The Collective Reformation
Pluto dips feet in Aquarius from March 23, 2023 until June 11, 2023, only on 0º. Back in Capricorn to finish business there, Pluto may cut the last chords that still keep the archaic patriarchal feudalism in place. Then comes back to Aquarius from January 22, 2024 until September 2024 when he travels up to 2º. However, he is not done with the Capricornian demolition, reason why returns until November 20, 2024, when he finally enters Aquarius to stay for more than 20 years.
Mars long transit in Gemini is preparing the mind, intellectual activity, and social dynamics needed for a new kind of liberation movement, and the freedom of ideas. In Gemini, the sign of 'mirroring', Mars divides and creates conflicts based on opposing ideas and information. He could create especially disturbing battles when in square with Neptune, due to the illusory nature of the ideas confronted, namely fake data and conspiracy theories. At this stage, people prepare to join their preferred ideological tribe.
Another precursor is Saturn in Aquarius, trying to strongly hold onto rules, set boundaries and create structures in the air spaces of society and social connections that have been severely challenged by Uranus in Taurus. Futile! Saturn will soon be exiled in Pisces.
With Pluto in Aquarius, society will undergo a powerful reformation. During his transit in the first decan (Uranus), Pluto regenerates the collective consciousness. In the second decan (Mercury), it will be the turn to regenerate the mind, its perception of reality and how people make connections. In the third decan (Venus) Pluto will re-create the social and personal relationships as well as the social values. During the first 7 to 8 years, Pluto will pass through the crucible the use of freedom, the civil rights, human reason and intellectual activity, science and technology, the light industry, all systems and networks, financial markets, legislation, and the social development for the future. All their impurities will be extirpated.
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| This is Great! In 2024, Pluto enters together with the Sun and Moon in trine! |
Freedom & Independence Movements
With Pluto in Aquarius, the collective consciousness is regenerated. People have been struggling to get free from the oligarchic establishment that has seized all power, control and wealth standing on top of the masses (Pluto straddling between Aquarius and Capricorn for three years). Taken to the extreme, the system implodes on itself, because the crushed masses becoming ever so weaker, no longer can support the top. Around the world, the system has reached such an extreme that the masses are dying of starvation and disease without any efficient attempted solution. Some sectors of society even think that the process is intentional, and others wonder if human cynicism is possible to such extreme. However, history is full of examples that don't leave any doubt about it. The seeds of rebellion and the hunger for freedom are planted and germinating.
Yet, like the rats that leave the ship ready to sink, the elite now send missions to the Moon to establish bases on its surface and explore possibilities of living there, while the problems on Earth stay unresolved. Alas, human stupidity!
Pluto can bring to light the dangers of extreme desire for liberation from restrictions. Is it possible to have complete freedom in society to do as they please? In order for this to be possible, one's rights should end where other's begin, right? This way everybody can have the same freedom. Otherwise, it would be debauchery. Some would obviously step over the rights of others to do whatever they want. Thus, Uranus promotes independence and liberation from limitations, Saturn regulates and creates boundaries of contention to be able to enjoy that freedom.
Last time Pluto was in Aquarius in 1778-1798, people broke the chains of oligarchic oppression. A liberation movement took the whole world taking arms in order to defeat the enemies of freedom. "Aux armes, citoyens" - sang the French revolutionaries, and later on bloody heads rolled down the streets of Paris, during the period known in history as "the reign of terror". The shadow side of Pluto recreated the imbalance in the power interplay of the Leo Aquarius polarity.
The Leo Aquarius axis is the polarity of authority: individual authority in center stage, and the authority of the community. Pluto in Aquarius is associated with the shadow of power of the masses. Last time Pluto was in Aquarius, the plebeians (Aquarius) raised against the nobility (Leo). As a corollary, the independence movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries was the origin of another political feature: the polarization of unitarian (centralized government-Leo) and federal (grouping of autonomous provinces or states-Aquarius) governments.
Nowadays, social media may become the tool for the next independence revolutions. Networking allows people to develop powerful social connections, promote humanitarian ideologies, freedom ideals, and other mutual collaborations to protect human rights, and the rights of other life forms. However, since Pluto brings to light society's 'shadow', online criminal activity may also thrive as an extreme expression of it. Thus, the interest of the elites of power and political institutions to keep the social media under their control.
Transformation of Human Rights
Intellectual Innovations
At the root of the independence movements of the 18th century was the resurgence of reason as opposed to religious dogma. Philosophers like Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Montesquieu, and writers like Thomas Paine, Kant, and others had set their intellectual foundation on reason, and the ability of every citizen to think on their own, apart from the religious doctrine.
Pluto in Aquarius stimulates research and investigation of reality based on the scientific method. Myriad of inventions saw the light of day due to the free and deeper use of the mind. It was the cradle of the industrial revolution that came later on to implement and bring to physical existence those innovations.
The shadow side of it was that such philosophy disregards the effects of industrialization on Nature and our Planet Earth. Those who got first to the resources and hold now the power over them think to be the owners of the planet, and the rest of us the vassals who have to pay 'tribute' to be able to use the resources. Some industries even got to the extreme of patenting some natural products that should only belong to Mother Earth, so only those who have the money to pay for them have the right to use them. Shouldn't the planet Earth belong to all life on it? Does she belong to anybody? With the same token, who is the owner of the Universe?
Taking the philosophy of reason to the extreme, and ignoring other aspects of Life has demonstrated to be devastating for human very existence. This time around with Pluto in Aquarius, we have to be careful about what intellectual ideas govern the so called 'progress', and 'economic development'. Human beings need to understand that Earth is finite, it can only give to a certain level, and we need to give her time to recover from the exploitation. At this point she has all the signs of exhaustion. If she doesn't recover, we will go down with her.
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| Third and last ingress in Aquarius |
High Technology
At this point, industries seem to be guided by the belief that technology can 'enhance' human 'intelligence', even though the results have demonstrated the contrary. With Pluto in Aquarius the time may come to challenge the mind even more. A profound transmutation of the AI industry, like robotization, automatization of tasks, brain implants, and increase digitalization of reality are regarded as 'progressive' and even desirable. In this way, Pluto ingress in Aquarius is in charge of making the physical reality lighter, which is in fact what the Air Age (Saturn Jupiter conjunctions in Air Signs) is all about.
As Aleksandar Imsiragic pointed out in an ISAR webinar 1, since the recognition of Sofia AI as a Saudi Arabian citizen, Robotics stepped up to center stage in the Air Age. As you see in her 'birth' certificate chart, the 0º ♒️ becomes prominent with Mercury (the robot's mind) there in the 9th house of higher knowledge and near the MC. Pluto standing at 0º ♒️ for many months, as indicated above in the article's introduction, will certainly trigger an increase and higher development of robotics.
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Other 'Air' developments will accelerate the transmutation of industry, namely, flying vehicles for local human transportation (decan of Gemini), the virtualization of most services, including banking, and even lighter communication devices. Many jobs will be automatic and independent from human handling, which, in fact, could hurt certain levels of the labor market. Libraries, medical care, pharmacy, banking, and travel are some examples of places and services that could become almost completely digitized.
As a consequence, society will feel dehumanized, cut off from the other components of what human life has been known for, namely the spiritual, psychological and emotional ones. Keep in mind that Pluto symbolizes control by a certain power. All those aspects of human life may fall under a certain 'social' control. Suppose that a self driven vehicle causes an accident, the human being is now in the background, victim of the machine, possibly unable to be heard. Moreover, scientists are studying already the cloning of beings as source of 'parts and pieces' for transplant, without existent regulation, and with complete disregard of life wholeness.
There are even projects to 'enhance' the human experience through AI technology installed in the body with unknown and unproven consequences. After the great tech experiments the entire Humanity has gone through (i.e. mobile phone, 5G, internet, vaccines, MRI, genetic modification, video games) those in power already know that there is a way (fear/panic) to have everybody subscribe to 'innovations' implemented in haste, even if they have not been sufficiently studied and appropriately proven safe.
Therefore, the very human condition, or what is considered to be a human, is at stake (Chiron in Aries).
The Internet & Communications
Internet as a communication device/medium becomes even more powerful one way or another as Pluto enters Aquarius. As it happened with TV, Internet could be also used to further manipulate and brainwash minds. It has already started 'in crescendo' since the Saturn Jupiter conjunction at 0º♒️, but Pluto injects a dose of dominating force into it.
Virtualization and digitization of reality increases our distancing from the natural law, creating an alien reality. A parallel Internet could run on the background/underground creating the alternative reality of deeper secrets, criminal operations, black markets, subversive plans and activities, human trafficking, drug dealing, pornography, parallel currencies, etc. Among the subversive activities, there is also a great risk of cyberwar with extremely powerful hackings, especially directed to networks and electronic systems that manage utilities.
In order to face those challenges, governmental institutions will create stricter regulatory devices to avoid, protect against, and eliminate the online corruption. This translate into more surveillance and control of every day communications and information traffic.
During the first decade of Pluto in Aquarius, telecommunication corporations will increase their power, influence, price, and space pollution. The increase in satellite population rotating around the Earth could have an impact on climate (air and atmosphere) with consequences not been considered or intentionally overlooked.
Pluto in Aquarius will show us the toxicity of Internet, and its consequences over human health.
The Air & the Climate
Pluto is the planet of extremes, and Aquarius rules the air, the atmosphere. We can expect extreme winds, extreme temperatures, that can either go extremely cold or extremely hot or both. Both winter and summer are already becoming extreme, giving way to more extended fires and droughts, with the consequence over food production and supply. Another consequence will be the mass migrations of people looking for a more hospitable place to live.
Pluto is also the Lord of extreme magnification, that could also go both ways, magnification of big, or magnification of small. This could mean an increase in air pollution, having more toxic microscopic particles floating in the air, due to volcano eruptions, dust winds as well as biological/microbial pollution created by the individuals or animal life.
Pluto reminds me of the underlying theme of Alice in Wonderland of changing size and transforming perspectives. As Pluto does, Alice makes herself magically smaller, tiny, or tall at the whim of certain elements or magic tricks. Pluto could also remind of the effect of a gallery of mirrors that distort the images they reflect. Pluto can consume big things into their essence like in decomposing organic matter into basic elements, as well as blowing small things out of proportion like with the atomic bomb. And, in fact, Pluto is associated with both composting and the atomic power.
Hopefully, human beings understand the effect of their behavior on the transmutation of the Earth elements, and decide to change a few assumptions, like taking Nature for granted.
Side Note - Some Effects of the French Revolution 1789-1799
Pluto was last in Aquarius 1778-1798
As shown in the chart of the iconic Bastille day, Pluto in Aquarius was also square the Nodal Axis in Taurus and Scorpio as will be this time around. The difference is that he was opposite Uranus in Leo, but now, it will trine Uranus in Gemini during the course of its transit in Aquarius. The liberation movement will probably be smoother this time.
To refresh the memory, the development of the French Revolution resulted in the following issues.
Social chaos, clash of classes, collective killing of the social group in power, demolition of institutions, abolition of church tithes, confiscation of church properties, system of charity funding was not replaced, disruption of social support networks, increase of taxes and rent, disruption of all financial and educational systems, fall of agricultural and industrial production, persecution of speculators & traders of the black market, increased deficit, upheavals in systems and networks, end of feudalism, introduction of the notion of nation, disruption of supply chains system, social reforms, change of inheritance rules, increase of small social enterprise, rise of the middle class, creation of small independent farms, removed financial burdens to farmers, ended privileges and monopolies, favored political ideologies, introduction of the rights of humans and citizens. 2
These issues clearly reflect the themes associated with the Fixed Signs Grand Cross lead by the Nodal Axis (see chart above).
Hopefully, Humanity will be smarter and brighter with Pluto in Aquarius.
REFERENCES
2- Wikipédia in French, La Révolution Française
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