Looking Back at Pluto in Scorpio
In preparation for the transit of Pluto into Capricorn in January 2008, we have looked at how the Pluto in Sagittarius period has corresponded with dramatic changes in areas ruled by Sagittarius (see sidebar and articles on this page).
An article I wrote for the April/May 1993 issue of Synchronicity magazine, discussing the Pluto in Scorpio period (1984 – 1995), gives even more perspective on the effect of Pluto transits:
It always has to do with power. Pluto in Scorpio is an opportunity to take back the power that we have given to governments, to churches, to lawmakers and lawbreakers and to each other. It is an opportunity to recognize and to express the power that we all have within.
In an astrological chart, Pluto has been referred to as the area where one has to “go through hell to get to heaven”.
It is the area where we become obsessed or frozen into destructive patterns until we “face the darkness”, release the hidden energies and begin the dramatic healing that is possible. Pluto not only has the power to obsess and corrupt but to heal at a very deep and profound level.
Pluto is considered the ruler of the underworld, of power, of sex, of the occult, of the subconscious and of everything that is dark and hidden.
When Pluto makes an aspect to one of our personal planets, we feel like we have been hit by a ton of bricks. An element of our lives then goes through a “death and transformation” process that is so profound that often the resulting changes are not full realized until years later.
Pluto is the Pandora’s Box of the zodiac. Since 1984 when it moved into Scorpio, its own sign, that box has been coming open. Abuse and corruption are being aired and exposed. From the Marcos regime in the Philippines to the Ceausescu’s in Romania. From sexual abuse in the church to the surfacing of long hidden memories of family abuse. Like a boil, the poison must be expressed before the body can heal.
Edgar Cayce predicted that the transit of Pluto through Scorpio would be a time when man would have to face what he has done and is doing to the planet. Chernobyl, Bhopal, the Exxon Valdez, the erosion of the ozone layer, the destruction of the rain forests and massive droughts and famine in may parts of the world have brought us face to face with the fact that we are not managing the resources of the planet in a responsible manner.
When Pluto first entered Scorpio in 1984, we were not accustomed to talking publicly about sexual matters. When we started to realize that AIDS was both sex-related and deadly, there was massive denial. We were forced to face reality and are now showing condom ads on television and teaching young teenagers about safe sex. We are finally invoking the courage necessary to openly face this deadly disease so that the prevention and eventual slowing of the epidemic can take place.
We are also finally discussing death. We are discussing Dr. Jack Kevorkian and the Right to Die movement, and admitting to and discussing near-death experiences. Reincarnation, the ultimate Scorpio concept, is becoming more and more a part of the Western belief system.
UFOs are not strictly part of the Pluto in Scorpio era, but the reports now include kidnapping, lifelong control and sexual experimentation. The Scorpio element has been added.
A classic illustration of the Pluto transit through Scorpio is the revelations about the late J. Edgar Hoover, former head of the FBI and once the most powerful man in the United States. We are now told that he held that power because he was blackmailing the various presidents who would have loved to have fired him. We also are told that he denied the reality of organized crime because he, in turn, was being blackmailed for his homosexuality, a lifestyle that he vociferously attacked through his life.
Another powerful example of the power of this transit has been the fall of the Communist empire. As Pluto opposed the position of the Sun in Karl Marx’s chart, one country after another fell until we saw the dramatic symbol of power, the Berlin Wall, torn down, brick by brick.
We have not only seen the downfall of the powerful, but many of these events have led to the explosive release of power on a personal level. Misuse of power of the Los Angeles police led to the heavily publicized Rodney King attack. When the justice system was subsequently perceived to have failed to redress the wrong, hundreds of thousands of ordinary people took to the streets of L.A. in the most destructive riots ever in the United States.
The fall of the Communist empire has again unleashed the power of the various ethnic groups in eastern Europe, leading to wars and the deaths of thousands.
So the forces of power have been released and now have to be faced and healed.
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