Today is the first day of Pluto in Capricorn…nothing has happened here that signifies the day much..but soon the urge to transform things through hard work will soon manifest itself.
For Capricorns, ask a Cancer who’s in their eighties/seventies, a Leo born anytime in the forties and fifties, a Virgo born from 1956 to 1974, just about any Libra under 50 or so, those Scorpios, Sagittarians for advice on how to handle Pluto crossing your Sun. You may find yourself flirting with power of some kind and with concepts that will shake your world view greatly. The Cancer people had to deal with shocks to their sense of security and what was home. The Leo’s with new ways of performing, and issues of self-confidence and self-esteem. Virgo had to learn new ways of serving. Libra’s had to open up to love. Scorpio—well enough said. Sagittarians with changes to the free and easy way they are so used to..
It is also a time to look at its opposing sign to see what’s closing. Suburbia, and the American idea of the single family home grew during Pluto in Cancer..Pluto in Capricorn is likely to end suburbia because of its demands that things be paid for NOW and in full. We can no longer afford this. Not that the houses will go away, but they must be made more practical. Cancer brought in births that were more scientific-hospital rather than home, baby formula, the new approach to child psychology and scientific child-raising. Capricorn will bring the hospital to the home, make child feeding natural but guided by good information, and tradition will be combined with science.
Cancer was the era of the family auto. Capricorn will be the bullet train and cyberspace.
Countries that have the Sun in Capricorn, and there are a lot of them, will go through a period of cultural growth and dominance. Great Britain comes to mind readily, with a Capricorn Sun.
Pluto’s effect on Capricorn is likely to explode our ideas about hierarchy, government and tradition. During the last pass, monarchy-and an entrenched aristocracy ruled supreme. The French Revolution turned monarchs into constitutional rulers who presided over banquets while legislatures ruled. This time around I expect a lot more direct and networked rule. Our concepts of power will be more like a matrix than an up-down ladder or staircase. There will be bosses, but bosses that are more situational, that is a person is a boss for a project, not necessarily a person of a greater social class. What happens to Congress and executives? More direct democracy? Different ways of governing that allow for greater input by the commons? A separation of the Presidency into a President and a National Manager who handles the practical side of the deal?
On religion-the French Revolution brought in very briefly the religion of “Reason”, deism, and general skepticism not completely ended until the table rappers of the 1840’s. This time around atheism is likely to become another part of the spiritual spectrum, an viewpoint among many others openly held. Religion’s response is likely to be good-doing and an emphasis on ethics and ritual and less on the rapture or heaven or hell. I expect more interest in the historical Jesus and less on drama elsewhere.
So, Capricorn, are you ready to work at working up a rumble?
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