60s Compared To Now

The 1960s Uranus-Pluto Con­junc­tion &
Uranus-Pluto Lower Square of the 2010s

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A quote from Nick Cam­pion etal’s Mun­dane  Astrol­ogy on the mechan­ics of the cycle makes com­par­ing the Uranus-Pluto con­junc­tion of the 1960s with the con­nected lower square of 2008–2018 an eas­ier exercise

Cycles by Tran­sit
from Mun­dane Astrol­ogy, Cam­pion etal

Wax­ing phase — empha­sis on indi­vid­ual initiative:

Wan­ing phase — empha­sis on col­lec­tive initiative:·

0 ° A seed idea is ini­ti­ated. Death and rebirth. New upward and out­ward move­ment begins. 60° The idea begins to estab­lish itself and work actively in the world. Strong growth. 90 ° A first ‘cri­sis’. point as the idea of the cycle begins to man­i­fest, test­ing and strength­en­ing itself in the world by over­com­ing chal­lenges and obsta­cles. 120 ° The idea flow­ers, is accepted, and begins to move and moti­vate peo­ple strongly. 180 ° As the fruit sets and is given objec­tive expres­sion in the world, the idea is con­fronted by a need to rec­on­cile views and possibilities.

240 ° The motive power of the seed is now seen as fruit and becomes a desir­able, and hence moti­vat­ing, idea in soci­ety. 270° A new chal­lenge to prove its worth demands that the idea jus­tify itself in the eyes of the world, and reassert itself. 300° The idea con­sol­i­dates itself in the daily work and rhythms of soci­ety. 0 ° Death of the old cycle and a rebirth of the idea in a new guise.

Con­text: 1966Uranus-Pluto2100

The links between the 2010s and the 1960s are many

We now find our­selves at the 90° mark of the cur­rent Uranus-Pluto Wave, 1966Uranus-Pluto2100 as depicted, left. Thus we can com­pare the 1960s (A seed idea is ini­ti­ated. Death and rebirth. New upward and out­ward move­ment begins.) to now (A first ‘cri­sis’. point as the idea of the cycle begins to man­i­fest, test­ing and strength­en­ing itself in the world by over­com­ing chal­lenges and obsta­cles. But we should also com­pare in terms of; Death of the old cycle and a rebirth of the idea in a new guise.

[ad] [ad] What was born anew or reborn in the ‘60s? What old cycle(s) died? What new ideas arose in dif­fer­ent guise? Plenty is the short answer.

Exam­ples

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring rebirthed a con­ser­va­tion begun by Theodore Roo­sevelt, giv­ing it greater urgency, with a more bottom-up approach. All of the civil rights move­ment extend from either the Abo­li­tion or Wom­ens move­ments begun near the start of the last Uranus-Pluto wave, 1849Uranus-Pluto1966. Both youth and elec­tronic media began ‘new upward and out­ward move­ment’; tele­vi­sion dras­ti­cally influ­ence views of the Viet­nam War; at no other time pre­vi­ous did young peo­ple con­tain so much pur­chas­ing power.

We need remem­ber, how­ever, that the 1960s car­ried dif­fer­ent effects around the world. China’s march toward mate­ri­al­ism began with the Cul­tural Rev­o­lu­tion that began in 1966. The Bea­t­les and the British Inva­sion sig­naled a whole­sale rejec­tion of staid British behav­ior, also reflect­ing ‘death of the old cycle’ with sun­set of the British Empire; the ‘lads from Liv­er­pool’ became pop­u­lar aping Amer­i­can rock ‘n roll.

In some places, ‘the cri­sis point as the idea begins to man­i­fest’, means that the seed idea has only begun to appear. For instance, the fem­i­nist move­ment that emerged at the 1960s con­junc­tion now takes shape in other parts of the world–look at how many women now lead nations; those grant­ing micro-loans favor women who have bet­ter his­tory of repay­ment. Part of the cri­sis is that these devel­op­ments build so unevenly across the globe. Women’s free­dom in one nation is sac­ri­lege in another.