| This year, your annual forecast features Pluto in a starring role, placed among the most potent auguries in the astrological pantheon. Other details will emerge on a weekly and monthly basis but if you take the long view, you must understand the dynamics behind this supremely commanding influence. Pluto lies at 39.26 astronomical units from the Sun, but its elliptical path makes this precise expanse vary over decades, between under 30 AU and nearly 49 AU overall it is suggested. Astronomical units (AU) measure the mind-boggling distances found in space, with 1 AU the separation between the Sun and our Earth, equal to approximately 150 million kilometres and 93 million miles. Estimates of Pluto’s diameter put this at 2306 km, roughly the distance from New York to Houston, London to Marrakech, or Canberra to Auckland. Because of this diminutive size and faraway location, Pluto was downgraded to the standing of a dwarf planet in 2006, from the full planetary status it enjoyed since it was first discovered in 1930. Astrologically this makes no difference, since the Sun and Moon for example are not technically planets either, let alone recent discoveries like Chiron. This does not detract from their importance and symbolism, nor the influence you’ll notice in your daily life. When Pluto is closer to the Sun it has less far to travel and thus moves faster through the zodiac… |
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| Pluto hurtles through a constellation in a mere twelve years for Scorpio, the sign it is said to rule. Since a complete circuit takes 248 years we are in a period of fast motion currently, with Pluto in its own sign until 1995 and entering your constellation during 2008. Compare this to Pluto’s transit of Taurus at the other end of its orbit, finishing back in 1884 but lasting twenty-two years longer. There are many in their seventies who have witnessed Pluto pass through half the zodiac, whereas those born during the nineteenth century might at the same age only have seen it transit three signs. Therefore you shouldn’t be disconsolate to learn Pluto’s stay with you is set to last until 2024, although it departs beforehand and returns again under a retrograde cycle the previous year. That’s a sixteen year visit in total, far less than many people have to endure, although since you’re still in the early stages it’ll seem a long time looking ahead. But you are not at the start of this journey either, having several years of experience now under your belt. It is worth remembering some of Pluto’s most drastic effects come relatively soon after its arrival, as this planet breaks down existing structures in preparation for a better order that ultimately will come afterwards. So what is good regarding the effects of this planet and what might you need to take care about? Probably Pluto’s greatest contribution is changing your life for the better throughout the duration of its passage through your constellation. This won’t be on a superficial level, but fundamentally from beneath the ground upwards. What you are doing once it leaves your sphere of influence will be radically different from what you were up to when it arrived. You may not like the sound of that much, since change is a scary business especially on such an exhaustive level. But think through what has gone down already over the past four years and then ask yourself, whether the outcome wasn’t in lots of ways, significantly beneficial. |
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| Perhaps this is not a process you’d choose voluntarily, but in retrospect there was plenty you were simply putting up with that today, doesn’t trouble you so much or even at all anymore. The coming year and those afterwards herald further developments along the same lines, as inappropriate and outworn activities, together with additional interests and relationships that languish similarly, get replaced with something else. In classical mythology Pluto was lord of the underworld and the nature of this metamorphosis runs more than skin deep, reviewing facets of your personality established early in life and that now, are virtually hard-wired into your basic circuitry. You may think these are part of your nature, but nurture had a huge part to play. Distant and repressive carers breed a child who finds it hard to show affection, impossible demands and priorities elsewhere link love in with suffering and failure. Constant dissatisfaction and shifting goalposts lead to depression, anxiety and a sense of inadequacy later. All this is functioning on an emotional level, that generally proves arduous to address consciously. The less amenable side of Pluto drives you to the edge and beyond, but via complex issues linked with passion, possessiveness, control, dominance and death it also leads you out the other side. As one phase ends another begins. You emerge cleansed and with a clean slate, ready to start anew. Just don’t get drawn into unnecessary trouble, stand up for your rights and no more, because that distinction is the key… |
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