Art, Astrology, and the Uranus Transit Through Pisces: Leonard Cohen and the Pluto Uranus Conjunction of the 60’s Generation
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My friend, satori is a Pisces born in the sixties with the Pluto Uranus conjunction in Virgo opposing her Sun. With Uranus transiting Pisces, I have been witnessing her liberation and kickin’ it up a gear whenever I think I can.
“Well I think you should check out some of this stuff that was born when you were. The art, I mean. The creative stuff. And I mean get the purest stuff you can find. Like Leonard Cohen’s poetry from the era. It’s very potent. He writes about taboo sex. He writes this stuff and he does not screw around. He puts it right on the paper, the energy of your generation in just a very few words. And for me it’s one thing. For you it would be another, but I do think it would impact you, because it is you. The poems were born when you were born and you share something with them.”
“Yeah.”
“Yeah. So I am getting a lot out of this. Because the poems from this certain era and the astrology is very clear. It’s the sixties and the sexual (Pluto) revolution (Uranus). We have the pill so people can screw each other’s brains out and they do. And he’s writing about the shadow much of the time. You know. This is not peace and love and hippied. This is not the Grateful Dead. This is Cohen, and though it interests me on other levels one of the things that attracts me is that this stuff was written at this specific time. A very charged time.”
“Yeah.”
“So then he goes and lives on a mountain. He goes Buddhist… he does whatever he does and he’s not writing this stuff now, forty years later.” I laughed. “But good thing he wrote it then. Very good thing, because now we have it and we can read it.”
“Yep.”
“And it reminds me of the stuff I wrote back when Pluto was transiting my Sun. That stuff was something else. It was scathing. It was some kind of stream I was in and I can’t believe the stuff I wrote. I thought it was great writing but I got censored on the astrology lists for that stuff. Remember that?”
“Yeah.”
“Well that was disturbing! But oh well. I found it pretty hard to care. I knew I should write that stuff down and I am glad I did. But I am especially glad when I read this old Cohen stuff. Because he is not writing like this anymore. Why would he be? He’s forty years older! It’s a different time! But the point is he recorded the energy that is you. You embody this.”
“I understand. I get it.”
“I figured you would. So I just think you should read some of the stuff from this era. And see some of the movies because they are the same thing. Not just any movie but the ones that really define this time. Because the fact is, your mother? Well everything she taught you and told you that you should be is anathema to who you are. Do you realize that? You are not the droid she wanted you to be. And I am thinking that exposure to things that embody your authentic energy are bound to resonate with you and help liberate you. It’s got to wake you up.”
“What’s the name of that book again?”
“Energy Of Slaves. There are others, but that’s the one you want.”
Does the art from a certain era move you more profoundly than another? Which era and why do you think that is?
skip to Part two - Sleep with her husband at your own risk…

5 Responses to “Art, Astrology, and the Uranus Transit Through Pisces: Leonard Cohen and the Pluto Uranus Conjunction of the 60’s Generation”
In the sixties we did see new ways of being; the pill gave sexual liberation, revoutionary art, poetry, music and fashion. However, having observed my fellow peers with Uranus conjunct Pluto in Virgo there is a deep conservatism in this bunch. Like the Virgo is private and this group can keep their radicalness private and not on display. Some friends (of this group)have very mainstream, suburban, straight lives on the surface - but dig a little deeper and there will be an (one ?) aspect of their lives that is very naughty, risque and/or potentially criminal, experimental, creative. Many choose safe lives on the surface whilst being underground mavericks.
Would love to hear more from Elsa with her knowledge an experienes with this curious lot.
Good rap overall.The Grateful Dead reference doesn’t make sens though. I haven’t figured out why,but people seems to ascribe all sorts of stuff to the dead that is only in their own minds.Many of their songs are dark tragic cautionary,stories of losers ,gamblers ,the dispossed, trouble, lost sailors,cowboy murderers,drug crackups, people with nothing left to lose.etc.I think people just listen to the words that mirror their own state ,and disregard the rest.
I found this page cause uranus is just hitting my Moon/venus in pisces conjunction ,and the only sustaioned relationship i’ve ever been in is getting hit hard.
I love 40’s music and humor. Preston Sturges cracks me up.
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I think we’ll see the Pluto/Uranus in Virgo energy/people manifest more visibly in the next few years. Not sure why.
Jilly, I couldn’t agree more. We’ll see them (finally) come out of their shells (I don’t really think “shell” is the right way to characterize this, but I don’t know what is right.)
Those years of the Uranus/Pluto conjunction in Virgo occurred at my coming of age, 10th, 11th, and 12 grade, and at that time transited my natal Saturn/Sun conjunction). I’ve only found out recently, having read Eric Francis on the subject, about this phenomenal 60’s event. It was a huge revelation to me, a huge relief to finally have a reasonable explanation of why I went so very very nuts 65 to 67. Lots of other people my age were sort of just growing up, more or less as usual, while I virtually turned myself inside out, and then upside down. Luckily I didn’t get too far afoul of the authorites that be-d at the time. Still my “changes” (the code word of the era) were painful for my parents generally, and acutely so for me from time to time.
Then I began to wonder the other day, when people are born slightly ahead of Pluto on their wheel, what does it mean, just generally, to experience a major Pluto transit so (relatively) early in life.
I have been a lifelong devotee of Mr. Cohen’s. I still have my original copies of “Spice Box of Earth” and poetry collections. His early albumns of songs too: Suzanne, The Sisters of Mercy, So Long Marianne, My Priests, songs too numerous (and amazing and wonderful) to mention here. When one lives at such a time of flowering of the arts, and one is aware and open to it, one never stops talking about it, revelling in it, the rest of one’s life. So forgive us old hippies a bit, for all the seemingly constant blah, blah, blah. It’s not just for us, of course, e.g. I myself have only in the last decade or so fallen in love with the jazz era of the early 40’s. So sweet, sophisticated and poignant.
Hopefully we’ll have something comparable to the 60’s coming up. Lot’s of changes. Probably even huger ones. They will meet with resistance, no? That’s the scary part.
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I noticed I was way more receptive to music, able to “feel” the music I listened to back when neptune squared my venus ~8 years ago. I didn’t do much sampling at/of the time, but what I stuck with really reigns high in my mind even now when my musical interests are quite different overall.
Can’t say I’ve done much exploring of what came out of the time I was born, but I’m still young so some of this might still be in development. I’ve noticed that at really intense periods of my life, I’ve been drawn to music from that same time - even finding the music years later never having heard it before.