Pluto into Capricorn: The Will to Authority, part I
There isn’t a person alive who hasn’t been shaped by authority structures related to Saturn/Capricorn. This energy is that of the normalization of groups and the coherence of all systems: filial, social, educational, governmental. And anyone alive who’s paying attention to the energy of the present moment will notice with the ingress, if they haven’t already with the hinting at major Capricornian shifts that Jupiter’s recent ingress offered, that something important is happening.
An evolutionary astrology e-mail list I’m on received a note today from a member asking about source referrals for understanding the collective impact that Pluto’s ingress into Capricorn will have. She ends the e-mail by saying that it feels like quite a shift and she’s drawn to do some research.
Of course she’s drawn to do some research! The energy of Capricorn is that of authority - gaining, becoming and holding authority.
Natally, Saturn for anyone represents the urge to develop and be an authority, for mastery in order to, in the long run, develop security. Along the way, we adopt other people’s ideas of what authority is until those ideas clearly don’t work for us. Even without a natal retrograde Saturn, there comes a time for most people when they must develop their own ideas of what authority, discipline, sacrifice and hard work mean.
The first Saturn return (around age 29 1/2) is the pre-wired opportunity, the most convenient time for this. Earlier than that there isn’t sufficient experience to tackle this maturation (Saturn hasn’t made a full circuit around the birth chart until around 29 1/2, and so hasn’t made all possible aspects to natal bodies and points), and much later than that we lose the Saturnian understanding that the return offers the opportunity to capitalize on (though following through on the lessons made apparent by the return can take a few years and/or be ongoing).
But regardless of your age (where you are in your Saturn cycle) at this point, if you’re paying attention to how things in the air feel, Pluto into Capricorn will stimulate your own urge to develop authority. You’re going to want to do some homework and answer some questions for yourself. But it’s not just that you might start to get all Saturn on yourself. It’s that getting more Saturnian will likely feel of great import - we’re talking about Pluto here, after all.
(To be continued.)
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January 7, 2008 By Tom Jacobs
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:57 pm
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