In astrology Pluto shakes things up. It brings death and rebirth and transformation that is deep-rooted and spectacular but rarely comfortable for anyone involved because Pluto cares nothing for comfort; it spits in its eye, it insults its mother, it bullies it for lunch money.
On the other hand the sign of Capricorn is associated with the law, money, property and the institutions of the world (particularly banks). It is concerned with reality. And so when Pluto and Capricorn met in the sky it was no surprise that the reality which greeted us was of the grim and party-ruining kind whose consequences have been challenging people's feelings of security.
And nowadays, it's not just banks and companies that are in trouble. Public figures that were themselves a kind of institution public are also falling into death or desrepute like flies.
Jade Goody, having made a career out of reality TV when she was 20 is now 7 years later dying of cancer in the public eye.
Trinny and Susannah of the What Not To Wear fame have been axed by ITV and are off to try to restart their career in America.
And recently in politics, a few Labour MPs in the House Of Lords were emrboiled in a corruption scandal, when it was discovered they have been offering to change laws in exchange for cash.
On the other hand, all is not doom and gloom. All these things have happened before, but now they are simply happening in a more public way (in the same way that Pluto in Scorpio brought awareness of incest and sexual abuse into the public consciousness).
Furtheremore, I hope that the stars of some of the people who have been providing me with edification and entertainment over the years will continue to shine. To that end, if you aren't already reading Elsa and WebOfEvil then take my advice and remedy that immediately.
Alternatively, do you have a Pluto in Capricorn story? Something you noticed in your life or part of the world?
Showing posts with label pluto in capricorn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pluto in capricorn. Show all posts
Monday, 16 February 2009
Monday, 8 December 2008
Your Bruised Heart, Courtesy Of Pluto In Capricorn
So. It's been a while. Astrology Blogging with children is even harder than blogging while heavily pregnant and fully employed, who knew?
Anyway.
So, Pluto has entered the Earth Sign of Capricorn and all the (Jupiterian) over-extended and happy-go-lucky irresponsible investing and lending of the Pluto in Sagittarius era has given way to more sombre outlooks. The credit has crunched and the real estate prices have fallen and people are talking about the economy with frowny faces.
Fiscally, things are tight and grim. (This is the first December in my memory that I have seen so many sales and so many slashed prices before Christmas).
Emotionally, it hasn't been a barrel of laughs either. Personally speaking this is
an intensely challenging time (and if you feel the same, which I know many people do, then I feel for you; Hang in there). Essentially, it feels like the entire Universe has turned into Boot Camp and pleading with it to be merciful simply ends with it sneering in your face before kicking you in the stomach, while it calls you a sissy and says nasty things about your mother.
I think in the current climate all you can do to get through is just grit your teeth, stiffen your upper lip and apply yourself. This is the time when all of us, are being challenged on a global and personal level to work hard and eliminate the unnecessary from our lives. Although you can, if you choose, sit there and feel sorry for yourself this is unlikely to advance your situation because Capricorn (being an Earth sign) wants things to be manifested, created in the real world. Instead of debating Why Me and Why Is Everything So Unfair it is probably more productive in the long run to take responsibility for past mistakes and future possibilities and work to change this.
Pluto in Capricorn feels to me like a personal trainer. One that knocks on your door at the bleeding crack of dawn and just stands there and the longer you ignore it the more precarious your position becomes. On the other hand if you accept its offer it may make you cry and curse (and keep crying and cursing for a long while) but you'll have fantastic abs at the end of it.
Pluto in Capricorn is similar to The Devil and The Tower cards in the Tarot. It's about Truth and it's about Change, and although it's about as welcome and cuddly as taxes it's unstoppable. Often it is both hard and painful because it reminds us that no one is safe as all that we have built and achieved gets hauled out to be tested for strength and weakness and validity.
Schocking things happen. Painful truths come out, although how painful they are is in correlation to how much work on them you've done before. If the thing is sound, it holds. (Sometimes things turn out all right. The Ark floated, the razed cities were rebuilt, people survived and other people realised that facing down the tough things only made their marriages stronger).
I have a personal take on this since the last three generations of my family have spent significant portions of their lifetime being prosecuted and running. I was born with these memories - hard-wired into the collective drive for survival. We hid. We ran. We hung in there -sometimes for years- we fought sometimes, we defended what we could and ran with what we could carry and we started over.
In this a Pluto transit is an incredibly creative force, a bit like riding a wave. You can't control the wave, and you can't oppose it, but you can use it. Each difficult time you face is like your soul shouting at you Who Am I? and you decide what kind of person you want to be, what you want your actions to say about you.
You have skills and resiliences and kindnesses you may not even know you have. Pluto will show you that. It may push hard and relentlessly but when the dust settles you usually feel it was of benefit.
So by all means, be wary. But don't be frightened because breakdown and breakthrough go hand in hand and panic doesn't serve anyone in a crisis.
x
Anyway.
So, Pluto has entered the Earth Sign of Capricorn and all the (Jupiterian) over-extended and happy-go-lucky irresponsible investing and lending of the Pluto in Sagittarius era has given way to more sombre outlooks. The credit has crunched and the real estate prices have fallen and people are talking about the economy with frowny faces.
Fiscally, things are tight and grim. (This is the first December in my memory that I have seen so many sales and so many slashed prices before Christmas).
Emotionally, it hasn't been a barrel of laughs either. Personally speaking this is
an intensely challenging time (and if you feel the same, which I know many people do, then I feel for you; Hang in there). Essentially, it feels like the entire Universe has turned into Boot Camp and pleading with it to be merciful simply ends with it sneering in your face before kicking you in the stomach, while it calls you a sissy and says nasty things about your mother.
I think in the current climate all you can do to get through is just grit your teeth, stiffen your upper lip and apply yourself. This is the time when all of us, are being challenged on a global and personal level to work hard and eliminate the unnecessary from our lives. Although you can, if you choose, sit there and feel sorry for yourself this is unlikely to advance your situation because Capricorn (being an Earth sign) wants things to be manifested, created in the real world. Instead of debating Why Me and Why Is Everything So Unfair it is probably more productive in the long run to take responsibility for past mistakes and future possibilities and work to change this.
Pluto in Capricorn feels to me like a personal trainer. One that knocks on your door at the bleeding crack of dawn and just stands there and the longer you ignore it the more precarious your position becomes. On the other hand if you accept its offer it may make you cry and curse (and keep crying and cursing for a long while) but you'll have fantastic abs at the end of it.
Pluto in Capricorn is similar to The Devil and The Tower cards in the Tarot. It's about Truth and it's about Change, and although it's about as welcome and cuddly as taxes it's unstoppable. Often it is both hard and painful because it reminds us that no one is safe as all that we have built and achieved gets hauled out to be tested for strength and weakness and validity.
Schocking things happen. Painful truths come out, although how painful they are is in correlation to how much work on them you've done before. If the thing is sound, it holds. (Sometimes things turn out all right. The Ark floated, the razed cities were rebuilt, people survived and other people realised that facing down the tough things only made their marriages stronger).
I have a personal take on this since the last three generations of my family have spent significant portions of their lifetime being prosecuted and running. I was born with these memories - hard-wired into the collective drive for survival. We hid. We ran. We hung in there -sometimes for years- we fought sometimes, we defended what we could and ran with what we could carry and we started over.
In this a Pluto transit is an incredibly creative force, a bit like riding a wave. You can't control the wave, and you can't oppose it, but you can use it. Each difficult time you face is like your soul shouting at you Who Am I? and you decide what kind of person you want to be, what you want your actions to say about you.
You have skills and resiliences and kindnesses you may not even know you have. Pluto will show you that. It may push hard and relentlessly but when the dust settles you usually feel it was of benefit.
So by all means, be wary. But don't be frightened because breakdown and breakthrough go hand in hand and panic doesn't serve anyone in a crisis.
x
Friday, 21 December 2007
Die Another Day- The Transits of Pluto
It's the calm in between storms in my houshold. My husband and I are in between major Pluto transits to our charts (the last lot were some 5 years ago) and the new set of aspects to our Cardinal Signs (opposition to my Cancer Sun, squares to my Libra Mars, mutual Libra Pluto and his Aries Moon Chiron and Mars) have a few years before they start pumelling.
On the other hand as Jupiter and Pluto conjunct each other and the galactic center in Sagittarius, gearing up to transit into Capricorn everyone seems to be feeling it and for me this comes across as Pluto Amplified.
(And speaking from a long experience of Pluto transits, the fact that it's officially no longer a planet has not affected its ability to sucker punch me one bit).
And as a taster of all this Pluto-ey goodness, (and no doubt a preview of coming attractions to the natal chart) Pluto and Jupiter are starting to make a loose out-of-sign square to the Libra Sun of mine and my husband's composite chart.
In the composite Sun is conjunct Pluto anyway (with the IC sandwiched in between)
and from the start, the relationship had a feeling of union through a shared experience of hardship and oppression ie. "this world has teeth and little mercy for you and me, so watch my back while I watch yours and we'll take the bastard on together."
There is no negotiating with any of our planets but this is especially true of the three collective planets (Uranus, Neptune and Pluto). The forces they are symbols of are bigger than any single life, and the please and cries of the individual are as the beatings of a moth's wings in a hurricane.
Like the Tower card in the Tarot, Pluto is not interested in plea-bargaining. It cannot be swayed, or deterred, or locked out. Only accepted and rolled with, or fought tooth and nail against until it burns your house down.
Similarly, Plutonic experiences have little to do with justice. Earthquakes strike the innocent and wicked alike, and when burning ash is gearing up to fall onto your head, one of the least constructive things to do is ask "Why me?" (with or without the fist-shaking). Instead, I generally find it more productive to buckle down and get on with the business of breathing and surviving whatever is happening stage by stage.
And the transit to the composite has indeed coincided with irreversible changes to the relationship. December has been the month of Waiting For The Baby's Birth and Trying To Wrap Our Heads Around The Enormity Of Change That Will Mean, as well as the month of Fighting Shocking Assaults From Unseen Ennemies and Facing Up To The Threats To Our Home.
The stresses have been sudden and enormous, the Plutonic kinds of pressures that strip you down to your naked shivering core and challenge you to face up to what's truly real and fundamental to you. Pluto's transits are NEVER comfortable, but they can certainly be very exciting and if you play your cards right you are likely to emerge from its trials by fire singing "Je ne regrette rien".
And they're not all bad. December 2007 was the most challenging month so far for the relationship (previous record-holder, September 2006 when my mother in law died suddenly) but it's also been the most intimate. There are special kinds of bonds forged in the war against the world when your partner is the only one you can rely on and you realise how deeply (Pluto) love and trust go. When you finding yourselves turning to one another in your hour of need and see that both of you completely meant the whole "for richer, for poorer etc." thing.
Transits of Pluto last for years and they can be exhausting. They can also be intensely rewarding if you roll with them right. Pluto is an invitation to travel to the underground of the Self (or the relationship, or the family, or the collective), a primal force, a dare to see what you're made of and ultimately an invitation to truth.
Whereas the transits of Neptune mistify and cloud, transits of Pluto leave you in doubt about what's real and true what with the truth & reality constantly punching you in the eye.
The feeling of a Pluto transit ridden right is the euphoria of a hard test passed. The feeling of it ridden wrong is "Owwwwwwwwwwww, bloody hell this hurts". Either way though the long slow transits of this celestial body mean that frequent opportunities for re-testing present itself for better or for worse. And once you know they are inescapable it makes it so much easier to save your strength and face up to its invitations to dance or fight.
On the other hand as Jupiter and Pluto conjunct each other and the galactic center in Sagittarius, gearing up to transit into Capricorn everyone seems to be feeling it and for me this comes across as Pluto Amplified.
(And speaking from a long experience of Pluto transits, the fact that it's officially no longer a planet has not affected its ability to sucker punch me one bit).
And as a taster of all this Pluto-ey goodness, (and no doubt a preview of coming attractions to the natal chart) Pluto and Jupiter are starting to make a loose out-of-sign square to the Libra Sun of mine and my husband's composite chart.
In the composite Sun is conjunct Pluto anyway (with the IC sandwiched in between)
and from the start, the relationship had a feeling of union through a shared experience of hardship and oppression ie. "this world has teeth and little mercy for you and me, so watch my back while I watch yours and we'll take the bastard on together."
There is no negotiating with any of our planets but this is especially true of the three collective planets (Uranus, Neptune and Pluto). The forces they are symbols of are bigger than any single life, and the please and cries of the individual are as the beatings of a moth's wings in a hurricane.
Like the Tower card in the Tarot, Pluto is not interested in plea-bargaining. It cannot be swayed, or deterred, or locked out. Only accepted and rolled with, or fought tooth and nail against until it burns your house down.
Similarly, Plutonic experiences have little to do with justice. Earthquakes strike the innocent and wicked alike, and when burning ash is gearing up to fall onto your head, one of the least constructive things to do is ask "Why me?" (with or without the fist-shaking). Instead, I generally find it more productive to buckle down and get on with the business of breathing and surviving whatever is happening stage by stage.
And the transit to the composite has indeed coincided with irreversible changes to the relationship. December has been the month of Waiting For The Baby's Birth and Trying To Wrap Our Heads Around The Enormity Of Change That Will Mean, as well as the month of Fighting Shocking Assaults From Unseen Ennemies and Facing Up To The Threats To Our Home.
The stresses have been sudden and enormous, the Plutonic kinds of pressures that strip you down to your naked shivering core and challenge you to face up to what's truly real and fundamental to you. Pluto's transits are NEVER comfortable, but they can certainly be very exciting and if you play your cards right you are likely to emerge from its trials by fire singing "Je ne regrette rien".
And they're not all bad. December 2007 was the most challenging month so far for the relationship (previous record-holder, September 2006 when my mother in law died suddenly) but it's also been the most intimate. There are special kinds of bonds forged in the war against the world when your partner is the only one you can rely on and you realise how deeply (Pluto) love and trust go. When you finding yourselves turning to one another in your hour of need and see that both of you completely meant the whole "for richer, for poorer etc." thing.
Transits of Pluto last for years and they can be exhausting. They can also be intensely rewarding if you roll with them right. Pluto is an invitation to travel to the underground of the Self (or the relationship, or the family, or the collective), a primal force, a dare to see what you're made of and ultimately an invitation to truth.
Whereas the transits of Neptune mistify and cloud, transits of Pluto leave you in doubt about what's real and true what with the truth & reality constantly punching you in the eye.
The feeling of a Pluto transit ridden right is the euphoria of a hard test passed. The feeling of it ridden wrong is "Owwwwwwwwwwww, bloody hell this hurts". Either way though the long slow transits of this celestial body mean that frequent opportunities for re-testing present itself for better or for worse. And once you know they are inescapable it makes it so much easier to save your strength and face up to its invitations to dance or fight.
Thursday, 4 October 2007
Planetary Transits through the media
Posts on Elsa Elsa about the way that planetary movements preceed and reflect various real world trends have caused me to notice the recent patterns in the British media.
For instance Mercury's current transit through Scorpio (the uber-sleuth and dirt-bringer-upper of the Zodiac) has coincided with headlines relating to the inquest into the long-ago death of Princess Diana. Due to my policy of ignoring as much as possible the antics of the British Royal Family (past and present) I haven't been reading the articles too closely - however all feature and debate various theories about her death (conspiracies, secret pregnancies, abduction, murder and other such nefarious plots). All these were rampant around the time of her actual death and its initial investigation, and it's interesting how they've resurfaced now in an inquiry that pledges not to leave any stone unturned in its search for the truth.
Similarly as Saturn has left the flamboyant Leo for conscientious Virgo and Pluto inches ever closer to good old belt-tightener Capricorn, we are seeing the emergence of new (more subdued and conservative trends) all over the place (including renewed rehab efforts from Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan, no doubt related to the public's fed-up-ness with their antics).
An article by Fiona McIntosh in last week's Grazia sums it up rather well.
Here are some quotes (with added asides in brackets and emphasis in bold):
"Turn on the lights, call a tazi, the party's over. It was wild while it lasted, but it took a banking crisis for us to realise the Naughty Noughties are over. All the delicious blind greed of the decade (which coincided with Saturn's transit through Leo and the giddy joy of the world not ending in 2000) has evaporated faster than it took Northern Rock investors to empty their accounts. (...) Conversations at dinner have swung from how should I spend my money, to blimey, how safe is my money? (...) Ladies who lunch have begun growing their own lunch in greenhouses at the end of gardens. The fashion phrase of the moment is 'Future Heirlooms' - an investment piece built to last over several seasons is worth so much more than a dirty Primark binge. Belts, the hot new 'now' piece are being tightened both physically and metaphorically. This new Frugality has been bubbling under for some time, fuelled of course by the green movement. But it took the panic of a credit crisis for us to completely re-evaluate our lifestyles. (...) What were we thinking? This rampant consumerism is not only mad, it's vulgar. "
For instance Mercury's current transit through Scorpio (the uber-sleuth and dirt-bringer-upper of the Zodiac) has coincided with headlines relating to the inquest into the long-ago death of Princess Diana. Due to my policy of ignoring as much as possible the antics of the British Royal Family (past and present) I haven't been reading the articles too closely - however all feature and debate various theories about her death (conspiracies, secret pregnancies, abduction, murder and other such nefarious plots). All these were rampant around the time of her actual death and its initial investigation, and it's interesting how they've resurfaced now in an inquiry that pledges not to leave any stone unturned in its search for the truth.
Similarly as Saturn has left the flamboyant Leo for conscientious Virgo and Pluto inches ever closer to good old belt-tightener Capricorn, we are seeing the emergence of new (more subdued and conservative trends) all over the place (including renewed rehab efforts from Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan, no doubt related to the public's fed-up-ness with their antics).
An article by Fiona McIntosh in last week's Grazia sums it up rather well.
Here are some quotes (with added asides in brackets and emphasis in bold):
"Turn on the lights, call a tazi, the party's over. It was wild while it lasted, but it took a banking crisis for us to realise the Naughty Noughties are over. All the delicious blind greed of the decade (which coincided with Saturn's transit through Leo and the giddy joy of the world not ending in 2000) has evaporated faster than it took Northern Rock investors to empty their accounts. (...) Conversations at dinner have swung from how should I spend my money, to blimey, how safe is my money? (...) Ladies who lunch have begun growing their own lunch in greenhouses at the end of gardens. The fashion phrase of the moment is 'Future Heirlooms' - an investment piece built to last over several seasons is worth so much more than a dirty Primark binge. Belts, the hot new 'now' piece are being tightened both physically and metaphorically. This new Frugality has been bubbling under for some time, fuelled of course by the green movement. But it took the panic of a credit crisis for us to completely re-evaluate our lifestyles. (...) What were we thinking? This rampant consumerism is not only mad, it's vulgar. "
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