Changing of the Gods — Season 1, Episode 7: Liberating the Instincts: Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll

Episode synopsis

As Richard Tarnas illustrates, Uranus-Pluto transits correlate closely with the liberation (Uranus) of the instincts (Pluto). This has manifested in sexual liberation movements including gay and transgender rights and today’s transformation around gender fluidity. The transits have also correlated with the liberation of consciousness, as exemplified in the widespread popular use of marijuana and psychedelics that have surged in the 1960s and again today.

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
• E5Civil Rights Movements: The Arc of the Moral Universe
• E6From Othering to Belonging: The Circle of Human Concern
• E8Technological Revolutions: Disruption and Transformation
• E9Scientific Paradigm Shifts: Toward a New Cosmology
• E10A Conscious Cosmos: Energy, Matter and Meaning