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crimsoncurrentSUDDEN COLLAPSE
Depending on your viewpoint, the Saturn-Uranus cycle marks out the “march of progress” or the “myth of
progress”. More than any other cycle it expresses the remorseless building up and breaking down of ideas, nations, cultures and civilisations. It is the embodiment of Heraclitus’ dictum, that the one certitude is Change, and that equally plus ça change plus ça reste la meme chose.Everything reverses into its opposite. The volcano’s Uranian erupting lava turns to Saturnine stone.Today’smould-breaking fashionbecomes tomorrow’s “old hat”. The latest hot technological invention becomes tomorrow’s industrial dinosaur. The political revolutionaries gain power and become the new reactionaries.The revolution, like Saturn, devours its children and its father.
In the daily world, we hear the echoes of the
clash of Ouranos and Chronos whenever we
witness any kind of tension, of something, or
someone, suspended between conflicting states
of being. “To be or not to be?” That is the question, as Uranus demands that the status quo be challenged and tested. “Will he or won’t he?
Just How Opposite are Saturn and Uranus?
Whilst all square aspects produce such polar tensions, the proclivity of Saturn & Uranus to the stresses and strains of opposition,despite their mutual rulership of Aquarius, is
graphically depicted in their mandala, i.e. the pattern their orbits make in relation to one another, as they orbit the Sun. As we can see in Figure 3, the mutual interweavings of Saturn and Neptune create a nine pointed star, an appropriate figure
for this most creative of combinations which, for all its sufferings, so often awakens the nine muses. By contrast, the harmogram of the interplay of Saturn and Uranus’ orbits, Figure 4, reveals it to be a dance of constant tension and
opposition, which only softens into a more
rounded picture after many cycles.
Depending on your viewpoint, the Saturn-Uranus cycle marks out the “march of progress” or the “myth of
progress”. More than any other cycle it expresses the remorseless building up and breaking down of ideas, nations, cultures and civilisations. It is the embodiment of Heraclitus’ dictum, that the one certitude is Change, and that equally plus ça change plus ça reste la meme chose.Everything reverses into its opposite. The volcano’s Uranian erupting lava turns to Saturnine stone.Today’smould-breaking fashionbecomes tomorrow’s “old hat”. The latest hot technological invention becomes tomorrow’s industrial dinosaur. The political revolutionaries gain power and become the new reactionaries.The revolution, like Saturn, devours its children and its father.
In the daily world, we hear the echoes of the
clash of Ouranos and Chronos whenever we
witness any kind of tension, of something, or
someone, suspended between conflicting states
of being. “To be or not to be?” That is the question, as Uranus demands that the status quo be challenged and tested. “Will he or won’t he?
Just How Opposite are Saturn and Uranus?
Whilst all square aspects produce such polar tensions, the proclivity of Saturn & Uranus to the stresses and strains of opposition,despite their mutual rulership of Aquarius, is
graphically depicted in their mandala, i.e. the pattern their orbits make in relation to one another, as they orbit the Sun. As we can see in Figure 3, the mutual interweavings of Saturn and Neptune create a nine pointed star, an appropriate figure
for this most creative of combinations which, for all its sufferings, so often awakens the nine muses. By contrast, the harmogram of the interplay of Saturn and Uranus’ orbits, Figure 4, reveals it to be a dance of constant tension and
opposition, which only softens into a more
rounded picture after many cycles.