For the mundane astrologer, outer planet activity proved equally busy. In 1892, a Neptune-Pluto wave that began in 1398 came to an end. Around 1900 the Uranus-Pluto wave near the revolutionary year of 1848, close to the Russian Revolution of 1905 and Einstein's announcement of his Theory of Relativity, the Uranus-Neptune wave that began around 1821 and ended near 1992 also reached its midpoint. Intermixed with these major outer planet events Saturn, in its usual way, seemed to connect all of these more long-term outer planet events to events and people on the ground. With little doubt, any astrologer can agree that this stretch of time represents what Palden Jenkins sees as 'temporal power point'. In both conventional and outer planet views of history the lead up to, World War I and its immediate aftermath represents as much of a challenge as it does to those who lived to the period, to historians, students of politics and international affairs and mundane astrologers.
- Chart Comparison
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The charts between 1914 and 1920 epitomize the span between the early 1880s and end of the first decade of the 20th century. As time moved toward the Neptune-Pluto conjunction the world moved into more complex circumstances. Russia, for instance, for years had complex relationships with Europe that obviously continue through our time, but in the 1890s after the Neptune-Pluto conjuction, the Russian Empire's aspirations began to clash with Japan's and included China and Korea. The antagony between Japan and Russia led to Russia's defeat in the Japanese-Russo war of 1904-05. The humiliation and obvious mismanagement of the tsarist system led to revolution in Russia in 1905 that eventually failed. Nonetheless, an inability to solve its underlying issues resulted in the 1917 Bolshivek Revolution that put Lenin into power.
Charts Compared
The chart for 1883 shows Saturn between Neptune and Pluto, a position that makes sense since Neptune moved toward conjuction with Pluto nine years later. Russia's fate had been set in 1881 with Alexander II's assassination in 1881. Unlike his son, Alexander III, the murdered Tsar was a reformer ready to give the Duma more the day after his death--Alexander was the one who freed the serfs. The bomb that blew of the tsars legs also detonated any chances for reform that Russia could have used to help it modernize into parity with its European neighbors. We have little authority to predict that political reform would have helped Russia move beyond its medieval underpinnings. We can be certain that the tsardoms inability to manage its population and economy in face of modern demands led to the Revolutions that helped transformed Russia into the USSR.
The chart above again shows Saturn between Neptune and Pluto, soon after its conjunctive alignment with Pluto and a year and half before the November Revolution. This chart shows that though time had moved on, many issues reamined the same, unresolved. This condition fairly held true for all powers that fought in World War I, a pretty large subset of all nations.
The chart for March, 1918 shows Saturn conjunct Neptune as it was in 1883.
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Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
During the same year, 1918, Saturn not only arrived at the conjunction with Neptune, but it opposed Uranus, bringing the Uranus-Neptune opppsition of 1906-1911 back to the forefront. Essentially, the WWI period, when seen from an outer planet perspective, condensed the issues of the 1880s, 1890s, and the precdeding decade into a few years. In so many areas, that observation played out during the war period.
- Complex Times
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The period from 1870s through the second decade of the 20th century mixed the new with the old. Indeed, the Great War came about because reconciling old and new did not happen along economic or diplomatic lines. Nationalism, the one aspect the French Revolution settled for sure, spread across the political spectrum; every nation craved it, but none for the same reasons or deploying the same methods. Austro-Hungary, in the midst of the central cause employed the least modern methods to deal with the issue that ignited the conflict: the cry of independence in the Balkan states it controlled. Because Russia had for many decades declared itself the defender of the Slavs, it had to declare war against Austro-Hungary. This meant too that the French, allied with Russia too had to go against the remnants of the once great Hapsburgh empire. Germany, in alliance with Austro-Hungary, and enemy to France, had little choice but war. Either way, its government under sway of the powerful Junker family, had looked for ways to prove Germany's new industrial might on the battlefield. Britain, still powerful, but more even with than its imperial days, could hardly let the Germans become new masters of the sea. On the sidelines, industrially mighty, but still lightly respected, the USA, a world power with little diplomatic sway.
Other minor players also played their roles. African and Arab peoples were drawn depending on their colonial ties. The faltering Ottomans needed help against the Russians and the Slavs. Commonwealth nations had to fight with the British.
The bottom line was that the Europeans engaged one another in a game of balance-of-power diplomacy and war that dated back to Louis XIV's era in a time of global economic and involvement. This same attitude extended, unfortunately, to the battlefield, seemingly in ignorance of the American Civil War. This ignorance saw both sides send milliions of men to death by brutal modern weaponary. This blindness extended as well to medical needs as in the American conflict of fifty years previous, many died by treatable disease. In fact, the inability to understand larger issues led the allies too foolishly punish the German people, a folly that turned the first war into a second.
Of course, we can easily criticize from the distance afforded by time. Judging by how easily our current governments have led us to down disastorous paths, we should doubt under similar circumstances that they could fare much better. Later I speak of how the 1892-1893 Neptune-Pluto conjunction heralds full entry into the modern world. These entries do not happen all at once. During the 1398-1892 Neptune-Pluto wave, medievalism held heavy sway well into the 19th century. We need to realize that the first half of the 1398Neptune-Pluto2384, until about 2165, will be all about adjusting to modern government and politics that only came into being at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. - Uranus & Pluto
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Between 1900 and 1904 Uranus opposed (was 180° from) Pluto. I argue in this essay that we must see the entire stretch from the 1880s through 1920 as one. If such is the case, then the Uranus-Pluto opposition falls at the period's midpoint. If, as I contend, that the inevitability of the Great War set in place well before it happened, the Uranus-Pluto opposition is a great place to begin looking.
Pre- Previous Uranus-Pluto Oppositions
- Going back to the 14th century
- Complex Alliances
- Uranus & Neptune
- New & Old
- Saturn with Uranus, Neptune & Pluto
- End of An Era
- 1399 & 1892 via Neptune and Pluto
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- 1399
- 1892
- Conclusion