In an astrologer's terms, Pluto — who takes a generation to move from one sign into the next — has entered the sign of Capricorn. This occurred just within the last year.

Pluto is the great transformer — the Phoenix — life, death, rebirth, all in one. To our incarnate eyes, he seems quite as dark as the god he is named for. Thing is, he never “kills” without the specific purpose of allowing for a grand, and much-needed, rebirth — an evolution. He — “death”, or more clearly, change — represents, of course, a healthy and necessary stage of the life cycle. Still, it's just as you say; every one of us, on some level, is afraid of the unknown which lies ahead.

Capricorn, I should add, is the sign most concerned with this type of financial crisis: Jobs, careers, the work-force. Simply put, the economy. Capricorn's ruler, to boot, is Saturn, our “task-master”. Even in a personal horoscope, Saturn returns to every person, every thirty years — he trains us into truer and truer levels of maturity. So hold on tight, consumerist friends; here we go!

Astrologers have been watching for Pluto's ingress into Capricorn for many years… but it doesn't take a skyward glance to see what we've done. With the throw-away lifestyle we've courted for fifty-plus years? Not to be too technical about it: DUH! Who needs to be “different” to see?

But I, who am also heckled as “too different” — presumably because I am inconsiderate enough to stargaze — know it is a time to personally change, or to be taken out of this changing world's equation. It's time… on many, many levels.

I hope we will hold hands as we cross the street. Good Luck.

Thank you for reading and sharing your thoughts with me,

Tara

There's been a definite groundswell of social awareness and change, and it's been coming from the creative sector. The very fact that its creative minds that are leading the way is proof that if you take the shackles off, answers will come.

Thanks for sharing this post on today of all days.