Astrology: Pluto in Aquarius, March 23, 2023

Abridged version  of an article by Anne Whitaker https://anne-whitaker.com/2022/11/28/march-2023-to-november-2024-plutos-slow-final-grind-from-capricorn-to-aquarius/

March 2023 to November 2024: Pluto’s slow final grind from 

Capricorn to Aquarius…

 

• Pluto enters Aquarius on 23 March 2023
• Retrogrades into Capricorn on 11 June 2023
• Re-enters Aquarius on 21 January 2024

the big shift from an Earth era defined by the 20-year Jupiter/Saturn cycles traversing the Earth element from 1803, to an Air era beginning with the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction at 0 Aquarius on the Winter Solstice of 2020, then running for around two hundred years. (i)

Pluto will emphasise this momentous era shift by first entering Aquarius in the spring of 2023, following on his long sojourn in Capricorn from the spring of 2008 which kicked off with a devastating world banking crisis. Also – in 2025 Neptune enters Aries, for the first time since the onset of the American civil war in the 1850s, ushering in a Fire/Air period for the next number of years.

Aquarius is the sign of the human collective, symbolising an energy driven to pursuing and promoting ideals regarding how we should be moving forward in order to create a fairer, more equal world. It is a highly rational, technology and future-oriented, “Let’s get together to make the world a better place”, kind of energy. 

As such, we should see some major developments at all levels as power (Pluto) shifts towards The People, away from plutocrats, oligarchs, and from politics rooted in gaining material power and control through exploitation of planet Earth’s diminishing resources, towards (in theory!!) more equal world-wide sharing of power derived from an Air-based technologically expedited economic system. Also, the development of wind and solar energy is likely to accelerate with Neptune’s shift into Aries from 2025 onwards. 

Pluto’s last sojourn through Aquarius (1778–1798) brought with it sweeping changes in social order and public rights, including: the ratification of the American constitution following the USA’s breaking away from Britain’s colonial control, the rise and expansion of the Industrial Revolution, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the publishing of ‘The Vindication of the Rights of Women’ by Mary Wollestonecraft. 

From https://cafeastrology.com/pluto-aquarius-transit.html

Background: While Pluto was in Capricorn from 2008 to 2023/2024, we were testing our boundaries. It was an intense period of breaking down, exposing, renovating, and rebuilding structures, governments, traditions, and rules. We sought a life path that reflected our true self or true ambitions. Pluto was/is in Capricorn from January 25, 2008, to June 14, 2008, November 26, 2008, to March 23, 2023, June 11, 2023, to January 20, 2024, and then September 1, 2024, to November 19, 2024.

Pluto demands renovation and a connection with our true ambitions wherever it touches our charts. Pluto will reveal vulnerable areas that need strengthening and fears that need eradicating. During this transit of Pluto in Aquarius, it’s time for a complete overhaul of:

• friendship,
• social structures and networks,
• community,
• group associations,
• humanitarianism and individuality,
• scientific inventions and progress,
• our happiness goals.

While Pluto is in Aquarius, we take social structures and politics especially seriously, and we seek major reform in these areas. Unusual, intense, or dramatic happenings are possible with friends and networks.During this long-term cycle, we are likely to confront issues of control and power related to individuality, equality, friendships, and group associations.

We can be on a quest to distinguish ourselves for our progressiveness, scientific minds, ideals, humanitarianism, or unique qualities. It’s also a time when we seek to change and overhaul society through science, inventions, and the mind/ideas. It can certainly be a time when we are more intense, jealous, or even paranoid in our social lives. New ways of approaching our social needs can be in order. We’re doing things differently because of our new perspective on these matters.

(i) See the P.S Windows to the Future section of my recent collection “Postcards to the Future”(August 2021), including ‘Waning and waxing crescents: windows to the future’ (first published in The Mountain Astrologer Dec 2020/Jan 2021)pp 365-380

(ii)https://jessicadavidson.co.uk/2021/06/07/pluto-in-aquarius-the-evolution-of-society-and-technology/