The date of 28-10-11 is believed to be an important time in the calendar. Apparently it relates to the Mayan Calendar which has described everything that has been experienced in the past billion years. There are two dates given for the end, October 28th, 2011 and December 21st, 2012. However many people believe the latter date is the one for our final ascension. The end doesn’t mean the end of the world, but is said to relate to a new consciousness emerging.

The majority of astrologers focus on the on-going cycle of Uranus square Pluto as the major marker for these upcoming trends. I am not a supporter of world spiritual awakenings of consciousness. I do believe that there have been major political movements happening, and they are the same kind of rumblings which happened during the first cycle of Uranus conjunct Pluto in Virgo, back in the 1960’s.

Here is a quote by Liz Greene on this important astrological phase:

“The people of the 1960’s weren’t yet aware of what the “Atom Bomb” had really done, what pollution would mean, what a disgusting world was being created. They were too busy watching everything beautiful. It was foretaste, according to Nostradamus, of what would come again much later. In addition, there was a most interesting and unusual planetary conjunction in the heavens of the 1960’s, a Uranus/Pluto conjunction in Virgo, the sign of daily life, natural law, and the cycles of nature. This conjunction reflected a period of radical change in thinking about the quality of daily life and certainly can be tied with the whole concept of “flower-power”. By Liz Greene

Here are some of the political events I wrote about regarding the Uranus-Pluto conjunction in Virgo:

“In 1963, when Uranus formed a conjunction to Pluto in Virgo, the U.S President, John F. Kennedy was assassinated by a gunman as he travelled in his car from the Airport to downtown, Dallas, Texas. Uranus rules political figures, anarchy, and sudden events and Pluto is the planet of destruction and endings. John had represented vibrant hope and progress (Uranus) to a new generation of American’s, and his death (Pluto) struck a terrible grief to the nation. Martin Luther King, Civil Rights Activist (Uranus) was also shot dead on the balcony of his motel.”

Moreover we have had the same kinds of things happening once again through the assassination of important leaders : like Osama Bin Laden and Gadaffi. The same cycle of transiting Uranus-Pluto during these significant movements is quite remarkable in comparison. Barbara Hand Clow and others have more to say on the Uranus-Pluto alignment.

“Just as a theatres stage has arts and props that create a specific atmosphere for the drama that is played out once the curtain rises, transits during the wild 1960’s set the stage for the Galatic Underworld. Uranus come together with Pluto…which initated a time-release depthcharge of radical transformation in culture and individuals. Uranus rules change and transformation, and Pluto rules processing our deepest and darkest emotions…Going back to the 1960’s in your mind, do you remember the Summer of Love in San Francisco, the Beatles, and the Beatnik generation? Since then the media and the previous generation have done everything possible to make it all look like all that crazy behaviour just went away, but it has not. ..In fact, the youth of the 1960’s manifested all the aspects of enlightenment---meditation, art, personal searching, love of nature, a yearning for peace, and cosmic fusion by means of altered states of awareness. 

According to astrology, whatever happened during the conjunction of Uranus and Pluto in the 1960’s would manifest globally as soon as these two planets reached their first square (a 90 degree angle) to each other…With Uranus and Pluto, when the first square comes, the creative explosion of the 1960’s will release into the world.. Guess what? Uranus comes to a close square to Pluto during 2011, and then the exact squares are during 2012. Just coincidence?...The enlightenment energy discovered by The Children of Love will manifest as a global force in 2011, and during 2012, no one who lives on this earth will be able to resist melting into enlightenment.

I am not convinced that this aspect has paved the way for enlightenment, but to quote Bob Dylan – “The Times they are a Changin”. We have seen the people topple over dominating and powerful political figures, and witnessed the current trend to kill rather than capture people like Bin Laden and Gadaffi. The response to terrorism has been different, and their deaths have marked the end of a reign of terror. Uranus-Pluto is responsible for revolution, revolt and uprisings, and this contact has overthrown governments, and we have viewed a powerful rebellion against the establishment. Perhaps once again the world is going a bit crazy again under this same planetary alignment in the sky, but change is happening.