We are now in the last of the seven square aspects of the
Titans Uranus and Pluto. However, the effects are likely to carry on for a few
months as Pluto goes back and forth over the same degree for a while longer
before gradually fading away – no doubt to be replaced by other influences. I
wonder what we have learnt – if anything – each person can ruminate on the
happenings of the past years, the economic crash, the terrorism at both obvious
and subtle levels, the wiping out of peoples and ancient heritage, the weather
changes and the personal traumas, the exposure of so much, the circumventing of
so many problems. It’s a big world and we can still fix it. As Uranus is joined
by fast moving Venus and Mars in this seventh wave, maybe some resolutions will be
found or maybe the façade of ‘we are in control, everything will be ok’, that
we have been hiding behind, will be blown away so that healing can commence.
Don’t be fooled by the tiny size of Pluto, he is heavy metal
packed tightly!
The Titans referred to 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 have been in a
harsh angle of 90 degrees to each other since 2011 correlating with a conflict
between strong desire for individual rights and personal freedom of the sign
Aries, and the powerful strength of institutions and government bodies of
Capricorn, those who want to stay in control. And indeed we have seen much of
this around the globe from the western economic collapse to the constant
localised wars in the Middle-East. and a new form of war called ‘Terrorism’
throughout the world.
Astrologically, the present
global situation of stress and tension is linked to the social revolution of
the 1960s. That was a time when these two great Titans, Uranus and Pluto, were
together in the sign of Virgo, the sign of work and service [including armed
forces] and health matters [including epidemics]. 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. It
was the time of the escalation of the Vietnam War.
2011-2015 offered the world an
opportunity to take stock of that intervening almost 50 years since the
conjunction of Uranus and Pluto in the sign of Virgo, and make any necessary
re-adjustments at the social, political and individual level of response and
reaction which occurred at the beginning of the cycle.
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 at the universe.
What is the new level of perception? The desire should be to improve ourselves
and help others to do the same. It could be a time of sudden explosion of
riches that are available to all, if we have successfully negotiated the
experiences of the past five years, 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 over the succeeding years. 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 or so 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 2011/12 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 and
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, work and service.
To date, this has not been an
easy task and the results threaten to be more like 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 in this final phase 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.
An Alchemical Symbol for mixing together the raw elements.
The 2 pillars of society continue
to break down – the church and the university - and in between the third pillar of social structure is
disintegrating. These circumstances have been going on for some time [since the
conjunction of Uranus and Pluto in the alchemical sign of Virgo] in a slow and
sometimes perhaps imperceptible grind, but now during the long haul of 2011-2015 we see just where we have been. All levels of living have been undermined in
a very subtle and indefinable way and at times in a most obvious fashion.
The breakdown and paradigm shift
occurring in the church, means that it is no longer the sole controlling and
directing force of our moral codes and behaviour. The breakdown and paradigm
shift occurring in the universities means that they no longer are the sole source of
our education and political notions. All has been replaced with free access to
all knowledge and opinions sourced on the Internet. As a result, the breakdown and
paradigm shift is occurring at a fundamental level in family and social and
health structures, even to affecting what we define as gender and work. Indeed who are
we?
Life is now lived more and more
in technical ‘bites’ small quick pieces of information in a virtual world of
the Internet, were there are no rules and no guidelines, one has to make them
up to suit individual situations. There is a more constant displacement of
masses of people due to great earth movements of fire, water and earth, due to
easy travel or tourism and due to human tension expressed in disagreements,
shootings, riots and war.
All institutions are breaking
down, even life is breaking down, in spite of all the new discoveries. How do
we survive and adapt? I wonder if our parents and grandparents felt the same –
is this just another reoccurring cycle or is there truly a new world on the
horizon? A massive evolutionary leap rather than a repeat turn of the circle.
He who smiles
Rather
than rages
Is always
The Stronger
In the last throes of the seventh wave, the Titan Pluto or
Hades or Osiris, the invisible god of the hidden world, continues to assault
Uranus, goddess/god of the starry heavens.
Egyptian Osiris, god of the hidden
world, source of all wealth was given back his life after his crucifixion, by
the goddess Isis. Pluto gives back life through the goddess Persephone and her
mother Demeter.
Some say that Pluto was
originally female, the Great Mother Goddess Rhea, who ruled over the 3 worlds
of Earth, Heaven and the Hidden World. The Great Mother who spun the aetheric web
that supports all manifest life.
Pluto or Plutos has an equivalent
in the double Egyptian god Ptah-Seker who symbolises the creative power of the
mid-night sun or Osiris of the Hidden World.
Ptah-Seker [Budge]
Greek Uranus has the equivalent
in Nut or Nuit, the Egyptian goddess of the starry sky; not the realm of the
planets, but beyond the planets in the Eighth Heaven of the greater stars,
those constellation that are said to have the ultimate control or influence
over life on planet earth.
The Egyptian Nut or Nuit, goddess of the starry night
over-arching creation. Related to the Greek/Roman god Uranus, the smasher of
boundaries in order to reach greater awareness.
A fire sign and an earth sign at
logger-heads. Aries fire wants to go full steam ahead. Capricorn earth wants to
sit and think about things before acting. Both of these planetary
gods/goddesses, symbolised in Pluto and Uranus, want radical change in their
separate ways, and they are not going to be put off.
Such effects on life on planet
earth will of course ripple down to the individual according to their own personal
astrological chart, with the impact being according to each individual’s
structure and temperament and ability for response.
Do we love one another enough to
help each other through this very tense time, so that we can become more than
we are? Or do we continue to battle each other as if we were all a constant
threat to each other?
As Uranus is joined by fast moving Venus and Mars in this
seventh wave of the square aspect of Uranus with Pluto, maybe some resolutions will be found, or maybe the façade of ‘we are
in control, everything will be ok’ that we have been hiding behind, will be
blown away so that healing can commence.
When Venus and Mars are in harmony, they dance beautifully
together but this is the sign Aries that they occupy, and fiery Mars with Uranus
may have the upper hand. Rather than be purely aggressive and self-centred can we
dance with the joy of being individuals whilst being concerned for the welfare
of our neighbour or partner?
