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URANUS Freedom From The Known
Language: English ISBN-10: 0875422977 ISBN-13: 978-0875422978
- GenresAstrologyWitchcraft
161 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1986
About the author
Jeffrey Wolf Green
33 books39 followersJeffrey Wolf Green has been called the founder of Evolutionary Astrology because he first started to lecture on the revolutionary astrological paradigm in 1977 after receiving a dream from the spiritual master Swami Sri Yukteswar, Paramahansa Yogananda’s guru. In that dream the entire paradigm of Evolutionary Astrology was conveyed to Jeffrey.
This was the first time in astrology’s long history that a specific paradigm was realized that allowed for an understanding of the evolutionary progression of a Soul from life to life. Jeffrey lectured all over the world on Evolutionary Astrology from 1977 to 2001. He established Evolutionary Astrology schools in a number of countries and wrote books on Evolutionary Astrology.
The first of these, Pluto: The Evolutionary Journey of the Soul, Volume I was published in 1984. It has been in continuous print ever since and has become one of the all-time best selling astrology books. Translations have been made into French, German, Dutch, Chinese, Bulgarian, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Serbian and other languages.
Volume II, Pluto: The Soul’s Evolution through Relationships was published in 1998 and has been in continuous print.
A third volume, Essays in Evolutionary Astrology: The Evolutionary Journey of the Soul, was published in 2010. Essays was compiled by his daughter, Deva Green, from transcriptions of workshops Jeffrey gave over the years. It covers topics that are part of Jeffrey’s Evolutionary Astrology paradigm that were either not covered in depth or in some cases at all in his original two volumes.
Deva also compiled many other books by him based on his teachings over the years which include Neptune: Whispers From Eternity, The Structure Of The Soul, Relationships: Our Essential Needs, Medical Astrology, Lucifer: The Influence Of Evil In The Horoscope, and Uranus: Freedom From The Known.
Since starting his original Pluto School in 1994, Jeffrey had many EA students, a number of whom are now professional EA astrologers. He personally counseled over 30,000 clients in his lengthy career. This exposure to so many Souls from so many different backgrounds and orientations allowed him to come to the deepest possible understandings of the nature of the Soul. He communicated these insights through all of his teachings.
This was the first time in astrology’s long history that a specific paradigm was realized that allowed for an understanding of the evolutionary progression of a Soul from life to life. Jeffrey lectured all over the world on Evolutionary Astrology from 1977 to 2001. He established Evolutionary Astrology schools in a number of countries and wrote books on Evolutionary Astrology.
The first of these, Pluto: The Evolutionary Journey of the Soul, Volume I was published in 1984. It has been in continuous print ever since and has become one of the all-time best selling astrology books. Translations have been made into French, German, Dutch, Chinese, Bulgarian, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Serbian and other languages.
Volume II, Pluto: The Soul’s Evolution through Relationships was published in 1998 and has been in continuous print.
A third volume, Essays in Evolutionary Astrology: The Evolutionary Journey of the Soul, was published in 2010. Essays was compiled by his daughter, Deva Green, from transcriptions of workshops Jeffrey gave over the years. It covers topics that are part of Jeffrey’s Evolutionary Astrology paradigm that were either not covered in depth or in some cases at all in his original two volumes.
Deva also compiled many other books by him based on his teachings over the years which include Neptune: Whispers From Eternity, The Structure Of The Soul, Relationships: Our Essential Needs, Medical Astrology, Lucifer: The Influence Of Evil In The Horoscope, and Uranus: Freedom From The Known.
Since starting his original Pluto School in 1994, Jeffrey had many EA students, a number of whom are now professional EA astrologers. He personally counseled over 30,000 clients in his lengthy career. This exposure to so many Souls from so many different backgrounds and orientations allowed him to come to the deepest possible understandings of the nature of the Soul. He communicated these insights through all of his teachings.
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December 21, 2019
The book is admittedly written as somewhat of a transcript from a conference, but that's no excuse for the editing to allow it to be so scattered. In fact, the chapter on house placements doesn't even contain them all. It skips from the 1st and 2nd house to the 5th, then to the 7th and 8th, etc. It jumps from the esoteric to the scientific without explaining the concepts in a tangible way. It seems to be more of a rambling discussion that should not have been released as a book at all.
March 13, 2022
Living at the Aquarian age, requires us, at some degree to read about the collective consciousness of this century, which I’ve later knew that Uranus is associated with. Being Aquarian myself, who also has lots of concerns about my fellow Aquarian, it was a big motive for me to understand the peculiarities of Uranian energy. Haven’t found lots of material out there related to the topic, but the content Jeffery provided on this transcripted manuscripts, did more than what I would’ve expected of a cookbook astrology, and that makes me really thankful for the editors to make the efforts to publish this book.
As for the richen content of this book, at this moment, I’ve come to realize that being a Jungian, or at least getting yourself comfortable with Carl Jung’s concepts, specially the archetype, individuation, and the shadow, is really helpful on psychological astrology, as I’m familiar with, but here where Jeffery, for my surprise, has even introduced a new sub-filed to me; which is the Evolutionary Astrology; just like the natural selection, Jeff shed the light upon the fact that one third of the poulation is lined up along the lines of the past, one third along the lines of future necessities, and one third is ambivalent, as the polarization and the segments of people.
Having served at the military himself, the sociological insights that Jeffery points them out, as they relate to the different generations of Uranus, for example the correlation between the pull and push between Saturn and Uranus, as when people have a mid life crises on their thirty, due to Saturn return, and why there was lots of teens-suicide during the Virgo Pluto generation, after the nuclear war, which can be explained also as Saturnian energy, repressing the Uranian one, just like the pull and pushs between the Yen and Yang.
Surprisingly enough, as I’ve always compared the era we live in right now, to the industrial revolution, and to my surprise, Jeffery had already highlighted the historical era of when these placements had occurred:
Neptune and Uranus will move into Aquarius, and Pluto will move into Sagittarius (a fire sign). A simple review of history tells the story of cultural and societal restructuring when this pattern happened before (the Industrial Revolution, among other events, of the 1820s and 30s).
Collectively, when Uranus moves through Aquarius an acceleration of the transition between sociopolitical epochs takes place. This transition begins while Uranus moves through Capricorn, and accelerates in Aquarius. For generally eight years many souls are born with Uranus in Aquarius, souls whose early environmental imprint is one of rapidly changing times. World War I, the Russian Revolution, which led to Marxist/Leninist regime, Wilson’s attempt to establish the League of Nations following the war, the rapid change in individual mobility with respect to the automobile, train, and aircraft, an increase of aware- ness beyond one’s immediate reality relative to newspapers, etc., all occurred while Uranus was in Aquarius the last time. Against this rapidly changing sociopolitical back- ground, individuals such as John F. Kennedy, Indira Gandhi, Albert Camus, William Burroughs, Dylan Thomas, Alan Watts, Jonas Salk, Orson Welles, Arthur C. Clarke, G.A. Nasser, Jack Paar, Ingmar Bergman, J.D. Salinger, and Billy Graham were born. In the late 1820’s and early 1830's the acceleration of the Industrial Revolution took place, this sociopolitical change radically altering human history and evaluation.
Page -86
Jeff then jumps up from the sociological level to the physiological one, as he talks about the Chakras, and just as mercury rules the higher mind, and the mercury in Gemini as Jeff explain the differences between Gemini and Sagittarius, as they are both interested on knowledge, but Sagittarius is rather the intuitive right brain hemisphere, or the metaphysics, and Gemini is the left brain hemisphere, the rational one, or the physics, and together they show two sides of one coin.
(A) Is that like Gemini being physics and Sagittarius being metaphysics?
J) Exactly the point. The interface of Sagittarius and Gemini is this: Sagittarius is the basis of metaphysical law, which is the basis of what we call physical law (Gemini).
Page -50-
Same thing goes for Uranus, and the sense of alienation, detachment, and essential aloneness, that accompanied the disembodied energy of it, compared to the strict foundational, and conservative righteous influence of Saturn, as they both represent the collective subconscious.
Thus the challenge, again, is to learn how to make the sys- tem work to your advantage without becoming overly identified with it, to participate while being essentially de- tached from it. In this way we can accomplish the lessons or intentions for any life while not becoming overly identified or invested with the systems that each life on Earth creates, i.e., the country, or culture, or family, and the values and beliefs that breed specific customs, norms, taboos, laws, and ways of doing things.
Thus, Jeff aims on this book, to provide a progressive approach towards handling the Uranian energy within each one of us, with such interesting way on interrupting the natal chart, not by being judgmental, on the certain placement as the falls, but rather looking at every aspect as an archetype, from a holistic standpoint.
This is exactly where the heart of astrology exists: the ability to synthesize various archetypes. The ability to do so separates the astrologer with real ability from the ones who simply repeat what they have memorized from books and classes. What kinds of statements can you make as you consider this equation and the need to synthesize it? The great hurdle is now in front of us. What I would sug- gest you do is to start your analysis with linear, deductive logic and finish it with holistic, inductive logic. This simply means moving from one layer, adding another layer, another, and so on until you have all the layers put together. Once all the layers are in place you will then have a whole structure to look at. This will promote the awareness of the whole and allow for an inductive awareness promoting synthesis of the whole structure.
As for the richen content of this book, at this moment, I’ve come to realize that being a Jungian, or at least getting yourself comfortable with Carl Jung’s concepts, specially the archetype, individuation, and the shadow, is really helpful on psychological astrology, as I’m familiar with, but here where Jeffery, for my surprise, has even introduced a new sub-filed to me; which is the Evolutionary Astrology; just like the natural selection, Jeff shed the light upon the fact that one third of the poulation is lined up along the lines of the past, one third along the lines of future necessities, and one third is ambivalent, as the polarization and the segments of people.
Having served at the military himself, the sociological insights that Jeffery points them out, as they relate to the different generations of Uranus, for example the correlation between the pull and push between Saturn and Uranus, as when people have a mid life crises on their thirty, due to Saturn return, and why there was lots of teens-suicide during the Virgo Pluto generation, after the nuclear war, which can be explained also as Saturnian energy, repressing the Uranian one, just like the pull and pushs between the Yen and Yang.
Surprisingly enough, as I’ve always compared the era we live in right now, to the industrial revolution, and to my surprise, Jeffery had already highlighted the historical era of when these placements had occurred:
Neptune and Uranus will move into Aquarius, and Pluto will move into Sagittarius (a fire sign). A simple review of history tells the story of cultural and societal restructuring when this pattern happened before (the Industrial Revolution, among other events, of the 1820s and 30s).
Collectively, when Uranus moves through Aquarius an acceleration of the transition between sociopolitical epochs takes place. This transition begins while Uranus moves through Capricorn, and accelerates in Aquarius. For generally eight years many souls are born with Uranus in Aquarius, souls whose early environmental imprint is one of rapidly changing times. World War I, the Russian Revolution, which led to Marxist/Leninist regime, Wilson’s attempt to establish the League of Nations following the war, the rapid change in individual mobility with respect to the automobile, train, and aircraft, an increase of aware- ness beyond one’s immediate reality relative to newspapers, etc., all occurred while Uranus was in Aquarius the last time. Against this rapidly changing sociopolitical back- ground, individuals such as John F. Kennedy, Indira Gandhi, Albert Camus, William Burroughs, Dylan Thomas, Alan Watts, Jonas Salk, Orson Welles, Arthur C. Clarke, G.A. Nasser, Jack Paar, Ingmar Bergman, J.D. Salinger, and Billy Graham were born. In the late 1820’s and early 1830's the acceleration of the Industrial Revolution took place, this sociopolitical change radically altering human history and evaluation.
Page -86
Jeff then jumps up from the sociological level to the physiological one, as he talks about the Chakras, and just as mercury rules the higher mind, and the mercury in Gemini as Jeff explain the differences between Gemini and Sagittarius, as they are both interested on knowledge, but Sagittarius is rather the intuitive right brain hemisphere, or the metaphysics, and Gemini is the left brain hemisphere, the rational one, or the physics, and together they show two sides of one coin.
(A) Is that like Gemini being physics and Sagittarius being metaphysics?
J) Exactly the point. The interface of Sagittarius and Gemini is this: Sagittarius is the basis of metaphysical law, which is the basis of what we call physical law (Gemini).
Page -50-
Same thing goes for Uranus, and the sense of alienation, detachment, and essential aloneness, that accompanied the disembodied energy of it, compared to the strict foundational, and conservative righteous influence of Saturn, as they both represent the collective subconscious.
Thus the challenge, again, is to learn how to make the sys- tem work to your advantage without becoming overly identified with it, to participate while being essentially de- tached from it. In this way we can accomplish the lessons or intentions for any life while not becoming overly identified or invested with the systems that each life on Earth creates, i.e., the country, or culture, or family, and the values and beliefs that breed specific customs, norms, taboos, laws, and ways of doing things.
Thus, Jeff aims on this book, to provide a progressive approach towards handling the Uranian energy within each one of us, with such interesting way on interrupting the natal chart, not by being judgmental, on the certain placement as the falls, but rather looking at every aspect as an archetype, from a holistic standpoint.
This is exactly where the heart of astrology exists: the ability to synthesize various archetypes. The ability to do so separates the astrologer with real ability from the ones who simply repeat what they have memorized from books and classes. What kinds of statements can you make as you consider this equation and the need to synthesize it? The great hurdle is now in front of us. What I would sug- gest you do is to start your analysis with linear, deductive logic and finish it with holistic, inductive logic. This simply means moving from one layer, adding another layer, another, and so on until you have all the layers put together. Once all the layers are in place you will then have a whole structure to look at. This will promote the awareness of the whole and allow for an inductive awareness promoting synthesis of the whole structure.
September 22, 2017
It was fine, I wanted to understand the dynamics if I could a bit better at the time I read it in my life very applicable about sudden disruptions. Probably to read again.
January 7, 2011
THE book on Uranus, Jeff is THE man!
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