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Glorious new week to each of you!
I guess the big news this time around is the Pluto transfer from Capricorn to Aquarius. With me having 4 planets in Scorpio, the Pluto influence is big in my life in multiple ways, so I'm especially interested in learning about this transit and what it means for us. According to the astrologers I've been researching, it has bounced into Aquarius and back to Capricorn already once, yesterday it went back into Aquarius again until September sometime, then back to Capricorn. It will move full time into Aquarius on the day after my birthday. ( I'll be turning 33 for the 22nd time.) That date of entry will be November 19, after which it will be in a Aquarius for 19 years, so it will be impacting us all for a long time. Even those of us who don't have any planets in Scorpio or the eighth house.
On a side note, for at least the last few years it has seemed like SOMEthing significant has happened astrologically on my birthday or very near it. Is that just me? Or does it seem this way to everyone?
Pluto is best known for it's association with transformation. You know, everyone's favorite thing....change...lol.
It's also associated with things that happen below the surface. Secret things, things that are taboo, the occult, sex with a focus on the more kinky or secret sides of it, other peoples money (think loans, inheritances, grants, money of a partner, etc), poison, (sometimes literally) death and things related to it, endings, as well as the new beginnings.
It’s not the easiest planet to contend with. I have heard quite a few readings that forecast very negatively about this transit.
Now, most of you guys know me well enough by now that you know I’m not afraid of predicting the unpleasant. I don’t enjoy that. I particularly don’t enjoy feeling that energy that tells me what’s up. I hate bringing unpleasant news to others just as much as feeling into it myself. But I know that if I candy coat that, or skip over it completely, that cheats my people of having a chance to be prepared about how they can handle that rough energy when it shows up in their lives and lets it take you off guard. I would prefer that my people can react to that energy in a way that it becomes productive because they already have the heads up.
That’s all a side note though. I get people commenting that a reading was “negative” often enough that I’m a little sensitive about it. It’s ALWAYS the truth that sets us free. At least, that’s my belief.
Anyway, getting back to the Pluto shift topic, I’ve heard a lot of negative predictions about that. And I get it, but I also think that a lot of astrologers are going overboard with those. For every planet, the aspects can go in a positive direction and a negative one. The ones I’ve heard have delved deep into the negative, but barely glazed over the positive potentials if touching on them at all. As someone who is so influenced by Pluto everyday, it feels like that is a disservice to us all. Yes, it’s a difficult energy to handle, but the payoff for handling it on the other end is every bit as big as the trouble. It occurs to me that maybe this is why Scorpios are painted with such a dark brush a lot of times, because many have a more negative connotation with the planet that rules us in general.
I want to make my amateur attempt at giving us a more realistic look at what we could expect from this Pluto transit. First of all, I want to say that many people fear change because of all the unknowns that come with it. Since Pluto is the king of change, that makes him very unpopular to the mind of someone who hasn’t noticed the benefits that change can bring.
Pluto changes things beginning with the “underworld”. That means that those changes start in the subconscious and begin in secret, behind closed doors, before they emerge to shape the world around us. The changes that Pluto brings to us as a planet may take a while to notice because of that. These changes start in unnoticed and unseen places, and then grow from there. Think of “The Underground” network that helped slaves escape from the south around the time of the Civil War here in the United States, and all that followed afterwards around the issue of slavery in this country. Perfect example of a Plutonian type of change. It needed to happen and it brought great improvements, both in personal lives, and for this country, and it started in secret, and it came with a cost. It wasn’t easy because the change was a deep one, and drastic, forcing people to see things in a different light when in most cases, they had no desire to. I’m not saying that plutonian changes are easy. I’m saying though, that they are WORTH IT.
The last time Pluto made this transit would have been in 1775. At that point in time her in the United States the revolutionary war was just stepping up a notch. The second Congress of this country was raising militias to fight with the Brits for our freedom from their oppression and taxation without representation.
Capricorn, which Pluto is coming out of, talks about “the man” as the hippies would have said. Talks about authority and authority figures. Government leaders down to police officers and jailers, professors and teachers in the classrooms as well as deans & principles. It refers to fathers and male heads of households, to patriarchy in general. Pluto would have spent around 19 years there too. (Not that I’ve looked it up and it may have been more or less, but should be around that amount of time.) The world now has Brexit, which is still having mixed reviews actually. Over here, in the US, patriotism has lagged much lower than it used to be during this time frame. We trust the government much less than when that transit started, with us having a January 6 demonstration/insurrection depending who you talk to.
Some are convinced an election was stolen, either in 2016 or in 2020. Some are convinced that that is not the case. It must be a real challenge for the government to represent a people who is so divided in their frames of reference. Add to that, the whole defund the police movement that was intensely happening until the last couple or few years here in this country. All of that plus much more would be related to Pluto in Capricorn. It brings big shake-ups and re-evaluations causing us to make changes. It seems that many times, we swing the pendulum to hard in the opposite direction of the problem, then realizing that the solution lies somewhere on the middle ground and working our way to that, rather than going straight to a more balanced solution.
As Pluto moves into Aquarius, he will now be interacting not so much with “the man” anymore, as the people, the masses, the organizations, the groups, and their structures, as well as with technology because Aquarius is ruled by Uranus which is all about groups and technological advancements. We are coming into a time, worldwide, where we, the people will be going through some changes and also changing things up. How we organize ourselves is changing. I believe that we’ve had our first little tastes of that, and will have more as Pluto stays more consistently in Aquarius. We, as people will be realizing to a fuller and fuller extent, the power that we actually have. I believe that we won’t be relying on governments as much to take care of certain things as we have before. I don’t know that things like public services and social security and that type of thing will go away. Maybe. But I do expect that people will start genuinely helping other people on more personal levels than we have in a long time. Crowdsourcing will become much more of a thing. Right now we are starting to see this with the defense of Ukraine. Many people who have a digital presence and connections in that country, have been raising money or collecting goods needed over there, not only for the army to continue defending, but also for humanitarian aide for those devastated by what’s happening there. (I’m sure this is happening in other areas too, this just happens to be the one that I’m tuned into.) People are starting to realize that even as individuals, we can make a critical difference in other people’s lives. We don’t have to wait for the government to take action to get things done. (Not saying we don’t need the government to help, but saying that as people we are and will be realizing more and more, that we have a bigger part in the lives of other’s on this planet than we ever realized before.) We are moving slowly maybe, but surely, into the idea that we all really are one and to act as if we know that is true. I expect that to continue to unfold in bigger and bigger ways as this transit develops over the next 19 years.
This is going to be a time when the regular people have more power in general, and they realize it.
There will be shake-ups in the way that we organize ourselves. Company organization, 12 step group organizations, parent-teacher organizations, veterans organizations, homeowners organizations, banking organizations, agricultural organizations, real estate organizations, investing organizations, churches, families. We will be getting together differently as groups.
Not all of it, but a lot of it will have to do with how technology develops. Technology will have a huge impact on how we organize ourselves moving forward. We are already seeing a lot of that as a result of the great period of staying at home. I think that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Many people have created their own organizations coming out of that time. That means there is a lot of new small business out there, thinking about solutions differently than what was the norm before. There is no way to avoid new advances that will come from those creative minds who did what they needed to do to make it through and even to thrive in that situation.
I think in a lot of ways, Pluto in Aquarius is the Anti to Pluto in Capricorn. Pluto brought out the secrets in the governments to the light. A lot of those secrets weren’t so pretty. Now Pluto will be bringing out the secrets of the people to light. In places in the world where people were secretly against their government, over the next 19 years, this will be fully brought to light as the people make their thoughts known more publicly. If the governments don’t pay attention and fix the issues of the people, then the people will be taking things into their own hands to get them fixed. The next 19 years will be a dangerous time to be part of an oppressive regime.
People will rally around the causes that make sense to them, use their newfound power to bring situations to full justice where justice has been abandoned in the past. Aquarius may be about technology and surprises, but it is also a very analytical sign. It keeps emotions away from it’s important decisions. It doesn’t allow attachments to influence it. So I think that all of these changes will lean towards fairness in a very impersonal, analytical sort of way. As these changes take effect, there will be no favorites taken. The changes will benefit those who are worthy of those benefits. Cheaters, liars? They will be called out and any changes will only make life harder for them, especially if they are leading organizations. But those who are acting fairly and genuinely will benefit greatly from the changes that are coming up. It will be innately harder to be anything but transparent when it comes to leading any organization of people.
I see a lot of these changes as good ones. Not easy ones to make, sometimes, but good ones, none the less.
Pluto doesn’t change things just for the sake of change. He puts them through a metamorphosis so that in the end, the lowly caterpillar can become the freer, more independent, beautiful butterfly, with a whole new perspective on her environment as she flies above the paths that she used to walk.
I love and appreciate each of you so much! Have a fantastic week!
Each one of you is a treasure. Thank you for being in my life. Sincerely.
Peace,
Amista
