• PLUTO ENDS HIS RETROGRADE PERIOD ON OCTOBER 6 2021

  • PLUTO ENDS HIS RETROGRADE PERIOD

    ….the soul-searching is over, time to transform!

    Only hours after the New Moon in Libra on the 6th of October Pluto will station direct at 24°18’ Capricorn (antiscion 5° 42’ Sagittarius) after just over 5 months of being retrograde. Pluto is also parallel Venus, dispositor of the aforesaid New Moon.

    Pluto is the first of four planets to turn direct during this month of October.

    Persons with planets or angles between 20-28° of the Cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn) will be most affected by this station.

    Pluto is concerned with power, regeneration, survival, transformation, sex, obsession and possessiveness. Pluto is the god of the Underworld. Pluto in Capricorn (ruled by Saturn) is concerned with the deep-reaching transformation of social order, laws and hierarchies. He often works subtly (in our psyche) but always relentlessly and he can be an over-achiever, by using his power and persuasion for his own means, in this Saturn-ruled sign.

    During the Pluto retrograde period, matters that were previously too painful to face may have bubbled up from our unconsciousness and we may have met these in the physical realm where we were forced to deal with them. Pluto only forces us to confront and transform that which is in dire need of change. This period may also have provided us with the opportunity to find some of the latent sources of power inside ourselves allowing us to harness them in an appropriate way. Pluto shows us the reality of our limitations and even more so since it moved into Capricorn. The retrograde period has really been a huge invitation to become more fully aware of the resources we hide in our inner depths. Failure to do this could have led to external events that may have puzzled and/or distressed us as we took on the role of victim.

    On a personal level, as well as the houses where Pluto and Mars are transiting in your chart you should also look to the houses which are ruled by Mars and Pluto (Aries and Scorpio) and the relative planets or angles.

    The Sabian symbol for 25° Capricorn. “A store filled with precious oriental rugs.” Indicating the use of cultural and artistic processes as a means to enhance personal comfort and appreciation.

    For the antiscion at 6° Sagittarius: “A game of cricket.” Indicating the development of skill in group-situations testing collective goals.

    “When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But she had wings.” Dean Jackson

    Bibliography

    Rudhyar D. (1974) “An Astrological Mandala: the cycles of transformations and its 360 symbolic phases”. pp  213-244, Vintage Books Edition, Random House Inc., New York, USA

    Tierney B. (1983) “Dynamics of Aspect Analysis”, Chapter 10, Retrograde Planets, pp 216-217, 249-252, CRCA Publications, Sebastopol, CA, USA

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