Oh, and By The Way, The Sun is About to Square Pluto

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Happy Friday, everybody. Jupiter and Uranus are finally going to conjoin this weekend. But did you know that the Sun is also going to square Pluto this weekend? It's a merry astrological Christmas. There are so many gifts and blessings to choose from. 

 

The Sun-Pluto, which itself can be a very powerful transit, has nothing to leave out of, like weekly coverage on my channel. You guys know that I frequently cover all of the Sun-Pluto dynamics. It's happening almost at the exact same time that Jupiter Uranus dynamic is happening. And I almost spaced on talking about it. I was like, oh, you know what, like, we should talk about that. So that's what we're going to do today. 

 

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So this is Friday, April 19. And if we take this forward, we're going to see that by Sunday, April 21, just after Jupiter and Uranus separate. We're going to see the square between the Sun and Pluto. Let me get my epic pen. Oops. Here we go. Alright, let me just highlight it for us. So here's the Sun in Taurus. Entering Taurus, by the way, here over the weekend. We just backed this up a little bit. Today, April 19. Sun enters Taurus. It's within two degrees immediately of a square to Pluto. So you'll be feeling it tomorrow. And then it perfects earlier in the day on Sunday. And it starts fading by Monday as Jupiter and Uranus come through. I mean, as they can join on Saturday, you have the Sun coming into a half-degree square of Pluto. So it is a potent weekend. What I want to talk about are the Sun Pluto's significations in general and how they might be interacting with the significations of Jupiter and Uranus right now. 

 

So first of all, let's remember that the Sun, for ancient astrologers, was the emblem and light of spirit. The word spirit was loosely related to the ancient philosophical tradition that informed astrology, coming from Platonism by Fagor Reaganism and so forth, the light of the Sun and spear. It was associated with that which is ideal like everything in this world that happens is a reflection of a higher form. And then our opinions about what happens in the world are reflections upon reflections; Plato would say that they're like opinions and not so valuable compared to, let's say, the kinds of insights, experiences, and wisdom into the higher nature of reality, that the good, the true, the beautiful, that can inform our lives and lead us to, like virtue and happiness, ideally, in a kind of enlightened way of living. So, the Sun is related to everything that is ideal. 

 

However, in our lives, we fashion a life based on the ideal images that we hold dear. So I want to be an astrologer; there's an ideal image of an astrologer in my head, you know, like a sage who knows a lot about the stars and mythology and can offer wisdom to other people. And this was an image that became really, really compelling to me. That's apparently why I decided to become an astrologer. It could be that it's a musician, or a dancer, or a lover, or a parent or whatever, a doctor, a humanitarian, that these images become, like, fixed in our mind's eye, and in our, in our imagination, and we live a life and we aspire to these images cast in gold that we believe, you know if I do these things, and I aspire, and I become likened unto these images, that I'll be happy. 

 

We spend lifetimes according to most of the ancient traditions that believed in the transmigration of the soul; we go from lifetime to lifetime, pursuing different ideals, different dreams, different desires, and different images. And, you know, as we go along, we, hopefully, throughout the course of lifetimes are refining our sense of what the gold standard is, you know, eventually the idea goes something like, you know, we might start thinking about the virtues of rather than, you know, can I be the best athlete? Or what can I get, or what can I become? We might think about embodying qualities like peacefulness, contentment, tolerance, patience, and humility. So, lifetime after lifetime, as we pursue different ambitions, we also come closer to knowing the truth that all beautiful images and forms reside in the truth of the divine mind. That's a lot. 

 

Philosophically, you know, that's a lot. Most of us are just trying to do the best we can, like pursuing whatever dreams or images we have in front of us, you know, and trying to do so well, being hopefully, you know, good people, and so forth. But the idea is that progressively, the soul becomes enlightened. As we explore our dreams and desires, we learn that the truth of what stands behind us is within all of our dreams and desires. And that leads us to the realm of the ad, the archive, the gods, the realm of that which is eternal and divine. 

 

That's a lot. That's the Sun, right? That's set; we just think you don't think of how far we've gotten when someone goes. What does the Sun mean? Or like, oh, it's your ego. It's sun signs, your ego? No, not really. So it is your ego insofar as you can get identified and associated with the aspirations or desires that you have as an individual. You know, to the extent that I think of myself as the archetype of an astrologer, and I can inflate my identity with any archetype. We could talk about that as a potential problem of the ego, a problem that the sense of identity develops because we aren't archetypes. We're souls. And part of what we go through in life is to aspire toward our ideals. And to sometimes identify with them. You know, like gold fever Gold Rush, we idolize, or we become like, in the old biblical sense, we become idolatrous. What does that really mean, though? You know, it's like, well,

 

It means that we become fixated on particular archetypal images, and when we develop archetypal images, we identify with an archetype. We think we are the archetype when actually we're where we are a soul, and the soul is like a mediating ground for archetypes. However, we have to go through a process that young Carl Jung described as differentiation. You know, we try on all these archetypes, we become identified with them, we become magnetized like moths to a flame to the golden image of various desires, we become identified with them, and then we have to differentiate from them because become, we become possessed by that which we try to possess, you know, especially when we think that it's the thing, the golden thing. And this is the complicated symbolism of the Sun and its dark side. So, we can't just say ego, you know, no, I mean, come on, let's talk about it. 

 

So, um, now, what happens when the Sun runs into Pluto? Well, here you have the planet that was the brother, basically, of Zeus. Zeus rules the upper world, which is the realm of order, beauty, and coherence, and there's a sensibility to things, such as Jupiter being like Zeus. Jupiter is like the realm of the cosmos as a well-ordered, pristine, beautiful, sensible, intelligible mathematical musical, just place, even if there's karmic justice and so on and so forth. It's just kind of this. This is a perfectly balanced, ordered place, with all the good and bad of it together; there's light and dark, but it's all perfect. And that's sort of Jupiter's realm, Hades, the opposite realm is wild, and it plays a role that, you know, it's easy to be scared of because one of the things that the realm of Hades does as being the realm the opposite realm of Zeus and the brother of Zeus, Hades. 

 

Hades has to do with everything and is the place of chaos. There's, there's images of everything being upside down in the underworld. And there's forgetfulness, and there's all sorts of just it's it's much more like a realm of primordial Yin chaos and, and incoherence and it's much it's much more irrational. If you think, you know, when I think about Pluto, one of the things that I like is a very Plutonian filmmaker, Tim Burton; he loves to bring Hades up and out into Zeus's suburban world, even though Zeus is cosmos is sort of like a suburban cosmos. Okay. It's like, oh, look at it. It's so ordered and nice, and it's sensible. You can study astrology, and you can set your clock to it; you know when your Saturn returns and all that good stuff. But you know, Hades, man, it's like, no, it's it is. Yeah, it's like Beetlejuice, you know, it's like that. 

 

It was the movie, something in the sacred mountain fire on the sacred. I can't remember what it was something about that. I mean, Yin magic, chaos. So what happens when the Sun hits Pluto? One of the best things that happens is, to whatever extent we've developed archetypal in inflation and identification, in other words, we have a way to emphasize the importance of some particular archetype we've become obsessed with that we desire that we are pursuing or that we've become identified with. 

 

Then all of a sudden, Pluto comes along, and, you know, it exposes us to that which is chaotic, irrational, dark, unsettling, and disturbing or disruptive to that sense of something being ideal and beautiful. Most of the time, it has to do with thoughts, images, ideals, ambitions, people, and leaders suddenly being shown as mortal, flawed, corrupt, dark, ill, or sick. You know, fathers get sick, CEOs get sick, and people in power are exposed to corruption. It's like that, you know? And or it could be like it's the moment when someone who thinks that they, like, let's just say, for example, that you get really identified with wealth and power you developed it you've earned it you've maybe you maybe justly or I don't know. You get some degree of wealth and power. And you really get identified with it; I'm the man, you know, I'm the woman, I'm it, that kind of thing.

 

Sun-Pluto comes along with that in transit to your birth chart. And suddenly, you lose wealth or power or status, or you become sick, or maybe you do something and get in trouble for it. Something comes up, and it shows you actually you've been possessed, you've been possessed by an impulse to be powerful and great, or something like that. And now you have to let it go. And you have to let yourself come back to being just a flawed, normal soul. 

 

You know, and by flawed, I don't really mean anything. By that, I just mean just have to you; you're not, you're not an archetype; you're just a soul. And that's actually the best place to be. So, Pluto and Sun transits will often sort of shatter the golden image, or they will. They'll take the well, the sort of polished-looking thing, and, you know, they, you know, Tim Burton eyes it, you know, Christmas is like Nightmare Before Christmas, you know. 

 

So, one thing that's really interesting about this weekend is the breakthrough indicated by Jupiter, Uranus, this kind of revolutionary impulse, the emancipatory qualities of Jupiter, Uranus, just such a powerful and really kind of exhilarating and exciting transit. Isn't it interesting that it's happening, right, as we're looking at something that, you know, might be, it's like, it's time to look at the shadow of something, that the shadow of something and in a revolutionary breakthrough moment is going hand in hand? Or it's kind of like, it's time to take out the trash, you know, you because you see something for what it is, oh, that's not working, well, that stinks, that's expired, that you know, like that needs to go. 

 

Or you see something for what it is that you've been trying to paint as something other than it is. Either way, you know, when that golden image of the Sun gets in touch with Pluto, in the darker subterranean side of things, we can participate; it's very powerful because one of the other things that can happen is we can adjust our, our desires, our ambitions, we can transform the things that we aspire to can go through some kind of death and rebirth, crisis and change the reordering of our values and our aspirations and the deepening of our understanding and wisdom of what is true and beautiful, and of a higher order of things, you know, like what is higher? What is the higher good? What is the higher truth? What is the higher value? What is the best and most noble aspiration or use of my time? What are the highest qualities and standards? 

 

These can actually come forth during a Pluto Sun transit because you take out the trash, you just get ready, you just become clear about what is or what isn't, you know, beautiful, good, and true. And Pluto can just help you see it really deeply. And in a weird way, Pluto can amplify the luminosity of the Sun.

 

There's a way in which, whenever you're in touch with the full spectrum of what an archetype is, you have some healthy differentiation from it. The archetype becomes so much more beautiful, you know, it's like when you can understand that, while the Sun is an archetype, it can represent everything that is of the higher sort of platonic ideal. Truth. You know, it's like all these things that are just beautiful and good and true. And you're like, that's what the Sun is. 

 

But also, the Sun can represent the propensity to be entranced and hypnotized, like gold fever, gold rush, it can be like you can get like, there's a kind of idolatry in the beautiful golden light of the Sun that can make people crazy when you understand that you understand that there's darkness even in the light. You know, that's what that's what the yin and yang symbol is getting at. You see the little speck of dark and the light, the light in the dark. It's the same thing. You can't understand Saturn until you find the light in Saturn. There are so many people I know who have never taken the time to find the brilliance in light of Saturn. 

 

That's something I've spent so much time talking about on my channel, right? The same thing is true for the Sun. If you can't find the darkness like the dark kind of core, I think of that song, you know, black hole sun, you can't find that kind of Sun in the Sun. You're missing out. And that's the beautiful thing that Pluto can do for the Sun. If you've ever had a Pluto Sun transit, it it like takes you into dark places, specifically so that you can value how clarifying darkness is paradoxically right. Talking about literal light at this point, of course. 

 

So anyway, I've gone on and on. I have no notes. This week has been just a mess. I did a live cast. I'm recording this in advance, right? I record my videos a little bit in advance, but like I'm making this video in the midst of having made a live stream about the astrologer who passed away and took the lives of some people in her family, and it's just been a wild week. 

 

Holy cow. I don't know how you guys are doing, but I'm just kind of slapped this one together, guys. I'm sorry. I hope you got a lot of good content this week other than this ramble fest today. I hope you have a great weekend, and I hope that you will really get something good out of both the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction and the sun square Pluto, that rare configuration of two events at once. You don't need to do anything. Just watch live and learn, and you'll learn a lot about these archetypes. That's exactly what I'm gonna do. 

 

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