URANUS & PLUTO

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.