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ASTROLOGY
“Any fool can be happy. It takes someone with
real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that
makes us weep.”
Clive Barker
Days of Magic Nights of War
• BY JULIE LOAR
In June of 2012 Uranus in Aries formed a
cardinal square with Pluto in Capricorn,
an aspect of ninety degrees. This connection
is arguably the most significant and
challenging planetary influence in a generation.
These planets will move in and out of an exact
square seven times from 2012 - 2015. The focus
of the planetary aspect pattern is radical change
and higher awareness. Pluto’s powers of transformation
in the sign of structure are combining
with the potentially shattering and awakening
force of Uranus. We are living through a
major generational upheaval, and this union
calls for revolutionary change at a deep level.
We are challenged to examine old structures
and patterns that need to be deconstructed. Resistance
to this energy builds to a pressure
point that can bring an explosive and volcanic
release.
Uranus and Pluto formed a conjunction in
the mid-1960s uniting revolutionary Uranian energy
with Plutonian potential for deep transfor-
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The Creation of Man
by Prometheus
(Greek bas relief at
the Louvre)
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mation. The conjunction of Uranus and Pluto
occurred in the sign of Virgo and peaked
during 1965-1966 while opposed to Saturn in
Pisces. The decade of the sixties saw the Civil
Rights Act of 1964, the Viet Nam war and resulting
peace movement, and the first Moon
landing. Seen in a larger context the decade of
the sixties was a phase-shift in a long evolutionary
process. Uranus in Aries is now presenting
another intense trigger, and the energies
have built again to a critical mass.
A planetary conjunction begins a cycle of
relationship as the motions of the planets involved
move to form aspects that are sequential
divisions of a circle. When two planets move
into a square after a conjunction, as is happening
now, what emerges at the joining
pushes for greater resolution at the square. This
Uranus/Pluto square is the next phase in a
slowly unfolding cycle that has included some
other challenging configurations. When Uranus
moved into Aries in 2010, Saturn was in the
early degrees of Libra, and a major Cardinal
Cross and T-Square formed in the sky. In 2011
the U.S. had its seventh Saturn return, presenting
a major growth opportunity and reexamination
of America’s purpose (see AR
#81). The Uranus/Pluto square also triggers the
Sun in Cancer/Saturn in Libra square in
America’s birth chart, challenging U.S. relation-
ships and world image. In 2022 Pluto will be at
27 degrees Capricorn, and the US will experience
a Pluto return, a once-in-248-year occurrence,
that may bring unprecedented transformation.
Astrologically Uranus is the awakener and
dramatically disrupts the status quo and dismantles
structures that Saturn has built in earlier
paradigms. The discovery of Uranus upset
the “sacred seven” number of visible planets
and added an uncomfortable eighth, demanding
a wider view of the solar system.
Uranus acts in what seems to be a sudden and
unexpected manner, creating a temporary chaos
that perturbs what might have seemed to be a
sensible and predictable order. Uranus sometimes
seems to level our previous way of life,
stripping us bare. Astrologer Rob Hand says
Uranus is the “random element of mutation.”
Uranus represents radical change, invention,
revolution, and the capacity for idealism; its effect
can be shocking and unpredictable. Uranus
in the fiery sign of Aries sparks an irrepressible
urge for freedom, an irresistible energy that
breaks us out of self-imposed prisons. Isabel
Hickey says Uranus can help us discover the
undiscovered. Viewed in a positive light, this action
is like spring cleaning, or perhaps moving,
where old patterns are disrupted and a whole
new structure or way of life replaces one that
has been outgrown. If we are awake, and paying
attention, this feels like positive change. If we
have been asleep, or in denial, it can feel like
Dorothy being swept up in a cyclone and
dropped in the alien land of Oz.
Taking another view, astrologer and scholar
of myth, Richard Tarnas, has argued convincingly
that Prometheus, the Titan who stole fire
for humanity, is a better name for Uranus because
of his revolutionary mythic character.
Tarnas believes that the name Uranus arose
from conventional eighteenth-century logic, not
from archetypal insight. After the planet’s discovery
astrologers studied the horoscopes of
people who had Uranus emphasized. The character
of the planet’s influence does not resonate
with the nature of the myth.
Prometheus, whose name means “foresight,”
was a benefactor to humankind and in some
stories actually created humans on a potter’s
wheel. It was Athena, goddess of wisdom, who
taught Prometheus much of what he knew and
who actually breathed life into his creations. In
some stories he tricked Zeus and earned his ire,
which prompted Zeus to take fire from humanity
in spite. But Prometheus lit a torch
from the Sun and restored fire to humanity.
Prometheus also prophesied the downfall of
Zeus/Jupiter at the hands of ancient female
powers of justice (karma). Barbara Walker says
“the Prometheus myth presaged the Gnostic’s
sympathy for Lucifer, who was the same sort of
hero—a philanthropic anti-god unfairly punished
for giving ‘light’ or ‘enlightenment’ to hu-
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