It has been forced on us by circumstance, by environmental issues becoming politically mainstream, as well as by energy supplies just starting to become limited. We have begun to think in terms of sustainability, of renewable energy supplies and not wasting resources.
We have collectively only just begun to think like this, but as the environmental and energy issues intensify in the coming years, it is going to force a much bigger change in our thinking. And this will be good.
The idea of continual growth has been the cornerstone of our economic philosophy. A business only wins respect if it is growing. This is bonkers. It puts tremendous and unnecessary pressure on everyone and everything. Surely the economy is there to meet our materials needs, not as an end in itself, a devouring monster that has to be fed more and more of our precious resources and more and more of our precious time and energy? And which distorts human nature by tying our sense of self-worth to our economic performance.So I think that Pluto in Sag has seen the beginnings of a shift from a philosophy of continual and endless growth to a philosophy of sustainability. A shift from insanity to sanity, to economic activity again having its appropriate place in the scheme of life. Wild animals know how to do this one: when they need food, they find some. When they need shelter, they get some. And if they don’t need to, they’ll do something else.
The Ingress Chart for Pluto in Capricorn on 26 Jan at 2.38 GMT suggests that this theme will continue. Pluto, Venus and Jupiter are conjunct in Cap, trine to retrograde Saturn in Virgo. The empowerment (Pluto) of a philosophy (Jupiter) of wealth (Venus) based on an acknowledgement of practical limitations (Saturn/Cap).
Interestingly, Pluto's Ingress into Sagittarius in 1995 also had a (loose) stellium of Pluto, Jupiter and Venus, providing a continuity of theme between the two long transits.
Economic activity has always been central to human life, even when it’s about sustainability rather than growth. So this gradual shift in economic philosophy – driven by circumstance rather than by a sudden improvement in human nature – is going to change the way we think about everything. The world will be a very different place in 15 years time, we will view life very differently, as Pluto finishes his time in Capricorn.
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Hello again! I'm not an astrologer myself, but I'm really enjoying this blog. The movement of the outer planets really seems to jibe with the writings of Neil Howe and Bill Strauss regarding Anglo-American generations and eras. Strauss and Howe are historians who have said that they don't know anything about astrology. But, because their predictions apparently line up so closely with the movements of the planets, many astrologers seem to be interested in their works.
Here are a couple of links that might be of interest to you and your readers.
Here's one regarding generations and their archetypes:
http://www.fourthturning.com/html/generations___archetypes.html
And here's one regarding eras (what they call turnings):
http://www.fourthturning.com/html/history___turnings.html
Thanks again for this blog!
Neisha
Another thing that happened during Pluto in Sagittarius was the transformation of religion. Religion is a big deal in the USA, as you know. Here in the States, many people have reviewed and revised their relationship to their childhood religion. Some have embraced Paganism, some have become Atheists, and some have created new styles of churches that are much more humane in nature. I worked in a funeral home for a while during the tail end of Pluto in Sag, and boy was it tough catering to people who thought they could just walk in and get The Traditional Funeral. There is no traditional funeral anymore because all the religions have been modified.
Yes, I quoted an article a few weeks back in which it seems the Christian fundamentalists are not quite as popular in the USA as they were
Thank heavens!
I've been doing some thinking about Pluto in Sag as it might relate to Pluto in Cap, too.
Pluto entered Sag in January of 1995, retrograded out in April, then entered back on November 10, 1995. From Wikipedia's 1995 in review page, I can see that during the first pass, Aum Shinrikyo released sarin gas on the Tokyo subways, and the Dow hit 4000 for the first time ever. Just before it entered Sag, police found a bomb factory in the Phillipines and arrested Ramzi Yousef. Barings Bank collapsed. Two Americans, David Daliberti and William Barloon, are arrested after straying into Iraq. The UN peacekeeping mission ends in Somalia, and for the first time in 26 years no British troops patrol the streets of Belfast. April 7, the Republicans pass the Contract On America. The Schengen Agreement easing cross-border travel goes into effect in several European countries.
Other things happened, of course, but the pattern I see here is an easing of international tensions based on ideology with an increase or foreshadowing of tensions based on religion. Which is apt with Sag controlling philosophy, religion, and foreign travel.
November 10, the day Pluto passed into Sag for permanent, we see the following events. Iraq disarmament crisis: With help from Israel and Jordan, UN inspector Ritter intercepts 240 Russian gyroscopes and accelerometers on their way to Iraq from Russia. In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, are hanged by government forces.
Soon afterwards we had the government shutdown, and the Dow passed 5000.
Pluto in Sag has seen the exposure of the Catholic priest protection network, and the rise of fundamentalism and the exposure of the nastiness under their skin. The Lewinski matter, the media blowhards, the exposure of the weak points of the neocon doctrine. The dominant event of Pluto in Sag must be the Iraqi war, which exposed the weakness of the doctrine of neoconservatism.
Hopefully this doesn't come off as a string of random events tied loosely together.
So what does this mean for Pluto in Cap?
Whatever the dominant theme of Pluto in Cap will be, it will be foreshadowed during this first pass, lie dormant, and explode into our consciousness unwanted towards the end of the year.
Cap controls hierarchy, government, authority. It's a very Saturnian sign. Pluto is about revolution, upsetting the boat. We know the financial sector is teetering on the brink, with private and commercial real estate overextended and nobody really knowing how many bad loans prop up the major players. If they show weakness in the next few months, they may recover briefly only to flame out fully come next winter.
I'm petering out here, but no doubt I'll come back to this line of speculation at a later date.
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