Fascinating study by Rutgers sociology professor, Ted Goertzel, of various theories of how generations change. I was first introduced to these ideas in the book Generations (1992) by William Strauss and Neil Howe. (I was a little disturbed to find that they had moved on from this book to do market research on the so-called Millenial generation [1984--?] for the Army.) At the time, I noticed that their scheme of four generations matched the four basic temperament types Prophets = Idealists (NF), Nomads = Rationals (NT), Heroes = Artisans (SP), Artist = Guardians (SJ).
All of these ideas ultimately go back to the Ancient concept of the four elements. Having a preponderance of one of the elements in your natal chart was supposed to give you those qualities. There is something about four, two squared, the first nonprime number, the number of sides to a square, the four directions of the compass, that makes the human brain want to divide things evenly--divide by two and by two again and you have an adequate number of concepts. We love to makes fours.
My playful attempt to tie all of this together:
Fire=SP Artisans=Heroes
Earth=SJ Guardians=Artist
Air=NT Rationals=Nomads
Water=NF Idealists=Prophets
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