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Astrology of India’s outrage





There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.  ~ Victor Hugo (Les Miserables, 1862)

Waves of angry demonstrators were repelled by tear gas and water cannons in New Delhi on Saturday [22nd Dec]  as they marched on the president's residence to protest the brutal gang rape of a 23-year-old student on a private bus last weekend.With cries of "be ashamed," thousands flowed through central Delhi, trying to break through steel barricades as the seesawing battle lasted into the evening. It's the fourth straight day of protests that have shaken the government and taken police aback. "These are unprecedented demonstrations," NPR's Julie McCarthy reports. "They want justice for this young woman, and they want women in this country generally to feel safer on the streets, at work, in subways, and on public transportation."



Readers may wonder whether there is an astrological indicator for this “unprecedented rage” in the public. And sure enough there is. There has been a Uranus-Pluto square in the heavens for sometime now and will last till about 2015. The meaning and the various possible manifestations have been discussed by several astrologers so that I will not repeat expect provide a few quotes:

Pluto in Capricorn is showing us where power has become overwhelmingly leveraged towards the few, at the expense of the rest.  Pluto engenders the seeds of revolution, and the fall from power of those in high places, if need be.  It’s about the redistribution of power.  In Pluto weather the dark underbelly is revealed... And when in Capricorn it lays bare the underlying problems and weaknesses in the existing structures, governments and seats of power.  And when planets come to stress this position...as they have been this year, those structures are challenged for stability, strength and soundness. 

When Uranus in Aries (freedom, initiative and individuality) comes up against Pluto in Capricorn (plutocracy, oppression, fascism) there is a desire to be free at all costs.  But the passion and anger that ensues does not arise out of nowhere.  It is due to circumstances that people had been tolerating for some time.  Powder kegs were ready to explode... all they needed was the spark to ignite it.[1] 

Having understood the meaning of the Uranus-Pluto square we turn to the chart of the Republic of India [26 Jan 1950; 10:15 am Delhi]  and notice that this square occupies the Ascendant-MC. Uranus has just stationed direct [2] on 13th December at 4Ar [India’s Ascendant] squaring Pluto [9cp] on the MC.  Radix Mars in India’s chart is at 9li so that it has been activated by the Uranus-Pluto square. In mundane astrology, the Ascendant rules the ‘masses’ and the MC the ‘government’ or the ‘rulers’

Named for the god of war, Mars represents such often-disowned functions as anger, aggression, and competitiveness. At its best and its most conscious level this is the energy that defends us on our journey. But it also has a negative side, it is our capacity to be a victim, to set ourselves up as targets – and then in the anger  such painful, humiliating events leave in their wake to seek to create pain in others. Pluto represents our will to power, and because power is so often abused, is typically disavowed and projected onto others. In this case it has been projected onto our leaders.  We all have both Mars and Pluto in our charts and need to integrate and express them constructively in order to be whole and free. In India’s chart it represents our collective unwillingness to own these planets within ourselves which made  life difficult. Now is a time for this collective anger to ‘boil over’. [3][4]

Reference:
[1] Uranus ~ Pluto: The Underbelly Revealed

[2] Retrograde Cycles & Stations

[3] Mars-Pluto Aspects

[4] The Uranus-Pluto Square 2012-2015; Revolution & Revelation


P.S. The image above is that of the French Revolution which incidentally took place under a Uranus-Pluto aspect.

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