Pluto in Aquarius: really more power to the collective?
Hello all!
I have been reading a lot of posts about how the French revolution and the American fight for being an independent state happened during the time the last time Pluto was in Aquarius. And thus many have given these as some kind of proof that Pluto in Aquarius means more collective action, advancing more equality. But ... is is not that the planets only affect the white man's world, do they? This seems to me a lot of cherrypicking!
Let us look at the three biggest powers of the 1777-1798 era: the UK, India and China.
In India ... nothing happened, or rather the opposite to equality and collective happened. Imperialism took a firm footing in India at this time, consolidating power for the elites rather than giving power to people. There were no major rebellions in India. Yes, the Anglo-Mysore Wars happened, but wars were a continual feature of history at that point of time in the world.
In China ... nothing happened. Certainly not at all more power to people. Rather, the Qing dynasty was at the height of its power.
The major rebellions for both India and China happened rather in the 1850s: for India, 1857, and for China, 1856-1860. When both these started, Uranus was in Taurus. Does Uranus matter more than Pluto for all such actions?
In the UK ... the monarch, Queen Victoria, did very well. No more power to people, no rebellions. In fact, the UK became a powerful country during this time and crushed even more people at a global scale now under the yoke of the worst of crimes that humanity can perform: imperialism.
Some cite the Industrial Revolution as an example of the advancement of science and technology during this period. But machines were starting to getting used already much before, so much so that many scholars date the Industrial Revolution from 1760 onwards. In 1721 itself, a highly mechanised silk factory was operational in the UK. And it is not that the greatest pace of the Industrial Revolution happened during the 1777-1798 period: the First Industrial Revolution continued at a great pace till the 1820s, to be followed by the Second Industrial Revolution from the 1850s.
I believe that for it to be a proper field of study, one cannot be arbitrary and select those examples which fit in and quietly discard those who do not. I am surprised though that quite a lot of professional astrologers in the Western world also quote the French revolution example and generalise from that a whole lot of things that would happen. (Mostly, they are predicting things that even a layman would without the help of astrology: more protests against racism, inequality? yeah! more AI and metaverse? yeah! Does it require an astrologer to see a very obvious trend of the world?) Maybe I am missing something. I hope that good astrologers here will put me right and explain to me what I am missing.
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