In this decade we have the three outer planets changing from negative to positive signs all within a small amount of time. In this blog I have descriptions for those three planets and what they represent in the modern world. What follows is a brief recap of how I see these planets.
Moving from the outermost planet, Pluto represents the One-Percent, the Deep State, everything with “Big” in front of its name, such as Big Agriculture, Big Pharma, Big Oil, etc. And of course the Military industrial Complex or the National Security State or the Power Elite or whatever term you are most comfortable with. As I’ve mentioned in a previous entry (https://500yearparty.com/2025/07/) the conflict between the Pluto Class and the Uranus Class (described below) is the major conflict of our time, playing out in many different forms, though many people (especially those in the Pluto Class or their enablers) want you to ignore this or pretend that it really doesn’t matter.
Neptune is the Virtual World (that is the World Wide Web) and also confusion and deception and disinformation. It represents everything that is not natural but artificial, such as — most notably in this current time — artificial intelligence. Many have compared the development of this virtual world to the invention of the printing press 500 years earlier. The first major item printed with movable type is called the Gutenberg Bible, printed in the 1450s under a Uranus-Pluto conjunction. But of course — since things moved much slower then — it took many years for the effects of movable type to be felt in Europe. Consider the Internet — first used in 1969 — and the World Wide Web — which made the Internet accessible to the average person — developed in 1993 under the Uranus-Neptune conjunction. The printing press had enormous ramifications for the world at large in the last 500 year; the Neptune World Wide Web will have even more profound effects on the world over the next 500 years. This shows the potency of Neptune, but along with it comes the mass confusion, lying, and gas-lighting. Perhaps Neptune will even bring forth a new spiritual mindset, since spirituality is also a manifestation of Neptune, even though it is extremely difficult to observe in most people and especially in governments. In the composition The Planets by Gustav Holst — something ever astrologer should be familiar with — the term associated with Neptune is “The Mystic”.
Uranus represents the people, those who are not in the Pluto class, the common folk, the ” salt of the earth”. In our modern world the dichotomy of Right versus Left is being replaced by the dichotomy of Up versus Down, where Up is Pluto and Down is Uranus. As the poet Shelley wrote in the Masque of Anarchy “Ye are many — they are few” which could be rephrased as “Uranus is many, Pluto is few”. This is the conflict that will be animating the upcoming years — we already see it playing out in real time — even though certain people (hint: Pluto) will try hard to get other people to not believe this conflict, or make them side with Pluto.
Outer Planet Ingresses
Here is a graphical ephemeris for the period from May 10, 2022 to the beginning of April 2027. It is in the sixth harmonic, which means the 0 Aries line — black horizontal line half way down with the red Aries sign to the left of it — represents the start of all positive signs: Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, and Aquarius. Since Uranus goes into Gemini, Neptune goes into Aries, and Pluto goes into Aquarius all of those sign cusps are represent by that black line.
We see the first sign ingress is by Pluto (marked by the 1) in April of 2023. This indicates the rise of the Pluto Power. And looking at the real world you can see that happening on a daily basis. Pluto is finally permanently in Aquarius (at least for 250 years) in early November 2024, just in time for the United States election. Indeed the Pluto Class is riding high.
Pluto Final Ingress Into Aquarius
But for the United States we also see Pluto make a decisive turn: the Pluto Return — the first for a country since governments usually don’t last as long as one Pluto cycle before changing– which occurs in 2022 and 2023. Since this Pluto Return is unique for countries, what we are seeing now is also unique in history. Stand back and watch the Pluto Return plays out as you attempt to ignore it. Pluto first returned to its natal location in early 2022 (marked as 1) and the final brushing the natal position was late 2023.
United States Pluto Return
Then Neptune brushes with a change of sign (at 2 in Outer Planet Ingresses) in July of 2024 and then clearly moves into Aries in April of 2025, finally moving into the new sign for good (at least for 168 years) in February of 2026. And we can certainly see the signs of Neptune activity around us. Nothing is as it seems, we can not trust anything that is said or written or televised, not even your own senses. We have to check many sources. And the virtual world is getting overwhelming, with tales of people being swept up with these virtual events.
Final Neptune Ingress Into Aries
United States Neptune Demi-Return
For the United State we have a Neptune demi-return, which happens every 84 years, and in this position — opposite the natal Neptune — once every 168 years. This demi-return happens in in 2021 (at 2 above) and 2022. But there is also Neptune opposite the Midheaven of the United States and, something that will affect the world at large and not just the US, Neptune conjunct the Aries point. These happen in 2024, 2025, and 2026. So plenty of Neptunian confusion to go around.
Neptune At Aries Point and Opposite US MC
But Uranus has yet to fully change signs. That planet’s first ingress into Gemini took place in July 2025 (at 3 in Outer Planet Ingresses) but then retreats into Taurus. Uranus finally moves into its new sign in May of 2026 (at least for 84 years). Since Pluto and Neptune have been in their new signs for a time, it will take a while for the effects of Uranus to be clearly visible. There are already signs of its activities, but you have to be on the lookout to see them. Ultimately Uranus rules awakening and that is what humanity must do if it is to escape Pluto-Neptune trap that is engulfing the world.
Uranus Final Ingress Into Gemini
The United States will get heavy dose of Uranus in the second half of this decade. First we have Uranus square the Moon of the US in 2025 and 2026 (at 1 below). Then we have the Uranus Return for the United States, the third such since the birth of the country — in 2027 and 2028 (at 2). Finally we have Uranus crossing the Descendant of the United States in 2028 and 2029 (3) . Quite a bout of Uranus for the United States is coming up.
United States: Uranus Square Moon, Uranus Return, Uranus Conjunct Descendant
Notice that the final sign change of Neptune occurs just a few months before the final sign change of Uranus. Thus we will see all the Neptunian fog over the Uranian change and thus be unable to really see what is going on. Thus when the final Uranian awakening takes places it will come as a complete surprise to most people and to the mass media.
The play that is this decade can be divided into three acts astrologically. While you could also call this decade a novel with three chapters, a play with three acts is much more common than a novel with three chapters, so I’ll use the theater metaphor.
Just as in a play the first act sets up the characters that will drive the plot forward. In this case, as I’ve mentioned previously, there are three main events — Covid, Ukraine, Gaza (with the epiphenomenon of Donald J. Trump, who had appeared in the third act of a previous play) — that developed in the early years of this decade and will drive the plot of this decade forward. The third act is where the outcome is shown, the denouement (unraveling) of the play occurs. The middle act is where the plot develops and the characters/events introduced at the beginning behave in ways that will lead to the final outcomes. We are in Act Two now.
Neptune Demi-Return
The first act has as its highlights the Pluto return and the Neptune demi-return. The Pluto return has never occurred before in American history — the 250th anniversary of America is coming up in 2026 and the cycle of Pluto is approximately 250 years so you do the math. The Neptune demi-return occurred before in 1859. The previous Neptune Return was in 1940. The previous post summarized Act One in more detail.
Neptune Demi-Return 1859
Neptune Return
The second act consists of Uranus square the US Moon, Neptune opposite the U S Midheaven and also on the Aries point. As a special bonus we have Saturn conjunct Neptune when Neptune is at those points. This conjunction happened before in 1989 (without Aries Point involvement) which saw the fall of Communist countries in Europe and then the fall of the Soviet Union. This represented a major change in the Twentieth Century. Uranus made a previous opening square to the US Moon in 1941 and most Americans know what happened at that time. The previous Uranus conjunct the Moon happened in 2003 when the US attacked the country of Iraq in what is called the Second Gulf War. So the most likely scenario is a war starting, but already we have so many wars that is difficult to keep track. There is the most overt war between the United States and Russia since the end of the First World War, when President Wilson (along with many other countries) sent troops into Russia to defeat the Russian Revolution. We have a war, financed by the US, of Israel in Gaza. Other possible wars are with Iran and Venezuela. And of course there is always China. And more soon to come. This is not what were expecting by a “Peace President”.
Uranus Square US Moon
Saturn-Neptune Opposite US Midheaven
Uranus Square US Moon 1941
Uranus Conjunct US Moon 2003
During this act all three other planets change sign: Pluto goes into Aquarius (2023 and 2024) Neptune goes into Aries (2024, 2025, and 2026) and Uranus goes into Gemini (2025 and 2026).
Uranus Enters Gemini 2026
Neptune Enters Aries 2026
Pluto Enters Aquarius Late 2024
The last time these three outer planets changed into those signs was in the period 1523 through 1534, a much longer period than this time. which allowed Uranus to move into Cancer before Neptune went into Aries and Pluto into Aquarius.
Uranus Enters Gemini 1523
Neptune Enters Aries 1535
Pluto Enters Aquarius 1532
To mark the half way point in this 500 year party, we saw Pluto go into Aquarius in 1778, Uranus go into Gemini in 1774, and Neptune go into Libra — the sign opposite Aries– in 1778 and 1779. This was the height of the Enlightenment which also saw the birth of the U.S. Some people have called the period we are entering the “Endarkenment” since the lessons of 250 years ago seem to be forgotten.
Uranus Enters Gemini 1774
Neptune Enters Libra 1778
Pluto Enters Aquarius 1778
The last act is the Uranus Return and Uranus on the Descendant of the US. The previous Uranus Return was 1943, 1944, and 1945. The previous Uranus on the US Descendant was 1944, 1945, and 1946. That period, the last couple of years of the Second World War and the early postwar period saw tremendous changes to the Unites States, the United States government, and the world in general. We are still living in the world created at that time. We also have Pluto conjunct the South Node of the Moon and a trine of Uranus and Pluto, which will be dealt with separately.
US Uranus Return 2028
Uranus Conjunct Descendant 2029
US Uranus Return 1944
Uranus Conjunct Descendant 1945
At the end of the play or novel that is this decade we need to get ready for the sequel: This has been a waxing decade and the waning decade pair (after the Jupiter-Saturn opposition which take place at the end of 2029, end of April 2030, and about Thanksgiving (US) 2030) will come after. Being the second half of a Jupiter-Saturn cycle we will see things developed that were hinted at in the first decade of the cycle, much like sequels often do. For example think of the Seventies as a sequel to the Sixties or the Nineties as a sequel to the Eighties. Spoiler Alert: Even though we’ve seen plenty of Neptune so far in this decade, for the US the first three years of the next decade will see even more Neptune, with Neptune trine the Ascendant and square the Sun.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity
I’ve previously talked about all the important astrological events taking place this decade. So far we’ve seen two of them already occur. The first item (#1) is the demi-return of Neptune to the US Neptune in 2021 and 2022. The three previous returns or demi-returns, happening about every 84 years, were in 1938 and 1939, 1857 and 1858, and 1774 and 1775. I think you can see a pattern.
This Decade
The second item was the Pluto Return 2021, 2022, 2023 (#4). This is Pluto returning to the position it had at the birth of the United States in 1776. Of note is the Pluto demi-return in 1936, 1937, and 1938, the “Roosevelt Depression” that followed the height of the New Deal as a response to the Great Depression. The opening square of Pluto corresponded to the Mexican-American War and especially the aftermath, which expanded the United States by adding California, most of Arizona and New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and some of Colorado. This was the biggest expansion of America in history, bigger than the Louisiana Purchase some forty years previously. This will be discussed further at a later time. This was a big expansion of the United States. The closing square of Pluto to its natal position was in 1982 and 1983 and the beginning onslaught of neo-liberalism under Ronald Reagan. One could see this period as the true end of the New Deal. This would change American for decades to come. Also note that there was a midpoint configuration of the three outer planets just before this Pluto square.
And we can already see the early results of this Pluto Return in the reshaping of America that we see now. In 2016 and the election of Donald Trump I described him as a farce. In the type of theater known as a farce, the main character often has a physical characteristic that sets him apart. In a farce everything is exaggerated so we can see what is really happening. Obviously in the first act of the Trump farce people did not pick up on what was happening so we have a rerun that is more farcical than ever — the farce level is turned up to 11. Donald Trump is not sui generis. He is just a continuation of Presidential actions that have gone on at least since Harry Truman right after World War II. As an example, billionaires have always run the government but they were usually wise enough to stay behind the scenes. Now we have a billionaire running the government right out in the open so all can see. All presidents, at least for several decades, have performed unconstitutional acts but they were wise enough to do so in secrecy. But now we have a president who trashes the Constitution out in the open. All government is corrupt, the higher the level the more corrupt, but now with Trump the corruption is so brazen one hardly knows where to begin pointing it out. All subtly is gone, the blatancy knows no bounds. One hopes that the audience figures out the corruption is wide-spread. A problem occurs when people think “my teams is good, they never do anything bad. Everything is the fault of the other team”.
It’s a big club and you ain’t in it
In the last decade we’ve seen the phenomenon know as Trump Derangement Syndrome – TDS. TDS 1.0 was better know as Russiagate – the belief that Donald Trump had been put into office with the nefarious schemes of Vladimer Putin, the evil dictator of Russia. After Trump’s first term there developed TDS 2.0. He was a lead insurrectionist, he was trying to overthrow the election!! He was a multiple felon. I’m sure all those charges made Team Blue members feel good but others might not be so sanguine. Now with his second term we see TDS 3.0 wherein Trump sold out the US to his boss Putin. Unfortunately this covers up the real crimes of Donald Trump. Class War has been practiced for a long time but Mister Trump has found a way to make it acceptable to other classes (not him or his associates). Now that other class believe he is fighting for them when he is actually fighting for his class. What a perfect con. In fact this is the best Presidential Con of all time.
We are also seeing another form of TDS. This is the belief among the supporters that Trump is almost perfect, he can do no wrong. In this case we have Trump Devotion Syndrome. It is if his devoted followers are a parody of the supporters of most other candidates. These followers are so devoted that whatever their leader does they will excuse it, even if it directly conflicts with what he told them before the election. He was going to drain the swamp even though it is clear he is a member of the swamp. He was going to get to the bottom of the Epstein case, even though he now says it is merely a Democrat made-up story. But still, to his supporters, Trump is the Man.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
This reminds one of the terms of President Obama. In 2009 we were impressed by the first African American president who was bringing “Hope and Change”, also known as hopium. One would hope that scenes like the following would disabuse his followers: The Secretary of State under his first term laughed when a leader of a foreign nation was homosexually raped and then killed. I guess rape is funny if it happens to someone we don’t like. Then the most prosperous nation in Africa was reduced by the action of the first AA President to having open air slave markets. And the response of people to this action: crickets. Obama was called the Deporter In Chief because he deported more people than all other presidents including Trump. Obama was going to save the middle class, but after his election he bailed out all the bankers whose rash actions caused the financial crisis of 2007-2009, while many people lost their homes as a result. But no one who voted for him got upset. No one was satisfied with the current state of healthcare so Obama put in place a health care plan that was conceived by the same organization that created Project 2025, and that had been previously used by a Republican governor, but no one seemed to care.
Strong Neptune During First Obama Term
Note the transits during the first Obama term: Neptune was conjunct (#1 below) the Moon of the United States — the people are living under illusion — and also sesquiquadrate the Sun (#2 below) of the US — the government is also suffering from illusion. Note that natally the Sun and the Moon are related by a hard aspect, a sesquiquadrate, suggesting that there is always a conflict between the government (Sun) and the People (Moon).
Eighth Harmonic Graphical Ephemeris First Obama Term
Now we have “Trump and Change” (not to be confused with Chump Change) which is seducing people. Neptune is opposite the Midheaven of the US so again Neptune is strong. Many believe that this time it will be different. People always say that when their favored candidate wins. Many think that since Donald Trump is a maverick he must be better than all those “conventional” presidents. They cheer everything he does. But Trump is basing his crimes on the crimes of previous Presidents that were never called out, but making them more obvious. Hopefully many in the United States will wake up and realize the travesty that recent Presidents have been. Trump 2.0 is a very big wake-up call. If people do not pay attention what will come after Trump will be much more deadly and gruesome.
Neptune Opposite US Midheaven First Time
The difference between the Republicans and the Democrats — simply put — is that the Republicans believe that control of life should be left to the corporations while the Democrats believe the control of life should be left to the government, which is controlled by the corporations, so this is a distinction without a difference. But the two parties can appeal to different groups of people.
Neptune Opposite US Midheaven 2025, 2026
Various radical groups, such as the Black Agenda Report, have long considered the Democrats as the more effective evil. Everyone with intelligence knew the Republican were evil, but the Democrats were smart enough to hide their evilness and pretend they were “for the people”. But the roles are now reversed. Everyone should know that the Democrats support the elite classes, but the Republicans under Donald Trump hide their evilness and pretend they are now “for the people”. The Republicans are now the more effective evil and so are especially dangerous. It’s all a con and Trump now is the biggest con.
Laugh about it, shout about it, When you’ve got to choose, Every way you look at it, you lose
All presidents oversee the transfer of money to corporations who pay for the political parties but Trump has made this transfer of money upward clear for all to see with what he has called (probably lacking irony) a Big Beautiful Bill. Everyone can, or should, be able to see
But the farce of Donald Trump is just one sign that the whole world has jumped on the farce bandwagon. Take for example Israel’s war on Gaza (which still doesn’t have a fixed name). This war is clearly Trumpian. It should be obvious to any living soul that it is a genocide and many major war crimes are being committed, but many many people expend energy trying to pretend it isn’t and looking the other way. So something that is way over the top in evilness is though by many to be just business as usual. And perhaps it is. And if that is so, perhaps we need to examine what normal business really is. Maybe that is the clear lesson of this decade: Everything is being revealed; we can no longer hide from the truth of what has been happening for a long time, it is so in-your-face obvious that you really have to work to not notice it. Even though this is ugly it will prove to be a good thing: The End of Illusion that Neptune is providing. People were shocked when they saw pictures of skeletal figures after the Holocaust during World War II, but by that time it was too late to do anything. Now we see live-streamed pictures of skeletal figures and look the other way. This is progress?
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn’t exist
But what Trump intends to do is shift even more money from the Uranus Class to the Pluto Class, Everyone wants to do this but Trump convinced people (the Uranus Class) that he is on their side. Another example of a big, beautiful con. And ultimately Trump wants to bring about the Pluto future I mentioned in the previous post. But he has managed to convince people he is the Deep State’s biggest enemy.
Perhaps the shouting by the TDS 3.0 group hides the true evilness of Donald J. Trump, our first billionaire President. To best describe this involves the use of Pluto and Uranus as outlined in the previous post. It appears that there are two things he really wants: To shift power and money, even more than it already is, from the Uranus Class to the Pluto Class. And ultimately to bring about the future that the Pluto Class desires. But he was very clever in convincing parts of the Uranus Class that he was really on their side. Certainly this was a Great Big Beautiful Con.
Sometimes Satan comes as a man of Peace
Note: The author of the first quotation wrote a book (or perhaps it was channeled by his wife) about the twenty-eight phases of the Moon.
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?
Just a few days ago Israel waged a preemptive attack on the country of Iran to prevent it from building nuclear weapons, much like Japan waged a preemptive attack on the American base in Pearl Harbor just 84 years ago to prevent the United States from building nuclear weapons with which to attack Japan. In this current case the United States is deeply involved with the Israeli attack.
Attack on Iran
Looking at the chart for the first strike we see Mars square Uranus with Mars in the first house. This is an astrological cliche for an accident, but more broadly it can been seen as an unexpected or sudden use of energy or military might. But if we look at the chart in respect to the Israel chart we see something even more fascinating: This was the Mars return for Israel, something that happens every two years when Mars returns to its natal position and so things are even more martial. But this also means that Uranus was squaring the natal Mars of Israel at this moment. It almost seems overdetermined that Israel would do something rash and bold and unexpected at this moment.
Israel Attacks Iran
If we look at the chart for Iran at the moment of attack nothing seems to stand out. Neptune is prominent. There is a wide conjunction of Neptune/Saturn with the Iranian Sun. The transiting Sun is opposite the Iranian Neptune. The transiting Neptune-Saturn is sesquiquadrate the Iran Ascendant. It appears that deception took place, The United states was in the process of negotiations with Iran at the time, and Iran was led to believe that they would not be attacked while negotiations were on going and so perhaps Iran did not expect anything. Notice also that Uranus is moving to conjoin the Moon of Iran. This will be more important in 2026, but as we will see with the United States Moon Uranus hard aspects often signify war. At the very least, it signifies that the populace is exited, something that the Iranian population is already doing/being.
Iran Attacked
Here is the chart of the United States, which was involved with this attack, at the time of the attack. There is a wide square of Uranus to the Moon, but the square was exact about a month earlier and transiting Mars was opposite the US Moon the day before the attack.
US at Time of Attack
And here is the chart for the attack of Pearl Harbor just one Uranus cycle before now. Instead of Saturn conjoined the outer planet Neptune we have Saturn conjoining the outer planet Uranus, and they are both square the US Moon, And of course Neptune is conjunct the MC of the US, one half Neptune Cycle before now, when Neptune is opposite the US MC.
Pearl Harbor Attack
Finally looking at the graphical ephemeris for Israel over this year we see that Pluto is opposite the Moon of Israel and there was a Mars Pluto tight aspect on the Israeli Moon is late April of this year. Earlier this year Uranus was conjunct the Israeli Sun, indicating much excitement in the government of Israel. Uranus then when on to excite the Israel Mars and as you can see the exact aspect was at about the time of the attack.
Israel This Year
In the future Pluto will continue to opposite the Israel Moon suggesting strong change in the citizens of that country, Also continuing will be Uranus squaring the Israeli Mars, suggesting further use of military means,
This Summer will bring some important astrological formations which among other things illustrates the astrology of the decade. This decade sees the returns or demi-returns of the three outer planets. All in all it is a packed decade.
Grand Trine and More
On August 9, 2025 there will be a beautiful formation of the ten planets in both a world chart and in comparison to the US chart. While it does not suggest that anything will happen on that particular day, it does show graphically an overview of forces that are operative at the time. Of course, so many events of note are happening this year that there will certainly be some this August: it is like shooting fish in a barrel. Lets Look at them.
The Saturn-Neptune conjunction is at the Aries point. A Saturn-Neptune conjunction happens every 36 years; the last one was in 1989 which saw the fall of the Berlin Wall and in the next years the fall of the Soviet Union and related governments; that conjunction was in the middle of Capricorn. The one before that was in 1953 at about 20 Libra. Before that in 1917 in early Leo. I don’t know when previously there was conjunction at 0 Aries but it must have been a very long time ago. If we assume that every degree in the zodiac eventually sees the conjunction, and since the cycle happens every 36 years, then the last time this conjunction happened at 0 Aries was 360 times 36 or about 13,000 years ago
There is a mini-Grand Trine – a trine and two sextiles — between Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, with Neptune at the crux point which is also conjunct Saturn and the Aries point. Neptune is also at the midpoint of Uranus-Pluto. This midpoint configuration (and not part of a Grand Trine of those three planets) happens every 500 years, but the last time they formed an aspect was 2500 years ago — about 576 BCE — and that was a conjunction. Thus there is the midpoint configuration and the aspect configuration. The midpoint last longer than the aspect as can be seen in the two graphical ephemerides below.
Uranus-Neptune-Pluto Mini-Grand Trine
This graphical ephemeris is in the sixth harmonic so sextiles and trine look like conjunctions. You can see how the three planets come together in 2024 and stay together until 2029.
Neptune=Uranus/Pluto
In this graphical ephemeris the midpoint of Uranus and Pluto (slightly darker line) is plotted along with Neptune. You can see how closely the two lines stick together from 2023 through 2028 and are within a couple of degrees of each other from 2021 through 2031.
Saturn-Neptune opposite Mars along the cardinal axis. Mars is opposite that Saturn-Neptune conjunction right along the cardinal axis of 0 Aries/0 Libra. That gives more kick to the conjunction.
Uranus, Pluto, and Mars form a fairly tight Grand Trine.
Moon semisquare Saturn-Neptune and sesquiquadrate Mars. Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn-Neptune and semisquare Mars, so that that Full Moon is a diagonal to the rectangle formed by Sun, Moon, Saturn,Neptune, and Mars.
And a Mercury Pluto opposition reflecting the Mercury Pluto opposition in the natal chart of the US.
And for good measure a Full Moon.
Transits Within US Chart
When we look at this chart within the chart of the United states it gets even more interesting. We see the following: The Saturn-Neptune is on the IC of the United States and thus opposite the Midheaven of the US. That places Mars directly on the MC of the US. Thus the “spine” of the US — the MC/IC axis — is energized by the Mars opposite Saturn Neptune.
Transits to US Chart
Pluto and Uranus trine the US Midheaven.
Jupiter conjunct the US Sun.
` A good graphical representation of how this complex of planets hits the Midheaven of the US chart is to look at a sixth harmonic chart. In the sixth harmonic trines and sextiles appear as conjunctions. If you look at the MC of the US you see quite a pile-up.
Sixth Harmonic Transits To US Chart
But earlier in the Summer there is another set of transits that pictorially are not as pretty but still important. The opening square of Jupiter and Saturn happens three times, the last time in Summer of 2025; this marks the beginning of the second half of this decade. But since Saturn is conjunct Neptune there is also a Jupiter square Neptune at almost the same time and in fact just three days separate the Jupiter Saturn and Jupiter Neptune squares.
Jupiter Square Saturn Last Time
Jupiter Square Neptune
Earlier in the Summer Uranus squares the Moon on May 15, the only time the square is exact this cycle. However on the first of February 2026 Uranus retrogrades to within a quarter degree of an exact square. These two images illustrate the exact square in 2025 and the almost exact square of 2026. Below that is a graphical ephemeris that illustrates the exact (1) and almost exact (2) squares where you can see that Uranus retrogrades and approaches the Moon but turns direct just before it squares the Moon.
Three events define the first half of this decade. Of course there were many other defining events, but these three rate special notice for several reasons, the first of which is that when the second event started the first almost disappeared from public consciousness. When the third event started the second almost disappeared from public consciousness. This exclusiveness is one thing that set these events apart. These are also the three events that will shape the way the second half of this decade plays out, with the ramification, realizations, and renouncements shaping the way the decade finally ends.
Neptune at Aries Point
As Neptune approaches the Aries Point we should pay special attention to the use and misuse of propaganda, something that is truly ruled by Neptune. Neptune got within four minutes of the Aries Point in July 2024 (1) only to turn retrograde as if the thought of a Fire Sign was too much to bear; then at the end of March 2025, a week after the Vernal Equinox, Neptune truly enters Aries (2) and then retrogrades and skates along the Aries Point from Fall of 2025 (3) through Winter of 2026 (4) before finally ensconcing into Aries in February of 2026.
There were conventional and dissident views on all three events, but the power behind the crushing of the dissident point of view was so strong in all three cases that you know there was much force behind the conventional view. It was not just “Oh so you disagree with me, that’s life” but rather if you disagree with the conventional viewpoint you are an apostate, a sinner, you stand against everything holy. The use of religious metaphors is not an accident. One is reminded of the Inquisition. The name calling by those holding the conventional view of those holding a dissident view was extreme as examples later will show.
I also want to look at these three moments in terms of the left-right paradigm. As I’ve expressed before I think this dichotomy is outdated but it is still very much used. And though those terms are used in ways that are way beyond the limits of what the words mean I will still use them without double quotes around the words to save typing, but you can imagine that double quotes are present.
Since this period includes what I call the Sixth Crisis we need to mention the Fifth Crisis which was World War II. One of the big items of the Fifth Crisis was the Nazis which we will see reflections of in this Sixth Crisis. People misunderstand what Nazis are. Perhaps because of much propaganda many believe that the Nazis were only killers of Jews. This is wrong, the Nazis were against the untermenschen — under people or subhumans — not only Jewish people but Romany, disabled, homosexuals, you name it, anybody not Aryan or ubermenschen. And so under people can be the common people, Russians, or Palestinians, those who don’t meet certain “standards”.
I’ll outline the conventional view first but, since it is conventional, I will not devote that much space to it. If you don’t know the conventional view by heart you likely were asleep for the last five years. More space will be used to discuss the dissident view but, since it is dissident, there are many variations possible. I’ll just try to limn out the basic ideas.
The first big crisis of this third decade of the Twenty-First Century was Covid-19 and the ensuing vaccine. The people who saw through this for the most part were on the right, which gave those on the left ample cause to jeer. And of course those on the left who also saw through the propaganda were now considered to be on the right.
Covid-19 Declared a Pandemic
Covid-19 was an infection that was the greatest pandemic to strike the world since the Spanish Flu of 1918. Measures such as lockdowns, masks, and avoiding large groups (“social distancing”) were necessary and enforced to keep the people safe. Nonetheless there was a huge amount of dying over the years 2020 and beyond. This crisis was finally abated by the introduction of a vaccine that was both safe and effective. These vaccines were developed under “Operation Warp Speed” (OWS) in record time, using a novel technology that had never been used in the public before. Many were forced with a government mandate to get what was called “the jab” because nobody is safe unless everybody complies . There were various technologies used to create these vaccines and the most popular in Western countries was messenger RNA — mRNA. This vaccine was introduced shortly after the previous president — who oversaw OWS — left office.
The alternate view had it that an artificially-created virus was developed in Wuhan China with American funding which spread around the world. It caused a mild respiratory distress, much like the Asian Flu of 1958-59 or the Hong Kong flu of 1968-69 which is considered one of the deadliest pandemics in history (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_flu). Many have seen the movie of people practicing social distancing on a farm in upstate New York in the summer of 1969 while watching live music during the Hong Kong flu epidemic. This disease would have stricken few and they could have been cured by early treatment using the same substances that were found effective with an earlier corona viruses. Also adequate vitamin D in a body would have reduced infection. But none of those treatments were owned by large companies so little profit could be realized by using them. Instead early treatment was discouraged and hospital patients were treated with ventilators and an [official] drug whose nickname was “run death is near”. The death toll was elevated by bogus PCR tests and redefinition of other diseases, such as flu and cancer and even automobile accidents, as a death from Covid-19. Antibiotics were not used even though many had pneumonia, which was redefined as Covid-19 when they died. The stress engendered by lockdowns, social distancing, and other measure was so great that many succumbed to the affects of the intense stress. Early treatments were prevented so that a vaccine using a new technology could be rushed into service without the usual 10 years of testing. `
Vaccine Mandate Declared
The amount of death world-wide due to the vaccines number in the millions, with many more disabled and even more injured. Some of the diseases caused are various heart aliments and clots and an aggressive type of cancer called turbo-cancer. Most people, especially on the left, are not willing to look at the real misinformation and they will be horribly crushed when the truth comes out. All the news media have been active in covering up the excessive death and injury even though most insurance companies are aware of them. As they say, the cover up is worse than the crime. And when the cover-up unravels things will be different!
Many compared the treatment of people with experimental drugs as similar to what got a lot of Nazi doctors hanged and led to the creation of the Nuremberg Code that prohibits lack of informed consent in medical procedures. Many are calling for a Nuremberg 2.0 to take a look at the massive lack of informed consent. One outspoken dissident with real world experience is Vera Sharav, a holocaust survivor who has been vehement in her condemnation of the massive medical experiment.
There were strong terms used to condemn those who took a dissident view, such as “anti-vaxxer” or “right-wing conspiracy theorist”. Many important people appeared on the media to condemn those who held such divergent views. The left, which traditionally supported bodily autonomy (“My body my choice”) and informed consent were totally against those things in this case. The left is also aware of “regulatory capture” wherein large corporations capture the government agencies which supposedly regulate those same corporations, rending any restriction on their activities minor. But now it was big tobacco, bad; big oil, bad; but big pharma, so good we will trust it with out life (literally). Many on the left are concerned with the chemicals they take in, so pesticide-free organic food and GMO free food is important, but using the much more rapid means of ingestion which was injection is not at all suspicious. On the other hand, the right supports the behavior of corporations, thinking that corporations are truly part of the American Way. Big business is swell, they think. And no “My body, my choice’. But here they reversed themselves. One strange outcome of the Covid-19 debacle was the switching positions of the right and the left. I guess, as Emerson said, consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
The second event of note was the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a bordering country, on February 24, 2022. The conventional stance on this issue is that the brutal leader of Russia, Vladimir Putin, wants to recreate the old Soviet Union and eventually conqueror Europe. Russia’s unprovoked invasion of neighboring Ukraine was just the first step in his big plans. If we — the United States and Europe — don’t stop him in Ukraine the West will have to stop Russia in Europe or America.
The dissent view — which takes note of history — points out contributing factors. In 1990 the United States told the leader of the Soviet Union that if East and West Germany could reunite and join NATO then NATO would not expand “one inch eastward”. Since then NATO has doubled in size with a number of new countries, most of which were either part of the Soviet Union or aligned with the Soviet Union. Russia realized that the word of the West was meaningless.
Not One Inch East
Then in 2014 there was a Nazi coup in Ukraine that was supported (at the very least) by the United States. This Maidan Revolution (named for the public square in Kiev where it began) overthrew a democratically leader of the country. Then began a civil war between Ukranine and the Russians who make up the Eastern part of the country. Russia tried for years to settle these disputes to no avail and finally when a larger number of Russian were going to be killed (according to the UN) did Russia invade the country. Immediately Russia tried to end that dispute with agreements but the country was rebuffed at every turn.
Maidan Revolution
In this the name calling had the dissidents as “Putin puppets” unable to think for themselves but only following Kremlin propaganda. Obviously US and NATO propaganda was truthful.
The left and the right both supported this dissident view (to a minor extent). There was even an anti-war rally called “Rage Against the War Machine” that attracted both the left and the right. But some on the left would not attend because some evil people on the right were present, and some on the right would not attend because of the evil people on the left that were present.
Z – Special Military Operation
The third event started with the unprovoked attack on a settlement and dance party in Israel by the terrorist Hamas, an organization that politically controlled Gaza. This terrorist group must be destroyed if the citizens of Israel are to be able to live in peace. Hamas wants to create a new holocaust and is solely motivated by its hatred of Jews just like the Nazis. There were 1200 Israelis killed in the attack, which also included mass rape and the beheading of babies. No one was safe in this horrible act.
Hamas Attack
The alternative view of this third crisis was that there was a revolt from “the world’s largest open air prison” ( Human Rights Watch) which upset the government of Israel that ran the prison and that country used this revolt as an excuse to drive the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip away from that territory so that Israel could once again take over that area. Much like slave revolts in the South of America, such as those of Nat Turner or Denmark Vesey, this revolt was not nice or pretty but totally understandable.
This dissident view holds that there were no rapes during the attack and only one child was killed and by accident. Of the 1200 killed, just over 300 were military and, according to an Israeli newspaper, over 300 of those killed were killed by the Israeli military, but since no complete investigation was done we really have no idea how many were really killed by the Israeli military.
And of course the all-in-one epithet condemning Hamas and all those who made even a mild criticize of what Israel is doing as antisemitism, thus conflating Zionism — the driving force behind the creation of Israel — with Judaism, which is a spiritual belief.
The right in general were extremely supportive of the Israeli side — definitely no anti-Semites here. While the right has long bemoaned those snowflakes who got upset when someone criticized them, condemning the whole woke culture of the Left, the right was in a hurry to support the Jewish snowflakes who were upset that some were criticizing the State of Israel. Are we seeing the birth of the”Woke Right”? In a world were the terrorist organization which is an offshoot of Al Qaeda is now rebranded as a ruler of Syria since they are now woke such a change is certainly possible.
The left was more supportive of the Palestinian side since many are aware of the apartheid nature of Israel, but still many on the left support Israel, perhaps because they are ashamed that America did not allow Jewish refugees to enter the country during World War II or refused to bomb the rail lines to the death camps in Nazi Germany.
Hades-Kronos Conjunction
Uranian sidebar: Beginning in 2010 there was a conjunction between two Trans-Neptunian planets, Hades and Kronos. The name Hades — Greek name for Pluto — suggests some of the disgust engendered by the planet. For an example from real Life, on 9/11 Hades was conjunct the Natal Mars of the United States with an orb of three minutes. Kronos — the Greek equivalent of Saturn — is said to rule high things like skyscrapers, governments, other large organizations. On 9/11 Kronos was at 0 Cancer and square the MC of the US. Perhaps this conjunction is like a super Saturn-Pluto conjunction. In a personal example, as a young child I had transiting Hades opposite my Sun, and that Spring I had a number of illnesses, the worst of which was encephalitis lethargica, which put me in a coma for three weeks.
These two planets came into a conjunction about 2010 and the conjunction will continue until 2050 with the exact conjunction happening at the end of this decade. From the graphical ephemeris it can be seen the Hades (‘C’ with a cross) is closely even thought it is a fourth harmonic graphical ephemeris, both planets are really in Cancer) conjunct the US Sun from 2022 through 2025 and Kronos (cross with a lid on)from 2020 to 2024. In the 2030s both planets conjoin the US Mercury, representing the Press. There can be two quite opposite meanings, and I believe both will come to pass. In the negative realm there will be much death and widespread corruption, which of course we are already seeing. But on a positive side this conjunction could mean reaching a higher plane through disgust with the current reality. We shall see what the future brings. But for now, everything is broken.
The main indicator of the end of the 500 year party is the midpoint of the three outer planets happening now with Neptune at its crux, something that only happens every 500 years. This particular one goes on for a long time as you can see from the image below. This midpoint configuration lasts at least the ten years from 2021 to 2031 with the tightest midpoint in 2024, 2025, 2026, and 2027. Notice that in 2025 this midpoint is on the Cardinal Axis making it even more potent.
Neptune = Uranus/Pluto
At the same time as this important midpoint is happening, those three planets also make up a mini-grand trine, which is a trine and two sextiles. This formation goes on for the four year 2025, 2026, 2027, and 2028 which is of course also crossing the Cardinal Axis in those first two years. The graphical ephemeris below is in the sixth harmonic which means that trines and sextiles appear as conjunctions.
Mini-Grand Trine
For the last 500 years, starting in the late Fifteenth Century, this party has been increasing in both a geographical and physical sense until by this time in the early Twenty-First Century more and more of what are called third world countries are joining the party. People seem to believe it can go on forever.
If you want as astrological date for when this started look at the chart for 11-18-1485 where the ten known planets (even though three were unknown at the time) were the closest for 500 years; the next time this tightness happened was on 11-16-1982 for this end of the party moment.
Tightest Planets 1485
But wait! There is a problem called anthropogenic climate change (ACC) that is going to end civilization as we know it. There is just too much carbon dioxide produced by fossil fuel powered automobiles and farming, especially of animals to produce meat and dairy. So we just have to eliminate those things and the world will be much better off.
Tightest Planets 1982
I’ve previously introduced the terms Uranus and Pluto to denote the two real classes that make up our society. Uranus is the people, the plebs, the proletariat. Pluto is the elite, the one percent, the global capitalists (or as satirist C.J. Hopkins calls them Global Cap), the Deep State.
The problems of ACC is something that must be solved by methods that don’t upset Pluto too much. That is why they promote that problem and that solution. But I would argue that the problems resulting from the 500 year party are much more difficult and far-reaching than what they want Uranus to believe, and solving these problems will require taming, if not eliminating, Pluto. And that is certainly not acceptable to them and so they promote the idea of climate change and get everyone exited about it, whether for or against the solutions that Pluto is promoting. It’s another instance of “Don’t look there, look over here”. But of course doing that, following the direction of Pluto, will only cause the problems to get worse. After all Pluto is the ones who are most enjoying the 500 year party, and they have the most to lose if the world really deals with the problems.
When a party is over you need to clean up the messes and replenish your supplies. After a party of 500 years, and especially after the Neptune-Pluto conjunction of the Eighteen-Nineties (to be dealt with in a separate post) there is a massive mess.
Neptune-Pluto Conjunction New Moon
To deal with all the problems created by the huge party civilization has been throwing for the last five centuries will involve first of all dealing with the Problem of Pluto which controls the media and the government which in turn sets the narrative of what is happening that we all believe. And of course Pluto does not want you looking at them, so they make you believe that the problem is something other then them. You would do the same thing if you were the problem. For example, if you beat your wife you must convince her the problem is the noisy neighbors in the apartment below.
The conflict in the world is between two opposing viewpoints: to make it more global, more a one world government or not. But the real solutions will involve more local (Uranus) that global (Pluto) and more natural (Uranus) rather than artificial (Pluto). But the world is moving towards the totally artificial with artificial food, artificial immunity, and the ultimate artificial intelligence. We need to move back towards natural food, natural immunity, and most of all natural intelligence, a characteristic that is becoming more and more scarce.
Over especially the last 100 years and more especially the last 30 years the people of the world, especially those in Western countries, have become more and more estranged from the natural world, and as a result the world has become more estranged from us. We need real solutions and those are not the solutions produced by Pluto.
When I was in my late Twenties I quit a job in a computer lab at a Big Ten University and moved half-way across the country. I found myself in a town so small that it didn’t have a post office and was living with several men who had just gotten out of the army. That situation did not work out and so I found myself moving 300 miles north to a small town where the only unemployed people I knew were two single mothers on welfare. Since I was also unemployed I hung out with them, but unfortunately they would talk all the time about a subject I considered nonsense — astrology. Finally, in order to keep up my end of the conversation I borrowed a mass-market astrology book and read about my sun sign. Despite wanting to throw the book against the wall at least once a page over something I found objectionable, I read several things that matched internal thoughts I had about myself. They loaned me a book by Grant Lewi which described the combination of Sun and Moon sign and I thought that was amazing. From books they had I could find out my Moon sign, but I could not tell if I had Leo or Virgo rising. If I had known more it would have been obvious but I’m sure Donald Trump has the same difficulty with his two charts. So to resolve that question I had to learn how to calculate a chart. I did not know at the time that there were computer programs to do those calculations. When I had worked at the University one of our student interns had told me of his desire to write a program for astrological calculations. I did not say anything but thought to myself what a waste of a wonderful technology for some nonsense. Little did I suspect that less than ten years later I would be doing that exact thing. I decided to read further, and one thing I found out about what was called the “Saturn Return” when Saturn returns to the place it had at birth. What I was going through and descriptions I read captured my life at the time.quite precisely.
This important milestone that occurs just before the Thirtieth birthday is resonant in popular culture, such as that Sixties phrase “Don’t Trust Anybody Over Thirty” which mutated to “Don’t Trust Anyone Under Thirty” when those who had said the original phrase turned thirty. And there was the book Passages by Gail Sheehy which talked about the changes a person undergoes when they turn 30 which could have been written by an astrologer. The alternative rock band R.E.M once had a tune called “Saturn Return”.
But other hard Saturn aspects to its natal position are also important. The opening square of Saturn at about seven years indicates the time a child break free from the mother according to psychics. Then at 14 there is the beginning of adolescent with all the changes that brings. The first closing square at about 21 indicates you are an adult and in the United States one can legally drink and, up until the 26th Amendment, vote. Then at 35, the second opening square, one can run for President of the United States. The age of 42 is the second opposition of Saturn to its natal position (which also corresponds to the Uranus opposition) when the “mid-life crisis” starts and the sales of red sports cars increase. The second Saturn return is also considered significant but not of the magnitude as the first. The third Saturn return occurs at about the same age as the Uranus Return.
For most of history Saturn was the outer planet and at one time the lifespan was about one Saturn cycle. The returns of other planets to their natal position are also considered; many astrologers construct a Solar Return for their birthday when the Sun returns to its natal position. And if you want finer detail you can look a returns to the square or opposition position to the natal Sun. Some even do Lunar Returns for a look at the month after the Moon returns to its natal position. Jupiter Returns, which happen ever twelve years can be used but they are not nearly as famous as the Solar Return.
But the other planets that orbit the Sun can also be used for returns. The Uranus demi-return at 42 years corresponds to the “mid-life” crisis. Some people live to their Uranus Return but no one lives to the Neptune or Pluto Returns. But some people can live to their Neptune demi-Return: Ted Kaszinski died (committed suicide) at his Neptune Return, and because Pluto sped up during the last 80 years or so many of those alive will witness a Pluto demi-return.
The only person who I personally know who had a Uranus Return was my father. Through his life he was a fairly conventional Republican. He wanted to be an FBI agent but he didn’t meet the height requirements. But at his Uranus return he married a woman less than half his age and of a different race. He began to call previous co-workers “honkies”. So he really became more Uranian.
Donald Trump Pluto Demi-Return
Here are examples of the Pluto demi-returns for two people currently in the news. For Donald Trump we can see that his Pluto opposition to his natal Pluto occurs shortly after his Neptune demi-return, shortly before his Uranus return, and several years before his third Saturn Return. This happens almost six months before his 84th birthday. Kamala Harris is much younger, but her Pluto demi-return happens long after her Uranus return and Neptune demi-return when she is over 90.
Kamala Harris Pluto Demi-Return
We have talked often about the Pluto Return for the United States; most countries do not remain with the same government and Constitution to have a Pluto Return so the United States is unique in this. And the Neptune demi-return for the United States is happening now. But also important is that the United States is having a Uranus return in a few years — to be discussed later. The Pluto Return suggests that America is getting a little long in the tooth as far as countries go; you can witness expressions of this all around you. You may find that it helps while reading the US news to realized that this is the Pluto Return so you should see big changes. Perhaps the United States is becoming mature — growing up is always difficult.
Full moons are always potent — the culmination of a lunar cycle that started with the preceding New Moon. Dane Rudhyar’s magisterial The Lunation Cycle is an important reference to the cycle of the Moon. And the lunar cycle is a prototype for the other planetary cycles such as the Jupiter-Saturn cycle that has been much discussed here. I now want to point out the Full Moon of 8-19-2024 which occurs just before Labor Day when the US election cycle is reaching a fever pitch. It should be noted in passing that the year 2024 will see many national elections, perhaps even a record for a single year. A Full Moon comes about once a month, and it is obvious the connection between the word “month” and moon. Many calendars, and especially religious calendars, are based on the Moon and not the Sun, and many solutions have been tried to harmonize the Lunar calendar with the Solar calendar. There are thirteen lunar cycles in a solar cycle. This is an example of astrology in everyday life.
A Full Moon To Remember
The first thing to notice is that there are two interlocking T-Squares which involve a total of eight of the ten planets; then there are several other indicators that this chart well represents the start of the second half of this decade.
The first T-square involves the Full Moon, with Mercury Retrograde conjunct Sun; the second T-square consists of the first in a series of the opening squares of Jupiter and Saturn which marks the beginning of the second half of the decade. Saturn is opposed to Venus and Mars is conjunct Jupiter at the apex of this T-square.
The apex of the first T-square is Uranus — Uranus squares both ends of the Full Moon — so that this will definitely be a Uranian Full Moon: expect the unexpected. The Jupiter Saturn square is almost exact.
To add further spice Neptune is almost at 0 Aries. This is its first brush with the Aries point and it goes stationary retrograde about six weeks earlier at four minutes from zero Aries. Pluto is at the first degree of Aquarius and will soon make its last brief foray into Capricorn before returning to Aquarius for the next two decades.
Let’s compare this Full Moon to the US chart. When we do that we find more interesting things. This Full moon is right on the US Moon — the people of the country. But the Full Moon also makes a wide aspect — a semisquare and a sesquiquadrate — to the US Sun — the government. Thus this Full Moon makes hard aspect to the two most important planets in the US natal chart.
Full Moon United States
Neptune is opposite the MC of the United States suggesting there will be some confusion in how the country is perceived by other and (since Neptune is conjunct the US IC) how the people think about themselves. Not a healthy situation but we have seen it playing out over the last ten years with first Neptune making a sesquiquadrate to the US Ascendant.
This occasion also marks the Mars return for the US — which is exact two days later, something that happens every two years. In this case Mars is conjunct Jupiter which in humans can suggest pregnancy but in this case that is unlikely. But use of Martian energy is highlighted, more so than has been shown so far in 2024,
Finally there is the transit of Uranus square the US Moon. This is the first pass and it goes stationary retrograde on the Moon a couple of weeks after this Full Moon, right after the next New Moon. Hard aspects of Uranus to the US Moon is an important topic which will be dealt with at length later but for now suffice it to say that the previous conjunction of Uranus to the US Moon occurred shortly after 9/11 when the US invaded both Afghanistan and Iraq.
When talking about what is called “mundane astrology” — which is what we are doing here — it is necessary to distinguish between events and trends. An event is something that happens in this case right about the time of this chart. With a strong Uranus this could be unexpected and sudden. But it is possible that nothing overt will happen at this time. More important is the trend that this Full Moon presages. This trend is something I’ve discussed before and that is that the second half of this decade will be very different that the first in ways that this chart suggests.
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