According to Alan Meece, author of Horoscope for the New Millennium, our planet, or at least some part of it, is on the verge of a new Golden Age, instigated by the last Neptune-Pluto conjunction of 1892. These conjunctions occur every 493 or 494 years, where there is an initial 100-year period of chaos and reform followed by a 400-year period of progress and enlightenment.

The conjunction of these two generational planets apparently produces a deep collective stirring or transformation in thr collective psyche of humanity, initially bringing forth confusion and chaos and then great spiritual or scientific progress. It presumably takes some one hundred years for the fruition of this conjunction, as this is the time required for those born with this conjunction to manifest or implement its nature or essence.

In his "Propects for a Golden Age" Meece has looked back at all of these conjunctions throughout the last 2600 years and noted the repeating pattern. These conjunctions occurred on the following dates...

Neptune-Pluto conjunctions
577 BC Greek and Roman republics emerge, Buddha is born
83 BC: The Roman Empire emerges(dictatorship of Sulla)
411 AD: Fall of Rome to Alaric
905 AD: Medieval culture begins(Cluny church reforms, new dynasties)
1399 AD: Renaissance; Great schism in Catholic Church
1892 AD: Crisis leading to World Wars and the collapswe of all aristocratic empires

One Hundred years later
470 BC: Golden Age of Greece, Buddhism begins
20 AD: Golden Age of Rome, Christ's mission
520's AD: Golden Age of Byzantium, Mayan Golden Age
1000 AD: Ottonian Renaissance, Sung Golden Age in China
1500 AD: High Renaissance, Discovery of the New World
1990's-2000's AD: Full flowering of art, science, and spirituality and increasing global unification

Meece also points out that when the three outer planets are all in the higher or second half of the zodiac during the commencement of a golden age, that age will be great indeed. In the 1990's and 2000's Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto are all in the high signs indicating a truly high golden age to come. He points out that the Armageddon scenario laid out by most religious teachings can be totally bypassed if we take advantage of the new positive energies coming in and begin making important individual contributions to the flowering of the next great Renaissance.

Meece's home site

Neptune and Pluto, both ruling water signs, are brothers/sisters, working together harmoniously to bring about positive transformation via the collective psyche, especially when they are in conjunction. What about Eris, Sedna, or other as yet undiscovered planetary bodies and their interaction with Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and each other. What great social or global movements are their vast cycles and conjunctions responsible for? This is the vast study that awaits all astrologers.