Part II--What's Going to Happen: The Uranus-Pluto Square
From Bill Herbst:
The outcome of the movement, according to Kalle Lasn, a co-originator of OWS, bear this out:"What defines the Occupy uprising for me as belonging---so far--- primarily to the Limbo Period from September 2011 through May 2012 (rather than as part of what will come later, after the critical mass point of June 2012 and beyond, all the way to 2015) are the qualities of civil obedience and respect for authority. There is, as far as I know, hardly any civil disobedience at all in the viral Occupy phenomenon yet. Everything about the protests carries the tacit assumption (intentional or not)---or at least the hope---that a public appeal to authority in government and/or corporate boardrooms might effect some reform or redress of grievances. This is a complete fiction. A hopeless fantasy."
"Why didn’t Bloomberg come down to talk to us? Or Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein? Why didn’t President Obama acknowledge the protesters — largely the people who elected him — and mingle in the open-air town halls? What a grand gesture that would have been. How come our political leaders are so isolated, our discourse so rigid? Why can’t the American power elite engage with the nation’s young?
As far as the original goals of OWS, Lasn adds:Instead, they stayed aloof, ignored us and wished us away. We wanted a Tahrir moment, an American Spring, a new vision of the future, and they attacked us in Zuccotti Park in the dead of the night."
The Occupy Wall Street meme was launched by a poster in the 97th issue of our international ad-free magazine, Adbusters, the hash tag #OCCUPYWALLSTREET and a “tactical briefing” that we sent to our 90,000-strong “culture jammer” global network of activists, artists and rabble-rousers in mid-July. The movement’s true origins, however, go back to the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt. That was when the world witnessed how intransigent regimes can be toppled by leaderless democratic crowds, brought together by social media, that stand firm and courageously refuse to go home until their demands for change are met. Our shared epiphany was that America, too, needs its Tahrir Square moment and its own kind of regime change. Perhaps not the hard regime change of Tunisia and Egypt, but certainly a soft one.
Only a soft regime change can end the pervasive corruption at the heart of our political system, in which corporate money wins elections, drafts laws and trumps citizen desires. Only the plural voices of everyday Americans, the 99 percent, have the capacity to wake up the 1 percent to their greedy, self-serving ways, and to dismantle the global casino in which $1.3 trillion worth of derivatives, credit default swaps and other financial instruments slosh around every day without a hint of concern or regard for the millions of lives that such speculation can destroy."The overthrow is for later, as Herbst accurately alludes. For now, two clear themes emerge:
1) Mars is ingressing into Virgo and retrograding through Virgo from
January to mid-April, giving them plenty of time to come up with
ideas for practical action, as shown by Mars' Virgo transit through
the 9th and 10th houses of the OWS chart (planning prior to public
launch). When Mars moves ahead in April 2012, and mutually recepts
Mercury later the same month, the protesters will be back in battle
and at the forefront again. BECAUSE...
2) When the movement reemerges after it regroups (typical Pluto
symbolism--arising from the ashes in a different form),will regroup
over the winter as the Uranus- Pluto square reconfigures (payback is
a bitch) for real next year. Because in mid-July 2012, Mars comes
along and reactivates the Venus-Pluto T-square of OWS:
According to Herbst, "With the end of the first period of denial, however, we have not moved directly into the second period, which will be an extended period of economic and cultural breakdown in cascading waves, accompanied by the brave new world of social upheavals and revolutions to necessarily find ways to pick up the pieces and re-form both commerce and society. No, that second phase of the two-step dance does not officially (meaning symbolically) begin until June of 2012."
Throughout
history, anarchy (Uranus) has always been the natural enemy of
plutocracy (Pluto). Anarchy does not mean chaos; it is from the
Greek anarchos, meaning without leaders, as in the famous Goethe
quote: "The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves." Anarchy, as referenced here, is understood along the lines
of Voltairine deCleyre's "Anarchism & American Traditions", written in 1908 and a far cry
from how the news media defines and depicts anarchy.
OWS
was just a prelude, or sneak preview, to the "we're not going to
take it anymore" fury that is getting ready for the stage in
2012. Because one of the key tactics of anarchy is direct action. In other
words, one does not ask nicely for redress from the very corrupt
system (Pluto in Capricorn) that oppresses and affects the people wanting
the change (Uranus in Aries).
In
that regard, and during the Uranus-Pluto square, direct action will be front and center. According to Crimethinc.org, in their publication Twelve Myths About Direct Action, it is defined as "any kind of action that bypasses established political channels to accomplish objectives directly—has a long and rich heritage in North America, extending back to the Boston Tea Party and beyond. Despite this, there are many misunderstandings about it, in part due to the ways it has been misrepresented in the corporate media."
So
what might direct action look like? Uranus in Aries rules individual direct
action affecting the collective and society. Groups (cells) also take
independent action. Multi-level scenarios could play out where an independent hacktivist
group such as Anonymous is involved in an incident, while angry mobs surround
and shut down a bank or brokerage firm simultaneously in the same
city.
Uranus
in Aries will provide distinct advantages for everyone battling the
Pluto in Capricorn regime:
- The plutocrats and their armies of police, etc. are vastly outnumbered by the masses.
- More avenues of communication are available to coordinate disruption (social media, etc.).
- Americans are armed, unlike the Muslim countries' uprisings, who have to try to co-opt their militaries.
- Troops that will be deployed to fight the mass uprisings are all currently overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan, protecting corporate interests such as oilfields (Iraq) and pipelines and poppyfields (Afghanistan).
- Troops upon their return home face an upwards of 9.1% unemployment rate, reasonably putting them squarely on the side of the 99%.
- Efficient, low-tech weaponry is available to counter police tactics. (Stifiling tear gas canisters, wearing sealed swim goggles and face masks to protests to protect against tear gas attacks—among other tactics.)
As
for the Pluto in Capricorn regime, their advantages are very formidable.:
- They have near-limitless resources (money, firepower) to quash rebellion.
- They can use classic, proven tactics, such as what occurred during the Haymarket affair, to turn public opinion against change and revolt. (And they did; see here.)
- They can create or alter laws to generate a more massive incarceration of larger numbers of people considered a threat and bypass due process of the law in doing so by labeling civillians as terrorists or enemy combatants.
Funny
Herbst should mention 2016. That's where the trans-Neptunian object called Eris comes in to wreak her havoc.
Uranus will conjoin Eris in early June 2016 at 23 Aries, forming a
nice little T-square to the US Pluto-Mercury opposition in the Sibly horoscope of the USA (7/4/1776, Philadelphia, PA, 5:10 pm). The Uranus-Eris conjunction will also quincunx Neptune:
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| U.S. Sibley Chart Planetary Positions |
All of this will be discussed in a future post here entitled "Lookout America! Eris is Coming!" where all the TNOs will be
superimposed by natal and transit with the US Sibley chart and analyzed in relation to the revolution and Uranus-Pluto square.
