Revolutionizing Destiny: Pluto and the Sun Converge in Aquarius on Jan 20th
weirdos unite; what it means for you, our destiny, and the world; PART 1
On Saturday Jan 20th, Pluto and the Sun will ingress into Aquarius or for non-astrologers that means both the planet Pluto and our star will align with the constellation Aquarius. Pluto is our slowest moving planet - changing signs approximately every 20 years. If we are lucky we will see Pluto ingress 4 times in our lifetime. Pluto will shift into Aquarius on Jan 20th/21st but not for all of 2024. Before making it’s full venture it’ll retrograde back into Capricorn from May 2nd-November 19th. After-which Pluto will track through all 30 degrees of Aquarius uninterrupted.
Okay, but what does any of that mean? Well, if you don’t meaning make from astrological shifts and changes than it simply means Pluto is in a different place in space than it was the last twenty years. Cool, right?
But if you do find meaning, importance, or support in learning about astrology then here’s what it means…
Pluto represents all that is hidden. Named after the god of death, rebirth, and power, Pluto is like a siphon wand waving its’ magnetic pull across our home planet pulling up our secrets, our motivations, our manipulations, our hidden agendas, systemic oppression, and everyone with a nasty dose of egoic will comes out to play on the world stage. Pluto is a generational planet - meaning lots of people, millions of people - are born under the influence of a Pluto’s placement. I was born under Scorpio’s influence as was everyone born 1984-1995 (a short 11 year stint compared to the 19 year Aquarian deployment up ahead due to Pluto’s irregular orbit). Generational planets create the longest and most intensive effects because they station in a sign for decades.
Pluto’s natural placement is with Scorpio whose whole purpose is to make us tender. You’ll see a lot of astrologers (and news outlets cashing in on astrology lovers) attempting to pin Pluto down into dramatic unfolding. Pluto brings about transformation through intense experiences. Those experiences are not Plutonian; the after effects are. Ultimately, Pluto is asking the question whose really in charge here?
Expectations around Pluto moving into Aquarius are high. Perhaps it’ll help to levy the cash flow between billionaires and the poor, or bring about an end to late stage capitalism, or cure cancer, open space race 2.0, or break the internet. The hope for Aquarius lies in its’ air elemental. Air signs are affiliated with communication, technology, and the “winds of change.” Within that embedded hope is the subtext that Capricorn Pluto is to blame for the problems of today. In our current astrology environment we like to assign problematic behaviors, mental health issues, or psychological issues to certain signs or to certain planetary placements. Habitually looking at outside influences for why things are the way they are rather than taking responsibility. But astrology doesn’t create blame or point fingers or even find fault.
Instead astrology represents nature; like a daffodil poking her buds through the snow in March, Pluto in Capricorn held as much hope for humanity as Pluto in Aquarius does. The issue was and is — that like a plant the fullest and healthiest expression of ourself can only happen when the ecological profile of where we live is thriving. If not, then we will likely suffer. Capricorn is an earth sign - it holds within it the highest expression possible for change. Earthquakes, mountains, wind, oceans, islands, the difference of small change over long periods of time. We held within these last couple decades to make small changes that would have a big impact. Some people exalted in this - other’s tried to steal quietly the remaining power or riches they could. Blossoming under the wake of humanity’s long ignored climate crisis, over-consumption, war-torn, racist, sexist, over-developed, poverty stricken landscape the hope that lay in Capricorn was mostly unavailable as we in our ego-centric culture could only muster up the expression of, “but I have nothing, I can do nothing…”
“Believing you are good is like believing in the half moon.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Waking Up at Rembrandt's
We are not bad people but we are capable of everything. We are not good people but we are capable of so much. Astrology and nature remind us that none of this is our fault but it is our responsibility. Aquarius in its soul craft is a freedom fighter, liberator, and big visionary. However, like Capricorn it is coming up inside an environment that has few soul-expressed humans to midwife it. Aquarius energy likes to take an eagle eye perspective and thus may be more adaptable than low and slow Capricorn. Pluto in Aquarius will also stimulate both late Millineal’s and Gen Z’s Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and/or Neptune. For the next 20-25 years a huge population of people will find their fate, destiny, and responsibility to their roles as stewards activated.
It will be hard, like all births are, to bring Pluto in Aquarius earth side. It will be up to our individual evolution and ability to mature to host the highest expression of Aquarius come to life.
How do we do this? How do we be responsible to such a huge moment?
We do the hardest most counterintuitive thing… we ask for help and we be of service. Why? Because it is soul crushing to believe we can do any of this alone. The problems are enormous - monumental. The course of human history will be decided in these two decades. If we can accomplish the expression of truth, liberation, and honesty we might be able to heal some of the trauma humans have enacted on each other, the earth, and our more than human family. Being honest about what we feel, think, experience, know is the greatest service we can give at this juncture. We will need to be brutifully (beautifully and brutally) honest with ourselves in how we may use domination, control, manipulation, or force to be gain or have power over others and the more than human world (as has been the way for the last several centuries) These tactics are alive in our DNA and culture thus it will require our commitment and intention to employ our power with integrity. I need your help to do this right.
My midheaven happens to be in the sign of Aquarius. For the next twenty years or so Pluto will take the position of high noon in my chart. The midheaven is the northern most point in our birth charts. I feel it as our crown, third eye, and throat chakra both what we receive and what we project out. It is our vision of the world and our brain’s ability to flip it “right side up.” Pluto the tenderizing planet has been moving through my eighth and ninth houses for the last two decades forcing me to face my shadows, my secrets, and decipher between moral and immoral leaders, workplaces, and relationships. As it aligns with my midheaven this will effect my career and public reputation in dramatic ways. Barack Obama started to make significant strides in his political career in 1995 when Pluto conjoined with his midheaven. Juan Peron, on the other hand, was the Argentian president in 1955 when transiting Pluto conjoined with his midheaven a three-day bloody revolution began to overthrow him.
You may think of Pluto as the enforcer of fate but truly it is our subconscious being made conscious and “until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” (Carl Jung) If you work to come into integrity over the next vicennial, you’ll find your life full of zest, serendipity, pleasure, deeply fulfilling relationships and work, romantic partnerships that dazzle the senses, and simply a richer and deeper life. If you’re not working towards that or there is still a lot you are avoiding or not looking to process - buckle up cause life’s gonna make you do the work. There’s no avoiding it now. And mostly if you’ve been skating by on the shirttails of ambiguity you’re going to decide quickly what you’re made of, what you’re here to do, and why it matters. You’re going to find you care a whole, awful, lot.
In part 2 of this post, for paid subscribers, I’ll go one by one and explain how Pluto in Aquarius will effect you depending on what planets (if any) you have in Aquarius. These conjunctions will play out over the next 25ish years. If you are unsure of your placements or how to find your Pluto in Aquarius conjunctions for the upcoming decades leave a comment below with your question and birth information and I’ll help you navigate the chart.