Well, good morning. Are you all awake and ready? Have you had a nice conference? Today we will be focusing upon the archetype within human consciousness of individuation, deconditioning, liberation, and freedom from the known. These archetypes are reflected in the astrological symbols of Uranus, Aquarius, and the eleventh house. Planets that are connected or linked to any of these symbols, i.e. planets in the eleventh house, the natal location of the planetary ruler of the eleventh house, planets in Aquarius, or planets in aspect to Uranus or the above dynamics, all reflect the archetypal need to accelerate the individuation of these functions. Today, we will focus our attention on the planet Uranus because it embodies the primary archetypes that we are discussing. We will also discuss the role of Saturn and Neptune as they interact with Uranus.

IDEAS AND PRINCIPLES

Uranus correlates to individuation, liberation, freedom, and deconditioning. Deconditioning from what? Deconditioning from Saturn. Saturn correlates to all the conditioning patterns of our life: the conditioning patterns of society, family, expectations of people in our lives, and the conditioning patterns relative to all the prior lives that you bring into this life, all that conditions your sense of identity at any moment in time. Uranus clearly is an antithetical archetype to Saturn. This means that Uranus is forever trying to shatter, revolutionize, liberate, or break free from all those conditioning patterns. What for? What is the intent? To what purpose? If we shatter all the conditioning patterns that define our sense of personality and identity then we can, at some point, arrive at our essential nature and identity that is unconditioned. Obviously, that can be a fairly long journey.

As an example: when we go through a Uranian transit an opportunity exists, relative to the house or planets that are being transited, to break free from the conditions that have defined how those functions have manifested thus far in our life. The Uranus transit always provides for this opportunity. In the natal chart the planets that Uranus is aspecting at birth, and the house that it is in, provides for this very same opportunity for the entire life span. Most of us however, most meaning 70% to 75% of the people in any culture, resist this Uranian deconditioning impulse.

One has to keep in mind here that Saturn (we always have to relate Saturn when speaking of Uranus) correlates to the parameters of what you call your consciousness; what you are actually aware of at any moment in time. This Saturn boundary provides structural definitions of what you are at any moment in time. From a deeper point of view, your sense of individual sense of social consciousness is greatly determined by the norms, values, beliefs, customs, rules, and laws of the culture that you are born into. Your entire sense of social security is based on taking in these societal conditioning imprints. Thus, the Uranian impulse is resisted by many because to respond to it would simultaneously create individual and social insecurity.

Most people come into life with an intrinsic sense of individual and social purpose. For example, let's say that deep in myself I sense I am or want to be a psychologist. And I find myself in Canada. What does that culture say to me? It says that if I want to define my social function as a psychologist then I must conform to its established procedure, norms, rules and so forth. Thus, I must go to school. This is social imprinting and conditioning. So if I want to become a psychologist in this culture I must allow myself to conform (Saturn) to those norms. I don't have to agree with them, but at some point, I have to accept them in order to actualize and establish my individual/social purpose. This is the primary difference in measuring Uranus and Saturn. Either I blindly conform (Saturn), or I accept it without conforming; I go through the motions of what society tells me to do while remaining as detached from it as I possibly can (Uranus).

When you have questions, please ask. This is really your time now.

Question: What about Saturn Retrograde? How does Uranus with Saturn Retrograde interact?

How many of you have Saturn Retrograde? Quite a few, eh! How many of you are comfortable with what the retrograde archetype means? Do you need a simple definition? Hmmmm, maybe you are sensing this will be an all rambling workshop today. Oh well, that is the point isn't it -- Uranus! If you live in the Uranian realm it is very joyous because you are just free.

Anyway, a retrograde archetype, whatever planet you apply it to, is simply the need to withdraw, to retreat, to rebel from the status quo expectation of how that planetary behavior is meant to manifest from a societal point of view. This necessary rejection of the status quo via the retrograde principle accelerates the natural evolutionary pace. Why? Because when you are withdrawing from the status quo you are arriving at your own unique and individual expression, essential individuality, of whatever planet of function is retrograde. The retrograde principle is non-static. It is very similar to peeling the layers off an onion to arrive at the core. That is why it is non-static; rarely does the retrograde aspect of a persona nature kick back and go "aha, that's it, no more, I'm relaxed and satisfied with this." In other words, the layers of conditioning are very deep and it takes along time to arrive at an utterly de-conditioned state.

So, if we have Saturn retrograde, and we are talking about social conditioning patterns, could we now deduce that the Saturn retrograde person is going to be intrinsically oriented to rejecting, rebelling, withdrawing from, and questioning such social imprinting. In so doing, the individual would come to define her or his own natural authority ( Saturn), customs, regulations, norms, taboos, and way of integrating into the culture that he or she is born into. When Saturn is retrograde the door is open and pointing to Uranus. Thus, in general, the very nature of individuals consciousness is intrinsically different. In general, there is more of a sense distance or detachment from the immediacy of one's family and culture, a sense that there is more to reality (Saturn) than is being focused upon by the family or culture. This sense is produced by Uranus impacting upon by the family or culture. This sense is produced by Uranus impacting upon the Saturn retrograde. It is this Uranian sense that magnifies or intensifies the essential role of Uranus in Saturn retrograde individuals; to liberate and be free from the conditioning patterns of society, family, or any other conditioning pattern that is perceived to be limiting the ongoing individualization of identity.

Commonly, the Saturn retrograde is going to have a problem with one or both parents. It does not mean that they are going to be enemies, but it does commonly imply that one or both of the parents, most commonly the father, is going to reflect the values, beliefs, lifestyle, standard of conduct, what is right and wrong, opinions, and so on that the offspring simply cannot accept. In certain family situations this can be a problem and can create an emotional distance from the offspring to such a parent. And, from an evolutionary point of view, necessarily so. The point is that, at one level, Saturn correlates to a need to integrate our own sense of individual identity, authority, and purpose within the context of social purpose and cultural authority. We all have a specific social function to play out in the large social scheme of things on behalf of our culture. We all do. How we go about this is described by the totality of our birth charts and specifically Saturn. Saturn correlates to what we call the social maturation process, the process and transference from childhood to adulthood.

At a deeper level Saturn also correlates to the phenomena of time and space; thus, the whole notion of mortality, finitude, the awareness that you might have a certain time frame or span to live your life. This awareness normally comes to most people, i.e. the awareness of death, at the first Saturn square to itself after birth - roughly around seven years of age. When we find ourselves at seven years of age, we find ourselves to be mortal. At the same time it accelerates the social maturation process. It accelerates the awareness of the society that we find ourselves in. Therein the conditioning patterns begin to really set in or gel in our consciousness. This is also why, normally, a child, male or female, begins to transfer from mother to father in terms of the importance in their life. Why? Primarily because the history of civilization has been male controlled. History is a Saturnian principle. Look at the root world in history; it is his - his story! If we were to grow up in a matriarchal culture, then this same Saturn principle would, at age seven or so, transfer from the father to the mother. Transfer is to the gender who is the authority figure in the family and, through extension, the culture.

Because Saturn correlates to how you are giving structural definition to everything that you are at a conscious level (defining the Venus function, Mercury function, and so on into a structural whole), this structure can become non-functional, non-workable, and crystallized. Thus, when this happens, a necessary Saturnian phenomena occurs: depression. Most of us have experienced depression, eh? If we examine the nature of depression what is it? Is it not reflection? And what are we reflecting upon when we are depressed? Some crystallized structure of our reality which is preventing further growth. And therefore depression/reflection promotes the awareness at some point of what we need to structurally change in order to grow. After all we are dealing with the Capricorn, Saturn, 10th house, cardinal archetype. They all need to initiate action, an action which leads to growth based upon that which needs to be changed. The awareness of what needs to be changed occurs through depression/reflection is intrinsic to the phenomena of consciousness in the human form. So we should not judge (Saturn) depression as something negative, as something intrinsically wrong. The only time we have to become concerned is when it becomes manic or extreme to the point of preventing moving, action, growth. Then we should effect some degree of intervention depending upon the severity of the condition.

Now what do you suppose induces depression? It is Uranus. You see Uranus is forever trying to knock on Saturn's door. Saturn is, again, the parameters of our conscious awareness. Just below is what is called the subconscious or, in Jungian terms, the individuated unconscious. In esoteric terms it is called the higher mind. This is just below the threshold of Saturn. Saturn tries to suppress it because Saturn is secure with its existing structural definition of reality. It feels safe with them, they are known quantities. Uranus wants to make us aware of that which is unknown, inexperienced, and so Saturn simply freaks out. The point here is that Uranus is always trying to knock on Saturn's door in such a way as to shatter all conditioning patterns, all those known, familiar and thus secure structural definitions of inner and outer reality. Saturn is obviously a compelling force, a strong force. All we have to do is look at how big it is out there in the solar system. So what do we normally have when Uranus interacts with Saturn? Is this not clearly a competing and antithetical archetype? So what happens?

Wherever your natal Uranus at birth is where this de-conditioning process can be worked upon throughout you life in your own unique way. But when it interacts with Saturn we have a condition in which Uranus is knocking on Saturn's door in such a way as to produce, in a sieve-like way, a variety of thought which implicates a larger, liberated future. Yet, because Saturn is trying to suppress it, in most cases other than Saturn retrograde, these thoughts from Uranus fly into your conscious awareness in an apparently disjointed fashion, unconnected, and therefore can appear as "irrational" thoughts that are not immediately connectable to the current reality. It is not like having ABC land in your awareness, a step by step plan, but more like A to Z, the broken mirror not the whole mirror, the famous "flashes" that you read about in the traditional books. But because they are coming forth in an apparently disjointed way into your conscious awareness, they can be not so happily suppressed, buried back into the subconscious by Saturn. If this becomes the case depression can manifest and then deepen if the Uranian impulse continues to be suppressed. If it deepens to the point of becoming manic, then we have a real problem.

When we talk about the individuated unconsciousness, or the subconscious, or the higher mind correlation to Uranus, we must understand that this dynamic contains three kinds of information in all people.

(1) That which Saturn is suppressing, i.e. that which we are refusing to deal with. As an example: a person with Mars in opposition to Neptune, Saturn square Mars/Neptune. This person has some sort of inkling, instinctual feeling (Mars), that he or she has a desire (Mars) for same sex experience (Mars/Neptune). Relative to conditioning patterns (Saturn) he or she suppresses this instinctual desire (Saturn/Mars). Now a Uranus transit comes along and conjuncts the Mars. All of a sudden that which has been suppressed is now released back into his or her conscious awareness. This Uranus transit on Mars in fact re-ignites the intrinsic squares to Saturn and Neptune from the Mars. We always come up to these threshold experiences where a break from the past would allow for a tremendous leap in growth. So if she or he chooses to suppress it now, not act upon it, could we not see how this possibly could set in motion a cycle of deepening dissatisfaction, depression, withdrawal, the sense of life not working, futility? With respect to that pattern we could also anticipate an anger (Mars) manifesting that could not be rationalized (Neptune), an anger that could seep up into the awareness whose origin could not be traced (Neptune). Now through circumstances (the inner vibration always attracts, creates, or calls forth that which you call circumstances) maybe this individual starts attracting to him/herself certain individuals who express or confess attraction to him or her, individuals that he or she feels attraction towards. Now the individual has a choice to make. Relative to the Uranus transit, what choice would you advise the individual to make if you were the counselor?

(2) Uranus also correlates, in complete detail, to all the memories of this and other lives. This is why it is called the higher octave of Mercury. Most of us can't remember in explicit detail what we did two days ago. So my question is, where do all these memories go? Mercury correlates to what you can consciously recall in the form of memories, or that which you have learned or been taught. But Uranus correlates to all the memories and knowledge that have ever come before; that which you can not necessarily recall consciously. For example, this would be the area that the hypnotherapist would enter with respect to prior life, or the past of this life, issues that are impacting on your reality (Saturn) at any moment in time. If you are involved with certain forms of meditation, this is the area that you access with respect to spontaneous prior life recall. Sometimes these recalls, by the way, are necessary for they will release something from the past that is relevant to the moment of the recall; the nature of your life at that moment. Obviously, not everyone has this type of recall. For some people the awareness of continuity, how we got to this moment in time, is important relative to their awareness of the meaning and purpose for this life. This in one of the reasons that the Pluto book was written.

(3) Uranus also correlates to all the information that pertains to your larger future. In other words, it contains in a blueprint-like way abstract information that relates to your larger future; the life-print involving the future.

So, if we go through a Uranus transit, guess what information is going to be released? All of it; the information pertaining to the past, the releasing of that which has been suppressed, and information pertaining to the larger future. Why? It all comes back to the original archetype called liberation: freedom from the known. Before we can move into our future, we have to be free from our past to the extent that the past inhibits or blocks the future from being fully realized. To liberate in the sense of realizing how all the conditioning patterns have shaped and defined our reality, to liberate from that which has been suppressed. How many of you are going through this Uranus transit? Hmmmm, that many? No wonder there are so many of you here today!

So when we go through a Uranus transit all these sources of information leak into your conscious awareness in a sieve-like way. Again, this stuff can appear disconnected, disjointed, unconnected to what you think is happening in your reality at the time that it manifests. It is now analogous to the hand grenade in the steel box. The steel box correlates to Saturn; the hand grenade to Uranus.

We can have three reactions to the Uranian impulse nataly or through transit:

(1) We can suppress it. The famous putting off to another day.

(2) We can totally go for it. Throw everything off. The iconoclast, or the Hermit in the Tarot.

(3) We can act on little bits of it. This is the most common reaction.

Let's try to understand that there is a great difference between what is called the individuated unconscious, and the collective unconscious/conscious. We have all heard these terms, yes? What is the difference? The individuated unconscious is all the content of yourself that is unique to yourself, that which is personally, uniquely, and individually your own.

The collective unconscious/conscious correlates to Neptune, Pisces, and the 12th house. And there are three types. If you have studied Jungian psychology you have probably heard these terms. Anyway, the three types are these:

(1) Racial - the intrinsic structure and orientation of consciousness is unique to each race, i.e. an Asian is inherently different than a Caucasian.

(2) National - The collective quality and orientation of a Canadian is different than those who live in Zaire as an example. Within a national consciousness there can also exist a regional one. In the U.S. as an example, the collective consciousness is different, in a regionalized sense, in the South as contrasted with the Northeast. There is a difference in a French Canadian living in the province of Quebec as contrasted with a Canadian living in British Colombia.

(3) Universal - We all share in human consciousness, i.e. we are all of the species.

The collective conscious simply means the totality of thought vibration on the planet at any moment in time. Here we all sit in this particular moment in time with all these things going on in the world. The net of all experiences taking place now, at anytime, correlates to the collective vibration. And via our Neptune function we are all sensitive to these vibrations in some way; we pick them up just like an antenna picks up radio signals in the air. Because it is a Neptune phenomena most people, 70% or so, are not even conscious of this dynamic in there lives. These are the people whose sense of identity is an EXTENSION and REFLECTION of the times that they are living in ; there is no sense of distinction, transcendence or detachment from the times that one is living in occurs in varying degrees of acuteness within the remaining 30% or so.

We also have a collective unconscious. We all lived through 1968 as an example. There was a totality of vibration at that time that we all responded to. It has now receded into the collective unconscious. Yet, it is a memory of the entire species from the point of view of all three types of the collective conscious/unconscious. For example, we all remember the phenomena of the Vietnam war, and all the rationales that were used at that time, i.e. the domino theory, etc. So how does all this impact when we are confronted with the specter of Nicaragua, and the old domino theory is hauled out once more. This current rationale serves as a trigger for all that we went through in 1968; it creates a collective response. Here is an interesting interface: when the vietnam war began roughly 70% of the population in the U.S. was in support, and 30% were not. Now the response to the Nicaragua thing is 70% not in support, and 30% are. The interface between the collective conscious and unconscious generating this reversal is triggered by using a rationale from the past that proved to be wrong.

Since 70% of the U.S. population originally accepted the reasons given by their government for invading vietnam, i.e. 70% of the individuals took in these rationales via their Uranus function, thus constituting a group (Uranus) response, around half of these people now do not support of accept messing with Nicaragua. This 35% or so combine with the 30% or so who did not support vietnam, and who now do not support the Nicaragua thing. As will be explained shortly, generally 30% of the total in any societal grouping (Uranus) will be identified with the past.

The bottom line is this: we all have a Neptune function; we all have a collective unconscious/conscious which is linked or interfaced relative to the total nature of the collective moment at any point in time. How does this impact on the Uranus function? How does all this, the totality of what takes place on the planet at any point in time, impact on your own sense of unique purpose (Uranus)? How does it impact on your lifestyle (Uranus)? How does it alter how you are integrating yourself within (Sun - the Sun is the natural polarity to Uranus), and thus without; the society or nation you are living in (Saturn)? Is it possible for that which is going on collectively to impact on your lifestyle? Even down to making choices or where to live, be, or what to do? In history, for example, when Uranus is in Sagittarius what do you find? One of the things you find is the largest migrations of populations than at any other time. You are having a refugee problem right here is Canada are you not? This is happening in many places on the planet. It reflects a kind of social displacement - Neptune in Capricorn. It reflects people trying to find a place, either in new countries or within regions within their existing countries, to live their kind of lifestyle - Uranus in Sagittarius. The social displacement reflects governmental policies of various kinds that impact on various subgroups within the totality of a group that is contained within a nations borders. In turn this "collective vibration" is picked up or reflected everywhere. Uranus in Sagittarius generates the philosophical or religious justification to rationalize the polices of those leading the various governments, or subgroups who all have different agendas than those in power. This leads to an intensification of the polarization of subgroups along philosophical or religious lines, lines that are drawn in the dirt. Whose beliefs are going to righteously prevail? This fracturing thus leads to the migrations of the populations as the various subgroups try and gravitate to areas (countries or regions within an existing country) in which there are like minded (Uranus) people. Some of the more gross examples of this now are reflected in Lebanon, the Iran/Iraq war, the conflict in Sri Lanka, the Neo-Nazis in the U.S. trying to claim the Pacific Northwest as their own, etc.

At the turn of the century that we are now in, Uranus was in Sagittarius. An invention (Uranus) at that time was the automobile, another was communication through the "air", i.e. radio, and of course the airplane. How did these types of developments revolutionize (Uranus) the mobility, and expand individual awareness, of the planet upon which ALL live? Now we have this symbol again. Now we have the specter of space travel, as well as the revolutionizing of other forms of travel, and the instant communication of events al over the planet that involves satellites in space. How is space going to impact on migration and travel in the long run? Remember how that little bi-plane became the 747, and the evolution of aircraft becoming the basis for spacecraft. This is only a tiny and singular example of the revolutionary impacts on social and individual structure with respect to breaking free from the past - the nature of Uranus.

Does this have any interest for you at all?

Response: Yes, yes!!

You look stunned, just stunned! So, in Jungian terms, Uranus correlates to the "individuation" process. With reference to the previously mentioned three reactions, Uranus also correlates to what you call friends, the groups of people that you form social bonds with. Why is it that of all the people on this planet, in this country, in Toronto, you make friends with this one, and not that one? What is making this determination and selection? It is called likemindedness. We all have a need to be socially secure (Saturn and Uranus combined). One of the phenomena's that this need produces is to select groupings of people, or certain people, who share our own likemindedness; how we ourself are putting reality together in total. This is determining function of friendship. What we can empirically see, in general, at this time in western civilization is this:

(A) One third of the people are going to be primarily oriented to the past. All the values, all the moral structures, all the beliefs, etc., which symbolize that which has been. An example would be President Reagen pointing to the 1920's as the model to be used for social programs in the U.S., i.e. volunteerism.

(B) One third of the people are in various degrees of rebellion to that which has been, or is. They want to revolutionize or change the social structure; iconoclasts, social rebels, the avant guard edge of a society, malcontents, outlaws, political or religious revolutionaries, or the hermit. Terrorists also fit now don't they? Since the seed behind terrorism is religious or moral imperative, you have Muslim fanatics becoming so convinced that their version of Muslim is right, even against other sects of Muslim, that this conviction is used to justify the socially rebellious acts that this line in the dirt creates. And this is happening everywhere; Northern Ireland, Iran/Iraq, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, India, fundamental "Christians" trying to impose their version of the Bible upon everyone else, etc. This kind of philosophical or religious rebellion (revolution) can lead to anarchy or totalitarianism in various parts of various countries, or country against country. Religious or philosophical anarchy is ultimately a Uranus or Neptune in Sagittarius phenomena. A totalitarian response to this would be Neptune or Uranus in Capricorn. An important point to consider is this: the malcontent or social rebel of today could have been socially content at some other time. The specific nature of the current social context is that which determines who is who.

(C) One third of the people are ambivalent. Since this third may or may not participate in social changes in a conscious or active way, you can see why social change in a conscious or active way, you can see why social change is slow most of the time. These people are going with the flow. They can not make up their minds either way. The Pluto conjunct Uranus in Virgo generation reflects this simple truth: one third rebelled against the past to become "punk people". One third redefining and reflecting the past of their grandparents generation, i.e. conservatism. One third goes with the flow, i.e. conforming to peer group pressure which is one of the functions of Uranus. Thus this group styles themselves to look a little "punk" on the outside, while being essentially conservative on the inside.

We are most susceptible to peer group pressure when we are in our teens. In this culture it is reflected while we are in junior and then high school. Most of us went through junior and high school. We all remember the social conditioning and peer group pressure. If I am in high school, and there are many punk people around me, am I not going to feel some degree of social pressure to conform to this way of identifying myself? If I am growing up in a culture with Playboy and Playgirl becoming rampant, do I not feel some pressure to conform? Don't I feel some temptation to take this in as my lifestyle whether it is in my nature or not? We all go through these things.

These three divisions form the context of any society in the times that we are now living. When Uranus becomes particularly active, we see the potential phenomena of fracturing societies. And these three basic divisions are interactive. In the 1960's I may have been identified with the group who were rebelling against the past, and the prevailing status-quo at that time. I may have identified with the "new" ideas and values being expressed by the students of that time; the "hippie" or "flower power" group of people. And I may have identified so much with them that those ideas and values have remained with me until the advent of the Reagan Revolution. And, of course, the Reagan Revolution is a reaction to that which the 60's established as mainstream reality in the 70's. The point is this: the three basic divisions of people within the totality of a society stays the same. Yet, who is in what group changes depending upon what constitutes the prevailing social norms, customs, rules, ideas, values, and laws of a society. This phenomena correlates to the continuous interaction, changing phases, interfacing, and cycle of Uranus and Saturn.

A current example of this fracturing is reflected in the planets Uranus being in Sagittarius, Neptune in Capricorn, and Pluto in Scorpio. Please remember that it is the outer planets which correlate to major changes; individually and collectively. Don't we now see, with respect to fracturing, that there is a current redefinition of the entire social order underway in most countries? What happens to the person who has been a welder for thirty five years, and who has been working for the same company and paying money into a pension fund for that amount of time, and he is now replaced by a robot? And since the existing governmental policy on a domestic level does not have a job retraining program, what happens to this person? And you multiply this by the thousands. Do you not have a sense of social alienation? Uranus in Sagittarius. Does this not lead to fracturing? To redefinition of the social structure? What happens when Neptune is in Capricorn and you have all these farmers being asked to relocate to the city based on economic reasons (Pluto in Scorpio). These people not having the psychological equipment nor temperament to deal with this city. Is this the collapse of the North American dream? Is it not turning into a nightmare for many?

What happens to the entire Pluto/Uranus Virgo generation as it begins to mature, this generation being exposed from birth to the potential horror of nuclear war? What kind of psychology does that generation carry into their own future? How does that psychology ultimately impact on the social order down the road? Uranus can induce fracturing. Pluto induces polarization. Neptune can induce extremes; fanaticism, deceptions or illusions past off as truth, or unity in sameness vs. unity in diversity. When these dynamics combine at the same time, then you have groups of people drawing lines in the dirt who challenge any other group that is not sharing their moral imperative. Then you see the stupidity and self-imposed righteousness of a Reagan calling the Soviet Union an evil empire. This fracturing and polarization, obviously, contains the potential for explosive consequences.

A current classic example of a Uranus/Saturn interface that reflects the revolutionizing of an existing structure that is precluding growth is this: the spaceship that flew by Uranus and its Moons. Until this event scientists held consensus views, ideas, and theories about the nature of the solar system, and beyond. When the spaceship probed Uranus it discovered that the north pole, which points toward the Sun, was cooler than the south pole which did not. This combined with other "radical" discoveries forced the scientists to reexamine their existing ideas because those ideas and theories could not account for these discoveries. New thought leads to growth and expansion. We can also see the root principle of DECONDITIONING and LIBERATION from the past taking place here. This in turn allows for the discovery of realization of the ULTIMATE or total truth to take place. In this case it would allow for, at some point, the discovery of the ACTUAL and INTRINSIC laws of the Solar System and beyond. And is it not a wonder that this shakeup of existing ideas, etc., took place as the spacecraft probed Uranus of all planets!

A less happy example of how Saturn can suppress and falsely judge those of a Uranian nature is the case of Velikovsky. He is a scientist who has done a tremendous amount of work on the geological, geographical, and thus human evolution of the planet. Based on this work, he realized that the axis of Earth has flipped many times. This realization lead to the discovery that axial shifts are produced by extra celestial causes, not terrestrial causes. This took him into the solar system. His investigations of the solar system lead him to the conclusion that what is now the planet Venus was once apart of Jupiter, a part that was hurled into space through the impact of a major celestial body upon Jupiter. This combination lead to his postulation of what the atmosphere of Venus would be like if his theory was correct. This took place during the 1950's. At that time the prevailing consensus view of scientists of what the atmosphere on Venus was like was in total opposition to Velikovsky. Thus he was harshly judged as a heretic and his work, ideas, and books were severely criticized. Even banished from university campuses. So guess what happened when the spaceprobe of Venus took place. Velikovsky was right!

Einstein (who had Pluto in the 11th House, North Node and Jupiter in Aquarius, and Uranus in Virgo retrograde in the 3rd house) had this to say about actualized, constructive, and positive Uranian types: "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." The point here is that if you allow yourself to decondition relative to your own natal Uranus, by house, sign and aspect to other planets, and by transit, then you will get in touch with your own essence, your own genius. However, if you do, be prepared for judgment (Saturn) from mediocre minds. It takes an act of courage to move into the Uranian realm because we will have to experience our essential differentness and, therefore, our essential aloneness. In this condition we will not have all the social props which generate social and individual security: group support based on group bonding.

EXAMPLES

Let's now use a few examples of Uranus being in a sign to illustrate the above principles. I would like your input and questions now. Uranus will spend generally eight years in any sign. Thus, we can call it a generational sign. If we use the example of Uranus in Cancer, millions of people on the planet will have Uranus in Cancer. This being the case, what do you think Uranus in Cancer would mean relative to the principles so far discussed? What is the intent? It is now time for you to talk.

Response: The uprooting of the home life.

OK. What else?

Response: Change in family structure.

Yes, what else? Where does the ultimate liberation occur with respect to Uranus in Cancer?

Response: In the kitchen!!!

You mean no Suzy Homemaker???

Response: Microwave oven.

What is the archetypal intent?

Response: Emotional security? Personal and emotional security and the upsetting of that?

How is it meant to play out?

Response: We are shaken out of the comfortable and we have to find where we really unconsciously want to be.

Does this not possibly mean, ultimately, that, for this entire group of people, they need to get in touch with their own inner security. The need to liberate from all external forms of emotional security and dependency. As a result, this can create problems with their families because these people will feel intrinsically, on a gut level, different from their parents - in most cases. There will be a small percentage, around 30%, of these people whose parents will support the uniqueness, the intrinsic individuality of the child, but in general this is not the case. That means that 70% of that generation have come into family situations in which acknowledgment of their individuality is not given. They don't have that support. It does not mean that those parents did not do the best they could do with what they had to work with. But it does mean that they did not have the equipment to understand the uniqueness of that child. That obviously involves the child being thrown in upon itself. Being forced in upon itself the child is forced to deal with itself, to find ways to nurture itself. As children we will not have the conceptual equipment to understand why we have drawn such a family situation. As a result this can lead to what psychologists call displaced emotions. The unresolved emotions are dragged into adulthood and become the basis of subconscious projections and demands, overtly and covertly expressed, towards friends or lovers. Until these people understand that a major life lesson is for them to develop inner nurturing and security, the wounds associated with the parents can be hard to heal. Until this lesson is learned the adult relationships can also be a source of cyclic disappointment because of the projections and demands that go necessarily unfulfilled by the persons friends and lover(s). On a cyclic basis the individual is thrown back in upon itself until this lesson is learned. Since this is replayed over and over like a video tape, in the long run, until it is revolved, it gives me the opportunity to objectively (Uranus = objectivity) examine, through detachment, the underlying causes and basis of my emotions, moods, and feelings. By examining the causes I can be free, liberated, from them in the sense of being trapped or consumed by them. This is not necessary one. This will impact on these people's ability to be a parent to their own children.

What we have here is an entire group of people who are attempting to discover their own uniqueness by examining the cause of their own emotions, moods, and feelings. In so doing they are attempting to become free from them, to not be controlled by them. The discovery of their essential nature or identity, the de-conditioned self, takes place through the emotional body. As the lesson of inner security, self-nurturing, and acceptance of their own real identity takes hold would this not impact on how these people would be parents themselves? As a group would they not approach parenting in a "new" and different way than their own parents did? As a group who has intended from birth to essentially question or rebel against the conditioning of their own parents, and through extension society, is it not possible that these people will tend to promote and encourage the uniqueness of their own children? "Be who you are" would be a common message to their children would it not? The long term planetary intent is thus effected as the children of these people become parents themselves, as these people struggle to establish new individual and social identities themselves. When Uranus is in Cancer it helps break up the crystallized structures of consensus reality defined by any society. It facilitates and quickens the evolutionary growth rate of the human organism, and its social systems of reality called family, society, and civilization. These people operate planetarily as "seed people", similar to dandelions in the wind, to accomplish this necessary task.

This is a generational thing. What happens when we take the Uranus/Cancer archetype and make it specific to a person? Let's put Uranus in Cancer in the Ninth House to illustrate an individual application. Who has some thoughts on this?

Response: Looking for security in a religious group. Teaching ancient or new religions to their child. Seeking enlightenment through travel. Moving from country to country. Breaking down cultural barriers. Building cultural bridges. Breaking down cultural patterns of philosophy. Breaking down cultural patterns of religion and raising consciousness.

One of the primary archetypal intents with this symbol is to be a free thinker. On an abstract, conceptual level (9th house) the intent is to utterly break free from any restrictive belief system that is preventing unchecked discovery of the individuals essential to this nature. Thus, if the individual is in a culture that does not promote free thinking, that is overly invested in a singular or sectarian view of cosmological reality, then the intent is to rebel against or challenge the implied limitation of such a philosophical reality. On an inner level this archetype means that the individual desires to throw off, and to be free from, excessive and unnecessary amounts of information that has been collected over many, many lifetimes. Yet, if the individual does this, the insecurity of Cancer can manifest because the Cancer archetype typically tries to find security in outer structures, or that which already exists. Cancer correlates to THE WOMB. To break free from the womb is to be insecure. So, the individual must make the effort to discover a cosmological philosophy that promotes the INNER WOMB of self-discovery, a philosophy that allows the individual to experientially expand and define their personal sense of identity in cosmological or metaphysical terms. The key is to discover or align with a philosophy that is not intrinsically limited by the very nature of its beliefs. The need is for philosophy that allows for personal expansion in an unrestricted way.

If the individual responds to this archetype then he or she will set themselves up to be judged as eclectic thinkers, people who by the very nature of their thoughts or philosophies threaten the philosophical security of mainstream society. Thus, just as the individual rebels against the restrictive and crystallized beliefs of mainstream society, or the religion and beliefs of family, so too can society of family rebel against the individual. This will happen because the individual is perceived to threaten, by society or family, the emotional security and dependency that is invested in prevailing and consensus held beliefs. This philosophical isolation by mainstream society or family creates or leads the Cancerian emotion of not being understood, recognized, or nurtured for who they are, or what they need. Progressively realizing that what they need will not be discovered through mainstream beliefs, the individual will move within itself to discover what is does need philosophically and, thus, emotionally. In this way the path and lesson of inner security begins to be realized. For those who respond in this way, the ultimate impact is to not only revolutionize their own cosmological identities, but to help break down the crystallized and growth inhibiting belief systems of any sectarian system. Thus these people can help the society that they are born into to expand upon its own understanding of reality, help others to do so in general, and family or origin specifically. In other words, some of these people will have the intrinsic or realized ability to teach others not only about the nature of themselves, Cancer, but also about the nature of their belief systems, and how these systems contribute to their personal sense of identity and general reality. Yet the lesson is to also learn how to deliver, present, or teach these things in such a way as to not alienate (9th house) others to the point of rebellion from the information, messages, or teachings themselves.

Now please remember that only about one third of the individuals with Uranus in Cancer in the 9th will respond in the above way even though it is the intent for all with this symbol in their birth chart. One third will generally orientate to the prevailing or evolving consensus views of cosmological reality in order to feel personally and socially secure - to go with the flow. These types more or less grow, expand, and evolve as the social and family system itself does so. They are generally open to new thoughts, ideas, or beliefs - at least to consider them. But only as many others are CURRENTLY doing so in order to feel secure.

The other third will tend to gravitate to the existing traditional and sectarian beliefs of their culture, or of cultures past, and fanatically attempt to either convert (9th house) others to their points of view in order to feel secure, or to isolate from the impact of the "outside" world for the same reason. This can be individual or group isolation.

Question: Would that just be amplified by the current Uranus in Cancer generation whose Saturn/Neptune in Libra is squaring the Cancer/Uranus?

Yes. With Uranus in Cancer in the 9th house this would put the Saturn/Neptune/Libra in the 12th house in most cases. Thus it would tend to amplify the potential phenomena of philosophical cults of all kinds - EST, Moonies, Scientology, Psychic Institutes of one kind or another, "channeling" groups of various kinds including those that have self-appointed "guru's" or leaders in various states of delusion or enlightenment, etc., etc. These symbols intensify this potential phenomena because of the need within these people to relate, or form relationships to, people or groups of like-mindedness. This is done in order to feel secure (the womb of group relationship, or the womb of individual relationship with another or a few others of like mind).

These symbols can also lead to seeking "quick" enlightenment, and the various pop philosophies, groups, or teachers that promote this illusion without doing the necessary ground work (Saturn). If the ground work is not done then whatever techniques/methods/or teachings that are adhered too and practiced will invariably lead to either psychic instability, incredible states or self-delusion, misapplication of knowledge which will lead to inner guilt at some point, or a rebellion of all religions, philosophies, or the whole issue or "truths" : a crisis of belief impacting on their personal identity and therefore security.

Would you like to example Uranus in another sign to see, again, how these Uranian correlation's and principles manifest?

Response: Yes..

How about Uranus in Gemini since many of you in this workshop have this symbol? OK, lets go for it! What do you think the archetypal intent is when Uranus is in Gemini?

Response: Freedom of thought and mind. Jack Kerouac, on the road, the beatnik generation, professional or eternal student, a mind that never stops especially in the last ten degrees, new forms of communication, new ways of healing, intuition, new ways of raising children, revolution in education.

Revolution in education? Yes, let me digress and carry on for a moment. When Uranus was in Sagittarius in the early 1800's the concept of Kindergarten manifested in Germany. The original vision of Kindergarten was incredibly beautiful. The man who developed this concept (Sagittarius) thought of children as flowers, each child having a different color, each needing a bit more oxygen, this one a bit more nitrogen, etc. This concept was considered radical at first by the mainstream because it departed from established teaching norms and ideas about education - it was an "alternative" form of education in the beginning. As this seed vision became established (Saturn) educational policy over many years and cultures, it degenerated to the point where the original vision of individual nourishment, i.e. this one needing oxygen, this one nitrogen, was lost. When Uranus went into Gemini in the middle of the 1800's "new" ideas again occurred to adjust upon the original vision when Uranus was in Sagittarius - and, yes, by those who were originally the beneficiary of the vision. The adjustment leads to a regeneration which, in turn, leads to Uranus in Sagittarius once again - new seed visions involving education at a conceptual level. And as we have all been living now with Uranus in Sagittarius has it not been true that there has been a renaissance in "alternative" schools? Has there not been a migration of children into private schools along the three basic philosophical divisions of groups within the total society? Both phenomena started, this time, when Neptune was in Sagittarius in the early 1970's, and accelerated when Uranus hit Sagittarius.

When Neptune went into Capricorn in the early 1980's the beginning of alternative private middle and high schools began in earnest as a progressive social dynamic. When Uranus moves into Capricorn the dynamic will accelerate due to the fact that many of the children now in private/alternative schools will become older (Capricorn). Thus, social need will dictate that many of the flourishing private/alternative schools that currently exist for little ones will have to expand to accommodate the aging or maturing factor of this student population. The danger that exists, of course, is for the public schools to degenerate because of the migration of children into private schools whose families can pay for it - Pluto in Scorpio. The other main danger that exists that has historical precedent is for religious or moral sectarian views dictating the educational philosophies and methods themselves; the exclusion of any ideas, concepts, principles, or views that are not in conformity with whatever sectarian model is attempting to prevail. Among many historical events that would illustrate such a mistake and tragedy is the destruction of the great library of Alexandria in the last days of the Fourth Century. Guess what? Uranus was in Capricorn conjunct Saturn at that tragic time. Christian fundamentalists who held very narrow views were behind that cataclysm. This type of polarization is already underway in many parts of the world. It essentially began when Neptune went into Capricorn and could accelerate when Uranus goes into Capricorn. What would be the long term individual and social consequences of these types of polarization upon children when they become adults? This is what Uranus in Sagittarius is now trying to teach us by inducing such a group awareness. Hopefully this awareness will prevail in such a way as to plant the necessary educational visions and planning to accommodate for the needs of the ENTIRE group by parents, educators, and administrators: i.e. unity (Neptune) in diversity (Sagittarius) and availability to all (Pluto in Scorpio). The delusion of these same symbols that could lead to individual and collective tragedy would be based upon the idea of unity in sameness. And, of course, these themes apply to many other aspects of all of our lives, individually and collectively.

Well, let's get back to the specific archetypal intent of Uranus in Gemini. At the deepest level where does the liberation of Uranus actually exist when in Gemini? It means to be liberated from opinions. There is clearly a difference between opinions and the inherent truth, whatever that may be. We all live in a solar system which is connected to the universe. This is an empirical fact - Gemini. There must be an inherent truth or law (Sagittarius) to explain it. So you see where the liberation lies: the difference between opinion, i.e. what I think is true based on how I intellectually organize my reality - Gemini; facts, facts, how this fact connects to this fact to make an opinion - as contrasted with that which is inherently true.

Question: Is that like Gemini being physics and Sagittarius being Metaphysics?

Exactly the point. The interface of Sagittarius and Gemini is this: Sagittarius is the basis of metaphysical law which is the basis of what you call physical law; Gemini.

So, Uranus in Gemini has this challenge as a generation. That is why, as the generation began to mature, we had this renaissance and expansion of metaphysical, philosophical, scientific, and religious thought. This has and is impacting on how we are communicating and talking with each other. Another form of Uranus liberation in Gemini is to learn the difference between reactions and response. When to talk and when not to. This is a very interesting generation because Mercury, Gemini, and Uranus all correlate to what you call electricity. The root principle or cause of the created universe is INTELLIGENCE which is projected through the medium of electricity. This manifests in almost unlimited diversity; form. Uranus correlates to the projected creation itself, whereas Mercury/Gemini correlates to the specific lines that this projected creation takes; somewhat like any source of electricity that is harnessed and channeled through electrical wires or devices. One of the forms of projected creation is the human brain whose evolution is dependent upon the production of what you call dendrites. Uranus in Gemini, as a generation, has a unique power or gift to evolve the brain in an accelerated fashion. This is done through the accelerated production of dendrites. The production of dendrites reflect insightful thought and realizations into the nature of reality which have not come before. This is accomplished through inner discovery, or projected outwards through external scientific investigations and "discoveries" or "inventions".

As an example of inner investigations that will allow you to discover the nature of reality, simply ponder or meditate upon the nature and origin of thought; it obviously exists, yet does not have material form. For those of you involved in spiritual life, and have heard or read the Eastern principle of the formless form, the uncreated created, the causeless cause. You may have a direct realization of the nature of this apparent paradox if you do ponder the nature of thought itself. The nature of thought reflects the Uranian principle and truth of Creation projecting itself outwards, the totality of that which is projected reflecting the essence of the Creator (Intelligence).

As an example of outer investigations, now that Uranus is in Sagittarius, of this truth ponder the nature of two recent scientific developments that reflect not only the above principles, but also how history can repeat itself. One current "breakthrough" development is linked to what is being called the "supercomputer". In the U.S. NASA has announced and unveiled a "pathfinding" supercomputer. It is the most powerful to date. It is currently capable of two hundred and fifty million computations per second, and is projected at being able to compute over a billion computations per second by the end of the century. Inwardly, this reflects the brain and its evolution through the production of dendrites. The announcement states: "This is a tremendous occasion for NASA and a historic date for the nation". It's initial use will be dedicated to aircraft design research to develop a national aerospace plane by the year 2000. This plane, dubbed the "Orient Express", will fly from Washington DC to Tokyo in two hours at speeds exceeding 8,800 mph. The computer will allow the scientists to virtually fly the aircraft in the computer, thus eliminating years, money, and lives from the "old" way of testing new aircraft. Accordingly, the announcement equals this development to the first flight by the Wright brothers in 1903 (Uranus correlates to the atmosphere of Earth), studying galactic formations, simulating complex chemical reactions (Pluto in Scorpio, Neptune in Capricorn), breaking genetic codes (Pluto in Scorpio), and investigating the field of artificial intelligence!

Another development that reflects these principles is linked with the "sudden" breakthrough in super conducting ceramic tape. Superconductivity, a curious, almost unbelievable phenomena in which electricity passes through wires with zero resistance, was discovered seventy-five years ago in the Netherlands. At that time, zero resistance could only be achieved a few degrees above absolute zero - 459 degrees below zero on the Fahrenheit scale. With the sudden breakthrough of combining new materials like lanthanum, barium, copper, and oxygen the temperature that will allow superconductivity to occur has been raised to 27 degrees below zero, and expected to be raised even higher. The implications and applications of this development will revolutionize how electricity is used. For example, superconducting magnets more powerful than any now possible could improve the performance of magnetic resonance imaging machines used in medicine. Such magnets also might make it practical to generate electricity by means of nuclear fusion, a process that does not produce high level radioactive waste, as conventional nuclear power does. With superconducting electrical transmission lines, electrical generators could be placed far from scenic or residential areas, even thousands of miles away, and power could be delivered without transmission losses. The economic benefit would be obvious. The magnetic magnets could even produce commuter trains that float above the tracks.

Anyway, the modern physicists have become the modern mystics for those locked into mainstream thought have they not? Suddenly we have books called "The Tao of Physics" which is an attempt to synthesize the realizations which been made many thousands of years ago by those in the East through inner investigations, the inner microscope/telescope so to speak, with the outer telescopes and microscopes. The timeless principle of the macrocosm reflecting the microcosm, and visa versa, seems to have been "suddenly" realized by the astrophysical and the physicist alike. The nature of their astrophysical thought now mirrors the very statements about the nature of creation made by those in the East thousands of years ago. Whether one employs inner or outer technology, techniques, the net result is the same: the production of dendrites which allows the brain to evolve. Dendrites will always be produced when the nature of the individual or collective brain encounters a limitation, and succeeds in going beyond that limitation.

Question: Is there organization in terms of right and left brain, too?

Yes. The right brain is said to be intuitive/conceptual/abstract, and the left brain is said to be linear, rational, and empirical. Astrologically this would be the difference, again, between Sagittarius and Gemini. That which manifests through the right brain is that part in all of us which is plugged into the totality of manifested creation. The manifested or projected creation is Uranus. The plug in the socket, so to speak, is Jupiter. Jupiter intuits, and makes consciously available to the individual, the projected creation of Uranus. The intuitions of Jupiter translate into abstract or conceptual thought involving principles. Mercury is plugged into Uranus by way of Jupiter. Mercury translates into linear or applied thought that is specific and reflective of the nature of each individual. Thus, Uranus projects through Jupiter to the existing channels of Mercury in order to make new connections; thoughts. This equals the "flashes" that you read about in your astrology books. The flashes, by the way, are dendrites being made. And you all know that Uranus is the "higher" octave or vibration of Mercury. This is why Mercury and Gemini is so intrinsically restless and changeable. The higher octave is being stepped down to the lower octave of Mercury. Sometimes, Mercury simply can not handle all the energy of Uranus. It becomes overloaded. In healing terms this is called "switching". One of the problems of the Uranus in Gemini generation is for some of these people to have this condition; switching between the right and the left brains and visa versa - cross currents so to speak.

Question: Would schizophrenia be an example of this?

No. But confused thinking would. This is a liberation point also - to let the intuitive or right brain guide the intellect or left brain, and not the other way around. Then switching would not happen.

Question: So you are saying that our early toilet training and school would lead to that confusion?

Let's put it this way; for certain people in that generation toilets felt foreign! In other words, a certain percentage of that generation has had a series of prior lives in the East, not the West; at least not in the "sophisticated" cultures of the West in modern times. Thus, with respect to cultural or racial memories held in the individuated unconscious (Uranus), as they approach what you call toilets they manifest the thought of "what is this"? This thought manifests because the memories, from other lifetimes, tell them that they should be outside. It can be that specific and mundane. So the toilet now represents a new learning experience that has the effect, in its own way, of expanding the brain through the production of dendrites which will be required to master the thing.

Another example: a high percentage of this group of people have learned to think, reason, speak and learn in non-linear ways prior to this life. Thus, being born into the current Western world can be a highly foreign experience with respect to speaking, learning, reasoning, and thinking in linear terms. You can see how this could promote switching. Even today, I have Uranus in Gemini, when I pick up a book I turn to the back, not the front. This is typically Eastern.

Question: Does it also lead you to put yourself in a living situation which does lead to the intuitive, live on an island, going back to the land?

For a certain percentage of the generation in would be true. The whole point of Uranus is to recover your essential nature. Finding this culture irrelevant is an illustration of your essential nature, who you uniquely are, to throw off those cultural conditioning patterns. Thus the challenge, again, is to learn how to make the system work to your advantage without becoming overly identified with it, to participate while being essentially detached from it. In this way we can accomplish the lessons or intentions for any life while at the same time not becoming overly identified or invested with the system that each life on Earth creates: country or culture, family, and the values and beliefs that breed specific customs, norms, taboos, laws, and ways of doing things.

Evolutionarily speaking, there is a reason to have any given planet in any given sign. Evolutionarily there is a reason to have Uranus in Gemini; for all those who have it. The challenge is to learn the lessons so that growth of an evolutionary nature continues while at the same time not thinking that what is being learned is an end in itself. This allows for the necessary Uranian detachment and objectivity to exist. This in turn promotes or leads to the awareness of the unconditioned self. This is another Uranian paradox: the unconditioned/conditioned.

Question: When is your book coming out?

Which one? Uranus in Gemini remember! I do not plan on dealing with the second volume of Pluto in the foreseeable future. I am bored with it now. I want to write a book on Uranus, involving the very focus that we are discussing today: freedom from the known. Would most of you like to see such a book?

Response: Yes!

Good, it will be done.

Question: I would like to hear more about your own experience with Uranus transiting your south node. And Uranus being conjunct your natal north node. The transit of Uranus has been crossing your south node for a couple of years has it not? What has been your feeling of this shift in working with the nodes that way, or do you feel that that was what your Pluto book was about? Has this increased your understanding around the nodes, or is it your shift in terms of manifesting your spirituality now through the north node Gemini?

The best way I can answer is this: when it was time to write the Pluto book, keeping in mind that the book came to me in a dream, Pluto was transiting my 11th house Neptune, it was not a product of deductive thinking. The dream, by the way, was in Sanskrit. When I have dreams of this type, there are many forms of them, the dreams are in Sanskrit. It took five years or so from that point to get what was in the dream into an English book form; to work with the English language structure in counseling, lecturing, and teaching situations that long. Sanskrit is a very different language from English, and to find the actual words (Gemini, Mercury) in English was very difficult. With my south node in Sagittarius, the ruler Jupiter in Scorpio in the 12th house, was to find "new" words in a new language that still feels limiting and foreign to me. The natal Uranus conjunction to the north node in Gemini obviously has manifested as astrology being the medium through which to express myself in the English language. This in turn has allowed the teacher that is intrinsic to the south node in Sagittarius to express itself.

So when it was time to write the Pluto book, Uranus was transiting my south node and Sun, opposing north node. I knew it was time, yet still did not feel ready because of the language barrier. So my ego plan was to write about two hundred and fifty pages. When I actually sat down to write, the writing simply happened of itself, so to speak. All I was doing was letting the pen move on the paper, and witnessing things, experiencing, being taught, as it was being written. It was incredibly Uranian. One immediate "liberation" was from my egocentric fear of the utilization of the English language. Truthfully, I could not keep the hand going fast enough relative to the process; the unceasing stream of thought manifesting into the brain, stepping down to Mercury. Keep in mind that Mercury correlates to the motor nerves in the anatomy of the human system. Earlier it was stated that an overload sometimes can happen between the Uranus/Mercury interface. Well, my poor hands became funny little knots. When it was done sixty days later there were five hundred and sixty handwritten pages. Two of those days were ego block when I would try to impose some ego plan on it; all the other days the words just seemed to manifest and report themselves to the paper via the pen. That was my experience. That was the Pluto book. Now with the Uranus book, Uranus transits are currently aspecting almost everything in my birthchart now, I feel the call and need to share these ideas of liberation and deconditioning; freedom from the restrictions and confines of conditional reality.

Question: It is interesting that you bring us this Uranian energy here. Do you go along with the idea of Uranus being exalted in Scorpio?

I don't deal with exaltations or falls. I just look at the archetype, just WHAT IS without making such equations or judgments.

Now let us make a specific application of Uranus in Gemini. Let us example it in the 6th House. What would be the specific individual application of this symbol?

Response: New ideas about health and food. Teaching word processing. Changing jobs. New techniques in the work world. Looking for unique ways to express one's own competence and/or uniqueness on the job. Buying a computer to study astrology. Working in the area of networking. Teaching stress management.

Let us agree with the following archetype of the 6th house at the deepest possible level: deductive thinking/logic, trying to build the whole out of the parts. So if we have Uranus in Gemini in the 6th house does this not suggest the collection of lots of facts, pieces of information from various sources, and data to make logical connections of a deductive nature in an attempt to intellectually build the whole out of the parts? But if the individual simply relied upon this approach and attitude would there ever be enough information? Would there not be all kinds of Uranian ways of combining information to create all kinds of different outcomes? Could this not degenerate into massive intellectual confusion via the endless revolving views, ways of analyzing various bits of information, and the doubt that this would generate? Would this not be an intellectual crisis? Which is wrong, which is right? What is true, not true? Doubt, crisis, because of this unending web of intellectual weavings. What would be the Uranian liberation then, freedom from what? Would it not be switching Uranus into inductive logic, i.e. identifying the whole first so that the parts would fall into place of their own accord, in their own natural order?

Question: Wouldn't one feel like a failure? Where you were taught to think one way, and that collapses or implodes, and you have to let the universe teach you?

Yes. But, again, we must always determine why any person has chosen a particular birth pattern in general in the first place, and to consider it from an evolutionary or karmic point of view. In this case, maybe the individual has a need to experience intellectual humiliation based on some other lifetime(s), or this lifetime, in which there has been or is an egocentric pride of their intellectual superiority. The point is this: whatever the prior life background has been that has brought an individual into the current life will determine why and how any symbol will manifest. There is no fixed or past meaning that always manifests the same way in all cases. In the example we are now considering the essence of this symbol simply means, from an archetypal point of view, that the person is learning to be free from excessive gathering of external information, to be free from unnecessary information gathered in this lifetime, and to be free from a reliance upon a deductive type of intellectual consciousness. Since one of the archetypes of the 6th house is one of self-improvement, is it not clear that this would translate into moving into or learning (Gemini, 6th house) a new way of analyzing, organizing, and communicating information? This new way involves an inductive intellectual consciousness that would allow for an intellectual simplification through the discovery of the whole. It means shifting to, and relying upon, the right brain versus the left. It the individual did this then a fundamental transformation would take place, a revolution, liberation, a freedom within the consciousness itself. The individual would be able to instantly (Uranus) relate to any fact, data, detail, or piece of information to the grand design of the whole, the universal. This could be applied to whatever the individual is focused upon, or interested in. This could be applied to whatever the individual is focused upon, or interested in. This could be applied on any level of evolutionary development. If the person was oriented to computer technology it would then allow for an understanding of how each component, specific, all the connections and details, worked without getting stuck or hung-up in the details in such a way that the "big picture" could not be seen. Thus, grasping the whole would allow a creative intellectual uniqueness or genius to be expressed. How the person thought about the computer, and how this thought was expressed to others, would be much different than the individual who was stuck in the details. If the person was studying dentistry, welding, banking, or whatever, this Uranian liberation in the 6th house Gemini would benefit in the same way.

Question: Can this be seen (Uranus in Gemini in the 6th house) as a defacto T-square between Gemini, Virgo, and Sagittarius with Virgo putting it together?

Not quite. If you included Pisces, a defacto Mutable Cross, then the equation would be complete. The successful resolution of the implied stress would translate into the right brain awareness of a philosophical/intellectual/conceptual foundation upon which all these thoughts that are forever flying around in the brain, all the conversations that are destined to be heard, all the books that the consciousness is destined to be exposed too, can be related and given a consistent perspective and interpretive value.

Is it not an act of liberation with respect to Uranus/Gemini in the 6th house to find a work that reflects what the individual is actually on the planet to do, versus working to just work. Is this not a challenge? Is it not an act of liberation to be freed from the 6th house archetype of humiliation in the sense on including the thought of never being quite ready (perfect, or pure enough) to do what the higher mind ( Uranus) suggests that the individual could do. Thus, to be freed from the excessive excuse making pattern that justifies, at least in these peoples own minds, why they are not going to do what they know they must do, and when they should do it.

The path to realization with Uranus/ Gemini in the 6th house is through action, not thinking the potential or contemplated action to death. The thinking will simply produce to many revolving views and lead to doubt; thus, inaction. The whole delusive attitude of perfection (6th house, Virgo) is realized through action rather than thinking or analyzing it into existence. An act of liberation is for these people to realize that they do not have to be perfect first before they do what they are here to do. From a spiritual point of view, these individuals must liberate from excessive thought. To learn how to quiet the brain in such a way as to tune into the right brain, the intuitive mind, the conceptual mind, the meditative mind that has realized that the movement of breath itself is the fuel and cause of the finite, linear, and deductive mind.

So now we have illustrated, to some extent, how these Uranian dynamics of liberation and deconditioning work. Let us now examine some of the anatomical and physiological correlation's of Uranus.

Anatomy, Physiology, and the Chakras

Uranus correlates to the hypothalamus. We all have one. It is located in the lower brain, in the back of the skull, and emits what are known as chemical messages which are impacting on the primary brain, the instinctual brain, which regulates all body functions like breathing, excreting, the sexual impulse to procreate the species, etc. This now impacts on what is called the pituitary gland which, of course, regulates the entire growth and decay of the organism. The pituitary gland's astrological correlation's are Jupiter and Saturn. Both the hypothalamus and pituitary glands connect to the pineal gland, which correlates to Neptune. So you have a triangle, a pyramid within your own consciousness. The pineal gland acts upon the hypothalamus, the hypothalamus acts upon the pituitary, and the pituitary upon the pineal. When an individual goes through Uranian times it is possible to have a disruption in the hypothalamus. This commonly manifests as misfiring of those chemical messages; short-circuited so to speak. This then impacts on the pituitary by way of the primary brain. When this happens the regulation of entire organism can suffer; it can dysfunction. Normally, when you go through Uranian times, it translates into stress.

The hypothalamus is also connected to the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system via the spinal column. These two nervous systems are ruled by Uranus. Both these systems control over seventy-two thousand other nerves throughout the body. The balance or imbalance of energy in these two nervous systems determine the level of blood circulation and pressure, which in turn implicates the heart. And the heart correlates Astrologically to the Sun; your constitutional vitality and strength. Cumulative stress will restrict the flow of blood to the brain. Over time this promotes the formation of deposits (blood clots, etc.) in the blood passageways within the brain. When a Uranian "surge" of electricity moves through the system this can promote what are called strokes. A stroke will normally disable various components of the "wiring harness" within the brain, these wiring harnesses correlating to the transmission lines that control everything: walking, speaking, memory, etc., etc., etc. Obviously, the heart itself can fail for the same reasons; accumulation of deposits due to improper circulation based on restrictive passageways. Why is it that in Western societies, during the modern era, cumulative stress is one of the main enemies to health? What is being resisted and why? One of the most common symptoms when you are going through Uranian times, beyond the conscious sense of restlessness, and the temptation to throw everything off of you in order to be free, is this cumulative stress symptom. One of the symptoms of Uranian stress is tingling of the skin, or skin disruptions of one sort or another. Another symptom is a progressive breakdown of the sheathing on the nerves. When this happens you feel like a live-wire, ungrounded, your electrical system all heated up, the circuits blowing. Because this stress will anatomically emanate from the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems, the adrenal glands can also suffer in the long run. They are located in the lower back, just above the kidneys. The adrenal glands correlate Astrologically to Mars and Venus; Mars correlating to adrenaline, Venus to cortisone. The adrenal glands regulate these substances as well as the balance and levels of progesterone and estrogen in the female, and the sexual hormones in the male. So when the electrical energy emanating from the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems becomes unbalanced, stress, then this can also promote muscular inflammation in the lower back because of the restriction in the amount of blood being circulated there. When this happens the inflamed muscles clamp down upon the adrenal glands disrupting the balance and proportions of adrenaline/cortisone, and the male/female sexual hormones. In this condition the system fluctuates between extremes of energy. If there is to much adrenaline the feeling is one of being "wired"; can't stop, no grounds, either being overly focused upon something to the exclusion of other important aspects of the life, or trying to focus on too much at the same time with an inability to keep up with it all. Conversely, when there is to much cortisone in the system there is a loss of energy and drive, a desire to withdraw or disengage from the demands of life. Fluctuating back and forth between too much or too little adrenaline and cortisone, the feeling is one of being like a yo-yo; up/down, and so on.

These extremes are also reflected in the balance of sexual hormones. In the male and female this can be experienced as the extremes between a very strong sexual need that is not easy to satisfy, and a loss of sexual desire or need. The degrees of stress determine the degree of extremes of fluctuations. The consequences of these extremes, in the long run, are more difficult for the female on an anatomical basis. If there is a loss of the necessary amounts of estrogen or progesterone, then this can promote disruptions in the menstrual cycle. When there is not enough progesterone then, during menstruation, it can promote PMS like symptoms, excessive or extreme bleeding, passing clots or material, vaginal infections of various kinds, and, in worst case scenarios, fibroid type tumors on the womb, cysts on the ovaries, and miscarriage prone. If there is too much progesterone then this can lead to a healing (physiological compensation to loss) of the female area, a very strong sexual need that is not easily satisfied, and a hyper fertile state. If there is to much estrogen in the system, then this can lead to missing periods, spotty or light bleeding, very tired during the ovulation part of the menstrual cycle, and a natural birth control type effect; very difficult to conceive. If there is not enough estrogen then the symptoms produced will in many ways mirror the loss of progesterone without the associated difficulties mentioned above. The nutritional remedies that can help correct these imbalances are panathectic acid for the adrenal glands, B-complex to cool down the nervous system and rebuild the sheathing on the nerves, niacin to correct the circulation of energy and blood throughout the system, a Chinese herb called Fo-Ti that helps to regenerate the brain by balancing the electrical activity within it. It also helps balance the male and female sexual hormones. Potassium is good for the muscle tissue, and foods that have high energy yet are "slow burn" types; grains as an example. Massage, hot baths with epsom salts, sauna's sweat lodges, brisk walks, swimming, yoga or Tai-Chi, or any activity that will promote a balancing of the psycho/physiological system. Color therapy can also help, as can gemstones.

Uranus also correlates to the lining of the lungs, and the nerves that regulate and control the breathing mechanism. For those who have an emphasized Uranus in the natal birthchart, or the Aquarian or 11th house archetypes, this area within the body can experience difficulties; irregular breathing patterns, asthma or exert ional asthma, pleurisy, or bronchial conditions of one sort or another. The associated anxiety produced through the adrenal glands, when they are not balanced, can also induce hyperventilation. Nutritional aides are Beta-Carotene to maintain the integrity of the lungs, and a combination of extract of garlic with the tinctured Herb's echinacea and mullein.

For those who are interested in the Chakras, Uranus specifically correlates to the middle layer of the root or coccyx chakra. This chakra has three layers or spheres. The outer layer or sphere correlates to Saturn. The middle layer or sphere is Uranus, and the core, where kundalini lies, is Pluto. Because kundalini energy is extremely powerful when released into the bio/psycho chemistry of the system, it lies dormant in most people. When one has a highly placed Uranus at birth, or when the Aquarian or 11th house archetypes are emphasized at birth, or when these dynamics become emphasized through transit, progression, or in the Solar Return charts, then the middle layer of the coccyx chakra can become stimulated. This is similar to a fault line within the crust of the Earth's mantle becoming active. The outer sphere of this chakra begins to break-up or crack relative to the "fault line" of Uranus underneath it. As the middle layer becomes active this in turn promotes the release of kundalini energy into the system by way of the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system. In esoteric Eastern terms, this correlates to the IDA and PINGALA nerve channels, and the PRAN and APAN tributary nerve channels that course around the spinal plexuses or Chakras (see diagram A).

When the evolutionary pace is accelerated through a Uranian, Aquarian, or 11th house emphasis, nataly or otherwise, then the conditioning patterns (Saturn) of one's identity and reality become restrictive to the intended growth and evolutionary needs of the individual (Pluto). When Uranus quickens the rate of development, the evolutionary forces of kundalini are released, in various degrees, into the system via the ida/pingala, pran/apan channels. When kundalini is released into the system it can produce various effects and symptoms that can be VERY difficult to handle or treat for those who do not know what is happening. The first thing kundalini does is to seek out any or all cells within the organism that need to be purified or purged of either chemical contaminates, or cellular "memories" from this or other lifetimes which are contributing to restriction of the growth needs. These growth needs can be restricted because of the implied security linked with familiarity, and a known quantity that can be controlled. As a result, the individual can experience various conditions that involve both the psycho/emotional and psycho/anatomical states. The emotional states will seem to be linked to other times and places, yet are triggered by the current inner and outer circumstances of the life at the time that this takes place. This can be quite disconcerting to the person who experiences this. Typically, the individual feels that they have already dealt with the issues implied in the reliving of various emotional/psychological memories when linked with THIS life. Yet, when this happens, it means that the person has not totally resolved or dealt with these issues. Thus, they must be relived in order to be dealt with so that the new cycle or growth phase can occur without that which has come before restricting its development. When this happens to you, or your client, the proper response is to allow this to happen, not to resist it. It is necessary to REFLECT upon that which is being relived in order to experience the deeper meaning or significance of whatever the memory, or the condition that is being induced, is about. This will facilitate the purging of the past that is restricting the current accelerated growth cycle or evolutionary phase.

The major problems occur when the memories that are being released are from other lifetimes. Typically, these memories are those which have been suppressed for whatever reasons (Saturn). When this occurs it can be very important for the person to have an individual who is implicitly trusted, and emotionally and psychologically sophisticated, in their life. One who can promote the reliving/releasing necessary, one who can help the person objectify (Uranus) the why (Pluto) of what is happening.

Physiologically and anatomically kundalini will seek out any cell that needs to be alchemically metamorphosed; purified. This can induce symptoms ranging from intense heat to numbing coldness throughout the body, or various localities within the body. It can induce coiling sensations along the spine via the PRAN and APAN tributary nerve channels, or various sensations and conditions within the body that are almost impossible for the allopathic physician to diagnose or treat correctly. I have even seen some people experience partial paralysis of various regions within the body on a transitory basis. In a very unusual case I witnessed the complete healing of some very damaged eyes. This took place during a meditation class that I was teaching. One of the students who came to the class had very thick coke-bottle like glasses on. A certain active meditation technique was presented to the class that had this student gouging at her eyes within a small amount of time. The student reported that her eyes "were a raging fire". Within a few weeks the student no longer had need for the glasses; perfect vision had displaced the previous condition. In this student's case, there was a very active transit of Uranus to the natal Sun and Moon, and a Pluto transit at the base of the chart.

As the kundalini energy is stimulated via the quickening action of Uranus, there is an increase of pressure put on the nerves that emanate from the coccyx chakra. This can impact on the nerves that regulate the sexual function of the body via the sacral chakra. The sacral chakra is one inch or so above the coccyx chakra. The person can experience extremes between a tremendous intensification of sexual desire because of this pressure, or a total loss of interest because the pressurized sexual energy is being used for other purposes, i.e. to penetrate to the core of other cellular structures that need to be the recipient of, and impregnated by, the alchemical nature of kundalini as it seeks to alter or purify the system. The nutritional and eating habits of most people who experience these types of conditions should be altered to accommodate the changes that are going on within the system.

Now that we have covered some of the physiological and anatomical correlation's of Uranus, I would like to open up to whatever specific questions you have, or to any point that we have discussed that you would like expanded upon or clarified.

Response: I would like to spend more time on Uranus aspects. To review what they mean, and to have an example or two.

Aspects

OK. Great. Uranus, beyond being in a sign and house, will be forming some aspects to other natal planets in most cases. This simply means that whatever planet(s) that Uranus is aspecting is subjected to an accelerated evolutionary pace. This reflects the essential Uranian archetypes of liberation and de-conditioning from how those planets (behaviors, orientations, how they have been defined) have manifested up until this life. If you adopt or accept the evolutionary view, life to life, expressed in Pluto: The Evolutionary Journey Of The Soul, then the orb situation within the aspect range will suggest how old or new this development is. In other words, if the aspect is an applying aspect with respect to the absolute aspect - i.e. Venus at five degrees of Scorpio, and Uranus at five degrees Gemini, equals an absolute waxing inconjunct aspect - or is separating from the absolute aspect, this basic division suggests that one situation is newer than the other in evolutionary terms. The orb situation in either case can be equated to how new or old the condition is. The phase background, i.e. new phase, crescent phase, first quarter, etc. that the aspect occurs within will supply additional and precise information with regards to the evolutionary condition, and specific orientation of the planet(s) is question. This type of understanding is important for you to know because it will serve to not only make you analysis incredibly specific, but will adjust the very approach and language you take and use with the client in front of you.

Because of the acceleration of the deconditioning process, the process of individuation, of whatever planet(s) that Uranus forms an aspect to will be experienced differently than how the status-quo in the areas of life that are symbolized by the planet(s) in aspect to Uranus. If not, then the person will attempt to bond with a peer group as an act of psychological compensation in order to feel socially and, therefore, individually secure. If the person responds to the evolutionary need of Uranus, then he or she can progressively experience and actualize their OWN uniqueness, genius, individuality, and creativity relative to the planet(s) forming aspects(s) to Uranus, and the houses that they manifest through. This is also true of planets that are in the natal 11th house, where the sign Aquarius is located by house, planets that are "awakened" by a Uranus transit, progressed planets forming an aspect to natal Uranus, and planets transiting through the 11th house.

Now let us example Uranus square Mercury. What function has come under the influence of this Uranian impulse to decondition, to individuate, to free-up from that which has been? It is Mercury. So, who has some thoughts on how this would manifest; the intent?

Response: To radically alter and shake-up the person's thought processes; to bring in new ideas.

Yes. To, in effect, think for him/herself. The need is for the person to develop their own mind, their own views, their own ideas and opinions, their own unique way of intellectually organizing reality in such a way as to reflect their essential nature. Thus, this person will typically rebel against being told what to think, what to believe, or even what to do in order to accomplish the life tasks and goals. This rebelling can take the form of overt arguments, or silent detachment, that does not allow the external information to be taken in at all. The stream of thought may be heard, but not taken in. This aspect will commonly produce a continuous or cyclically restless person. This type of person will commonly have two distinct intellectual cycles. One cycle will find the person eager and restless to create or discover new knowledge in a variety of ways, this need for knowledge or experience reflecting the person's need to understand its essential nature.

The other cycle will reflect the person's need to withdraw in order to assimilate that which they have been doing, discovering, thinking about, reading, discussing, or rebelling against. If this cyclic need to withdraw is not honored, then the danger of Uranian overload would exist which could produce some of the physiological and anatomical conditions discussed earlier. It could also induce psychological fracturing and disassociated thought processes.

In general, this type of person will be an eclectic thinker. Because of the square, there will be tremendous tension between the higher mind or right brain, and the left brain function of Mercury. One of the conflicts this can produce, as an example, is getting the Mercury intellect in sync with the rapidity of the Uranian vibration. Sometimes this can be as basic as not being able to get the muscles and nerves of the mouth to move quick enough. More and more Uranian streams of thought/vibrations pour in as the Mercury intellect/mouth attempt to process and release it. This can produce very rapid speaking, incomplete sentences, or a stream of ideas that are so new that those listening can not keep up (assimilate) with them. Similarly, this can induce an impatience when listening to others because the person is usually many thoughts or steps ahead of the other person. This could create intellectual conflict could it not? What if they were trying to converse with someone who had Mercury in Taurus conjunct Saturn retrograde in the 12th house!? Because of these possibilities this aspect recommends that the individual discover specific activities that are unique to the person, activities that have the effect of focusing, channeling, and concentrating the mental processes. These activities, whatever they may be, will calm the person and induce a center of utter detachment and objectivity that is gravitated too. When this occurs, the necessary patience towards others, and towards the individual him/herself, will manifest.

Now let's make it even more specific. Let's put Uranus in Cancer within the 5th house, square Mercury in Libra within the 8th house. Just as we considered Uranus square Mercury from an archetypal point of view, so must we now consider the archetype of Uranus in Cancer in the 5th house, square Mercury in Libra in the 8th house. In effect, we have just CONDITIONED the archetype of Uranus square Mercury. This is exactly where the heart of astrology exists: the ability to synthesize various archetypes. The ability to do so separates the astrologer with real ability from the ones who simply repeat what they have memorized from books and classes. What kinds of statements can you make as you consider this equation, and the need to synthesize it? The great hurdle is now in front of us. What I would suggest you do is to start your analysis with linear, deductive logic and finish it with holistic, inductive logic. This simply means moving from one layer, adding another layer, another, and so on until you have all the layers put together. Once all the layers are in place you will then have a whole structure to look at. This will promote the awareness of the whole, and allow for an inductive awareness promoting synthesis of the whole structure.

Deductive logic needs a starting point. Astrologically, the starting point will be the natural zodiac because the archetype of the first house, second house, etc. is constant. In addition, the zodiac symbolizes the totality of human consciousness. A sign on a house symbolizes how the specific archetype of consciousness being considered, i.e. the house, is oriented to the universal, and the specific cultural context that one is born into. The totality of signs on all natural houses symbolizes how each individual is uniquely oriented to the universal and the cultural. The planets within the houses correlates to and symbolizes the psychology of consciousness, how the consciousness is motivated and put together; the fuel in the engine so to speak.

So, considering our example, the process of deductive logic would create the following equation and procedure:

Step one: To consider the archetypal nature of the fifth house.

Step two: After considering this, adding the archetype of Cancer to it.

Step three: After considering this, adding the planet Uranus in Cancer to it.

Step four: After considering this, adding the linkage of a square to Mercury. For those who work with phases you would then add the fact that it is a first quarter square (since specific degrees have not been designated in our example, we will call it a first quarter square).

Step five: After considering this, adding the archetype of Mercury in Libra.

Step six: After considering this, adding the archetype of Mercury in the eighth house.

You will notice that we started step one with a consideration of the archetypal meaning of the fifth house, and ended our analysis with the addition of the eighth house. This type of procedure symbolizes the linkage or interface between deductive and inductive logic; each linear step leading to the whole. The whole can be seen from the point of view of deductive logic. Yet, if you remain focused upon deductive logic only, you will not be able to grasp the whole. Through deductive logic we can make a series of progressive statements or deductions based on procedure. The birth chart, like life, happens simultaneously, and is interactive. To understand the deductive equation holistically, inductively, you must shift your focus from the left brain to the right. In so doing, intuition becomes the baseline of your evaluation; a non-linear, inductive grasp of the totality of the equation as it interacts within itself, and with other birth chart dynamics. Simply speaking, this type of awareness can be realized through stopping the deductive process after the procedural sequence has been fulfilled, and just closing the eyes so that the right brain can guide the left brain.

Now let's use this deductive procedure and example it using the astrological equation of Uranus in a fifth house Cancer square Mercury in a eight house Libra. Let us just focus on some simple, archetypal deductions. In other words, let's not get overly concerned with every little detail right now.

Step one: The archetypal nature of the fifth house is to creatively actualize and establish the individual purpose of one's life, and to creatively actualize through self-projection the nature of one's personality and distinct individuality. The intent or motive of self-projection is one of self-discovery. Self-discovery is creatively realized through such projection, as well as through the reaction to the act of self-projection. This reaction takes the form of "feedback" from the environment that one inhabits, or through internal feedback within oneself as a creative self-projection is taking place.

Step two: Adding the archetype of Cancer will now condition how the archetypal need within human consciousness to creatively actualize itself manifests. The archetype of Cancer correlates to the need in human consciousness to secure itself through formulating a self-image. A self-image can be called an egocentric structure or conscious center within a consciousness that has individuated. The total nature on one's inner and outer environments determines the nature, quality, type, and kind of self-image. Cancer correlates to close environments; family, home, friends of likemind, etc. The sense of security linked with one's self-image, which is formed through inner and outer environments, creates dependencies and induces the fear of insecurity. Security of self-image is linked with the need for self-consistency. Anything that threatens one's need for self-consistency induces the threat of fear of insecurity. This need is so strong in human consciousness that it induces or creates what is called emotion. Forms of emotion are moods and feelings. "This is what I am", "this is what is real, not real", "this is what I need", and similar types of statements symbolize the egocentric structure within human consciousness that is identified with whatever contributes to its sense of individuality from everything that it is not.

Cancer on the fifth house thus means the need to creatively actualize the egocentric center of the individual, a center in which the individual is inwardly senses as an intense (the 5th house is naturally fixed, fixed = intense) emotional vortex that needs to be projected, actualized, and established in the outer environment; the 5th house is also a natural FIRE archetype. The act of projecting the intense, emotional egocentric center of the individual can induce the fear of insecurity, an insecurity that is emotionally based on exposure within the outer environment. The natural antithesis of the competing archetypes of water and fire induce an ever changing self-image or egocentric center. This leads to emotional cycles of creatively self-projecting (acting), and withdrawal. The ever changing self-image or egocentric center. This leads to emotional cycles of creatively self-projecting (acting), and withdrawal. The ever changing self-image can induce inconsistency, start and stops, and leads to inner and outer feedback that REFLECTS all of these dynamics. Cancer on the fifth house, in effect, means that as an act of creative self-projection the individual is giving birth to themself. This can induce heavy, and overly subjective, involvement with themself. Delusions of grandeur could thus be spawned, as well as cycles of emotional negativity, emotional defense with respect to negative feedback, and feeling emotionally and egocentricaly threatened by the creative acts, projections, or displays of other people in the immediate environment.

Step three: Adding Uranus in Cancer to this will further condition the equation. Beyond the archetypal need to liberate and be free from delusions of grandeur, feeling threatened by others creative power, defensiveness associated with negative feedback, feeling insecure through environmental exposure when self-projecting, stands the need to CREATIVELY APPLY and ACTUALIZE all the ideas about the self, or that which the creative principle is applied to that is being expressed through the self, as they occur; or shortly thereafter. Uranus will generate such ideas in an almost unceasing stream via the right brain. All to often these ideas are left at an ideational stage only; not applied. The problem of non-application is generated at the egocentric/emotional level of the person's consciousness; the fear of insecurity linked with exposure. The maturation of the ideas can only happen through applied action or creative self-projection. Until this is done, the ideas are left at the formulated stage only, much as a fully developed baby is in the womb waiting to be actualized through the act of birth.

Uranus here means to realize what and who is doing the creating. The answer, ultimately, is THAT which created creation in the first place. In other words, Uranus/Cancer in the 5th house means to objectively acknowledge on a subjective level that there is more than just the egocentricaly focused individual taking place upon the stage of life itself. This basic realization will allow for the liberation from the problems above. It will allow for an objective, detached awareness of the cause and basis of any experienced emotion, mood, or feeling. Feedback of all kinds can be objectively considered and responded too, instead of reacted against. This awareness will promote the liberation that allows the individual to let his or her life take its own course, versus the need to control every bend in the river in order to feel secure. It will allow a freedom to change self-image, lifestyle, or whatever else as needed, versus being overly invested in one image, one lifestyle, one form of creative expression. This awareness will allow other people to be who they uniquely are, versus the egocentric emotional need to recreate everyone and everything in the individual's own image. And, in the last analysis, following all this, the individual will decondition from ALL external conditioning that has shaped his or her sense of egocentric individuality. Thus, what is creatively being actualized is an individual who is giving birth to itself from the womb of its soul.

Step four: Now we add the square from Uranus to Mercury to further condition the equation. The need for creative self-discovery and actualization of the individual's own nature becomes channeled (the channeling is through the aspect) through Mercury. Thus, the individual will manifest an intense (square) need to mentally (Mercury, Uranus) and emotionally (Cancer, and the fire/fixed archetypes of the fifth house) experiences a diversity of experiences that promote the progressive increase in self-knowledge through the information gathered from the experiences themselves. On the one hand, the external conditions of the individual's early environment that keyed his or her sense of identity will be progressively rebelled against, while, on the other hand, he or she will seek out experiences that are linked to the motive and evolutionary need to reformulate the egocentric center to reflect the essential nature; that which is revealed through progressive deconditioning. The square also means that the individual will progressively generate his or her own ideas, opinions, and knowledge about what life is. The person will progressively seek out people of like mind in order to feel inwardly secure on an emotional level, and to seek out environments that provide egocentric nourishment and encouragement. Thus, the need for environmental "feedback" reflecting the individual's creative self-projection that is being actualized through rebellion of that which it is intrinsically not, will be realized. The square to Mercury will also promote the need to cyclically withdraw from external experiences and environments in order to inwardly regenerate. This regeneration is accomplished through intellectually and emotionally digesting and assimilating that which has been discovered through the external experiences and environments. In this way, intellectual and emotional stability will be realized.

Step five: Now we will add Mercury being in Libra to the equation. This archetype will generate the need (Libra, Cancer) to initiate or seek out relationships that have the potential for intimacy or closeness; more than just like-minded friends. This need will promote a sequential approach to new contents with people. The sequence starts with the individual engaging another on a completely intellectual level to determine the other's state of mind, the nature of that mind, the nature of its values, beliefs, and orientations to life itself. This is done not only to determine the DEGREE of similarity, but to gauge the level of TRUST that is possible between the two. The level of trust will determine the degree of closeness; how close the individual will let the other become. This is the intrinsic conflict between Cancer and Libra. The need, thus motive, within the individual is to discover and creatively actualize a close circle of a few others whom can provide the necessary feedback concerning the nature and state of the individual's life at whatever moment. Mercury in Libra also demands that the person learn through conflict ( the square ) how to be in relationships in general as an equal, not in relationships in a self-centered, self-consumed way. Just as the individual wants to be considered special by others ( 5th house linked to Libra), so to must the person treat others as special. Just as the individual wants others to listen (Libra) to what he or she has to say, so to must the person learn to Listen to others in order to objectively (Uranus) identify anothers REALITY as it exists for them, not listening to others through the self-centered subjectivity of the 5th house. Just as the person wants to be encouraged for who she or he IS, so to must the person learn to do this for others.

Step six: Finally, we add Mercury in the eighth house to the equation. The process of creative self-discovery and actualization is now linked to the evolutionary lesson of limits; what the person can and can't do, can and can't be, what the person is and is not, and to learn how to accept (Mercury in the eight house) these limits by cooperating with them (Mercury in Libra squaring Uranus in Cancer in the fifth house). Other people will manifest in the person's life at critical junctures to provide the necessary feedback concerning the nature of such limits. These junctures will be normally linked to emotional or intellectual confrontations. These confrontations will involve various levels of intensity and conflict. After the heat of the battle the individual will internalize or withdraw. In so doing, the person can reflect on the nature of what has happened; the search for the eighth house WHY. This allows for an objective awareness as to what such an experience(s) mean. They will contribute to the ongoing search for self-knowledge in all the ways that we have discussed. Self-knowledge will also take on a psychological focus as the individual seeks to determine the cause, basis, and "why's" of how it thinks, emotes, and feels. This conditioning will thus narrow the types of knowledge, information, or experiences that the individual seeks out. It will tend to eliminate random experiences, information, etc., and narrow the types of people that the person seeks out to know or be in relationship with. It will also stop unnecessary conversations or dialogue; unless there exists a reason or need to talk the person just won't. The individual will tend to be attracted to magnetic, hypnotic, intense, powerful, straightforward people; people who are who they are, not people who are others want them to be. These types of people thus motivate (eighth house) the individual to be who he or she intrinsically IS, to throw off all external conditioning factors. In this way they will progressively be attracted to relationship dynamics that are in defiance to the status-quo.

In such relationships the sexual dynamic itself will be "experimented" (Uranus) with. The individual will have an intellectual and emotional need to penetrate sexual "mysteries" or taboos. This need reflects the progressive status-quo even at this level. This need can take on many forms. On an archetypal level, the person is learning how to integrate his or her anima/animus dynamic in all the ways thus far discussed, and now through the sexual dynamic. This could be as simple as sexual role equality involving sexual creativity that is expressed in a variety of ways. This need is linked with the person's desire for creative self-projection and discovery, the person's need to reformulate the egocentric center in order to reflect the essence of what the person uniquely is.

This example represents the deductive process, step by step. You can apply this method to the whole chart. At this point, in order to experience an inductive awareness of the whole, I would suggest you sit back and close your eyes so that all of this information can be understood AT ONCE. In this way, you will understand that the inductive approach leads to a circular awareness that allows for an ever increasing deepening of the primary archetypes that are involved. This understanding in turn will allow for an increasing awareness of more and more details, more subtleties and nuances. Your understanding will be accurate and precise.

Now let us remember that a natal aspect between Uranus and another planet(s) will be a dynamic within the individual's consciousness for an entire lifetime. This is also true for the natal house and sign location of Uranus itself, and also the sign located on the eleventh house cusp. The planetary ruler of the sign on the 11th house cusp, by house and sign locality, will determine to what area of life the person draws upon in order to facilitate the dynamics of liberation, freedom, and deconditioning from that which has come before. In addition, where the sign Aquarius is located by house will also correlate to a area within the individual's total consciousness that is trying to be uniquely revolutionized to reflect the essence of the intrinsic individual. Since Uranus is the planetary co-ruler of Aquarius, it's sign and house locality shows where and how this can be done. Saturn, the other co-ruler of Aquarius, will determine, by house and sign locality, where, why, and how the individual restricts the Uranian impulse. This can be modified when Saturn is retrograde unless the person is effecting psychological compensation leading to conformity to the status-quo in order to feel socially, thus individually, secure.

Transits

When Uranus forms an aspect(s) to natal planets through transit, when planets transit the 11th house, by examining the continuous movement of the planetary ruler of the natal eleventh house cusp as it transits the birthchart, or when planets transit the house that the sign Aquarius is on (the cusp), or when natal planets that are in Aquarius at birth are observed through transit, or when progressed planets form aspects to natal Uranus, then apply the above deductive/inductive method to determine the meaning of what is happening. All of these various factors correlate to the archetypes of deconditioning, liberation, and freedom from the known: past conditions. They all contribute. The combination of these factors correlates to the feeling in all people of being different than anyone else. The degree of differentness, how much it is emphasized in any one individual, is determined by the degree of Uranian energy in their nature. In other words, if one has four of five planets in the eleventh house, and Uranus rising on their Ascendant, this would be different than having Uranus in the twelfth house with no planets in the eleventh house. The Uranian dynamic is emphasized more. All people will have Uranus, the sign Aquarius, and a sign with planetary ruler on the eleventh house cusp. This is the COMMON DENOMINATOR in all peoples. Accordingly, we will focus our attention on the planet Uranus because it embodies the primary principles that we are examining.

The shortest amount of time that we can live through a Uranus transit is eighteen months from an individual point of view, and eight years from a collective point of view. Whatever sign Uranus is transiting will have a collective intent and impact. Yet, it will also have an individual intent and impact relative to not only the sign, but the house that it is transiting in each birth chart. Uranus will spend eight years transiting in each birth chart. Uranus will spend eight years transiting a house, sixteen if intercepted. It's primary impulse, over eighteen months or so, is reflected by its movement or crossing of the cusp itself; five degrees before and after. The issues that the sign and house correlate too ultimately must be referred to the natal placement of Uranus; its house and sign locality. In effect, the issues that Uranus brings to the surface through transit, in order to be liberated from the past conditions which have defined them, have a direct effect upon the ONGOING deconditioning impulse of natal Uranus's house and sign locality, and the aspects that it is making to other planets. The two phenomena's are linked and, thus, interactive. And, of course, the natal Uranus must be referred to the sign Aquarius; its house locality. This natural, ongoing triad is manifesting in our lives all the time.

A simple example to illustrate this triad: Natal Uranus is in Gemini in the person's eighth house, Aquarius is on the I.C., and transiting Uranus is in Sagittarius within the individual's second house, opposing natal Uranus. Let us assume the past in order to understand how this transiting effect would manifest. Let us assume that the individual grew up in a poor family environment from a monetary point of view, and that the monetary lack created an intense emotional tension within the family unit because the parents were confrontive with each other over this condition. Would not this family imprint condition the individual's self-image, and key in a linkage between monetary and emotional issues? Relative to context, let us project that the Uranus transit in Sagittarius through the second house has radically changed the person's monetary and resource conditions. This may have occurred through opportunities (Sagittarius) to expand upon an existing career. By now having conditions that allow for more money, and the new possessions that go along with this, how would this impact on the self-image and the emotional issues that were keyed in nataly via the early family conditions? The Uranus transit, in this context, would promote the opportunity to change or liberate from the conditions that shaped the individual's identity and emotions, and to evolve a new one. This could include purchasing new possessions like a home or land (Aquarius on the I.C.), and/or expanding or fixing up the existing home. At minimum, it would certainly involve the individual's moving from a self-image that manifested as seeing him or herself as poor, to a self-image that will progressively become more positive because of the expansion of opportunities and financial increase.

When the Uranian archetype becomes active through transit it will begin to produce "signals" that portend the future for an individual, nation, or the world. These signals are initially just little flashes that seem totally out of existing context (Saturn) of individual or collective reality. Accordingly, these signals are rarely understood or headed. Relative to the quickening or acceleration of individual or collective evolutionary necessities, these signals become more frequent and more tightly spaced together relative to the situation, event, development, or necessity that the original signals meant. By not heading the manifestation of the original signals the individual or collective is 'surprised' when the situation, event, etc. 'suddenly' happens; the unexpected or out-of-the-blue phenomena's associated with Uranus. Unprepared, the individual or collective then must rapidly adjust to the whatever situation or development has occurred in order to reintegrate and stabilize least the situation induces a personal or collective feeling or fear of 'being out of control'.

A current phenomena in the West, and some industrialized countries in the East, that reflects this will illustrate the point: the increasing rate of teenage suicides. This phenomena initially occurred amongst the group who have Pluto and Uranus in Virgo. A certain percentage of this group has a core (Pluto) feeling of futility related to the projection (Uranus) of their own futures (Uranus). This core feeling induces a psychology of crisis, ultimate aloneness, and a future that is projected in t