A Conditional Future

A Fluid Look Ahead

Measur­ing His­tory employs outer planet waves to inter­pret the past, present and future. The last word in that sen­tence, “future”, prob­a­bly inspires some head scratch­ing. No one can really pre­dict the future can they? Psy­chics prob­a­bly can, but that’s a dif­fer­ent story. The answer is that outer planet waves work the same, no mat­ter their loca­tion in time. Each quad­ra­ture align­ment con­tains the same rela­tion­ship to every other align­ment and the over­all wave. Basic logic tells us that what works look­ing back­wards, will work the same look­ing for­ward. Logic, how­ever, is not real­ity. How can one pre­dict the future based on the past, when the present remains uncer­tain? That’s where a ‘con­di­tional future’ comes in.

These waves offer a chance to present a num­ber of if-then sce­nar­ios that will show clearer direc­tion as said future approaches. Let’s look at two exam­ples: 1983Saturn-Pluto2020 and 1966Uranus-Pluto2101. Both prove rel­e­vant to 2010, 2011 because each has an active quad­ra­ture align­ment, dur­ing which how cul­ture decides will deter­mine their futures. With the for­mer, we now move through the fourth of five quad­ra­ture align­ments; with the lat­ter, the sec­ond of five.

1983Saturn-Pluto2020

A new, eas­ily dis­cernible episode of his­tory will surely begin circa 2020; Saturn-Pluto waves coin­cide with episodes that define his­tory, such as 1786Saturn-Pluto1819, describ­ing the French Rev­o­lu­tion from begin­ning cri­sis to res­o­lu­tion agreed to by Euro­pean pow­ers; 1617Saturn-Pluto1648 almost exactly stretches across the Thirty Years War.

1983, when we remem­ber to give a lee­way of two years, coin­cides with the begin­ning of the 1980s when a shift toward con­ser­vatism pushed lib­eral ideas aside. It also coin­cided with China’s shift to ‘com­mer­cial Com­mu­nism’ and the decay of Soviet power. All of these influ­ences rever­ber­ate strongly 2009–2012. The theme of tax cuts for the rich, mid­dle class decline and out-of-proportion mil­i­tary spend­ing began then. Notice how these themes remain though time has passed?

The next step along the trail brings us to 1991, the First Gulf War, the fall of the USSR and Tien­an­men Square Mas­sacre. George HW Bush may have been right in coin­ing the term ‘New World Order. The world sud­denly had one superpower.

2001 brought us the 9/11, an event that shifted global focus, through which we now strug­gle to come to terms with. In reac­tion to nine­teen hijack­ers, mostly Saudi, fly­ing planes into build­ings, the US and a num­ber of nations invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. The wars there still rage on to vary­ing degrees. GW Bush sud­den pop­u­lar­ity also allowed him to pass unpaid for tax cuts and Medicare reform. The Us still strug­gle under the deficit cre­ated by these actions.

Now, 2010, at the Saturn-Pluto square, con­flict over the tax cuts rages on. The world decides how to pro­ceed with the world’s largest econ­omy in decline. As a result, nations from all parts of the planet jockey for new posi­tions of influ­ence. The last phase of any outer planet wave con­tains a thread of what is about to come and the weight of pre­vi­ous deci­sions. For ref­er­ence, the last two of these phases appeared between 1940–1947 and 1972–1981. What­ever deci­sions made now will reflect at he con­junc­tion at the begin­ning of the next decade

1966Uranus-Pluto2101

We cur­rently stand at 1966Uranus-90°-Pluto2101. The next “step” comes circa 2045 with the Uranus-Pluto oppo­si­tion. This upcom­ing tran­sit, if his­tory tells us any­thing, will find a world under­go­ing great change. The last four, circa 1540, 1649, 1792, 1902 saw major shifts in his­tor­i­cal direc­tion. 1540 coin­cides with Coper­ni­cus’ Rev­o­lu­tions and the Angli­can Church con­fir­ma­tion in its Protes­tantism (see the Six Arti­cles and the Henry VIII’s autho­riza­tion to con­fis­cate Catholic prop­erty). 1649, came near the end of the Thirty and Eighty Years War (though we also get a Neptune-Pluto oppo­si­tion and Uranus-Neptune con­junc­tion at the same time), the behead­ing of Charles I and the onset of the Age of Rea­son. The com­mon denom­i­na­tor? The print­ing press, revealed with Gutenberg’s Bible of 1455 under a Uranus-Pluto conjunction!

1792, in the midst of the French Rev­o­lu­tion, brought other major changes: the US Con­sti­tu­tion and Bill of Rights, the final par­ti­tion of Poland and Eli Whitney’s cotton-gin. Of course, the Rev­o­lu­tion was the biggest event, set­ting up the divide between right and left still rever­ber­at­ing in our time. Not only did it estab­lish a lib­eral view, but Edmund Burke’s Reflec­tions built the foun­da­tion upon which con­ser­v­a­tive build their agenda. The cotton-gin fore­shad­owed the huge changes the Indus­trial Rev­o­lu­tion would bring.

The time sur­round­ing 1902 proved equally frothy. Inven­tions like the radio, air-conditioning and heavier-than-air fly­ing machines cas­caded around the globe: Max Planck and Ein­stein reordered physics away from Newton’s; the Pro­gres­sive move­ment pushed gov­ern­ments in much of the west­ern world.

Much of what we now deal with, the Inter­net, fem­i­nism, the rebirth of con­ser­vatism, civil rights sprung forth in the 1960s. Uranus-Pluto’s rep­u­ta­tion for fun­da­men­tal change proves true. Across the globe, nations, peo­ples and cor­po­ra­tions reshuf­fle alliances, make new arrange­ments and realign them­selves in world that shifts through a cas­cade of uncer­tain­ties that seem to change minute-to-minute. The only guar­an­tee we can fall back on is that until this tran­sit end circa 2018, change will roll across like the wind of a com­ing storm.

Foun­da­tions

What we do know that the impact of the Inter­net, the grow­ing power of women, and a need to secure dif­fer­ent energy sources will reflect on what we can expect in thirty years. Yes, it seems a long way away, but we live in a quan­tum world where the past, present and future occur simul­ta­ne­ously. Yes, we live through a dizzy­ing time, but the 2040s brings us awfully close to many dead­lines, includ­ing the CO2 tip­ping point of 450ppm we are des­tined to reach if we can­not fig­ure out how to stem green­house gas out­put, the deple­tion of ocean fish and a pop­u­la­tion peak of 9–10 bil­lion, which must be sus­tained in a world of dimin­ished fos­sil fuels.

The time­line is in place, but our deci­sions can alter it.

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