Reality Sandwich is a very interesting webzine with a fascinating array of opinions and news, including this essay on the necessity to use the breakdown of the current economic system to recreate something that is more easily adaptable to our future world. As many of us know Pluto, the planet of death and regeneration, has just entered Capricorn, sign of political and corporate structures, monetary systems, etc. The breakdown that is occurring now serves a purpose: to eliminate the old systems that are no longer working in order to make way for something that will better serve us and facilitate the continuing evolution of humanity.
Daniel Pinchbeck writes:
While exploring shamanism and non-ordinary states, I discovered the power of intention. According to the artist Ian Lungold, who lectured brilliantly about the Mayan Calendar before his untimely death a few years ago, the Maya believe that your intention is as essential to your ability to navigate reality as your position in time and space. If you don't know your intention, or if you are operating with the wrong intentions, you are always lost, and can only get more dissolute. ...
Over the last decades, the international financial elite manipulated the markets
to create obscene rewards for themselves at the expense of poor and middle class
people across the world. Using devious derivatives, cunning CDOS, and other
trickery, they siphoned off ever-larger portions of the surplus value created by
the producers of real goods and services, contriving a debt-based economy that
had to fall apart. Their own greed -- such a meager, dull intent -- has now
blown up in their faces, annihilating, in slow motion, the corrupt system built
to serve them.
Opportunities such as this one don't come along very often and should be
seized once they appear. When the edifice of mainstream society suddenly
collapses, as is happening now, it is a fantastic time for artists, visionaries,
mad scientists and seers to step forward and present a well-defined alternative.
What is required, in my opinion, is not some moderate proposal or incremental
change, but a complete shift in values and goals, making a polar reversal of our
society's basic paradigm. If our consumer-based, materialism-driven model of
society is dissolving, what can we offer in its place? Why not begin with the
most elevated intentions? Why not offer the most imaginatively fabulous systemic
redesign?
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My sentiments exactly!! This reflects the astrological climate, particularly as Uranus (sign of innovation and revolution) moves into position to form a challenging aspect (square) to Pluto. Uranus/Pluto cycles are associated with cultural upheaval and change, such as the dramatic changes of the 1960s when Uranus made a conjunction to Pluto in Virgo and set off a string of battles for liberation (Uranus) and the overturning of the status quo in government and society.
The last square of Uranus to Pluto occurred back in the early 1930s, approaching the exact alignment in 1931 but not fully entering the square until April of 1932. 1932 marked the lowest point of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, occurring several years after the market crash of 1929. The German bank failures of 1931 paved the way for Adolf Hitler to emerge from obscurity and run for Chancellor in 1933. 1931 and 1932 also marked the acceleration of tensions between China and Japan when Japan invaded Manchuria.
Hunger marches in Britain and the US 1932 were a symbol of the growing frustration (Uranus) with the status quo (Pluto). This social unrest led to more social legislation being passed in the US than at any other times in the nation's history, including the Social Security Act.
We can see that the breakdown of that Uranus/Pluto phase paved the way for a new wave of political and social structures, as well as laying the groundwork for the next World War. Much of this change was reactive rather than proactive, for this is to a large extent how societies react to crisis.
As astrologers we are given a glimpse into the underlying dynamics of a given event, which provides clues for the most successful way to handle a particular cycle. The square of Uranus to Pluto will begin in the summer of 2010 when Uranus enters Aries, and the clearer our intention for transformation that we want to occur during this cycle, the more productive and bveneficial this shedding of the past and moving into the future will be.
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Any historical perspective on the last time Pluto was in Capricorn?
Any historical perspective on the last time Pluto was in Capricorn?
Try this article: http://www.astrodynamics.net/Articles/Pluto-in-Capricorn.htm
Hi Lynn,
Interesting article! I am also an astrologer, and have been looking forward to the Uranus-Pluto square, as I perceive it to be a harbinger of great social/cultural change that is much needed. It won't be easy, but it is a fantastic time for us to change the way that we live and take care of each other and the earth.
I see the square as a challenge between the status quo and the new scoial vision, and agree with Daniel that it is time for us to Think Big and develop a clear intention about what we want in the future.
It's exciting, no doubt! And I trust that we will use this opportunity to break with the past and structures that clearly aren't working for the benefit of all, to create a new reality that celebrates the One.
Love & Light!
Being a Scorpio native with a moon in aquarius, this article intrests me.
Usually astrologers tend to speak in general terms. The cardinal squares of 2008-2016 are a mark for a very powerful time. Don't underestimate that. Accordingly to what I have studied of cycles, we are set for a series of revolutions (or war) around 2022-2029. The life will change dramatically mainly due to the peak oil, conspiracies revealed, climate and geological change, discoveries, a few regional conflits that may become nuclear, a second great depression, and many changes concerning lifestyles, self-reliance, taxes, money, ecology, etc. Perhaps a return local communities, new currencies, ET disclosure by 2020s, free energy... Nothing will be the same. This unstable and accelerating time will be between 2012 to 2018. Before the tight squares of 2009, 2010 and 2011 mark the start of that powerful period, with economic crash, perhaps the flu pandemic, social unrest and a larger scale war. In the end, as you said, the old crumbles to give way to the very much new. A reconnection to harmony with our planet once again, and amomgst ourselves.
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