Astrology Now in 2012-2013 - It's the 1930s All Over Again

by Robert Wilkinson

I've offered you many things about the Grand Irrationality and the current Uranus square Pluto over the years. Today we take a brief look at 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. It was a hard edge then, and is a hard edged time now.

At this time we are experiencing an exact Uranus square Pluto going on, no insignificant thing! The exact square happens today from Uranus retrograde at 7 Aries to Pluto on its stationary direct degree of 7 Capricorn. Each time an outer planet goes stationary retrograde or direct, expect major “sea changes” related to where it falls in our chart, as well as major upheavals and shifts in the world at large.

If something dynamic is about to occur, you can bet it will happen sometime during the period when this square is close to exact, whether forming or separating. Of major importance are the times when the inner planets conjunct, square, or oppose either Uranus or Pluto or both. In this respect, even the Moon can trigger major events if there are other aspects happening as well.

This square most strongly affects those with planets or sensitive points around 4-10 Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn, as well as 19-25 Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius. Wherever this square falls in your chart is where you can expect long term awakening, challenges to transformation, needing to deal with “forces beyond your control,” and a greater influence in your world for the good these planets symbolize.

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, and this tension will be around for quite a while, so buckle your seat belts and enjoy the wild ride of our times!

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. It is safe to say that the idealism that was awakened in the 60s and frustrated by the global war machine then didn’t go away, and is now showing up again as our quest for a better world, better working and living conditions, and a repudiation of the predatory systems that pervade our world and work only for the benefit of the few rather than the well-being of the many.

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. Though there are repetitive patterns if we look for them, the trick is still how to move through and use the apparent irrationality to learn how to make conscious decisions that move our “destiny” into directions aligned with our Dharma, or “True Higher Function.”

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. This is now the first turning point, since the waxing “lower” square of Uranus to Pluto is a reality check on how the seeds of that conjunction are developing for good or ill.

Between the square from Uranus in Aries to Pluto in Cancer and the Grand Irrationality of the “Spring of the 20th century” (1925-1950), the world changed pretty radically from what it was in 1929 to what it was in 1943. Welcome to our times but on a different turn of the wheel of Time and human evolution.

For those into the Mayan Calendar and what is supposed to be going on in 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." Plus recent discoveries of other Mayan calendars clearly indicate this is the "time in between time," rather than the end of time, since computations in those calendars extend hundreds of thousands of years into the future.

That said, we are truly in a period "out of time," where we are neither past nor future, but squarely in the present. A whole new way is upon us, and we're in the heart of it!

© Copyright 2012 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[Virginia]

Muy interesante! A good time to be a good Zen hippie hovering squarely in the present.

[jo garceau]

Virginia, love your comment!

Love this article,Robert. I keep thinking of you in Tucson unpacking and getting settled, and wish you well. And grateful for your continuing to post. Thanks very much!

Having been born in 1932 with a Pluto Saturn opposition squaring to Uranus Moon, I've experienced what you describe in this article first hand. After a while, one gets a measure of equanimity about it all.

Gratefully, and sending blessings to all in the thick of it. jo

[libramoon]

Year of Prophecies
http://yoprophecies.blogspot.com/

[dcu]

Thank you Robert for your insights on this very critical aspect. It is definitely the "time of our lives." We asked to live in exciting times and we are certainly getting it.

[Ilse]

Thank you for this article that is really spot on!

[Wild Horse Running]

"When you point your finger at someone, you have 3 fingers pointing back at you"......
I have NNode at 3 Libra/ Venus 5 Libra....Sun/Moon/Uranus/Chiron at 21-22 fixed....and Im in a situation where Im expierencing controlling/rude/explosive behaviour, from 2 family members, ....and the prison guard outside the cell is laughing at me....as like all prisoners, I am innocent of the crime....
untill
understanding shatters through the facade, and I see that I am simply looking in a mirror. The prison guard shakes the keys in front of him, as if to say, "You can free yourself"....and I understand what I must do....

[caliban]

How all this is coming down is bizarre.