Currently we have Neptune at the Aries Point and at the midpoint of Pluto in Aquarius and Uranus in Gemini. This lasts, depending on the orb used, for all of the decade. All three planets have just entered or will soon enter positive signs. They also form two sextiles and a trine, forming a shape that resembles a teeter-totter (also known as a seesaw) with Pluto one on side and Uranus the other with the fulcrum as Neptune. As in a real life teeter-totter, this represents a conflict; in this case a conflict between a future symbolized by Pluto and one symbolized by Uranus. Neptune represents a force that can either go towards the Pluto side or towards the Uranus side. I’ve discussed before the symbolism I apply to both planets but I will illustrate them again here. The previous time Neptune was at the midpoint of Uranus and Pluto, and not in a Grand Trine, was the first decade of the Sixteenth Century. (When Pluto was in a Grand Trine with Uranus and Neptune, so that all three took turns at being at the midpoint of the other two, was during the Enlightenment — Eighteenth Century). That midpoint configuration in the 1500’s did not last as long as this one will. Now there are a lot more people on the planet than there were 500 years ago and things are moving a lot faster. So this time will see a very large change, bigger than most people expect.

Neptune = Uranus/Pluto Early Sixteenth Century

Pluto was in mythology the ruler of the Underground Kingdom. Now Pluto represents the Deep State and Plutocracy, the One Percent. Uranus, as Richard Tarnas points out, is a Promethean figure. Prometheus brought fire to the humans, betraying the gods — the “Deep State” of the times. He suffered intense punishment because of this act. Now Uranus represents the 99%, everyone else that is not Pluto

In this period Neptune is at the midpoint of those two other outer planets, and also at the Cardinal Axis. This symbolized the incredible amount of hype (also known as BS) currently in existence. For one example, examine the AI hype coming from a Company Near You. Everybody is crazy. Neptune is even more important in this period than usual and since it is on the Aries Point everyone feels it. Don’t believe anything. Though the idea has been widely criticize (more Neptune) you need to do your own research on everything. Don’t believe what the “experts” tell you.

Teeter-Totter 2025

In the end it boils down to just two classes who are forever at war, even though only one class realizes that. We have the Pluto Class and the Uranus Class. The Pluto Class is able to keep the Uranus Class divided with the dichotomy of Left versus Right. Those two “political divisions” fight amongst themselves so that don’t fight the Pluto Class. Divide and Conqueror is a well-used trusted maxim. And then there is a third group of Uranus people who support Pluto. These are the kind who in France during WWII had their heads shaved.

The 500 year party is over and so we can’t party like we did. But some people (hint: Pluto) want to party even more than they have in the past which means the rest of us can’t be allowed to party at all.

Teeter-Totter 2026

Neptune represents digital technologies — most importantly the Internet — which are extremely addictive as many case studies have shown. These digital technologies will help Pluto control the people — Uranus. On the other hand, the digital technologies will allow Uranus to organize and really see what Pluto is up to. But it is very addictive so a little goes a long way. Thus Neptune represents the forces that will allow Pluto complete control of Uranus; but on the other hand Neptune represents the forces that will allow Uranus to finally break free from Pluto. We are starting to see some cracks in the Pluto facade, for example in New York City and Glastonbury, and these will grow in the second half of this decade. A big fight is coming. Stay tuned.

The Pluto future we can see is already being planned out. AI will be used to control everything including people. You will not be allowed to think impure thoughts. The world will be run by technology and everything will be artificial including thought. The poor will live in their huddles and envy the rich who are the only ones who can travel. Again, technology will be everywhere. This future is well mapped out and you can read many treatises describing it. It is a utopia for Pluto but a dystopia for Uranus.

The name for this future is technocracy, which was created/mapped out in the 1930’s. I’m sure it is just a coincidence but the maternal grandfather of the current first buddy/first enemy and richest man on earth, Elon Musk, was one of the founders of technocracy. Technocracy is a system of government (as the “-cracy” suffix suggests) where the scientists — who are the only ones who really know what is going on — run things. But of course now “Science” has been replaced by Corporate Science, controlled by guess who.

The technology brotherhood, which is controlling this visions of the future, read science fiction as they were growing up. But the science fiction that they read is what is called “hard” science fiction, that is based on the hard sciences like physics. In this type of science fiction the future is populated by robots, computers, artificial intelligence, and trips to Mars. See for example the Mars trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars) by Kim Stanley Robinson or I, Robot by Isaac Asimov. Because of these early influences, it is no wonder that the future they are birthing resembles the stories they read as youths. These young people had never read novels by George Orwell (1984), Aldous Huxley (Brave New World), Yevgeny Zamyatin (We) or Philip K. Dick, or if they had they thought them novels of utopia. Perhaps they even read The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, which describes a future world divided into two classes: the sweet Eloi and the savage Morlocks and thought that was a perfect world for themselves who obviously identified with the Eloi.

Soft, or at least softer science fiction, has been written mainly (not surprisingly) by women. Examples are books by Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret Atwood, Joanna Russ, Octavia Butler, and a very good example is Still Forms on Foxfield.

The concept of left-brain and right-brain are fairly common in popular discourse. Simply put, the left brain controls linear thinking and the right brain controls holistic thinking. To put this into astrological terms, the Sun represents the left brain and the Moon represents the right brain.

Left brain thinking has become more prominent in the last 500 years, and even more so this century. A future imagined by the techbros will be even more left brain than has previously been thought possible. There is a word for this that was recently introduced: TechnoFuedalism, a stage beyond capitalism. One of the things I had imagined we will be passing out of for the next 500 is capitalism, but I did not imagine what the left brain techno-future would really be like. Perhaps I should reread those novels. Capitalism started after immense wealth began to pour into Europe following the discovery and beginning colonization of the “New World”. This growth of capitalism was certainly helped by the exportation of slaves from Africa into the New World. This first stage of capitalism+ was called “Mercantile Capitalism” and was upgraded in the Eighteenth Century by the writings of Adam Smith and other economists at about the midpoint of this 500 years.

Teeter-Totter 2027

There is one big problem with this scenario however. This is the end of the 500 year party, and there are certain physical constraints that exist no matter how much technology you throw at it. You may keep the masses down but only by leaving the earth – as many proponents of this future believe we must do — can we escape the physical constraints of the planet of our birth. However, that does little good for those who remain on this planet.

The Uranus scenario is much different. It realizes that the last 500 years has seen the growth of rationalism and a Cartesian — named after Rene Descartes a French scientist and mathematician born under a Uranus-Pluto conjunction of the late Sixteenth Century — worldview that at the time was thought to be a positive change from the mystical and religious worldview that existed before. A champion of this new worldview was Galileo.

Rene Descartes

Scientists such as William James in the early Twentieth Century and Carl Sagan later in the Twentieth Century thought Science and Spirituality must be integrated. There are a number of scientists who have done work in this area such as David Bohm and Karl Pribram. Many other people have explored these concepts.

We need a balance between the left and right brains, unlike the case of the previous periods where only one hemisphere was predominant. The Uranus future is one where left-brain, totally rational approach is balanced by a right-brain [more] “irrational” approach.

Teeter-Totter 2028

I see astrology as a prefect symbol for this left-brain/right-brain balance. Astrology involves calculation of the positions of the planets, obviously a left-brain activity, but also involves an interpretation of the meaning of those planets, symbols that are not understandable by left-brain thinking but perfectly natural to the right-brain. In this Uranian vision of the future, astrology will be more widely accepted.

Teeter-Totter 2029

The case can be made that astrology — which existed long before formal religions and especially monotheism — gave birth to science and computing, both left brain activities. The observation and interest in the positions of the planets gave rise to an interest in the natural world that led to science; computing was necessary to determine the future positions of the planets.

Graphical Ephemeris for 1543

The break from astrology as a combination of left and right brain activities to astronomy as a left brain activity can be set at the year 1543 when Nicky Copernicus’s book De Revolutionibus was published (after he died) thought the ideas in that book were put down on paper in 1514 (shortly before Martin Luther created trouble by posting his beliefs). Looking at the graphical ephemeris for that year shows Saturn square Pluto and Neptune opposite Jupiter. The Jupiter opposition suggests, among other things, a separation between the mystical of Neptune and the more practical, growth-oriented nature of Jupiter. Jupiter can be thought as ruling capitalism, something that has taken over the world. Note, however, that all the “fathers of modern science” were astrologers as well. Kepler’s theories are the basis of the computation of planetary position used in astrological computer programs.

As far as I know at least one astrology group required the ability to calculate a chart in order to get a certificate as an astrologer. I suspect this ability is rapidly receding since it is so much easier, quicker, and less error prone to have a computer calculate a chart. I’m sure that some skill or knowledge is lost when that calculation is no longer preformed.

This movement toward the left brain world has been going on for a long time. The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) though this change happened when Greek philosophy went from Socrates to Plato. But the biggest change happened starting 500 years ago with the Renaissance followed by the Scientific Revolution and especially Rene Descartes. The materialist, mechanistic world view started to take over. An important change in science and its use took place during World War Two. During that period science took center stage as an important tool for winning the war. This trend was accelerated even more with the development of the atomic bomb, which is widely credited — at least in the United States — with having won the war with Japan, even though by that time Japan had been petty well beaten and the imminent invasion of Soviet Union into the War in the Pacific — scheduled for August 8, exactly three months after the end of the War in Europe — would have been the final blow. After the War Americans love of science became greater than ever before. But currently in the Twenty First Century this has gotten way out of bounds. When society is so unbalanced there should be a large warning sign, but instead the civilization is doubling down on more science. No good can come of this.

Outer Planet Grand Trine and the Rise of Science

Another problem is the health of real human beings and the lives of animals and plants on earth is deteriorating. The health of all living things is being destroyed by the output of corporations, to put it simply. A large number of statistics will show that things have gotten much worse over the last eighty years, since the end of World War II. If we have another 500 years of the technology that has been destroying out lives, while making it easier to live, human beings will not survive as anything we would recognize. Plastic pollution, pesticides in our food and water, disappearing wetlands, etc., etc. are among the many problems we can see now. The statistics can be numbing.

In the Nineteenth Century the father of sociology Mex Weber was writing about the Disenchantment of the World (a single world in his native German). That disenchantment was the increasing separation between the intellect and the spiritual, between Humans and Nature; the Natural World and the Artificial World have been growing increasingly apart. He was concerned about this division, and it has gotten so much worse in the century following his pronouncements.

While technology has made our lives easier it has also drained our vitality since we are not behaving as our bodies were designed over most of the span of human existence. This has resulted in many “diseases of civilization” that we did not have in centuries gone by. We have become alienated from the natural world. There seem to be two methods of dealing with this problem. The first is to modified and/or redesign the human body to corresponds the current conditions. This is the plan of the technology brotherhood and goes by the catchy name “transhumanism” the stage beyond human. What could go wrong? The other method is for humans to live more attuned to the natural world.

All Outer Planet Midpoints

Over the last 500 years the world has become increasingly disenchanted. It is now only cold hard facts and the latest AI that matters to anyone. As we have become disenchanted from the world, the world — the Earth, our Home — has become increasingly disenchanted from us. This needs to change, and just escaping to Mars is not a solution.

Which will we choose, or will the choice be made for us?