{"id":51118,"date":"2011-12-26T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=51118"},"modified":"2011-12-26T10:27:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T15:27:41","slug":"something-else-sun-conjoins-pluto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/something-else-sun-conjoins-pluto\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Else – Sun Conjoins Pluto"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reminder:<\/strong> The Daily Astrology feature is off for the holiday today. It will be back at 12:01 am EST tomorrow, Tuesday Dec. 27. – amanda<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Pluto is now becoming something else.
\n— Juan Revilla (in 1999)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After renewing its cycle with a New Moon over the holiday weekend, Luna enters Aquarius today, hinting that we have recently embarked upon something more than just a new season. Later this week, Sun will function to broaden that hint by conjoining Pluto in Capricorn. The solar conjunction with Pluto is a very nearly annual event, its date slowly advancing through the years. As such, it symbolizes the growing discrepancy between the slow advance of human consciousness and the rapid pace of human events.<\/p>\n

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We are on the threshold of a new year that will reveal the depth of that incongruity and compel us to catch up. We can start by allowing the light of awareness to shine where Pluto lives in each of us, and realize that we, like Pluto, are now in the process of becoming something else.<\/p>\n

Our knowledge of Pluto’s existence was made possible because astronomy became something else. It was discovered in 1930 by indirect observation. Nearly everyone at the time envisioned astronomers squinting through an eyepiece. Some still do. In fact, the process had transformed. By the early 20h century, scientists were comparing photographs, lots of them, detecting new objects in the solar system by their motion against a field of distant stars. The idea that Pluto’s discovery symbolized the creative potential of transformation was lost on most people, however. Maybe it was the fear.<\/p>\n

Long before the 20th Century, the quest for knowledge had encountered the fear of change. From Galileo to Darwin, that fear obscured the fact that science changes nothing except awareness. Thus a great divide developed between consciousness as a value and pre-conception as a cause. Somehow, the perception of planet Pluto got caught up in that divide. Maybe it was the name.<\/p>\n

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In mythology, Pluto was ruler of the underworld, realm of the dead. Living as we are in what Eric Francis has called “the Era of the 8th House” is characterized by an aversion to and avoidance of death, and, not incidentally, sex. Politicians exploit the aversion by provoking fear. Pharmaceutical companies leverage the avoidance by selling pills. In the meantime, our social structures strain to keep actual sex and death out of sight, whisking it away or making it a commodity. All of that machination tends to keep us out of contact with how we all got here and how we all leave. Maybe astrology can help.<\/p>\n

Actually, it took decades for astrology to avail itself of Pluto. Its ephemeris was not included with that of other planets until the late 1970s. By that time, the commodified and mythically influenced version of the archetype had overwhelmed any perception based on the actual discovery of the actual planet. If there is one thing that every astrologer’s interpretation of Pluto can agree on, however, it is the fact that its energy will not be deterred. In spite, or perhaps because of every effort to make Pluto go away, it is continuously being discovered.<\/p>\n

Beginning in the 1980s, intrepid and visionary astrologers such as Jeff Green and Steven Forrest devoted entire tomes to divest Pluto as a symbol from trivial contrivance, lending additional depth and validity to our own existence in the bargain. On the other side of the fence, every effort of astronomy’s established order to demote or ‘kill’ Pluto is inevitably followed by a discovery or observation that reveals something else we didn’t know. Next year begins the long series of cardinal point squares from Uranus in Aries to Pluto in Capricorn, what Eric has referred to as “the defining aspect of our era in history.” We are part of that history, and included among that being defined. That’s because Pluto lives in each one of us.<\/p>\n

The living Pluto in each of us is the sure and certain knowledge of our purpose for being here, on this planet, in this body, at this time. It is also the understanding of how we must inevitably depart. Concealed but not destroyed by shame, fear, attachment and distraction, that knowledge and understanding remains within, waiting to be discovered. As was the case with the distant object we call Pluto, the inner discovery will require a new way of seeing. That is where the transformation begins. This week, let the Sun shine in and allow yourself to find something else.<\/p>\n

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Reminder: The Daily Astrology feature is off for the holiday today. It will be back at 12:01 am EST tomorrow, Tuesday Dec. 27. – amanda Pluto is now becoming something else. — Juan Revilla (in 1999) After renewing its cycle with a New Moon over the holiday weekend, Luna enters Aquarius today, hinting that we … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1714],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}