Jupiter meets Uranus, sky falls in: Yes,no….or merely maybe?
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Part Two
One of the many consequences of our ongoing culture-wide attempt to iron out life’s creases is this: when faced with real, intractable difficulty and threats that cannot be ushered away, modified or exactly predicted, we go into tailspins, and panic.
Astrology – a healing and wounding art
Astrologers and their clients are by no means immune to this. Astrology is both a healing and a wounding art. Its practice can wind up individual and collective fear. We need to be aware of this. Perhaps it is also worth pointing out that astrologers can be hubristic, arrogant and just plain wrong in their attempts to know what planetary patterns mean before we all get there – this can be damaging to their clients as well as themselves.
Astrology is a powerful aid to awareness. It is also very useful in mapping out Life’s terrain in broad terms, and in offering accurate timings. But Life reminds us often enough, through our mistakes, and errors of judgement of the planetary pattern, that the unconscious– collective and personal – by definition is precisely that. It is not notable for an inclination to reveal deeper intentions beyond the ego’s access, just because some astrologer is standing near the entrance cave to its mysterious terrain waving an ephemeris, shouting “I’m pretty sure this Jupiter/Uranus transit means…………”
Having said all that, I am not sufficiently evolved yet to refrain from speculations of my own by staying entirely in each moment as it is happening, serenely abandoning my ego in accepting whatever the Fates choose to throw at me when Jupiter/Uranus in Aries, Saturn heading back to Libra, and Pluto in Capricorn zone in on my 1.5 degree Mars in Cancer in the Tenth House….. Part of me is out there fist-shaking. The other part is hunkered in the bunker with the Linus blanket and the food supplies.
Seeing no limits
Plenty of us will be swept by the firestorm of restlessness, idealism, imaginative enthusiasm, pioneering innovativeness, anger, ruthlessness and rebellion against constraint which we expect the upcoming Jupiter/Uranus sweep to bring. But the dynamic fire and air of astrological Jupiter combined with Uranus has a particular job to do, symbolically speaking: its function in enabling evolution is to see no limits. The Aries backdrop of the pair’s first meeting in June 2010 emphasises this strongly.
We set limits as best we can in our small lives; this limit-setting ranges from being mature, far-sighted and prudent in its focus, to being generated by sheer fear of having to step out of our comfort zone. Jupiter/Uranus has no truck with any of that prudent planning or fearful defensiveness. Evolution has to move forward. So limits get swept aside, both collectively and personally. And to hell with the consequences! (Jupiter/Uranus in Aries’ words, not mine….)
I feel it is more helpful than otherwise, through the lens of astrology, to have some advance warning of our movement into, and through, such a tempestuous energy field promising great disruption collectively and individually – also opening us up to possibilities for growth as yet unknown.
But we need to be humble in the face of these great forces, recognising that there is only so much we can do to prepare for them.
Uranus moves into Aries on 28th May 2010.
8 June 2010 Jupiter/Uranus Conjunction
The Jupiter/Uranus in Aries ‘touchpaper’ of 8 June 2010 sets off the complex, resistant but explosive firework of the Jupiter/Saturn/Uranus/Pluto energy field, with peaks in June and July 2010 as the inner planets move through, creating a Grand Cross pattern. The lunar eclipse late in June at 5 degrees Capricorn, and Mars late in July crossing 0 Libra, powerfully trigger off the conjunction point again:
So what are the speculations that I am unable to resist making?
Some of them can be found in the 31.10.09 extract from the interview I did last summer 09 for the AFA following its publication of my book “Jupiter Meets Uranus: from erotic bathing to star gazing” – “Jupiter conjunct Uranus: a few thoughts on the 2010/11 encounter.”
More of them can be found on my Jupiter Meets Uranus website, in the current series running
there titled “Back to the Future: Jupiter meets Uranus meets YOU in 2010/11”, the most recent (28.4.10) being “YOU, me and Jupiter/Uranus in Aries: the wild ride begins! “Back to the Future”series Part 3″
One year on, I am happy to let you browse these, and the range of easily-accessed articles on the political, economic, scientific, religio/spiritual and individual impacts of the upcoming pattern offered by the Web. For example, Theodore White’s Global Astrology Blog features some fine, detailed mundane astrology with a number of specific predictions. There are also some very useful how-to-cope toolkit articles eg the Cardinal Cross series on Donna Cunningham’s excellent blog Sky Writer .
Observation or prediction?
And me? Well, as you will discover on reading “Jupiter Meets Uranus,” my research interest centres on observation rather than prediction. I find it enduringly fascinating to watch how the essential meaning of energy patterns ripples out and touches everything. From the tiny microcosm of individual existence (I had 17 research subjects, all of whose lives were radically changed by the impact of the February 1997 Jupiter/Uranus conjunction in Aquarius) to the vast macrocosm of 500 year blocks of history, I tracked the ripple of Jupiter/Uranus energy outwards from its core meaning, and was amazed by what I found.
My inclination now is, simply, to wait and see what transpires. In 1997, I collected large amounts of data. This time, I shall let you out there do it, and tell me your stories. If there are enough of them, I will post them on my “Jupiter Meets Uranus” site, thereby adding to our understanding of how the symbolism of the ‘music of the spheres’ plays out in both individual and collective life here on earth.
Whilst I wait, sharing the excitement and apprehension of all of us who are strongly ‘plugged in’ to the upcoming Cardinal Cross, I have two powerful images which keep returning to me, illustrative of the essence of the Jupiter/Uranus pattern first in Aries, then in Pisces:
1.“A huge, dark room, silent. I am facing a wall; plate glass, smoked. I have a sense of a vast figure behind me, holding a huge rock above his head. He hurls it at the plate glass. It shatters with a gigantic, ear-splitting, splintering crash. Sudden daylight. I am gazing, shocked, at a landscape I have never seen before. Lightning, thunder……birds scattering and screeching. Sun rising….”
2.“Deep, fathomless ocean. The water slowly begins to move, swirling, eddying, rising. A vast leviathan rises, roaring in rage. A tsunami is triggered, vast waves rushing toward the horizon. The creature slowly sinks, back into the murky depths….”
As I draft this, (9th April 2010) the Jupiter/Uranus conjunction is just applying within a ten-degree orb. Its ten-degree orb of separation will complete in just under a year’s time.
The Large Hadron Collider has successfully completed the first stage of its quest for the Higgs Boson….vast amounts of data now have to be processed. President Obama has just signed his fiercely-fought for healthcare bill, albeit watered down, into law. He has also just signed a nuclear arms reduction treaty with President Medvedev of Russia. There is collective anger rising in political upheaval, notably in Thailand and Burma – and in Iran, as dissent continues to be tamped down….but for how much longer?
The Catholic Church is becoming mired in possibly the biggest crisis of its history, as the focused rage of generations of those sexually abused by those religious who were supposed to nurture them, rises to the surface of a society no longer prepared to collude with such abuse…..
And finally….
Latest Sun images
I am revising and completing this article on 29th April 2010: just over two weeks after the Icelandic volcano’s eruption on 14th April 2010 – fire through ice! – caused several days’ disruption of the world’s air travel following UK air space being virtually closed down. (Ours was just one of the holidays ashed-out…) On 20th April, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill off the Louisiana coast became the largest oil spill in US history. NASA has just unveiled stunning images of our Sun from a new satellite designed to predict disruptive solar storms. On 27 April there was an announcement that the biggest ever telescope was going to be built in the Atacama Desert to enable us to see farther into the cosmos than we have ever seen before…..
As I publish on 25 May 2010, just before Uranus’ shift into Aries, the biggest Jupiter/Uranus scientific breakthrough thus far was announced on 20th May. Craig Venter’s company has created the first artificial living cell – using highly sophisticated computer technology. Fasten those seat belts. Here comes that wild ride….
ps again: researchees out there: don’t forget to keep taking notes, and report in to Ground Control (ie this site) now and then. Good luck!!
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Jupiter Meets Uranus
To buy “Jupiter meets Uranus: from erotic bathing to star gazing“, described in a five-star review by Leah Whitehorse as “a page-turner of the astrology world”, click HERE
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Early in June 2010 (8th ring a bell with you?) around 99.9% of the world’s population will wake up in their home time zone and attempt to get on with life without the benefit of in-depth astrological knowledge. To that 99.9%, the world will be going on much as usual, depending on whether they live in the neurotic, gadget-driven, narcissistic, over-pampered West or in those parts of the world where you have to take a ten-mile round trip to acquire enough water to get you and your family through the day. Life will be its usual mixture of good, bad and indifferent. What they will NOT be doing is benefiting from the symbolic foreknowledge available to the enlightened 00.1%, ie Us. Astrologers, that is.
What kind of astrologer are you as the summer of 2010 approaches?
8.6.10 Jupiter/Uranus conjunction - set on Natural Zodiac
Are you out there shaking your fist yelling “Come on then! Do your worst! I love any kind of change!” (Sagittarians, anyone?? Arians?) or are you curling up in your bunkers with half a ton of provisions, bottled water and a meths stove to boil the kettle (Capricorns? Scorpios? Let’s not forget the chemical toilet here!), with gritted teeth and plenty of good reading material?
I vary greatly from day to day in how Buddhist and accepting I can be about the unstoppable flow of change. Like anyone else both blessed and cursed with astrological knowledge, the prospect of what looks like very considerable global, national, local and personal disruption this summer and beyond, unsettles me to say the least. But there is only so much one can do. Looking at areas of your life where you KNOW you are frustrated, angry and where radical change needs to come, trying to introduce more space and openness there, is useful personal preparation for the sheer dynamism and disruption of what lies ahead.
Acres of news and magazine print, especially across the Web, is already busy speculating about “the upcoming mess” – as a magazine editor I know grittily and pithily put it. Just try googling “Jupiter Uranus conjunction in Aries 2010” or “Cardinal Cross summer 2010” and you’ll see what I mean.
We need to be as humble and trusting as possible that there is a greater intelligence than we can possibly imagine at work in all this, a mysterious destiny that “shapes our ends” as Shakespeare so eloquently put it. Recognising the limited extent to which humans are actually in much control of anything, in this technological age where so much is accessible to us, is very hard. Certainly, with Saturn, Uranus and Pluto all symbolically and energetically grappling – amplified by Jupiter – the law of unpredictable and unintended consequences is like a cloak inexorably enveloping us all collectively and individually.
Our projections
Remember the Millenium Bug and the fear and panic we all projected onto that? I seem to remember reading that a Hong Kong taxi driver’s meter went slightly wonky at midnight on the dreaded day, and that was about it. Remember swine flu that was going to wipe out hundreds of thousands this winter? As a result of the very cold winter in the Northern Hemisphere, we may well see that winter flu bugs have been killed off, resulting in a lower incidence of deaths than usual.
It is an ancient human tendency to imagine that the end of the world or civilisation as we know it is just around the corner. Maybe it is – or maybe not. We don’t really KNOW what the upcoming Jupiter/Uranus conjunction and its attendant pattern will bring. It certainly represents a perfect backdrop onto which to project our burgeoning collective anxieties about the deteriorating condition of our culture and of our planet. But human life has always been turbulent, dangerous and often fatal, regardless of where the planets happen to be. So can we all calm down and just get on with life?
I trust that those few moderating paragraphs will have at least temporarily helped to reduce your blood pressure, and injected a rather needed note of philosophical detachment into your contemplation of the Summer of 2010.
It is very much part of the contemporary zeitgeist to try and make life (if you live in the “developed” world, that is!) as easy, and pleasant as we can. We try to avoid facing up to the fact that we have a limited span on this earth, that life generally is an inextricable mix of happiness and pain, that we all grow old and decrepit, then die without much idea of what– if anything – comes next.
There is also the small inconvenience that our planet is subject to internal and external geological forces within the wider solar system which are utterly outwith human control. Even the most unobservant of us may have noticed this in recent weeks….
To be continued….
Jupiter Meets Uranus
To buy “Jupiter meets Uranus: from erotic bathing to star gazing“, described in a five-star review by Leah Whitehorse as “a page-turner of the astrology world”, click HERE
UK buyers, click HERE
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Update on “Jupiter Meets Uranus” : May 2010
May 14, 2010
Excitement/apprehension is growing. The powerful, unique planetary energy field building up with the 8 June 2010 Jupiter Uranus conjunction at 0 Aries at its core, is nearing. Another fine review of the book I wrote about the Jupiter/Uranus conjunction in general, and the 1997 one in particular, has just come out:
“As the somewhat-scary Jupiter-Uranus conjunction prepares to burn its way across the sky — scary in part because it’s involved in a huge cardinal T-cross (and occasional grand cross) involving Pluto and Saturn, and bringing in Moon, Venus, and Mars by August 2010) — it would probably be a good thing to attend to what this might mean. The place to go to do that would be this uniquely-researched book which is not only the sole book I know of devoted only to this subject, but the result of a dedicated research project intended to dig out the most of of what it might mean, especially personally..….However you look at it, this is a most timely book to have right now.”
( from John Townley of AstroCocktail )
To read the full review, and then explore John and Susan Townley’s brilliant in-depth astrology website, click HERE
To buy “Jupiter meets Uranus: from erotic bathing to star gazing“, described in a five-star review by Leah Whitehorse as “a page-turner of the astrology world”, click HERE
UK buyers, click HERE
Jupiter Meets Uranus
And from The Mountain Astrologer Magazine, April/May 2010,
Review of “Jupiter Meets Uranus: From Erotic Bathing to Star gazing” by Anne Whitaker, American Federation of Astrologers, 6535 Rural Road, Tempe, AZ 85283, 2009. Soft-cover–166pp–$23.95(ISBN 978-0-86690-574-9
by Mary Plumb
“An early version of “Jupiter Meets Uranus”, Anne Whitaker’s first book, originally appeared as a series of articles in Considerations magazine in 1999-2000, soon after the last conjunction of the two planets in 1997. The author has continued her research on the 14-year cycle, which is especially relevant now as Jupiter and Uranus conjoin at 0 deg Aries in June 2010.
Charles Harvey was an important mentor of hers, and she refers to his work with historical cycles. She includes examples from 1500 to 2000 CE, because ‘the Jupiter-Uranus planetary duo has been very much present at peak points in the never-ending process of human development and discovery.’
Although the author writes about the myths associated with the planets(e.g she appreciates Richard Tarnas’s association of Prometheus with Uranus), Whitaker’s book is primarily a record of her research into the cycles of the two planets, with special attention to their most recent conjunction in 1997. She has documented the events of the times, both on the collective level ( remember Dolly the cloned sheep?) and as personal stories and ongoing follow-up in the lives of her 17 research subjects. There are mundane charts for the conjunctions and other key events from 1609-1997 and ample discussion of what happened to her subjects. In showing the “bright face” as well as the “dark face” of the planets’ combination, Whitaker offers a timely record of an important planetary cycle in action”.
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The Mountain Astrologer Magazine
To buy “Jupiter meets Uranus: from erotic bathing to star gazing“, described in a five-star review by Leah Whitehorse as “a page-turner of the astrology world”, click HERE
The Wheel of Fortune 2010/11
Anne Whitaker’s main blog is Writing from the Twelfth House, a lively and popular magazine-type site, set up in the summer of 2008 “….for those writers and readers – and fellow astrologers! – who share my preoccupation with questions of meaning, pattern and purpose….”
If you are looking for information, education, entertainment and inspiration, check it out !
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NOTE: I shall be publishing further articles on the upcoming planetary pattern shortly! Watch this space – and leave a comment/send me an email if you want your feedback to be included as part of my 2010/11 ongoing collection of Jupiter/Uranus conjunction stories.
Feedback from people’s experiences of the 1997, 1983, 1969, 1955,1941, and (if you are still with us!) 1927 Jupiter/Uranus conjunctions, is also welcome.
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600 words copyright Anne Whitaker/ AstroCocktail/John Townley/The Mountain Astrologer Magazine / Mary Plumb 2010
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