June 14, 2008
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A Second Once-in-a-Lifetime Chance
On January 25, Pluto moved from Sagittarius into Capricorn. Then it turned retrograde, and now it is moving back into Sagittarius. It will stay in Sagittarius until November 26, 2008, so the upcoming U.S. presidential election will be held while Pluto is in Sagittarius, and the new president will be inaugurated after Pluto moves into Capricorn again, that time to stay until January 21, 2024.
Pluto’s orbit takes 248 years. You and I probably wont be around next time Pluto gets around to Sagittarius. The next five months are the last chance for us to grab some of that Sagittarian momentum for philosophical paradigm shifting before Pluto moves on into earthy Capricorn and his transformational energy is applied to governments and social institutions. The last time Pluto transited Sagittarius, the European Enlightenment was at its peak, and when it went through Capricorn that time, Earth experienced the American and French Revolutions and the founding of Australia.
What a few other astrologers have to say about Pluto in Sagittarius and/or Capricorn:
Pluto in Sagittarius represents a collective crisis in faith and a duration where people are more ready to see through what has been taken for granted as ‘the truth’.Rome got so fat that it almost imploded with Pluto in Sagittarius; Diocletian came along with Pluto in Capricorn and established a pattern that would keep the empire from falling apart for another 400 years in the West and another 1000 years in the East.Pluto was in
Capricorn between January 1516 and December 1532. The previous decade
of Pluto in Sagittarius gave rise to the “Reformation” and over the
next decade and half the political outcomes of this incredibly
important shift challenged the Catholic Church system that had been all
powerful up until this time. England’s Henry VIII divorce of his
Spanish Queen Katherine led to the birth of the Church of England and
elsewhere in Europe the Protestant factions grew in ascendancy. Henry’s
autocratic rulership in this phase is a powerful symbol of Pluto in
Capricorn, and set the tone for monarchs all through Europe for the
whole of the following cycle.In Capricorn, Pluto will confront us with hard choices, pragmatic realities and clear necessity. Where Pluto in Sagittarius was a time of wanting to learn more, now facts are faced and some will prove disheartening. Under Pluto in Sagittarius possibilities seemed endless; now comes a light of day which in comparison seems colder, yet which in reality is not.
Maya del MarPluto has been traveling through Sagittarius since 1995, bringing with it wars (Pluto) over religion and ideology (Sagittarius), as well as “culture wars” and the growing divide between groups that think differently, all Sagittarius archetypes. Sagittarius rules the media and entertainment, and the rise of a new compulsivity in celebrity journalism has grown up since Pluto entered Sagittarius, with the internet spawning a huge new gossip market. . . .
When Pluto goes through Capricorn we can expect the transformation of all things ruled by that sign – such as our religious institutions, halls of government and political structures, the way we inter our dead and take care of our old people, construction techniques and buildings, and how we handle ownership of property.The coming five months give us some extra time for attitude adjustment and preparation. Let’s make the most of it.
