One hundred and five years ago, Saturn began its conjunction with Pluto in early Cancer. On June 28th, 1914, Austrian Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo. President Wilson declared neutrality for the United States, but in 1917 Germany sank the American liner Housatonic. Within months we were at war.
An isolated act of violence in Europe united the world in conflict. It was clear we had entered a new era. We were no longer isolated from the global population. We realized on some level that the world had evolved into a single, sensitive system that could be destabilized and thrown into chaos by one precipitous act.
The second conjunction of Saturn and Pluto in the 20th century, (1946-1948) coincided with the start of the Cold War. We entered the era of espionage, nuclear proliferation and mutually assured annhilation. Furthermore, in Tel Aviv, May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion proclaimed Israel the first Jewish state in 2000 years and became its first premier. This act destabilized the Middle East and initiated the seemingly endless Arab/Israeli conflict.
The final Saturn/Pluto conjunction of the 20th Century began in 1989. Saddam Hussein attacked Kuwait and President Bush launched Operation Desert Storm. The first Persian Gulf war ended quickly, but hostility and conflict fomented beneath the surface.
Saturn and Pluto made another dramatic aspect in 2001. This time an opposition. If you consider an opposition similar to a full moon, the climax of a cycle, you can see what we seeded in the 1990’s came to fruition. On September 11, 2001 our national security was shattered by the terrorist attack on our Twin Towers of commerce. At the time, Pluto was smack dab on the USA Sagittarian Ascendant, the image we project out to the world! Saturn was opposite, energizing our Gemini Descendant, the point at which we enter into relationship with the world, the way we interact with the rest of humanity.
In a matter of minutes, Pluto destroyed our self-image. We had felt untouchable. We had the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons on the planet. Who would dare attack us? Yet somehow, so the story goes, Muslim terrorists brought our two tallest buildings to the ground, killed thousands of Americans and left our population with a severe case of PTSD.
Our government’s reaction was to go to war. In 2003, George Bush Jr. attacked Iraq. The second Gulf War was on. With paranoia at a peak, our government tightened security. Our way of life transformed. Everyone became suspect, especially people from foreign lands, from different races, with alien religious beliefs. Our government created Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration. They began spying on us. Surveillance cameras sprouted on roofs, telephone poles, inside public places. Metal detectors graced the entrance to government buildings, schools and universities, airports, sports arenas. We became accustomed to having our luggage, backpacks and purses searched.
Whenever Saturn and Pluto are conversing, arm and arm in conjunction, or across the table in opposition, our collective fear gets triggered. Our Cancer Sun seeks more security. More security means less privacy. Why is that? Because our government believes in espionage to keep us safe. We pay spies to sneak around sniffing out danger, anticipating plots against us. Much of our espionage now involves commerce. Corporate spies hack through other company’s data, knocking off their products and collecting information about our economic habits while Federal spies read our emails and bug our cell phone conversations.
Does anyone feel more secure? Now we not only have to fear an unknown enemy, we have to deal with a known one – our own government!
None of our “security” measures are keeping us safe. Perhaps it’s time to look at our situation from a different angle. What if we asked ourselves what is the significance of the Twin Towers attack? What does it tell us about how we are perceived by the rest of the world? Instead of proclaiming our right to invulnerability, instead of demonizing an enemy, instead of going to war to make a display of our strength, what if we had done some soul searching? What if we had considered how we had provoked this attack through our own actions? What if we realized that what makes us insecure is having enemies? What if we decided to befriend the rest of the world, to work in harmony with them for the good of all? Isn’t that a better way to achieve security?
If we had paused to reflect, to take an honest look at ourselves, we wouldn’t be facing the next Saturn/Pluto conjunction with such dread. Everyone feels anxiety, whether they are aware of it or not. We are all vibrating anxiety together.
Everything is energy. Matter is just slowed down energy that vibrates at such a slow rate we can see it, sit on it, play with it. Our bodies are the interface between energy and matter. Daily we consume matter to turn it into energy to fuel our bodies and keep us going. Unknowingly we are also affected by the energy around us.
We feel the crackle in the air right now. There is so much uncertainty. Anything can happen. We have learned to approach the unknown with fear instead of curiosity and wonder. We have been so deeply conditioned by our fear that we believe the world is a fearful place and we interact with it through our defensive stance. And like any other bully, we do it with bluster, pomp and fluttering flags, displays of power and pollution as air force jets show everyone how scary we are.
We need to get serious about all of these questions. The next Saturn/Pluto conjunction is little more than three months away. We must find a different way to respond to crises other than declaring war, murdering millions, ravaging nations and laying waste the Earth.
I have been harping on the fact that our nation’s population is predominantly adolescent. This upcoming Pluto/Saturn conjunction is revealing our immaturity. Thankfully people are waking up, starting to take responsibility, sounding the alarm. Teenagers are growing up faster than earlier generations. They are stepping up to the plate in droves. Bless them!
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. It is imperative that we, as links, make ourselves as strong as possible. Open our minds, become informed, grow our self-awareness, recognize our impact on others and take responsibility for all of it. That’s how we make a strong chain – link by link.
In order to not repeat history, we must learn from it. The history of Saturn and Pluto cycles shows us what we create when we behave irresponsibly. We can no longer afford a “me-first” attitude toward the world. It is not there for us to plunder and prey upon. Other nations do not exist to fuel our economy. The Earth is not a garbage dump. We have a responsibility to everyone, not just the USA. We have a spiritual responsibility to tend Mother Earth’s garden with gratitude and devotion. We have a spiritual responsibility to seek harmony with every other nation, to respect every other person and see them as equals in the Divine Oneness of Consciousness.
Next time we will examine our paradigm and our nation’s collective karma.
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