On Feb 18, 2022, Pluto enters the Aquarius 9th division of sidereal Capricorn. It will remain here until it retrogrades back to the Capricorn division, of Capricorn, by Jul 14, before re-entering the Aquarius division by Dec 26.
This shows a subtle, yet important, shift in 2022, as Pluto moves all of its focus from Capricorn, placing some on Aquarius. 'Necessity is the mother of invention'. Indeed.
Each sign is divided up by different degrees to show different divisional charts used in Indian astrology. Each divisional chart hons in on specific areas. These divisions show a more precise picture of what is going on. My teacher Pearl Finn used to say that it was like the difference between looking at the whole country and each county within that country.
In Mundane astrology, we can see certain trends when planets move from one sign to the next in each of the divisional charts. This shows important themes, underlying strengths and weaknesses.
The most important divisional chart is the 9th division (dividing the signs by 9 = 3 degrees and 20 minutes for each division). It is given such importance in Indian astrology that it is always seen side-by-side with the main chart, as if two eyes of a person's chart. Looking at both gives a fuller picture.
You may have a planet in a weak position in your birth chart, but it may tell a very different story in the 9th division. This may show an outer challenge to the significations, more obviously expressed in some sense of lack. Yet it can show an underlying strength you feel within.
You may have a weak Mars in your birth chart and apparently lack the courage to stand up for yourself. Yet if Mars were also very strong in your 9th division, I wouldn't cross you!
The 9th division shows underlying strengths of the planets’ transits, too.
This shows a subtle, yet important, shift in 2022, as Pluto moves all of its focus from Capricorn, placing some on Aquarius. 'Necessity is the mother of invention'. Indeed.
Each sign is divided up by different degrees to show different divisional charts used in Indian astrology. Each divisional chart hons in on specific areas. These divisions show a more precise picture of what is going on. My teacher Pearl Finn used to say that it was like the difference between looking at the whole country and each county within that country.
In Mundane astrology, we can see certain trends when planets move from one sign to the next in each of the divisional charts. This shows important themes, underlying strengths and weaknesses.
The most important divisional chart is the 9th division (dividing the signs by 9 = 3 degrees and 20 minutes for each division). It is given such importance in Indian astrology that it is always seen side-by-side with the main chart, as if two eyes of a person's chart. Looking at both gives a fuller picture.
You may have a planet in a weak position in your birth chart, but it may tell a very different story in the 9th division. This may show an outer challenge to the significations, more obviously expressed in some sense of lack. Yet it can show an underlying strength you feel within.
You may have a weak Mars in your birth chart and apparently lack the courage to stand up for yourself. Yet if Mars were also very strong in your 9th division, I wouldn't cross you!
The 9th division shows underlying strengths of the planets’ transits, too.
Pluto in Capricorn
Pluto entered sidereal Capricorn in Jan 2020. The first 3 degrees and 20 minutes of Capricorn just happens to be the Capricorn division in the 9th divisional chart. This occurs at the beginning of all the cardinal signs, Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn. The first 3 degrees and 20 minutes of these signs is equivalent to the same signs in the 9th division. This shows a sort of doubling up of the strengths.
But what is being strengthened, exactly?
Pluto in Capricorn has not been an easy one, I think you'd agree. Pluto is the part of us, whether personal or collective, we don't wish to look at, the changes we avoid at all costs. And yet, we know change is inevitable.
On a collective level, we have seen plenty of examples of Pluto in Capricorn since 2020, including governments enforcing lockdowns. Capricorn represents structures and systems that give us a sense of order. Pluto is about changing these structures, whether it’s the way we work, live, bank, shop, whatever we do. Capricorn is the natural 10th sign of the zodiac, which is all about our collective karma. Capricorn has such a huge say in how the world is run, and who is running it.
Pluto is about dismantling the current world order. It’s a reset.
But Pluto does so very, very slowly. Pluto has only just begun a 20-year transit in sidereal Capricorn and will continue to transit here until 2040.
What we're witnessing is the beginning of the end of many more structures that we never thought would end. And yet, we know things cannot last - even something or someone that seemed so powerful at one time.
Let's take China as an example.
When you see a totalitarian regime begin to enforce more controls on its people, it's probably telling us the regime itself feels an existential threat. It's just the same if you would attempt to maintain order if any of the structures you currently have in your life were threatened.
If someone turned up at your door one day and said you had to leave your house behind and come with them, I'm sure you wouldn't go quietly. You would fight for what you thought was yours. But is it yours?
Nothing and no one belongs to any of us. We're just passing through. Pluto teaches us this important, scary, lesson.
Blow this out to the world stage and we can see a regime’s response is perfectly natural, as is their downfall.
China is a good example because of its more recent incarnation, having recently celebrated 70 years of the People's Republic of China. The chart for Oct 1, 1949, at 15.01 in Beijing, has sidereal Capricorn as both its rising and Moon sign, with Mars opposite in the 7th with Pluto.
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