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Uranus rules technological innovation, and with Uranus and Pluto combined, those technologies can transform whole societies and change the course of human history. The second thing that caught my attention in the 1901-1902 opposition period shows the positive, creative side of the Uranus-Pluto cycle and is actually quite exciting. When they work together, it is possible to hasten evolution in consciousness, but with chaos and trauma inevitably part of the process. Uranus, meanwhile, is about awakening consciousness, often through bursts of shock and upset. His orbit, remember, is more than three times the average human life expectancy. Pluto is about evolution, which by definition is slow. So it’s not surprising that the current “crisis point” reflects the civil rights marches of the mid-sixties, which in turn mirror earlier attempts to gain equality under the law. Between the Uranus-Pluto conjunction and the first square in 1876, the Civil War was fought and slavery was abolished, even though civil rights for African Americans were struck down by the Supreme Court and had to wait for the next cycle. In 1850, slavery was still legal in the southern states.
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And while recent events show how far we have to go, they also show how far we have come. It might seem disheartening that we’re still fighting that battle, but we have to remember that racism and ethnic bias go back thousands of years and that they exist in many forms in the world today, not just white against black. Benjamin Tillman, who said, “The action of President Roosevelt in entertaining that nigger will necessitate our killing a thousand niggers in the South before they will learn their place again.” Among the personal attacks was a statement by South Carolina Sen. Washington to dinner – the first time a black man had been invited to the White House and the last for another 30 years due to the political fallout. That alone is noteworthy, but one of his first acts was to invite Booker T. In September 1901, President William McKinley was assassinated, and Vice President Theodore Roosevelt assumed the presidency. It’s always a bit tricky to identify which events are related to which astrological signatures, but a couple of things did jump out at me.
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I was particularly interested in the square in December 1901, not only because we’re approaching the anniversary date, but because it occurred with a powerful conjunction of Saturn, Mars, and Jupiter in Capricorn. In the previous cycle, the opposition point was 1901-1902. The turning point is the opposition, which in the current cycle won’t be until 2046. I’ve been going over charts for the previous cycle, which began in 1850, in the hope of finding some clues about where all of this might be heading. Sometimes it seems as though nothing ever changes. Those were turbulent years, with many of the same issues we’re revisiting now – if they ever even went away. The Uranus-Pluto square is the first crisis point in a cycle that began with a conjunction in 1965-1966. There are also ongoing protests around the world, some of them very violent. This pass of the square appears to have manifested in nationwide protests against police brutality, sparked by yet another grand jury decision not to indict a white police officer involved in the death of a black man. Events associated with outer planet cycles can occur days, weeks, and even months from the date when the alignments are exact. There won’t necessarily be any new events related to the upcoming square, which is exact on Monday, December 15 (late Sunday in Western time zones).
#Mercury trine jupiter series
There are a couple of significant shifts in the next few days, but the dominant aspect this week is the approaching Uranus-Pluto square, the sixth in a series of seven from 2012 to 2015.