Social Transformation

Monday, 03 October 2011

I was watching Roseanne Barr on the Kaiser Report on RT News, she mentioned that the Occupy Wall Street protest reminded her of the 60’s, and by a co-incidence, the same night I saw Ang Lee’s recent film Taking Woodstock. The event is beautifully reconstructed, through the lens of a Jewish family who lived in the area, and in its own way, celebrates the peaceful and gentle qualities of the Festival.  Other statements that Roseanne Barr made, almost exactly parallel the astrological analysis of Richard Tarnas, relating to the configurations of Saturn, Pluto & Uranus, in particular.  Personally, I find an extraordinary precision and clarity in this paradigm –  for example, on the 60’s period, Tarnas writes:

“ . . the Uranus-Pluto conjunction of the 1960s and early 1970s, coincided with that volcanic eruption of revolutionary and emancipatory impulses,  accelerated historical change, social and political turmoil, and heightened creativity and innovation in all spheres of human activity that has shaped the global zeitgeist ever since.”

And on the present alignments, he writes:

“Saturn-Uranus-Pluto T-square configuration will present the human community with major challenges on many fronts. The Uranus-Pluto square that will continue through 2020 could well represent something like a combination of the 1930s and the 1960s in a twenty-first-century context, a sustained period of enormous historical change requiring humanity to radically expand the scope of its vision and draw upon new resources and capacities in ways that could ultimately be deeply liberating. Whatever form this coming era will take, I believe that the great global transformations and emancipatory movements that have coincided with the long sequence of axial alignments of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto surveyed in this book, as well as the deep human suffering and moral evolution that took place during the Saturn-Pluto, Saturn-Neptune, and other such challenging alignments, have prepared the world to enter this critical threshold with a collective awareness that could make a significant difference in its outcome. . . . “

This all makes sense to me. But how do we put this information into practical action patterns.  This involves a deeper exploration of the astro-mythological material, excavating imaginal ideas for inspiration creative social action.  I am convinced of this,  but setting this process into motion, needs human interaction -  always difficult to achieve  when individual and group ego/self structures [the Saturnine]  dominate. 

We have ourselves to blame if we fail to act on the Uranian [change] energies that are  available, in embryo, so to speak.  A recent query to the I Ching produced this:
"After a time of decay comes the turning point. The powerful light that has been banished returns. There is movement, but it is not brought about by force. The upper trigram K’un is characterized by devotion; thus the movement is natural, arising spontaneously. For this reason the transformation of the old becomes easy. The old is discarded and the new is introduced. Both measures accord with the time; therefore no harm results. Societies of people sharing the same views are formed. But since these groups come together in full public knowledge and are in harmony with the time, all selfish separatist tendencies are excluded, and no mistake is made."
The I Ching - 24 Fu / Return (The Turning Point)

I was delighted, as this Hexagram suits the situation perfectly. The general consensus is that in many organizations at the moment, the shit is hitting the metaphorical fan. I think this is also because we need to completely refresh our paradigms.  All  indications are that this is a period of great organic change, for us as individuals, and as organizations.

Samten