Changing of the Gods — Season 1, Episode 8: Technological Revolutions: Disruption and Transformation

Episode synopsis

Do Uranus-Pluto world transits consistently coincide with game-changing technology revolutions that irrevocably transform society? As Richard Tarnas describes, the Uranus archetype is associated with radical technological invention and disruption, while Pluto empowers these changes on massive, transformative scales. Because the archetypes are multivalent – light and shadow and everything in between – we explore the shadow side of the abuse of technology in the Plutonic “shadow side” of raw power and domination. “What the hell happened in 2007,” asks acclaimed journalist Thomas Friedman, saying that 2007 may mark the single biggest revolution in technology since Guttenberg invented the printing press.

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
• E7Liberating the Instincts: Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll
• E9Scientific Paradigm Shifts: Toward a New Cosmology
• E10A Conscious Cosmos: Energy, Matter and Meaning