Looking Back at Previous Jupiter Trines to Pluto

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Today, we're going to take a look at Jupiter's trine to Pluto. This is Jupiter in Gemini trining Pluto and Aquarius. And we're going to do so by looking back at the previous Jupiter Pluto context dating all the way back to 2002. And three, you guys who watch my channel know that occasionally, I like to go backward in time as a way of deepening our understanding of a current transit. So that's what we're going to do today; we're going to look at three of the major Jupiter Pluto themes that you can track both now and in these previous periods. And by looking back on them, hopefully, you will be able to see some connective tissue between previous times in your life and the period that we're entering into right now. So that is our agenda for today. 

 

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All right, I'm going to put the real-time clock up, and we are going to take a look at this upcoming trine from Jupiter to Pluto. And here we are on Tuesday, May 28, and Jupiter has entered Gemini, which means we are now officially in the trine in the window of the trine, which is typically implied by about a three-degree engagement range. So here's the trine between the two planets that's today, but when will you be experiencing this? 

 

You'll see the exact exact connection between the two happens between Sunday, June 2, and Monday, June 3, then the two planets will start to separate as Jupiter moves along its merry way. And we give it about a three-degree range of separation, and that takes Jupiter up to about June 15 Before Jupiter is separated within three degrees. But then, for the entirety of the next year Ju,piter is in the sign of Gemini. We will see the two configured by a whole sign trine, which means that the themes we are going to discuss today will be active throughout the year. 

 

Now Pluto hops into Capricorn briefly, in which case the two signs are not configured between September and November. But then, in November, it comes back, and Jupiter in Gemini is retrograding and will not catch Pluto by an exact trine, but the two remain configured by a whole sign trine, which is very important from the standpoint of ancient astrology. That whole sign trine will be in effect all the way until the month of June 2025, when Jupiter jumps into cancer. So, the exact trine window is very it's imminent; it is right in front of us right now. 

 

Then, we get the whole sine configuration for a year, which continues to connect the two areas of the Zodiac in an airy manner. But the most potent connection between the two planets is really right in front of us. So what I want to do today is we're going to go back in time and look at a whole bunch of different trying periods and a couple of conjunctions between Jupiter and Pluto in between trying periods. 

 

As a way of refreshing some of the themes I'm going to share with you guys the the homework that I did, which is always how I do this; I'm just like, hey look, go back at these periods, do a little creative writing, do a little connecting of the dots and see what you come up with. But in order to know what to look for in these previous periods and in order to follow this exercise and get something out of it, we need to revisit some of the basic Jupiter-Pluto themes. 

 

We've already spoken about Jupiter Pluto in a previous video, but I am going to refresh on some of the basic Jupiter Pluto themes today so that we can have that reminder going into this exercise. 

 

So number one is about life philosophy, going through a change or a significant period of transformation, life philosophy being a Jupiterian quality, and Pluto being the agent of death and rebirth. So, life philosophy is falling apart and reaching a moment of or reaching a moment of critical transformation. 

 

Now, life philosophy is one way of looking at Jupiter. But you could also say that Jupiter is about what creates coherence in our lives. So systems or structures of moral or philosophical or intellectual order. What grants us a sense of, what orients our lives, our values, the sense of direction and wholeness that is created through various aspects of our life simultaneously, which means Jupiter can be a little abstract at times because it's you're not, we're not always thinking about all of the different things that sort of come together to create a sense, or a feeling of wholeness or a sense of living in an ordered and beautiful reality personally. 

 

So when Jupiter and Pluto get together in trines, the nice thing is that there's a kind of harmonious flowing connection between the two planets such that it's not the critical transformation or disruption of values or philosophies that resembles the crisis of say, an opposition or even a square. The trine periods of Jupiter and Pluto tend to be about periods of integrating new things into a life philosophy or a worldview. Things that Pluto doesn't want us to exclude are darker, deeper, more intense facets of reality and explorations of shadow that need to work their way into how we see the world and how we do things. 

 

So you hit these Jupiter Pluto periods, and you can think about the compass morally and spiritually as you go through a reorientation. You can think about philosophy and understanding, transforming who and what act as the guideposts the spiritual guides, the teachers, the, the How does your worldview hang together by what does it hang together and this is going to shift or move or transform, and it can do so rather fluidly and harmoniously during these trine periods, which is nice. So that's one Jupiter-Pluto theme. 

 

The second one is a period of fertile growth fueled by depth, power, and Plutonian change. So Jupiter, broadly speaking, everyone knows the word expansion with Jupiter; we think about things that grow and get bigger things that are augmented or amplified. Jupiter is about what is growing in the garden Jupiter, along with Venus, were both planets that were associated with the conditions necessary for life in the garden to grow moist, warm, you know, and it's sunny, and some rain-like mix it all up and you get the conditions that allow for plants to grow and for fruit to to come on to the tree of life. So, Jupiter, by its nature, is often associated with growth. 

 

However, when it is in any kind of contact with Pluto, then we have that growth that is being fueled by encounters with Plutonian subject matter depth, darkness intensity, mystery, encounters with desire, fear, and the libidinal and instinctual side of things. So we get in touch with when we get in touch with the energies of Jupiter and Pluto, you can think about things growing, but they grow specifically with a kind of depth and power and intensity behind them. So it's periods where there's growth, but there's a kind of deep current of power and intensity in Asaka. It's edgy. There's a kind of edginess that goes with it.

 

You can also say that, unlike, you know, other Plutonian dynamics where there's sort of crisis and things fall apart, there feels like there's a destructive but fertile energy, that the edge is taken off from that kind of Plutonian change, because Jupiter allows things to be a little bit more uplifting, and there's just a little bit more excitement behind the change. So you could also look at this as a period of Plutonian crisis transformation rebirthing with a more uplifting and expansive quality added to it. 

 

Now, the third one that I have here is encounters with power and the shadows of power, so anytime that you have Jupiter and Pluto combined, one of the great qualities is empowerment. Whatever areas of your life, Pluto and Jupiter touch together through their trine in the birth chart, like topically, the whole sign houses, there's a great feeling of empowerment coming through those topics. And that can be a wonderful thing. 

 

However, what often accompanies the experience or encounter with power and is also the shadow of power when things grow really quickly. And sometimes you're not ready for change, then there can be it's like someone hits the lottery, and their life changes overnight. There are so many stories that actually have been well documented of people really going into almost like decompensation, mentally and emotionally. They don't they don't know how to handle that kind of sudden wealth. It's so powerful that it just totally derails their life. And so there's actually some study that was done on the quality of life after people won lots of money through the lottery, and it was almost unanimously negative. I thought that was interesting. 

 

Anyway, the idea here is that Jupiter-Pluto, things can become so powerful, and sometimes so quickly, that we don't even recognize that there's, there's going to be shadows that come with things like wealth, accomplishment, prestige, honor and promotion and success. Also, just the degree to which we will go to be successful can be a little dark, and especially when you start experiencing sort of uninhibited or unobstructed progress, which Jupiter Pluto can definitely create just this kind of smooth, powerful quality of growth and transformation, everything's kind of moving in the way that we want it to and so strong. So when those conditions are around, also, you know, the temptation to, you know, to get high on our own supply, you know, it's like, just, the undercurrent of ego and desire and power that comes with periods of rapid growth and change is a big part of what we explore during these periods. 

 

Also, it's about exploring what constitutes virtue. And again, almost like an examination of life philosophy and looking at the shadows of our life philosophy, and a chance to sort of purify ourselves and the way we approach or understand life as, you know, cosmic citizens, it's like, it's like an opportunity to refine and develop our understanding of ourselves in the universe, especially through explorations of, of power. 

 

So anyway, these are all really interesting. Jupiter-Pluto themes. Now, what I want to do is go back in time. And I want to look at previous periods in which Jupiter and Pluto got together, and I am using I'm going to show you; I'm going to give you some advice for what to do in terms of tracking these previous Jupiter-Pluto dynamics. And I'm going to share with you what I noticed in my own chart as a sample. 

 

Also, remember that if you're someone who doesn't have a great memory, sometimes journaling about that period or looking back at email receipts during that period just kind of gets refreshed on what was going on. That can really help kind of jog your memory if you're having trouble. But if you're someone who has a pretty easy time, use these Jupiter Pluto themes that I just mentioned as a starting point and then look back and see if you can spot some of those themes and patterns around these particular periods. So I'm gonna go back; we're gonna look at a few conjunctions and then the trines because they're connected in a patterned way. 

 

All right. so I have Taurus rising here. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to go back to 2020. So, in 2020, the two planets came together in the sign of Capricorn. And they start in right about December of, you can see December of 2019, that the two are co-present. During that time, I was initiated into the bhakti yoga tradition right as Jupiter entered Capricorn, the sign of its fall in my ninth house of religion and spirituality. As the two planets conjoined in April of 2020, as the pandemic was, as everything was starting to happen with respect to the global pandemic, it was everything was sort of like the the flood of events was all starting to be released at that time. 

 

Jupiter-Pluto in my ninth house, I started; I had been initiated not just several months earlier, and I started to become aware of what I would just say were some of the problematic issues for me with respect to my religion, my personal spiritual-religious orientation, and the bhakti yoga community that I had just joined. So I was like, oh, man, that was a tough period because it was a moment of having to say. I started to go, wait a sec, did I make a major mistake? Is this not really the right fit for me, and this was the beginning of the end. 

 

Right around this period, when I started going, I think I was not quite at home in the spiritual tradition. Jupiter-Pluto are conjoined in Capricorn; sign up; it's fallen to my ninth house of religion and spirituality. Alright, let's go backward in time. So look at that period, look at the whole sign house of Capricorn. In your birth chart, look at the topics and look at what was sitting around that period of time. Of course, it's a kind of turning point for Jupiter and Pluto. But that would have been, you know, especially with Jupiter in its fall, that would have been the potential for a new seating based on a kind of degeneration or falling apart of something Jupiterian. Anyway, let's go back to 2015 and 16. 

 

So in 2015 and 16, we see that here we go. Jupiter in Virgo was trying Pluto in Capricorn. This is really fascinating to me because during this period of time, you can look at let me actually let me outline the period a little bit more in detail here. Sorry. Let's go back. So you can see that in the fall of 2015, they are coming together here. So Jupiter is trining Pluto, right around the early part of October 2015. And then Jupiter's going to go forward and station and retrograde the two are configured to each other here going into 2016. 

 

Then, the two planets came together in a trine in the spring of 2016. Then, they came back together one more time in June 2016. And then Jupiter's off into Libra. So, that period of 2015 to 16 I thought was really fascinating when I looked at it in my chart, again, looking at those themes of life philosophy transforming a period of fertile growth fueled by depth, power, and Plutonian change encounters with power in the shadows of power. So around this time, I had just become a dad, so Jupiter is in the fifth house of children and pregnancy, literally a month or so after the Jupiter Pluto trine between my fifth and ninth.

 

I became a dad, and my daughter, Virginia, was born. I also started studying with Robert Schmidt and started committing myself to the path of practicing Hellenistic astrology. So, it was a very fertile period of transforming my astrological philosophy connecting to Pluto in the ninth house and my birth chart. and also really my entire worldview. It was changing because I was becoming a dad. It was a very fertile period where, like my understanding, my life philosophy was completely changing. And as a way, because I was having a really hard time adapting to being a dad, my first daughter had colic really bad. And she was crying about 70% of the time, and my wife and I were just exasperated. We tried everything, you know, and then it just went away one day. 

 

But anyway, during that time, I started leaning into bhakti yoga as a kind of spiritual, an emotional and spiritual salve for the difficulties of having become a dad. And then, of course, under the consecutive Jupiter Pluto conjunction after having taken initiation, I would realize that it wasn't for me. It's interesting how the topics were connected, though. So at the same time, I was also rapidly studying and just completely immersing myself in Hellenistic astrology. So that you can see that the life philosophy transforms a period of fertile growth, but it's difficult. It's fueled by the difficulties of Pluto. So look back at that 2015 16 period for the last Jupiter Pluto trine. Now, we're going to go back to another trine period. This one is Jupiter in Taurus trining Pluto in Capricorn. So a lot of the more recent ones all, of course, involve the presence of Pluto and Capricorn. 

 

Anyway, here is 2011. The two planets came into a trine with one another in the summer of 2011. And then they went back into another trine by October 2011. Then, they would come back together once more in a trine by March of 2012. So this is fascinating to me because this was another very fertile period of change and transformation. During this period of time, I transformed the astrological Meetup group that I was leading. 

 

So I was leading an astrological Meetup group and decided after about a year of leading it to transform that Meetup group into a one-year program in astrology, which is the same program that has evolved over the years that you hear me promoting on my channel. Now it's Hellenistic. Back then, it was psychological and evolutionary. 

 

Anyhow, during this period of time, I decided that I was ready to be a teacher. So Jupiter in my first house trine and Pluto in the ninth, I went from facilitator to saying, Okay, I'm ready to teach. The other thing that happened during this period of time was that I started teaching cooperatively with my wife, who is a double Taurus. We started teaching together and then moved in together and launched a yoga studio together. 

 

So it was a time of great inception stepping into the role of a teacher. And then cooperatively teaching with my wife and launching our yoga studio together. That was all during the trine of Jupiter to Pluto from first to ninth. So, look back at 2011 and 12. Look at the whole sign houses of Taurus and Capricorn, just like you looked at Virgo and Capricorn under the 2015 16 umbrella, and see what kinds of fertile transformative changes were happening. life philosophy transforming a period of fertile growth but fueled by Plutonian, depth and intensity and encounters with power in the shadows of power. And what's interesting about this is that for me to take this step, I also had to leave a yoga studio that I was working for as a manager because there was, some corruption that was exposed; I was literally handed the eviction notice at the front desk during one of my first shifts. And so there was this, there was there were those themes that were present for me during that time as well. Really, really fascinating. 

 

And also, there was a big fear of moving from, okay, I can facilitate a group to, okay, I'm going to try teaching a class. And there was a lot of, you know, having to step into that role with feeling sort of inadequate, which is something that I think a lot of astrologers go through when they're figuring out how to step into their career. 

 

Anyhow, let's go back in time to the next one. So if we go back to 2007, we're going to see that there was another conjunction, and I'm using the conjunctions because they come in between the periods of the trines. And I think it's fun to throw them in. 

 

So this is interesting because it was in December of 2007 that the two planets briefly got together in conjunction, a very specific period of time. Now, for me, that was my eighth house. And we'll just, I'm going to put it this way, rather than going into the whole story because it's a little personal. But there was a death in my life of someone that I knew that happened around this time. And this is, of course, happening in my eighth house place associated with death. And because that death occurred, I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that I did not want to continue down the path of tea. teaching at the college level teaching college English. 

 

I graduated after two back-to-back graduate degrees in creative writing and English. And I was about to start pursuing a career like, you know, trying to get a job at a community college teaching English, something like that. And because of this death in my life, I absolutely knew that life was precious, that life was short, and that I needed to at least give myself a chance to pursue some of the things that I actually wanted to do at the time. That meant moving to New York City and working for Reality Sandwich. And then that would lead to my book being published and starting my career as an astrologer. So, there was a death that changed my life philosophy and led to everything I am now doing today occurred in December of 2007. So, that was a very powerful period. 

 

For me, it's a very specific period; if you want to look back a little bit more broadly, you can see that Jupiter is CO present with Pluto going back in time. If you look track from the entrance of Jupiter into Sagittarius, that would be about November of 2006, all the way till about December of 2007. If you want to use that whole period, you certainly could notice something. The exact conjunction was the intense part for me in December of 2007. But anyway, all right, let's go back one more. And you can keep tracking these if you want to. I just thought, you know what, let's just go back in time. And let's take it back, you know, maybe it's 20 years. 

 

So the oldest one was this one the most. And this is the period of Jupiter in Leo trining Pluto in Sagittarius. So Jupiter enters Leo in August of 2002. And then makes the trine to Pluto in Sagittarius in the eighth house in October of 2002. And then the two planets are kind of dancing back and forth. And we see them trining again. This is around July of 2003. So this is really interesting. Another period of time to look for those themes is life philosophy, transforming a period of fertile growth fueled by depth, power, Plutonian, change, etc. 

 

So, for me, this is happening between the fourth house and the eighth house. And the fourth house you guys may know is a place associated with home and family. And so, during this period of time, after college, I went to a Christian school. Remember, my dad was a minister at this point in time; I decided I was going to be a youth minister, and I was the youth pastor of a Methodist Church in Illinois. During the trine from Pluto, from Jupiter in the fourth to Pluto in the eighth, I went through a period of starting to recognize that basically, I needed to explore my faith and my spiritual orientation outside of the inherited Christian world that I grew up in. And this also was happening as my mom and dad were starting to develop to deal with what would become the precursor to divorce. 

 

So, there was a lot of family drama going on. And I was also starting to separate myself from my Christian upbringing. And then, by the end of this period, I would leave my position as a youth pastor in order to go to school, graduate school for English, and start exploring psychedelics and opening myself up to different philosophical and spiritual experiences and worldviews. So, this was a period of tumultuousness. And so far, my family was starting to fall apart. It was just the beginning of it, but it was starting to fall apart. And so was my Christian orientation. 

 

So Jupiter in the fourth trining Pluto in the eighth ultimately, it was a very safe and productive period. It wasn't like there was any major crisis. So that's that quality of the trine where you may not, it's sometimes hard to pick up on because it's a little smoother, and it's not like some major debacle comes up like it will with, say, Jupiter opposite Pluto or Jupiter square to Pluto. You can look at those periods to today; I just thought we'd look at the trines and conjunctions because those periods are often quite, you know, quite potent. 

 

So, I hope that doing this exercise was useful for you. I like to, you know, I like to do this anytime that there's a major transit, whether it's Jupiter Uranus, or it's Jupiter trine Pluto or its eclipses, tracking historical periods in which the same archetypes were at works configured in similar Ways is a very powerful way to not only help us see the connective tissue in the tapestry of our life that the connected patterns but also to just get our archetypal AI registering the period that we're entering into right now. So it's like, we're training ourselves to be like, Okay, I'm looking for you. I see you, I noticed you, and I feel you. So I hope that this helps you do that. I find that it's so useful to look back. You do. It is like the reason that we lay out those Jupiter Pluto themes are so you know what to look for. 

 

Because it can be like, you know, what exactly am I? There was a lot of stuff that happened during this period or that period, perhaps. And so you're going well, how do I pick among all the events look for those themes of worldview life philosophy, the sense of what we know to be true, that's Jupiter, transforming and these periods of fertile growth and change that are fueled that kind of Plutonian depth and intensity and edginess, and then encounters with again with power in the shadows of power. 

 

Okay, well, I hope you have a great day today and that you found this a useful exercise. We will have more this week in the way of our monthly overview for June and horoscopes. So stay tuned for more, and we'll see you again soon. Stick around after our sign-off to learn more about the horary astrology program. The horary of course is coming up in June. Bye.