Pluto in Aquarius II.

Saturday January 20th 2024

Pluto is at the very last minutes of the 29th degree of Capricorn as I write this— I checked - and by the time we wake up tomorrow, the planet will have arrived at the shores of Aquarius.

It has been fun to write this series — one more post coming to really welcome in this energy, setting the course as our planet and its destiny - and with Earth, ours - moves along and into the future. Aquarius is a future oriented realm - and with the advent of AI in the collective; technologies advancing our species to superhuman upgrades with the dawn of quantum biology and biohacking, genetic engineering giving us godlike powers while other species are pulling out and the environment is ravaged and we may have fewer than 60 harvests left - the jury is still out about how well the future will play out

But more on this a little later — for now: let it be enough for me to say that Pluto has started the procession of the transpersonal - aka post-Saturnian planets changing signs one by one, literally heralding a sort of Changing of the Gods…

Pluto first — and all this fanfare and drumroll: with a footnote ( I have always been a fan but this is really - like, really - important
Between September and November — the planet, in retrograde phase will revisit the balsamic 29th degree of Capricorn one last time. It is all the more important to take note because the United States of America has had a Pluto return - which means: at the time of the birth of this nation, Pluto was in the realm of Capricorn - at 27 degrees. No one knew it at the time. Uranus was already discovered but not yet Neptune… and Pluto - well: that took another 150+ years still. But I digress… With Pluto back in Capricorn, this country, with its 250 year history, is currently having a Pluto return — and 2024 being an election year, this is a pretty big deal… So: I will be watching closely that 2-month long period later as the fall begins.

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They say that before Pluto releases one from the land of shadows - read: the underworld - He asks the one who hopes to go back up to give up the one thing they never - ever could… See: I have told you: Pluto is an impartial deity : He could not care less if you stay or go. The more dead He rules over, the greater his power. In fact, in the antiquity, the mere proposition that one could leave the Land of the Dead, Hades, would have been a vast and arrogant insult — or worse. The Orphic Hymns speak eloquently about this…. You had to be a Hero, like Heracles - or like Mercury: a deity with tricks up his sleeve: He is the Rooster under Persephone’s throne in the ancient depiction I have shared here.

Or you had to be properly initiated.

In today’s day and age, however, during Pluto transits, or when Pluto significantly aspects planets, individually and collectively — we get a shot. We can ascend.
Once you are in Hades, you know it. The past 15 years, for me, as I have said many times — were a journey through Hell.
Please understand that this is one of the major reasons why I am so excited— because I literally, viscerally am feeling the release. Not a single thing has remained of the person I used to be when this journey started, in earnest in 2008, when Pluto entered Capricorn (my Ist House) — but really two years prior, when a devastating and humiliating divorce left me homeles, penniless and almost cost me my life. Sound dramatic? It was.
But when about 7 years in - this would be around 2015 - an astrologer looked at my chart and said: your life will really start at the age of 50 — not only did i not start bawling…
“50??? Life starts when I am old, and toothless, and tHe opposite of handsome, and … and … and 😭😭😭”

— nay: none of this happened.
Rather, I felt like I got a roadmap.

And I fell head over heels with Astrology — because: how did he know? And WHAT did he know?

I wanted to know - I wanted to find out. Because if indeed I got a map, and all the hurt and pain and trauma was headed somewhere — I was going to get behind that wheel and navigate myself back to where I knew I belonged: LIFE. The LIGHT.

And when I say I can hear Pluto purring at the Gates of the Waterbearer; or that I do not recommend trying to make friends with Him — but much rather: with the Darkness and Shadows he rules — I mean it. That I have made it out alive verifies what I have heard: just this year, I was in excruciating pain when I realized what this Archetypal energy was requesting of me… That one last thing! - The one possession I could never-ever bear to lose… I thought that this time what was requested of me, might really - but truly : break and end me. And yet: and yet! I agreed. I said Yes

And boom - just like that, I was cut off from my Hanged Man’s position under His watch, and landed - naked, maimed, ravaged but A L I V E - and for visuals, I will also say: - at HIs feet. And that’s when I realized _- this was it. This was the final, greatest test of my fear. And I had none. I had none!…

They say: when you may go, He hands you a package. You may only - but only! - open it when you have made it out of Hades. But then — but then….! Your true prosperity begins

I know what I have found in the package — but rather than telling you what it is - why don’t I just show you, as the years go by. These next 20 years, with Pluto in Aquarius, are just what the Cosmos has had in its exquisite intelligence in store for me - and I cannot stop beaming about how excited I am.

Pluto in Aquarius I.

Friday January 19, 2024

I have been spending some time imagining young Venetia Burney having breakfast with her mother and grandfather on a drizzly morning somewhere in England in 1928-29…. She is 11 years old: that phase in a young girl’s life when there is still so much innocent wonder, and magic everywhere - but also the immanence of an impending shift from her childhood to maiden phase. And something about this - and blood - has already brushed up against her consciousness in a big enough way she asks Mother or Grandfather a question — or a series of them even, — and both guardians of her young life are prompted to tell her a story.

Venetia LOVES stories. She must have done … How else would she have been led into making what she hears about shadows and underworld, and pain and death : and blood: — into a proposition, entirely surprising to the two adults listening to her, making an uncanny connection.

“… but when you die, Mama, where do you go?”
Where is Father Now?
What would she have said, startled? Or did she, mother to her young one: a Demeter to her Kore - the young flower waking up to her own nature — leave it to Grandpapa, master storyteller?
“Let me tell you how I came to understand what happens,” the Elder so much closer to the Truth may have took it upon himself to cast some light on this delicate subject.

I like to imagine this to be the case, all the more poignant because he may have known, intimately, what it is like to be at the gates of hell — and then immersed. He may have been a veterean of World War One, having seen first hand what men are capable of doing onto each other. Or he may have lost a son…

And - but? - then, in the interim war years - with an even bigger wave of destruction on the way, making Europe the continent that was washed away in blood - a new planet is discovered, making news and headlines. In the paper, on the radio…

“You see, my dear child,“ Grandfather might have proceeded leading her on sure feet into a mythic realm that she was able to ingest, digest, and transform in a way that still leaves me in a state of awe. The child, the spirited 11 year-old girl descended, met with a three-headed dog that salivated fertilizer for Aconite , under the command of his master, who got himself a queen while she was out picking daffodils in the springtime, leaving her mother in such a state of rage she changed the climate to get the Olympian Gods‘ attention— and finally, her daughter back, albeit only for half a year... — Venetia followed every detail closely. Nothing escaped her acute attention. Until when the story ended, and Grandfather picked up his morning newspaper, making a comment about the discovery of a new dwarf planet at the very edge of our solar system - and that the Astronomical Society was looking for a name — pensively, the girl put down her fork and said, quite clearly:

“Maybe it should be named Pluto,” startling her mother bigly for a second time that morning.

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All this is unknown, and just one way of intuiting into, and exploring how the story of an 11 year old young lady, a bright comet bursting into the hall of fame of those who look to the stars and planets for answers - might have unfolded. She probably had more conversations with Grandfather about how to submit a naming application; sealed the postage stamp on the envelope while her mother was studying her precise and quiet intent in seeing this all through — we don’t know.

All we know is that Pluto was in the sign of Cancer at the time, realm of the Moon and the archetypal Mother. By the time the Second World War was in full swing, Pluto had moved into Sun-ruled Leo, sign of the archetypal masculine and Father, bringing darkness at noon over the world; and generations upon generations of trauma in its wake and appearance in the collective — and - but? - also: the largest potential for us to also wake up to our destructive, shadowy ways as a species, in person and collectively — and Heal. Together.

Jupiter in Aries

Thursday June 9, 2022

Jupiter in Aries --  Higher Calling, Purpose, and Service, for the Greater Good

Written for The Pearl Vine, published by Chanelle Bergeron, chanelleallesandre.com

Before I launch into a proper introduction of the sixth planet in our solar system named after the King of the Gods, please allow me to share a personal story about my relationship with Jupiter.  At a time in life when I needed to find release from an internal conflict I could not resolve intellectually, I turned to an astrologer.  In my mid-twenties, I needed answers to help me move forward, and make a sound decision I could trust.  And I needed support to come from someone in a neutral position – not from a friend or family.  The question was simple enough: do I leave my native Hungary for a while and travel extensively – or do I stay closer to home, and start sending down my roots.  I simply could not decide. 

Here is what I remember the astrologer said to me as we were exploring my natal chart in May 2001,  twenty-one years ago

“Not only will you travel: you will move to a foreign country, and you will stay there, for a long time.”  The following day, carefree and at home in my skin again I purchased my airline ticket, and the next year, in 2002, I permanently moved to Vermont, US.  It is here where I found my true Home, far away from the country of my origin. 

About a decade and a half later, I became a committed and ever curious student of astrology; and now I understand what my reader at the time must have seen as a clear sign related to my question on my horoscope.   Then, it blew my mind.  Today, I realize that Jupiter’s placement on my natal chart gave a big hint.  This is still a source of exuberant joy for me --  both qualities very closely related to this jovial, good fortune-maker of a planet. 

Also known as the Great Beneficiary, Jupiter governs expansion, and thus literally most aspects related to international travels and long distance journeys.  All matters connected to living abroad, and foreign lands and cultures also have the planet’s involvement and energetic signature.  Jupiter stretches us.  

Wherever it is on the natal chart, Jupiter brings focus and abundant energy there.  Often, it is indicative of a person’s best options, and highest aspirations in life.  In my Ist house, in the sign of Aquarius, Jupiter is a prominent presence; and, as it tuned out, even if I tried to ignore it, eventually the planet’s position would have prompted me to living or working abroad, and try myself out in life far away from where I was born, and away from anything familiar and well-known to me.

And now, without further ado, here is my reading of Jupiter’s large, mighty and noble energetic signature and qualities.

In traditional Western astrology, Jupiter rules both the signs of Sagittarius and Pisces.  In the seven-planet system astrologers have worked with since medieval times, Jupiter is the largest planet, the sixth away from the Sun; and the last one before Saturn, whose orbit represents the outermost layer around our solar system.  Jupiter governs large systems such as law, religion; and justice and morality.  All matters related to spiritual teachings and inner as well as outer journeys and exploration belong under Jupiter’s guidance as well, and as such rituals, ceremonies, and divination too.  It may not come as a big surprise, therefore, that Jupiter also rules Astrology, and this makes Thursday the best, most optimal day for scheduling or giving a reading, or studying this awesome and ancient inner art. 

I consciously chose Thursday to start writing this article, and I finished it on a Thursday as well.

Jupiter has an expansive, massive and abundant energetic signature.  Whatever its energy touches, it inflates, makes big; and things swell, stretch and grow large. Often described as the great Beneficiary planet,  Jupiter moves things up and out into our awareness in copious amounts, with our best interest highlighted.  On the collective level, this means that wherever Jupiter is in the Zodiac, important issues that tend to concern us all rise up and get into focus.  Not all of these issues will be pleasant, and feel like a gift – another key Jupiterian concept. But whatever we consciously reckon with will be to our benefit.

Every Thursday, knowingly or unknowingly, we have a chance to tap into this vast and supportive energy.  Named after the Germanic God of thunder, Thor in English; and more recognizable as Jupiter’s Day in Romance languages, this day of the week is auspicious for tending to legal and financial matters, loans and accounting; higher studies, and practices related to religion and spirituality; and shopping that goes beyond the scope of daily groceries.  It is also ideal for public gatherings, and events that attract large crowds such as demonstrations or meetings; and concerts, especially if they are to benefit a charity, for instance.

Animals that belong under Jupiter’s governance are large in size, wise, and benevolent in nature, like the Elephant, the Whale and the Horse.  Whenever we make contact with these noble beasts, or bring them into our awareness, we are also tapping into Jupiter’s energetic qualities.  The same is true for when we eat large quantities of food, or enjoy a feast; and equally, when we consciously wear colors associated with the planet such as deep maroons and oranges, cardinal red, and above all: purple.  Amethyst is Jupiter’s mineral.  And last but not in the least, the Liver, the largest internal organ of our body, is also under Jupiter’s rule. Lemonbalm (Melissa officinalis) is very beneficial as an herb both for liver support, and also as an overall uplifting, aromatic plant that opens up expansion where there may have been only limitations or stagnation before.

On May 10th 2022, Jupiter entered the sign of Aries, and will stay there until October 27th.  With this, a whole new cycle started for the planet around the Zodiac.  Aries is a fire sign, the first of the twelve signs; and its ruler, Mars governs issues related to our personal needs and wants, and all matters related to ego and our individuality.  After a few long years of being constrained by circumstances beyond our control, Jupiter entering into the realm of the Ram brings a sense of excitement, and even urgency.  We may notice a need to get behind the wheel and take leadership – or agency - in our lives once again.   This drive, however, while it is justifiable may quickly lead to excess hot-headedness, zeal and fervor; and more noticeably:  impatience.

Heat, in general, will be one thing to be aware of in the environment, and we will probably reach record heights in temperatures this summer again.   Mars governed Aries is also associated with the realm of war and fighting.  On the level of the collective, these scenarios will be very noticeable and move crowds into action; a heated environment and war related-issues will be felt by all, wherever we are on the planet.   The heroic aspects of Mars and Aries, especially with Jupiter transiting the sign, may inspire record numbers of people to step into a place of service.

While the sheer magnitude of these scenarios may be a daunting task, we may learn new things about how we manage and respond at the personal level.  Jupiter will help with focus, and highlight gifts or values we may have been unaware of before.  Our inner hero may step forth, especially when we pause and ask this question:  where were we, with our individual wishes and wants, our needs and life’s purpose twelve years ago? 

In 2010, too, Jupiter was transiting the sign of Aries.  What was important to you, personally, then?  What were your callings, the larger picture that gave you a sense of purpose; what was claiming your attention and commanding you to take action to achieve your goals twelve years ago?  And:  has any of it remained, and grown?

For me, personally, an amazing trajectory shows up when I take time to respond…  The most exciting thing is that some patterns emerge, and some similarities reveal the same excitement and foresight.  I am especially thrilled to see that in classic Jupiterian fashion, the act of service is still strongly present, and still wants to be as largely available as possible.   In 2010, I became interested in working with a local food organization that distributes food a to people in need – and in I became one of their drivers.  Today, together with my husband, I am a baker of wholegrain, sourdough breads, and feel passionate about talking to people about the value of good, wholesome, local food. And while my astrological studies haven’t even started yet twelve years ago, here I am, writing this article, at least some of which will hopefully be of benefit to you.

At the end of October 2022, Jupiter will reenter the sign of Pisces, which will provide a sense of gestation for whatever has emerged during the summer.   There will be plenty of opportunity to observe where you may be called into action, or in what way your life’s purpose has been evolving.  We all get a sense of revision to see how we may best serve each other in heated environments both literally and in the metaphorical sense.   Jupiter’s return journey in Aries will start as 2022 ends, and last all the way into May 2023, completing a full year in Aries.

Jupiter in Aries:  May 10 – October 27, 2022

Jupiter in Pisces:  October 28, 2022 – December 20, 2022

Jupiter in Aries (return journey):  December 21 – May 16, 2023