by Robert Wilkinson
Pluto represents the ultimate purifying force in our world. It is the power to die and be reborn, as Pluto 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. Through Pluto we know who we really are. Right now it’s stationary retrograde at 4 Aquarius. We have major global shifts ahead at the threshold of global change!
Pluto’s retrograde station is at 8:27 am PDT, 4:27 pm BST on May 4, though it’s been manifesting stationary energies for a few weeks! As is the case with all the outer planets when they turn stationary direct or retrograde, this is a major “sea change” in those invisible Spiritual transpersonal energies. We now begin a review of our 2025 experience of Pluto in Aquarius which will take us back through 4, 3, and 2 Aquarius where it sits from late August to early December, going SRX there in October. Pluto is now in Aquarius for the next 18 years.
Since late November, Pluto has moved from 1 to 4 Aquarius. It now retrogrades back over that span between now and mid-October, when it goes stationary direct at 2 Aquarius. After that it will be in its “shadow zone” through early February 2026, when it will again enter an unknown zone humanity has not experienced since 1779-1781. It would seem that we continue to be in the heart of revolutionary times!
Pluto in the Power Zones
Between 2016-2018, Pluto transited 16-20 Capricorn where personal power gets translated into group energy through activities. In 2018-2019 Pluto transited 21-25 Capricorn, where that power gets applied on the emotional or social level. Between 2021 and 2024, Pluto transited 26-30 Capricorn, where that emotional or social power gets expressed in individual ways on the mental and spiritual levels of life. Pluto is done planting its Capricorn seeds.
These zones were incredibly important in 2019-2020 because Saturn occupied 21-25 Capricorn in 2019 and occupied 26-30 Capricorn in 2020. During those years Saturn gave structure and solidity to the Plutonic seeds already planted in those zones. Many long term seeds were “made real” when Saturn conjuncted Pluto at 23 Capricorn in January 2020, setting a 33 year cycle into motion.
Those “structured seeds” or “disciplined transformational pressures” were then sprouted and expanded by Jupiter’s transit of the last decan of Capricorn between March and December 2020. Each time the inner planets and Mars have transited late Capricorn since then we’ve had those Pluto/Saturn/Jupiter energies brought forth.
Pluto is now in the fourth degree of Aquarius in the Aquarius decan, which is a technique on the actional level of the scene of “Contribution.” This is a degree of healing and/or being “made whole.” We’re still collectively sprouting the seeds of making a greater contribution to a greater good featuring cooperative efforts in building something which will last beyond us as per Pluto’s 2023 station at 1 Aquarius, which was the degree of the Grand Mutation of December 2020. That point in time where Jupiter conjuncted Saturn marked the end of 200 years of materialism and the beginning of 200 years of idealism seeking the greatest good for the greatest number.
It spent a lot of time in the last decan of Capricorn. As the Virgo decan of that sign it favored efficiency, adaptability, and discernment as to how and where things fit into a sequence of tasks or a larger picture. We have now finished our Pluto in Capricorn lessons and have been through the transition zone between those two signs. The is the next review of early Aquarius energies by Pluto!
The Sabian Symbol for Pluto’s Station
This degree represents a “threshold state,” showing us the limit of our future as we now review the past. Pluto is stationary retrograde at 4 Aquarius. As Pluto represents "uncontrollable eruptions" and it's on a revealing hidden (healing) powers, I’d say our world will continue to be in for major social upheavals with some healers coming into public view. The most challenging periods are the second and third weeks of June as well as the end of that month, mid-July, late August, late September, and early October.
This Pluto station falls at 4 Aquarius. It is said that the first third (decan) of any sign deals with the material and actional levels of life, and being the Aquarius decan of that sign, invokes a sub-influence of Aquarius with an extra dose of Venus.
The Sabian Symbol we’ve been given for the 4th degree of Aquarius is "A Hindu healer.” In The Astrology of Personality, where Rudhyar uses the original Dr. Jones' class notes on the symbols, he says this is a degree of "Supremacy of the unsuspected faculties hidden deep within,” “conscious utilization of divine potency,” and “Revelation of Self.”
InThe Astrological Mandala he states the keynote is "the disciplined use of spiritual energies in restoring the natural harmony disturbed by man’s inharmonic attempts to transcend nature through mind.” He notes that this symbol somehow relates to “transcending compulsive and rigid biological drives, while making use, in a refined … way, of what it cannot control,” in service to a goal of helping individuals develop as “self-motivated and responsible individuals freely associating according to harmonic patterns in order to produce a vast spiritual chord of consciousness actualizing the potentials inherent in the archetype MAN.”
He offers that regardless of the karmic shadows and human deviancy, it is the duty of all truth seeking Souls to “tap the vast reservoir of spiritual forces pervading our planet” and use these energies for healing others. He continues that this is a technique which can be used for “healing of physical illnesses” and also for “making whole” whatever has “lost its natural root integration.” He states it involves “self-discipline, purity of motive, compassion, faith in the divine order,” and “the focusing of spiritual energy.” He says this degree falls in the Span of Defensiveness, Act of Capitalization, and Scene of Contribution on the technical degree of the Actional level.
Dr. Jones, creator of the Sabian Symbols, tells us this is a symbol of “self-assertion at a point of effective impact on the world” in “an inner and transcendental reality,” where “a spiritualized self-discipline achieves a magical ordering of the whole course of events, and in its perfecting it provides a spectacular ministry for the minds and bodies of all.” He states “the individual ever dramatizes (their) immortal capacities as (we) translate these into (our) tangible achievements” on some level of life.”
He offers us the keyword of THERAPY. He says that when operating in a positive manner, this degree is "high personal skill in bringing the least of human potentials to some ultimate consummation.”
What’s Ahead the Next Few Months?
So in the coming months, Pluto is offering us “seed forms” of the power to transform our lives by finding ways of living which restore harmony or integrity in the physical, emotional, and mental levels through spiritual techniques. As Pluto works “from the ground up,” we’ll see a lot more “eruptions” which “heal” us and society in ways so that a greater contribution by individuals can come forth. All of this relates to purifying some things to restore the integrity of the whole and updating it to become more effective in the present.
This gives us a focus on seeing the connection between physical and mental activities, and finding ways to heal self or others in the present. It shows how to make a more active contribution to the group work set into motion in December 2020, and implies that there are hidden powers to come forth in each of us after a period of review, reflection, and reconsideration of how to apply these skills from the past.
With Pluto making this a hot spot, we must find the spiritual will and inner integrity which helps us find our inner “divine potency” so that we can reveal something of ourselves. For the next few months, one of three things is happening; a) we’re looking back at the group work which has been developing since December 2020; b) we’re looking with new eyes at how to make that group work more efficient, or c) we can see how forces beyond our control have been leading us to a greater contribution to our world than we ever knew before and now it’s time to accept our inner powers.
As I offered back at the Grand Mutation in December 2020, I believe those who are embracing a greater cooperative vision with innovative disciplines of activity are finding themselves in the groove with the Higher Law of the moment, in tune with spiritual Brothers and Sisters, building toward a greater idea. Pluto is sprouting the seeds of power related to the themes of building “spiritually iconic structures,” material and ideological, which will serve future humanity.
Take a long view to see what’s been opening on the actional, material level in your life, accept your power to make a constructive difference by playing the part you’re meant to play for the fulfillment of the whole effort, and enjoy focusing your understanding, backed by courage, to find the life renewal promised over the next 15 years.
When Jupiter conjuncts Saturn, it expands that particular "Dharmic" Saturn influence for a generation. As we learn to use our Saturn to its best expression, we can master the changes and open to a more focused, freer purpose driven life. You can find out more about how to throw off chains of mental pessimism and fear in my book Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend. It will prove to be a valuable reference in being your highest Self in the coming era of tremendous changes for humanity and our world!
Here’s the link to a good talk I gave on the subject in June 2019 The Grand Mutation of 2020 – Two Centuries of Radical Change
A Look Back
During the 2019-2020 transits of Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto in late Capricorn we learned how to use those energies in organized ways. We still are! The three Jupiter conjunctions with Pluto (two at 25 Capricorn, one at 23 Capricorn) will be activated for many years to come, so there’s a lot to be learned about refining our senses, and enjoying our play as we find a “transcendent security.
We launched multiple cycles of a new era when Jupiter and Saturn conjuncted Pluto. We went through two “Great Compressions” in Capricorn in 2019-2020, and the third and fourth Great Compressions in Aquarius, in early 2021 and 2022. While 2019-2020 launched multiple Capricorn cycles, 2020-2021 launched powerful Aquarian cycles which began to blossom in 2021-2022.
Use your powers of efficient focus to eliminate all which obstructs the future group work you’ve opened to since April 2020. We’re now moving into an era of using group power to contribute to a more “civilized” future.
What would a great vision look like to you? That’s been sprouting since early 2023 and will take clearer shape in the future. Open to feeling your non-separateness with “All That Is” while becoming more efficient in doing your larger work. The vision is growing, and the coming period heals some wounds and restores some wholeness to our garden of Life and Mind.
While Pluto does occasionally take us into the underworld of existence, it’s there where go to our core, and purify ourselves. Pluto may accompany us through terrifying experiences, but it also is Lord of the Underworld, and so it is through Pluto that we become masters of fear, and it ceases to trouble us ever again. Welcome the depth experiences Pluto brings, since it is the Way to demonstrating your Spiritual Will which overcomes all lesser things.
Copyright © 2025 Robert Wilkinson
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