Saturn Conjunct Pluto for Everyone On The Planet Between 2003-2015 – Restructuring, Purifying, and Crystallizing Divine Power

by Robert Wilkinson

In early 2010 I wrote about the importance of Saturn conjuncting the Pluto of everyone on Earth. This indicates heavy restructuring of our long range karma, and shows us how to make our Higher Power real in our lives. If you’re over 30, at some point in the past 11 years you dealt with a heavy load, or had to do a major task that changed your life. Those under 30 are now in the thick of their challenge.

I last gave this to you about 2 years ago. Today we’ll examine the groups with Pluto in Cancer, Leo, and Virgo. Part 2 will focus on those who are under 40.

To whet your appetite if you’re in your 30s or early 40s, a brief look at those born between August 1972 and August 1983 shows Saturn on your Pluto between November 2009 and October 2012. Saturn was in early Libra between Nov 2009 and March 2010, and again from late July through mid-October 2010, affecting those born at the front half of the 1972-83 group.

After that Saturn moved through mid-Libra until mid-October 2011, and then late Libra until it entered Scorpio in October 2012, affecting the second half of the 1972-83 group. If you want to know how you've been affected, keep reading!

Now for the heart of the matter! For your reconsideration, “Saturn Conjunct Pluto for Everyone On The Planet Between 2006-2014 - A Heavy Karmic Time,” rewritten and updated.

Today we begin our re-examination of how Saturn has made, is making, or will make a conjunction with the Pluto of everyone on Earth between 2003 and 2015, no small event! The past 11 years have profoundly impacted everyone on Earth, since Saturn has transited Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, and Scorpio during the past decade. Everyone on Earth has faced some form of heavy pressure involving both Karma and Dharma during these years.

What is Saturn conjunct Pluto, and what could it mean? Briefly, when Saturn conjuncts Pluto it restructures our Divine Power of Eternal Transformation, and is an important long term life transition, showing both the end and the beginning of a life-altering spiritual journey of self-purification. While it can crystallize our worst fears and lower qualities, it can also help us confront our Divine Power and become our Highest Self.

Because all adults on Earth now have Pluto in Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, and Scorpio, we all have been through this, or are going through this, or will go through this in the next few years as a result of Saturn's transit of these signs. Yes, Saturn has, is, or will impact every generation on Earth in the recent past and near future.

Pluto, "Lord of the Underworld," shows us our relationship to life and death processes. It indicates those "forces beyond our control" where we confront our Divine Power, or our willingness to play the victim to authoritarian energy. It shows us our power to reverse decay, as well as eliminate corrosive elements that rots what it touches from within.

As Saturn transits through its conjunction with the Pluto of various generations, an increasing number of people will have to structure or restructure their relationship to the "underworld" of existence, and be challenged by extreme energies to purify themselves to the very core of their being.

This is an evolutionary challenge unlike any known in hundreds of years! That's because over a relatively short period of time, everyone on Earth will be restructuring their lives in radical ways. Between what began with Saturn in Cancer in the Summer of 2003 and what's happening through Saturn in Scorpio (late 2014 with a reprise Summer 2015), soon all beings on our planet will know Saturn's influence on the deepest part of their beings. We can only hope that these transits will bring needed maturity and a sense of responsibility where these have been lacking before now.

First, let’s examine a little history about the signs Pluto has occupied since it began this “turn of the cosmic wheel” in the early 19th century. When Pluto was in Apehelion, or farthest distance and therefore slowest speed in its orbital path around the Sun, it took almost a century to transit Aries, Taurus, and Gemini. This period lasting from 1822 through 1914.

Everyone on Earth born then had Pluto in one of these three signs, and so for about 7 years out of every 29, everyone on Earth was influenced by Saturn on their Pluto. 19th century beings experienced Saturn on their Pluto as many as three times in their lives.

It's now a different situation, since Pluto's speed quickened for most of the 20th century, thus spanning more signs (Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, and Scorpio.) Now it takes Saturn about 14 years out of every 29 to touch everyone on Earth, offering a wider and therefore richer experience since it traverses a larger spread of zodiac energies.

The Pluto in Cancer generation, those born between September 1912 and June 1939, saw Saturn conjunct their Pluto most recently in the Summer of 1973 through the Summer of 1976, and then between the Summer of 2003 through Summer 2005. These periods were times of major restructuring for the War Generation.

Pluto in Leo people, those born between August 1938 and June 1958, saw Saturn move across their Pluto between Autumn 1975 and Summer 1978, and again between Summer 2005 and Summer 2007. Those with Pluto in Leo who live to an advanced age will experience it again beginning August 2034 when Saturn again enters Leo.

From September 2007 through October 2009 and again April through July 2010, Saturn touched the Pluto in Virgo generation, those born between October 1956 and July 1972. This group last experienced Saturn on their Pluto in Nov-Dec 1977, and again August 1978-September 1980.

Those of this generation who live to an advanced age will experience it again between October 2036 and November 2039. Thus the choices, decisions, purpose and wisdom this generation distilled out of their experience between mid-2007 through mid-2010 set important patterns into motion that will directly affect what this generation will go through 22-25 years from now.

We'll take a look at the Pluto in Libra and Scorpio generations in the next article. Still, if you were born since 1972, there’s a lot in this article that can help you understand the major choices and changes you’ve made since 2009-2010.

Saturn conjunct Pluto is said to be a difficult aspect, but that's only true if a being has not examined and learned how to deal with inner "shadow" material. Saturn and Pluto together symbolize whatever darker energies are in all of us, individually and collectively.

Saturn shows us whether we do or do not enslave others, or have the tendency to be enslaved by a thing, person, or idea. It symbolizes fear, bondage, limitation, and sclerosis.

Pluto is the "Lord of the Underworld," symbolizing forces of Ultimate Transformation beyond individual control. Whether corrosive degenerative energy, or the Limitless Pillar of Infinite Fire associated with Lord Shiva, it is easy to see how Pluto could represent major shadow material. It is the spiral Fire that transforms all things by their passage through the Underworld into new pioneering vistas stripped of old shells down to the core matrix seed form.

We are told that Saturn brings a sense of "lack" as well as structure to whatever it touches, demonstrating as a "binding force." Saturn narrows and crystallizes while Pluto concentrates through its essential nature as Divine Economy of Energy.

Saturn gives form and focus, while Pluto purifies. Saturn structures or restructures whatever it touches, and when it comes to visit Pluto, expect that your life will be restructured and purified from top to bottom. It can crystallize our deepest fears of annihilation, as well as bring Spiritual Maturity and Authority.

Saturn conjunct Pluto brings a definite conclusion to the seed patterns that cannot grow in your future, while incorporating structures in the life that will yield favorable transformational growth over the years that follow this transit. This combination brings radical long term pressures and changes, often with explosive force beyond individual control, overwhelming obsolete preexisting rules and crystallized structures.

The next article will continue to explore different effects of Saturn conjunct Pluto for each generation on Earth, and what we've all gone through, or are going through, or will go through during the next several years.

(This article incorporates information originally published on 22 Jan 2007. The original article had some very interesting comments, so if you're interested, please go into the archives and check it out.)

© Copyright 2007, 2014 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[Jo Garceau]

Robert, am I understanding correctly that as Saturn conjuncts the natal Pluto, a ring pass not boundary is established crystalizing Divine Power at that point for the next Saturn cycle? And that whatever happens in the manifestation of this Divine Power during the subsequent cycle refers back to this point? So that as transits occur, the crystalized Divine Power becomes more manifest? To be specific, when Saturn is at 24 degrees Scorpio it is "opening up" a 24 degree natal Cancer Pluto.

If so, this is very helpful...

[Robert]

Hi Jo - In a word, yes. The Divine Restructuring of Saturn conjunct Pluto does find productive growth in the waxing sextile, specialization in the waxing quintile, spiritual realizations in the waxing binovile, a crisis of emergent power at the waxing square, a turning point in the "destiny" of how that Pluto expresses at the waxing biseptile, an interactive gift at the waxing tredecile, and a natural harmony of expression at the waxing trine. (I will develop this concept in terms of "the whole cycle" in a webinar class I'll offer in the near future.) Put your Pluto "narrative" within that frame of reference. (You also have another one going back to the mid-70s when Saturn was last in Cancer, and trined Pluto in late degrees around 1984-85.)

An added bonus for the late Pluto in Cancer gen is that Jupiter set the stage for expanding that Plutonic power last Autumn, or using it in some protective, benevolent, merciful, or abundant way. That should yield excellent harmonics this Spring when Jupiter again conjuncts that gen's Pluto, closing out the cycle that began 2001-2002 and opening a new one. The new Jupiter-Pluto cycle commencing at this time will be more expressive of the recent Saturn in Cancer, whereas the last Jupiter in Cancer was still within the "umbra" of the Saturn-Pluto cycle that began in the 70s. Just another way of taking a look at interplanetary cycles across a life. The same conjunction might express entirely differently, given the preceding planetary cycles in play.

[caliban]

So like, why was I struggling so hard against it? I think what I'm reading is that it was a battle I was bound to lose. It just isn't what I was told life was supposed to be. Maybe I heard it wrong. Does saturn have a duality. :D

[Robert]

Hi caliban - We cannot resist the transformations our natal Pluto will bring us. Simply impossible, though many die trying. When transiting Saturn (external situations and opportunities that test our ability to restructure toward dominion away from chains of mental slavery) conjuncts our natal Divine Transpersonal Transformative Shivaic seed power, we may as well go with what frees us, since we really have no other alternative. Natal Pluto is a non-dual Divine Power.

[chickie]

Ur Highness....I lost my dad July 2004....summer (May 2005) Pool Premonitions of Katrina....pluto threw me down at the bottom of my pool from May 2005 to 2007. pffft And I'm feeling like about to go down one more time??

[Robert]

Hi chickie - All deaths help us transform conditional love into unconditional love. And of course, living in an impermanent reality, all forms pass away. That teaches us humility and detachment, with compassion because we share that with all others across time. It's part of the universal human condition, and reminds us to "pass it forward."

That which "goes down" is entirely an ego construct. We must learn about the underworld of existence so we do not fear it. Yet simultaneously there is a part of us that can laugh at the absurdity of what is, what we imagine, and what will never be. We play it as it lays. A very Wise Man once told us to deal with today's problems today, and leave tomorrow's problems for tomorrow. That helps ground us in the NOW.

Not that long ago I had SERIOUS reservations about the point in space/time that Saturn occupied, since the last time it was there I died, went to the other side, and was offered the chance to come back. This time it bent me out of shape for a very brief and intense period of time, but then I came to see what was behind my mind's chatter. If we're eternal, we ARE eternal. It just takes experience to focus on what's important (Amore, Filios, Agape!) and learn how to manage this marvelous, contrary, occasionally rebellious vehicle we call the body, feelings, and mind. And to learn to have a sense of humor about the whole thing.

[debbie]

although it has often been a very heavy experience and heartbreaking realisation of the cruelty of the society in which we live, thus the cruelty to self as hidden in the depths of ones mind, it has also given opportunity to clean clear and purify through healing, born in 61 I have pluto in virgo opposing chiron in pisces and hope my hard work has helped the whole of which we are all a fragment. One bad apple can indeed infect the whole bowl, however all things being equal, the same goes for uninfected/untainted. The sorrow this past few days has been heavy as saturn reverses through the underworld and yet sorrow to me indicates the end of grief for some, so long as it is worked through and one does not give up and get back on that old cycle once again due to the "injustices" and "revelations" and their overwhelm due to the many lives wasted through much hard work and seemingly needless suffering the mind is passionately throwing up, as mars reverses through libra, instead to passionately and fairly focus inwards to heal ones own contribution to that suffering and cruelty, towards oneself or the judgement of others thus remove its power thus energy. To me, those of us older folk leading by example as the younger folk go through this at this time, is the best one is able to offer and it doesnt take money or status to do it, it is a given.

[Jo Garceau]

Robert, thanks. The dialogue on this is fabulous.

[Michele]

Robert,
What about a square some babyboomers are facing between these two heavy-hitting planets? Saturn, currently retro at 23 degrees Scorpio, is squaring my natal Pluto, at 25 degrees Leo. At 60, I'm grappling with aging, health and retirement issues. However, I'm growing increasingly excited at the prospect of working on my writing hobby full-time, once I retire, because the numerous day jobs I've worked the past forty years were unfulfilling and strictly a means of support.
Best,
Michele