I wanted to write about 2/22/22's, 22 degree Neptune sextile a 22 degree Vesta (the dream being made real through our sacred FOCUS and commitment or maybe our focus lightens up a bit and that's a good thing) and also our high-minded Mercury making his third of three meetings with Juno (partnership agreements, successful/future-focused conversations with partners, negotiating without taking things too personally) and I guess, there, I just did write about it :) but am pulled to finally look at the U.S. Pluto return, a repeating aspect with its first of three exact hits TODAY.
And, of course, the Neptune/Vesta and the Mercury/Juno, coupled with a Pluto ruling Scorpio Moon whose closing aspect tomorrow is an opportunistic sextile to Pluto himself adds some good and interesting insights into today's Pluto return event chart.
Let's dig in!
On February 22, 2022 Pluto will, for the first time, return to its natal position in the United States birth chart. He will be back here again on July 11th during his summer retrograde and then for a final pass, moving direct, on December 28th. I think with the United States playing such a powerful role in the world, this will have a global significance.
The U.S. birth chart, also known as the Sibley chart, was charted by Ebeneezer Sibley (with a name like Ebeneezer Sibley I somehow have a hard time doubting his thoroughness), a British astrologer and Freemason back in 1776 when word of the signing of the Declaration of Independence reached Britain. It is set for July 4, 1776 at 5:10PM in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is universally used and I have used it for research on multiple important events in United States history and it hasn't let me down.
Astrological knowledge almost certainly went into the time the document was signed. The U.S. forefathers crafted a beautiful chart (with interesting
connections to editor Benjamin Franklin's own chart, including the U.S. Pluto -
which they couldn't see - exact on Ben Franklin's natal Sun). Since Pluto
returns to his natal position about every 247 years (one orbit around the Sun),
we won't live to see our own Pluto returns, although I would suspect
strong ancestral connections/past life story-lines that connect now to
our lives/familial lines in the 1700's, 1500's etc.
A planet's return to his natal position resets/triggers the role that planet plays in the blueprint of the event chart or birth chart. For example every year every person has a Solar Return, when the Sun returns to the position (degree/second of the zodiac) he occupied when we were born - this will be within a day or so of our birthday. This resets/triggers/influences our new year. Sometimes people familiar with astrology and not liking their Solar Return chart will travel on their birthday into a different time zone to get something they see as more favorable
(I am not such a fan of this idea, but was strongly tested this year with a Sun/Saturn exact conjunction in the 12th house in my solar return chart (!) - I think better to work with what we have, since it's nearly certain the energies that created our blueprints know more than we do and we might avoid something that mucks up the future .. you get the idea).
Usually with a triple hit - like this one in the United States, because Pluto due to his retrograde will walk this degree multiple times - the first pass is the big whammy, although when we look at the transits for these specific days, that summer hit with Mars on the U.S. natal Uranus, looks pretty explosive. Another near date to watch for is when Mars (always a trigger) crosses 27 degrees Capricorn (with Venus - she is undoubtedly helping) on March 4th.
Pluto rules Scorpio, our collective 8th house and such themes as life/death, power, big finances, nuclear energy, Plutocrats, sex, fertility, our sexual organs, bowels, elimination, third party situations, secrets, things that are hidden, the stuff we don't want to look at/talk about in polite company. Pluto transits bring transformational changes, death and rebirth and situations that activate 'before and after' life altering circumstances. Even if we want to go back to the way things were before the Pluto transit, we can't, the 'back there' isn't back there anymore.
You can understand why, unlike astronomers, astrologers can see there is no 'demoting' Pluto.
Power and how we deal with power is a MAJOR Plutonian issue for us at both an individual and a group level.
Pluto, God of the underworld, rules the stuff we have stuffed. The shadow self - the real self we buried to survive.
His themes include guilt, resentment, control, revenge, manipulation,
jealousy, etc. There is often a kind of 'horror story' connected to our
personal natal Pluto placement AND the stuff we carry in our 8th house. It's a
childhood story, yes, but the reason we magnetized it to us in childhood
in the first place is because of an even deeper ancestral/past life
horror story. The same energy of a 'horror story', which might sound too harsh, but I'm thinking maybe it isn't, applies to the birth charts of countries, too.
Pluto was discovered on February 18, 1930 - a somber decade that began with the Great Depression and ended with World War II. Pluto speaks of karma and his return speaks of the death/birth of karmic cycles. With a second house 27 degree Pluto in Capricorn answering to Saturn in the 10th, we would most likely be looking at major changes in government structure, U.S. power in the world, finances, resources, values and self-esteem.
We could say this started when the Declaration of Independence was signed. We could say this got moving when Pluto was discovered in 1930. We could say this clicked into gear in 2008 when Pluto moved into Capricorn. We could say this kicked into HIGH gear in 2020 when Pluto moved within orb of the United States natal Pluto.
Pluto is in the United States second house which rules - money, our values, our self-esteem. In Capricorn, he is answering to Saturn in the United States 10th house and Saturn in Libra is answering to Venus in the 7th in Cancer, pulling in the United States Aquarius Moon/Uranus on the descendant. Pluto opposes the U.S. natal Mercury who rules that Uranus in Gemini and is answering to the Moon. So, we've got the 2nd house (money, values, self-esteem), 10th house (career, public life, reputation), 7th house (partners, open enemies), 8th house (death, big money, power, transformation), 6th house (health, work) all connected via these dispositors. I think with Libra/Venus ruling the U.S. prominent 10th house and both Venus's (collectively ruled) houses activated - the 2nd and 7th - a general theme of women/feminine energy and balance is also pulled into the mix.
The United States is also having a natal Neptune opposition at the same time.
Transiting Neptune at 22 Pisces is opposing the United States natal Neptune at 22 degrees Virgo AND this makes a T-Square with the U.S. natal Mars in Gemini. Transiting asteroid Narcissus is at 22 degrees Libra exactly squaring the U.S. natal Narcissus at 22 Capricorn right now (yes, of the time runs out/power is cemented' January 2020 astro infamy). 22 is a powerful master number/THE powerful number of mastery and the Neptune opposition is an 82 year cycle and brings us back to the United States Civil War (and a time when people were saying the telegraph was "too fast for the truth").
This Neptune opposition was always going to be a HUGE deal and happening at the same time as the U.S. Pluto return really amps things up!
We have to start somewhere, so we'll go back to the end of 2008, when Pluto moved into Capricorn for the first time since the 1700's 'waking up' the U.S. natal Pluto. It was November, we had just elected Obama to his first term here in the United States. The world economy was collapsing under the weight of the housing crisis. Obama's 27 degree Capricorn natal Narcissus starts triggering the U.S. natal Pluto, which remember is also at 27 degrees Capricorn (this is also the degree of Abraham Lincoln's Moon).
We will talk about this in Part II along with Obama, Trump, covid, Biden, the asteroids including Narcissus and Icarus - all part of the U.S. Pluto return. And the U.S. Pluto return is part of our collective journey into the Age of Aquarius. It is hard to separate these things from each other right now. The U.S. has a 27 degree Moon in Aquarius (the people - exactly semi-sextile Pluto). Before Biden, we had 28 years in a row of Presidents with tight natal North Node (fate)/Uranus (Aquarius) conjunctions (Biden has a tight North Node/Chiron - wounded healer - conjunction).
Based on the current news - keep in mind the U.S. Mercury opposes the U.S. Pluto - someone else who appears to be playing a major role in at least this first leg of the U.S. Pluto return is Vladimir Putin.
(It wouldn't be hard to imagine Putin releasing an incorrect public birth-date, maybe to throw off astrologers, maybe to make himself younger than he actually is and I used to wonder about his Scorpio rising chart, which seemed off for someone with such an unchanging face - Scorpio risings, and the other water signs to some degree, often look quite different from one photo to the next - although it's very early degree, the invention of Botox and how scrupulously he maintains his image of invincibility could be impacting this. He does seem like a Pluto/Mars ruled kind of guy. Comparing his chart and events in his life it does seem possible to me that it is accurate and it's all we have, so we'll take a look.)
Putin (a close-ish anagram for Pluto with a similar pronunciation) has a chart-ruling Pluto, tightly conjunct his South Node (past life/strong affiliation with Plutonian/forceful power) with the conjunction situated on his mid-heaven in Leo. He comes off as quite a Plutonian character with a secretive/deadly serious/'king of the underworld' kind of vibe. In Leo, Pluto is answering to his Libra Sun which, along with his Saturn, bookends the U.S. natal 10th house Saturn (world authority). His Sun is answering to his first house Libra Venus conjunct asteroid Icarus and trines his Uranus (his chaos/trauma planet conjunct the U.S. Sun). Putin's powerful Mars is conjunct the Galactic Center and trines his natal Pluto. His Pluto is at master number 22 degrees and inconjunct the U.S. natal Narcissus and transiting Neptune and sextiles the U.S. natal Neptune.
Maybe making Putin a kind of human linchpin pulling the U.S. Pluto return and Neptune opposition together. But with Neptune (and Putin) it's hard to know what is real here. We talked about the Russia, Ukraine, Biden charts in the Full Moon in Leo/how kings fall post HERE.
Back with Part II on Friday and we'll pull in the other pivotal characters and see where all this might be heading.
xo all
artwork by the talented Valentina Remenar
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