Saturn/Pluto’s Shadow & Some Very Good News

Many of us tracking Pluto’s momentous, fateful transit of Capricorn have felt especial concerned about the Saturn/Pluto conjunction in Capricorn coming in January 2020.

To me, it seems like the last big unresolved worry, the last dark cloud, the last question mark.

Pluto completed the transition into Capricorn in November 2008.

The destructive potential of Pluto in Capricorn was very apparent to all from very early on.

The Pluto Capricorn ingress correlated closely with the economic crisis that plunged the global economy into a deep and prolonged recession.

Not too long afterwards, governments began to fall.

Political unrest spread through the world.

That unrest is still very much with us.

The world, by now, seems to have absorbed much of the initial destructive power of the Pluto/Capricorn transit.

The global economy shows every sign of bouncing back.

But we still need to worry about the Saturn/Pluto conjunction in January 2020.

That conjunction, which takes us into the realm of irresistible forces (Pluto and immovable objects (Saturn), will involve the release of immense and potentially very destructive energy.

So what might that have to do with current conditions?

In recent months, there has been a rich mixture of positive and negative aspects.

The positive aspects have been uplifting and sustaining.

People have been able to make a lot of important and positive changes.

The hard aspects have been unexpectedly hard.

On the macro-level, there have been a surprising number of violent and tragic events.

On the individual level, there has been serious, continuing physical and emotional pain and hardship.

The positive and negative aspects come in rapid succession.

The negative aspects seem to be especially strong, though.

The day-to-day contrast is especially sharp.

One day things go well.

The next day something surprisingly bad happens.

And it isn’t just events in the outer world.

The hard aspects are riding roughshod over our old psychological defense mechanisms, forcing us to face what we thought was safely hidden from ourselves and the world.

We've also had to revisit issues we thought had been properly settled years ago.

At the same time, we are having to work harder to manage current stresses and strains.

Stress and adversity continue to mount.

So what's happening?

A Saturn/Pluto conjunction in Capricorn is transformative in the extreme.

It is also potentially very destructive.

It functions primarily by testing existing structures and breaking down those that do not pass the test.

Saturn/Pluto tests are very often extreme.

This conjunction is setting out there, less than six years in the future.

It is something in the nature of a final test and has the potential to breakdown structures that survived the Pluto Capricorn transit and those that have been built since.

It is my view that present difficult aspects, and probably those difficult aspects for several years to come, will tap into the power of the Saturn/Pluto conjunction.

They are, thereby, helping to release the dangerous energies of the Saturn/Pluto conjunction before the main event.

They are also pre-testing structures and people, preparing and strengthening them for the final Saturn/Pluto test.

Hopefully, the Saturn/Pluto conjunction in January 2020 will be an anticlimax.

Other astrological factors too numerous to mention - planetary ingresses, special planetary formations like the "Diamond Tetrahedron” of July 2013, the supermoons, the Uranus/Pluto squares, and so on - have, or still are, contributing to the energetic overload and the volatility apparent in day-to-day events across the world.

But many of these astrological factors are in the past, or mostly so.

Their energy has been released and absorbed.

These other astrological events helped bring about current conditions.

In my view, then, in practical terms, the looming Saturn/Pluto conjunction is the operative factor, now.

The bottom line is that we can expect current astrological trends - with these deceptively strong negative aspects - to continue.

We are still close to the beginning of this long, pre-release of Saturn/Pluto energies and the negative energies are still very strong.

Eventually, and most likely before the Saturn/Pluto conjunction hits, things will ease up.

The destructive power of the Saturn/Pluto conjunction will have been largely depleted and the world will have been well and truly tested, effectively rendering the actual Saturn/Pluto conjunction an afterthought.

But there is also some actual, straight up good news.

From December 23, 2014 until August 11, 2015 - for about 8 months beginning this Christmas - Uranus in Aries, Jupiter in Leo and Saturn in Sagittarius will be in trine relationship.

Long story short, the first 8 months of 2015 will be a period of high positive synchronicity.

And a great relief after the year we’ve been having.

A lot of good things will happen.

Positive changes will fall into place.

Also, during that time, difficult events will tend to motivate and hasten positive change.

People will have more options.

Uranus will contribute sudden, irreversible change for the better.

Jupiter will contribute timely good fortune and ensure generally benevolent outcomes.

Saturn will contribute both wisdom and permanence.

Hence, as stress and adversity accumulate, we are being pushed to make change and prepare for even more change.

I am sure that many of us are just waiting for the opportunity to make a move.

Current astrological conditions are not ideal for making the needed changes.

Jupiter in Leo, and Saturn's pending ingress into Sagittarius are both strong positives.

But what we really need is for vibes that will really help things come together in a good way.

And that is what the first 8 months of 2015 will provide.

Those months will be ideal for making changes, large and small.

Also, if we use that time to make the right changes, life will be better in the years immediately following.

It is not just around the corner, but the five month stretch between now and the end of December is not an eternity.

Source is: Carl Boudreau