

This episode is of the youngest souls in this story, the ones still young, still forming. This episode is the portrait of Pluto in Capricorn—Gen Alpha, born between 2008 and 2024. Daljeet guides us through a chapter carrying the heaviest frequency in the book. These souls arrive already weighted with the gravity of what must be built, already shaped by the structures they inherit—whether those str...

In this episode, we look toward the horizon as we explore Gen Z’s astrological soul imprint: the Pluto in Sagittarius generation. Born between 1995 and 2008, these souls arrived hungry for meaning and truth, incarnating into an era defined by explosive global expansion, boundless optimism, and the rapid rise of the World Wide Web. Daljeet explains how this “mutable fire” generation differs fundame...

In this episode we step into some deep and intense waters as we explore the Pluto in Scorpio generation. Born between 1984 and 1995, these early Millennials make up the shortest, most compressed astrological generation in our 250-year cycle, arriving with an undeniable intensity. They were born into a world already gripped by issues people didn’t want to look at, physically incarnating alongside t...

Daljeet and I step into a cosmic hall of mirrors as we explore my own soul collective: the Pluto in Libra generation. Born between 1972 and 1984, this short 12-year micro-generation overlaps nearly perfectly with the “Xennials”—a bridge generation living between worlds. Too young for Gen X’s clear-eyed cynicism and too old for the Millennial sense of collective mission, these Air-element souls are...

In this episode we explore the Pluto in Virgo generation. Daljeet is a Virgo soul, and offers us a grounded, first-hand perspective on this practical earth sign. We move into the distinct elemental shift from the fiery pinnacle of Leo down to the rooted, stabilizing realm of Virgo. Together, we unpack what it means to carry a soul-level imprint of service, humility, and healing, drawing on past-li...

In this episode we finally dig into the actual astrological generations, exploring the Pluto in Leo generation, the soul collective who overlays nearly perfectly with the Baby Boomer prophets we discussed in part one. We discuss the deep, regal, and performative qualities of this fixed fire archetype. Born between 1938 and 1956 into the dawn of the atomic age and the explosive rise of Hollywood, t...

We’re crossing a major threshold in our journey; the history lesson gets cosmic. We’ve traced the generational archetypes through centuries of American history — but the Strauss-Howe framework, powerful as it is, doesn’t attempt to address the question of “Why?” And I’m not suggesting they should have. But as we are assembled here, in these generations, at this particular crossroads, Daljeet and I...

Daljeet and I are diving into Gen Z, the “Artists of Now”. Born during the winter crisis of the Fourth Turning, this cohort arrives at a deeply liminal moment in our four-act historical play. They grew up already knowing the world wasn’t going to last. They masked anxiety behind irony and absorbed catastrophe in real time. We discuss what it means to come of age entirely immersed in an algorithmic...

In this episode, Daljeet and I are turning the page to the Millennials—the “Heroes of Now.” Unlike the skeptical Gen X Nomads we discussed last time, Millennials were born into the third turning of history, the Unraveling, experiencing highly protected, scheduled childhoods. But the illusion of stability and structure didn’t last. They were raised to believe in the system, and then the system fail...

In this episode, Daljeet and I unpack our very own generation: Gen X, the Nomads of Now . Following our deep dive into the Boomer Prophets , we shift our focus to what happens when a generation is born into the “second act” of history’s four-act play. We chat about the unique awkwardness of stepping into a cultural conversation that’s already in progress, which deeply shaped the classic Gen X feel...

The Prophets were born at the “right” time, into a world considered safe, ordered, gleaming. And then they blew it up. This episode, Daljeet and I trace the Baby Boomers through all four turnings: the pristine suburban high of the 1950s, the electric rupture of Berkeley and Woodstock, the irony of Woodstock alumni on Wall Street, and the long, unresolved crisis of their elderhood (including two Bo...

In this first episode of the Collective Souls Podcast , Daljeet and I (Mari) are setting the table. We realized pretty quickly this material isn’t meant to be read in isolation—it’s meant to be metabolized in conversation. We are approaching this podcast as a sort of book club, walking through the text to add more context beyond the page. To start getting our bearings, we have to look at how we me...