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On a collective
scale, this Saturn square Uranus configuration has also tended to polarize
conservative versus progressive, forcing groups to choose one end of the Saturn(status
quo)/ Uranus(reform) dichotomy: religious riots mount in Indonesia and Iran;
student revolts in Mexican Universities, Iran, and Thailand; the KPFA public
radio situation in Berkeley, CA; Kansas’s board of education’s decision
to
eliminate the teaching of evolution from school curricula, and most
telling, the standoff between the Chinese government and Falun Gong.
This tension has also spilled
over politically, as nearly every region of the world experiences escalating
conflict: the continuing unresolved tension between U.S. and Iraq; Kosovo; mounting
rebel forces in Indonesia, Columbia, Sri Lanka, and numerous African countries;
the threats of independence from Taiwan and Dagestan; the volatility of North
Korea; and the on-again, off-again conflict between India and Pakistan.
Writing this essay in
August 1999, only halfway through this troubling Saturn-Uranus “world transit,”
it will be interesting to see if on a political scale the Saturn-Uranus beach
ball can be held in dynamic tension, or if indeed any of the mounting conflicts
will implode or burst. If we look to what has happened on the material and
psychological levels, then yes, it would seem quite plausible that one or
more global conflicts will begin to "break."
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