Uranus Opposite Pluto

The most recent opposition between these bodies fell around 1901, Uranus in Sagittarius against Pluto in Gemini, and it belongs to that generation as a whole rather than to any member of it. What individualises it is the same as always: the axis of houses it occupies, and any personal body drawn into the pattern. An opposition, moreover, has a particular habit. It arranges for the native to encounter one of its two ends in the flesh, usually wearing the face of a spouse, a rival or an institution.

So the native who identifies with liberation acquires, reliably, entrenched opponents: the establishment, the family patriarch, the department that will not move. The native who holds the position of power acquires disrupters, and cannot understand why they keep appearing. Both are describing the same configuration from opposite chairs. The houses show the arena. Across the third and ninth it becomes an argument between local fact and grand belief. Across the sixth and twelfth, between the daily regime and everything the native has buried beneath it.

Resolution is not a truce but a double acknowledgement, and it tends to arrive in middle life if it arrives at all. The native who can hold both is unusually effective at the difficult business of changing something without destroying it, and is frequently trusted by both parties in a dispute. The native who cannot spends decades in a series of confrontations that feel personal and are not. The recurrence of the opponent, in one guise after another, is the evidence the chart offers.