Richard Tarnas describes how Uranus-Pluto transits have consistently coincided with most of the major historical cycles and breakthrough eras of Black liberation and civil rights movements, from abolitionism to Black Lives Matter. In each transit, clusters of world-changing events and iconic historical figures have surged into prominence. Each time there’s a dramatic intensification and magnification of the struggle for liberation – Uranus – and a Plutonic backlash by elites to retain power by sowing racial division.