Dare to Know: Enlightenment, Astrology, and the Hidden Curriculum of Revolution

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Prelude: Pluto in Taurus & Gemini (1640–1669) echoed in: Taurus: 1852–1884 / Gemini: 1884–1914

The Seeds of Revolution: Legacy, Language, and the Hidden Hand of Empire

Before revolutions flare, before salons stir, before reason dares to awaken—there are the slow tectonic shifts of value, voice, and vision. This is the age of Pluto in Taurus and Gemini, generations that underwrote the Enlightenment.


Pluto in Taurus (1640–1653):
Foundations of Power, Matter, and Meaning
People in this era built systems of ownership, order, and observable law
Key Figures:

Isaac Newton – physicist, alchemist, philosopher of gravity and divine geometry

John Locke – theorist of property and perception

Elias Ashmole – Freemason, astrologer, keeper of strange archives

Queen Christina of Sweden – sovereign of esoteric salons


Pluto in Gemini (1653–1669):
The Age of Language, Codes, and Communication
Ideas needed wings. Gemini gave them language, translation, dissemination.
Key Figures:

Baruch Spinoza – philosopher of unity, exile, and reason

Margaret Cavendish – writer, provocateur, scientist of the soul

Christiaan Huygens – clockmaker of cosmic rhythm


Prelude Prompt:
What knowledge am I carrying forward—across oceans of time?

Session 1: Pluto in Cancer (1669–1694) echoed in: 1914–1939

The Keepers of Hearth, Myth, and National Memory


Emotional inheritance becomes cultural inheritance. These are the builders of belonging, defenders of legacy.

Key Figures:

Sophia Charlotte of Hanover – Queen and first flame of the Enlightenment

Aphra Behn – dramatist, spy, early novelist who claimed women’s intellect

Cotton Mather – preacher of apocalypse and proto-scientist

Johann Sebastian Bach – sacred symmetry in sound

Session 1 Prompt:
What do I protect—and what ancestral myth am I ready to rewrite?

Session 2: Pluto in Leo (1694-1711) echoed in  1937–1958

The Royal Self: Charisma, Power, and the Stage of Revolution


Personal brilliance became public legacy. This generation turned self-expression into a force of change.

Key Figures:

Benjamin Franklin – inventor, ambassador, revolutionary Freemason

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) – philosopher of satire, master of public spectacle

Queen Caroline of Ansbach – Enlightenment queen, patron of science and philosophy

Session 2 Prompt:
What legacy am I crafting—and who is watching me do it?

Session 3: Pluto in Virgo (1712-1725) echoed in: 1956-1972

The Enlightenment’s Engineers: Precision, Ethics, and the Quiet Rebellion


This generation turned big questions into structured answers. They refined the world with reason, rigor, and quiet mastery.

Key Figures:

Émilie du Châtelet – physicist, translator of Newton, and intellectual lightning rod

Jean le Rond d’Alembert – co-editor of the Encyclopédie, harmonizer of knowledge

James Hutton – father of geology and deep time

Carsten Niebuhr – cartographer and survivor, recorder of ancient lands

Session 3 Prompt:
What quiet revolution am I already shaping—by what I refine, fix, or perfect?

Session 4: Pluto in Libra (1724–1737) echoed in: 1971–1984

The Idealists: Balance, Beauty, and the Politics of Harmony


Diplomats of the soul, these revolutionaries balanced vision with responsibility, critique with art.


Key Figures:

George Washington – reluctant general, architect of balance 

Jean-Jacques Rousseau – philosopher of feeling and the social contract

Catherine the Great – Empress of enlightened absolutism

William Hogarth – painter of satire, master of moral commentary

Session 4 Prompt: 

Where must I restore balance—and where is justice calling me to act?

Session 5: Pluto in Scorpio (1737–1749) echoed in: 1983–1995

The Dark Flame: Transformation, Taboo, and the Soul of Revolution


This generation didn’t flinch. They unearthed the forbidden, burned through shame, and held a mirror to power.

Key Figures:

King George III – monarch in descent, mirror of empire’s instability

Queen Charlotte – she held the kingdom together through madness and fracture

Phillis Wheatley – enslaved poet and sacred visionary

Marquis de Sade – philosopher of the unspeakable, shadow scribe

Session 5 Prompt:
What must die in me so I can live with power?

Session 6: Pluto in Sagittarius (1748–1762) echoed in: 1995–2008

The Philosophers of Fire: Visionaries, Revolutionaries, and Belief in Motion


They dreamed big and moved fast—ideals at the speed of speech, action, or guillotine.


Key Figures:

Alexander Hamilton – financial visionary and political firebrand

Aaron Burr – unclaimed genius turned cautionary tale

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette – revolutionary diplomat between worlds

Olympe de Gouges – French author of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – musical mystic, Freemason, sonic revolutionary

Maximilien Robespierre – moral absolutist turned executioner

Session 6 Prompt:
What truth burns in me—and how do I keep it from burning me down?

Session 7: Pluto in Capricorn (1762–1778) echoed in: 2008-2024

The Architects of Collapse and Command


This generation built with vision—and watched those visions shatter. But what breaks can also be remade.


Key Figures:

Napoleon Bonaparte – order through empire

Mary Wollstonecraft – mother of reason and rebellion

Jane Austen – subtle swordswoman of social commentary

Session 7 Prompt:
What old structures am I here to disassemble—and what can I build that endures?

Session 8: Pluto in Aquarius (1777–1798) echoed in 2024–2043

The Storm-Bringers and Dreamers of the New World


They imagined beyond the frame—and paid for it. This generation fused art, tech, trauma, and uprising into something unspeakably new.


Key Figures:

Mary Shelley – mother of science fiction, ethics of creation

 Ludwig van Beethoven – prophet of feeling made form

Francisco Goya – painter of nightmares, chronicler of collapse

Toussaint Louverture – revolutionary leader, architect of post-colonial futures



Session 8 Prompt:
What from the future flows through me—and what freedom demands my invention?

Session 9: Integration Salon: You Are the Revolution

You are the echo of every Enlightenment. And the next one waiting to be named.

Trace your lineage across cosmic time

Reflect on your Pluto placement—and its charge

See where you fit in the cast of characters who are your family, friends and colleagues

Draft your own “revolutionary pamphlet” for the 21st century

Share your mission with a cohort of accidental rebels

Final Prompt:
Where does the revolution begin in me—and how do I carry it forward without burning out?