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Uranus conjunct Pluto

Uranus conjunct Pluto, within one nativity or between two charts in synastry

What the tradition reads

Uranus conjunct Pluto is a significant planetary alignment shared by the generation born between 1964 and 1967, astrologyking.com's page on the pair notes, with the next such conjunction not due until 2104; natally, the source reads it as an intense need for freedom set against powerful controlling forces, a life of dramatic and sometimes uncontrollable events, agitation and rebellion where a person feels restrained or manipulated, an unusual or unorthodox attitude, and a liberalizing, reforming, modernizing impact on society and culture generally. Cafe Astrology's transit reading for the conjunction describes it as testing fear-based attachments and an inflated sense of self-importance that have limited a person's growth, a detachment from excessive behavior rooted in fear of loss or of irrelevance that can be genuinely liberating; the same source cautions against indiscriminately following sudden, abrupt, all-or-nothing impulses, urging instead that destructive habits be recognized and actually let go of. Between two charts, a conjunction from one person's Uranus to another's Pluto places the two planets at the same degree across the two charts; because the two planets move so slowly, similarly aged partners often already carry a comparable placement natally, within their own separate charts, and the sources consulted for this entry give no separate reading for the synastry contact itself.

The story

A conjunction fuses two natures at the same degree, sitting outside the four mutual configurations Ptolemy's chapter on the signs measures by fixed distance; Wikipedia's own summary calls conjunctions the most powerful aspects, since they mutually intensify the effects of the bodies involved, their character as easy or hard depending on which planets meet there. Uranus and Hades never meet directly in the myths that survive: Uranus, the primordial sky, was overthrown by his own son Cronus generations before the Olympian order that produced Hades had even been founded, Gaia having armed Cronus with a sickle of adamant and urged him to the deed. Hades belongs to that later Olympian generation, one of the six children Cronus and Rhea bore according to Hesiod; when the world was divided three ways among Zeus, Poseidon and Hades, the underworld fell to Hades, who presides there over the ending every mortal life eventually reaches. Fused together, the sky's ancient ending and the underworld's own last ending are read as one, the abrupt and the total joined into a single event.

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Corpus key aspect:Uranus:Pluto:conjunction.