Pluto's running with Saturn now

Pluto’s ingress into Capricorn, January 27, 2008, has many sensitive and perceptive light-workers making predictions about what is to come. Most of them express that when Pluto makes it's final change into Capricorn in December, for the next 16 years we will collectively experience a transformation of our societal structures and broad, sweeping changes in what makes us a community of souls.

Saturn and Pluto can provoke much fear. It is true that Saturn represents lack and limitations in it's negative polarity. It can restrict and inhibit growth, is responsible for breaks internally, as in bones and teeth, and externally, growth of a business, building, relationship, or anything of a structural nature. It is not malevolent energy at all, but there are some who would exploit it - not realizing that they are only suppressing or oppressing their own spirit as well.

One analogy that brought that home to me, a man named Sid presented the visual of a body which had it's hands at it's neck, strangling. That's not word-for-word what he wrote, but close enough to provide understanding of what it is to fight with one another and to try to destroy each other's cultures, or take resources from, or pollute or otherwise deny life to anyone on the face of the planet, and beyond.

Pluto’s function in the zodiac is destruction and rebuilding, death and rebirth. That transformational energy is working within Capricorn’s constellation, which rules our collective structure and integrity as a society, on the whole.

Since the Lord of Karma (Saturn) is involved here, death and rebirth is mixed up with reaping what one sows. It will be easier to see that every action we take now will have consequences far into the future, affecting all generations yet to come.

Many of us already experience instant karma more often - where we manifest almost immediately, what we are desiring; consciously or not. The difference being - when you consciously create your reality, you mind what’s in your mind more carefully, feeding it with only those thoughts which naturally benefit the whole.

With Saturn in on the transformation, the changes will be done right, with structures and foundations that are set in reality, and also with a more unified and universal consciousness. Because Capricorn is the cardinal Earth sign contained in the quadrant that constitutes our collective experience of life and living, a brotherhood of man atmosphere will prevail.

The meaning of the word ‘collective’ has to be the significant point of our transformation. This time seems to be best for bringing about awareness that it takes each individual within the village - to create the village. Not any one sign of the zodiac should be in charge of the rebuilding. The whole is a sum of it's parts.

For the astrology student, and teachers too, I highly recommend Steven Forrest's "THE BOOK OF PLUTO - Turning Dakness To Wisdom With Astrology". He is most articulate and humane in his writing of a subject that I tend to lighten up and idealize. I understand all too well that we manifest what is in our mind. Ignoring the darker nuances in our psyche' do not make them go away. Mr. Forrest not only looks at those darker forces, but he knows how to bring them into the light.