Other Pluto Conjunctions To The Galactic Center In Previous Centuries

by Robert Wilkinson

It is being said that as Pluto moves through its multiple conjunctions with the Galactic Center this year and next, many wonderful things will happen, preparing us for a global awakening in mass consciousness as we get closer to the magical year of 2012. That got me to thinking that if this is supposed to make for a huge change in the world and humanity, what happened the other times Pluto conjuncted the Galactic Center?

I originally posted some information about the current Pluto conjunction with the Galactic Center and what it could mean in the article Pluto is conjunct the Galactic Center in 2006-2007, and followed it focusing on previous and future conjunctions in the article Galactic Center Conjunctions by Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto - the Newest Influences What's Coming in 2012.

In doing my calculations, I assumed that the Galactic Center has been moving forward at a steady rate of about 4 degrees 12 minutes every 300 years. This assumption may not be correct, in that we really don't know where it was a thousand years ago for sure, but can only make an educated guess, as with most other variables on this ever-variable Earth. Working backward from the positions offered in the second linked article in the paragraph above this one, we assume the Galactic Center was at the following approximate positions: (1700) 22 Sag 40; (1400) 18 Sag 28; (1100) 14 Sag 16; (800) 10 Sag 04; (500) 5 Sag 52; (200 AD) 1 Sag 40; (100 BC) 27 Scorpio 28; (400 BC) 23 Scorpio 16.

That means that previous Pluto conjunctions with the Galactic Center occurred 10 times in this span. Starting with the most distant point in this time line, Pluto conjuncted the GC between 470-468 BC at about 23 Scorpio, between 223-220 BC at about 26 Scorpio, and between 25-28 AD at about 30 Scorpio. Pluto's next conjunction with the Galactic Center occurred about 2 Sagittarius between 271-273 AD, the next one happened about 6 Sagittarius between 519-522 AD, followed by one about 11 Sagittarius between 767-770 AD. The next one hit about 15 Sagittarius 1015-1017, followed by one about 19 Sagittarius between 1262-1264, one about 23 Sagittarius from 1510-1512, and the last one occurred about 24 Sagittarius between 1758-1760.

While I have no doubt that humanity was opened to some "core knowledge" that boosted some forms of awareness when these happened, very little of a theme of mass enlightenment jumps to mind. In the first span we're considering, those years did correspond with the birth of Socrates, and were followed by the Peloponnesian War and the birth of Hippocrates in 460 BC. The next period from 223-220 BC had no significant events except the death of Hannibal's father and the beginning of the Second Punic War. The third period on our timeline is of course the time of Jesus' ministry and crucifixion. Other than this, there are no signs of global awakening, and it's important to remember that early Christianity was not a global awakening at the time.

The next period 271-273, is marked by the birth of Constantine and a lot of war. In fact, all the periods discussed so far had much more war than peace. It was a time of the reuniting of the Roman Empire, but also the loss by that empire of current Germany and France. 519-522, the next conjunction of Pluto with the GC, featured Bodhidharma arriving in China, while the next period of 767-770 showed anarchy in Bulgaria, the deaths of Pope Paul 1 and Constantine II, Patriarch of Constantinople, and Charlemagne inheriting the Kingdom of the Franks.

1015-1017 found Norman knights arriving in Sicily, earthquakes destroying the Dome of the Rock, the founding of the Druze religion, and the division of England into earldoms. 1262-1264 gave us the Icelandic and an early English civil war, widespread persecution of jews, the reign of Kublai Khan, "Summa contra Gentiles" from Thomas Aquinas, and the deaths of Aegidius of Assisi, companion of St. Francis, and Shinran Shonin, Japanese founder of the Jodo Shinshu branch of Pure Land Buddhism.

Finally, 1510-1512 featured the first pocket watch, the Spanish conquest of Cuba and the Yucatan, the birth of a couple of the de Medici clan and the death of Amerigo Vespucci, Martin Luther becoming a Doctor of Theology, and the first exhibition of the Sistine Chapel, Of some note is that Copernicus wrote "Commentariulus" which put the Sun at the center of the Solar system, which of course was a major event but got him in major hot water and his work became anathema for a long time.

So after a brief trip through previous Pluto conjunctions with the Galactic Center, I somehow wonder if the current buzz about the global awakening isn't more wishful thinking than cast in stone. I suppose humanity may get the seeds of "source material" during those years, since Pluto rules seeds that germinate over time, but even looking at events subsequent to the conjunctions in previous centuries, it sure doesn't look like anything dramatic occurs during these times.

Perhaps since this one approaches 1 Capricorn it will be different, and of course there are other factors, such as the Mayan Calendar and Great Pyramid timeline, that seem to indicate something is about to end, while other things begin. Of course, we have had many endings of eras over time, always followed by the beginnings of new ones.

Another scan of the periods yields some insights. First of all, the relatively primitive way of recording information centuries ago probably doesn't give us an accurate view of what they were experiencing, but only historical events. No doubt the 5th century BC was a time when the teachings of the great Ones who came in the 150 years before then gained widespread acceptance and probably influenced their cultures for a long time. Buddha, Pythagoras, Lao Tsu, Quan Yin, and many other great ones had come just before the conjunction with the GC, so perhaps that event spread the seed.

Another insight is that these points roughly correspond to the seasons of a millennium, and therefore conform to the power shifts that naturally occur approximately every 500 years, with half way being a point of shift. Though we don't know how people were experiencing 272, 769, 1263, and 1759, we do know that the times of 27 AD, 520, 1016, and 1511 marked general times in the past two thousand years when a global power shift was occurring, and old systems of control were being circumvented. So perhaps seeds of what is to come in these 500 year "seasons" of a millennium are revealed when Pluto conjuncts the Galactic Center.

Personally, I'll stand on what I see going on relative to the century cycles and their 25-year "seasons," as these make sense to me. That said, 2012 is the mid-point of this "winter of the 21st century," and so after then we should see the gradual movement out of "winter" into a coming "spring" that will show up around 2025. Things should not be so bleak after 2012, and we should see major growth and development of whatever the coming century is about by 2020. You can read more about these cycles in the article The Age of Aquarius - Laying the Patterns in the Present.

Though I believe the short term future of humanity is difficult (due to ignoring certain realities about the environmental problems we've set loose on the planet and ourselves) I also know a whole new evolved group of Souls has already incarnated, and will continue to do so. These will be the seed carriers, bridge builders, and renovators of the future, bringing forth a new era and new forms of civilization long after we're all gone.

Historically, those of us on Earth right now are more the parents and grandparents of those progressive Souls that will inherit the planet and through their specialized skills building on the technology of the past, will re-create the Garden on Earth. And of course I do expect some fairly spectacular developments over the next decade or so, due to other evolutionary factors not discussed in this article, such as the increasing strength of humanity quickly moving out of the Kali Yuga into the Dwapara Yuga, a very hopeful thing for the next few thousand years.

Comments

[Zdena]

The yugas are said to succeed each other almost endlessly. After the perfect Satya Yuga, a decline marks the Treta Yuga. Further decline brings about the Dwapara Yuga, and after it comes the final and dark Kali Yuga, a time of wickedness, when man kills man. At the end of the cycle a Divine Being is said to take birth and reestablish righteousness, thus beginning a new Satya Yuga.
You know alot about hindu. I am trying to learn since going for 3 weeks to explore. I hope we are mooving into Satya. Love Z

[K]

Maybe an other helpful view, the so called 25.800 year North Star Cycle, scientifically this is known as the wobbling precession. Ancient people new about this as the Polaris - Vega Cycle. Many ancient mythologies talk about the change between Polaris time and Vega time. Vega is always associated with a fall from paradise. In this cycle of 25.800 years, approx. 13000 years Polaris is our pole star and the other half of the cycle Vega is our pole star. When Vega is our pole star, the north of our planet is facing away from the Milky Way Galaxy, recieving a weak charge from the celestial world, this is called the Age of Darkness. When our planet faces Polaris, then north faces towards the Milky Way Galaxy and the night sky becomes very bright and our planet becomes highly charged. This is called the Age of Brightness / Golden Age or Paradise.
So each age lasts about 13000 years, one being dominated more by yang energy, the other more by yin energy. When yang dominates, our society values are more materialistic, we judge by our senses, science rules & men have the advantage. In the cycle when yin energy rules (Golden Age) our society operates more by intuition and there is more of a natural understanding on how to guide our life, also women have more power.
The Golden Age is ruled by Natual Agriculture, Natural Technology & World Government - focused on education and information guided by the principles of health and happiness.
During the middle of each cycle a spiritual leader is born who will predict the future destruction or future Golden Age to give hope to humanity, or to prepare them for the darker times.
In 1984 the last 120 year period of the dark age began, at the same time, it was when the New Age started to become more fully into being. The crossing time is somewhere between the years 2030 - 2040. On one hand we have the new coming in, on the other we have the old - our modern civilisation - which continues its path of decline. We are in the last 30 year period when really the future life of our life, of the planet will be decided. We are now entering the most crucial period in history.
The old is like a closing spiral (Yang) going down and contracting, while the new is an opening spiral (Yin) going up and expanding. Energetically the old has more momentum and power, this shows up in the speed of our modern civilisation, which increases year by year. Because modern life is becoming more and more artificial, and although peoples awareness and consciousness of natural things, natural foods, natural healing, natural lifestyles are becoming more and more well known, it is still relatively small. (The movement towards an artificial life and artificial society goes back to the time of Greece when the idea of dualism developed, separating us from nature. Once we separate from nature and we carry that to an extreme we end up with a life that is completely artificial).
Moving from one cycle to the other there is always some kind of destruction, the last one was by water, that was when Atlantis and Mu went down. This one is supposed to be by fire. Fire means an artificial destruction created by technology, heating up the planet, the over use of modern technology etc. At the same time the earth magnetic field is decreasing year by year, this makes it more and more difficult for people to mantain their heatlth and their own direction.
So, a long story cramped up shortly!! We are here at the most exciting time in history, when more things are happening, we have more opportunities than ever. We can make more personal and social change than ever before !!!

[Lionwood]

Hi Robert,

I see you go deeper than i do in historical research.

It is for sure that the cycles of GC/pluto have punctuated the history of the evolution of conscienceness, even if hiddenly.

The point is that as pluto was deeply hidden in the dark far beyond saturn, collective acceptance of some truth has been rejected collectively (Christian inquisition for instance, secret societies, etc.), generating bloody wars, percecutions, etc.

I found an interesting information:

- In 1750 (previous GC/Pluton conjunction), Thomas Wright wrote in his book that he perceived the galaxy as a sphere with a center, which is not the earth, not our sun, not a star, but the "house of God"

Strange, isn'it, the kind of revealation he could have at the time of the previous conjunction. He, of course, had no credibility from the scientific collectivity.

Lionwood

[Robert]

Hi Lionwood - Well, History was one of my two majors in college, as I have always been fascinated by historical cycles and recurring themes across space and time. Perhaps some of the seeds awakened by Pluto conjunctions to the Galactic Center can be examined by looking at the squares and oppositions to those conjunctions, since they are the natural turning points in the larger cycles set into motion by the conjunction. It may be useful in getting a bigger picture of these "footprints of God" to see when they shift direction into emergence, or come to surface, or indicate a fulfillment. That's a huge project in itself. Thanks for coming by.

[Lionwood]

Sure Robert, I agree with you. My article is just a beginning of such a study. It proposes to study the cyclicity as Rudhyar proposes it in his book "Astrological aspects". I just propose some few keys in my article and wrote I would expect someone with better historical knowledge could go farer so I could read his/her final study. It is indeed a hard and long work, a team work indeed. But I can't be part of that team, only an eager reader.

My article should be interesting for you, i don't know if the translator translate far enough in my article.

What I mention is this:
- Previous conjunction, 1750 : Thomas Wright and the "house of God"

- opening/increasing square(in english: waxing? waning?): Spiritism. The planes were compressed and the astral entities could manifest in the physical plane)

- opening/increasing quincunx (in english: waxing? waning?): Helena Blavastky

- opposition, 1908: Alice Bailey

-Closing square: Rudhyar

- last applicant conjunction, 1998-2006: the plutonian rendering of our soul to God, resynchronisation with the divine soul we lost during the 12th and last phase, or at least we rejected all that was useless creating a serious crisis and a feeling of lost.

- exact conjunction: reception of a new seed.

What is important is that what we have done during the previous cycle has been initiated by the previous conjunction, and thus it looks very important to understand it.

What i mention also in my article is that as pluto and the GC were hidden to the conscienceness, it created serious problems, a rivality between pluto/GC and the collectively accepted saturn.

This last cycle has thus been a hard evolution from darkness (fears of the divine which started 2000 years ago) to light (love of the divine) as it is the first time in history the conjunction can appear to light and conscienceness.

What I suggest in my article is a historical study considering the 12th phases of the cycle, not only the opposition and squares and maybe considering the cycle neptune/GC within.

You see the difficulty and seriousness. A long research which would deserve the publication of a book.

I am just putting forward ideas, but won't be able to entertake such an interesting study.

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I also found an article of Rob Hand ( http://www.astro.com/astrology/in_postmodern_e.htm ), perhayps a source of information between others for historical research

Lionwood