Pluto is that energy that reveals the TRUTH, no matter how unconscious we might be of it. It digs up the dirt that has been hidden – hypocrisy, untruths, power plays, control issues, manipulations - and brings it into the Light so that we can see it and evolve. Pluto was in Capricorn in the birthchart of America, and it is returning now for its first visit since America's foundation. If WE do our work as an enlightened and informed citizenry, we can challenge the powers that be and finally establish the country that our founders imagined, if not established, in truth.
Now, back to the Capricorn New Moon. The seed-time of the lunar cycle, and of the year. Capricorn is ruled by Saturn, who has also gotten bad press through the years. Saturn is all about reality - form, structure, time and space. Saturn compresses and structures, while Jupiter expands and imagines. Jupiter is in Capricorn this year, so there will be reality to be faced, but we also have hope that better things are possible. These two planets provide balance in our social structures and responsibilities. When Jupiter is in Saturn's domain (Capricorn) Jupiter's playful, optimistic energy is more compressed and subdued, more focused, disciplined and practical. There's lots of common sense available as well as the ambition to get things done.
What are your ambitions? Do you need to make lots of money so you can become another consumer droid of American capitalism? Or are you ambitious to manifest your gifts and talents so you can promote the changes that are coming? Capricorn will ask you to choose: fit into the collective corporate and governmental structures or go your lonely way up the mountain to showcase your life's purpose. Just chose your mountain well! Even better, become an agent of change (which is very Aquarian!) and help bring down the old worn-out structures of society that need regeneration. How about a free media? Better stories anyone? What about government by the people, for the people and of the people? What about limiting corporate rights and privileges and giving people back their freedom? What about breaking the hold of oil on our lives and not just go Green, but help create it in your communities? There's lots to do but we'll have Pluto's power of regeneration at our backs. When used consciously, Pluto's power is a force for change and evolution. And since Pluto just spent the last year receiving new evolutionary instructions from the galactic center of the Milky Way Galaxy, it's ready to energize the changes we need to grow and flourish here on Earth.
At the moment, America is using its Pluto power in the worst, most unconsious ways imaginable. Pluto in Capricorn in the second house of resources in America's chart has given rise to the American culture of greed and entitlement, to our need to control all the resources in our world through our military might, to the manipulation of our free press, to the rise of corporations and much more. But Pluto was still undiscovered (and therefore unconscious) at the founding of America, so there's a much better chance that we can become conscious of its power and channel it in more constructive ways now that it's returning to its natal position in America's chart – and we know it's there.
But this is just the beginning – so perhaps we need to step back and slow down. New Moons are a perfect time to go within – a very wintry thing to do – and spend some time connecting to your Self – that part of you that is immortal and contains the Christ-seed. Listen to your dreams – write them down and take them seriously. Learn to interpret them, or if you're still confused about them, sign up for one of my dream teleclasses.
Dreams are the most important form of communication with the Self. They can help you grow towards your goals. They connect you to the larger Self that knows what it is you really need. And what the collective culture needs. I had a dream during the Pluto/Jupiter conjunction near the galactic center: I saw the constellation of the Pleiades shining in the daytime sky. The Pleiades is considered a very special constellation by many native traditions. It signifies a new dispensation - a new beginning. That baby floating in space.
So never doubt that your dreams contain vital information – even when they seem the most confused and scattered. You don't understand them because you never studied symbolic language. They make perfect sense to someone who does.
Our Capricorn New Moon asks us to get in step with our times and to birth new forms into physical manifestation. What do we all need to have a thriving society – or individual life? Right now, Capricorn's ruler, Saturn, is retrograde in Virgo forming a trine to Jupiter in Capricorn. The energy is there for us to be disciplined and focused. Why do we spend so much time worried about our physical well-being – like losing weight - when our mental, emotional and spiritual health is ignored? Saturn in Virgo wants us to pay attention to our whole Self – body, mind & spirit. Uranus in Pisces will be opposite Saturn in Virgo on November 4th (election day!), but it will be building up to the point all year where we will have to think outside the box. Why not start now?
Mars is still retrograding back through Gemini, still nearly opposite Pluto in the last degrees of Sagittarius. Are you still in a feisty mood? Watch your words – they can create backlash.
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