Everyone is talking about the
clash of the Titans in the sky above us. These Titans are the fiery, disruptive
planet Uranus in the fiery, energetic sign of Aries and the deeply mysterious
and powerful planet Pluto in the stern and authoritarian sign of Capricorn.
These two planets are in a harsh
angle of 90 degrees to each other. Uranus has recently entered the sign of
Aries and Pluto is in Capricorn signifying or correlating with a conflict
between strong desire for individual rights and personal freedom with the
powerful strength of institutions and government bodies who want to stay in
control. And indeed we are seeing much of this around the globe from the
western economic collapse to the constant localised wars in the Middle-East.
Astrologically, the present
global situation of stress and tension is linked to the social revolution of
the 1960s. That was a time when the two great Titans, Uranus and Pluto were
together in the sign of Virgo, the sign of work and service and health matters.
It was a time when the old fashioned work ethic was ditched along with many
other personal and social concepts that had held sway over living arrangements
and people’s lives. It was the era of open rebellion at street level, of hippy
power and drug culture and the first mummers of the coming technical revolution
that was to affect every level of everyday living. There was also to come an
upsurge of ‘alternative’ ways of looking at how we maintained our health, both
physical and spiritual. Now we are experiencing the time when we need to take
stock of that intervening almost 50 years and make any necessary adjustments at
the social, political and individual level of response and reaction.
At a more spiritual level the
tension of the current times indicate a need to blend our new awakening or new
level of consciousness or new way of looking at ourselves, and the universe.
The desire should be to improve ourselves and help others to do the same. It
should be a time of sudden explosion of riches that are available to all, if we
successfully negotiate this present time, otherwise it can be an explosion of a
different sort.
What we are looking at in the
bigger picture is the cyclic relationship of planet Pluto with the planet
Uranus. The current cycle started between 1965 and 1966 when the faster moving
Uranus occupied the same position in the skies as the slower moving planet
Pluto, and which correlated with a radical and highly disruptive breakdown of
previous social and individual values. The whole cycle of these two planets
takes between 113 and 140 years, depending on the variable speeds of the
planets. Four phases throughout such a cycle, when certain angular
relationships are reached approximately every 30 odd years, are indications of
a time for reassessing what these planetary energies meant for life on earth at
the commencement of the cycle. This current readjustment phase rules over the
years 2011 to 2015. The next such phase will occur towards the end of 2045.
So at various times of stress
through 2011 to 2015 we are being called upon to curb our impatience of
self-centred focus that allows no truck with order and convention, and attempt
to blend our individual wants and needs with political will and the growth of
organizations that are trying to bring about regeneration of our bad state of
health and service. Possibly this won’t be an easy task and the results are
more likely to see forceful destruction of what exists so that something new
and improved can arise out of the ashes. One way or another there has to be a
major restructuring of our efforts to respond on masse to the movements and
energies activated in the mid 1960s. As we struggle along, the aim needs to be
of keeping an open mind and being awake to any opportunity to make new
discoveries and harness inspirations. More important changes are sure to come,
and continue, and we need to adjust with grace.
