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« on: July 28, 2008, 08:51:40 am »










The Outer Planets

To take the pulse of the world at any given moment, we need to back up from the hue and cry of the culture wars. If our intention is to understand the higher meaning of global events we must refer back to the pure abstraction of astrological symbols, for that is where their truth lies. This means setting our sights beyond the partisan opinions and chauvinisms that blare at us from the media and from government spin-masters.

We must even—at first—back up from our dear friends the inner planets, and begin instead with the outer planets, whose cycles are long and slow and describe the evolution of collective wholes. The planets farthest from the Sun establish the main plot of what’s going on for humanity at a given time. The planets closer to the Sun supply the subplots.



Pluto and the Big Picture

So it is to Pluto, the most distant planet in the solar system1, that we will first look to get a bead on what’s going on in the world. Pluto is the planet with the longest orbit, encompassing the longest stretches of history. By examining Pluto in a given sign we can get a perspective on vast societal themes that are otherwise hard to see.

Pluto takes 250 years on average to go all the way around the zodiac, so when it passes into a new sign—every 12-to 20 years—it is, astrologically speaking, a very big deal. Right now Pluto is only a couple of years away from one of these thresholds (ingresses). The world is in the throes of an epochal shift. To understand where Pluto is taking us, we need to take a close look at where it has been.



Pluto in Sagittarius

It has been ten years since Pluto entered Sagittarius, the sign of righteous zeal. For a decade now, Pluto, the planet of death and rebirth, has been wreaking havoc upon the human craving to believe in something.

Sagittarius governs belief systems: not so much opinions (that’s Gemini), but convictions. It is a fire sign, so it’s about passionately held ideals and spiritual impulses. Since this transit began, issues that would have seemed utterly secular a decade ago—such as same-sex marriage and the razing of old oak trees—have been bestirring the kind of fire-and-brimstone reactions that one associates with religious crusades.

Since the mid-90s Pluto has been intensifying believers from the aboriginal (paganism) to the mainstream (American Protestantism) all over the globe. A do-or-die extremism characterizes whatever sign Pluto occupies, and the past decade has turned everybody into a warrior for the truth, whatever we imagine the truth to be. Palestinian nationalists, Zionists and Right-to-Lifers all wield the fiery sword.

Perhaps the quintessential symbol of this transit is the indelible image of those airplanes (Sagittarius) being used as death projectiles (Pluto) in 2001, an image which fused the geopolitical with the religious in the mass mind. Since then, international discourse has been framed in the context of moral absolutes, giving new meaning to the phrase “bully pulpit.” Instead of framing their debates in economic or historical or diplomatic terms, world leaders now wage theological warfare: the American president uses the word “evil” to describe his geopolitical adversaries; the Venezuelan president refers to the American president as “the devil.” The epoch’s reigning superpower has a leader who believes he was invited by the Almighty to attack Iraq. His military commanders have gone on television impugning the gods of Guantanamo detainees as being less “real” than the good old American god.
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