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Strauss-Howe Framework

GENERATIONAL THEORY

Enter your birth year and discover your generational archetype, your role in the current crisis era, and your historical analogues across five centuries.

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“History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” Discover which cycle you inhabit and what role you play.

The Cycle

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High

1st Turning

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Awakening

2nd Turning

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Unraveling

3rd Turning

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Crisis

4th Turning

Based on the Strauss-Howe Generational Theory, developed by William Strauss and Neil Howe in Generations (1991) and The Fourth Turning (1997), and updated by Howe in The Fourth Turning Is Here(2023). This site is an independent educational interpretation of those publicly described concepts — learn more about the framework.

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