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The Four Stages of Pluto Transits
(And How to Tell Which One You Are In)
This issue deals with the transits of Pluto. It pertains to any time Pluto transits one of your important planets in your chart as well as the long 16-year-era in which we all find ourselves while Pluto traverses the sign of Capricorn.
In terms of the global era, we now find ourselves ¼ of the way through the Pluto-in-Capricorn era which ends in 2023. Not all of us have even noticed that this era started on January 25, 2008. Surely, by now, most of you can see its devastating effects on all fronts.
I will be explaining the four stages that seem to correspond with the major changes that Pluto delivers. First, a little about Pluto… Yes, in astrologer’s eyes, it’s still a planet. Dark and tiny, it is the farthest from the Sun – the planet is said to rule Scorpios. Its mission, if you will, is devoted to purity and transformation of any and all kinds. Even so, it is no Snow White. It roots out any and all entities without integrity and attempts to transform them. If it can’t, it will go a long way towards destroying same.
Pluto is very intense and austere. When Pluto is found strongly placed in a birth chart, or a person has a large degree of Scorpio markers, the resulting being can be the best of the best or the worst of the worst. Much is up to how that person has chosen to live his or her life. Perhaps much of it is karmic.
Since 2008, when the economic markets collapsed, Pluto gave up the game of buttressing institutions, people and corporations that were essentially hollow inside. Since then, so many have pined for recovery! Recovery! When will the recovery be? Many people aren’t seeing clearly… The patient (the U.S. and other countries as well) is on the operating table. More and more poisoned organs are being replaced, going through treatment or outright being removed. You don’t recover until after the operation, if even then.
The entity is not close to recovery. Those are the facts. Look around.
We can’t even get congress to agree that the sky is blue. The faster we address our “ills,” then the faster we get to a true recovery. We have seen, just as was predicted: too many of our problems have been pushed under the rug for decades or more. Warnings and warnings have not been heeded. It’s natural for Pluto to uproot these problems. As a society/world, we can no longer continue with such corruption. Something has to give, and, it’s giving all right.
That brings us to the 4 stages of Pluto.
Keep in mind that not all people go through the 4 stages. Some never get out of stage 1. Some breeze right through and don’t even notice any of the stages. There are no distinct demarcations of how long each stage will “last.”
STAGE ONE: DENIALKeep in mind that the same principles apply to countries, people, businesses, governments, etc. Broaden your vision when you read about the 4 and you should quickly be able to identify where you are within these long-term periods of transition.
Stage 1 of denial is when you start to notice that your life is somehow decaying at a much more rapid rate than you ever could have imagined. At this point it’s quite natural to react in one of two ways, 1) try to push the problems back under the rug, or 2) try your old tricks in order to make it back off, ease up, or simply go away. This is why one of the WORST things you can do with astrological information is duck and wait for it to pass by. It doesn’t work and in general is not good for your health. You simply cannot suppress your own vital energies and get away with it. It’s called blockage.
Pluto is not out there, it’s in here.
Many of us have had a long-held habit of pushing more and more under the rug even though we know that one day, it will catch up with us. One of several Pluto transits brings us that day.
When you have the benefit of astrological guidance, you not only know what “time” it is, you also can see when these periods will peak. More importantly, you get an idea that “this is real” and cleanup time is here. When Pluto gets involved our lives, most of us are in for sweeping changes. This is no joke, but almost all of my clients can mark the time of the transition from stage 1 to 2 when they find themselves “inexplicably” obsessed with cleaning out their basements. Literally.
I had a client today. After I explained to her about these stages, she said, “That’s it, I’m going home and clean out my basement!” I had not even mentioned the metaphor. She was actually bouncing back and forth between 1 and 2.
If you’re NOT cleaning up, this is one great big shiny red flag.
Many of our glorious souls that we inhabit this planet with just don’t collect what is called emotional baggage. Pluto loves to raise hell with those that do though. For those who mostly groove through life, keeping well balanced within, many skip right on by to stage 4.
Unfortunately, most people spend at least a little bit of time in stage 1. It’s not a place in which you want to spend a lot of time however. Misery gets to such a point and the message Pluto is trying to pound into your cranium and that something has to give! And, in most cases, without a doubt, suffering during a Pluto time is because of hanging on to the old. Not letting go. Co-dependency. Living in the past.
Oh, it’s easy to talk glibly about letting go as if we were jumping off the low dive. Many people construct their entire lives around CLOSING OUR EYES TO WHAT WE ARE HANGING ONTO. This is why stage 1 is so rough. When Pluto comes around – you can no longer go forward – until the detachment occurs. If you don’t let go of your “junk,” Pluto will back up a large flat-bed truck and come in your house uninvited with some big sweaty dudes and simply start taking your stuff – like a Sheriff’s Sale. Seriously.
Your unconscious doesn’t like being ignored.
And, that’s what Pluto is! It represents your passions at the very soul level. Pluto becomes “unhappy” if “you” don’t have the courage to live “your” passions. See how we compartmentalize ourselves? That’s why waiting until “it” passes is simply irrational. How can we wait until we pass by? We are verbs, not nouns.
One of the big problems that occurs during this initial stage is simply that you may have become bored with what you do. Your life has no purpose. Pluto doesn’t take that matter lightly; it bugs us from deep within. It pressures us to mean more, to play a more significant role on this globe. One of Pluto’s favorite questions is, “Why are you taking up space?” So, you can see, in stage 1, you may not even be aware that this is going on even if things are falling apart all around you. This is why we need to teach real astrology in grades 1-12; to everyone.
If you recognize the “dark cloud hanging over your head,” you’re under a Pluto transit. At one time, my 3-year-old boy was undergoing a Pluto transit. He asked me, “Dad, what are those dark things above my bed?” I told him, “Don’t worry, those are enemy spaceships and Dad will shoot every one of them down.” The more you work WITH Pluto, the better off you will be. If you start letting go of toxic friends, bypassing bad habits and in general start getting more courageous about your life, Pluto will bring you great friends, promotions, money, poignant books, movies and opportunities.
It’s really that simple: be brave and own your power, and Pluto will help.
And vice versa.
STAGE TWO: ACCEPTANCE<snip>
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