Well if there's anything Uranus has taught us best over the last few days, its that predictive astrology (especially when it comes to Uranus!) is very limited. The earthquake in Japan with its correlating tsunamis and nuclear crisis took the whole world by surprise. I felt like saying, "Well I'm not surprised that Uranus was...surprising."



    So it's impossible to say really how this nuclear crisis will play out. We really just have to empty ourselves of any feeling that we can control the outcome. What we do know is that Uranus is working toward several exact squares to Pluto over the next 7 years, and it is also working toward a sextile with Japan's natal Pluto/Ascendant. The former has greater implications than just in regards to the possible nuclear meltdown in Japan, but it also will surely have a bearing on the eventual outcome there.
    It's not like the nuclear crisis is the first indication we've had that technology and technological break-down (Uranus) is frustrating our need for collective purging of dependence on money/power/greed (Pluto). The BP oil spill was another such crisis. We'll continue to have these kinds of crises until we take on some really intense/dramatic Plutonic/Uranian change in regards to energy. Uranus can bring us better technology if we put our collective drives/resources (Pluto) behind that kind of change.
    With Uranus inching toward a sextile with Japan's natal Pluto/Ascendant, the country may find itself more receptive to this kind of healing transformation than we all are collectively/globally. After all, what is there to lose? Making change in regards to combustible/unhealthy sources of energy has to seem like an overwhelmingly smart move at this point after its devastation has become so imminent. The sextile is a harmonious aspect. Obviously Japan is not having what we'd call a "harmonious" time at the moment, but when a sextile there is a feeling of quiet acceptance of the dramatic change that Uranus has brought and will continue to bring to us all over this Earth. I am watching news coverage of the crisis in Japan right now. "What can we do?" a man says to his wife. "At least we are all alive."
    Though the Uranus/Pluto square of today is just part of a much longer cycle between the two outer planets, it is very clear that this specific set of squares will frustrate us into finally doing some work to transform our dependence on and technological generation of energy. That is part of the lesson this time around. ENERGY. DEPENDENCE. TECHNOLOGY. CLIMATE CHANGE. ENVIRONMENT. RESOURCES.