In this Dark, Slow or Meandering Hermetic Epoch (June 20 through August 14) we tend to do things in "out-of-pattern" ways, and that will increase in frequency and intensity during the period July 7-31. So, yesterday I was at a restaurant which was very busy and understaffed (a symptom of the DHE), and sat at a table waiting a long time to be served, so took out my composition book and wrote in longhand some of this report on Pluto. Because of the setting it is very free-form:
Pluto conjunct Saturn, both opposite the sun (this month), is uneasiness about power. Resentment of power. Wariness of power and those who seem to have it. But the more you read about all of those people, presidents, Ayatollahs, government officials, the more you wonder if they are just stick figures who try to do things but really do little or nothing, are puppets moved around by invisible forces.
Donald Trump is a perfect example of them. No one seems to know what he is doing or why. The comments about him from left, right, center, seem essentially guesswork. His famous "instincts" can go anywhere. And I notice that all the comments about his decisions--that they are disastrous--do not seem to pan out. The China tariffs will destroy the economy, farmers, somebody--but I do not see headlines proclaiming that farmers are dead or dying, the farms drying up, or any such disaster. The stock market keeps thriving. This to my mind is the mystery of Pluto in Capricorn, sign of government, conjunct Saturn, planet of limitation, both opposite the sun, the true invisible Ruler. Saturn and Pluto do not trump Sol! We have to remember that. If the Saturn-Pluto Trump does not know what he is doing, Sol does know and invisibly, mysteriously by his rays conquers the limitation and seeming chaos of the Saturn-Pluto conjunction in Capricorn. Saturn is not evil but appears to be. Sol is always good.
When Saturn and Pluto are in a house of friendship, as now, opposite Pluto in the house of youth, one cannot easily fathom the nature or problems of young people.
People see Donald Trump as evil when really it is the strange, real or seeming, cruelty of Saturn conjunct Venus in Cancer in his birth-chart which they see. It is gruff, and can be bluff. Because Venus is females and Cancer a female sign, it comes out as seeming misogyny. Yet many women approve of, tolerate, or even adore Donald Trump. I will not call this masochism. I believe rather that they bow to him because of his Leo rising, which is the sun's sign and is very popular with women. Obama and Clinton are sun-sign Leos and however much you may wish to distinguish them from Trump, all three have the popularity of Leo, the king of beasts. "Rulership by divine right" or monarchy is inbred in the Leo personality. It stimulates intense loyalty in many, aversion in others. Even when Trump says things annoyingly offensive, people feel "his bark is worse than his bite" and forgive him, partly because he does it with a laugh or a smile. "The sun-laugh" is the way Leo Sri Aurobindo characterized it. "We're all in this big funny secret together," says the Lion, and his followers smile.
The impersonality and impartiality of astrology are what we need in order to understand someone as complex and multi-faceted as Donald Trump. The Trumpophobes and Trump-haters ought to calm down and look at him in the light of his horoscope. He has to be what he is, to a large degree, and whether that is admired or despised is a human judgment.
Thus endeth my Harry's Bar essay. (Written before I was served!)
Pluto being the farthest-out planet, and the sun the center of the system, we can contemplate that fact to get at some of the meaning of Pluto. He has been called the planet of the underworld, of crime, of dirty secrets, of plutocracy. All these things hide from the light! At a higher level he seems to be "transcendent," as Marc Edmund Jones calls him. He is Obsession, but that can be a sordid or a magnificent obsession. He challenges the sun to reach him, and the sun always does! So he ultimately has to "come clean."
Pluto in the monthly chart is in a degree Charubel says indicates "The sun shining brightly in a cloudless sky." But hold on, this is not entirely good. It "Denotes one liable to be carried away with brilliant anticipations, being too sanguine; but liable to disappointment." The sun sets before long. Applying this to our lives, we might realize that some unrealistic hopes need to be modified or even cast away if they cannot work out in the "real world" as we had wished. That would be an opportunity to get back on track with something which in fact is workable.
Signor Borelli gives "A wineglass overturned," keyword: Incontinence. This needs little explication. Most of us have some mini-addiction to overcome or modify in one way or another; it need not be alcohol but could be marijuana now available legally so many places. Sepharial adds: "Convivial, but unable to control passions." Or to contain them--they spill with the wine or permeate with the smoke!
The Sabian symbol is quite contrary, "Two awards for bravery in war." Self-discipline within the community, and for its sake, leads to recognition and acclaim. The wine is reserved for the award-celebration, not the camp or battlefield! You may choose in what domain you wish to be brave.
The 4th is coming up, when some will be drinking to celebrate the heroes of a revolution. Cheers!
{Wednesday} ~Pluto's Message for the Crab's Month~
Cosmic Piper
Wednesday 3 July 2019
|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week continues until early Thursday
Moon in Cancer-->Leo
/moon goes void-of-course at 7:26a PT | 10:26a ET | 2:26p UT
until it enters Leo at 8:20p PT | 11:20p ET | 3:20a(Th) UT
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