PLUTO IN AQUARIUS

 

Having acknowledged the Solstice of Capricorn, emphasised by a New Moon, and spent three days in thought, meditation and mundane preparation, most of us are now ready to acknowledge the birth of the Christos or the coming of a greater spiritual awareness, celebrated by the Christians in a day called Christmas. Others have different names for this time of the solar cycle.

The Christos according to Leonardo.

Let those who are privileged to enjoy the festivities have a thought and prayer for those still in turmoil following a year of turmoil.

 

One does not like to be a kill-joy, but folks it is not over yet. The tiny but powerful planet Pluto is sitting at the threshold of Aquarius. At the doorstep between Capricorn and Aquarius, Pluto hovers throughout 2023. This major transit between zodiac signs denotes a major shift in cosmic influence. But it is hard to pin down or translate into useful information, although many will have a go at it.

Tiny and slow moving Pluto took 16 slow grinding years to pass through the sign of Capricorn and as it is with Pluto, you can’t really see or comprehend what is going on until there is enough distance in time and space to look back and observe what had occurred. And so, we do look back and see that Pluto in Capricorn brought some incredibly important shake-ups such as those in our precious institutions of banking and money systems based on greed of a few, and large company control of smaller players, and puppet governments, and other organisations, all of which come under the influence of Capricorn. Being an EARTH sign, we of course saw what can happen, not only with mother nature and planet Earth, but also the massive changes to Earth’s inhabitants – we no longer have just boys and girls but a full range of gender expressions – when have we seen that in history before? There is a rather neglected side of Capricorn that points to the god Pan and the god Priapus and the fundamental life force that runs through us and all of created beings. Not to forget the Great Triple Moon goddess who has reclaimed her throne.

                        

 

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Pan the Great Green God of Nature                          Triple Hecate by Stéphane Mallarmé

The time period of Pluto in Capricorn reached something of a peak with the by now famous and renowned conjunction of major planets in 2018 and 2020/1  [see blogs of December2018 and December 2020 and November 2021]

Pluto, god of the ‘Underworld’ or the ‘Otherworld’, of treasure hidden in the dark, will move in and out of Aquarius over the next couple of years until he/she finally settles in the AIR sign of Aquarius in 2025 and stays there till 2044; 19 to 21 long years. Will the people of the future generations look back on this time and see how radically new ways of moving through the air came into being? Will it be a time of developing more ways of using air to fuel our ever-growing energy needs? Will there be an ever-increasing awareness of air pollution and the impact on the importance of good breathing, to both our physical and psychic development.  Will we care for each other more and more or will we be subjected to ever increasing surveillance to make sure that the many are dancing to the demands and ‘rights’ of the few?  In which case, there are bound to be many major revolts and revolutions ahead, as the followers of Saturnian control, discipline, and the past, compete with the followers of Uranian search for freedom, innovation and the future. But then again, the few who can combine the two ways to produce practical innovation can lead us to a future Utopia? Will there be a continuing thinning of the veil between dimensions, an increasing blurring of the line between the worlds of reality and virtual living, aided by runaway technology? Either way, over the next 20 years, the mental world is sure to dominate in the end. With our thoughts, we create the world said ‘Monkey’.

Water and Air

Pan and Hecate

    

AAL’S LABYRINTH HISTORY An Alternative Viewpoint…..contd. #50

c1000 BCE      TUATHA DE DANANN followers of the Goddess Danu/Dana and early occupants of Ireland will be taken over by Celtic invaders, sometime in the 4^th century BCE, (21a) perhaps by Milesians from Spain and of Cretan origin. The Tuatha had four treasures, known as the Four Treasures of Ireland and nominated as magical emblems of the Tuatha gods. The Four Treasures are the ‘Cauldron of the Dagda’, father of all; the ‘Spear of Lug’; the ‘Sword of Nuada’; and the ‘Stone of Fal’. (10)

Cauldron of Hochdorf

                    LUGH of the Long Arm a hero who comes to live among the Tuatha de Danaan. His face shone like the sun. He wore a silver chain, token of the Milky Way running across the heavens, he carried the seven-coloured rainbow, his sword was called ‘Answerer’, and his boat the ‘Wave-Sweeper’ was inherited from the god of the Ocean. [371]

Scabbard of Hallstatt

                    The Celtic race probably originated in France (Gaul) before expanding throughout Europe (Germany and Britain) and the Middle East in the latter part of the first millennium BCE, thus they ranged across Europe from the Caspian mountains to Ireland. Eventually the Celts will be repulsed by the Roman and Germanic tribes and withdraw into Gaul by 1^st century BCE, although they will remain a heavy influence in Ireland and Britain for much longer. (13) After being beaten by the Romans in the future, the Celts will gradually be converted to Christianity in the 5^th century CE. (9)

Celtic God Cernunnos

                    Celtic society is divided generally into three classes:- the priests and priestesses called Druids and Dryads, the warriors, and the common people or serfs. Teachings and philosophies of the priest cast were not recorded but transferred by oral teaching, as in the case of many ancient peoples including the Hebrews. It is known from archaeological research that the Celts, or rather the priestly Druids and Dryads, understood and applied astronomical and mathematical knowledge. (9)

                    The priestly cast in old Irish are called Drui and are followers of the Moon Goddess Artemis.  The priestesses reigned supreme in the first matriarchal phase of the Druidic cult but later the male Druids as priests of Be’al, the one god identified with the sun, takeover in the second patriarchal phase of the cult. Generally, as bardic wizards, the priestly cast kept the oral tradition alive to eventually form the nucleus of future medieval sagas, epic, and ballads, such as those of King Arthur. (13. 28)

The Four Treasures by

Marg Thomson

                    Celtic knowledge will descend through the generations in knowledge of the Four Seasons and the Four divisions of the solar year. These are celebrated in the Spring Rite of flowering EARTH at Beltane, the Summer Rite of the heat or FIRE at Lammas, the Autumn Rite of WATER at Samhain and the Winter Rite of the new light of AIR at Candlemas.

The Magician of the Four Treasures

by J.M.Simpson

                    Towards the end of this millennium waves of migrant peoples now begin to bring new cultural influences into Spain and Europe. Celtic people speaking an Indo-European language spread their culture, and settlers from more advanced civilizations establish towns along the Mediterranean coast: Phoenicians at Cadiz, Greeks at Malaga and Ampurias, and Carthaginians at Cartagena. (102)