Do you ever wonder what is holding humanity back? Do you ever wonder what is holding you back from making the progress that you want? What keeps so many people stuck in the past?
This week, we’ve been developing the idea of a ‘Thresholder’ in relation to a conjunction between Mercury and the minor planet 1992 QB1. A Thresholder (as defined in a long series of Planet Waves articles) is one who intentionally holds space to help guide another through transitions such as birth, death and sexual healing. That last one is, for some strange reason, the most taboo of the three. Our inability or refusal to embrace these subjects is one of the ways we shut down our growth. Then every now and then that process of growth spurs to life.
Another way that this theme is manifesting astrologically is an unusual relationship that’s developed between the Moon and Pluto. For the next year and a half, the Moon will make an exact eclipse of Pluto (called an occultation) every time it passes through Capricorn. We will experience one today at 1:33 pm EDT. That is, the Moon’s path will take it directly across the face of Pluto. Pluto is too far away for us to see this, which means that one of the most tangible elements in the sky is interacting with something deep, potent and invisible. Despite its being invisible, its energy will still be available to us, though this might be subtle.
As a point of background, we are all living through Pluto in Capricorn, which has many different manifestations — principal among them being the underlying sensation of constant change we’re experiencing; the sense that the very ground we’re standing on is shifting.