Changing of the Gods — Season 1, Episode 5: Civil Rights Movements: The Arc of the Moral Universe

Episode synopsis

Richard Tarnas describes how Uranus-Pluto transits have consistently coincided with most of the major historical cycles and breakthrough eras of Black liberation and civil rights movements, from abolitionism to Black Lives Matter. In each transit, clusters of world-changing events and iconic historical figures have surged into prominence. Each time there’s a dramatic intensification and magnification of the struggle for liberation – Uranus – and a Plutonic backlash by elites to retain power by sowing racial division.

About Changing of the Gods

Changing of the Gods focuses on the “world transits” of the planets Uranus and Pluto, which together archetypally reflect “revolutionary transformation.” Each time these planets have come into axial alignments, a zeitgeist has manifested on Earth in concentrated periods of revolution, upheaval, and social breakthroughs that have changed the course of world history. About the Series During these periods, observers regularly see massive transformations in the areas of scientific and technological innovation, social and economic justice, women’s rights movements, black liberation movements, and the emergence of new paradigms that change how we view ourselves and reality as a whole.

 Sound familiar? The last time it happened was the 1960s. 

What is the revolution today? What is the transformation?

More episodes from Season 1

• E1World Transits: As Above, So Below
• E2Political Revolutions Part 1: Cycles of Revolution
• E3Political Revolutions Part 2: Democracy v. Plutocracy
• E4Women’s Rights Movements: Revolution by Political Geniuses
• E6From Othering to Belonging: The Circle of Human Concern
• E7Liberating the Instincts: Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll
• E8Technological Revolutions: Disruption and Transformation
• E9Scientific Paradigm Shifts: Toward a New Cosmology
• E10A Conscious Cosmos: Energy, Matter and Meaning