The Historical Jupiter-Uranus: Political and Cultural Revolution

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Happy Friday everybody. Today, we are going to continue our exploration of the historical Jupiter-Uranus dynamic, which is to say we're going to look at some of the ways in which Jupiter-Uranus dynamics, whether conjunctions or oppositions, in this case, their combination in general, really has created some really interesting historical patterns.

We started this off yesterday by looking at a passage from Ren Butler's The Archetypal Universe and a passage from Cosmos and Psyche. We're going to return to Cosmos and Psyche and break down another piece of the puzzle. We're going to look at another section from Tarnas' book, which is really interesting, and yesterday, we looked specifically at some of the ways in which Jupiter and Uranus together have been part of scientific breakthroughs and breakthroughs in the way that we view the universe.

So I read from a section on let's see what it was called here. Yeah, convergences of scientific breakthroughs, which was really fascinating. Today, we're going to talk about social and political rebellions and awakenings, which are another major Jupiter Uranus theme in the collective. And as we go, I will be offering some thoughts on how these themes also come into our personal lives. The point of this is not to present any particular point of view about collective events or politics. I try to steer clear of that. My channel is mostly about how the transits apply to our personal lives in a sort of broad, ecumenical way. Anyhow, that's what we're looking at today.

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Okay. So, on that note, let us continue our exploration of Jupiter and Uranus in the collective. Now, just as a reminder, let's pull up the real-time clock. And we'll just remind ourselves of where this transit is at and where it's headed. Today, Friday, April 12. The two planets are almost less than two degrees apart. You can see them in the 12th House in this chart, but the houses don't matter here. Let me just pull up my epic pen. Here we go.

All right, let's highlight this right there: you can see they're within two degrees. And we're going to fast-forward this just a couple of days. So you'll see that they come to within one degree by about April 14. That's this weekend. And then next week is the story of them coming together. So they finally get together on April 20. There's Jupiter and Uranus at 42 and 48. And, um, by the 21st, you can see that Jupiter's just passed over the exact minute of Uranus at the 21st degree.

So it's not this weekend, but next weekend that we have the conjunction; it's a really exciting and dynamic transit, probably the transit of the year, although I've been saying this all along with conjunctions, especially they're like new moons in that they plant a seed of revolutionary activity or a revolutionary impulse with Jupiter, Uranus and opening all these different things. We've been talking about an awakening that does not necessarily appear right away at the seceding point. And so there will be the there will be events, sometimes very concrete, specific events around the time of the conjunction, but you're also talking about something that's usually more like a wave pattern.

So it comes in, and it comes out like that. It's important to remember it that way. Otherwise, you think that some singular thing is going to happen, and it doesn't. You have to be a little bit more patient and careful with the way that you track. All right, today, I will read a little longer on social and political rebellions and awakenings associated with Jupiter Uranus in the collective. Why is this important? It's important to notice the connections between the planets in the collective when there are major configurations, especially between outer planets or slower moving planets like Jupiter and Uranus, and the personal significations that we've been talking about because you will notice that there is a strong correlation.

All right, so anyway, this comes again from the cosmos and psyche in the section of his book where Tarnis explores the Jupiter-Uranus dynamic historically. Today, we're looking at social and political rebellions and awakenings. I might skip around a tiny bit for the sake of time, but yeah, this is about four pages. The most consistent pattern I observed was the close coincidence of these Jupiter-Uranus alignment periods with the opening months of a longer-term process. There you go, as if the particular archetypal impulse associated with this cycle acted as a sudden initiatory catalyst for such a phenomenon. And that's what's important, right? This moment marks the beginning of something, especially with the conjunction, whereas the opposition's two major Jupiter Uranus dynamics conjunctions and oppositions are like the new and full moons of the cycle.

They tend to the full moons, and the opposition tends to act as peak moments within something that already has a history behind it, whereas the conjunctions really marked the beginning of a new season. And sometimes the difference isn't so clear. But at any rate, let's go on Jupiter's principle of expansion and growth, supporting the Promethean impulse for new beginnings. Jupiter and Uranus were in conjunction during the exact 14 months coincident with the beginning of the American Revolution in 1775 to 76 on April 1970 75, precisely one month after the conjunction had first moved within 15 degrees of alignment. The War of Independence started when British soldiers were met by armed American rebels at Lexington, with whom they exchanged fire. The quote "shot heard around the world."

The succession of months during the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction closely coincided with the development of the revolution. In March of 1775, the first month of the conjunction, Patrick Henry's Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death speech at the Virginia convention advocated militant opposition to the British. In April, the battles at Lexington and Concord were in May, and the first American victory was with the Capture of Fort Ticonderoga and the meeting of the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, led by Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams.

In June, the appointment of George Washington as Commander in Chief of the Revolutionary Army, followed by the Battle of Bunker Hill in July, the Congress's formal declaration of causes of taking up arms from that summer through the following spring, Washington's organizing and training of the American army in January 1776, the publication of common sense Thomas Paine's manifesto against British royal power in the American colonies that mobilized public opinion behind the revolutionary cause and sold half a million copies in the colonies in a few weeks. In March 1776, Washington's army forced the main British contingent to evacuate Boston, thus winning the first decisive round in the War of Independence.

The conjunction reached the final 15-degree point in late April 1776 and 20 degrees in late May; as Mars moved into conjunction with Uranus in early June, Jefferson began to compose the Declaration of Independence. So yeah, I mean, all of that is remarkable. You know, it's remarkable how consistent the timeline is. You'll find that this is consistent throughout a number of different historical periods that coincide with major political times of revolution and upheaval, regardless of what you feel or think about any of it. The point is that it's archetypal; it's that there are impulses that get played out in the collective that mirror the same kinds of things that we experienced personally, especially the impulse toward revolutionary change, opening expansion, a need for greater freedom that's marked with like a tremendous surge of energy. That's Jupiter-Uranus, which is exactly one full cycle.

Fourteen years later, during the immediately following conjunction, the fall of the Bastille took place. The French Revolution began with Jupiter and Uranus just two degrees from exact conjunction on July 14, 1789. So he goes on to talk quite a bit about the exact dates and timeline of the French Revolution unfolding at the same time that Jupiter and Uranus are coming together. So I won't go through all of that because it's like a whole page. But the point is that he traces it out very clearly. And if you're into this kind of stuff, I would highly recommend reading it. I just want to get across the basic idea that these Jupiter-Uranus dynamics were associated with both the start and kind of impulse of revolution behind both the American and French Revolutions. Compared with the more local revolution of the American colonies during the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in 75 to 76, the tumultuous era of the French Revolution was virtually worldwide.

He talks about how there are all of these ripple events that you can see in geopolitical terms that go beyond just the French Revolution that happened during the same time. Just as both axial alignments of the Uranus-Pluto cycle conjunctions and oppositions consistently coincided with the archetypal irrelevant historical and cultural phenomenon, so also the Jupiter-Uranus cycles. The consecutive axial alignments again revealed clear signs of a coherent, sequential patterning, in which the event of one conjunction was closely associated both with events of the opposition that followed and those of the next conjunction, which completed the cycle. Such diachronic patterning was readily visible, for example, in the full Jupiter-Uranus cycle alignments that unfolded in the 1770s and 1780s.

The American Revolution had begun in coincidence with Jupiter, Uranus conjunction of 75 and six was successfully concluded, and the new nation's independence was formally ratified with the signing of the Treaty of Paris seven years later, during the immediately following Jupiter Uranus opposition of 70 and 82 to 83.

The fulfillment of the quest for independence, the joy of emancipatory success, and the expansive victory achieved by the rebellion all closely fit the characteristic archetypal complex associated with Jupiter and Uranus. In turn, it was precisely during the 14 months of the immediately following Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in 1788 to 89 that the new American government commenced operations, the ratified constitution was put into effect, and the first national elections were held. George Washington was inaugurated as the first president, and the Bill of Rights was introduced in Congress. It was all an exact coincidence with the start of the French Revolution in the fall of the best steel.

The closest snorkel connections and reciprocal causal factors that linked the American and French Revolutions are further suggestive evidence of the diachronic pattern linking the success of alignments conjunctions and opposition's sort of new and full moons of Jupiter and Uranus. The synchronic nature of correlations with the Jupiter-Uranus cycle was as striking as the diachronic, for example, during the same spring of 1789, when the revolution first erupted throughout the countryside in France. The famous Mutiny on HMS Bounty took place in the South Pacific on April 28, led by Fletcher Christian against Captain William Bligh, on the return voyage from Tahiti.

That's the same Jupiter Uranus conjunction of 1789 that coincided with the fall of the Bastille and also coincided with the Mutiny on the Bounty, the two revolts taking place within a few weeks of each other, though on opposite sides of the globe. So here he's just making it clear that that revolutionary impulse is not specific to just one or two locations as if by fate or destiny, Jupiter and Uranus only play out in certain specific areas of the globe. It actually can be seen in historical events all around the globe. It's fascinating.

He goes on to say that a remarkable parallel unfolding of events happened, as did the bounty bounty mutiny. To this day, the overpowering emotions and motives that compelled Fletcher Christian and the other seamen to suddenly rebel remain a mystery. With the success of that revolt began the long, intense, erotically charged, murderously violent drama on Pitcairn island in the course of the 1790s that overtook the mutineers and the Tahitian women and men who accompanied them all happening on an island that was utterly isolated from the rest of the world, far from Europe, and the violent upheaval that was taking place there at precisely the same time during the long Uranus Pluto alignment.

The result was a kind of laboratory case of a continuing synchronous emergence, synchronous emergence of parallel events that were totally isolated from each other yet reflected the same archetypal complexes. That's fascinating. It's really, really interesting. Let's go on. In the past century, there was one time that Jupiter-Uranus and Pluto were in a triple conjunction 1968 to 69. That's really fascinating because, of course, now you're adding in Pluto, and you get the Jupiter, Uranus, and Pluto dynamic, all happening simultaneously in a conjunction. During that two-year period, the three planets were close to each other closer than at any other time in the 20th century.

This was of course, the extraordinary moment at the climax of the 60s have brought the peak and full amplitude of that decades characteristic trends and events in an unprecedented collective outburst of rebellions, demonstrations and strikes throughout the world. The protest movement was then at its height, and student revolts disrupted scores of colleges and universities Columbia, Harvard, San Francisco State among many others.

The period encompassed by this triple conjunction both the seminal events of May in Paris, the powerful Tet insurgency in Vietnam, the tumultuous protests in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention, the ensuing trial of the Chicago Eight, the weathermen's days of Rage The People's Park riots in Berkeley, the black American track champions at the Olympic Games in Mexico City standing on the middle podium with black-gloved fists raised in support of civil rights and black power.

The founding of the militant American Indian Movement in the Stonewall uprising in New York, among many other comparable events that we see there's a Plutonian element there too, but Jupiter Uranus is still very active in terms of the political vibration of rebellion, upheaval, and awakening or a kind of demanding of emancipation independence breakthrough, the Woodstock Music Festival took place, one of a wave of such mass festivals in these months that were impelled by an extraordinary rich eruption of creativity and music and the other arts. radical ideas in many fields were widely discussed and acted upon as a boiling point.

In the decades, creative turmoil has suddenly been reached. Now, some of that is again due to the fact that Jupiter and Uranus at the end of the 60s were also conjoined with Pluto, right, so there's this sort of Dionysian release of pent-up energy that's amplified by Pluto as well as Jupiter Uranus. Indeed, this period of the triple conjunction in 68 Nine coincided with a wave of cultural, technological, and scientific breakthroughs, especially dramatic in July 69, which was the successful combination of the '60s space flight program with the Apollo 11 moon landing.

After a decade in which over 15 billion man-hours were expended on the project, and after three days of traveling a quarter of a million miles through space, a final dangerous passage that almost forced the aborting of the mission as Neil Armstrong had to take manual control the landing module, the astronaut's touchdown on the moon the 20 seconds of fuel remaining first time in human history that humans had been broken free of the Earth's gravitational field and landed on another celestial body, Houston, Tranquility Base here The Eagle has landed.

So it's interesting because Zeus Jupiter is also his, you know, his bird is the eagle, and the Jupiter Uranus moment is a sort of, you know, Promethean breaking of boundaries and expanding of horizons in space travel. Remarkably, at the time of the landing, the moon was in one-day quadruple conjunction with Jupiter, Uranus, and Pluto. So there's a plutonium element there, too. But isn't that just incredible? Many other events occurred, and new movements and ideas arose during the period of the triple conjunction, the famous public presentation by Douglas Engelhardt of Stanford Research Institute in December of 68.

Before an electrified audience in San Francisco of 1000, computer scientists and engineers demonstrated the first working model for the future of personal computing, instantaneous long-distance sharing of complex digital information, display editing and word processing, the mouse, the cursor, windows, hypertext linking email, shared screen teleconferencing and the underlying philosophy of using computers for radically enhancing individual and collective human intelligence. Nine months later, the first successful transmission of the prototype for the Internet took place at UCLA. It goes on and on, you know, it's just like these are the kinds of breakthroughs that happen: cultural, technological, scientific, political, and so on. They're governmental. It's really amazing.

The period also brought the beginning of Gay Liberation with the Stonewall uprising and the emergence of radical feminism with the founding of New York radical women. During the same period occurred the first national women's women's liberation conference in Chicago, the founding of the radical feminist group Red Stockings, which introduced the slogan Sisterhood is powerful, and the personal is political, and the founding of the Boston women's health book collective which produced the landmark feminist work our bodies ourselves, Elisabeth Kubler Ross is on death and dying, began the revolution and care of the dying and helped establish the hospice movement.

Richard Alpert just returned from India as rom das beginning his career as a spiritual teacher, and gave public lectures that became the basis for the countercultural classic Be Here Now. Transpersonal psychology was founded by Stanislav Grof and Abraham Maslow in the United States. Archetypal psychology was founded by James Hillman in his circle in Switzerland.

So you don't it's like over the course of a couple of years when we had those three planets in alignment, it was very powerful. It gets more powerful when you add other outer planets into the configuration. Obviously, right now, we have Jupiter and Uranus together, and Taurus is not configured so strongly to Pluto in an exact alignment. But still, what's happening right now in the collective in terms of political and social revolution, technological revolution?

We'll look back at this, and you know, when you're in it, you don't always see it. But these things are happening for us both personally and collectively. Finally, the same period saw the publication of a wave of books that both reflected and helped catalyze the cultural and countercultural impulses of the time. Theodore Rose acts the making of a counterculture Kate Millet's Sexual Politics, Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night, Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice. Carlos Castaneda is the teachings of Don Juan.

Tom Wolf's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Buckminster Fuller is an operating manual for Spaceship Earth. And he goes on to list quite a few other books that were very powerful during the time. There were other extraordinary occasions in the recent past that involved a rare multi-planet convergence coinciding with the Jupiter-Uranus cycle. It says, in this instance, with Neptune rather than Pluto, and he goes on to talk about that, too, which is really fascinating.

But the distinctive and nearly universal emotion of the time, sudden and unexpected, euphoric liberation, was highly characteristic of the Jupiter Uranus archetypal complex. It was an emotion and deliberation felt not only by the millions of people in the nations that underwent the surprisingly peaceful and rapid revolutionary change but also by the billions around the world who, since the end of the Cold War with a suppressive state of constant global nuclear tension, and danger hovering over the human community.

This Jupiter-Uranus alignment occurred in the early part of the long Uranus Neptune Neptune conjunction of 1985 to 2001. And he goes on to talk about that. The next chapter we're going to look at is called Quantum Leaps and Peak Experiences. And then there are a few other sections that we're going to like cherry pick a few things from, I think it probably one more video, but the reason that I wanted to share all of that with you is because you know, I think probably a lot of us when we at least people who listen to my channel what you're picking up on is the idea that Jupiter Uranus contains within it the seeds of tremendous revolution, tremendous awakening and the potential for a kind of breaking free from conventions and patterns that are outdated or rigid in some way. Jupiter Uranus grants a kind of courage to change and excitement and enthusiasm and momentum.

That is, that feels like the lights are getting turned up, you know, inside of our consciousness, like the light is getting stronger, and we go, oh, I have to individuate; I have to take a step forward. I have to break out of the familiar. I have to reach for new heights that permeate the impulse of Uranus, which is being expanded by Jupiter, and for many of us personally, it's an exciting time. Now, it does come with a certain sense that the old way is no longer working. Revolutions often involve that impulse to defy or break free from something in the past that has been holding us back. And that can be scary, that can be difficult.

There can be, yeah, there can be work involved with that. But as we can see, looking at these periods, historically speaking, that we're going we historically speaking, we're going through the same thing, there are going to be moments during the Jupiter Uranus dynamics as they come up, where the need to break free from old conventions and forms to follow the revolutionary impulse plays out in the, in the collective, you're going to see it in the news, you're going to see it in science, you're going to see it in education and arts and religion, and there's not an area of human life that it doesn't touch. Our personal lives may be more or less individually connected to collective themes, trends, and patterns, depending on what you do for a living, or where your interests or natural inclinations lie where your dharma takes you.

Some of us have very strong and involved and invested roles to play in collective dramas unfolding in your industry, in your, you know, in your field, in the collective, in places that you serve, and places you feel called to make a difference. Knowing that we're in the season of tremendous revolution helps because we can see that impulse at work and the people we know, the people we love, the people we care for, and the people that we're sometimes struggling with within various areas of our lives in the more collective dimensions of our lives and in the more private dimensions.

Anyhow, if you are someone who likes this kind of stuff, that like really gets into it. I recommend Richard Tarnas's work on collective or mundane astrology; he's definitely my favorite. There are many people out there, and I'm sure you know different astrologers who have different ways of presenting mundane astrology. As you guys know, I focus on the personal aspect of my channel. But Cosmos and Psyche is the best book I know for an introduction to archetypal mundane astrology. And I think that he has a way of presenting things that is very balanced. You don't necessarily get the feeling that he is presenting only one particular point of view in the way that he presents astrology in the collective. And I think that probably works for a lot of people.

Anyhow, I hope that this was useful for you. We will have, I think, one or maybe one more episode where we break down a little bit more. So, you can see science, technology, culture, and geopolitical events. The Jupiter-Uranus dynamic is so potent in those arenas. And there's a little bit more though, like, especially in culture and art, there's more that he has to say and also this theme of like awakening, that's a really potent one that we'll get to as well. Okay, that's it for now. I hope you guys have a great weekend. Stick around after I sign off if you'd like to learn more about the upcoming program, Ancient Astrology for the Modern mystic, which starts on June 16.

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