In big news today, Pluto has now stationed retrograde 01+ Capricorn for the first time since entering the sign at the end of January. He now will retrace it’s steps back into Sagittarius (June 14, 2008) where he turns direct again on Sep. 8 at 28+ Sagittarius. Indeed the world has changed in subtle but undeniable ways since Pluto entered earthy Capricorn. There has been a deeper emphasis on the force driving us towards tangible success, or on the darker side the growing abuse of power by establishment and government.
We may perhaps experience this transit as a feeling of loss of control. This is a deeply psychological phase of review and adjustment in the light of what we have learned since the end of January. But this is a two fold process, where we surrender that which is no longer needed to make room for that which sorely needs to take its place.
Pluto’s energy is compelling but unlike Mars’ it penetrates on profoundly potent psychological level. Since it has such a large orbit, it’s transits are slower (it takes about 12 years to pass through a sign) — transformation may be gradual but it comes from the inside out and is always complete; Pluto doesn’t leave much to chance. It’s the stuff that we have to deal with — it may not happen over night but if we don’t do what needs to be done there will be hell to pay.
Here is one of my favorite articles on Pluto by Eric that gives a concentrated glimpse into the energy of this evolutionary planet; here are a couple of quotes from the same.
“For Barbara [Hand Clow], Chiron (discovered 1977) is a Pluto polarity point. I have not seen it mentioned that many of us have Chiron opposing Pluto in our charts; that was the mid-1960s and beyond. We quote her extensively below. But what she is getting at is this, in my reading of her ideas: Jeff Green called Pluto a fundamentally unconscious process. Chiron is a conscious and experiential process which takes us through much of the same inner material. Pluto is a lot easier to deal with when you know what Chiron is. Chiron works better when you have experience really handling the dark, strange inner stuff of Pluto: desire, control, hormones, pheromones and fear of death.”
“‘The Plutonian vision is a fierce one, and we must take it in slowly. Through that window, we see the brevity and fragility of our lives. We see clearly the seeming randomness of catastrophe in human experience, and lose forever the comforting notion that ‘it can’t happen to me’. We see our love of blindness and our passion for denial. We observe minutely the wall we build between ourselves and all the hurt places inside us — and all the mad, destructive behaviors in which we indulge when those hurt places grab the existential steering wheel. We look, in other words, into the true heart of darkness and find it to be a strangely familiar part of ourselves.’ — from The Book of Pluto”
As I write this the Moon is about to align with the North Node, revealing and pulling us towards what we must do next. A little later today, the Moon enters Pisces preparing for the Aries New Moon. We are getting to that time of the month when things start to feel just a little edgy and the Moon in mutable Pisces maybe adding an extra touch of nervous restlessness.
Use the energy instead to intuitively guide you towards what needs to happen. The coming New Moon is powerfully symbolic of new life, just as Pisces allows us to dissolve into the infinite wisdom; as we let go of the past, we are born new.
– Priya
