There have been three times in living memory where the astrological intensity came close to where it is now.  The first of these was in the early 1930's, where the Uranus/Pluto square of that time symbolically represented the sudden rise of the right wing.  This aspect is only now happening again, with similar results.  There was the Uranus/Pluto conjunction of 1966 with its opposition to Saturn, a time where the social order was suddenly and dramatically changed forever.  Then there was 1988 when Saturn and Uranus came together at zero Capricorn and a new world order was launched with the collapse of communism and the emergence of cyberspace.  The coming pattern of now through to August of next year matches all of these and then some, and as our understanding of the planetary archetypes grows so does our ability to use this knowledge to avoid the pitfalls of the past and turn this energy into a re-evolution of structure that sets in place a new world order based on individual empowerment as opposed to the clone mentality so seemingly pervasive today.