Uranus/Neptune Natal Aspects - New Religions, Expansion of Consciousness, Mass Entrancements, and Past Lives

(The greatest majority of this comes from Cosmos and Psyche by Richard Tarnas, Ph.D.  I’ve condensed it to make it easier to read and added a few more dates.)

If you were born from roughly 1951 to 1958 or from 1992 to 1996, then you have a hard aspect between Uranus and Neptune in your chart. You may be drawn to any of the following and you may have experienced other lifetimes in any of the past Uranus/Neptune historical time periods below.

On one level Uranus/Neptune brings non-conformist ideas and activities (Uranus) that combine with spirituality (Neptune).

These include:

new religions

new philosophical movements

widespread spiritual awakenings

an interest in life after death

mystical spirituality

a collective belief that a different world will take the place of this one

spiritually - inspired political activism

 

Historical Uranus/Neptune time periods include:

590 - 550 B.C.E.         The birth of Taoism in China

                                    The time of the Oracle of Delphi in Greece

                                    The major prophets of Judaism; the Hebrew scriptures composed

                                    The time of Zoraster in Persia

                                    The age of Buddha in India

                                    The time of Pythagoras and the Greek philosophers

402 - 397 B.C.E          The time of Socrates

16 - 32     B.C.E          The time of Jesus and his original spiritual teachings

612 - 630     C.E          The founding of Islam by Mohammed

1214 -1230  C.E.         The spread of Cathar Gnostic-Christian beliefs in southern France

The time of St. Francis of Assisi

1301-1314   C.E.         Mystical fervor in Europe - Dante; Meister Eckhart in Germany;

                                    the Zohar composed and the teaching of the Kabbalah in Spain;

1385            C.E.         The King James version of Bible printed in England

1568                            John Knox’s Presbyterian movement in Scotland

                                    The teaching of the Kabbalah in Jerusalem

1643 - 1654                 The Quakers founded

The Puritan Revolution and civil war in England - (coincided with Uranus/Pluto)

1728 - 1740                 Methodism founded by John Wesley in England

The first ‘Great Awakening” in the American colonies with its intention to ‘create a new Israel in America

1824 - 1829                 Mormonism founded

                                    The Ba’hai faith founded

                                    Christian Science founded

The second ‘Great Awakening’ - camp revivals, evangelism carried out by Baptist and Methodist lay preachers

Calvinism displaced by personal salvation and free will in Christianity

1906 - 1918                 The rise of Spiritualism with its emphasis on life after  death after the deaths of millions in World War I

                                    Rudolf Steiner, who joined Christianity and Buddhism

Yogananda and Krishnamurti in India

Pentecostalism founded                        

                                   

On a different level, hard aspects between Uranus and Neptune also bring technological innovation (Uranus) combined with imagination and changes in consciousness (Neptune).

These include:

heightened creativity

artistic and scientific innovations

transpersonal psychology

the search for a higher reality

Utopian social visions

esoteric philosophy

a blurring between fantasy and reality

periods of spiritual confusion and disorientation

the susceptibility of the public to mass entrancements

Time periods include:

300 B.C.E.                   Plato composes The Republic

1480 - 1486                 The Renaissance in Italy, including the works of Leonardo DaVinci

1820 - 1829                 Romanticism in Europe - the poetry of Keats and Shelley;

Beethoven’s - “Ode to Joy” in classical music

                                    Carl Jung’s spiritual interpretation of dreams

                                    Esoteric philosophy emerged - William James, Alfred North Whitehead

                                    The first photographs invented

                                    Transcendentalism in Europe and America

                                    The discovery of the Rosetta Stone in Egypt

                                    The founding of Egyptology      

           

1906 - 1918                 Ghandi joined spirituality and activism in India

                                    Motion pictures invented and began to influence the public mind

                                    The use of hypnotism  

The increased use of absinthe, laudanum by the public

1951 - 1958                 The use of mind-altering psychedelic drugs to achieve spiritual enlightenment or to experience a different reality

                                    The dramatic increase in alcoholism after World War II

                                    The ‘Beat’ movement and rise of the Beatniks

                                    The Zen movement

                                    The international 'revivals' of Billy Graham, evangelist

                                   

1992 - 1994                 The development of the Internet and social media speeds up flow of information

                                    The interconnectedness of global communities

The loss of distinct cultural traditions, languages, religions, and communities through mass media, globalization, and immigration

The growth of Christianity - Pentecostal, evangelical, charismatic, and Holiness - through missionary work

The spread of Mormonism

The rise of Korean mega-churches

The reassertion of ‘Biblical values’ combined with nationalism in America

Cult movements like Heavens’ Gate, the Branch Davidians, etc.

Evangelical Christian music - Christian rock, ‘praise and worship’ music

Mass prayer vigils

A renewed interest in past lives, the near-death experience, life after death, angels, divination, the Tarot, astrology, and numerology

                                    A renewed interest in the West in Rumi

                                    A renewed interest in the West in Buddhism

                                    An interest in shamanism of indigenous cultures

                                    A renewed interest in Gnosticism

                                    Films having to do with myth, legend, and otherworldly themes

The prevalence of addictions to drugs, alcohol, consumerism, video games, the Internet, and social media

Widespread fascination and addiction to ‘image’ as created by mass media

The saturation of consciousness by technologically produced hyper-stimulating images on TV and the Internet

Free access to music, films, and images from the Web - all of which can be revised and inter-spliced to create another reality

Computer hacking

                                    Public use of cell phones which subject others to one’s own reality

                                    The extensive marketing of new prescription drugs by the media

The Effects of the Uranus/Pluto Square of 2012 - 2015

Since September 2012 and lasting until March 16, 2015, six Uranus-Pluto squares have been taking place. This means that the Uranus/Pluto squares have shadowed at this past entire two and a half years.

Squares are motivators – they compel you to resolve the issues related to the planets involved in the square. 

Just as in the 1960’s, this has been a time of revolution worldwide. People who have been oppressed have risen up to overthrow corrupt leaders, and corruption has been exposed almost daily worldwide since 2012.

From this point forward, the old paradigms that we have so long been accustomed to (and longed to escape from) will begin to change. The people whose charts contain the Uranus-Pluto conjunction of the mid-to-late 1960’s are given opportunities to be forerunners in this change, pulling the rest of us along with them.

And, if any of the Uranus-Pluto squares hit a planet in our charts, we are also given an opportunity (whether it feels like one or not!) to change things on a personal level, to have our own personal revolution. 

It means that we can feel compelled to make a new start by letting go of any time-consuming and energy-draining people/situations that have been holding us back, or by totally rethinking the way we deal with them. It’s the ‘I’ve had enough, and I’m not taking this any more’ aspect, and in that respect, it’s a positive thing.

The exact dates and degrees of the Uranus/Pluto squares are:

Sept. 19, 2012             Uranus at Aries 6º57     Pluto at Capricorn 6º57

May 20, 2013              Uranus at Aries 11º14    Pluto at Capricorn 11º14

November 1, 2013      Uranus at Aries 9º25    Pluto at Capricorn 9º25

April 21, 2014            Uranus at Aries 13º34    Pluto at Capricorn 13º34

December 14, 2014    Uranus at Aries 12º35    Pluto at Capricorn 12º35

March 16, 2015          Uranus at Aries 15º17    Pluto at Capricorn 15º17

If you have planets, or any important points such as the Ascendant or the Midheaven in Aries, Cancer, Libra, or Capricorn in any of the above degrees in your birth chart, then you will be affected by the Uranus/Pluto squares.

Houses Involved:

The house that holds the Aries, Cancer, Libra, or Capricorn planets in the above degrees will show you the areas of your life that you are being asked to change now.

If you should also have the Uranus/Pluto conjunction in your chart, the house that holds that conjunction will be affected. 

In general, the houses and the areas of life that they govern are:

1^st house - your physical body, your personality, your identity, the way you appear to others, self-awareness, new beginnings, initiating new projects. 

2^nd house - your own personal resources - financial ones and the skills and knowledge you possess,  feelings of self-worth, personal beauty, the things that make you feel physically secure, your personal values, the Earth and things having to do with the Earth such as plants, gardening, forests, and a love of music.

3^rd house - your communications with others, the way you think and express yourself, writing, teaching, lecturing, using your mind to create, your immediate neighborhood and community, your relationship with your siblings. 

4^th house - your physical home, the land itself, your mother, your family of origin, the way you mother or take care of others, your roots - your past, history, or traditions, extended family, clans or tribes, the things that make you feel emotionally secure,

5^th house - children, your own personal ability to create, love and romance, acting and actors, the theatre, movies, and the entertainment industry, the ability to play and have fun, feelings of self-esteem, taking risks or chances, big-hearted generosity toward others. 

6^th house - work, health, service to others, healing and all types of healers - doctors, nurses, veterinarians or alternative healers - nutrition, food as medicine, the analytical mind and the need for perfection, animals, including pets, the military, and those who seek to reform corrupt people or institutions.

7^th house - relationships in which you share resources, such as in a marriage or a business partnership, harmony, diplomacy and peacekeeping, the need for balance and equality in relationships, justice, social groups, awareness of others as opposed to an awareness of the self (1^st house), beautiful things, including those in the arts - paintings, sculptures, photography, and the artists who create them.

8^th house (the Pluto house) - the death of an old way and birth of a new one, in-depth research, inheritances or debts (because both have to do with other people’s money), the continuing existence of life after death, the near-death experience, things that are hidden, things going on below the surface of public knowledge, the study of the ‘occult,’ the business world.

9^th house - philosophy, higher wisdom, colleges and universities, long distance travel to other countries, exploration, sports, religion and the clergy, the need for freedom, including the freedom to explore other cultures and other belief systems, books and publishing. 

10^th house - your work in the world (which may or may not be your actual career), your reputation, how others see you as a force in the world, your achievements in the outer world, your father, serving as a mentor to others.

11^th house (the Uranus house) humanitarian efforts to make the world a better place, groups of like-minded individuals who are trying to do just that, your dreams and hopes for the future, an inclination towards the future rather than the past, friendships, social media, television and the Internet, aviation, astrology.

12^th house - mysticism, dreams, illusions, fantasy, other dimensions of reality, visions of other worlds, past lives, places of retreat such as monasteries or temples, spirituality, any of the arts, including films, that provide an escape from ordinary reality, self-sacrifice, addictions, deceit and deception, compassion for others.

The Uranus/Pluto Conjunction of 1964 -1969, Revolutions, and Past Lives

“The presence of the outer planets (Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto) in hard aspect in a chart compel an individual to become involved in certain things which are in turn related to past periods in history when that same aspect was active.”  Richard Tarnas, Ph.D. in Cosmos and Psyche.

The hard aspects are the conjunction, the square, and the opposition.  Hard aspects of Uranus and Pluto are rare.  These two planets only come together in a conjunction every 100 - 120 years. 

Uranus is awakening; Pluto is depth.  Any hard aspect - conjunction, square, or opposition - between them indicates a deep awakening in the population that changes the paradigms of a culture.

The combined energy when these two planets come together can be likened to a fault line (Uranus) beneath a volcano (Pluto).  When it goes, the landscape (and one’s society) is forever changed.

Pluto in its most negative form is the oligarchy, and Uranus seeks to overturn those in power and focus on the needs of the common people.

If you were born from 1929 to 1937 and from 1964 to 1969, you have a hard aspect between Uranus and Pluto in your chart.

There was a square between Uranus and Pluto in 1929 to 1937 and a rare conjunction of Uranus and Pluto in 1964 to 1969.

The conjunction is an extremely strong influence in the charts of people born from 1964 to 1969.  The house that contains it in their charts is the point where they will experience a personal revolution in their way of thinking that has the potential to influence the society in which they live.

                             

They likely had previous lives during other time periods influenced by Uranus-Pluto hard aspects.

Some of these other revolutionary Uranus-Pluto time periods include:

• The fall of Constantinople and mass emigration of scholars to the West that precipitated the Renaissance

• The time of Guttenberg and the printing press - 1450’s

• The Scientific Revolution of the 1600’s - the time of Kepler and Galileo and revolutionary thinking in astronomy 

• The culture of Peter the Great and St. Petersburg in Russia in the very early 1700’s

• The beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the invention of the steam engine which began the age of coal, steam, and iron - 1705 to 1711 

• The beginning of mass production techniques and the mechanization of the textile industries - 1787 

• The French Revolution -1789 

• The invention of the cotton gin in the southern United States - 1793 

The Uranus - Pluto conjunction of 1845 to 1856:

• The discovery of oil’s use as fuel and the beginning of the age of oil - 1845-1846

• Revolutionary upheaval in almost every capital of Europe from 1848 to 1849 - in Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Budapest, Dresden, Baden, Prague, Rome, and Milan

• The Pope forced to leave Rome because of revolutionary forces - late 1840’s

• Anti-slavery and abolitionist movements led by Frederick Douglas and Harriet Tubman in the United States - late 1840’s 

• The women’s suffrage/right to vote movement - late 1840’s

• Darwin’s theory of evolution - 1855

• The invention of the telegraph, railroads, and huge steamships - late 1840’s

• Karl Marx wrote “The Communist Manifesto”

• Thoreau wrote “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”

• India’s citizens’ rebellion against the British Empire
• Rebellion in China 
• The forced opening of Japan to the West 

The Uranus - Pluto opposition of 1898 to 1907:

• Progressive and radical labor movements in Europe and North America in the late 1890’s in protest against industrialist robber barons - coincided with Saturn/Pluto - 1898

• International Workers of the World (the IWW) labor union founded in opposition to the Robber Barons of industry

• The Dreyfuss Affair and Emil Zola’s letter to the President of France - ‘J’accuse’ re anti-Semitism in France - 1898 - coincided with Saturn/Pluto

• Major socialist parties founded in England, the U.S., Russia and France

• Bolsheviks under Lenin and Trotsky began modern Communism

• The emergence of jazz in the black community in New Orleans

• A militant womens’ rights movement began - 1903

• The Black civil rights movement began - the Niagara protest movement - 1903

• The Wright brothers developed the first airplane - 1903

• The development of radio and moving pictures - early 1900’s

• The beginning of mass production of automobiles, buses, trucks, motorcycles

• The discovery of oil in Texas - early 1900’s

• The beginning of oil exploration in the Middle East - early 1900’s 

• The Russian Revolution of 1905-1906

• The Sinn Fein nationalist independence movement in Ireland - early 1900’s 

The Uranus - Pluto square of 1929 to 1937:

*** This coincides to the time we are now going through - the Uranus - Pluto square of 2007 to 2015.

• The worldwide Great Depression with its mass migrations of refugees from the Midwest Dust Bowl - early 1930’s  - Coincided with Saturn/Pluto - 1930 to 1932

• Massive worker protest movements and labor strikes, coal miner’s strikes, in the 1930’s  - coincided with Saturn/Pluto - 1930-1932 

• The empowerment of labor unions worldwide 

• The rise of mass movements, both good and bad - socialism, communism, fascism, the mass Nuremberg rallies of Hitler in Germany, the rise of gangsters, the rise of the Mafia

• The election of the people’s Popular Front and its radical government reforms in Spain - 1934 - 1936

• Upsurge of Marxist and radical Socialist movements worldwide

• Radical church reform led by Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker publication

• Protest music - Woody Guthrie

• Swing and big band music nationwide from Harlem to L.A. brought freedom in music and new social pressures for racial integration

• The time of progressive leaders such as Eugene Debs, Emma Goldman, H.G. Wells,Jane Adams, W.E.B. DuBois, and Emmeline Pankhurst who were active in the social reform movements of their time

• Writers became actively involved in political and social issues. 

• Physicists split the atom bomb - 1932, nuclear fission arrived - 1934 

Uranus - Pluto conjunction - 1964 to 1969:

* Coincides with Saturn/Pluto - February 1965 to May 1967

• Worldwide student protest movements and government backlash against them
• Worldwide demonstrations against the Vietnam War 
• Anti-government demonstrations and police brutality at the Democratic convention in Chicago
• Civil Rights marches and police brutality against the marchers
• The nationwide surge of Freedom Riders to the southern United States
• Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech at massive civil rights march on Washington 
• The killing of college students by the National Guard at Kent State University in Ohio
• Worldwide movements for independence by colonized countries 
•  Liberation movements worldwide 
•  Calls for radical change in the institutions and the systems of a country, including the health system
• Radical changes in the country’s cultural life - in music, books, and films
• The mass exodus from organized religion worldwide 
• Women’s lib and the rise of feminism
• The rise of the gay and lesbian rights movement
• A new consciousness of freedom
• The energy and desire to construct a completely new kind of world                                                                                                                                                               

If you feel a intense connection to any one or more of these revolutionary time periods and

you have a Uranus/Pluto hard aspect in your chart, chances are almost 100% that you experienced a past life during that time.