You might think of Uranus in Aries as the total reinvention of the self concept, dominated by technology. Self is now group property, it's nonlocal (you appear many places simultaneously). The concept of the immediate, physically present, one-to-one relationship is evaporating. And with that, a sense of self, the private self that can exist within itself, is evaporating as well.
One property of Uranus is its connection to groups, and the concept of self is verging on meaningless without affirmation or acknowledgement by the larger self of the group. It's becoming more prevalent that a person is a media event, and without that media presence, one does not exist.
Once the province of Weegee Felig (the world's first spot-news photographer, who spawned many great artists with his vision), now every person has a camera and darkroom with them at all times. Everyone also has a police scanner, a tape recorder, telegraph machine, fax machine, TV camera, editing studio and broadcast facilities in their pocket everywhere, all the time.
Not surprisingly, everyone is expected to respond in realtime to everyone else, all the time. You must reply to everything, instantly. It doesn't matter if you're eating, sleeping, driving, in a therapy session, taking a poo or a bath, or wholly drunk. You must be absolutely responsive at all moments while connected to a nervous system that spans the entire globe. Admittedly, this might make it difficult to get a moment to yourself or to share a private thought, but since "yourself" and "private" and "thought" barely exist anymore, that's not too much of a problem.
Uranus in Aries officially began the day of the Fukushima incident in March 2011, when technology went horribly wrong, when a whole lot of uranium began leaking into the environment. At that time, a toxin emerged in awareness (and the ocean) as something that could contaminate anyone, anywhere. That was a warning of what can happen when things go out of control.
Uranus in Aries is related to another current transit, Pluto in Capricorn. Pluto can have the property of Shiva the Destroyer. Capricorn is the sign of the corporate state—governments, companies and anything that upholds the structure and integrity of society. That transit began the year of the mortgage and banking scandal, in 2008.
While the self is undergoing its technological transformation, the corporate structure of society is being routed, changed, dismantled by Pluto in Capricorn. Pluto in Capricorn is change from beneath. The concept "tectonic" comes to mind—associated with the movement of the continental plates.
There is another quality of Pluto moving through Capricorn which you could describe as a do or die need to put a little soul into these corporate structures of society. They can no longer be so inhuman and insensitive to human needs. It's as if the concept of a private person is being eliminated by Uranus in Aries, while at the same time corporations are being made to find their soul.
This sounds a little like a big theme of our era—corporate personhood. Some day we will need a Supreme Court decision to affirm that people are people—that is, if we can get the justices to agree with that novel theory of law. The clash of the cultures between the individual and the corporate (and the reversal of roles) is a huge theme of our times, and it's happening on many different levels.
Uranus and Pluto are working together—that is the Uranus-Pluto square. It's an aspect (a meeting or alignment) between these two powerful slow-movers that spans over seven events from June 2012 to March 2015. Then the aspect begins to separate. But that does not mean that its power is reduced. We are likely to see the most interesting manifestations of Uranus square Pluto this year and into the next three to five years.
The aspect's exact span (those seven events from 2012 through 2015) were just the thing that got the momentum going. Now we get to ride the toboggan down the slippery slope.
