This material comes from the book Cosmos and Psyche by the American cultural historian and philosopher Richard Tarnas of the California Institute of Integrated Studies.
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.
Note:
Hard aspects = the
conjunction (next to each other), the square (forming a 90 degree angle to each
other), or opposition (opposite each other - 180 degrees from each other).
Of these, the conjunction
is the strongest.
Positive Saturn-Pluto
Saturn-Pluto periods
are characterized by courage and sacrifice, by intensely focused, silent and
strenuous effort in the face of danger and death, by a deepening capacity for
moral discernment born from experience or from suffering, and by the
transformation of existing structures, whether they be material, political, or
psychological.
Positive Saturn works to
reveal grave wrongdoing and moral scandal by those in power - Saturn’s judgment
against Pluto’s greed, power, and public corruption.
Positive Saturn-Pluto people
seem to have more than their share of suffering in this life and from other
lifetimes when the forces of darkness were strong. That suffering has
transformed them into people with an inordinate amount of compassion for others
and a desire to right injustice whenever they see it. They have an innate ability to see the dark side
of life and feel compelled to transform it into light.
They seem to be possessed
of an underlying sense that they are living lives with special moral
responsibilities, sometimes with the heavy burden of history on their
shoulders.
Negative Saturn-Pluto
Those who use the Saturn
and Pluto conjunction negatively are into power, prestige,
the control of others, and the accumulation of wealth. Those are the driving
forces of their lives - the negative side of Saturn and Pluto.
Negative Saturn-Pluto has to do with:
·
War, with its
resulting death and destruction
·
Conservative
social and political views that have to do with control and power over others
corporate pressures for more power, more wealth, and more control of the
citizens of a country
·
Fundamentalist
religious beliefs and those who use the threat of hell in order to control the
actions of others and to retain power
·
The desire to
dominate and exploit nature
·
Cruelty to
animals
·
Policies of
exploitation and colonialism in countries whose people are deemed ‘less than’
the colonizers.
·
The genocide of
indigenous peoples
·
Genocide,
ethnocide, and mass killings
·
The oppression
of a people by its leaders
Positive Saturn-Pluto people reincarnate during the darkest
of times to stand against these forces of negative Saturn-Pluto. They feel
compelled to do so. They have seen too much in this lifetime and in previous
ones lived before to stand idly by and let these things happen again.
In the twentieth century,
Saturn - Pluto events included:
·
The build-up and
eruption of World War I in 1913-1916
·
The mass
killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks - 1914-1915
·
The emergence of
fascism in Europe and the beginning of Hitler’s rise to power - 1921-1923
·
The Great
Depression worldwide, the rise of the Nazis in Germany, the rise of Stalin in
Russia, with the deaths of millions under the Stalin regime, the rise of
fascism in Japan - 1929-1933
·
The war against
Franco and fascism in Spain, the invasion of Poland in 1939, the fall of
France, the blitzkrieg in London, the Holocaust in Germany, the development of
the atomic bomb by the United States - 1939 - 1941
- The beginning of the Cold War, the arms race, the CIA established, Joseph McCarthy and the paranoia about Communist “spies,” the public’s first knowledge of the horrors of the Holocaust, the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals, John Hershey’s account of the horrific effects of the atomic bomb on the people of Hiroshima - 1946
- India’s independence and the turmoil and destruction that followed, the assassination of Ghandi – June 1946 to September 1948
·
The escalation
of the Vietnam War and the beginning of protests against it, the strong civil
rights movement in the South in the United States - 1964 - 1967
·
The Khmer
Rouge’s killing over a million Cambodians - 1973-1975
·
Wars in the
Middle East, terrorist attacks in Northern Ireland, the death squads in Central
American the backlash against the freedom movements of the 1960’s, the rise of
religious fundamentalism worldwide - the 1980’s
Other historical
Saturn-Pluto time periods include:
·
the time of the
trial and death of Socrates - 397 BCE
·
the time of
Jesus’ trial - 28 to 30 CE
·
the time of St.
Augustine and his doctrine of original sin - 410 AD
·
the invasion of
the Roman Empire by Huns, Visigoths, and Vandals - 5th century
·
the Pope’s
Crusades against the Muslims in Jerusalem - 1099
·
the Pope’s
Crusade against the peaceful Cathars in the south of France - 1209
·
the Black Death
plague throughout Europe - 1348-51
·
the time of the
‘heretical’ astronomer Copernicus -1600’s
·
Galileo’s trial
in the 1600’s
·
the time of
Martin Luther and the Reformation
·
the genocide of
native peoples by Columbus in 1492
·
the expulsion of
the Jews from Spain in 1492
If you are reading this
because you have a Saturn-Pluto conjunction, square, or opposition in your
chart,
and you feel a very deep
sense of connection to any one or more of these periods, so that you feel
compelled to learn everything there is to know about it, chances are almost 100%
that you lived before during that time period , and that you had the moral
courage to stand up against the forces of darkness during those lifetimes.
It’s the very reason you
chose to come back into this particular lifetime.
