Greetings,
As I write, Pluto is at 29 degrees and 59 minutes Sagittarius. For those unfamiliar with the rules of astrology hockey, that’s as high as it gets. There is no 29 degrees and 60 minutes and there is no 30 degrees even; the next stop is Pluto in Capricorn.
Scanning back over so much of the astrology during my entire career writing about the stuff (which began the last year of Pluto in Scorpio, 1994) it seems that every story comes back to Pluto in Sagittarius. This is the sign that contains two massive galactic points — the Galactic Core and the Great Attractor. These may help us account for the profoundly spiritual influence of Sagg, and the extent to which this sign is associated with grandiosity (for example, that Bush administration official a few years back accusing everyone of being in a delusional “reality-based” existence in the Sunday Times Magazine, remember that?)
Pluto changing signs changes the backdrop to society. The backdrop changes the quality of the energy in the room, the way things look and feel and ultimately how people conduct themselves. On the interior, Pluto guides our growth process. It can take us through the most satisfying and challenging “lessons” and opportunities of our lives; it is the real work, the deeper purpose, the experience of identifying with soul rather than with this elusive, verging-on-nonexistent thing we call ego.