by Robert Wilkinson
Pluto represents the Divine Power of ultimate regeneration, and is the Lord of the Underworld we all must pass through at least once in our life if we are to be a purified vessel and become authentic to our core. It is going stationary direct at this time. What does this hold for us?
Pluto’s exact retrograde station occurs at 12:33 pm PDT, 8:33 pm BST, on September 28 at 17 Capricorn. As is the case with all the outer planets when they turn stationary direct or retrograde, it marks a major “sea change” in those invisible Spiritual transpersonal energies. We are all about to have a different but familiar Plutonic experience where we are shown anew the span Pluto has been traversing off and on since February 2016.
In Feb through mid-July 2016, Pluto occupied 17 and 18 Capricorn, first direct, then retrograde. After going direct in Sept at 15 Capricorn, it then again went through 17 and 18 Cap between December 2016 and January 2017. Those periods were our first three Plutonic exposures to the themes we’re now completing.
Between January and April 2017, Pluto moved from 18 to 20 Capricorn. It then retrograded back to 17 Capricorn, where it’s going stationary direct. It will remain in its “shadow zone” through early February 2017, and then enter the unknown zones of 21 and 22 Capricorn which humanity has not experienced since 1772.
So Pluto is moving through the same spans, and hitting the same stations, as it did 245 years ago! We have an equivalence between 2015-2018 and 1770-1773, so it would seem that revolutionary times are upon us over the next 10 years!
The span from 16-20 Capricorn is where personal power gets translated into group energy through activities. Pluto has entered the second half of Capricorn for the long haul, and is now about to leave the Taurus decan and move into the Virgo decan in a few months. Taurus has given both stability and stubbornness to the Pluto in Capricorn expression up to now, and is about to move into more functional practicality, with potential problems with Nature Herself (since Nature expresses as Virgo.)
It is now stationary direct on a degree of releasing old inhibitions and repressions, confronting and purifying what needs it in our lives, and adjusting the relationship of our Spirit to our ego. “Strip back to essentials,” and sacrifice what you need to, whether material, emotional, or psychological, “to achieve a new dimension of conscious reality.”
At this direct station, the Moon is in Capricorn, coming off a trine to Venus and sextile to Neptune, and forming a trine to Mars and conjunction with Pluto. This intensifies the forming Mars trine Pluto, linking 2014 and 2015 with the coming direct period, since the 14 Cap Moon at the station occupies the same part of Capricorn Pluto did then.
The Moon conjunct Pluto trine Mars indicates an efficiency in the coming months helping us “cut to the chase.” Everyone will get to take a hard look at things, stripping away whatever they need to while holding on to what’s relevant and valid. Some will shed a lot of memories of the past, since it is the way it is and there’s no reason not to get a better historical perspective on what was.
As Mercury is tredecile Pluto on its station from the exact degree of the recent New Moon, you can bet that events coming forth between Sept 19 and October 19 will be a huge feature of the coming Pluto direct period. All in all, a powerful Pluto station that seems like it will ground a lot of things, further a lot of useful, natural, and valuable seeds, and many will find an efficiency in their way of living that will work perfectly.
I believe this will be a very dynamic Pluto direct period, given the aspects in play in the chart for the direct station. Pluto’s ruler Saturn is on a Sabian Symbol degree of great portent, showing the backdrop lessons to the widespread transformational energy of Pluto show we’re all “immigrants seeking entrance to a new country,” and a lot depends on the attitude in which we greet unfamiliar experiences. Plus Saturn is still in the strong trine with Uranus, harmonizing the spiritual qualities of everyone on Earth to the degree they have them.
As I offered earlier, Pluto represents the Lord of the Underworld, as well as global pressures for radical purification and transformation. Its stay in Capricorn has brought forth the worst in governments, dictatorships, control systems, and financial systems. Each time transiting Pluto is put under pressure from squares, it can lead to the demonstration of heavy handed actions, or a curbing of those actions.
Jupiter made three squares from Libra to Pluto between October 2016 and August 2017. As I told you last year, thing would expand wildly and radically at times, facilitated by transits through all the Cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn) which created heavy Cardinal squares, T-squares, and grand crosses! We’ve certainly seen our share of friction and things being out of balance since last October!
Remember too that any hard Pluto transit can bring up deep fears, and as we are thinking, feeling interactive Beings, if we feel at all we will feel the widespread fear and dread associated with the collective instability and uncertainty. This has been a common complaint among many I know, due to the destabilization of the world we used to know and live in.
Because both Saturn and Pluto are associated with our deepest, darkest fears, I devoted quite a few pages to the best ways we can manage these energies to our benefit in my book Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend. Everyone on Earth at some point must confront the need to go into their personal “underworld” to come out with a purified ego that can serve as an adequate vehicle for the expression of our Higher Self. Difficult Pluto transits offer us opportunities to come out of fear and dread, purified of the dross of the lower self. My book offers valuable tools to navigate these difficult transits, so if you haven’t already, please consider getting your copy.
The coming Pluto direct period will allow many things to come forth, freed of old inhibiting factors. Just remember we’re in a long term acceleration phase, learning how to drop all that is superfluous or unnecessary to accomplish the tasks we’ve set ourselves. This is actually a practical time, one to finish up many things begun last December through March, and reviewed April through now. Keep searching for your place in the Cosmic Choir, and show courage in focusing your will power the best you’re able.
Copyright © 2017 Robert Wilkinson
Thank you very much, Robert.
Your post here feels both as stabilizing and inspirational guidance.
Posted by: Sherry | September 27, 2017 at 11:44 AM