Being in Saturn’s sign at the moment, Jupiter is not behaving as it normally would. Jupiter is actually working for Saturn when transiting Capricorn. Remember that. It’s like Saturn Lite.
Planets in their fall or detriment don’t behave in all the ways we expect them to. There’s tension inherent within the awkwardness. That’s not to say they don’t behave in ways we’d consider “positive,” it’s just that the energy is struggling to come out naturally. Take Jupiter in Gemini, for instance: Jupiter typically likes foreign travel and contemplating philosophical musings, but all that tends to go out the window when it’s in Gemini. There tends to be way more local trips with Jupiter in Gemini.
Just to be clear: if you have natal planets in detriment or fall, that does not mean you will never be successful in that area of life. You are more than any individual placement in your chart. In fact, you are more than every placement, because you are your entire chart, plus something incredible. Does it mean your planet in detriment can come out funny? Yes. Learn to work with it.
I’m a fan of Pluto – a self-described Plutonian, I understand the need for change and destruction. That doesn’t mean I enjoy it all the time! But I understand the necessity for the process of decay, death, and rebirth. Pluto is the mechanism of survival. It’s a means to an end. It can be strategic, and it often is, or it can be tragic (and it often is). It’s solely up to the person to decide where that mechanism is directed.
Pluto represents the highest good in any of us as much as it represents the darkest evils. When Pluto is used for selfish means, it does not end well. That’s because its mechanism is meant to promote the evolution of the species, or the collective, not of the ego. That’s not what its power is for.
Plutonians have no choice but to change. If I don’t change myself, Pluto will do it for me, and that’s usually no fun at all.
This brings me to my next point: transit Pluto is different than natal Pluto. Neither is for the faint of heart. Just because I’m a fan of this dwarf planet with a heart-shaped ice sheet on it, it doesn’t mean I don’t fear the crises it often produces as it cuts across the sky.
Nobody likes destruction when it ruins something they value. We all have attachments, and this is why Pluto transits can be devastating to some. Pluto puts us face to face with pain, but if you are Plutonian, you see the value in the process. You understand the fragility of life and you see the value of pain. This doesn’t make it any less painful, but you understand – at a deep level – it is through pain that we find salvation.
So, Pluto is the mechanism that destroys what no longer serves and births the path that will. It’s not always fair and it’s rarely pleasant or enjoyable, but it’s necessary. Its function is on the soul-level, too. We may or may not be conscious of the purpose a particular crisis has in our lives. This is why a tough Pluto transit can seem like straight-up punishment. We don’t know what our souls signed up for.
But when we get through it, we get some perspective and realize that our loss had served a higher purpose (if we do it right). I can talk more about Pluto in another post.
Moving on to Jupiter – what a glorious, benevolent god! The god of abundance! Prosperity! He who expands everything he touches! That can’t be a bad thing, right? Surely, Jupiter’s presence is easing the suffering? That is actually probably a little true, but his presence is also making the situation a lot bigger than anyone previously thought. Bad things can become bigger, too. More of a bad thing is possible whenever Jupiter is thrown in the mix.
So, having this Jupiter Pluto conjunction in Capricorn, where I believe Pluto holds way more power, going exact three different times in a year marked by a Saturn Pluto conjunction and the subsequent plague-ish thing that scorched the earth – well, I’m not going to sugar-coat this: we are in for some very dark, surreal times.
At the moment, everyone is fighting this virus, but what is going to happen once we have some semblance of control over that situation? Do you think that’s when everything goes to shit? Or, is the shit sandwich being served right now, as I type this, and we’ll all come together to plant trees after this is over?
I am hoping this is the worst of the issue but the remainder of this year looks less than easy. I need anyone reading this to keep your feet firmly on the ground and start strategizing. Inherent in every problem is the solution. To battle these energies, we need to use the energies themselves. The human race needs long-term strategy and vision. Saturn, Pluto, Jupiter.
One more thing for my fellow Americans: Jupiter and Pluto conjunct each other directly opposite America’s Mercury. Partile! Transit Pluto stations retrograde opposing America’s Mercury and transit Jupiter is still in orb at 27 Capricorn when it stations retrograde. This is all just profound. Mercury in the mundane chart of a country represents anything related to teaching, news, and transportation. It’s literally the movement of a nation, the exchange of goods and services, and how it communicates.
The aspect also represents where a nation is, mentally. Pluto opposing Mercury in any chart dealing with sentient beings can cause paranoia, skepticism, emotional/mental volatility, extremes of the mind, intensity, and the list goes on. It swings in either direction. Jupiter added into the picture is about belief and faith. So, Jupiter with Pluto opposing America’s Mercury – extreme and volatile thoughts and beliefs. Fanaticism.
As the coronavirus crisis went underway in America, I read a news report that people were buying ammunition and guns at rapid speed. This is nothing new – this happens whenever there’s a crisis. Still, I hope no one becomes violent. Violence only perpetuates the same situation that created it in the first place. But I am watching the planets closely. You should, too.
I wish everybody did.
This year, 2020, is going to go down in history, and it’s not because of all the easy things that happened. It’s the year that begins the story of the second American Revolution. Everything that sucks is going to swell up in our faces and balloon out of control until it’s finally popped and we, the people, finally get to say: “We want the opposite of that.”
And we will get it. We just have to survive this part first.