Pluto Ingress to Aquarius 2023

Thursday, March 23, 2023 8:13 AM EDT

This is a stream of consciousness ramble, begun after I honored the ingress of Pluto with dragon’s blood and copal.  

Pluto shows us the dark side lurking under the surface.  Pluto doesn’t just tear down, or deconstruct, Pluto transformation is a process that delves to the very roots it seeks to change, a reckoning that cannot happen until we give up that which no longer serves us.  In Aquarius, the sign of the collective and of revolutionary ideas, where independence is asserted through rebellion and we move into a completely different paradigm of consciousness, anything that does not serve humanity as a whole will be usurped by Pluto’s transit here.  That means first things are brought to awareness, dragging them out into the open…this is most often as a result of “bad things happening” or “bad people revealed” or major collective upheaval that then requires long periods of time to process, and to resolve.  Saturn just came through this sign for the past 3 years, guiding, directing, and seeking to start the conversation.  None of the issues we face as Pluto transits this 0 degree back and forth will be NEW, but our ways of thinking about them absolutely have to be different.  Pluto is that which we do not confront, and when we don’t do something and heed the lessons, those things become that which haunts us. Pluto is control, Pluto is power. As Pluto moves through Aquarius for the next 20 years, power, over time, must shift to the hands of the collective, whatever that entails.  

Will we stop seeing imaginary lines and borders as boundaries, and realize that this planet is home to humanity as a whole before its destruction at our very own hands becomes irreparable?  This is the challenge of the generation that will be born under this influence. Remember, these generational influences work to shift the collective as a whole toward the mission of those born during this time.  Pluto in Sagittarius in the mid 90’s through 2008 tore down and reconstructed religion and philosophy.  Pluto in Capricorn tore down and reconstructed economic systems and our reliance upon the authoritative structures that support us…and it’s not completely over just yet.  Pluto will re-enter Capricorn in June during Retrograde, and will also dip back in during 2023 and 2024…it will finally enter Aquarius to STAY in November of 2024.  We do not get past the intensity of the 0 degree until after THAT, it will remain very near this precipice through 2024.  What does this mean?  That the nature of the “Pluto problems” that we will FACE this entire time are of an Aquarian nature now, but the solutions proposed will continually be of a Capricornian structure, and humanity has to SEE FOR OURSELVES that the type of patriarchal control and intentional power struggle created by mass wealth at the top for few and poverty for everyone else does not work.  Hard work and lies about bootstraps do not cut it with Pluto in Aquarius severing all ties to what used to be known as “The American Dream.”  

Aquarius emphasizes the tribe, and begins with the seeking out of like minds, ideologies that resonate, and groups that organize according to collective intent.  This can be special interests or grassroots campaigns, Pluto will reconfigure how we gather and with whom we gather…and any time humans start to gather in groups that are alike, there is dissent between groups, and we will have to work on how to coexist and work together as opposed to against one another.  Of course, this can inflame tensions as social structures are torn down and we begin to think about how we relate and communicate in a more intellectual way.  

Aquarius is the collective, Aquarius is defined social systems.  Don’t forget, Aquarius is traditionally Staurn ruled, and Uranus associated in modern terms.  Saturn is discipline and authority, Uranus is rebellion and awakening. Pluto unearths motivations behind what controls the collective, and this, to me, concerns authority in all of its forms, politics, media, “content” constantly ravenously consumed…hidden agendas will be unearthed.  That which influences consciousness will be purged, with an emphasis upon new ways of thinking, new modes of experience.  Pluto in Aquarius will confront the dark side of societal control…the mechanisms underlying the manipulative potentials of technology and social media are revealed, and the worlds built upon them will crash.  Remember, Pluto teaches by tearing things down.  This will be a time of revolution and innovation, to be sure, but it’s not born just of ideas, it’s born of problem solving, of cleaning up the mess that was left behind for us.  

Consciousness will expand through tearing down barriers.  As opposition to Leo, Aquarius strips the ego.  Pride is in for a fall, especially unwarranted self-promotion or fake expertise.  The days of quick google skills sufficing for relevance and knowledge will be over, one way or another.  Pluto in Aquarius will separate the independent minds and intellectual growth from the ill informed and poorly educated with an unfounded and inflated grasp of their own knowledge.  Those born in the “Boomer” generation will face their Pluto opposition…Pluto was in Leo from 1939 to 1957.  It’s time to strip away the ego, and realize that the world has moved on, that the structures that this generation takes for granted as a part of reality will be decimated and reconstructed from the ground up.  This means resistance, Pluto opposition is tough, and requires a relinquishing of control and power long held by the generation being opposed. This happens at both a societal level and on a personal level.  This call to relinquish is a process that begins at the Pluto square that happens in midlife, in this case, the Pluto in Leo generation faced that square in the mid 80’s when the Pluto in Scorpio Generation was born.  It is now the Pluto in Scorpio generation who will begin to rebel against the powers that be, and who are challenged to rethink their own concepts of power and how they take their mission into the world.   Pluto in Scorpio is ready to take over, as Gen X, the Pluto in Libra generation has continued to fulfill their mission of restructuring how we define and think about relationships and social issues.  Pluto in Libra had a very very tough square during Pluto in Capricorn, and now get a break as this Air Pluto allows them to think clearly again, and to stand independent within relationships as opposed to being subjected to games of power and control or exercising obsession and control, for the first time since 2008.  

Gender as a polarity construct is going to be redefined…the Pluto in Scorpio generation (obsession with sex and the reproductive) is squared by Pluto in the sign of androgyny, where gender is irrelevant as we move into a cerebral based paradigm of higher thinking vs base instinct.  We must rise above the instinctual in this transformation.  The asexual spectrum will be a point of note and more widely understood and accepted.  Right now, that is a community that isn’t even accepted or understood by any other part of the LGBTQI spectrum, they get treated like an aberration by the rest of the rainbow.  Pluto in Aquarius isn’t at all interested in what’s in anyone's pants, in any regard, and will tear down expectations and entitlements in regard to the bodies of other people.  Aquarius is detachment.    

Time itself and how we perceive it is going to be revolutionized…linear constructs will become obsolete, and people will be feeling the call to live and operate within a rhythm that is more individual and personal, and less structured according to societal expectation.  Aquarius is freedom within the collective, and upholding principles that seek to contribute.  We can expect that the lasting impact of the pandemic making us realize that WE DO NOT NEED TO OPERATE AT THE DEMAND OF A WORK TIME CLOCK to do jobs, collectively function, and take care of responsibilities as Pluto in Capricorn makes its final stands and the nature of what it is to “work” and what it is to “earn” has been reconfigured, with more people working from home than ever, and the world carrying on just fine that way.  

Innovation in technology will be unparalleled, but the potential for it to be destructive is high.  It’s like taking off a parking brake, and things may spiral rapidly over the next few years.  We will see the value of technology through the lens of restructuring and downfall, and we must be cautious of the manipulative possibilities it entails.  Anything that can operate on a collective level cannot be trusted, it will be at the behest of Pluto’s grasp of control and power dynamics.  Quantum research and quantum technology will be a major forefront of discovery, but at least in the first few years of the transit, Capricorn will still be seeking to control and monetize and profit and make the most of these things without consideration of the benefit or harm to the collective.  This is a real life Dr. Malcolm “ your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should” moment in history if ever there was one.  Pluto says we have to make those mistakes if we’re ever going to learn accountability for how we wield the egoless power of Aquarius, all rational, emotion justified and rationalized.  

In political consideration, of course, we have to consider this time of revolution and rebellion to be ready for an uprising.  Politics as a polarity will be challenged, as more people think in an independent Aquarian manner and the days of being so easily manipulated by both sides are going to be over after whatever political revolution arises. This Pluto engages in the dark side of intellectual prowess.   In this country, BOTH sides are in for a fall.  However that happens, Pluto will ensure that politics becomes more truly representative.  The Capricorn archetype of crusty old white dudes who feel entitled to power will be no more, and that is most likely to become apparent during the Retrograde period when Pluto regresses after having had a taste of Aquarian liberation.  

Aquarius is the sign of cutting edge learning and knowledge, and barriers imposed upon knowledge and information will be stripped away.  This is the first time in human history that while it’s far from perfect, socioeconomic barriers to KNOWLEDGE are at an all time low, we have work to do, but in a general sense, access to learning is more abundant than it has ever been, and barriers in this regard will continue to fall away.  The accessibility of education will be a big issue under this Pluto transit, and we will come out the other side with a more diverse spectrum of opportunity as systems are torn down and reconstructed in a more egalitarian and Aquarian regard.  

Aquarius is an egalitarian sign that first and foremost does what it must for survival in the future, and then it turns focus upon the collective.  We will ALL be challenged to become better humans, and once that happens for ourselves, we must then take what we’ve learned into the collective and live our passions, contributing and teaching and seeking to make the world a better place.  The feeling I have most strongly about this transit is “When we know better, we do better.”  Unfortunately, when it comes to the resistance to change that humans typically espouse, sometimes that “knowing” better comes with hard lessons and a price.  The first step of knowing better is admitting what must be torn down and transformed, and Pluto will wreak havoc in all of those places until we get it right.  When we pay attention on a personal level, it can create big changes on a collective level, so pay attention to these broad themes in your own world, so you can see how it works within the greater context. 

Now, let’s take a look at the ingress chart. 

Pluto sextiles Aries Sun at 2 degrees, and sextiles exactly now the New Moon degree we just had, and the Equinox.  Pluto now ushers in the fall of anything standing in our way, and remember, Sun is in detriment in Aquarius, and it strips away EGO, well, Aries is the sign of self, and were ego is first FORMED.  It’s expressed in Leo, but FORMED in Aries.  Parts of ourselves that need to be eradicated may be triggered upon events that occur here at 0 Aquarius for Pluto, ESPECIALLY in the next 2 weeks, until the next Lunation, which is a Full Moon at 16 Libra.  Pluto has heavy work to do if it’s going to shift people toward being more understanding as it’s challenged to get them to work together in spite of differences, whether by free will or by force.  Remember, Pluto gets nasty when we RESIST, so it’s time to start thinking about letting go of expectations for others.  We don’t have to integrate lifestyles that aren’t for us within our own, but we can certainly choose to not impose our own feelings about them upon other people.  Younger generations will have a much easier time with this than the Pluto in Leo generation, who is facing their Pluto opposition.  Moon is still under Aries, at 26 degrees, and that makes a trine to Black Moon Lilith in Leo.  The hidden insecurities that arise from being ignored, overlooked, outshined, or others perceiving as intimidating will be triggered on a personal sense, and this is another hidden corner of stripping away the ego.  I typically talk about Lilith on the Divine Dark Feminine Tier, but I will say here that Pluto ingress from now until JUNE when it moves back into Capricorn will still be in a dance of opposing Black Moon Lilith every time she crosses the 0 Leo point, which will happen multiple times between now and then.  When that happened in Cancer/Capricorn it was a balance of home/work or emotion/aspiration, and all kinds of power struggles, whatever houses it impacted for you in your chart, as Lilith is a deeply personal influence.  Now the enemy becomes ego and that which has damaged it, and Pluto is going to unearth deeply subconscious insecurities that we must detach from in order to integrate these energies in the new signs.  Subconscious emotion will be POWERFULLY dredged up, especially until the next Lunation, with Moon at this ingress point at 26 Aries, blazing in a trine to Black Moon Lilith.  

Pluto squares the Nodes in Taurus/Scorpio, so this is all an evolutionary challenge point, and we may see major world events happening from now until the time the Nodes shift into Aries/Libra in July.  Pluto WILL NOT EXACTLY square the Nodes, so we may not have clear instructions for the path ahead, we’re flying a bit blind.  We will look at how Pluto is involved in the upcoming Eclipses when I analyze those on the Divine Lunation Tier in coming weeks.  Pluto also squares Haumea, dwarf planet of birth and rebirth at 0 Scorpio, and these two will be entangled for quite awhile.  I’ll be talking more about that on the Divine Flame Asteroid Tier in coming weeks.  

Pluto is entangled in a nasty Yod with Hekate and Persephone, upon whom he loses his grip here.  Hekate, asteroid of the crossroads Goddess, is in an exact quincunx to Pluto suggesting that we need to consciously ask what we are to do, and accept the answers given.  This aspect opens the door to intuition, but that does not entail easy answers. Pluto and Hekate have an established mythological connection as she is the one who revealed where he had taken Persephone, so there is a grudge here, Hekate is operating in the shadows, able to traverse the Underworld at will.  This suggests that to understand where to align now, we must confront the shadow.  Pluto is also quincunx Persephone, and Hekate comes to the rescue in a sextile to Persephone, illuminating her as Hekate Soteira, the savior… and Persephone steps into autonomy with Asteroid Lilith there in the same sign.  I don’t typically delve into asteroids and dark Goddesses in my general Tier, but this is important.  This sets the stage for the rise of the Feminine from the shadows, and less control of grip for Pluto with the Feminine supporting in the base of this Yod, revealing Pluto’s machination and manipulation.  Those of you who read my Persephone introduction on the Divine Luation Tier, you can think about how this Yod ties into the discovery chart.  I had not charted Persephone in the Pluto ingress when I felt called to add her to that Tier, and my mind was BLOWN when I added her to the chart.  Not just in aspect, but a YOD with Hekate, and I am relentless about tight orbs regarding aspect patterns.  This Yod is the most important part of the ingress chart to me.  The “Finger of God” aspect means that blame is pointed at the God of the Underworld, and there is accountability for Underworld behavior under this entire Pluto transit.     

And that’s my stream of consciousness meandering through the Pluto ingress, with the focal points I see arising, and how we can expect things to unfold.  Big events, solutions that don’t work, and realizations that require us to do better when we finally get around to learning the lesson, and knowing better.