What Tarnas found was that the archetypal principles related to these two planet found full expression in the 60s. The planet Uranus correlates to Promethean characteristics: “emancipatory, rebellious, progressive and innovative, awakening, disruptive and destabilizing, unpredictable, serving to catalyze new beginnings and sudden unexpected change.” The planet Pluto is associated with Dionysian characteristics: “elemental, instinctual, powerfully compelling, extreme in its intensity, arising from the depths, both libidinal and destructive, overwhelming and transformative, ever-evolving... possessing a prodigious, titanic dimension, empowering, intensifying and compelling in whatever it touches on a massive scale.”(pg.142, C&P)
Each time these two planetary energies synergistically merge, they produce “widespread radical social and political change and often destructive upheaval, massive empowerment of revolutionary and rebellious impulses, and intensified artistic and intellectual creativity. Other distinctive themes of these historical periods included unusually rapid techniological advance, an underlying spirit of restless experiment, drive for innovation, urge for freedom in many realms, revolt against oppression, embrace of radical political philosophies and intensified collective will to bring forth a new world. “ (pg. 144, C&P)
Not only were these planets in a conjunction alignment during the 1960s, they were also in conjunction from 1845-1856, when there was a wave of revolutionary upheavals across Europe, China, Japan, India and the Ottoman Empire. When these two planets were in the opposition alignment from 1896 to 1907, many social and political movements were born – progressive labor movements, the Women's movement, the black civil rights movement and the beginnings of socialism. Before that, another opposition took place during the decade of the French Revolution, 1787 to 1798. The word “revolution' came into “wide use in the 1790s in its present meaning of sudden radical change of an overwhelming nature, bringing into being a fundamentally new condition.” (Pg 144, C&P).
The revolutionary impulse during all the 60s and the French Revolution wasn't confined to politics, but occurred in every aspect of cultural life: “in the music heard, the books read, the ideas discussed, the ideals embraced, the images produced, the evolution of language and fashion, the radical changes in social and sexual mores. It was visible in the incessant challenge to established beliefs and widespread embrace of new perspectives, the movements for radical theological and church reform and anti religious revolt, the drive towards innovation and experiment that affected all the arts, the sudden empowerment of the young, the pivotal role of university communities in the rapid cultural shift. And it was evident above all in the prodigious energy and activism of both eras, the general impulse towards extremes and 'radicalization' in so many areas, the suddenly intensified will to construct a new world.” (P. 145, C&P)
Without making me trace the historical evidence back to the revolution of Spartacus, let's just say that these facts do point to a possible correlation between astrology and world events. If so (please at least entertain the possibilities) what do we have to look forward to in the next few years?
First, understand that the 60s was not a unique cultural event that will never be repeated. It is being repeated now, on a higher level, if you will. Pluto and Uranus are about to come to their first square aspect – like the quarter moon phase of the lunar cycle. A square is a challenge – a call to action. If we are not living in such a time, I don't know when that would be. What will make it even more challenging is that the planets will be in Cardinal signs – the signs that signify the Solstices and Equinoxes. So it will be dynamic and energized – and important to get right. We will have to change the way our culture does business, by reigning in corporate power. We will have to grow up and become responsible, both as individuals and as a nation. We will have to treat the rest of the human race, and other nations, as our equals. We might even have to take to the streets again. If we do, the cosmic energies will be with us.
Are you ready?
Earlier I said that these two planets were transiting over the degrees of the 60s conjunction. The Uranian/Promethean wake-up call is ringing in our minds, hearts and souls as we've witnessed the Plutonian revelations of truth about our government, our religious beliefs and our technological advances.
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