What would it take to bring on a sexual revolution? What about a relationship revolution? Perhaps more to the point, why do we need these things?
This week, Venus, a planet representing values, love and sex (among a few other things), passes through the Uranus-Pluto square. That’s the rare, slow-moving planetary pattern that I’ve been calling the 2012-era aspect.
Though I don’t toss the word around lightly, this is revolutionary astrology; according to astro-historian Rick Tarnas, the word ‘revolution’, in the political sense, came into common usage during a Uranus-Pluto phase associated with the French Revolution era in the late 18th century.
This happens as the Scorpio Sun and Taurus Moon approach full opposition — the Taurus Full Moon on Sunday. I’ll come back to that in a moment, though this month there is a third point in the Full Moon equation, the centaur planet Nessus in Aquarius. (View full chart here.) Nessus is taking the deeply personal material of Taurus/Scorpio and running all that intimate subject matter through the question of ‘what everyone else might think’.
Let’s stick to Venus for now, which is the ‘ruler’ of Taurus, and is also the ‘dispositor’ of the Full Moon. When we experience an inner planet such as Venus making direct contact with a vast, generation-defining aspect like Uranus square Pluto, the qualities of outer planets manifest personally, in ways we can feel, see and often experience directly.