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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