Pluto in Capricorn 11/26/08 to 2023

A Planetary Event 11/26
Pluto enters Capricorn at 6:36 pm until 2023
Pluto last entered Capricorn in 1762
Pluto left Capricorn for Aquarius in Dec 1778

Transformation Moves Mountains – Part 1 (in a continuing series on Pluto in Capricorn)

Pluto’s movement into Capricorn represents a major transformation of our world if we pay attention and act or it could be the beginning of the end of humans as a species on Earth.

To understand why this transformation is so crucial we must look at the mythology and our history thus far. Pluto is symbolic of a fertility myth related to the dying of crops, fallowing fields, the dormancy of winter – a death followed by a rebirth in spring. If we follow the myth to it’s roots it is a story to explain precession – the wobble of Earth on her axis that creates the seasons, specifically winter and then spring. It’s mythology woven with what we might think of as quaint, primitive, archaic and agrarian in nature.

Humanity has steadily been moving away from our agrarian roots. Our daily sensibilities are disconnected from Earth. We are divorced from a physical and spiritual connection to Earth as we were when the primary mode of existence was farming and/or being a part of an indigenous tribe. Of course this is not to say that we don’t cultivate a connection to Earth by gardening or farming on a small scale, and engaging in practices that allow us a personal connection to the planet. However we are divorced from the necessity of growing food for survival.

Many indigenous tribes have warned “younger brother” namely – us of our reckless actions that endanger the planet. We have been “going along” in this divorced world using up resources and “getting rich” while destroying the home we have been living in. It seems clear that the transformations that we are to endure may be greater than if we had been paying attention and taking action all along. However it seems that we enjoy scaring ourselves with endings (end of the world apocalyptic visions) because we have been living in a world divorced from endings.

All our endings are short term – based on quarterly profits that are somewhere else. It can’t be touched so maybe it’s not real for me. It’s not as real as feeling the ground rise and fall in an earthquake or planting a seed and watching it sprout. Endings in the modern world are ones that we have created and are fixable. The resources of the natural world have never been part of the equation of profit and therefore have been relegated to never-never land.

Whether Global Warming caused by humans is a perception that is true or false doesn’t matter. Even if there is only a one percent chance that humans have contributed to global warming then we must do sometime about it. Even if Global Warming wasn’t happening we must connect to Earth in a real way of cause and effect because it’s the right thing to do.

You don’t abandon your Mother or the mother in you or the nurturing because you’re having too good a time. Or maybe you do.

Let’s say that while in the womb we live in houses, drive cars, go to schools, supermarkets, surf the web, have wars, go swimming, eat breakfast, but we’re unaware that we’re in a womb. We take the womb for granted. Eventually the womb grows sick due to our excesses.

Of course the same thing is happening with the earth. Our economy is doomed to excess and collapse because we heed no limits.

Therefore the entry of Pluto into Capricorn is momentous for Modern Civilized Peoples because we don’t honor our home we must change or suffer the consequences. The consequences may mean the human species may be wiped out.

This is the first in a series about Pluto in Capricorn