Maurice wrote:
Importantly: the situation heating up is like a piece of molten iron that can be beaten into a better form—personally and collectively. Be an ambassador of good and avoid wasting time on trivial details. For example, as we see the earth being depleted and all resources and species dwindling, people waste time arguing if global warming is or is not happening…if it is man-made or not! IT DOESN’T MATTER! What matters is that the natural world is vanishing before our eyes because of our misaligned actions: excessive pollution, deforestation, and peaking toxicity levels are a reality beyond global warming debates.
Maurice, I hope that you and the forum members will be open to considering an alternative approach to examining the upcoming planetary configuration. I think that, when trying to translate planetary symbolism into reasonable forecasts of upcoming trends, it is well worth the effort to pay attention to similar configurations in the past and also the cycle of the two outer-most planets involved in the upcoming configuration. I think that the "global warming" issue, far from being irrelevant, CUTS QUICKLY TO THE HEART of what is going on: it is an ideal educational tool to wake well-meaning people up to the reality of our shared situation.
In January 1931 there was a Jupiter/Saturn/Uranus/Pluto/Nodes Grand Cross in Cardinal signs. (I happen to know this because my mother was born at this configuration, with Jupiter, Pluto, Saturn, and Mercury all on her Ascendant/Descendant axis.) Of course this 1931 planetary configuration was NOT at the beginning point of the cardinal signs, as it will be in the coming year. However, I think that examination of the events of 1931 will provide helpful clues to the general nature of what will be going on in the coming year.
Now let's look quickly at the bigger picture of the Uranus/Pluto cycle, in the early 1930s, in the mid-1960s, and for the next few years. I will briefly summarize here; I will (as promised) develop these ideas in my thread in the blogosphere -- almost ready to begin with that.
The ideology (Uranus) of the Anglo-American banking establishment (Pluto) in the 1930s is best represented by their "Eugenics" movement, devoted to genocide in the name of racial purification as they orchestrated the rise of their unstable puppet Adolf Hitler. The story surrounding that Cardinal Grand Cross of January 1931 was one of financial manipulation and deliberate destabilization of the international financial system, creating the preconditions in Germany for the rise of Hitler. On a more positive note, this Uranus/Pluto square saw the rise to power of Hitler's most determined enemy, my distant cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The Uranus/Pluto square of the 1930s was a WANING square, toward the end of a cycle that began around 1850. I think that the Hitler/Roosevelt polarity is properly understood in view of the larger cycle. But let's move on to the beginning of the new cycle -- the Uranus/Pluto conjunction of the 1960s. This saw the birth of the richly-funded "Establishment" environmentalist movement, as the DELIBERATE REINCARNATION of the old, discredited Eugenics movement. At the very top of this movement, ably represented by Prince Philip of Great Britain, is the same "eugenic" goal of massive global genocide. Once again, there is a more positive note in the 1960s -- the American Apollo program gave hope to the world, demonstrating that our most valuable, inexhaustible natural resource is the creative power of the human mind.
Now we have the waxing square growing out of the Uranus/Pluto conjunction of the 1960s. A quick summary of what I see unfolding in coming months: the Establishment, as with the Grand Cross in 1931 (but much more extreme this time), is orchestrating the deliberate collapse of the global financial system, which is causing the collapse of the underlying economic system sustaining Planet Earth's population, which will usher in their long-awaited goal of massive global depopulation. This scenario is NOT set in stone -- there are still ways to avoid or at least limit the effects of the planned global cataclysm. However, I certainly agree that large-scale dislocations are all but inevitable.
What matters is that the natural world is vanishing before our eyes because of our misaligned actions: excessive pollution, deforestation, and peaking toxicity levels are a reality beyond global warming debates.
I would like to suggest that, at this late date, much of the beauty of nature will inevitably disappear in the dislocations of coming years, as the surviving humans are faced with the task of transforming what is left of our planetary eco-system into "Spaceship Earth." Perhaps I saw a glimpse of the future recently, here in Seoul, which I understand is the second-most-densely-populated city on the planet (after Tokyo). One of my students, who has lived for all her life in apartment towers, told me that she would NOT move into a house if she had the opportunity. Her natural habitat (and that of her generation) is changing. As human life on Planet Earth becomes more comprehensively "artificial," we are of necessity developing the technologies that will enable the human race to explore and settle the other planets in the Solar System and beyond. I would like to suggest that this is actually the intended destiny of the human race, and that the world of "untouched nature" can be compared to the placenta of a baby about to be born -- it will be consumed or discarded as part of the birth experience of whatever is to come.
Peace,
eris