Pluto Slips Back into Capricorn and Mercury Zips into Gemini

 

Pluto is about to leave Aquarius after giving us a taste of life in the fixed air sign since March 23.  It introduced us to AI and the promise of more technological breakthroughs.  But Pluto stationed retrograde on May 1, never making it past 0 degrees of  Aquarius.  On June 11, Pluto will slip back into the anaretic degree of 29 degrees of Capricorn.  The anaretic degree of a sign is known as the critical or fated degree because it tends to trigger a sense of urgency or crisis. If you are feeling a sense of this is do or die time, you are feeling it already. Pluto stations direct in 27 degrees of Capricorn on October 10, 2023.  Pluto will be back in Capricorn until January 24, 2024 when it slips back into Aquarius but due to the fact that it retrogrades every year, it will re-enter Capricorn for its final pass from September 24, 2024 through November 20, 2024 before it settles into Aquarius until March 8, 2043.

What can we expect during this next stage of the Pluto in Capricorn transit?  Pluto has been in Capricorn since 2008, transforming the financial, political and governmental structures of our lives.  And it is by no means done yet.  Pluto is also associated with power and we are about to undergo more changes.  Pluto can be like a wrecking ball, or as I frequently like to refer to it, the Roto-Rooter of planets.  It is going to dredge up some very ugly stuff, forcing us to descend into the underworld, before we can move forward.  There is a lot of unfinished business to be attended to.  It is not an understatement to say that our government could radically change by the end of 2024. And we have another election year in 2024 for the United States.  The Pluto Return of the United States continues...

My progressed Sun is in 29 degrees of Capricorn and won't enter Aquarius until early May 2024.  So yes, folks, I am right in the thick of it.  I am also a Scorpio and lived through transiting Pluto in Scorpio conjunct my natal Sun back in the days of October through December 1991.  It was not the lightest of times and I can tell you that I personally felt as though certain authoritarian powers were getting the best of me back then.  My job went through many unpleasant changes which I had no control over, which is probably pretty typical of having Pluto transiting your 2nd house.  Pluto in Capricorn is currently transiting my 4th house, and that is certainly an intense transit too.

Mercury cleared its retrograde shadow on May 31 and is about to enter Gemini on June 11, the same day that Pluto re-enters Capricorn.  But on June 9, Mercury in Taurus will form a supportive sextile to Neptune in 27 degrees of Pisces.  When Mercury sextiles Neptune, we could hear some inspiring news (which we could sorely use right now) and our intuition and empathy will be soaring. Mercury in Taurus also departs with a trine to Pluto in Capricorn on June 11.  This can lend more passion and persuasive powers to our communication.  Hold on to those good thoughts... 

Mercury will literally zip through Gemini, departing on June 26.  Mercury is a happy camper in the sign of Gemini, one of the two signs that it rules.  The other sign is Virgo.  When Mercury is in Gemini, we tend to be more curious, social and communicative.  But the shadow side of Mercury in Gemini is that we can be more scattered, as we are prone to multi-tasking.  And we can have more nervous energy.  We really need to pay attention to details right now and don't be afraid to ask the questions to get the answers so that we can take the next steps.

Mercury in Gemini will be squaring Saturn in 7 degrees of Pisces on June 15.  I will not sugarcoat this aspect, as it can be accompanied by negative thinking, misunderstandings and distance in close relationships.  The major theme of Mercury squaring Saturn is to see the worst possible side of a situation.  Saturn tends to trigger our fears.  Just remember this and you will get through it...

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