Saturn & Uranus: Innovation and Humanity Through Business

This is a hodge podge blog sort of what Saturn & Uranus working together might mean since the opposition of these two is coming up in the Fall and will be involved in a t-square with Pluto and Jupiter in 2010.

While working on something completely unrelated I found some Innovative Thinkers who seem to be bringing the upcoming Saturn-Uranus opposition into focus. At least what it can mean if used well. Once Pluto squares, it's anybody's guess what might happen.

First off I found a Japanese Businessman writer named Kenichi Ohmae. He's considered one of the top intellectuals in the world. One of his main ideas is that the Middle Class is vanishing. This is something that is of concern in the United States as well as in Asia. What attracted me to Ohmae's work, Water Sun sign that I am, is the Piscesness of the Titles of his books (which I haven't read): Our Borderless World and The End of the Nation State. Ohmae says that the World will become a single unit gravitating around the energy of Economic Centers.

Kenichi Ohmae
Feb. 21, 1943 Kitakyushu, Japan

Sun 2 Pisces; Moon Virgo?; NN 26 Leo

First I noticed Ohmae's Sun in Pisces, of course. His Sun is inconjunct Neptune in Libra. The main keyword for Inconjunct is "Adjustment." This is also the essence of Saturn working with Uranus as the Old and the New are forced to work in tandem. The double Neptune influence really speaks loudly, or in Neptune's case softly, about Dissolving of Borders (in this case of Nations) and giving up sense of Form. Ohmae's Neptune in Libra is nicely protected by an intellectual Air Grand Trine to his Mercury in Aquarius and conjunction of Saturn to Uranus in Gemini. Those planets working together are certainly involved in mentally understanding new & innovative methods for handling structure and form.

Ohmae's Sun squares the Saturn-Uranus conjunction. This mean that it's involved in one of those weird types of Triangle Chart shapes with Neptune that includes a trine, inconjunct & square. His ego expression is working in a challenging and discordant way with 3 of the major outer planets here. His Mercury works with them in a very harmonious way in the Grand trine.

The Sun is opposite Chiron which is interesting as Chiron is sometimes considered the "liason" energy between Saturn and Uranus, often associated with "hybrid" forms. This Sun-Chiron opposition is loosely placed over Ohmae's Nodal Axis so his Destinies, Goals in Life are strongly influenced to work with Teaching others how deal with the World. And again, this opposition is squared by the Saturn-Uranus conjunction of Ohmae's generation. This shows a person very strongly talented to work with bridges and transitions from the past into the future.

Through Ohmae's reviews on Amazon.com I was directed to another book on finances called The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profits written by C.K. Prahalad (haven't read it). This book talks about how the next major markets are the huge base of poor people around the world. It turns the tables on the typical idea that the poor are a burden and instead sees how business can actually serve them and profit from serving them at the same time. I don't know how this can be done, I'm a bit cynical as I've been watching Negroponte's Laptop per Child program get hammered by big business. Anyway, it's a great idea and is certainly brilliant if feasible.

I can't find Prahalad's Birth date, another cagey guy. But, through Wikipedia's entry on "Bottom of the Pyramid" (said this was going to be a hodgepodge) I found that Franklin D. Roosevelt first coined the phrase about helping the huge mass of poor in the Depression. On Apr. 7, 1932 he gave a radio address called "The Forgotten Man" who lives at the "Bottom of the Pyramid." On this date, the Sun was conjunct Uranus and still squaring Pluto. Exactly a year earlier on Apr. 7, 1931, middle of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl, there was a very heavy Cardinal t-square: conjunction of Sun-Uranus-North Node in Aries that was an apex to Jupiter c. Pluto in Cancer opposite Saturn in Capricorn. This t-square is in part responsible astrologically for the mass poverty that was felt world-wide. A very high voltage Cardinal Sign t-square that precurses the Cardinal Pluto - Saturn - Uranus t-square that is coming up in 2010. In 2010, Pluto will be apex and conjunct the North Node in Capricorn. It will square Saturn in Libra and opposing a conjunction of Jupiter-Uranus over the cusp of Pisces-Aries.

At any rate, this does seem to be a combination that is concerned with creating a massive population of people who are struggling.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
b. Jan. 30, 1882 8:45pm Hyde Park, NY

Sun 11 Aquarius; ASC 26 Cancer; Moon 4 Cancer; MC 8 Aries; NN 6 Sagittarius Rx

FDR was born when 4 outer planets were in Taurus. Of them, Saturn, Neptune and Jupiter were in Conjunction and squared FDR's natal Sun-Venus in Aquarius conjunction. This major conjunction also trined Delano's Uranus in Virgo meaning perhaps that he was able to use the easy energy of his natal Saturn-Uranus trine to help those suffering from the effects of the difficult Saturn-Uranus aspect.