The Monster Mash(Up) Between Uranus & Pluto

Glancing at Google News headlines this morning, I'm struck by the fact that at least two of them smell a lot like the ongoing fistfight between Uranus and Pluto.

Uranus represents change that's sudden, unexpected, improbable, and disruptive, at least depending on your point of view.

Pluto represents gradual, deep, profound change that at least seems more or less "inevitable," again, at least depending on your point of view.

And these two dudes are duking it out over and over again between this year and 2015.

SUDDENNESS AND SOCIALLY UNACCEPTABILITY VS. THE SECRET OCTOPUS

In the case of the first headline ("The sudden resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus over an extramarital affair has sent shock waves through Washington"), the CIA is a Plutonian organization. It's long-established, octopus-like, and in the business of espionage. It doesn't get much more Plutonian than that.

Anything sudden (such as the resignation of Petraeus) is pretty Uranian. Furthermore, anything that's  considered "socially unacceptable" (at least by some people), such as an extramarital affair, is also Uranian.

SWEEPING, SLOW-BREWING CHANGE AND PEOPLE WHO "AREN'T LIKE US"

In the case of the second headline ("Nonwhite voters and cultural shifts make 2012 election pivotal"), cultural shifts are Plutonian, at least insofar as they pertain to sweeping (demographic-related) changes.

Speaking of such changes, here's an aside about them...

You know, it ain't like people couldn't foresee that they were brewing and building for years. I mean, puh-lease.

Is there any person who's not being disingenuous, and who's not in a coma, who's surprised that these changes have happened?

Changes involving "nonwhite" (read: "people who aren't like us") are Uranian.

THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMING

So the over-and-over-again collision between individuality (Uranus, in a word) and transformation (Pluto, in a word) just keeps on a-comin' ...

...and that will continue to be the case through 2015, when the two make their final separation from their seventh and final exact 90-degree angle in three years.

(That angle, by the way, is one that Uranus and Pluto form with each other once every 70 years or so.

The last time that these two guys faced off was in the 1930s, and the next time that they do it will be in.. wait for it... 2073.)

OH, YEAH... WE "LITTLE PEOPLE" ARE ALL AFFECTED, TOO

One other point: Lest you think that you're getting off easy here just because you're not a celebrity, or societal institution, or whatever, think again.

Each of us individual human beans on the planet are also affected, to one extent or another, in one sense or another, by this big planetary mash-up.

If nothing else, we're each challenged to strike workable compromises between (if not come up with superbly effective blends of) two forces:

... one force (Uranus) that cries in your face, "I gotta be me"...

...and another force (Pluto) that mutters from the shadows, "Luke, I am your father" (or something like that... I'm not exactly sure what he's saying sometimes... The guy seems to mumble half the time).

To know exactly how this three-year trend applies to you specifically ... and to know what sorts of creative (and destructive) choices are available to you, in light of them... consult your favorite local (or not-so-local)-astrologer.

(c) Proud Phoenix Astrology, 2012