Pluto in Aquarius; Innovation, technology and power to the people!

 

Pluto rules the collective and it changes signs on March 23, and enters Aquarius for the first time since 1798. Expect to see at least as much innovation as we did during the Industrial age, leaps in technology, and aircraft as well as medicine, and geo-political changes that lead to more power to the people. Of course, none of this will happen overnight. 

Pluto takes more than 250 years to go through the entire zodiac so this is one of the most significant astrological changes of the year and the decade.

Pluto tends to inch into a new sign for a few months before it moves into the sign for good. This year Pluto will be in Aquarius from March 23-June 11, when it will return to Capricorn for the rest of 2023.During 2023- 2024 it will move from Aquarius back to Capricorn on the dates that follow;

-January 21-September 2, 2024

-November 19, 2024-January 2044

The 0 degree of any planet is known as the ‘world point,’ meaning events occur that we are interested in on a personal as well as global basis. Pluto will only be in Aquarius for three months this year but this will give us a taste of what’s to come for the next 2 decades.

The role of Pluto

In astrology, Pluto rules the collective and is very significant in terms of world events and changes, although it is also significant for us on a personal level depending on what it is aspecting in your personal chart.

Pluto destroys and tears down to rebuild. It is supposed to rebuild in a stronger way, although it may not seem like this at the time if you are experiencing a hard Pluto transit in your chart. When a Pluto aspect occurs-positive or negative-it is going to change something, ready or not. It is always an important time in the world when Pluto enters a new sign. For example when Pluto entered Capricorn January of 2008, it was followed by the US bank crisis, the harbinger of what was called ‘The Great recession.”

When Pluto entered Sagittarius in early 1995, we saw the Oklahoma City bombing just a few months later, along with the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and an end to US President Bill Clinton’s efforts to bring about peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

When Pluto entered Scorpio November 6, 1983 a bomb exploded the next day in the Senate Wing of the Capitol, apparently in retaliation of the US’s invasion of Grenada. 1983-84 also saw the rise of AIDS deaths in the US and around the world.

Aquarius is the sign of the collective and the natural ruler of the 11^th house which also rules the collective. On an individual level we may be drawn to certain groups, organizations or philosophies that become important. The downside of this is that we can become too attached to our own ‘groups’ and ideas and fail to acknowledge that others can have good ideas as well, whether in a political or some other sense.

Since Aquarius is co-ruled by Uranus technologies will certainly boom, and we can already see the beginning of this with AI. Personally, I think this represents the future along with many ideas we may not even be able to conceive of at the present. 20 years before the internet boomed few individuals could foresee that it would change the world and society as we know it.

While Aquarius is a sign associated with war, it is also the most Democratic of signs. While Pluto in Capricorn has been about big business, patriarchy and plutocrats, Aquarius will be the opposite in the long run. While we have seen the rise of right wing extremism around the world, we will see the rise of the people and the desires of the majority as opposed to being governed by the few or a minority. None of this will happen overnight however, and it is important to remember that Rome wasn’t built in a day and the problems of the world won’t be all solved with this transit of Pluto. We are constantly a work in progress.

 While the true ‘Age of Aquarius’ timeline is somewhat elusive and mysterious, with the entrance of Pluto into Aquarius we will certainly feel this is the the “Age of Aquarius,” and will be influenced by Aquarian themes such as;

-unexpected and explosive events

-new discoveries and understandings

-new technologies such as AI, but many more along with medicine

-uprisings around the globe associated with restrictions on people

-aircraft/spacecraft and new technologies

-stronger friendships with a greater emphasis on friends

-a desire for freedom from oppressive governments

Some of the events that occurred when Pluto was in Aquarius 1777-1798

- Vermont became the first colony to ban slavery (1777) and the Vermont legislature moved to provide full voting rights to African American men.

--The American Revolution was being fought

-France entered the Revolutionary War

-The French Revolution occurred

-US drafts the dollar

-George Washington became first US President

-US Constitution drafted and signed

What Pluto does in your life, depends on where it falls in your chart. Those who will be affected to a greater degree at this time will have the Sun or other personal planets at 0-1 degrees of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius.

Pluto represents evolutionary change in the world and our personal lives and charts. When Pluto enters a new house in your chart, the change to that sector of your chart, or part of life it governs will be slow. By the end of the transit you will see marked changes in your life.

By time Pluto finishes its first 3 month cycle in the sign of Aquarius in mid-June, we will have a far better idea of what we can expect as Pluto transits the sign that rules the collective for the next 20 years.