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During a conjunction and opposition of these two planets, the separate kingdoms of Pluto and Uranus, having established boundaries due to fear and respect for each other's differing intentions, fuse together and act in unison, each enhancing each other's archetypal energy.
When the two planets come into aspect, Pluto intensifies and grounds Uranus's quest for liberation. That is, Pluto is the reality principle which gives the archetype of Uranus the needed push to become substantial. Equally Uranus awakens us to biological nature and needs; Uranus makes us conscious of our evolutionary connection to the earth and cosmos. Any societal conventions which repress our "Pluto" reality will surely be agitated and be made quite conscious at this time.
We can see how dangerous this combination is. This combination, at its essence, is counter-cultural. As culture is the mediating ground between our instinctual desires and our highest aspirations, culture, by default, represses the essential nature of Pluto and Uranus. When these two planets join forces, cultural structures are challenged and often transformed.
Viewing the patterns of Pluto-Uranus conjunctions and oppositions, one can consistently trace a pattern of counter-cultural awakenings during the conjunction and a subsequent integration of the ideas and movements of that awakening during the subsequent and following opposition.
During the Pluto-Uranus conjunction of 1711-12 the ideas that sparked the revolutions of democracy in the latter half of that century would begin to emerge in Europe. This was the very beginning of the Age of Enlightenment, when a group of like-minded, intellectually curious and rebellious individuals began to question
the hitherto unchallenged socio-political landscape that had been in place for many centuries. The belief in a Monarch ruling by divine right, wielding power arbitrarily came under scrutiny at this time. Also under fire was the irrational dogmatism and seeming supersition of the Church which conflicted with the new deification of Reason as sole God of the Western landscape.
The philosophes John Jacques Rousseau and Denis Diderot, born during the conjunction, had a tremendous impact on the French Revolutionaries. It was Rousseau's idea of the "noble(Uranus) savage(Pluto)" and social contracts which became the rallying cry as the French populace stormed the Bastille during the subsequent Pluto-Uranus opposition. During the same conjunction, Voltaire, fresh from his learnings at a Jesuit college, began to write of democratic ideals which would subsequently land him in prison. Equally as important and signifying the rising tide of consciousness, Witch hunts and trials abruptly came to end in both England and the Continent at this time.
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