posted March 3, 2003 ©Lisa Dale Miller
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In astrology, the planet Uranus, known as the awakener, brings sudden realizations and flashes of brilliance, which often lead to innovation, technical revolutions, and societal evolution. Like all things in this world, the planets in astrology have both positive and negative energetic expressions. Uranus' positive qualities are technological innovation, uniqueness, humanism, futurism, globalism, individuation, and accepting responsibility for uplifting the collective. Uranus expresses itself negatively in uncontrolled rebelliousness, emotional disconnectedness, increased anxiety, rampant individualism, and violent, traumatic events.

Since 1996, Uranus' journey through Aquarius (ruled by Uranus) has doubled the speed and worldwide influence of technological development. These seven years of Uranus in Aquarius have certainly been a wild ride. We saw the widespread use of the Internet, email, cell phones, and ecommerce. We visited the surface of Mars, viewed distant galaxies and stars, mapped the human genome, successfully cloned a sheep, and built a computer chip out of individual atoms. Though the world has become a smaller place, we have also seen technology increase our sense of disconnection, inner disquiet, and disharmony. We witnessed increasing isolationism within a climate of globalism, the Eboom and subsequent economic meltdown, and the rise of the super-rich alongside ever-increasing poverty. Genetically modified foods and designer drugs have moved us further down the road of perceiving humans, animals, and nature as machines. Though we decry it, AIDS continues to run rampant through much of Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe, with little help in sight. As access to health care has exponentially decreased, we have seen increasing rates of autism, depression, autoimmune diseases.

On March 10, 2003, Uranus will enter Pisces and remain there through March 12, 2011. (It will briefly reenter Aquarius from September 16 - December 30, 2003.) If you glance again at the previous paragraph, you get a very good idea of how powerfully Uranus influences humanity's technological and social development. With this in mind, what will the unfolding of Piscean consciousness bring to our world over the next eight years?

Pisces the "most evolved" sign in the zodiac, rules peace, surrender, compassion, unconditional love, transcendence, selflessness, recognition of oneness, and empathy. Pisces knows no distinctions or differences: it perceives the unity within the diversity, the unbounded consciousness that underlies all things. Pisces acknowledges our essential connectedness and realizes it through the practice of unconditional love and unwavering compassion. Can you imagine the powerful spiritual awakening that should accompany Uranus' journey through Pisces? During this period, humanity will awaken to the realization that we are born to love unconditionally, share equally, live and work with each other in peace, and strive for the collective enlightenment of all sentient beings, no matter how hard it may be or how long it may take. Truthfully, the consequences of ignoring this teaching are too frightening to even contemplate.

During the next eight years we will all be forced to make big sacrifices. Faced with the harmful consequences of over-consumption of natural resources, global warming will become a whole lot more than just a phrase. Since Pisces is a water sign, climate change will undoubtedly bring more flooding and more droughts, which could profoundly affect world food supplies. We may even see early signs of melting on the polar ice caps, which would eventually have dramatic consequences for coastline cities on many continents. To counteract this, Uranus in Pisces will bring technological revolutions in the sciences of interconnectivity, systems theory, networks and biological systems. Sustainability will become our greatest challenge and the area where we will probably see the most important technological advances. These disciplines will become the basis for new food production methods, building methodologies, environmental sciences and economic technologies. Our survival depends upon the recognition of how human activity affects all other life upon this planet. We will have to learn to tread lightly upon our Mother Earth and work hard to reclaim clean water, clean air, and healthy soil. With Neptune (the ruler of oil and oil-based technologies) in Aquarius and Uranus in Pisces (ruled by Neptune) alternative energy technologies will become a necessity by the end of the decade. We will have to learn to live without oil. Our most significant social, political and environmental traumas will come because of our continued reliance on oil. Kicking the oil habit would certainly be the greatest gift of the Uranus in Pisces, Neptune in Aquarius years.

The technological advances of the Uranus in Pisces years will also center on healing. The staggering cost of illness will surely increase the use of alternative healing modalities all over the world. Healing through energy medicine, sound, vibration, and color will probably become more accepted within the alternative medicine community. Use of meditation and mindfulness practice for treatment of depression will hopefully replace the widespread use of antidepressants. The world would change quite a bit if meditation became part of everyone's daily regime. Great strides should be made in the treatment of cancer, autoimmune diseases, and AIDS, by virtue of an increasing connection with our own healing energies and a greater appreciation for the natural world. During this time the medical establishment will be forced to accept the fact that chemical exposure has deleterious effects upon our physical and mental health. Toxins in our food supply, energy supply, water supply, and air will have to be decreased, which will in turn increase our need to immediately implement sustainable technologies. Great attention will have to be paid to halting the destruction of the rain forests, the great incubator of plant healers. If allowed to die, the loss of these natural pharmacies would be a great trauma to the human race.

The Uranus in Pisces years will awaken humanity to the toxic effects of anger and hatred. If we waste our lives holding onto anger, resentment, and hatred, we will continue to create a world that reflects our inner violence. It is up to each of us to acknowledge our anger and pain, take it in our arms like a baby, wrap it in compassion and let love work its healing magic. We must look at the pain of our partners, our parents, our children, our friends, our coworkers, our supposed enemies; acknowledging our part in causing them to suffer, wrapping them up like a baby with our compassion, and allowing love to grow. We must learn to recognize our suffering, but not act upon it. Rather we should look within and breathe, letting our breath give us time to form an appropriate response.

Due to Pisces' rulership of spirituality and religiosity, this is especially true for anger and hatred created by spiritual and religious beliefs. With Uranus in Pisces, religion will have to release the toxic thoughts and beliefs that lead to trauma and violence. Pisces isn't interested in the one true God. It knows that all Gods and Goddesses are merely projections of the transcendent; that which has no name, no form, but which is the ultimate reality and the underlying essence of all forms. Pisces' spirituality knows no distinctions, no differences and no divisiveness. It is the sign of merging, empathizing, understanding, and holding a compassionate and fully present space for human-to-human, human-to-animal, human-to-plant, and human-to-planetary interactions. Pisces is oneness, not separateness. War and violence in the name of God will have to be rejected: thrown on the garbage heap of useless, outdated modes of human behavior. Pisces insists on nothing less than peace.

The Uranus in Pisces years will ask humanity to loosen its attachment to victimization, one of the most negative expressions of Pisces. Our pain must no longer define us; it must no longer act as an excuse for living a life of denial, addiction, martyrdom, and attachment to persecution. We all get hurt. It is a fact of human life. But pain is a learning tool not a lifelong affliction. We all get wounded. But wounds must be healed and not passed down indefinitely. This is how religious and cultural hatred spreads, infects and permanently wounds successive generations. Pisces requires that forgiveness, compassion and empathy be used to heal communities, nations, the world and ourselves. Releasing identification with old pain starts now, with each of us.

With this in mind, Uranus in Pisces will require us to commit our lives to making a better world by growing up and out of selfishness and narcissism. Pisces is Bodhisattva consciousness embodied in self-sacrifice. The Uranus in Pisces years will be a time when humanity will have to deal with breaking its ever-increasing reliance on substances to numb us from the pain of living in terribly dysfunctional societies. It is time to stop running to therapy to get antidepressants because our lives are untenable. We must stop treating the symptoms and fix the problem, which is outside of us as well as inside of us. The time has come to rework our culture. We need to fix our addiction to distraction. Wouldn't it be an incredible Uranus in Pisces advance if Americans woke up from their narcissistic slumber and released themselves from addiction to drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, television, fast food, shopping, instant gratification and over-consumption? Pisces rules endings. Capitalism is in its death-throws and a new economy is emerging. The question is whether it will arise from collective awakening or collective trauma. We have the choice. Sustainability requires the discipline of compassion, generosity, love, and personal sacrifice. So move aside big business: greed is about to be replaced by barter networks. Share, care, and giveaway is the Piscean economic system of choice.

Above all else, Pisces rules perception and Uranus rules awakening. Pisces rules Maya, the grand illusion of attachment and suffering. The powerful fantasy we call life is the ultimate virtual reality. Pisces sees beyond the veil of Maya because it knows its true nature is SatChitAnanda. New Physics is already beginning to break the illusory notion of the "one universe" with its multiple universe theories. Science will become the ultimate Piscean tool for self-knowledge. But for now, let's stay within the constructs we know, and look to Kant, who postulated that all knowledge is merely images held within our brains. With this in mind, it is easy to understand why a "one true way" is impossible. Images are images, and all truths are relative. Three people experience a situation and each one will tell it differently, believing that their perception is the correct one. Uranus in Pisces wants us to loosen our attachment to narrative, and open our perception to the magic of life as a series of ever-changing images. We must all find our definition in the absoluteness of love, of unbounded pure consciousness and lift the illusion of separateness, the ultimate source of all human pain.

With Uranus in Pisces we could even see the early stages of technologies created to enable mass transcendence. Imagine plugging your brain into a neural network that simulates or actually creates spiritual experiences of enlightenment and oneness. Though we may not see this in the next eight years, the genesis of these technologies will probably be created during this time. With the advent of genetic computer chips, this has become entirely within the realm of the possible. Until then, let's continue to work on creating powerful community meditation groups and healing circles.

For all the innovations we may witness over the next eight years, the true role of Uranus' sojourn through Pisces is to assist humanity in finding its true self in the compassionate heart. This, and this alone will create the conditions for real peace to grow within us and without us. The time has come to bid farewell to the Aquarian age of individuality, and welcome in the Piscean revolution of oneness! While there are masses of people starving, homeless and without hope, we, the fortunate ones can no longer mindlessly live in big houses, eat all we wish and consume with abandon. The first step is to accept personal responsibility for uplifting the lives of all other sentient beings, and give up our attachment to priviledge. We are all interconnected at the deepest level of life, and only love will show us how to live together in peace. It is our generosity toward each other that will heal our planet.

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