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Uranus opposition Pluto

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

What the tradition reads

Uranus opposite Pluto natally subjects a person to what astrologyking.com's page on the pair calls radical generational change, the aspect itself recurring in a cycle of about a hundred and nine and then a hundred and forty five years, the last exact opposition falling in 1901 to 1902 and the next due in 2046 to 2048. Within one chart, Cafe Astrology's transit reading for the opposition describes a quite sudden desire to live more authentically, particularly regarding one's attachments and whatever has been kept hidden, cautioning against impatient, abrupt or impulsive moves even as the source credits the drastic changes it can bring with confronting long-buried memories, desires and ambitions and shifting a person's previous sources of feeling empowered. Between two charts, an opposition from one person's Uranus to another's Pluto sets the two planets at opposite points of the circle, a hundred and eighty degrees apart; the sources consulted for this entry give no separate reading for this specific synastry contact.

The story

An opposition sets two points diametrically apart, a hundred and eighty degrees, half the circle; Ptolemy's chapter on the mutual configuration of the signs calls it, together with the square, discordant, and Wikipedia's own summary credits the medieval astrologer Ibn Ezra with calling the opposition the most powerful aspect, relational rather than blending as a conjunction does, its dichotomous quality often read as tense, though like any axis its two ends can be read as complementary as easily as oppositional. 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. Set at opposite ends of the circle, the sky's abrupt ending and the underworld's total one face each other as one axis, a single overturning stroke answered by a transformation that only completes itself slowly.

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Corpus key aspect:Uranus:Pluto:opposition.