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More specifically, the sixties is remembered as the birth of ecological awareness; activism and expanded freedoms for women and minorities in Western countries; radical explorations of consciousness; the emergence of entrepreneurialism; sexual exploration, permissiveness, and freedom (as evidenced by the marketing of the contraceptive pill); celebration of the individual personality and human potentials; revolution.
There are many that say that the experiment that was the '60's failed because it was not able to make any lasting societal contributions. However, if the pattern of Pluto-Uranus conjunctions holds true, the sixties must be looked upon as a time in which the seeds for enduring structures will be planted in the following opposition, in this case during the 2040's.
By looking at what was seriously challenged in the sixties, we can get a good indication of what shall be transformed in the 2040's. It is more than likely that serious ecological damage that will occur prior to the 2040's will create, out of necessity, societal structures with a sustainable focus. By this I mean more than the once-a-week recycling effort but a major overhaul in value systems and cultural structures.
The explorations of inner consciousness as witnessed in the preoccupation with psychedelics and meditation in the 1960's will have a profound resurgence in the 2040's. This is not to say that psychedelics will become popular again, but the main motivating factor behind ingestion of mind altering substances--freedom to do with one's consciousness as he or she wants and to explore the structures of consciousness--will become a rallying cry at this time.
Most importantly, the profound push for women's rights will have a renewal at this time, albeit with a slightly different emphasis. In the 2040's, the emphasis will not be on women's assimilation into a patriarchical, male-dominated system, but the resurgence of the archetypal feminine and feminine ways of being: nurturance, caring, community, mythological and magical modes of consciousness.
Is there an inevitability that the push for new structures at this time will renew the bloodshed, terror, and extremism that the previous Pluto-Uranus cycles have displayed? I'm inclined to say yes, because the paradox that the synthesis between Uranus and Pluto seems to represent is that for the unfoldment of higher potentials to be actualized, a period of death and rebirth in which old structures collapse in an unconscious manner--often going against the very ideals which are trying to manifest--appears to be interwoven in the cycle.
1 Tarnas, Richard. 1995. Prometheus the Awakener: An Essay on the Archetypal Meaning of the Planet Uranus. Spring Publications.
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