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One thing to remember is that Pluto never actually moves backwards. In reality, we’re moving to pass between Pluto and the Sun, witness to an illusion borne of perspective. On the zodiac, Pluto is preparing to pass over the same slice of Capricorn for a second time. As all that comes to pass, one thing you’ll want to watch, and remember, is Ceres.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pluto’s retrograde turn takes place as dwarf planet Ceres enters Taurus. For 13 months, Ceres has been another example of hurry up and wait, but now that case is finally coming to a close. Ceres will normally move through a sign in a few months, but its own long retrograde in 2011 kept it oscillating between Pisces and Aries for more than a year. The reason you’ll want to keep an eye on Ceres as Pluto stations is part mythology, part astrology, and in part its timing with events in your life.<\/p>\n
In mythology, Ceres and Pluto were adversaries. Their object of contention was Persephone, Ceres’ daughter, kidnapped by Pluto in a case of old-boy complicity that very nearly brought life on Earth to an untimely end. Interestingly, the asteroid Persephone entered Leo over the weekend, symbolically placing mother and daughter in a tense relationship (a square), all while Pluto is essentially stationary on the edge.<\/p>\n
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In myth, it was just such an edgy tension that resulted in a divisive loss of trust from which the pantheon of Greco-Roman deities would never recover. On Earth, that split was explained as the origin of seasons, dividing the year into times of plenty and dearth, prevalent darkness and preponderant light. It was a loss of innocence, replaced by a fatiguing need for vigilance, both above and below.<\/p>\n
Above, we have the astrology of this striking concurrence of Pluto’s retrograde station, Ceres’ sign ingress and its tense relationship to the asteroid Persephone. It is the centerpiece of what will bear watching as Pluto is all but standing still. Last week, while Venus entered Gemini, while Mercury stationed direct and as a Libra Full Moon blindsided many of us with its fury — during all of those events — Pluto moved forward less than one arc second (that’s 1\/60th of one degree). That is a week you will want to remember.<\/p>\n
This coming week, while Pluto exhibits the same near-stillness, it will be eclipsed (or occulted) by the Moon, just the first in a long and uninterrupted series of monthly occultations that will extend into next year. Also in the days to come, Mars will resume direct motion for the first time since January. You will want to watch and remember those events as well, but none so closely as those tomorrow: the occurrences in the middle, where you are.<\/p>\n
Down here, below the sky, you are in the middle; each of us are. You can feel it in the despair over discerning what to do, what to think, and which way to go. Even as the most graceful and compassionate are vulnerable to contention, the most cynical and exploitative are subject to exaltation and praise. There is tension and distrust where before there was love and fellowship. It is a time of transition to another way of being on Earth, a way that few, if any, can envision now. In the midst of it all, Pluto, symbolic of transition, stands still at its turning point. In less than a month, at the turning point in the middle of this season, a dialog will open and with it the possibility of finding a new middle ground. That is when you will want to remember what is going on now.<\/p>\n
At the cross-quarter, the mid-point between the Vernal Equinox just past and the Cancer Solstice yet to come, in the first week of May, Ceres and Pluto will exact an earth trine aspect. That trine will open a flowing potential to resolve what is happening now. Astrologically, it symbolizes the potential for ancient adversaries to connect directly without intermediary, healing an old wound. In your life, it holds the potential to be glad you were watching closely and taking note, even as you were compelled to hurry up and wait.
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Pluto, creeping in Capricorn since 2008, shifts into reverse tomorrow. Not that you would be able to tell. That’s because Pluto has been all but stationary for a week, a pace that will continue for a week more. In fact, it’s part of Pluto’s astrology that even the most respected references disagree on just when … 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\/55717"}],"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=55717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}