Pluto is conjunct the Galactic Center 2006 Through 2007

by Robert Wilkinson

I was asked by a reader to comment on the Galactic Center, since there is much scuttlebutt and excitement as to what it means, and what we confront now that Pluto is conjunct that point in space. As I wrote: “The Galactic Center is simply a point in spacial orientation for our Solar system, like the cosmic "straight in." It's the source of a lot of speculation, some seemingly more plausible than others.” In any case, Pluto conjunct this power point portends major shifts and changes in our future.

I have read that the Galactic Center represents a "transpersonal link" and is said to play a role in technological inventiveness, though I have no specific correlations. Supposedly it is where "cosmos is speaking," and currently occupies a point somewhere around 26 Sagittarius 57 minutes. It’s a degree of originality, creativity, and unique self-expression. I'm sure that Pluto on that point between February and May 2006 is awakening seeds of something large, since that's what Pluto does.

Pluto’s stationary retrograde point in late March fell on that exact degree, so there will be manifestations of this emergent energy showing us a larger collective future at the Solar, Mercurial, Venusian, and Martian squares and oppositions to that degree.

It is significant that this was very close to the Mercury stationary retrograde point in late February and early March, and the exact degree of the Mercury squares.. The Sun was lower (waxing) square to Pluto in mid-March, Mars opposed that point in early April, Mercury again squared that point in mid-April, and will oppose it June 1, 2006.

The Sun will oppose that point in mid-June 2006, Venus will oppose it in July, and Mars will upper (waning) square that point in early September, followed quickly by the Mercurial and Solar waning square to that point (and Pluto) in mid-September.

Pluto again transits that point in December 2006. We will have Venus, Sun and Mercury all conjunct Pluto during December, and these seeds will be energized in January 2007 when Mars transits that degree and conjuncts Pluto in mid-month. Pluto will retrograde back to that point in mid-July 2007, staying there until it goes stationary direct on that exact degree in September 2007, and finally leaves that degree in late October 2007.

Of course it will be important to track the Pisces square, the Gemini opposition, and the Virgo square during 2007 by the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, since these will be the release points to the cycles that started with the conjunction at the Galactic Center by the inner planets and the Sun in December 2006.

It will be interesting to observe possible Jupiter correlations in 2007 and beyond, since Jupiter conjuncts that point in early December 2007, expanding the seeds that Pluto has awakened. This will be followed by the Sun and Mercury giving that energy vitality and various types of thought-forms (as the Sun and Mercury do every year), ultimately to be given concrete form at the Venus transit in January 2008.

As an aside, it was suggested that the Galactic Center had some significance at the time Atlantis sank into the ocean. I did some possible charts for the year that Poseidonis sank, and I didn’t see any correlations to the Galactic Center, though of course there were other significant factors. But that’s another article for another time.

Other articles about Pluto, the Galactic Center, and the New American Revolution:

Galactic Center Conjunctions by Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto - the Newest Influences What's Coming in 2012

Other Pluto Conjunctions To The Galactic Center In Previous Centuries

Revolutionary Times Are Upon Us - Parallels in Pluto Cycles (watch for 2012 and beyond!)

Why this is the New American Revolution and our Astrological connection to our Founding Fathers

Comments

[Pepper]

Robert,

Thank you writing more about the galactic center and Pluto transits to it. It will be most interesing to see what transiting Jupiter in Sag "inspires" when to crosses the galactic center in late 2007.

Sincerely,
Pepper

[Robert]

Hi Pepper - Well, I figured there was some interest out there, having looked around and seen there's a buzz about Pluto on the Galactic Center. The fact that Pluto hits two stationary points on that exact degree is significant, and creates a "hot spot" for transits. It's about time the world and humanity got back to center, since we've gotten pretty far out there in the past century. Forgotten "who brought us to the dance," so to speak! Thanks for inspiring the article.

[Pepper]

Robert,

I have been thinking about the originating zero degree Capricorn/Cancer axis for the Galactic Center. Saturn is the ruler of Capricorn and the Moon rules Cancer. Interesting choice for the building of civilizations and all that it entails, isn't it? Saturn is material, paternal and seeks reason and structure. The Moon is materal, nurturing and emotional. But reason/science cannot function in a vaccum. Each culture very much needs its arts, theatre, and music. Again, there is that perpetual need to find balance through opposites. So would the placements of these two planets, Saturn and the Moon, hold any obvious significance in mundance charts? So if the cosmos is speaking and its is transpersonal, would these energies be speaking to the leaders of men or simply more of a confluence of engeries that influence the collective will?

On a side note, I was looking at www.astrodatabank.com earlier. I quickly noticed James Van Praggh horoscope shows his natal Sag Moon conjunct Saturn in the 12th house. His natal Saturn is at 19.06 RX and the Moon at 25.54 Sag. Hello transiting Pluto. Anyhoo, his rising sign is shown at 0 Capricorn. He would be most interesting to talk to about shifts in energies.

Sincerely,
Pepper

[Lionwood]

Hi Robert,

If you understand french, i suggest to you this reading about the conjunction: http://lionwood.over-blog.com/categorie-423611.html

Sincerely,
Lionwood

[Robert]

Hi Lionwood - Unfortunately, I don't speak or read French. I know some Spanish and German, but not French. If you care to, you could summarize what is published on that site and put it here in the comment stream. Thanks for checking in.

[Anonymous]

Here is a direct link of a google translation of that article from french to english:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Flionwood.over-blog.com%2Fcategorie-423611.html&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

[Anonymous]

Looks like the translation URL got cut off.
Here is a tinyurl:
http://tinyurl.com/yfvlpb

[Robert]

Hi Anonymous - Thanks.

[debilee11]

Hi Robert,
Thank-you for this wonderful piece of work.I am a little edgy
about this pluto transit. I have saturn at 28'sag conj my sun at 1' cap in my 10th house.
I'm just don't know what to expect only that I am sure it will be unforgettable and life transforming I'm sure Anyway thanks for helping me see a little more

[Chickie]

Hello Robert,

Curious. How can GC conjunct on December 28 affect progressed charts? If so I have the progressed Sun, Mercury and Par Fortune conjuct at 25 Virgo. Mars 26 scorpio and Lillith 27 Taurus and my progressed ascendent is 27 Gemini. Oh and you were right about the "weirdness" of this week. It's been weird with a capital W!

[Sunny]

My natal Chiron is at 26:50 Sadge with natal Moon three dgrees away -- the comment about the Pluto SR in March '06, WHOA!! If that was the first indication of what is to come, and then adding Joy Boy Jupiter to the mix at the end of '07, I am beginning to have this warm glow of renewed hope.

[ab]

My natal planets are in critical positions: South node (25 Sag in 8th house)is conjunct the Galactic Center. Then, Mars (28 Leo 4th); Saturn (28 Aquarius 10th); Mercury (21 Scoprio 6th); Jupiter/Ascendant (22 Taurus in 1st)--these are all being hit by Saturn in Leo. Also Venus is at 02 Libra in the 5th house. Could you please tell me just how bad things might be in the coming year? I am especially worried about the S Node conjunst the GC. Thank you very much for your articles which have helped me understand astrology.

[Robert]

To all - Sorry it took me so long to respond but I've been moving!

Hi Debilee11 - Pluto is purifying your sense of purpose and showing you the seeds of your dominion over your life and affairs. It also shows that forces beyond your control are challenging you to be willing to claim your power in the world, and if you don't get defensive or reclusive, could come to greater effectiveness in the times to come. When Jupiter goes over your Saturn and Sun late in 2007 the adventure begins!

Hi Chickie - Well, it's an emergent point relative to your progressed self. The progressed Asc where it is shows you're finishing up an old set of ideas about yourself, and are being freed from old pressures you should not be carrying at this time in your life. And of course, the planets in early Sag are quintile your progressed Virgo planets, good for unique gifts appropriate to this point in your life.

Hi Sunny - You'll go through a lot of wandering, healing, learning about higher things followed by renewed confidence that will open many doors for you beginning late Summer 2007. Your healing is in a larger view of what has been and what could be, organizing that vision into a center of personal power through organized nurturance.

Hi ab - Don't worry about SN conj GC. Not something to worry about. Pluto is helping you dump old scattering energies, or demonstrate through the larger era of transformation what you already know how to do easily. Though you have a Grand Fixed Cross, the real problem time is past. You went through the toughest period between September 2005 and February 2006 when you were forced to drop everything that would be a drag on your line into the future. Pluto is favorable to your Mars and Saturn, Jupiter is favorable to your Saturn all year as well as you Mars, except for the biseptile around 10-12 Sagittarius, which will be an important turning point for you resulting in long term good. Saturn is challenging you not to do a slow burn on things, but to eliminate everything that hassles you unnecessarily. Get your energies organized, be patient and mature as you plan the next stage of your evolutionary unfoldment, and get ready for when Saturn opposes your Saturn this Summer, which is a very important point of emergent power for you. Let go of old chains, accept the wisdom of your experience, and open to new ideas and points of view.

[Sunny]

Robert -- Thank you for taking the time to respond, that was a pleasant surprise. The word "wandering" caught my attention - Uranus just blew over my MC and I just took a new job in an industry I have never worked in........the Universe is setting something up on a major scale and presenting me with a double gift - going back to the corporate world (job) and "healing" from the last corporate job that I allowed to basically destroy me. Here is a little bonus in all this celestial activity -- progressed Chiron actually crossed into a new house house of partnerships - and I have been searching for a business partner for over a year. Toss in the gorgeous trine from transit Saturn and that is the energy source for balance and stability. Now here is where it gets really good.......low level bi-polar for years, took myself off prescription drugs about five years ago, went the natural path, plus huge change in diet and thankfully, I have always been very physically active......BUT, heavy suicidal tendency.....until this last year. Sure, it crosses my mind once in awhile, then poof! Now it is trying to make up for lost time.....being a part of the living, not the living dead. An amazing journey.........and everyday brings a new adventure, a new person, a new learning experience. Robert, I haven't felt this good in years! Thank you and may your holidays be joyous!

[Robert]

Hi Sunny - Glad you've been able to "break on through to the other side," and that your life and your name are accurate descriptors of each other! One should never allow a job to destroy one's sense of well being, since it has been said that no one on their deathbed ever wished they had worked more or harder! Very happy you're doing so well and feeling so good. That's a wonderful thing. And of course, a Merry and Happy to you as well.

[Lionwood]

Hi everybody,

I am Lionwood the author of the french article. It is indeed a hard work to translate it all in english, too long for me and I am not good enough in english. What I can do is to review the french text so the google translator could propose a better translation.

What i can feel now as we are in the middle of the conjonction are, for me personally:

- a kind of magical healing
- a kind of resynchronisation between all my bodies, the link between Earth and Heaven is resynchronised, which gives me a profond inner peace and harmony, which wasn't the case before, as i have been in a kind of spiritual crise/transformation.

Very Short Summary of my article:

The conjunction corresponds for me to a new descent of the Spirit on Earth, preparing the earth for a new 250 years cycle GC/pluto, a new seed, a new resource which will develop during the next 250 years cycle GC/pluto. The applicant conjonction (+/- the last 5 years) corresponds thus to the end of the previous cycle, during which we have been forced to reajust/realign ourselves through required deep transformations, descent/ascent rites/initiations. The appliquant conjunct asked thus to render our soul to God, in a sense, to be prepared to resynchronise our divine part with our human part at the exact conjunction.

What is interessant to notice, is the previous Neptune/GC conjunction in 1968 (Youth revolution in france). During that period ( the hippies period), we rendered also our soul to God, but in a neptunian way, here and now, we render it in a plutonian way.

During the separating conjunction, a new kind of spirituality, a new kind of mankind should emerge, more aquarian age oriented. So, let's wait and see.

What is for sure for me it that the conjunction partipates activately to the ascensional movement of the Earth and Humanity, towards the aquarian age.

I wish you all a Happy Christmas and New Year!

Lionwood

PS: Hope my english is understandable

[Robert]

Hi Lionwood - Welcome, and of course your English is fine! Certainly better than my French! ;-) Thanks for posting what you have, since we are seeing aspects of what you describe in various ways. My experience is the resynchronization between the bodies is affecting many relationships, as well as how people regard what they do for a living versus what they would like to do to manifest their Higher Self. Pluto would unleash the seeds of whatever the GC means when it conjuncts that point in space. Many realignments these past few years for everyone I know, some greeting them, some kicking and screaming that the old is done.

And of course, may you have a very Merry Holiday season, and thanks for posting.

[Lionwood]

A new rising sun is slowly emerging. THat's all i feel and it is real beauty.

I have sun in 26 lion (a rainbow after the storm). It takes a full meaning to me now. Rudhyar says for this degree the rainbow means the spiritual link between Earth and Heaven, which can only be made after a crisis. It is also the link between the sub and supra ego.

People who have worked well during the crisis are reaching a magical point of stabilisation of spiritual openness and inner peace here, thanks to their works, their audacy and acceptance to go beyond their destabilisation and fears, but also thanks to the GC and pluto!!!!

[Valor]

"People who have worked well during the crisis are reaching a magical point of stabilisation of spiritual openness and inner peace here, thanks to their works, their audacy and acceptance to go beyond their destabilisation and fears, but also thanks to the GC and pluto!"

Thanks so much for this comment, it is EXACTLY what i have been feeling, and I am now alerted to the impact the Pluto-GC conj is having on my Jupiter-conjunct-Venus (both in Sag, 23 deg and 24 deg, 2nd house) trine Uranus in Leo (19 deg 46"). I basically became a hermit for the past two years, creating a different kind of foundation for being on this planet in a balanced, joyous, grounded way - and now i am truly feeling it!
What concerns me a bit is my North node is squaring this Pluto-GC conjunction, at 26 deg 13", 11th house in VIrgo. Is this more refinement? (if so.. I can't imagine it!) Could it have to do with how I should go about my current task, which is creating the infrastructure necessary for positive global change? I love Pluto as I'm driven by a true scorpionic identification (moon conj ascendant conj Neptune, all at 9 deg Scorpio)... but really how far and how fast should i take that intensity? Are humans ready for it, and if so.. when? All i can say is.. so far, being fearless WORKS.

Hope your move has gone well.. sending good energy to your excellent endeavors :)

[Robert]

Hi Valor - Don't worry about the Pluto square your NN; shows that larger transformational forces are at odds with your line of evolutionary development, but it's so vast you can't do anything about that. Keep creating structures for positive change, and yes, fearlessness works wonders over time. Keep playing out the wave that should have started the adventure when Jupiter transited your Scorpio stellium, as I believe you'll make progress late this year into the next, when Saturn is also favorable to your Scorpio and Jupiter is sextile and quintile same. Thanks for your good wishes.

[Lionwood]

Hi Valor,

I am pleased to hear what you write !

I have jupiter like you in 23 sag (24 sabian, keyword: Chance!), which makes us feel joyfuly the conjunction and the GC more in particular, as jupiter is conjunct the GC in our natal. Jupiter there makes us feel the conjunction as a karmic retribution.

Karmic retribution is more important in your your case i feel, as this point you say is squared your nodes. At these 2 opposite squares from the nodes are what we call the Belly(stomach) and wings of the dragon. There represents 2 important karmic challenges as they form a grand cross with the nodes axe.

If your NN is round 26° virgo, the squared point in sag is thus in the dragon's wings. This point is the upper point of the lunar orbit above the ecliptic. It represents a karmic retribution we are required to uplift in this incarnation, by fetching, unburying, developing the resources in the Belly, the downer point below of the lunar orbit below the ecliptic plane, the opposite point (here in gemini). So check the exact opposite point, the sabian symbol, planets, and asteroids there that would talk to you, etc.

I have NN in virgo (4th) like you, but in 15° virgo, the GC is thus not in the wings in my case. But I have a karmic cross with juno and mars, which represent my 2 karmic challenges in this life.

The building of the karmic cross goes at the rythm of the black moon in transit

Lionwood

[Barbara]

Curious about a uranus squaring pluto aspect that myself and others around me will be experiencing starting, for some starting as early as January, and lasting till June/July for most of us. Would this be more of a global influence or a 'dreaded?' personal? Apologize if this was already addressed but couldn't find anything related in your previous entries. Thank You & Happy New Year to All!

[Robert]

Hi Lionwood - Perhaps with Jupiter conjunct the GC you are here to explore, learn, and share a wide view of the infinite possibilities of a galactic perspective. Remember, the GC cannot work as a local manifestation, though many local manifestations derive from the GC influence. Only those receptive to a galactic perspective, rather than a solar systemic perspective, will tune into the vast influence of the GC. It really is nothing personal, per se.

Again, in my years of observation, a square to the Moon's nodes is only important when the natal, transiting or progressed Moon is also involved in an aspect, since they are in fact an axis of influence involving the Moon. Other planetary Nodes would be more important when their particular planet is involved, for ex: Jupiter's Nodes would be very important for any Jupiter influence within its own larger evolutionary pattern in a birth chart. Jupiter relative to the Moon's nodes would only activate when the Moon was also involved in the pattern somehow. It may be that there is a trigger effect, where the influence is dormant or potential until activated by a transit of the Moon or some such thing. It seems what you described above could be attributed to the on-going Pluto square to Valor's nodes, activated at times through transits. I am glad to meet another who has intensive research involving voids, Sabian symbols, etc., since they also are my field of focus these many years. I'll continue to contemplate what you said.

Hi Barbara - Yes, it's more of a generic transpersonal influence than personal, though it will impact everyone personally through forces larger than their individual lives. For many, a dynamic release of forces that will usher in dramatic change. Those of us with Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto prominent in our charts will no doubt be directly influenced by these larger changes accelerating in our world. The Uranus square Pluto will last quite a while, and at present are closer to where the quintile meets the binovile than the square approaching down the road. Check out this article which may clarify.

[Lionwood]

Hi Robert,

I have been considering what you say about the connection with the moon for the squares to moon nodes. I examinated several charts with planets square the nodes and the moon position. It is difficult for me to see exactly what you mean. Considering what we did in our previous life, as i could see in regression ( I regressed to 2 previous lifes), could see mines and also some of others persons, who have planets square to the nodes. For me, the points squared to the nodes, not especially planets squared to the nodes, represent a karmic challenge, considering what we did in our previous life. That challenge becomes stronger and thus more visible if we have planets there. For any person to go more smoothly from SN to NN (this axe is an opposition), it is required to experiment, develop and integrate these 2 points. In a sense, it is a chance if we have planets there, which will force the challenge, and thus help us. I could see it in significant relationship with the 2 nodes axes forming a cross between the 2 persons. Of course, some people take the challenge, some other not, some try and can't, and so on. Maybe what you say about the moon position could be a reason, i don't know, i need to consider it better. But what I remarked is one can't find a real inner peace and harmony until this challenge is undertaken successfully, and it takes a lifetime. What i know is that this challenge is particulary uplifting, but long, difficult. This karmic cross, as any cross, is a crucifiction, never easy. This challenge is, sure, activated by transits, progressions, synastries in significant relationships and so on

[Robert]

Hi Lionwood - I'm just off the road after over a thousand mile drive. Will have to answer this one later. Namaste.