Thursday, August 12, 2010

Pluto's t-square explodes

Now what is it that causes two of the worst oil spills in world history, one off America and one off China, to occur within days of each other? Well the other day, a few editions back, I mentioned a total solar eclipse which fell on 11 July (on the day of the World Cup Final and Spain’s victory) and how it involved a tight T- square aspect between several planets, all focused on Pluto in Capricorn. Well the square aspect to Pluto has lasted for several months now, even though the solar eclipse only lasted a few minutes. In Greek mythology and astrological lore Pluto is Lord of the Underworld, affiliated with anything which is buried or hidden - the unconscious, hidden treasures and the earth’s hidden wealth. The archetypal shadow even, outwardly dark and negative, but potentially the source of our support and ultimate individuation when harnessed, according to Jung. Pluto literally means “the wealthy one”. Astrologically Pluto is also associated with mines and mining, (as well as plumbing curiously) and I couldn’t help but see the two oil drilling disasters as a synchronous ripple in the tide of the planet, playing itself out while the other planets echoed in the symphony of the solar system. The planets have been grouping up against each other at three points in the constellation belt around Earth for the past few months; some in square aspect (90 degrees) and others in opposition (180 degrees) to each other. And these are all the slowest moving planets; that’s why this multiple aspect is lasting so long, since April when the oil spill first occurred. A way of reading the oracle of the planets at the moment, simply by looking at a horoscope for the past few months, would be to see that all that pressure from Saturn and Uranus on Pluto has manifested as blowing the lid on our subterranean stores and sending all their black gold spewing uncontained.
Besides that, Pluto symbolizes hidden forces, of the depths where they gather and of their ruthless, irresistible or uncontrollable eruptions. Pluto was also in Capricorn in 536 AD, when the Mediterranean froze under a cloud of dust, due to a volcanic eruption in the Southern Hemisphere that brought a nuclear winter to the North. That makes the volcanic eruption in Iceland the other day look quite mild, but it does seem to suggest a pattern.
Then last week (early Aug) the faster planets of the solar system joined the T- square configuration for a few days. Venus, the goddess of love and good fortune, smiled on the situation and BP finally sealed their leak just as Venus joined Saturn. It’s not over yet though. I wonder what the horoscope of BP’s CEO who had to resign looks like?
If Pluto was prominent in his chart, or any of the first few degrees of the Cardinal signs were important (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn). That is where it’s all taking place in the zodiac now.

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