In regard to uranus, aquarius 11th house.
I can't fully understand this contradiction.
In some way is asking for total independence a peer group of one person. King of individuation
But in the other side specially when we compare with the pp leo it seems that aquarius is more to open to the collective or peer groups opossite to the more individualized leo. Kind of moving from self leo to aquarius tribe
So this contradiction indivividual-collective make that I can't grasp fully the arquetype.
What is the role aquarius in relation to this axis individual-collective?
With love
Iñaki
HI Iñaki,
In JWG's book on Uranus he writes this about how humans organize themselves:
Three Divisions within Society
What we can empirically see, in general, at this time in western civilization is this:
A: One third of the people are going to be primarily oriented to the past. All the values, all the moral structures, all the beliefs, etc., which symbolize that which has been. An example would be President Reagan pointing to the 1920's as the model to be used for social programs in the US, ie volunteerism.
B: One third of the people are in various degrees of rebellion to that which has been, or is. They want to revolutionize or change the social structure; iconoclasts, social rebels, the avant guard edge of a society, malcontents, outlaws, political or religious revolutionaries, or the hermit. Terrorists also fit now don't they? Since the seed behind terrorism is religious or moral imperative, you have Muslim fanatics becoming so convinced that their version of Muslim is right, even against other sects of Muslim, that this conviction is used to justify the socially rebellious acts that this line in the dirt creates. And this is happening everywhere; Northern Ireland, Iran/Iraq, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, India, fundamental "Christians" trying to impose their version of the Bible upon everyone else, etc.
This kind of philosophical or religious rebellion (revolution) can lead to anarchy or totalitarianism in various parts of various countries, or country against country. Religious or philosophical anarchy is ultimately a Uranus or Neptune in Sagittarius phenomena. A totalitarian response to this would be Neptune or Uranus in Capricorn. An important point to consider is this: the malcontent or social rebel of today could have been socially content at some other time. The specific nature of the current social context is that which determines who is who.
C: One third of the people are ambivalent. Since this third may or may not participate in social changes in a conscious or active way, you can see why social change is slow most of the time. These people are going with the flow. They cannot make up their minds either way. The Pluto conjunct Uranus in Virgo generation reflects this simple truth: one third rebelled against the past to become "punk people." One third redefining and reflecting the past of their grandparents generation, ie conservatism. One third goes with the flow, ie conforming to peer group pressure which is one of the functions of Uranus. Thus this group styles themselves to look a little "punk" on the outside, while being essentially conservative on the inside.
We are most susceptible to peer group pressure when we are in our teens. In this culture it is reflected while we are in junior and then high school. Most of us went through junior and high school. We all remember the social conditioning and peer group pressure. If I am in high school, and there are many punk people around me, am I not going to feel some degree of social pressure to conform to this way of identifying myself? If I am growing up in a culture with Playboy and Playgirl becoming rampant, do I not feel some pressure to conform? Don't I feel some temptation to take this in as my lifestyle whether it is in my nature or not? We all go through these things.
These three divisions form the context of any society in the times that we are now living. When Uranus becomes particularly active, we see the potential phenomenon of fracturing societies. And these three basic divisions are interactive. In the 1960's I may have been identified with the group who were rebelling against the past, and the prevailing status quo at that time. I may have identified with the "new" ideas and values being expressed by the students of that time; the "hippie" or "flower power" group of people.
Within these three divisions there are then the four natural evolutionary states for all Souls. When this is then overplayed on these three divisions we can now see there are no contradictions at all.
God Bless, Rad
Thanks Rad!