In December 2022 I wrote  a bit on Pluto in Aquarius and expected outcomes

The transit came and went, we saw some of its head and what it brought on. Now we’re looking not at the re-run, but a flashback intertwined with the second episode of the season.

All planets go through conjunctions with the Sun regularly and are cleansed by the solar fire. Just like a New Moon, it’s a reset and regroup.

The Sun is currently meeting Pluto in an exact conjunction at 29° of Capricorn.
Unlike the buildup of the days before, cazimis can be cathartic: ‘This happened and you have to face it’.

For the modern planets invisible to the naked eye things are a little stranger and less volitional. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto do not belong to tangible spheres of our lives, but that does not mean their effects are not felt.

These are the spheres where we cannot control anything but our response to what happens.
For Pluto, this is the underworld. The underworld of things repressed, of things ignored, or things which we have been blind to or have turned a blind eye to, but which can abduct us from ordinary reality and drag us down to the depths, as Hades did with Persephone.
It’s in the underworld we find the secrets and possibilities of empowerment and also things which we’d rather not know.

On a personal level, Pluto has been working different areas of our lives. Even though we are mostly unconscious of it, the underworld continues its activities in the depths.

Besides secrets and hidden voids, Pluto’s action is inversion of proportion. Blowing things up and magnifying them, or deflating and giving too little. From a psychological perspective, there is an easy explanation: if we push feelings down and ignore them, it takes the smallest event to detonate what’s been brewing beneath. Sometimes this comes as anxiety, something as anger outbursts.

On a larger scale it has also brought into public view many Capricornian themed horrors: the power structures on which the world is built, the daily grind,  both the horrors of the past on which things are built, and the horrors of long-term planning  which seem futile.

And so today is both the end of a cycle and beginning of new one. The Sun will never meet Pluto in Capricorn during our lifetimes again (unless, Pluto in Aquarius extends our lifespans to over 200 years).

Later today, the Sun will be moving into Aquarius and Pluto follows it tonight, letting the light fall onto the beginning of its digging into that area of our lives.

Aquarius as the least personal of all the air signs has to do with groups of people, with society and what is at the edges. It’s what comes beyond the wall, beyond the border and structure Capricorn build, beyond the Earth. It’s the world of SF and what could be, it’s both a revolutionary and new system creator, but it’s also technology.

It’s not the social dalliance of Libra with its picture perfect posts, nor is it Gemini’s witty twittering, but it’s the network and science behind that. Some previous Pluto in Aquarius cycles align with the invention of paper, the widespread use of gunpowder, invention of guns and canons, invention of printing press, or acceptance of Copernican theory and start of Scientific Revolution. Small simple things snowballing into avalanches.

Beyond scientific breakthroughs, Pluto in Aquarius brings information warfare and control, particularly from the ruling power side, because it also opposes Leo – the golden crown of the Sun, the central power around which everything else plays. Two cycles ago was the time between 1533 and 1553.

Up until the 1530s the Catholic Church was the only power that could have a say in what kings and queens had to do.

Up until the Protestant reformation, the royalty answered to the church, the central Sun was THE Son. But then Pluto entered Aquarius in ’33 and the same year we have Anne Boleyn crowned, while on the other side of the world Francisco Pizzaro and his conquistadors capture the Incan capital of Cusco and kill the last Sapa Inca Emperor, Atahualpa.

So we have concurrent themes of foreign technology being used to subdue an existing indigenous power structure, as well as an establishment of a new system.

By 1535 Henry is Head of the Church of England, and across the little water in Denmark, Christian III takes part in the Reformation and takes some of that sweet Catholic loot away.
In 1543 Copernicus theory is published, with a lot of Church backlash and censorship, but it does manage to spark off an entire new Revolution.

By the next cycle in 1778 to 1798 we have a whole lot of Revolutions going on, a bunch central powers being opposed. The American colonies, the French bourgeoisie, the topplers the contemporary crowns. Again the themes are replayed. History repeats itself in fractals.

And so now we are faced with a new cycle: a new Pluto in Aquarius. But with no new physical lands to colonize or civilize, instead with an overly globalized wannabe interdependent world.

The history of trade shows that there is not really one, but a series of competing imperial systems hungry for resources (fun fact, during one of the previous Pluto in Aquarius cycles technological espionage came in the form of Emperor Justinian smuggling silkworm eggs from China into the Byzantine Empire establishing European silk monopoly #truestory).

In 1945 USA offered their navy so everyone could go anywhere at anytime opening country markets, in exchange for absorbing any possible armed backlash from Russia. As Peter Zaihan puts it, more a purchase of alliance, a security for America than an economic step. But the clock is ticking on the US supremacy naval or otherwise, with the biggest ship manufacturers being in South Korea, and the biggest (certainly the best quality) part of the chip manufacturing being done in Taiwan. The US (as well as other countries) are aiming towards slowly ditching the supply chain off shoring.

Not only is the US going to go through an interesting transformation, but its ruling class is about to find their Pluto on Pluto opposition. The 1945 freetrade was established with Pluto in Leo, the same placement most of USA’s ruling class shares. That’s right, the Boomers are the loud and roaring Pluto in Leo generation (as is the most probable upcoming US president).

In the less loud and obnoxious corner of the world, a Pluto opposition has already begun, in the form of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark (who has a Pluto conjunction with the ruler of her Ascendant in Leo, no less) stepping down quietly so her son can take her place.

The takeaway from here is that, as always, the times they are a-changing, and as always transition periods will be hard. We are certainly at an interesting intersection in history, not only due to the Plutonic shift, but also due to what the upcoming confusion storm is going to bring.