Pluto now re-enters Aquarius, and will not return to Capricorn until 2254. We’re permanently into the new era!

I gave you some of this material a year ago when I did an internet radio interview with my friend Michele Meiche on her podcast Awakenings on blogtalkradio. I discussed a lot then about the big picture and what’s been going on since 2020. Links to articles about the larger influence of Pluto in Aquarius are at the bottom of this one.

MOVING FORWARD INTO DUAL CAPRICORN AND AQUARIUS INFLUENCES

As I offered then, we’re in the middle of a very exciting time of global transition between the dying Age of Pisces and the emergent Age of Aquarius. That’s why there’s so much tension; the inertia of an old dying world view is resisting an emergent view focused on the greatest good for the greatest number.

We began a new transitional era of tension between Capricorn and Aquarius energies in 2020 which has conditioned everything which has come down since then. We had multiple overlapping Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto conjunctions in 2020, one of which will last until 2053! As they all fell in the last 10 degrees of Capricorn and the first degree of Aquarius, that area of your chart will be the primary focus of this “self-reorganization serving a spiritual goal” for decades to come.

These conjunctions marked the beginning of duties and responsibilities in our late Capricorn sectors of our charts. One of the themes is receiving rewards for doing our duty under abnormal conditions. We’ve all had many areas of our lives which required reorganization since 2020, and we’ll continue that work to fulfill elements of our higher purpose. We’ve organized the seeds of transpersonal power into the work we have to do in the next 25 years, “the Spring of the 21st Century.”

Along with the multiple 2020 Capricorn conjunctions, we also experienced multiple conjunctions at 1 Aquarius since March 2020, heralding a new Aquarian energy as the old materialism slips away. The big event was the Grand Mutation of Jupiter and Saturn conjuncting at 1 Aquarius in Dec 2020, showing the theme of the 20 years after that event involves joining with others in building a great vision, or participating in a group work which will outlive us.

What’s so important about that conjunction is that it began a 200 year era of Jupiter/Saturn conjunctions in Air signs, moving out of the materialistic Earth sign conjunctions of the past 200 years. While there are always 20 year segments which echo the past or anticipate the future at the end of each 200 year period, it’s safe to say we’re now solidly into a 200 year era of Air energy, with its qualities of association, exploration, relatedness, and movability in the realm of ideas, communications, and visions.

Each year in December, January, and February these dual Cap-Aquarius pulses are re-energized by the transits. So for the next 29 years, we’ll still have a late Capricorn cycle in play, as well as two Aquarius cycles. The current one will last through 2040, while another major one will begin 2033 and last for 12 years.

ARE WE IN THE AGE OF AQUARIUS?

Does Pluto’s entry into Aquarius mean we’re in the Age of Aquarius? The short answer is no, while a more elaborate answer involves the much vaster sense of time of the Great Ages. Each Age lasts about 2100 years, with overlapping exit and entry zones in time between Ages. Even if we take 1/10 span leaving one age and a 1/10 span as entry into the next Age, we still wind up with a transition zone of 420 years!

So we can relax about when we’ll “be in Aquarius,” since all of us are in the heart of a transition zone which will be the world we live in for a long time to come. That said, we who carry the seeds of the Aquarian ideal are helping to make that energy real in our world, so even though it may seem like we’re nowhere near the ideal, we’re all still turning the Cosmic Prayer Wheel and paying that energy forward by our striving.

Even though we’re still breaking free of the inertia and echoes of the Kali Yuga, each time there’s a major transit through Aquarius it brings new forms of that energy into being. From one angle, the seeds of the coming Aquarian Age were set down in the 1770s, 80s, and 90s, and got stronger with each pass of Neptune and Uranus through Aquarius since then.

We recently re-set the Cosmic Clock with Uranus’ transit through Aquarius between 1996-2003, awakening a new Aquarian spiritual energy in collective consciousness which was dreamed into the global mind by Neptune between 1998-2011.

Pluto already began to sprout those long term transformational seeds between March and June of 2023, and when it re-entered Aquarius on January 20, 2024 that widespread sprouting activity resumed. Pluto occupied the first 3 degrees of Aquarius through September 1, when it retrograded back into Capricorn for the last time in this era. So this is the end of Pluto in Capricorn!

The 2024 conjunctions of Pluto by Mercury, Mars, and Venus in February set new one and two year cycles into motion related to 1 Aquarius, which was the degree of the Grand Mutation. That has helped strengthen the emerging Aquarian energies related to a purposeful group work which will only get stronger from this point on.

At this time, the next inner planet conjunction with Pluto will be when Venus conjuncts it at 1 Aquarius in early December, again giving new impetus to the specific themes of the Grand Mutation. After that, in late January the Sun and then Mercury will both conjunct Pluto at 2 Aquarius, which was made into a “hot spot” when Saturn went SRX on that degree in May 2020. Expect echoes in 2025 of the middle and latter parts of 2020.

LONG TERM SPIRITUAL INFLUENCES

As Pluto is a Spiritual transformer, we can expect a lot of purifying transformations during Pluto in Aquarius. But because it’s an invisible planet, it works below the surface of things, sprouting long term seeds of growth and renewal. If you know astrology, look to the transits which sextile, square, trine, and oppose 1 Aquarius to find time markers when the long term energies express in clear forms.

We’ll see a tremendous acceleration in the Aquarian global growth energy when Jupiter is next in Aquarius and conjuncts Pluto at 15 Aquarius, the Angel Point, in February 2033. That cycle will dominate the era between 2033 and 2045 at their next conjunction in early Pisces. So we’ll have Pluto in Aquarius from now through 2044, with 1 Aquarius themes strong through 2040 and 15 Aquarius themes strong from 2033 through 2045. Lots of Aquarius action ahead! Look to your charts to see where those will play out in your lives.

We can cooperate with the Pluto in Aquarius seed sprouting by using that idealistic energy in the area of our charts where we have that sign. In my case, Pluto in late Capricorn and early Aquarius is in my 6th house, so I can use those emergent global energies in forms of service, or work that serves a greater good or a group “spiritual touchstone” which will outlive me. I also have Moon in Aquarius, showing that these expansive idealistic spiritual energies will find expression through my Moon.

The interesting thing about the larger spiritual field is that for many years we’ve had Uranus in late Taurus, Neptune in late Pisces, and Pluto in late Capricorn. This has favored deep transformations and alignments in all the planets we have in the late degrees of Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, and Pisces.

With Pluto’s entry into Aquarius, we now get a sense of what’s coming in the future, since we have a gigantic set of harmonious and productive alignments of Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto coming soon! That party begins in April 2025 when Neptune enters Aries and is followed by Saturn entering Aries in late May, coming to within a degree of conjuncting Neptune and creating productive mundane (sign to sign) sextiles to Pluto.

They are then all joined by Uranus entering Gemini in July 2025, making a “3 note harmonic chord of productive spiritual awareness” through the Saturn sextile Uranus and Pluto, and Uranus trining Pluto. This is an exceptional transition out of the past Earth and Water energy into the future Fire and Air energies which will take clearer shape in 2025!

2024 BROUGHT CONFLICT

Yes, we have had some serious aspects in 2024 which indicated collective friction!

From April 2024 through February 2025 we have been dealing with the powerful Saturn semisquare Pluto! This has challenged us all to be careful not to get caught in quarrels which are none of our business and we can’t influence anyway. This is the first emergent point of critical change since their conjunction in early 2020, and marks a major phase shift into a growth period. This mainly forces us to be the “Way shower” or “Pathfinder” we’re looking for. Avoid getting involved in things which deflect you or have you going in counterproductive directions.

We also had Jupiter in Gemini square Saturn from July through September, and Jupiter sesquisquare Pluto in July and August. This challenged us not to get discouraged at the pace of things, and make sure our values are supporting our ambitions. It is an aspect of soul growth and allowing our Destiny to externalize in a significant change in some way.

Jupiter in Gemini is now retrograde and will again square Saturn in Pisces and sesquisquares Pluto from mid-November through mid-January, giving us a review of how successfully we’ve dealt with these transit to transit “real world” frictional issues. Jupiter will make its last sesquisquare to Pluto in March and April, and its final square to Saturn in late May through June, exact at 2 Cancer to 2 Aries.

The December square and sesquisquare will powerfully impact any planets or points we have near 1-6 Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius and 14-19 Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces. (As I wrote a year ago, these squares “will be mirrored again in December 2024, showing that the 2024 election will have a lot of deception, discouraging developments, dualistic arguments which go everywhere and nowhere, as well as a general fog.”)

All of the hard aspects, whether natally or by transit, show the need for “right action.” Whether to turn corners or put the brakes on, whether to accelerate and blow through obstacles, 2024 has challenged our ability to use our Saturn to end what needs ending as new worlds open for us. A square from Gemini to Pisces challenges us to manifest good expressions of Virgo and Sagittarius energy.

A TIME OF SPIRITUAL TRANSITION

Because Saturn’s has been in mid Pisces and quintile Uranus in late Taurus which is sextile Neptune in late Pisces, this is a highly favorable and productive end to a long era of the outer spiritual field having planets in late Earth and late Water. A new long wave cycle began when Jupiter conjuncted Uranus in late April, and then sextiled Neptune and quintiled Saturn before it entered Gemini in late May and trined Pluto. This transit of Jupiter in late Taurus and early Gemini will be powered up by Uranus in mid-2025!

So 2024 was the end of the end of the Earth/Water spiritual dominance and got to anticipate the beginning of the early Air/Fire dominance coming in 2025! In this case, Jupiter anticipated the Uranus in Gemini trine Pluto coming in the Summer and Autumn of 2025.

This “dance of the spiritual field” affects each of us wherever we have late Capricorn, late Pisces, and late Taurus. As the outer spiritual planets end their stay in the Earth and Water signs and move into the Fire and Air signs, we’ll all experience a huge shift in how we related to duties and responsibilities. This is where the dance of Saturn with Uranus is of paramount importance in our spiritual growth.

Saturn represents Dharma and our higher purpose; Uranus represents our eternal freedom to dance through life as an Eternal having a human experience. The first keeps us safe within certain limiting conditions until we’re ready to step out and beyond into a new destiny. Uranus is the Divine Fool within all of us, eternally free to live our individuality on our own terms. I discuss this dance of spiritual energies and how we can best cooperate with them in my book Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend.

Another important consideration as we begin to move into 2024 is that as long as Jupiter and Uranus were in Taurus, they were ruled by Venus. Venus had a huge influence on Jupiter in 2023 and the first 5 months of 2024, while it still disposits Uranus through next Summer and November 2025 through April 2026. So if we want to know what’s going on behind the scenes with Uranus, transiting Venus will be giving us constant clues through Her changing signs.

For example, Uranus will be in Taurus until early July. Between now and then Venus is in Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries and Taurus, with an extended period in early Aries and late Pisces from late January through early June. If we want to know how the expansive principle is being influenced behind the scenes, look to Venus’ sign and aspects. That means whatever higher individual awakening we are going through, Venus is showing us the way to better relationships. You can find out more by getting your copy of The Magic of Venus: Friendships, Soul Mates, and Twin Flames.

I gave you an extensive two part series on Pluto in Capricorn last March which covered past, present, and future tendencies of that sign position for Pluto, including what Marc Edmund Jones and Dane Rudhyar wrote about it. For a deeper dive into the energies of Pluto in Aquarius, here are:

Pluto in Aquarius – 20 Years of Revolutionary Change Pt. 1

Pluto in Aquarius – 20 Years of Revolutionary Change Pt. 2

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