URANUS SQUARE PLUTO DISCUSSION... “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” – George Orwell, 1984

URANUS IN WAXING SQUARE TO PLUTO: 2012-2015 [link to www.mmacycles.com] Longer-Term Thoughts


“… unless current law is amended before year end, the stock market has to fall at least 30 percent.” – Donald Luskin, Wall Street Journal “The 2013 Fiscal Cliff Could Crush Stocks,” May 5, 2012.


Are you ready for the first quarter phase of the 112-142 year Uranus-Pluto cycle?


This is the big one and it is the first time these two planets have been in a square aspect since 1931-1934. It will make its first of seven passages on June 24, 2012. It will make its seventh and final passage on March 17, 2015. It has already been within 1 degree of its exact square in late July through early August of last summer. You may remember that was when the USA Congress and the White House struggled to finally agree on lifting the nation’s debt ceiling limit above $14 trillion. This was immediately followed by the first downgrade ever of the USA’s credit worthiness by the S&P rating agency. Several European nations have had their credit rating downgraded even more than one notch this year, so this planetary powerful is alive and well and doing what Financial and Mundane Astrologers would expect from it: good credit is hard to find, bad credit and debt is everywhere. And the next debt ceiling will arrive before the Presidential Election in early November. Things don’t get any easier in the heavens between now and then.


Pluto represents “debt” and Uranus signifies “explosion,” and the world is certainly undergoing the “debt explosion” now, and will be experiencing its consequences for the next couple of years, and perhaps even into 2020 when Saturn will finally conjunct Pluto and start a new cycle of fiscal behavior – usually a more responsible financial behavior.


Pluto also rules banks, and in hard aspect to Uranus, it can coincide with runs on banks. Last week witnessed bank runs in Greece and Spain, as hundreds (maybe thousands) of people withdrew their deposits back from banks to the tune of nearly $1 trillion.


Pluto also rules taxes, and as politically astute individuals are aware, capital gains taxes in the USA are set to double in January 2013 and taxes on dividends will nearly triple – as in “cripple” the stock market. To avoid those higher taxes, investors and holders of dividend paying stocks will need to sell out by the end of this year. That too may be playing a role as to why so many stock indices are falling now. Now one wants to get caught in the stampede that will surely happen by the end of this year if the proposed changes in these taxes are not repealed. Contrary to faulty logic, these taxes will not bring in more revenues. They will just escalate the financial crisis and lead to a massive sell off in stocks, which in turn means a massive loss of wealth for both the nation in terms of lost tax revenues (not gains) and for businesses that need investors to provide capital for them to produce goods and hire - instead of fire - employees. I know this is not a popular thought in today’s class warfare climate, but it is reality.


Given that Uranus will be in the early stages of its seven passage square to Pluto at the end of this year, it would be unwise to assume that the new taxes that are due to commence will be repealed. Of course, one can always “hope for change,” hope for understanding to avoid the crush that is about to befall stock markets otherwise. But with Uranus and Pluto, I can’t think of more telling geocosmic signature that could pertain to bank runs and a stampede to exit financial markets and institutions. But let’s not be totally negative. Miracles do happen, and changes do take place whenever Uranus is involved in any relationship to other planets – even Pluto. It all depends on choices, and the intention behind those choices. Is it personal power (Pluto) or collective freedom (Uranus) that lead to these decisions?


We need more miracles – any miracle – out of Washington D.C., and fewer grievances, before January 1, 2013. Otherwise we are going to know what a lemming feels like at the end of its cycle. There is a cliff approaching for those in stocks who follow leaders who are lost and don’t know the way in regards to the economy, and perhaps too proud or stubborn to admit it. Words do matter, for they can inspire and provide hope. But so do numbers, which if understood and not manipulated for personal bias, can lead one to correct actions that result in growth. [link to www.mmacycles.com]