Pluto and Saturn in Capricorn - The Shadow of Power & Fear

Pluto and Saturn in Capricorn

Personal Empowerment by Conquering the Shadow

For your reference, Saturn entered Capricorn in 2017, and Pluto is there since 2008. Pluto is the Lord of Power, wealth, personal resources, regeneration, and human evolution. He impacts our personal life through ruthless challenges, crises, terrible suffering, disempowerment. He forces us to transmute, to refine our desires, to accept our spiritual power and become independent.

Pluto rules also the infinite creative energy of the cosmos, and the human creative sexual power in relationships, or sexual intercourse. It is often by merging with another human being that we experience the most transformative powers within. Then, we start the transformation of our own desires into the desires that benefit two or more people, the partner and the procreated children.

It is when we intimately relate to another person that we can see our shadow. The ego desire is threatened and we begin the power struggles necessary to learn the dimensions of our own power, accept it and use it properly. However, we often fail to achieve the complete process and lose the chance to evolve and empower ourselves. The shadow then shows in our need to control others. We manipulate, obsess, keep secrets, act compulsively, abuse power, or , scared of our own power, engage in self-undoing behaviour.

Then Pluto puts us face to face with powers greater than ourselves to challenge us, heal us and empower us. He creates traumatic crises, we enter in co dependent partnerships, we have an overpowering boss, we become unable to pay a mortgage, or become victim of a crime, or we develop an addiction, all of which can generate cruel and terrifying sufferings. In those situations we may feel the urge to transform our ego desires in a way that benefits all involved. If we succeed in the transmutation process that Pluto imposes, we learn the dimension of our power, we accept it and learn to use it, not only for personal benefit, but in a way that everybody benefits.

Saturn is the builder, organizer, agent of division and separation, discipline and maturation. With his strict, sometimes menacing treatment, he may manifest in the fear of not being able to comply with his requirements and 'adulting' demands. If authorities are tough on us, we may try to slip away to avoid responsibilities, or we may comply in fear. It is like having your father index finger pointed at you, 'do it or else!' However, we are greatly rewarded if we accept the discipline and learn the lesson.

Our shadow shows up as avoidance of taking responsibility or discipline, or eluding a required deep recognition and transformation of our weakness, shortcomings and faults.

At this stage, Pluto shows us how and why he became the Lord of all the Riches of the Earth, and we understand it.

What is your shadow?

What is your Pluto in Capricorn shadow? Here are some ideas according to your Rising Sign, and to some extent to your Sun Sign if you're older than 30:

CAPRICORN
You undermine yourself emotionally resisting your own power, doubting your own skills, or capacity to do what you want. Your partner, spouse or significant other in your life may manipulate you, be jealous, do things behind your back that infuriate you, so you discover your own power, and learn how to use it. Pluto and Saturn seem to weaken you so you find your own strength.
AQUARIUS
You may have to face your secret enemies, like addictions, shady dealings, unconscious psychological material, self undoing behaviour, family history 'baggage', past life unfinished business or skeletons in the closet that haunt you even in your dreams. Pluto and Saturn bring any of that to the surface so by resolving those issues you discover your power, and learn how to use it.
PISCES
In your social life, you may be facing friends, older relatives, or groups of people to which you belong that are trying to impose on you their ideas, refute your position, or obsessively persecute you for what you say or do. By reacting to those situations, you may discover your own creative power, and learn how to use it.
ARIES
You may have experienced power struggles with your boss because of your or his/her hidden motives. Also a father figure or external powerful force, like government authority, regulation or institution may be pushing your buttons. This way, Pluto incites the recognition and transformation of your own power to confront them and develop your own personal authority.
TAURUS
You have the opportunity to see raw and clear your faulty ethics. Some powerful spiritual teacher, or having access to eternal truths through higher studies, reading an inspirational book, or learning different lifestyles from people of other cultures creates an internal battle of ideologies. Pluto works slowly and runs deeply inside your consciousness to show you that real power lies on not letting your beliefs be in the way of accepting the truth, no matter how fearful you might be.
GEMINI
A profound crisis, traumatic events, financial misfortunes or criminal behaviour overpower you, and trigger your primal survival instincts. Also sharing financial resources with a partner or financial institution may disempower you so you can learn how to stand on your own feet. Sexual merging with your partner can also awake your fears of losing your own power. Pluto and Saturn present those situations to teach you how to conquer your fear and manage your own energies in relationships.
CANCER
Similar to Rising Capricorn because the opposition always involves relationships, through the manipulation, power struggles, obsessive compulsive and jealous behaviour of your life partner, you are forced to learn how to stand for yourself, defend your position and empower yourself. Pluto and Saturn present you with this person's behaviour to teach you how to conquer your fear to be you, and manage your own energies in relationships.
LEO
You may have an overpowering health issue, a challenging workplace or situation, or a daily schedule with which you have a hard time keeping up. Saturn and Pluto will scare you to death, literally, fear of death. You are forced to tap into your natural healing ability, or into your regenerating power, determination, and stamina to overcome the situation, or illness. This way you discover your own inner power to sustain your life and heal.
VIRGO
You may experience strong feelings and desire for someone who is not romantically available, feeling powerless in face of the impossible love. You may have a strong longing for a connection with your children that are separating from you for whatever reason, like in the empty nest syndrome. Outer forces may remove all possibility of enjoyment, or you may not be able to experience joy in your life. Saturn and Pluto make you fear loneliness so you learn to generate joy within your own soul.
LIBRA
You may be deprived of home and family life, which makes you fear for your safety, comfort and nurturance and feel abandoned. Pluto and Saturn gives you these experiences so you find those powers inside of yourself and learn how to provide security and wellbeing for yourself.
SCORPIO
Siblings, classmates, neighbors or just your immediate environment can present overwhelming influences that seem to crush your life force. Saturn and Pluto are trying to teach you that you don't need to surrender to what happens to you, and that you have the power to influence your environment and affect the lives of people with whom you relate every day.
SAGITTARIUS
Scarcity, personal financial instability, material deprivation, lack of life essentials to survive, and even hunger squeeze your life force energy to the point that you are compelled to work harder to be able to thrive. This way, Saturn and Pluto show you that you have the power within to stand up for yourself and be strongly independent.

Read more about the Great Conjunction in Capricorn HERE

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The Meaning of Chiron's Myth

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The Myth of Chiron

According to the Greek myth, the Titan Chronos was traveling the earth when, in the island of Thrace, he meets Philyra, daughter of Ocean and Thesis. When Chronos sees her, he desires her madly, so he begins to chase her through heaven, earth and sea in order to seduce her.

Philyra runs away from Chronos, and, tired of suffering his harassment, she asks Zeus to turn her into a mare so she can escape. When Chronos realizes the deception, he transforms himself into a horse and rapes it. After satisfying his desires, Chronos abandons her.

Tormented, Philyra flees to the heights of Mount Pelasgos, where she hid in a cave. When she goes into labor, the pains become very tortuous for her. She painfully gives birth to an immortal creature  half a man from the waist up, half horse from the waist down. The newborn is similar to a centaur.  Traditional Greek representations of Chiron show human front legs, rather than horse legs. Not only is he half human, but he's not a regular centaur either, since they have the entire lower body of a horse. When Philyra sees him, she is so horrified that she rejects him and abandons him. She asks Zeus to transform her into a tilia tree to avoid breastfeeding Chiron. Zeus consents to this and delivers Chiron's care to Apollo and Athens (who represent reason and logos).

So, Chiron grows on top of the tilia tree and is educated by Apollo and Athens. This way,  his personality also becomes distinct from the other centaurs because he grows to be wise and prudent, rather than violent and impulsive. Over the years, Chiron becomes an expert in mathematics, astrology, hunting, music, philosophy, in military strategies, in shamanism, and many other arts. For this reason, Zeus assigns him to be the teacher and mentor of great heroes such as Achilles, Hercules, Ulysses, Jason, and the very God of Medicine, Asclepius.

On one occasion Hercules, drunk by Dionysus's liquor, accidentally injures Chiron with an arrow poisoned  by the venom of Hydra, which, with just one drop could kill any living being. But Chiron, being immortal, does not die, and for that reason the arrow, once removed, left him a great wound in one of his legs that caused him a constant terrible pain. No matter how many healing methods he applied to it, he could never had this wound healed. Although this wound was painful, his deepest wound was having been rejected and abandoned by his parents.

Some time later on a trip, Chiron met a man tied to a stone, whose liver was devoured by an eagle  every day, and it would grow back at night. He was Prometheus, who had been punished by Zeus for stealing fire from the Gods and giving them to the humans. The torture could only end if someone came to accept to change places with Prometheus and die for him.

One version of the story tells that his agony is so extreme that Chiron, an immortal being, wishes to die. Heracles (Hercules) presents the solution to Chiron’s paradox, as Zeus allows Chiron to give his immortality to Heracles and die. Then, it is Heracles who frees Prometheus by killing Zeus’ eagle, thus releasing him from his bonds. Heracles is thus the pivot on which Prometheus’ return to the immortals and Chiron’s descent to mortality turns.

Another version -that, in fact, does not contradicts the previous one, says that Chiron saw Prometheus, he took pity on him, and decided to free him from such torture by giving up his immortality to save Prometheus. For this reason Chiron dies, and Zeus elevates him to the Heavens and creates with him the constellation of the Centaurs.

'Rainbow Bridge' Between Two Realms

Melanie Reinhart and Barbara Hand Clow define Chiron as the Rainbow Bridge between Uranus and Saturn, meaning the tangible and the spirit realms. This understanding comes from the symbolic meaning of Chiron's orbit between Saturn's and Uranus'. At some points, he approaches closely Uranus' orbit, others he crosses Saturn's orbit. Because of these incursions, Chiron symbolizes the awareness that opens up our grasp of the Spirit world (Uranus) with a grounded understanding of the material world (Saturn).

The particular wound of our existence (Saturn) is what wakes us up to the spiritual reality (Uranus). The wound we carry is directly tied to the fact that we are spiritual beings having this physical experience. Since most of our life we are unconscious or oblivious of our immortal life, Chiron is the one that rips the veil open, in a sense. As Rumi wrote "The wound is the place where the Light enters you". And so it is!

In order to receive a clear understanding (Uranus) of our Real Being beyond the matter, and merge with the non-physical Realm (Neptune), integrate our shadow side and end duality (Pluto), one needs to break the attachment and dependence (Chiron) on the physical Realm by mastering the material aspect of our being (Saturn). This is the process that Chiron triggers in order to link 'heaven' with 'earth'.

Embracing the 'Wound'

"And what is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, death is suffering; sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair are suffering; not to obtain what one wants is suffering; in short, the five aggregates affected by clinging are suffering." the Buddha, Mahahatthipadopama Sutta.

"Birth is suffering" 

Uranus represents the Heavens, our immortal home. Saturn glyph shows a cross with a curved 'hook' , representing the immortal soul taking the 'cross' of mortality and the bounds of the material plane.

When we arrive in our physical body, like Chiron, we are restricted by the rules of the physicality, we feel 'abandoned' and 'rejected', that we don't belong here, that our 'parents' disappeared, leaving us orphans on this Earth. We realize how imperfect we are. Human beings have always been looking up to the Heavens trying to understand "where do we come from?", "why are we here?". There is inside of us this inherent curiosity to seek something there; we instinctively feel connected without knowing exactly how. Our intuition tells us that there is something else to this absurd suffering.

It amazes me how important the step of incarnation is in Chiron’s archetype, that he travels the longest in the Sign of Pisces (7-8 years) and Aries (8 years), in contrast, for example, to 1.5 years in the Sign of Virgo. Pisces is the place of the ‘primordial soup’ from which everything springs out, the oceanic spiritual realm where all is One, the atomic black hole, and the place where everything dissolves in the end. Pisces is where we come from. Aries is the first impulse of life, the breath (prana) that initiates the incarnation.

Even though the essential part of us, the Infinite Creative Consciousness, is immortal, yet, we incarnate in order to learn, become conscious of who we are. Yet, we don't accept that. Chiron is the symbol of this human dilemma. Like him, we are half animal, half 'human' or spiritual being. Like him, we have to go through suffering this unfathomable painful condition, with a body that is always changing, ill, and malfunctioning, ever dying.  

It is not until we are ready to surrender, (give up immortality like he did), accept the lethal condition of being born, and death itself, that we can finally go back to the Heavens. Curiously, the way to do this is to help someone else become immortal! Voilà the paradox! A paradox too evident when we observe Chiron's work in our own life. We often project our wound onto another and we strive to help them heal.  When all the chironic work is done, like him, we can go back to the Cosmic Dust of the (figuratively) 'Centaurus Constellation' where all the other spiritual weird creatures live. That is the process of healing our suffering. 

The Buddha goes a step forward. He taught a way (the Eight Fold Path) to practice that would operate our liberation from repeated incarnations. He argues that it is our profound Desire to have this physical creative experience that brings us back. 

In Evolutionary Astrology, Pluto is the atomic energy of the Soul that generates this desire. It is the Black Hole whence everything comes to life and everything ends. Pluto placement in our birth chart shows what kind of desire was our motivation to come back. Are we able, like the Buddha, to control that impulse and stop incarnating? Are we free agents? Or is there an external force in control? Are we able to rip open the Veil of oblivion and see through that far? 

That is, in fact, matter of reflection, introspection, and ultimately belief. 

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