12-09-2016, 05:42 PM
(12-09-2016, 03:14 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: They added those later. Originally they just applied it to the USA and the colonies. As applied to other countries, however, the concept is the same. Astrologically, it would be indicated by where Uranus is at the founding moment. For the USA, that is 9 degrees of Gemini, where Uranus was when Jamestown was founded in 1607, and then returned there during the crisis of the 1690s, then to July 4, 1776, April 1861, May of 1944 and in the future in 2027.
In France, Uranus was in Leo during the French Revolution in 1789-94, and when it returned there, the first long-lasting Republic was founded in the 1870s, and then the Fifth Republic changed their constitution again in 1958.
Before the modern revolutionary times, Uranus was not discovered. Its discovery in 1781, the year the USA won its independence and thus became the first independent democratic republic in the world, and the years leading up to it when astronomers were spotting Uranus but didn't know yet what it was ("the enlightenment and scientific revolution era"), represents astrologically the coming of the traits of Uranus (revolution, inventions, liberty, independent thought, unconventional approaches to life) into full human consciousness and society, whereas before then it only had significance in our collective unconscious.
The saeculum was originally based by the authors on the Roman concept of 100 year cycles; that's where the name comes from. Astrologically, the way I see it is that society back then was governed under the cycles of Jupiter and Saturn. They represent "the establishment" of the authority of kings (Saturn) and priests (Jupiter); the reign of Chronos lasting for several millennia. But the modern world represents the overturning of applecarts, and the ability of new generations to depart from what their parents did and pursue careers open to talent. And also to explore the invisible, much as the outer planets are invisible to the naked eye.
The modern world, represented by Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, is fundamentally different from the ancient and medieval world in that way. More people are involved in history than before, and they make history from generation to generation. And the 4 archetypes can only exist in the modern world, because in the ancient/medieval world people did not live long enough for a true modern saeculum to form, because there were only 2 active generations alive at any time. The modern world is like a great wheel of progress in motion that has speeded up, from 100 to 84 years.
So that's it in a nutshell!
By the way Neptune and Pluto have orbits roughly twice and three times that of Uranus; in-effect indicating double and triple rhythms. The average for half of Neptune and a third of Pluto is about 82 years, slightly faster than Uranus.
Thanks! Looking forward to 2027
