In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) demoted Pluto from its position as the ninth planet from the Sun to one of five “dwarf planets.” The IAU probably hadn’t planned on any outrage, anywhere. But astrologers took exception.
Pluto rules what’s hidden from the naked eye, the underworld, the power behind power. It rules life after death, reincarnation, secrecy, permanent transformation, death, the afterlife, spirit communication. You can’t just erase all that by demoting a planet. So yes, astrologers still use it. And this year, the U.S. will experience its first Pluto return.
All planets experience returns – when they return to where they were when you were born. But Pluto, the snail in the zodiac, takes 248 years to circle the zodiac. The birth chart of the USA is cast for 7/4/1776 at 5:10 p.m., Philadelphia. Its natal Pluto is at 27 degrees 33 minutes Capricorn, which began on February 3, the same day that Mercury turned direct. And it perfects today, Feb 22. This return marks a turning point for us as a country, a nation, a people.
This return sweeps in and challenges everything we thought to be true about democracy, government, the way structures work in this country. This is already happening politically, culturally, and it probably is going to get worse before it gets better. This is when the pillars of democracy are challenged in a way they never have been before, when the norms are fraying, and the usual machinations no longer work.
On January 20, 2024 Pluto enters Aquarius and remains there until September 2, when it retrogrades back into Capricorn until December 20 2024. This is all happening in the U.S. chart’s 2nd house of money, where your money may not be much safer than it was in 1929 or during the 2007/2008 meltdown. If Pluto into Aquarius marks the beginning of a paradigm shift – instead of the dress rehearsal we’ve seen for the last several years- then be prepared.
I’m not even sure what that means. Find an alternate country? Make as much as you can? Go into hiding? Embrace what’s coming? No, forget that last one. What’s coming is a right wing agenda in which the election is stolen by partisan electors appointed by republicans. What’s coming is that if the losing party in a given state doesn’t like the results of an election, it can be easily overturned by some other person who has declared fealty to trump or to some other autocrat.
Supposedly, Pluto entering Aquarius marks the beginning of the Age of Aquarius. As the song Hair described it:
When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
Harmony and understanding
Sympathy and trust abounding
No more falsehoods or derisions
Golden living dreams of visions
Mystic crystal revelation
And the mind’s true liberation
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius
The age of Aquarius
We’re obviously not there yet. But we can hope, right? We can become activists within our own lives, right? Change begins with one person. Then two. Three. Four….
An interesting interpretation of this date and Pluto’s return is here.
I stumbled upon your wonderful and life-changing ‘The Everything Dream Book’ which I was gifted around age 12. It really captured my imagination and was a sneak peek of a very rich vein of my current life path. It brings me great joy to have discovered your website and podcast today. However, I am not a fan of the negative political comments. Politics are a lucid representation of the rampant divisiveness that is being intentionally sown amongst the collective. Clearly it’s working. It has reached the point that we no longer see political figures as human people, but rather as archetypes that we (or rather the media) projects their own shadow/innermost demons upon. Personally, I think ever since the assassination of JFK the system has been rigged. He was the last bastion of American democracy. And due to the law of polarity (which states that everything has an opposite, and the existence of these opposites is vital in helping us to gain a deeper perspective of our own lives) the people pulling the strings behind the scenes need the two political parties and candidates to be as antithetical as possible. Now it’s merely an illusion of choice. So we can play into this and waste our time and precious energy slinging insults at “the other” (aka ourselves) or we can transcend the political noise and generate spiritual warmth and compassion for our fellow humans.
Hi Alice. Wow. The Everything Dream book. That goes back a ways.
Politics – right, left, in between – are part of life. Negative or positive, it’s the world we’re living in right now. Transcending political noise is a great goal, but the bottom line is that politics governs everything from the quality of what we consume to the roads and bridges we drive on to education and what we read and the very core of our freedoms.
Scary but we have to have hope for a better world.
Absolutely!
So interesting.
Is that a T-shirt that you have? Love it!
Yup! On Etsy, I think.
Did you read my post about the the Canadian Californian based Chinese Astrologer who in August 2021 forecast an explosive start for 2022, the Year of the Tiger?
https://brizdazz.blogspot.com/2022/01/2022-water-tiger-explosive-energy.html
She’s got the year right, but the Year of the Tiger doesn’t start until the 1st of Feb, because the Chinese New Year relies on the start of the New Moon every year, which is why the date isn’t a fixed one, much like like Easter.
This lady might make for a good pod-cast guest?
Didn’t see it. Off to take a look!
I think she’d be a good guest! Will track her down, Daz. Thanks!
Crikey, Steve Irwin would have turned 60 on Twos-Day if he was still alive 🙁
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Irwin
Wow. Steve. He wqs a a true original.