Saturn Pluto Conjunction
Saturn conjunct Pluto in Capricorn
We are privileged to be part of this generation that is experiencing this powerful transition, because last time that it happens, it was about 500 years ago. This conjunction is the most powerful influence we will have in our lifetime. Power structures, social conventions, power distribution and use will be forever transmuted. Humanity is entering a whole NEW ERA. Something we haven't seen in our lifetimes is gestating during 2019. The gestation culminates in January 2020 with a metamorphosis that will completely change the world we live in forever. There is nothing trivial about it. We are not able to elude, avoid, evade, or escape this 'atomic' force (Pluto) upon us. Everyone will be affected one way or another, depending on the place this conjunction falls in one's own chart, what natal planets it challenges (specifically with hard aspects). The effects of it are the experience of our human evolution as a collective entity.
Every time Saturn makes a conflictive contact with Pluto, power is challenged, restructured, reorganized, redistributed at a massive level. Be assured that even though the establishment may try to hold its grip, even more strongly, it will not prevail. There is a higher source of power at play here, from the Universe, from the Spiritual Realm, from the ‘global’ collective.
This power is combined with the Jupiter square Neptune, making their challenging dance, each strongly planted in their own ‘homes’ during the whole 2019 year. They represent our spiritual development, inspiration, vision of the future, the search of truth, our need to connect with something greater than Humanity. They are indicating our elevation to a higher level of evolution. We long for a 'better' world, that includes all forms of life living in harmony. We long for peace, for a society that recognizes and incorporates the Natural Law, that is ready to face truth at the extreme moment we feel at the edge of extinction. As a collective, we are ready to change, a change that implies a death and rebirth process (Pluto) and the creation of new structures (Saturn).
Let us go back to the last two times when Saturn and Pluto conjoined in Capricorn to ponder the historical events that it generated, and how they reshaped humanity and the world as it was known at those times.
Every time Saturn makes a conflictive contact with Pluto, power is challenged, restructured, reorganized, redistributed at a massive level. Be assured that even though the establishment may try to hold its grip, even more strongly, it will not prevail. There is a higher source of power at play here, from the Universe, from the Spiritual Realm, from the ‘global’ collective.
This power is combined with the Jupiter square Neptune, making their challenging dance, each strongly planted in their own ‘homes’ during the whole 2019 year. They represent our spiritual development, inspiration, vision of the future, the search of truth, our need to connect with something greater than Humanity. They are indicating our elevation to a higher level of evolution. We long for a 'better' world, that includes all forms of life living in harmony. We long for peace, for a society that recognizes and incorporates the Natural Law, that is ready to face truth at the extreme moment we feel at the edge of extinction. As a collective, we are ready to change, a change that implies a death and rebirth process (Pluto) and the creation of new structures (Saturn).
Let us go back to the last two times when Saturn and Pluto conjoined in Capricorn to ponder the historical events that it generated, and how they reshaped humanity and the world as it was known at those times.
December 29, 1284, Saturn and Pluto met at 26º Capricorn, with the North Node, opposite Uranus, trine Neptune! After the end of the Crusades there was an increase and reorganization of the religious powers in Europe. In a way, Europe brought back new knowledge from the East that broke the Dark Ages of Medieval Times, and slowly paved the way to the Renaissance. "Europe was on the verge of one of the most productive and creative periods in its entire history. Following this long period of darkness there came this tremendous explosion of cultural achievements" (Jim Masschaele). (2)
There was a search for higher knowledge, so they started building and creating Universities. They started the creation of new legal systems with jurisprudence and judicial Courts. There was a new burst of creativity not seen since the time of the Roman Empire. Kingdoms were consolidated. Europe started the monumental construction of the gothic cathedrals with elaborated art reminiscent of what they had seen in the East. This reaffirmed the religious zeal of Europe.
Politically, the Catholic Church consolidated its power with the religious unification of Eastern and Western Europe, thus creating a stronger cultural and religious European identity. This further the polarization between the Western and Eastern worlds known at the time (1). But this also promoted the fall of the Byzantine Empire at the hands of the Ottoman Empire.
"The entire structure of European society changed during the 12th and 13th centuries, and there was a time when this change was attributed largely to the Crusades. [...] There can be little doubt that the Crusades slowed the advance of Islamic power, although how much is an open question. At the very least, they bought Europe some much-needed time. Without centuries of Crusading effort, it is difficult to see how western Europe could have escaped conquest by Muslim armies, which had already captured the rest of the Mediterranean world." (3)
And, according to Wikipedia, in 1284 "The Republic of Venice begins coining the ducat, a gold coin that is to become the standard of European coinage, for the following 600 years." (6)
The next Saturn Pluto conjunction happened January 5, 1518, at 4º Capricorn with the South Node.
The ongoing travels to, exploration and ‘Conquest’ of the American Continent changed FOREVER the shape and concept of the world! 1518 was the year when Hernan Cortes decided to head to America.
"In 1518, dissatisfied with life as a landowner, administrator and politician, he set out on his expedition to the American mainland. [By 1522, he had conquered] the Aztecs, Cortés was appointed captain-general and governor of “New Spain” (Mexico)."(4)
Europeans argue that those 'savages' needed to be 'christianized', and they used that as the excuse for all the atrocities committed against peoples completely different, so much so that it was impossible for them not only to be able to communicate, but to understand each other.
Another significant change was started with Nicolaus Copernicus affirmation that the Earth was not the center of the Universe, but the Sun was the center and the planets orbit around it. This set Humanity in a completely different direction that pave the way to the Scientific and Industrial Revolution, and the transformation of human perception of the macro and micro cosmos.
Pluto is a power difficult to reckon with; it has a relentless grip. Pluto dissolves, liquifies, destroys, demolishes, in order to rebuild. Saturn is the one driving by handing the new foundation and structure needed to rebuild.
Other Challenging Aspects of Saturn and Pluto in other Signs.
More recently, you may remember dates like July 28, 1914, Saturn and Pluto conjunction in Cancer with the North Node in Pisces.
"A month after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, on July 28, 1914, the Austro-Hungarian government declares war on Serbia. Immediately, and within a period of six days, European countries declare war upon one another." (5)
By the end of August 1914, the whole world is at War, and the conjunction is exact at 1º ♋️. The whole European political landscape was reshaped, with changing frontiers and shifts of power holders.
September 1, 1939, Pluto in Leo square Saturn in Taurus, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. After this war, there is new power dynamics not only in Europe, but around the world. The participating countries have made alliances that redistributed the balance of powers.
August 28, 1947, Pluto and Saturn meet in Leo, there is a trigger event that starts a Civil War in Palestine at the time. A year later, following the occupation of the territory by the Jews, the British had left, and Palestinians start their Exodus. This event marks another redistribution of powers and political realignments around the world.
September 11, 2001. Pluto in Gemini opposite Saturn in Sagittarius. Not much is needed to explain to my contemporaries how this event changed our whole world forever. There has been a religious polarization, political alliances aimed to protect and defend security. The exacerbation of xenophobic sentiment expresses the grip of fear. Since then, human beings are now led by the power of fear of death and extinction (Pluto).
Religious powers drove and were actively involved in most of those events. You can take a look at the power dynamics in each of them, and get an idea of the repeating theme. We are certainly approaching some kind of redistribution and reorganization of powers affecting the whole world. Let us brace ourselves.
In our personal life, we are learning how to harness power, and how to exert it in a more balanced way. Examine your own Birth Chart or order a reading, but, by now, it should be evident to you what is the area of your personal life that needs a restructure of power.
Every time Saturn Pluto conjunct in Capricorn there is a global redistribution of power, but not without conflicts. Read my whole series about this important multiple conjunction in Capricorn on January 12, 2020, and how it is the door to a New Era, starting HERE.
My Spiritual Perspective
Does Humanity need another bloody conflict to learn to live in peace?
Are we ready to learn to live in peace, first with self and then with others?
Let us temper our will, decrease our desire to have and conquer things we don't need to be happy.
Let us learn to manage our own power. Real power comes from humility, meekness and love.
I believe that mutual understanding and non-violence is possible. It is just a matter of decision.
It may just start with not hating, not judging, not condemning, not abusing, not sabotaging ourselves and others.
Please, please, please reflect, meditate, ponder the possibility of PEACE.
Imagine
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace, you
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people sharing all the world, you
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will be as one
References
(1) Consequences and Effects of the Crusades
(2) History.com Effects of the Crusades
(3) Encyclopedia Britannica The results of the Crusades
(4) Cortes and Moctezuma: the Conquest of Tenochtitlan
(5) Declaration of WWI
(6) Wikipedia on 1284
