The Historical Jupiter Uranus: Iconic Events and Cultural Breakthroughs!

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Happy Monday, everybody. Today, we're going to take a look at Jupiter-Uranus from the collective historical mundane standpoint one last time; I did two parts in a series that I've been working on last week. You don't have to watch these in order, but we are going to look at the correlation today between Jupiter Uranus dynamics and the collective expression of iconic events and cultural breakthroughs. Just a really unique part of how Jupiter and Uranus show up in terms of the collective expression of the planetary energies. As we go along and I read you one last passage from Richard Tarnas' Cosmos and Psyche, I will also be offering some reflections on how the same themes show up in our personal lives.

Sometimes we think, oh, there's this collective expression, and then there's a personal expression. And the two don't have anything to do with one another. But I think you'll find today that we're going to make some really meaningful connections between iconic moments and cultural breakthroughs that we see in the collective around Jupiter Uranus events and the correlating types of events that we see in our personal lives. So anyway, that's our goal for today.

It will be the last part of this series. We're going to refresh on horoscopes this week as the Jupiter Uranus conjunction comes through on the 20th; we are also going to be spending more time with Jupiter Uranus from a few different points of view as the week goes on. So we're just sort of wrapping up our exploration of Jupiter Uranus on the collective historical level today.

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All right. So, remember that Jupiter and Uranus are conjoining shortly. We have their significations. Today is Monday the 15th. So they are coming together by Saturday. That is the 20th, and you're going to be feeling this conjunction throughout this week very intensely. And next week as well. We get a new moon cycle that starts not too long after, and we're going to that new moon cycle in Taurus, which will also amplify the themes that are not until about May 7. But still, we have a lot of emphasis to come yet on Jupiter Uranus conjunction. And remember, the conjunction is a seating moment whose effects spread out over time. You're going to be feeling this for a while. So Jupiter-Uranus squaring my natal Venus ascendant ruler, I shaved my head. I said screw it; I don't care what you think. To myself, I guess I just got sick of dealing with it.

Honestly, I was so sick of doing my hair. Okay. On that note, we're going to visit one final piece of Richard Tarnas's research on the Jupiter-Uranus dynamic. This comes from Cosmos and Psyche. It is one of my best and favorite resource books on archetypal mundane astrology. There is a chapter called Iconic Moments and Cultural Milestones, which I have ripped off from for today's title. I'm going to read you some parts and pause along the way to reflect on how these historical or collective themes relate to us personally as well. But it's interesting to note these things because you may very well see them at work around this time. And sometimes we don't even notice it until a little bit further down the road, maybe a year from now or two years from now, we look back and we go, oh my god, look at what that was all about.

Anyway. Iconic Moments and Cultural Milestones. Correlations with the Jupiter-Uranus cycle involving other cultural phenomena such as the histories of film, theater, painting, jazz, and rock music, and the counterculture and specific fields of study such as anthropology, psychology, and philosophy, presented equally rich and instructive patterns of synchronic and diachronic, events and milestones. To give a small indication here of some of these patterns, if asked to single out three films that had the most significant impact on the evolution of cinema, most film historians would choose DW Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, which is widely considered the single most influential work in the history of film, one whose many technical and aesthetic innovations establish the vocabulary of the new art.

The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson film was a synchronized sound that revolutionized the motion picture industry and marked the birth of the sound era. Orson Welles's Citizen Kane is a landmark in the history of sound film, with its mastery of many technical and artistic innovations that influenced subsequent filmmaking much as the birth of a nation did in the silent era. These three films precisely coincided with the three consecutive Jupiter-Uranus conjunctions of the first half of the 20th century. The Birth of the Nation was made during the conjunction of 1914, premiering in early 1915. The Jazz Singer coincided with the next conjunction; it celebrated its premiere taking place in October 1927. And Citizen Kane coincided with the following conjunction premiering in May of 1941.

Now, one thing I'm going to be doing because you may notice that he's tracking subsequent conjunctions. I am going to be going back in time back to the early 80s, late mid to late 70s, or something like that. We're going to be looking at the last Jupiter-Uranus conjunctions and opposition's historically so that you can look back at your own biography so to speak and track them; so we'll be doing that in a future episode this week just in case that sounds appealing to you.

Each of these periods was highly significant for the history of film in many other regards. The sequence of Jupiter Uranus axial alignments in the 20th century coincided closely both with specific masterworks that represented climactic milestones with the preceding year's developments and with the beginnings of new movements and genres that unfolded in succeeding years.

The conjunction of 1940 to 41 coincided with Citizen Kane, for example, and also coincided with the birth of Italian neorealism in the films and published manifestos at that time of Rossellini, De Sica, and Viscounty. Hope I'm pronouncing those names correctly. The very next conjunction, 1954 to 55, coincided with another extraordinary wave of film milestones with the simultaneous emergence of both Bergman and Fellini as leading directors, the birth of the French new Nouvelle Vague, and the emergence of the British free cinema movement led by Lindsay Anderson, Carol Reese, and Tony Richardson, okay.

Again, all names that I do not know. But if that means anything to you, great. The main thing that I hope you're picking up on is that when you see major breakthroughs and iconic shifts in the way we do things, think about things in art, film, culture, and music, those are coinciding with Jupiter Uranus dynamics, and that's the important takeaway here. He goes on immediately following the conjunction of 1968 and 69, which was the triple conjunction with Pluto we talked about in the last episode, coincided with an explosion of innovative and influential works in virtually every national cinema and genre, both established directors and he lists a whole wave and by an extraordinary wave of new directors who brought forth their first film, Scorsese Spielberg, Woody Allen, Bogdanovich Pakula Newman Herzog. Equally notable during this last alignment at the end of the 60s was the wave of so many films that reflected revolutionary or countercultural themes that centered on rebel heroes or anti-heroes from the graduate Easy Rider Alice's Restaurant medium, cool Midnight Cowboy to the conformists, Adeline 31, if and Z.

I will address elsewhere with more precision and thoroughness the remarkable clarity of the patterns in film history revealed by this cycle. Major milestones of the 20th-century comedy, for example, were closely correlated with the Jupiter-Uranus cycle from Charlie Chaplin's first films and his invention of the tramp during the conjunction of 1914 to the first Monty Python broadcast during the conjunction of 69. identical patterns are evident in the history of jazz, from Louis Armstrong's Apoc, making hot five and hot seven recordings, and Duke Ellington's five-year engagement that began at the Cotton Club during the conjunction of 1927 to 28th. Through the first recording of Billie Holiday, the emergence of Benny Goodman and count bases, big bands, and the sudden rise of swing, all occurring during the opposition centered on 34 to the beginning of the Bebop revolution with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie played with Lester Young Kenny Clark, Charlie Christian and theologian, Felonious Monk, at Mittens Playhouse and Monroe is uptown house during the conjunction of 1940 to 41.

Then came the emergence of cool jazz, with Miles Davis birthing cool recordings during the following Jupiter Uranus opposition in 1948. Again, maybe you are or are not a big fan of jazz or swing or any of the musical timelines that he is laying out here. The point is that when Jupiter and Uranus get together or oppose one another, like new and full moons of their cycle, you see tremendous breakthroughs and developments, iconic, groundbreaking, you know, limit the defining moments where the story or the narrative moves forward and really compelling ways.

We have major breakthroughs; we have a significant development that transcends previous limitations or understandings expressions, where creativity and originality are surpassing what was previously known or thought of as possible, or even thought of as, you know, what's in or what's accepted.

So, the history of rock music begins with the following conjunction. Remarkably, all of the five recordings that mark the birth of rock and roll took place during the 14 months of Jupiter Uranus in conjunction with 54 and 55. Elvis Presley's first record, that's all right, July 1954. Bo Diddley's first record, Bo Diddley, May 1955; Chuck Berry's first record, Maybelline, July 1955; Buddy Holly's first recording of 11 demo songs was released posthumously; and Bill Haley's comets performance of rock Around the Clock in 1955. Film, Blackboard Jungle. It was also early in 55 that Ray Charles recorded the seminal I've Got a Woman, often called the Birth of Soul Music, a synthesis of gospel with rhythm and blues. Following Jupiter-Uranus's opposition of 62 coincided with the recordings of Bob Dylan and the Beatles' formation, the Rolling Stones, three dominant Creative Forces in the mutual musical culture of the '60s.

The synchronistic creative emergence was part of a wave of cultural milestones that catalyzed many of the key movements of the 60s and the longer Uranus-Pluto conjunction of that decade. He says the following triple conjunction of Jupiter Uranus and Pluto in 68 to 69 coincided with what was in certain respects the climax of the classical era of rock, a 24-month period that brought a virtual Niagara Falls of activity and many of the most celebrated works of this genre, all three of the Beatle's final album, White Album Abbey Road, let it be Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet and let it bleed. Dylan John Wesley Harding and Nashville Skyline, the song Sympathy for the Devil, Street Fighting Man, Midnight Rambler, and Gimme Shelter.

Dylan's John Wesley Harding and Nashville skyline. Hendrix has Axis: Bold ass L,ove Electric Ladyland and the titanic Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock, the who's rock opera Tommy. Cream Wheels of Fire with Eric Clapton's masterful Crossroads, The Grateful Dead's Live/Dead, Big Brother in the Holding Companies, Cheap Thrills with Janis Joplin, the band's music from Big Pink and the Band. The incredible string band The Hang Man's Beautiful Daughter. Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, John Mayall the turning point, the birth of reggae in Jamaica with the Maytals doing the reggae, and Miles Davis's landmark jazz-rock fusion recordings In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew.

I mean, that's incredible, right? I mean, though, now we're starting to talk my language. That's the kind of music I really love. And, gosh, that's the music I was raised on in terms of what my parents were also coming up with. You know, they were born in the 50s.

So they were you, no late teens, in the late 60s. It's interesting to me that one of the things that happens at the end of the 60s is you get Jupiter, Uranus, and Pluto, and so you have this kind of Diocletian release of pent-up energy, which is emblematic of also the psychedelic revolution Woodstock, the release of pent up sexual energy free love.

So, that moment is a little different than typical Jupiter-Uranus moments, and so far as, Pluto is also aligned. But anyway, he goes on and says you can follow the ongoing sequence through subsequent Jupiter Uranus alignments after the '60s; for example, the opposition of 75 and six coincided precisely with the emergence of punk rock, Patti Smith, the Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Ramones and new wave Talking Heads, the cars as well as the founding of U2.

Then he goes on and on. I mean, I'm not going to read through everything here because it literally just goes on and on. But it is really, really amazing. He goes on to talk about poetry, literature, and film for pages. Here's one that you will find interesting. He talks about actually liking sports a little bit. I'll just mention this. To these can be added comparable moments from the history of sports, such as Babe Ruth's hitting 60 home runs in one season through the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction 27 or 14 years later, during the immediately following conjunction in 1941.

Joe DiMaggio set his equally famous and still-standing record of getting a hit and 56 consecutive games, or more recently, Tiger Woods's historical performance and winning the Masters golf tournament with a record-breaking score during the most recent Jupiter Uranus conjunction of 97. This was back when he wrote it. A related category of cultural phenomenon that shows a far more than random correlation compromise of that with the Jupiter Uranus cycles comprises celebrated first meetings of major cultural figures that marked the beginning of culturally significant personal associations that have become iconic in the collective imagination. Freud and Jung met at Freud's house in Vienna on March 3, 1907, when the two men spoke intimately with each other for 13 hours straight that took place during a Jupiter-Uranus opposition, the one immediately following the conjunction of 1900 and the interpretation of dreams.

Other culturally influential associations that began in coincidence with Jupiter Uranus alignments include those of Berta and Schiller, Wordsworth and Coleridge, Keats and Shelley, Chopin and Liszt, Pushkin and Gogol, Emerson and Thoreau Marx and Engels for laden, Rimbaud, Van Gogh and Gogan somebody said Ezra Pound, and Einstein and Bohr to name only a few. All of those great minds that met and whose meeting would start to comprise a breakthrough in their respective fields or some kind of creative synthesis that opens the door to further exploration all occurred during Uranus, Jupiter, or Jupiter, Uranus, conjunctions, or opposition's.

All of this is to say, pay attention to who you meet right now, who you start working with, and whose work starts having an influence on you. What you begin, not just in terms of a process or action and activity, a study, a job, but also what you begin in terms of the influence that someone else has on you and you on them at the time of the conjunction is a hugely underrated part of Jupiter Uranus conjunction because most of the time we think of them in terms of like, well, there's some iconic breakthrough or personal milestone, you know, with respect to my job, I get a promotion or with spec respect to, you know, the money I do better or maybe my health or whatever the case may be, but also pay attention to who you're meeting.

Another thing that's really important is to translate all of this into personal terms. We can just say you have to ask yourself, and we all do it. What does a personal breakthrough look like for me? Forget about your chart? And we pay way too much attention to the specifics of the chart, as though we're beholden to it when, in fact, if there's a Jupiter-Uranus conjunction happening anywhere in our chart, one of the most, the easiest ways that you can track it is to just say, where in my life right now, is there a significant turn of events taking place internally or externally or both? There's a little personal revolution happening.

Sometimes, you don't notice it right at the moment of the conjunction; it might take six months or a year before you really start noticing it. But pay attention, keep a journal, and take note of the important people's ideas, thoughts, desires, and conflicts, even that you're getting into around this time. And then imagine, okay, from this moment forward, we have the seeds of a revolution. That revolution is for me; right now, there's a way in which we can participate in other social and collective stories and so forth. And that dimension is important as well.

But we forget to ask ourselves what we think; oh, revolution looks a certain way. And then we try to retroactively, you know, sort of fit that to ourselves. What we shouldn't be doing is saying, what constitutes a radical shift for me? Because that's going to be different? You know, it looks different for you than it does for me than it does for everyone else. But you can think of, like, okay, if the Beatles are recording the White Album, what album are you recording metaphorically, and maybe that's something as simple as I'm recording the album off, you know, changing the way that I eat, or changing the way that I think, or studying a new subject, or maybe there's a new person coming into my life, and they're really shifting something about me. Or maybe I'm starting to appear in someone else's life, and I have this role or influence, and I have the courage to fulfill that role or influence by being something of a leader or setting some kind of example. That's new to me; I've never done that before.

So you know, a lot of the times the words like revolution and paradigm-shattering change, all these words that Tarnas is using to describe huge events in history can feel so alien or distant from us. But the point is that we each have a White Album, we each have Abbey Road and let it be, and they happen in cycles. And you can almost forget it because, especially with conjunctions, the seating point, it's hard to recognize its relevance until you're a lot further out, you know. So one of the things we're gonna be doing this week, like I said, is we're going to be looking at all of the previous conjunctions and opposition's so you can track them in your own biography.

All right. Here we go. In such instances, we see the form of Uranus Jupiter vector in which the earnest principle suddenly and unexpectedly opens up the Jupiterian experience of wider horizons, expanded experience elevation, and magnitude of a larger world. Captain James Cook's first voyage to Tahiti, New Zealand, and Australia during the Jupiter Uranus opposition of 1768 to 69 is another example.

The sudden expansion of horizons can be achieved by vertical as well as horizontal movement, the first balloon sense of the first space flight, the first moon landing, and the biographies of many cultural figures. The sudden expansion of horizons often took the form of major turning points in which the individual moved to a new environment where his or her creative work and personal life unfolded on a profoundly new level.

Sometimes, this was a journey or an extended stay at another place that in some way exerted a significant influence on the person's intellectual or artistic development. So I see, it's like paying attention to what environment is stimulating growth in you right now. So it was Darwin's long voyage to South America and the Galapagos Islands that began during the conjunction of 1831, which is Tocqueville's famous nine-month visit to the United States during that same conjunction in 1831. That became the basis for the prescient and still insightful Democracy in America.

Here, too, could be cited the rose building of his cabinet Walden Pond in 1845, during the immediately following conjunction, as Voltaire's life-changing stay in England during the Jupiter Uranus opposition of 1726 to 27, which profoundly affected his intellectual outlook and inspired him to bring the liberating aspirations of the Enlightenment he saw successfully and body there to the continent goes on. Pretty remarkable.

He goes on to talk about important times in the lives of people like Joseph Campbell Picasso; I mean, it's just filled with. I highly recommend reading Cosmos and Psyche at some point if you haven't because you get the feeling you get the felt lived experience of history being the day and some archetypes, and it's just so beautifully laid out. I don't want to labor it too long because we've looked at a lot of text from these passages, but I do want to say that there's one more part that I think is really fascinating, which is called hidden births. You will see that in this chapter, he talks about it.

Although Jupiter-Uranus alignments regularly coincided with creative and emancipatory beginnings, bursts of important works, movements, and ideas. These beginnings were often as they were birthed in a stable, humble, and remote from in a stable, humble, and remote from the Centers of world power and attention in privacy and solitude. In a quiet study, in a small meeting in a notebook alone on a mountain path by a pond, inside an individual mind, the interior Castle, they were often unrecognized at the time by the larger public. And sometimes they were often unrecognized by anyone, even the creative agents themselves, only later to the event or its significance become visible indeed, sometimes much later under a subsequent Jupiter-Uranus alignment.

So, remember that births and revolutionary births don't happen in one singular event. Sometimes they do; you may see events that are certainly characteristic of these big, flashy, brilliant, sudden breakthroughs. And that may happen to you personally; you may see it in the news. But the thing that's important to remember, as Tarnas points out there, is that many times, these revolutions, especially in conjunctions or seeding moments, start happening in a quieter place. And it takes years for you to really see, oh, that was the starting point. It was right around that time. Anyhow, that's what I've got for today. I hope this was useful.

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