“If Judge Zweibel, Cyrus Vance or Michael Bloomberg set out to make an example out of me to dissuade dissent, this has had exact opposite impact. I am absolutely and further committed to fighting for rights and freedoms that I did not even realize had been eroded to the extent they had.”
— Cecily McMillan, Occupy activist released from Riker’s Island on Wednesday.
As mentioned yesterday, the Sun opposes Pluto Friday and begins a square to Uranus that is exact Tuesday, July 8. Said another way, the Sun is moving through the Uranus-Pluto square, evoking our experience of the cardinal grand cross that has been following us around for the past few seasons. While it’s necessary to look at this as one aspect, it’s also helpful to take it in parts, and Sun-Pluto is one of them. Notably, this aspect is present in the solar return (birthday) chart for the United States, covered in the current Planet Waves FM toward the end.
If you look this aspect up in astrology textbooks as a natal aspect or Pluto opposite the Sun transit, you won’t like it much. The reason it’s associated with power struggles, waged as if life or death were on the line, is that most people need to be told what to do. You can hardly blame them — it’s the only thing we’re rewarded for in school, starting in nursery school and for many people, continuing through menial jobs and extending all the way through advanced degrees where you must do the dance or not get your reward at the end. Yet really we humans crave more self-direction than that, and so a power struggle is the seemingly ‘natural’ result.