The planetary patterns of 2010 and beyond are astounding.

This summer we are feeling the approach of the long-anticipated square of Pluto and Uranus: the longest arm of the Cardinal Cross. As the angle between these two celestial heavyweights becomes more and more exact, the potential increases for the people of the world (Uranus) to realize how much power (Pluto) we have.

The transits of the Cardinal Climax period have no counterpart in recent memory; but as a point of comparison, the 1960s were a harbinger. Those years of tumultuous consciousness growth occurred when Uranus and Pluto were conjunct in the sky, and now they are ninety-degrees apart (if the sixties were the New Moon, now we’re in the First Quarter). We should expect a similarly raucous breakdown of old ways.

But the stakes are higher now. Since the last big Uranus-Pluto aspect the people of the world have grown into big boys and girls. We have been through the sexual revolution, the discrediting of the Mother Church, and the tech revolution. We are awake to what’s happening to the rain forests. The wars being waged are of a new, state-less kind. We are less naïve about the financial cartels that control the world economy.

We are ready to embrace our responsibilities to a planet in peril, and wake up to a new kind of freedom, against the backdrop of the dawning of a New World Age.

What a time to be alive.

The first and second lectures in my series of lectures on the transits surrounding the 2012 years is available now, by CD or digital download. Please see box at right for more information.