Uranus at a right angle to Pluto: rupture and deep transformation collide.
Crisis forces change: a generation is born into a world transforming under tension.
An aptitude for getting through upheavals and taking part in them rather than simply enduring them.
Living in a constant sense of urgency or instability.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
Between June 2012 and March 2015, Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Capricorn crossed at a right angle seven times, a series of exact contacts of exceptional length.
This period coincided with the aftermath of the financial crisis, the Arab Spring, major protest movements, and rising climate concerns. The previous square, a waning one, dated from 1932–1934, between Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Cancer, in the middle of the Great Depression. Children born during either of these windows almost all carry this aspect.
For one of them, this square carries weight only when it joins a personal planet or the Ascendant. It would then suggest a tension between the urge to break away and the need to transform deeply, an aptitude for living in an unstable world without getting lost in it. The children of 2012–2015 are growing up amid climate and digital emergencies; their relationship to change will probably be very different from their parents’. Those of 1932–1934 lived through the war as children, then the reconstruction, and many kept a striking capacity to adapt.
The downside would be a constant sense of urgency, the feeling that everything could tip over at any moment. When this square is relayed in a chart, finding anchoring points, concrete commitments, and lasting bonds helps turn this tension into a force for renewal rather than anxiety.
The 1932–1934 generation often built solid couples in a world being rebuilt; the 2012–2015 one is growing up in families of very varied shapes.
When the square joins Venus or the Moon, the relationship sought would be intense and transformative, sometimes unstable. Two children of 2013 have it in common, with no bearing on their future love lives. It only stands out between two charts when it touches a personal planet of a much older person.
The 1932–1934 generation lived through the war and the reconstruction, then the great industrial changes; the 2012–2015 one will enter a working world transformed by automation and the ecological transition.
If a personal planet relays it, the person knows how to adapt to upheavals and can carry deep transformations. Keeping a personal course helps them avoid simply enduring crises.
Rapid changes, successive crises, new technologies: this square first describes the context in which a generation grows up.
When it touches a personal point, the need for change can become constant, and standing still hard to bear. Stable rituals, a place of refuge, and lasting family or friendship bonds offer a valuable anchor amid the storms of the outside world.
Unknown to the ancients, this square was studied in the 20th century by astrologers of cycles.
André Barbault linked the 1932–1934 square to the Great Depression and the rise of totalitarian regimes. Richard Tarnas devoted long pages to the cycle of Uranus and Pluto, which he associates with periods of revolution and social transformation. The 2012–2015 square was followed almost month by month in the astrological press. These are authors’ readings, with no value as proof.
Current astrologers read in it the imprint of an era; for a person, only their personal planets give it a color of its own.
Tradition calls it dynamic: the two functions are said to pull against each other and call for an adjustment, without foretelling anything.
Transpersonal planet. Modern planet, discovered in 1781 (William Herschel).
The profile of UranusCounted between 83° and 97° apart.
The squareTranspersonal planet. Discovered in 1930 (Clyde Tombaugh); a dwarf planet for the IAU since 2006, kept by astrology.
The profile of PlutoRupture and deep transformation collide in it: an aptitude for getting through crises, living in an unstable world, and taking part in fundamental change. The 1932–1934 and 2012–2015 generations carry it. For any one of them, everything depends on the area of the chart and the personal planets involved.
The latest one formed seven times between June 2012 and March 2015, between Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Capricorn. The one before dated from 1932–1934, with Uranus already in Aries and Pluto in Cancer. A series of exact contacts this long is rare and comes from how slowly the two planets were moving at that time.
Astrologers of cycles have linked it to periods of crisis, but Versana makes no prediction. In an individual chart, it would mainly describe a generational sensitivity to change and a capacity to get through unstable periods. The children of 2012–2015 are not doomed to a turbulent life.