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It was during the subsequent Pluto-Uranus opposition of the late 1780's and 1790's that the ideas which emerged earlier that century were made reality in the form of the French and American Revolutions. The implementation of the reasonable idea of the inalienable rights of individual freedom was not a reasonable affair; bloody, unconscious, and destructive, the aftermath of the French Revolution represents the almost inevitable ruin and uprooting which must occur to usher forth ideals of the magnitude which the Revolutions at this time symbolized.
During the Pluto-Uranus conjunction of the late 1840's and early 1850's, revolutions ran rampant throughout Europe. Every capitial city except London and St. Petersburg experienced some form of rebellion at this time. Equally as significant, this conjunction coincided with the publication of Marx's Communist Manifesto in 1848 and the establishment of the Women's Movement in Seneca Falls, New York.
The subsequent Pluto-Uranus opposition recapitulated the first cycle of the Enlightenment when ideas would ultimately manifest in concrete form. Marx's writings would inspire a mass movement during the Pluto-Uranus opposition of the late 1890's and early 1900's. In 1898, the tiny Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, led by an exiled Lenin, would launch a major revolution in Tsarist Russia by 1905. At the same time, Women's Suffrage became fully recognized in the English speaking world.
The Uranus-Pluto conjunction of the 1960's follows the pattern of tremendous cultural upheaval, rebellion, and destabilization. Author Richard Tarnas describes the general tenor of this meeting of Pluto and Uranus: "The rebellion against structures of all kinds, the intense intellectual adventurousness and restlessness of the era, the radical consciousness transformation, the titanic technological advances into the space age, the general atmosphere of revolutions on all fronts."1
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