This January 26th, 2008 Pluto is going to enter the sign of Capricorn for the first time in 246 years. Pluto will then go retrograde and re-visit Sagittarius from July 15 until November 27, 2008, which it had been transiting since 1995. Pluto will finally finish up its Sagittarian business there. Pluto represents the metamorphosis of beliefs, thus religions and meaning on life through confrontation of and by existing beliefs. After November 28, 2008 mankind will have the “pleasure” of experiencing the ruler of the sign of Scorpio, Pluto, traveling through the first sign of winter, Capricorn until January 20th, 2024! We had better celebrate this New Year with a joyful party as long as Pluto is still in happy Sagittarius, because the deep and confrontive nature of Pluto is bound to bring profound metamorphosis to the existing structures of our lives on all levels, be it on the individual or the collective!
Capricorn’s very essence, being an earth-sign is dense, solid, and heavy, and is also a cardinal sign (first sign of a new season). Capricorn yearns to grow into the new, yet is insecure because of facing the new. Capricorn is also being a Yin-sign, meaning energy gravitates inwardly towards the center, it is also the archetype of energy concentrating. It therefore contemplates about existing earthy structures for solid new steps that will need to manifest over time (Cap). That requires a responsibility to grow/mature within one’s inner security (Cancer opposing Capricorn) that is/should be reflected in an outer structure of life.
Capricorn correlates with contemplation within, time and space, self-reflection, maturing, responsibility, consequences, structures, and boundaries, which protect but also limit. It also stands for laws, regulations, traditions and hierarchy of any existing society; of existing structures, laws, traditions and habits (Capricorn) were built upon beliefs (Sagittarius), which are not in alignment with nature’s laws (Sagittarius). Capricorn unfortunately also correlates with dysfuntional patriarchy, meaning ‘one way is the right way for all’, which is imposed by a few self-announced superiors upon the majority of others. Thus Capricorn in its dysfunctional manifestation (as it can be seen in our man-made-world’s societies) stands also for control, rightousness, and threats of social punishment when one does not fit in. Due to those (self-) controlling disciplines in order to fit in (Capricorn), inner, natural dynamics are suppressed. But secretly Capricorn when being too structured, and restricted by mundane, social expectations is subconsciously longs to loose control to grow beyond existing limitations.
Thus to understand the evolutionary dynamics of Pluto’s transit into and through Capricorn we need to look at the existing structures and regulations of our leading societies in the world, which determine our individual mundane life. Pluto being the ruler of the water-fixed-Yin-sign, Scorpio, will bring its very archetypes of confrontation, resistance, penetration and compression into play, in order for profound, deep changes and metamorphosis to happen to the sign it transits (and its planetary ruler, Saturn, in the natal chart and in its transits through the signs) – keep in mind Scorpio and therefore Pluto rule surgery!
Before we will brain storm about the changes/metamorphosis that our existing man-made-world awaits, let’s understand that each of us, depending on where Capricorn, and its ruler, Saturn, are located in a birth chart. This will determine how we will go through a confrontation of our existing mundane life structure. That will require inner and outer confrontation leading to inner contemplation about the existing structures. Beginning to focus on building new structures while letting go of old unneeded ones, regulations and responsibilities. When we grow into an outer life that is founded on mature self-responsibility relative to our inherent truth, we can maintain our responsibilities within society – which will change profoundly within its existing cores.
Therefore each of us will have to (Cap) embrace those evolutionary demands. Unfortunately, Pluto through Capricorn and/or 10th house, has a tendency because of the triggered insecurity to hold on to the familiar and thus to create only the appearance of changes. As long as that is possible – similar to simply putting up new wallpapers instead of knocking down the wall. Thus each of us will need to keep asking ourselves, if we are on track of the profound changes within our lives. Yet the social, political, economical overall structure of the world / society we live in, will have a strong impact on those indivual demands for a self-responsible evolution to proceed.
As Capricorn rules ‘leadership’ we need to look at the current leading societies, at those that want to lead and those that are carrying responsibilities. We have to look at their existing regulations, laws and definitions of right and wrong to get an idea what might happen in terms of Plutonic metamorphosis of existing life structures:
1. The United States of America. If we like it or not, the US is the leading society in our world’s affairs. And the US horoscope (July 4th, 1776) has the natal Pluto in Capricorn (in the 2nd house, when applying the Sag-AC). Thus it will go through a ‘Pluto-Return’, meaning the confrontation with its existing deepest security/values (Pluto 2nd), with a more or less intense resistance against the evolutionary necessities to let old definitions of leadership die (Pluto Cap) for new responsibilities be born from it. As I see the natal US-Pluto being located in the 2nd house, the house of resources that we need to survive, not only oil and money will be on the spot for the US, but very likely even more simple existential issues as food, water, land. This will not come right away and I would have to write a whole book to just get close to the evolutionary dynamics of cause and effect in regards of the US during the upcoming transit of Pluto.
For now, let’s just be aware that shortly after Pluto’s final entrance into Capricorn there will be the US-presidential elections. Its turn out will set the direction, whether the metamorphosis within the US and thus the world’s structures will be sort of harmonious or cataclysticly catastrophic – be it in economical, environmental, political and social matters! Due to the inter-relatedness the existing world will be pulled into consequences due to those elections.
If a hardliner gets into the Oval office - forms of “our way is the way for all” will manifest, which will be modern forms of police state and even thougher control, suppression, and persecution. Based on the reason of ‘threads to our values’. This will lead to resistance within many US citizens. If a (more) liberal president will get into the White House, the new US president will have to lead the country through intense and difficult metamorphosis for responsible householding with its natural resources, money- and property markets, with its budgets and for what purposes to spend them in alignment with changing the political orientation towards the global communities. This will lead to resistance within many US citizens.
As Pluto will be retrograde, re-visiting Sagittarius (truth, beliefs, religion, media, propaganda) during the hot phase of the summer’s campaign we will see an extremely dirty campaign being run in the US, using and abusing the truth, the media as a vehicle of slick propaganda to convince and convert the masses of the beliefs as each party will want to be the right way (Pluto Cap). Thereby it is more than likely that eventual terror threads/attacks from religious fundamentalists (Christian and/or muslim) will be used and broadcasted through the media to get the people of the US into the “right head-space” for the elections’ turn out.
2. United Kingdom correlates with the sign of Capricorn. Therefore I expect profound changes to happen to the UK and its traditional British ways. Queen Elizabeth II’s natal chart has a Capricorn rising with Saturn in Scorpio, on 24 degree, which will be squared by Neptune’s transit in 2008/09, while Pluto goes over Her 12th house cusp and begin to square Her Mercury in Aries, ruler of the 8th! Her majesty’s traditional role that She maintained for so many decades, holding the traditional spirit together, will surely fade away with Her as the strong person She is. Thus the deep roots within the British soul of the people will experience confrontations in regards whether a Royal Head of State will be needed any longer.
In addition to that, the threats by eventual terrorist attacks in Great Britain will tighten the already existing Surveliance State in the UK, which in return will affect the personal lives (opposing sign of Capricorn is Cancer), burdening life with harsher laws, restrictions and thus supression of a vital emotional expression. This would then lead to more of distorted manifestations by individuals and groups of minorities (Cancer).
3. Russia also correlates with the sign of Capricorn, not only because of its history of the traditional zar-family, but also because of its very harsh patriarchal hierarchy, laws and structure – just think of the former USSR! When the East-Block collapsed it was extremely difficult for the Russian leaders to bare. Under the appearance of being a democracy though especially the government under Putin was working hard to re-achive a leading role in the world’s affairs. Therefore the time of Pluto’s transit though Sagittarius gave a certain renaissance to the manipulative media, the persecution of free spirited journalists and/or other key people. In other words the new Russia has done its preparations/homework for a re-rise into the big players in international affairs. Thus I expect Pluto’s enterance and transit into/through Capricorn for Russia’s leaders to build a very serious, tough structure of old-fashioned partriarchal ‘one/our way is the right way for all’ rules, regulations, persecutions and punishments (Cap). This will again lead to tremendous suppression (Cap) among the ordinary people (Cancer) in Russia and also very intense power struggles internationally with Russia being a hard poker face playing its cards.
4. European Union does not correlate with Capricorn, but it is willing to carry more and more responsibilities, not only in designing a formal structure that allows European nations to maintain their national sense while feeling safely united within the EU and its values rooted in the French Revolution “Equality, Liberty, Brotherhood”, but also feels the necessity to become a player in international affairs, emphasising the European ways of finding resolutions via apreaciating each other’s differences and creating meaninful compromises for hopefully everybody being able to live one’s life.
This is for sure a very high, idealistic goal. So far the EU has been pretty successful in living up to those goals while it also evolved towards more mature responsibilies. The process yet is never a harmonious one, but requires disputes and discussions for a compromise to be born – which is seen as weakness by the US. Thus the EU is facing a necessity to grow into legal forms with Pluto transiting Capricorn that allows not only economically but also politically (incl. the social, environmental and also military affairs) roles and responsibilies to be carried and even acted out.
EU will experience even more a “sandwich-pressure”: On the one hand the (current) US expecting the EU to act like an obidient dog, which the EU is not willing to due, because of its centuries of wars and suffering. On the other hand Russia with its oil and gas monopoly pressuring the EU relative to its dependency on oil and gas. But also the Middle East is around the corner and the EU with its historical roots is very capable and willing to see and treat the Middle East and the ‘muslimic world’ with the respect of a co-equal. Problem is though, that during the Pluto-Transit through Sagittarius not only the media in the West brain-washed the masses, but also in the ‘muslimic world’; if not by the press then for sure by some fanatic and powerful mullhas (Pluto in Sag).
The spark of those ‘muslimic propaganda’ jumps to people from the Middle East / muslimic people that live in Europe as either immigrants or children (1st generation) of immigrants. And most immigrants/1st generation are for sure not fully integrated in Europe’s societies (which is often caused by those people holding on to their cultural habits, traditions and religion even more since living in a foreign country) and often work in the lower levels of the rich EU. The material and social frustration will allow those brain-washed sparks of fanatic propaganda to catch fire even quicker. Thus the EU will be forced by necessity to expedite the process of multi-cultural dialogue within the EU, again to create rules and regulations then based on mutual understanding and compromise (which will trigger resistance in groups of Europeans and also immigrants).
And there is Africa, the suffering neighbor of Europe. Africa correlates with Cancer, the sign that opposes Capricorn, thus Pluto’s transit is opposing Cancer, i.e. Africa. An opposition is the highest tension possible. Thus while the currently leading societies in the world will react to the evolutionary demands of Pluto bringing profound metamorphoses, by possible tougher laws, more police, more military and higher walls to protect its existing ways, the suffering in Africa will surely increase. Which in return will motivate (Pluto) families (Cancer) to somehow get out of the misery. Therefore the run on the EU with immigrants etc will increase drastically, especially next summer when Pluto is back in Sagittarius. Thus the EU will have to find a way to regulate the number of immigrants from poor African countries for the European House not to collapse. Whatever regulation will be established (Cap) it will not please the masses of suffering Africans that are bombarded with European and US-Television that think living in the EU is like material aboundance all the way (which from an African point of view is actually very, very true). That is way the governments of Europe are already trying to work with African organisations and governments to fight the corruption, the killing, the starving and most of all the horrable plague, AIDS (where there are still many regions that cannot afford the medication due to license-rights of the pharmaceutic coperations mainly located in the US and the UK).
The sign of Cancer will be a very important dynamic/trigger in Pluto doing its job while transiting Capricorn. As Cancer also stands for women, mother, people (not in power), thus minorities, incl. gender defined minorities like gays and lesbians, the overall Plutonic engergies triggering Capricorn to first gravitate back to the “good-old, traditional” values, rules and regulations will very likely bring some very unpleasant restrictions (Cap) back that will be put upon those people mentioned. Be it ‘simply’ more and more mainstream-people judging single moms, gays or lesbians, or be it that laws will forbid (Cap) certain ways of humans living their lives officially as an expression of their inner emotional nature (Cancer).
With all those dynamics being set in motion from next year on, you can see that it is impossible to make simple statemtents about what Pluto’s transit through Capricorn might bring to us as individuals. At the beginning of this transit, it all depends on the next years US election and the path the collective will allow. The overall core evolutionary intention though is for us, the people, and for our leaders to take responsible steps in reflecting the current systems whether what needs to be destructed and let go and what new steps need to be taken to build a relaible, solid overall structure. A structure which allows the diversity of creation, thus the diversity of cultures, races, genders and sexual orientations to be peacefully integrated in each society, feeling safe and protected by fair laws and permits to live one’s personal life in self-responsibility; overall structures within the families, organizations, companies, churches, boards of management and governments that allow the planet, other life forms and us humans to survive (Taurus being trined by Capricorn) by us re-membering (Aquarius – beginning of the Age of Aquarius) how everything is a humble puzzle piece in the order of life (Virgo being trined by Capricorn).
The evolutionary invitation for man kind - appearently the ‘leading animal’ in Earth’s biosphere - is to humbly create daily life affairs (Virgo) that household (Virgo) with natural ressources (Taurus) in self- & global responsible ways (based on Natural Law, where everything has its place and function, thus there is not better or worse, and where everything is not only allowed to exist and to be, but also to be integrated in the overall laws of live (Capricorn & Sagittarius)). The coming years will set up the direction whether those evolutionary goal will be acchieved by cataclysmic events that will force the human species into humble laws or by a more or less harmonious process with insights and responsible actions, coming from inner reflections and awareness about the necessity for us humans having to create a major change!
Martin Luther said: “If I would know the world to end tomorrow, today I plant an apple tree.” As Capricorn rules in our individual charts the archetype of self-responsibility, meaning being responsible in my inner (Yin sign) dynamics towards my Self, each of us is called to reflect on the existing life, its structure, our career and where we are carrying unnecessary responsibilities and where we are too little in our lives. For those whose profession does not reflect the inner at all, an evolutionary need to change onto a path more in alignment with the inner call will be a necessity. Thereby a step-by-step-procedure is what Capricorn wants you to do; and to also double check, if you are only changing the wall paper but allowing a profound breakthrough. Thus each of us is called to embrace full responsibility, to carry it in and for our lives – all the way – and to create boundaries and structures that allow each of us to dive into the inner well-being of one’s own emotional nature, knowing that security can only be found within (Cancer).
If you would like to understand and even learn more about how to apply astrological archetypes of signs, planet and houses, I am happy to announce that there is a DVD-set available at Prema Sai in Calgary, which was produced this year, covering all basics of astrological correlations and applications from a natural, evolutionary point of view, which allow you at home to study without rush, as you can rewind and pause whenever you want to. As beginner’s classes in astrology are mainly an input of knowledge, thus not very interactive, I can highly recommend those DVDs for studying at home and to prep yourself up for upcoming astrology lectures and classes I will offer in Calgary in the near future. I also every one who has purchased this DVD-Course to be in email contact with me, for questions in regard to the material.
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