Modern Humanity and Uranus-Neptune-Pluto in the US
by Jude Cowell
April 16, 2021: Approximately every 492 years, a Great Conjunction forms between gaseous giant Neptune and the distant planet of Pluto, as seen from Earth. The last such conjunction, three actually, is the current cycle and seems particularly significant to the United States of America because 115 years later our radical 'totem planet', Uranus (@8Gem55 on July 4, 1776), cosmically received the Neptune-Pluto energies of 1891/1892, a major, life-altering transit if there ever was one:
1. August 2, 1891 Neptune-Pluto @8Gem38
2. November 5, 1891 Neptune-Pluto @8Gem19
3. April 30, 1892 Neptune-Pluto @7Gem42
UPDATE August 5, 2021: With Neptune in Pisces and Pluto in Capricorn now sextile by transit I'm adding here a link to a recent Salon article that closely concerns the topic of this post: Today's Republican Party is a Political Crime Family and We Know Who the Godfather Is. Yeah, we all know - it's He Who Shall Not Be Named, sometimes identified as Unindicted Co-conspirator, sometimes as Individual One.
Significantly, Neptune-Pluto also times the Horoscope of Modern Humanity via the Total Solar Eclipse of April 26, 1892 in the 2 Old North Saros Series @7Tau05 (where transit Uranus has recently played). An eclipse in this series last repeated in 2018 @21Cancer conjunct Castor (keywords: sudden fame or loss, murder, mental illness, crippling of limbs--A. Louis).
So during the 1891/92 era, a midpoint picture repeatedly formed by US natal Uranus which catalyzed, even electrified, potentials for: 'peculiar discoveries, the supernatural, unusual catastrophes, aberrant behavior, fantasy, mystical and/or adventurous experiences, weakened power, hyersensitivity, courageous acts, unorthodox ways of changing reality, extreme drug use, impersonal attitudes or lack of concern toward destruction or about anti-social activities, occult interests, obsessions, loss, manias, self-torment, lack of willpower to maintain health, treachery, ESP, religious messages' (Tyl; Ebertin: Munkasey).
Obviously the tendency toward 'extreme drug use' was and continues to be furthered by Neptune-Pluto's relationship to drug trafficking made accessible via the planetary pair's association with underworld crime syndicates which we nowadays often label 'organized crime' (also shown in horoscopes by corporate syndicate Cupido, The Family). Perhaps you'll agree that in this 'New Millennium' a rising level of organized crime rules and disrupts most henhouses including those in the USA. The prevalence of racketeering contaminates and ruins everything.
Collective Unconscious Meets Hidden Forces and Propaganda: Changes Result
We may wish to consider the two karmic transits involved: transit Neptune to US natal Uranus, and transit Pluto to US natal Uranus, plus, let's add a few historical events of 1891 and 1892 in order to gain a wider perspective on the historical cycles within cosmic cycles of Neptune and Pluto. With these transits, societal changes occurred with a sense of confusion and disorientation mixed with unrealistic exectations, and ideals were in conflict with technical and economic considerations (Neptune). With Pluto, planet of hidden powers, individual freedoms were affected by technological advances yet to some extent, the US government was still subjugated to the will of We The People. As you know, further changes have flipped the relationship so that generally speaking, the People now fear the government instead of how it was intended to be - the other way around. Obviously, this fear plays a major part in our
rising levels of violence in the US and the extensive hoarding of guns by those sensitive to such paranoia. Add debilitating mental health conditions, plus, oppressive social circumstances and a dangerous mixture is created suitable for being 'triggered' into action.
Now I don't have on-hand horoscopes of any of the three Neptune-Pluto Conjunctions of 1891 or 1892 but in case you haven't seen it, here is a bi-wheel of the upcoming transit of Neptune in Pisces opposing US natal Neptune in Virgo on May 1, 2021 (within orb for a while now) which shows that America has existed long enough to be graced by the opportunity to amend our Neptunian issues and morph our society into a more compassionate stance:
Also see US Solar Return 2021: YODs plus Karmic Progress.
So in closing, let's quote from Michael Munkasey's assessment of the Neptune-Pluto duo in Politics and Business expressed in Hegelian Dialectic form:
Thesis: creating new ideals for the power bases within entrprises; calls for new measures for protection from natural disasters; new ideas in waste processing; pollution control; mass medical care, or psychiatry.
Antithesis: controls over centers of political power; organized crime; activities for plans involving mutual destruction; subversion within security agencies; breakdowns in health, medical, or social care. (Midpoints: Unleashing the Power of the Planets.) #ad
Note that in certain cases, "new ideals" have resulted in a rise of organized crime running and ruining the show.
Note to our country's legal eagles: please dust off that RICO Act!
In case you missed it: Millennial astrologer Kevin Estes details his views concerning Neptune Generations: The Image and Culture of Society and Pluto Generations: The Evolution of Society.
Historical Events of 1891 and 1892, year of a consequential presidential election.
