By Len Wallick
Jupiter exacts an earthen trine to retrograde Pluto shortly after 10 am EDT on Thursday morning. Thanks to the slow apparent motion of the two planets, we have been within a degree of this aspect since Friday and will continue to be so until the middle of July. It will repeat twice again over the next eight months and remain more or less functional over all of that time. This is a gradual but decisive turn in the road. Where it leads us will largely depend on what we want and what we are willing to do to get it.
More than any other relationship with any other planet, this continuous trine will distinguish Jupiter’s remaining time in Taurus. It may amount to even more for Pluto in the long run. It is a big deal. Whether or not it is a good deal remains to be seen. As usual, we will have some choice in the matter. What is not usual to recent experience is the nature of the energy. We can begin the process of following that by taking a quick inventory of the two objects, the signs they occupy and their angular relationship.
Pluto was discovered by astronomy in 1930. It took astrology about 40 years to make common use of it. Since that time, it has been acknowledged to be a powerful representation of dualism, evolution and transformation. Science, in its continuing process of observation, measurement and classification, has unintentionally but meaningfully obliged the insights of astrologers. The discovery of Charon revealed Pluto to be a binary planet. Hubble telescope observations have demonstrated an evolving physical appearance. Finally, the International Astronomical Union transformed Pluto’s identity, not once but twice, just before an ingress into Capricorn where the one and only dwarf-binary-plutoid is today.