In astrology Uranus transits often coincide with opening up to perspectives we've previously not seen. Sometimes the process is disturbing, because it comes as a jolt or short sharp shock. Pluto transits are similar in that there is an uncompromising and sometimes scary staring of reality in the face, but with Pluto things are more visceral, deeper rooted and have an element of the unspeakable, the unpalatable, even the nightmarish. Both planets have to do with the truth, in their own ways, but this goes for Uranus most strongly.
When Al Gore's documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, was released in the USA on 24th May 2006, transiting Uranus was conjunct Al's Mercury, and transiting Pluto was conjunct his Jupiter. Both Mercury and Jupiter symbolise the media and publishing, as well as education, teaching, and prophecy. A book was published around the same time.
During these transits, the film went on to win lots of awards, including an Oscar, was adopted by schools, influenced politicians in various countries, became the third most successful documentary in the USA, and spawned the Live Earth concerts, promoted as the largest concert series in the Earth's history, and certainly a massive multimedia event estimated to have been broadcast to 2 billion people.
Both these transits are once-in-a-lifetime transits, but not everyone will experience them during their lives. For Al to have both occurring simultaneously points to an extremely significant and major developmental process in his life.
The transits are both still within orb, as yesterday's Live Earth concerts took place, with Pluto conjunct the Galactic Centre, the point in space that is a line from Earth to centre of our galaxy. This point has been said by some astrologers to represent plugging into issues of global and meta-global importance, which certainly fits in this case.
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