PLUTO IN CAPRICORN - RADICAL CHANGE IN GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS
Offered for the days post-full-moon valued as an important interval for assimilation:
By coincidence in the current Earth-Sun cycle, only seven hours after the start of Mercury's passage through Tropical Capricorn and only two hours after today's Full Moon, Mercury arrives at conjunction with Pluto by longitude.
Pluto was in Capricorn earlier in 2008, then retrograded into Sagittarius for a few months. Pluto resumed prograde motion in September. The "permanent" advance again into Capricorn occurred in late November.
Society's largest, mission-critical institutions come into consideration in the Capricorn Archetype. Astrological Pluto in Capricorn brings healing and rejuvenation to the large structural institutions in the form of an imperative to regenerate, transform, renew, give higher priorities to trans-personal objectives. Now Group Earth society steps bravely from talk into action on a path with a heart.
The voice of We the People resounds, as on September 29 effecting a 777.68-point DOW drop--close to 7777. Refer to the recent, massively vivified "spread the wealth" meme.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7NrKDJO1CM
The message that has been familiar in alternative circles on the Web for far too long is actually getting voiced in mainstream media in some of the same parlance familiar on the internet, as Mercury conjuncts Pluto in the first degree of Capricorn at today's Full Moon.
In the traditional Zodiac Wheel with Aries on the left or East side of the Horizontal Axis, Capricorn marks the top of the Vertical Axis. Called the "Mid-Heaven", the Vertical Axis and Capricorn symbolically point to the "Vertical Relationship", signifying "connection with the center". From the October 28 post starting this thread:
: Apparently, Life now asks Earth Humanity to realize that the
: ultimate assurance of stability and continuity rests upon
: we the people, the network of relationships.
When the Capricorn Archetype is prominent, culture-building and large structures come to the forefront. Present in Tropical Capricorn in late December 2008: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Pluto. Numerous transits by conjunction with Pluto @ 1 Capricorn promise that this coming solstice will be pivotal in highly memorable detail. Things may even register in the moment in the mass mind as a mythic transformation or epochal change-point. The term initiatory also works here.
Neil Michelsen lists only ten instances since the year 1700 when 7 of the major bodies in the solar system were clustered within 20 degrees of arc. Two of these occurred in Capricorn: February 1962 and January 1964. Pluto was not a participant in either instance. Michelsen lists 1,562 clusters of 5 or more within 20 degrees, for a rough average of 130 clusters for each Sign since 1700. Clusters occur almost every year. Pluto hasn't participated in a Capricorn Cluster since the 18th century. This one occurs when Pluto is in 1 Capricorn:
AN INDIAN CHIEF CLAIMS POWER FROM THE ASSEMBLED TRIBE
Who occupies the seats of power and their conduct and effectiveness gets the spotlight seven years after the mass-dramatization: "Pillars of a Paradigm have fallen." (911) Now the change of crew plays out, and Pluto serves up scandals that galvanize mass thought.
As a Keyword for 1 Capricorn, Rudhyar gives AUTHORITY. Laser-like focus of mass attention on blurred lines of accountability directs intense energy on "representatives in the hot seat" at the nexus of the cultural issue of "vested authority". Pluto assures that secret, unethical, anti-transpersonal agendas will continue to surface during the last days of the calendar year.
It is interesting to note conjunctions with Pluto (excluding the Moon) since the 12 December 2007 conjunction of Jupiter with Pluto:
Venus, 23 January 2008 in 29+ Sagittarius
Venus, 12 November 2008 in 29+ Sagittarius
Coming along today:
Mercury, 12 December 2008 (1:42pm EST today) in 0+ Capricorn
Conjunctions coming along right after solstice:
Sun, 22 December 2008 (4:23am, 22 hours after solstice) in 0+ Capricorn
Mars, 28 December 2008 (3:01pm) in 1+ Capricorn
: December 27th brings the New Moon in 7 (6+) Capricorn. In
: another two days Mars moves through Pluto's longitude in 2
: (1+) Capricorn, with Moon still in Capricorn.
During January the emphasis shifts from Capricorn to Aquarius. Watch for miraculously coincidental communications from Intelligent Universe to Earth Humanity, culminating around February 14, 2009.
By mid-February we'll sense a transition from emergency to emergence.
-tms