7. Saturn in Libra
Saturn enters Libra – 30th October 2009
On October 30th 2009 Saturn moves on from Virgo after setting the stage for the new organisational systems, and heads into Libra for the next 2 years until October 2011. As Libra is the sign opposite Aries… the ‘beginning’ point in any planetary cycle we begin to experience the “full point” to his cycle begun in 1996. Aries and Libra are the 2 “Cardinal Points” that underpin evolutionary movement. Libra is the sign of the “other” and all things to do with relating, including as previously mentioned the necessity for diplomatic function, arbitration and the bringing together of opposing people and points of view. It is the sign of the “peace maker”. It is also one of the “business signs” and involves all forms of promotions and marketing.
The final pass of the Saturn/Uranus opposition occurs in July 2010 also at zero degrees of Aries and Libra. Uranus enters Aries in 2010 initiating a new 84 year cycle. The last time he was in Aries was from 1928 through 1935… he spends 7 years in each sign. This era brought us a brave new world in so many ways. Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic… the great depression initiated a new phase in economic development… the rise of the great Dictators Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin led to World War II…and so much more. This is a huge subject that I will write on in greater depth soon… keep checking my site at www.universalastrology.com.au
So it would appear that the 5 passes of Saturn opposition Uranus from 2008 through 2010 are the “set up” process for the larger and more significant planetary phase involving the same 3 major players that were at work during the early 1930s. And they are Saturn, Uranus and Pluto.
Between December 1930 and February 1934 these agents of revolution/change (Uranus), re-structuring of societal systems (Saturn) and transformation and regeneration (Pluto) formed hard or challenging aspects to each other several times. Pluto was only discovered in 1930 coinciding with the creation of Plutonium as the atomic process was delivered to us by ‘cracking the atom’. Since this time we have had the power to annihilate or empower ourselves! This was the time of the Great Depression with the outcome in the US of the “Green Deal” through the President Franklin Roosevelt. With the 3 dictators in place in Europe and the ascendancy of Imperial Japan onto the world stage the scene was set for the eventual outcome of World War II. Obviously there is much more historical material here but again I will save for larger article to come.
In the early 1930s the position of these 3 planets in the Solar System looked like:
Saturn in Capricorn
opposite
square
Uranus Aries
square
Pluto in Cancer
So Saturn in Capricorn was opposing Pluto in Cancer and both were being squared by Uranus in Aries.
Between November 2009 and April 2014 these three formidable characters again form hard and challenging aspects to ach other but this time it will look like this:
Pluto in Capricorn
square square
Uranus Aries opposite Saturn in Libra
So we see that this time Pluto is in the opposite sign to the 1930s and is being squared by both Saturn in Libra and Uranus in Aries. Uranus in Aries is the common denominator. This is the planetary “signature” of the early 2010s, and with the acceleration toward the end date of the Mayan Calendar in December 2012 (5) as a ‘midpoint’ I find it truly fascinating that these three planets are to be the energetic forces underpinning the “shift” in human consciousness that must occur, if we are all to work together to bring the necessary changes for planet Earth. In the 1930s the build-up from these forces led to a world war. We can only hope that with the 2 sets of Uranus/Saturn oppositions in the 1960s and 2008/2010 bringing us the spiritualising revolutions toward a higher state of awareness, that this time the results will be very different. There are many from the Christian traditions who see these times as the “end days”, and indeed many who read negative associations onto the 2012 Mayan Calendar date. I am not one of these people as I see the potential of these times containing upliftment of the human condition ‘out of the dark toward the light’ in preparation for the changing of the Age of Pisces into Aquarius over the next 100 years.
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