Uranus in Aries remains strong and is
definitely making its presence known these days in the form of disruptive and
chaotic events. It seems like every week
we hear about shocking acts of violence, from the Orlando nightclub massacre, the
shooting of Alton Sterling by police in Baton Rouge, shootings of police
officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, the Bastille Day attack in Nice, France and
the attempted coup in Turkey.
On July 14th, the day of the Nice
attack, I tweeted:
“Mars in Scorpio inconjunct Uranus in Aries today is a real
astrological wild card. Irritation
prevails & buttons get pushed.”
I’m sure that I am not the first, nor will I be
the last astrologer, to question the historical implications of Uranus in
Aries. I checked the ephemeris to see when the last time Uranus was in 24
degrees of Aries. Uranus has a slow
moving cycle, approximately 84 years, so clearly it was not a time when I was
alive and could recall what was happening.
Uranus was last in 20-24 degrees of Aries from February through May of
1933. I mention the 20 degrees of Aries because Uranus is poised to station
retrograde on July 29, 2016.
What was happening in the world during
1933? Plenty. For starters, 1933 is widely considered to be
the worst year of the Great Depression. In 1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated
President of the United States and Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany
and opened the first concentration camp in Dachau. Do you see where I am going with this theme
of Uranus functioning as the great awakener or the bully? President Franklin Roosevelt is credited for
implementing many social policies and programs that restored order to the
United States while Adolf Hitler became reviled as the bully who responsible
for the genocide of six million Jews and the instigator of World War 2.
We are currently still reeling from the effects
of the Uranus Pluto squares of 2012-2015.
Interestingly enough, Uranus in Aries had squared Pluto in Cancer from
August 1932 through December 1934. Having
both of these planets in the action oriented cardinal signs during both 1933
and now provides common ground for concern regarding the sweeping changes that
the interaction of Uranus and Pluto in a challenging aspect can manifest. In the 1930’s the world experienced troubling
economic hardships and saw the rise of dictators which eventually led to World
War 2. The Great Depression was a global phenomenon and today we are once again
in the midst of economic uncertainty and political unrest. The United Kingdom
has a new prime minister after the controversial Brexit vote to withdraw
England from the European Union and the United States is currently embroiled in
one of the most contentious presidential elections in its history. This week’s Republican National Convention in
Cleveland is ample evidence of Uranus in Aries in action. It has certainly been a chaos filled week
that no one could have predicted.
Uranus in Aries pretty much guarantees a wide
array of social changes coming and resistance is futile, just in case you
haven’t figured that out in the past five years since Uranus entered Aries in
2011. In the 1930’s Uranus in Aries was
squaring Pluto in Cancer, which had a very different feel than Pluto in
Capricorn. I remember that when I began
my study of astrology in the 1980’s, my astrology teacher, who was born with
Pluto in Cancer, spoke about how the Pluto in Cancer generation weathered the
storms of trying to transform the family structure while simultaneously
preserving it. She grew up in that
tumultuous period and told her students many stories of families trying to stay
together against tough economic odds. This
was really a time of family values, since Cancer is associated with
family. But Pluto in Capricorn is all
about government, authority figures, power and financial structures. It has a very different vibe and that is
probably a contributing factor to the massive changes we are seeing in
government these days, as well as the prevailing dissatisfaction with the
status quo. The challenge that we face
with Pluto in Capricorn is to transform our government while simultaneously
preserving its basic principles.
In addition to Pluto being in the opposite sign
of Cancer in the 1930’s, Neptune was in its opposite sign of Virgo. Currently
Neptune is in Pisces. Neptune was in
Virgo from August 1929 through September 1942 and again from April through July
of 1943. Neptune was previously in Virgo
during the American Revolution when Pluto was also in Capricorn. The plot
thickens… When Neptune is in Virgo, there can literally be a cloudiness or good
old fashioned Neptunian fog between emotions and reason. Service to others is emphasized through the
Virgo placement, but there is also a tendency to be overly critical and a need
to be mindful of the toll negative emotions can have on us. The nodes of the
moon were in opposite signs as well during 1933. The north node of the moon was in Pisces then
and now it is in its opposite sign of Virgo.
We are literally at a crossroads now in terms
of deciding on the sweeping changes that will affect our future. Will we learn valuable lessons from the
astrological history of 1933 and make wise decisions in 2016? The time is
certainly ripe for another American Revolution and we need to ensure that our
choices lead to awakened, enlightened changes and not those that are
characterized by repressive bullying. I
don’t believe that anyone in their right mind wants to return to an America
that was at war with leaders who tried to destroy the human race. The upcoming
presidential election in the United States will prove to be a major turning
point in this country’s direction. Many people have described Donald Trump as a
bully and we need to decide if this is true or if he represents the kind of
change that will best serve us in the coming years.
The north node in Virgo has an underlying theme
of service to others. In that spirit of
pursuing my path as a healer, I am channeling that north node and Jupiter in
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