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<\/dt>\nIn other words, Pluto is all but standing still. Because of what it represents for astrologers, this would be a good time to emulate Pluto’s example and cultivate some stillness for yourself.<\/p>\n
Pluto actually represents many things to different astrologers. If you were to collect all of those interpretations, meanings and functions, however, they would have at least one thing in common: that which is not immediately apparent.<\/p>\n
If you are unsettled, you cannot perceive, understand or work with what is not immediately apparent. As Planet Waves blogger Fe Bongolan eloquently illustrated<\/a> nearly three years ago, that’s how propagandists work.<\/p>\n It’s also possible to make yourself unsettled. You can keep the coffee coming. You can turn the music up. You can keep pushing for an answer. The self-oriented wildfire energies of Aries, where the Sun is now, would support feeling justified in doing such things. You may, in fact, be so justified. You may also miss a great deal in the bargain.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If the symbolism of astrology is any indication, there is lots to potentially miss right now. The brightest objects in the night sky, and not coincidentally those closest to us, are not immediately apparent now — precisely because of their proximity to the Sun: that object which normally allows us to see.<\/p>\n Venus and Mars — the closest planets to Earth, corresponding the dynamics of attraction and desire — are lost in the solar glare while traversing Aries. Most tellingly, the Moon — the object nearest to Earth and its satellite — is timed to disappear from sight tomorrow during the Aries New Moon. The Moon is emblematic of your most personal and sensitive experience. Implicitly, consciousness of self is outshining awareness of self at this time. \u00a0<\/p>\n The clear implication is that there is a lot going on right now, within you and around you, that you would normally be aware of, but which is not immediately apparent. These hidden things are not hidden in darkness, but in daylight — and easily missed unless self-conscious immediacy is balanced by a broader perspective of self-awareness. That is how Pluto is in a position to help based on the reality of its distance from both the Sun and from Earth.<\/p>\n Pluto is far away from the light of the Sun. That means it is also symbolically far away from the heat of moments, such as now, when the self can lose track of its closest components in the glare of its assertion. In addition, the great distance of Pluto from Earth translates to a slower apparent motion.<\/p>\n Watching Pluto move through the zodiac is like watching a high-altitude airplane, or a satellite. In both cases, you know that if you were chasing it, it would be moving a lot faster. That what you are looking at appears to be moving slower than in chase, is precisely because your distance from the object affords you a broader perspective of the background it is moving against.<\/p>\n Pluto’s great distance from us is how it will appear to be stationary for so long before apparently changing direction. That apparent change in direction occurs as Earth enters that broad expanse of its own orbit when it is approaching to pass between Pluto and the Sun. When that happens, like it is now, it is a good time to take some time to see these days against the years of your life, your life against the wider experience of history, and history against possibilities never encountered by human beings ever before. Possibilities not immediately apparent.<\/p>\n If you can do that, time will open up for you. If you can find a moment of stillness, you can find a lot more. You will go from not having a moment to spare to having eternity in the palm of your hand. You can arrive at an appreciation of what you haven’t seen yet, what nobody has seen yet, and what nonetheless can be.<\/p>\n Many cycles of Earth and sky repeat many times in one lifetime. There are longer cycles, however, that no one person sees to completion and in which each generation is privileged to find, and choose from, what none have discovered before. This week, you can find that perspective by starting within you and continuing through what is going on outside of you, if you simply stop chasing it for a few days and settle down.<\/p>\n Offered In Service <\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n Len is available for astrology readings. You can contact him at lenwallick [at] gmail [dot] com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week Pluto stands still, a message to settle down. Today, Pluto entered the 36th arc minute of the 12th degree of Capricorn, where it will commence retrograde motion Friday; it remains in that same degree and arc minute until next Tuesday. 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