News Items for Pluto’s Current Retro into Sagittarius

Marriage redefined in California…more financial industry dirt coming to the surface…high food and gas prices forcing lifestyle changes…

Each of these news items relates to Pluto’s January entrance in Capricorn: The underlying structures of our world, policies and lives come to light. Pluto when it enters a new sign stirs up a flurry of issues related to that sign, and the issues being kicked up now have to do with the current structure of our society.

And in case you’re wondering: No, it couldn’t be any less noisy or significant. Pluto’s directive is to turn over existing soil to find out what’s underneath. How do our banks and monetary & stock markets work? What should be the definition of marriage and (more importantly) who gets to decide it? How does our goods-to-consumer infrastructure, designed for something like $12-15 per barrel for oil hold up when oil selling at ten times that price?

So, that’s the Cap business. Last week Pluto retroed into Sagittarius, the previous sign, where it hung out from 1995 to early 2008. Sagittarius relates to putting an intuitive finger on what might be true, and in the natural zodiac is followed by Capricorn, which aims to bring into manifestation whatever is perceived to be true (for more on this, see my other “Pluto in Capricorn” posts here).

When anything retrogrades from Capricorn to Sagittarius, it’s time to revisit the beliefs we’ve been fashioning during the Capricorn time relative to the planet retrograding. As an example, take the marriage business in California. Two questions come to mind to go with this transit, ones we would serve ourselves well by being open to asking:

Is a belief that society is held together by defining marriage as a man-woman thing more important than the fact that people are people, that we all love and want to spend our lives with someone we love? Is the truth of who we are less important how this word has been defined? 

There’s a dose of reality waiting for us in each of the three situations mentioned above, of which we’ve gotten a taste since Pluto entered Capricorn in January. Will we choose to examine our beliefs from now to late November, when Pluto re-enters Capricorn until 2024? Or will we blow our tops because we don’t want to change, and don’t even want to know where we could change?

Pluto’s questions as it transits are about addressing what doesn’t work, what isn’t serving us anymore, what’s outdated that we’re clinging to, and how we can be more truthful about who we and what we want.  It wants to know what’s hiding under the surface that might be a truer reflection of who we really are. Being willing to look into ourselves and at our beliefs during this period brings the opportunity to empower ourselves by choosing to change, instead of feeling it forced on us with no way out, the feeling that most of us experience with Pluto transits - it doesn’t have to be that way.

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June 20, 2008 By Tom Jacobs