Pluto Stationary Direct in September 2018 at 19 Capricorn – Moving Forward Into Accelerated Growth

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 7:01 pm PDT September 30, 3:01 am BST October 1 at 19 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 2017.

From February through mid-July 2017, Pluto occupied 19 and 20 Capricorn, first direct, then retrograde. After going direct last Sept at 17 Capricorn, it then again went through 18 and 19 Cap between October 2017 and January 2018. Those periods were our first three Plutonic exposures to the themes we’re now completing.

Between January and April 2018, Pluto moved from 19 to 22 Capricorn. It then retrograded back to 19 Capricorn, where it’s going stationary direct. It will remain in its “shadow zone” through early February 2019, and then enter the unknown zones of 23 and 24 Capricorn which humanity has not experienced since 1773-1774.

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 1770-1774, 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 when it’s in the third decan, it leaves the Taurus third of Capricorn and moves into the Virgo decan

Pluto first occupied the Virgo decan between early February through early July 2018. It’s now back in the Taurus decan, but will re-enter the Virgo decan for good in mid-December. Taurus has given both stability and stubbornness to the Pluto in Capricorn expression up to now, and we’re 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 increasing self-confidence and “accelerated growth,” where we are challenged to rise to some occasion even if it feels a little premature. Be a good spiritual steward, and find your best place of service given your particular “range of skills.” Share who you are, and enjoy what others share with you. Anticipate opportunities to fulfill yourself, and you’ll find a greater depth connection in your everyday life and activities.

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 at 4 Capricorn, a Sabian Symbol degree showing a technique for claiming personal power in a group context. While Pluto’s degree will accelerate our growth, it’s backdrop shows we may find ourselves in unfamiliar territory, where we have to be celebrative while bringing all our relationships into practical focus.

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.

Remember too that hard Pluto transits 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.

After last year’s Pluto direct lessons of being freed from old inhibitions, this one carries us into a more accelerate learning pace. The coming Pluto direct period will push us at times, but the growth will pay big dividends in 2019 once Saturn hits 17-22 Capricorn, crystallizing the seeds of Plutonic power set into the ground of our lives these past two years.

So remember we’re in a long term acceleration phase, where we’re rehearsing power rituals that will be in full play next year. Keep learning how to cooperate within your group(s), and the apparent defeats that were true spiritual victories since last April will bring rewards and recognition by Spring 2019. Much will burst up and out in the coming months, and we just need to be mature, organized, and grounded to become the authors of our public destiny as we count down to the major transformational year of 2020!

Copyright © 2018 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[helina]

I thought that I was over Capricorn Pluto - while my sun is 17.29 degree Cancer.
But I have gone through painful sickness since may 2018.
Let's hope the medicines work and time heals the rest.

Lokah Samastah Sukhinov Bhavantu...

[Denise]

Thanks for your comments on "collective instability and uncertainty." Helps to know it's not just me and where I am in my life.

[Bonnie Orgren]

Thank you for the hope, this # 11 year has indeed brought tests. " Keep learning how to cooperate within your group(s), and the apparent defeats that were true spiritual victories since last April will bring rewards and recognition by Spring 2019."