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Originally written March 2000 | pp. 1 2 3 4
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The Eastern Aphorism, "May you live in Interesting Times," is most appropriate for the Pluto-Uranus combination. When the highly chaotic disturbance of Uranus is intensified by Pluto,
you can be sure that cultures are rocked to their foundations, often going through an intense period of transformation and reorganization.
A most interesting pattern develops when reviewing the conjunctions and oppositions of Uranus and Pluto. The ideas and movements which challenge the establishment during Pluto-Uranus conjunctions are successfully established and integrated during the subsequent Pluto-Uranus opposition. One can see that ideas which manifest during the Pluto-Uranus conjunctions are cooked in the
collective oven for fifty to eighty years—the normal time between a conjunction and opposition—and are established as structure in the subsequent Pluto-Uranus opposition.
Before looking at the specific examples of this pattern, let's fully explore the general patterns of Uranus amd Pluto. Although there are many faces of Uranus, it's highest aspiration is liberation and transcendance from anything which confines, oppresses, and limits.
In culture and thre arts, Uranus is the creative, divine spark which ushers in radically new forms of self expression. In politics, Uranus is the freedom fighter battling the current establishment, which, in its eyes, is always oppressive. In science and technology, Uranus manifests as the invention which allows societys new freedom and liberation from previous confinements.
Pluto is the raw, unmitigated power which pulses vitality into the veins of every living thing. Pluto manifests as the hunger to procreate, the need for survival, and the will to power. As Uranus often represents the lofty idealism and quest for transcending limitations, Pluto is the engine which makes life run--or bettter yet--is the exhaust and waste from that engine which ultimately allows the human to achieve the perfection that Uranus represents. Messy and unrefined, it is only through the bowels of life that ideas, visions, and future-orientation can be properly metabolized.
To anthropomorphize these figures,
Uranus is the person who wishes that his ideals, visions, and wisdom about the unfoldment of his or her future could simply manifest magically without the deep transformations, intense confrontations, and painful nature of becoming in manifest reality that Pluto represents. So, Uranus would be deeply frightened of having to let go of himself or herself as "potential" and become actualized as something less than that "potential." Pluto is the person who enjoys the biological,
the raw feeling life that powerful experiences through manipulation, domination, control and direct experience of one's own vitality can bring about. And yet, Pluto does not want to have the striking light of consciousness that Uranus represents thrown on the consequences and ramifications for its desire for power, control, and domination.
Unlike the relationship between Uranus and Saturn, which is directly antagonistic and dynamic, the relationship between Pluto and Uranus is guarded and fearful, wishing the other would go away so that each could "have it's cake and eat it too." In the individual and collective psyche, Uranus and Pluto have set up separate territories, with Uranus the ruler of his castles in the air and Pluto the master of ceremonies of the three ring circus of the taboo, the profane, and the powerfully carnal.
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