by Robert Wilkinson
I've offered you many things about the Grand Irrationality over the years. Today we examine the last Uranus square Pluto and "Grand Irrationality" that happened in the 1930s to see if we can figure out something about what we're going through right now.
At this time we also have a long wave Uranus square Pluto going on, no insignificant thing! Uranus in Aries waxing square Pluto in Capricorn is associated with widespread revolution, violence, economic chaos, clashes in philosophies, and ultimate force meeting ultimate force. These are evident throughout our world.
Due to the signs involved, we're all learning to maintain positive Libra and Cancer energies in those affairs associated with this square. I believe it's safe to say the world and its peoples could use more balance, justice, fairness, caring, nurturing, and supply of their basic human needs during this era of Cardinal Sign friction.
The last time they squared in 1929-1935 it was also a mess. That square featured Uranus in Aries waning square Pluto in Cancer, challenging all to bring forth positive Libra and Capricorn energies. I won't bore you with a lot of historical notes, but any gloss of the history of those years, whether in the Americas, Europe, Africa or Asia, will reveal a lot of Cardinal Sign chaos, violence, and widespread upheaval.
Though the square passed in the mid 30s, those years set such radical Plutonic energies into motion that the world was never the same after that. The next point in the larger Uranus/Pluto cycle was when a new one began between the Summer of 1962-Summer of 1969 during their long conjunction in Virgo. The clash between what could be fused of a new awakening of Pluto/Shiva and what could not be incorporated into the new Pluto era set the stage for the current clashes.
On a related note, a 20th Century version of the Grand Irrationality began when Neptune septiled Pluto 1936-1942. Those years were as crazy and hard-edged as it got! Again, I won't list what was going on historically, since what we know of that era was largely irrational, decisions made no sense, people went a bit berserk, and the choices and changes set into motion certainly affected "destiny" in major ways.
That's the function of the septile. It puts us at "forks in the road of destiny," where our choices make our character and our future. The decisions governments made between 1936-1942 effectively determined what happened up to the conjunction between 1962-1969, which was the awakening of a new collective voice for human rights, civil rights, anti-war, and other forms of collective well-being.
Between the square from Uranus in Aries to Pluto in Cancer and the Grand Irrationality of the Spring of the 20th century, the world changed pretty radically from what it was in 1929 to what it was in 1943. Welcome to our times.
ps - For those into the Mayan Calendar and what is supposed to be going on now through 2012, the transitional period from the old way to the new way is not a single day in 2012. From what I have read by the so-called experts, the transition period roughly corresponds to 1995-2017, the exact era of the current "Grand Irrationality." A whole new way is upon us, and we're in the heart of it!
© Copyright 2011 Robert Wilkinson
Yup, something starting happenin in the late 90s. Things just weren't workin like they did before. If we just went shoppin, everything would be okay, or so the commander in chief said. Well, that didn't work. There was something else going on. I was accumulating so much disappointment and grief, it just had to eventually slough off because I could not breathe. I travel lighter now.
All the stories that the previous generation told had one re-occuring theme. Survival. And oftentimes funny images. Like when it rained mud during the dust bowl. Or the person on the hood of the car with burnt out headlights, holding flashlight on the way home in the dark from danceland. If they married for love and the mate was a different religion, they faced cutoff from the family. But they had their prejudices too. The 60s irritated them. The darn "hooligans" were breaking all the rules. Some of my generation still fight collective well being. It's a strange split. Stranger still, some of their children fight it too. Sometimes it seems it is word fight only, because we are all living the changes whether we fess up to it or not.
Posted by: caliban | September 09, 2011 at 09:18 AM