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And how might they relate with a (F) Pisces sun, Pisces Mars, Scorpio moon, Taurus rising, Aquarius Venus, Aquarius in mercury?

>!I am the Pisces and my mom is a Leo and we have clashed throughout my life, and she is now elderly and I’m wondering about karmic patterns and generational and ancestral healing lessons. I pulled tarot cards and got the chariot and wheel of life Inverted. My mom is the cheerleader, Christian type!< >!with debilitating, anxiety and alcoholism that she’s in denial about, getting weekly mani/pedis,!< >!and I am the bisexual, vegan, goth hippie type with hairy armpits.!< >!She admitted the other day she wished I!< >!was a normie and I feel she is aggressively normie to her own existential detriment!<!

Content warning: mention of violence.

Some background that colors my perspective: I am a working class Gen Y woman, 3rd generation American via European immigration, and therapist whose interest and training is in the patterns of transmission of intergenerational attachment trauma. This means not getting our basic emotional needs met as babies that can cause us to replicate these patterns jn our relationships as adults, and develop in a way that makes loving relationships difficult.

Also, keep in mind I am speaking roughly about generational time periods.

The people who were born around the turn of the 20th century (USA) and raised the boomers (the so-called greatest and silent generations) were pretty different from us. I think that time was really hard for humans and barely what we consider modern.

So my hot take is that the boomers were raised by people likely drunk, ignorant, scared, ill, miserable and traumatized themselves, but unable to express this, so quite powerless to change. I think they may not have experienced secure attachment bonds with their parents because the parents often had so many babies, and the babies often died (literally like 30%). The parents were often exhausted and the parenting was done by other children, and not done very well. Think about the 11 yr olds smoking cigarettes and the 12 yr olds train hopping cross county, unimaginable to us to let our kids do this now, but much more common then. They would let it fly bc they had 15 other kids to worry about.

People were rough, there were no antidepressants, life was raw-dogged except for that bourbon. Think about sexual and racial assaults being the norm.

Then the 50s hit and they were given messages that breastfeeding, physical affection, allowing your kid to be themselves was undignified/not commercially useful, so by the time this generation had the would be boomers, they were desperately trying to be modern, using new harmful medical interventions and existentially alienating products. Authoritarianism and corporal punishment was often used to control their worlds.

The boomers then had Gen X, Y, and the millennials and parented largely in the way they were parented, which inflicted further generational trauma. Although for them they felt so lax in comparison to their own parents. It seems for whatever reason x, y, and to a greater extent, millennials have gotten some education and insight about breaking these harmful generational patterns, mourning their own emotionally abusive childhoods and wanting to create a different parenting and childhood experience, for better or for worse.

So, we are breaking these patterns, and future generations will continue to break patterns. My caution for us is to be super mindful about the new patterns we are using to replace the old. We need to stop blaming other generations, look for the lesson and forge gratitude from those lessons, accept accountability for ourselves in the present moment (2026), and take some very deep looks at ourselves and ask what we are doing on a micro level to lessen the suffering of humanity.

It also behooves us to develop compassion for the experiences of the generations before us that allowed us to experience what they experienced, but with a little more room for change and growth. The patterns will go on unless we change them from the very bottom up. 💕

Please share any thoughts or insights!

Edit:some wording for clarification

My test results show majority southern Italian and Slovenian; my son’s maternal side test results show Anatolia, Malta, Crete, Aegean islands, Balkans, Caucasus- all these cool places that mine doesn’t show. Why is this?

Similiarly, why does my Slovenian and Austrian mom’s test have China and Russia in the results but my “maternal side” results don’t show this? Thanks!

Today I hugged a tree. A beautiful middle aged Live Oak. First only tentatively. I followed my breath and felt my heart beating in my chest which was pressed against the trunk. I let go of the effort I was making to hold on to the tree and instead focused on the feeling of being supported and held. I had visions in my minds eye of a parent holding a child lovingly and carrying it to bed. Not a memory so much as my brain constructing something from my collection of internal resources. I felt my breath get a little deeper. Safe and connected in my human container. My eyes tear as I recall this experience, as I think it healed my inner child a little bit.

Sharing to spread hope and inspiration in these practices.

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Hi I’m new here so pls don’t flame me. I have “close” or similar DNA to like 10 different Hungarian and Romanian noble families. Super surprising to me. I’m trying to track a journey of people through the years to give me this result, but I may be fundamentally misunderstanding it. Can someone explain it like I’m 5? Thank you soo much!!