The sense of a powerful ending is so very, very strong now, the shards of unfinished or what seems to be unfinishable business that must be taken care of. I've found difficult and sometimes depressing the required stamina needed to manage the challenges--to negotiate my way to toward rebirth into a different life phase. And I think this is also a universal condition, part of the zeitgeist, one that we are living out collectively. I want to meditate, to speculate on what might be some of the qualities we encounter.
We are moving into a powerful phase transition, I think, as do many other astrologers.
That term, "phase transition," I've borrowed from thermodynamics, using it now describe the transformation of a system existing in one state as part of one temporal cycle as it moves to another very different one. This entails a sudden radical shift that suddenly constellates in a profoundly different way, like that of a substance changing form from solid to liquid to gas.
I was thinking about what I've been reading about historical eras involving Uranus-Pluto cycles--we are going to have the first of seven Uranus-Pluto squares starting in the summer of 2012, but the impact is building even now as Uranus travels out of Pisces and into Aries in the Spring of 2011. The first square isn't exact for more than a year and a half, but the square is within close orb by June 2011.
I've read a number of articles comparing the last two cycles of Uranus-Pluto, the waning square of the 1930's that had 5 contacts through squares, and also the Uranus-Pluto conjunction of the 1960's which happened 3 times. Now we have the waxing squares coming up for the next four years--until 2015. I can't help but ponder how, just as Uranus-Pluto aspects completely transformed society in the '30s and '60s, this aspect will also completely transform our society--and the way we think about everything, just as the '30s were such a powerfully defined time of adjustment to life, demanding revisions in society and in everyone's path in life. Pluto in Cancer demanding the tremendous need to build security in the face of pressing uncertainty that the shock wave of Uranus in Aries represents--and also Uranus in Aries emphasizing the necessity of finding individual strength to meet these challenges.
Then in the '60s Uranus and Pluto were conjunct--in Virgo--which you wouldn't think would be so radical, but think of how much collectively we wanted to start afresh and discard the dregs of all the social conventions, the social mores and ways of living that seemed so much dead detritus and find a new order based on deeper, more natural, and more real principles--I think that is profoundly Virgoan--with a Uranian-Plutonian incendiary fuel mix. So now we face, once again, Uranus in Aries, full circle from the 1930s! and Pluto is in Capricorn. Capricorn, like Cancer, is about finding security--but Cancer is more inward, the structures of nurturing and connecting emphasized, the ideals of family and country, the roots of culture and society. Think of all those Fatherland and racial and patriotic images and all the looming giants that symbolized the great fathering figures, leaders representing someone personal who so many countries depended on to guide them out of difficulties, FDR, Stalin, Hitler, saving us, leading us into war to save our fatherlands and somehow renew the roots of life.
Well, Capricorn and Cancer have the same security, family and sustaining issues, but represent the inner and outer structures of our lives, or of society's life--so I think of the issues of resources and environment and society and the governmental structures that we use to develop, allocate, and maintain stability around all of this. Once again we are facing the onslaught of Aries in Uranus, the shock wave of new conditions pushing into our lives and the need to find that deep inner individual resource fire to ground and stabilize us through such a powerful transformative phase shift and the reorientation of our lives in a new direction and on new ground.
I am considering the power of the nodal axis right now--it is moving toward the Solstice point and on the Winter Solstice we have an eclipse--again another powerful initiating point. I think a lot of the intensity of the past couple weeks in particular has been due to the conjunction of Pluto with the North Node and soon, the Sun and Moon conjuncting that axis at the Solstice eclipse. So many harbingers of transformation and change. Jupiter emerges out of the water of Pisces into the fire of Aries and squares the nodal axis in early February, while Uranus squares this axis in early March, just before emerging into Aries.
I am also thinking about the role of Neptune. I think we cannot look only at individual pieces without missing important elements. Neptune was changing signs at the end of the 1920s, moving from the exuberance of Leo into the reordering and cleansing process demanded by Virgo. Just as now Neptune is moving from the detachment, abstract humanitarianism, and technological systems focus of Aquarius into the realm of the personal, the watery and transcendent spirituality of Pisces. Now Neptune in its own sign will be a final dispositor and gatherer of all the disparate energies in this cycle thematically. This is the opposing point from the 1930s in Neptune's cycle. Whatever earthiness and grounding was demanded then is transformed into an need to engage the subtleties of faith and intuitive feelings as the basis for guidance. Both Virgo and Pisces must encounter chaos and disorder and find the thread of order, connection, and clarity. What it makes me think about, is that if the '30s was concerned very profoundly with material lack and how to regenerate that, this phase transition we are beginning is most concerned with something else--in spite of the powerful pressure of material lacks--or perhaps it is the material realm envisioned more transcendantly, the whole of the earth, at last recognized, the interconnections at last seen as fundamental, and the need to find our place within that whole.
What is our key to using our individual strength and fire in creating the sustainable ground in our lives now within that context--the need to grasp the larger picture of our interconnectons with everything? I think Aries is very creative and of course, feels the necessity of breaking courageously into the unknown--Uranus means we do it in a radical way, guided by our intuition and the passion of our hearts--and sometimes fueled by the reckless energies of extremism and intensity to follow that passion.
We are now still in the watery unconscious of Pisces before the real encounter of Uranus and Pluto--I was thinking yesterday about now is a time of keeping the spark alive, especially the sparks of actions fanned into motion last spring and summer--still numinous strands in the ocean of the unconscious, barely visible, barely perceptible in the wash and flux of events and pull of the tides we are immersed in. But we are beginning a terrific emergence of that fire and confrontation of our individual power to deal with these demands of new conditions in the world around us. We shall all be changed in ways that we cannot predict from our pre-emergent phase now. The framework of our society, our world view that has been in a certain phase, on a certain trajectory for decades is altering and this alteration is about to intensify.
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