Saturn square Uranus indicates tension between limitation, restriction and desire for freedom. This can result in sudden and often dramatic breaks from individuals, circumstances that have been limiting. This is especially true with the other volatile aspects involved. When sourced from a soul level, this combination could represent the capacity to unify conservative and innovative sides in any social, business or governmental setting—another sign of an evolutionary.

Mars opposition Saturn results in inhibited actions, frustration, and resentment, but also the capacity to focus and perform painstaking work. As with most inharmonious Saturn aspects there is usually conflict with the Father archetype. At the soul level, there is a capacity to work in very exhausting and dangerous conditions to resolve obstacles to manifesting the divine will and purpose. Where others might give up, when mastered this combination can mean supreme success. This aspect might be very helpful in a time when the challenges could be considerable.

This particular grand cross might be summed up as a confrontation of the fundamental forces inherent in a fear- and separation-based world. When we identify with the limited human self, thinking that this is all we are, we immediately lose contact with our vast, eternal, soul. The perception that we are powerless and vulnerable, disconnected from others and life, is the result. If we are only the small, ego-personality self, whose identity lies exclusively within the body, we cease to exist when the body dies. Therefore, the little island of the body-identified self becomes all there is. We work day and night to build it into an invulnerable kingdom defending it with everything we have in the face of perceived threat. Just as in the animal kingdom, someone is the king of the herd, dominating the rest; empires are built with this as the hidden foundation. It is a very old story on Earth, one it behooves us to become conscious of now, or we will destroy ourselves. Nuclear weapons, biological warfare, and even the more sophisticated psychic and fourth-dimensional weapons of control dictate that we transcend this illusion. The solar eclipse grand cross might provide the crucible of initiation where we have to face this central issue. Only when we awaken and realize that we are the eternal soul will this illusion of separation dissolve, and with it all the polarized conditions of the separated ego-personality self. If we are to transcend fear/hatred, dominance/subservience and control/powerlessness, we simply must wake up and remember who we really are.

The good news is that life always provides a way through and, as always, there are great gifts in the chart that are powerful and encouraging. It is interesting that they point to the core theme, the need for a collective awakening, as the only real means through this crisis.