Your Kid's Not Broken - The System Is
How the education system was built for factory workers, not soul-led innovators, and why Pluto in Aquarius is about to burn it all down (thank the stars).
You’ve felt it.
The Sunday night dread.
The tearful drop-offs.
The nagging sense that something’s just off.
And then the report card lands: “Not meeting expectations”. But you know your kid is a bright, creative, soulful being - just not built for what this system demands.
It's not your kid. It's the system.
The education model we still cling to wasn’t built for dreamers, feelers, sensitives, or innovators. It was built to train obedience, squash individuality, and prepare young humans for factory floors and military ranks.
Right now, that model is gasping its last breath - and Pluto in Aquarius is holding the pillow with cold revolutionary resolve.
Why School Was Built This Way in the First Place
The western world’s current education system was established in the late 1700s at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
Factories needed workers.
Militaries needed soldiers.
Empires needed loyal, compliant citizens.
Enter mass education.
Back then, Pluto was in Aries, which is all about new power structures and institutional order.
Neptune in Aquarius brought dreamy ideals of “education for all” but through the lens of hierarchy and utility.
Uranus in Gemini gifted us standardized, linguistic, logical. Think math drills and grammar rules.
What emerged was a schooling system designed to:
Obey bells (like factory whistles)
Memorize facts (not question them)
Sit still and shut up (creativity not included)
It worked for the time. But that time has passed.
We’re not raising factory workers any more, especially not when today’s factories are largely run by machines.
Our Kids Are Wired for More
Our kids didn’t come here to be part of a production line.
They weren’t born to earn gold stars, line up in silence, or get sticker charts for “good listening.” They were born to feel deeply, speak truth, build worlds, break molds, and set things on fire (ideologically… hopefully).
They’re not defective just because they can’t sit still for six hours and regurgitate the periodic table on command.
They’re not malfunctioning because they question authority, need movement to think, or turn their homework into poetry.
Trying to fit them into outdated models is like installing Windows 95 on an iPhone, or trying to run TikTok on a toaster.
You can keep rebooting the system, but it’s still not going to handle the bandwidth of this generation’s brilliance.
Astrological Overthrow: Why School’s Failing Now
The cosmos doesn’t stay static - and neither should education. We’re not in the Age of “Shut Up and Color” anymore.
Pluto’s freshly in Aquarius, and it’s not here for tweaks and tidy upgrades - it’s here for a full system meltdown. Power to the people. Decentralized, tech-infused, community-rooted learning - think less detention, more innovation hubs in treehouses.
Neptune in Pisces is flooding the field with feelers and dreamers. Kids who cry when the classroom hamster dies, who know when you’re lying, and who can sense the emotional weather of the room before you open the door. They don’t need tighter rules. They need gentler rooms.
Uranus in Taurus is breaking ground (literally). It’s the slow-burning rebellion of dirt-under-the-fingernails wisdom. These kids want to build gardens, not Google Docs. They want to touch, plant, stir, and move.
So no, the new education won’t be born in a boardroom or cooked up in a standardized test think tank.
It’s already unfurling - wild, soulful, decentralized.
A whole new model of learning that’s less of a model and more of a movement.
It will be a wave of:
Micro-schools and unschooling pods
Forest classrooms and farm-based curriculums
Soul schools and mentorship models
AI-integrated personalized learning journeys
Wisdom passed down through elders, communities, and culture
It’s not just "alternative”.
It’s necessary evolution.
Soul Call to Parents, Teachers, and Future Builders…
The old system is crumbling.
Let it.
Don’t duct tape it back together with tutoring and diagnoses and call it “support”.
If your kid is “acting out” at school, maybe they’re not being difficult - maybe they’re being accurate. Maybe they’re the canary in the coal mine of a toxic model that was never built to hold their soul.
If your teen is failing algebra but writing lyrics that make grown men cry - believe the lyrics. Math will wait. The soul won’t.
If you’re a teacher who dreads the bell more than the students do, it’s not because you’re bad at your job. It’s because your spirit knows this isn’t it. You weren’t born to push paperwork and punish curiosity - you’re here to build the bridge to what comes next.
Stop calling the system “rigorous” when what it really is is rigid.
“Gifted and talented” shouldn’t be a category - it should be a birthright.
So don’t ask: How do I help my child succeed in this system?
Ask: How do I help this system get out of my child’s way?
The new education isn’t a future concept.
It’s here.
It starts wherever one brave adult says:
“I trust your light more than their rubric.”
The school of the future is the soul
We are not raising workers.
We are not raising test-takers.
We are not raising perfectly behaved little robots who live to colour inside the lines.
We are raising frequency holders, truth-speakers, grid-builders, code-breakers, soul rememberers, wild-hearted inventors of the impossible.
And no, your kid’s not broken.
They’re just breaking through.
Breaking through systems that were never designed for their brilliance.
Breaking through expectations that shrink instead of expand.
Breaking through the noise - to hold onto their knowing.
And you?
You’re not just a parent.
You’re not just a teacher.
You’re a damn lightkeeper.
Because every time you choose connection over compliance…
Wonder over worksheets…
Ritual over routine…
Soul over system…
You bring the future closer.
The school of the future isn’t a building.
It’s not a curriculum.
It’s not a charter, a policy, or a box to tick.
It’s a frequency.
And it’s tuning in now - through us.
Let’s stop trying to fix the kids.
Let’s start fixing the lens we see them through.
Because the revolution in education doesn’t start with reform.
It starts with remembrance.
And it begins the moment we say:
“I see your light. Let’s build from there.”
And let that be the new curriculum.
Because the world we’ve been waiting for
is waiting on them -
and they’re waiting on us.
Because the future isn’t standardized -
it’s soul-led.
And it starts today.
Great, inspiring post. I live in a poor community. I don’t want my grandchild to be trained to take a state exam to add a percentage point to his name. He’s capable of so much more than one standardized test.
I was going through your older posts and found this.
This sentence literally made me laugh out loud: “We’re not in the Age of “Shut Up and Color” anymore.”
The education system has bothered me for a long time. My son functions fairly well in the traditional school but I know he would THRIVE if allowed to explore on his own terms. The traditional schools have never felt right to me for him.
I am fortunate to have gone to a Waldorf school and I know that “alternative“ approach shaped my oddness.
I want to start a school/unschool :).
I’m so glad you wrote this.