One Last Push for Pluto in Capricorn

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Today, we are going to take a look at Pluto's last stand in the sign of Capricorn. Pluto is going to be retrograding back into the 29th degree of the sign of Capricorn, coming up pretty quickly here, so I thought we'd take a look at it.

Today, I'm going to run through all 12 whole sign houses for your rising sign. So these will be like very many horoscopes. I'm going to give you a few thoughts, a few keywords, and topics to fit with the last couple of months that we're going to see from Pluto and Capricorn here. And I hope that you'll find this useful.

We'll also review some of the basic or core themes that Pluto and Capricorn may bring up, kind of focusing, in general, on the sign of Capricorn and the Plutonian twist. And I'm also going to review the timeline of Pluto and Capricorn that we've been through already, just to really stand back and go Holy shit. Wow, there's been a lot. So that is our agenda for today.

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So, anyway, thank you guys for letting me go through that. Let's turn our attention now to the real-time clock where we are looking at Pluto retrograding at the zero-degree mark of Aquarius here on Friday, August 23, and I want to just take this forward a little bit and what we're going to notice is that the sign change happens imminently. We're talking in about a week. We have about one week left of Pluto in Aquarius, and then it goes into Capricorn.

Let's see how long it stays in Capricorn. And it's going to stay at that 29th degree, where it will station, turn direct about mid-October, and then it is gradually at the 29th degree going to work its way back to zero Aquarius right around November 19. So we have, you know, maybe the like, add it all up. You've got, like, two and a half months worth of Pluto, uh, retrograding back into the sign of Capricorn. Look at how long this journey has been. Though.

Let's take this back a little. What I want to highlight here is that, oops, I need to go back just a scooch. All right. Okay, here we go. So we're going to see the original ingress of Pluto go into the sign of Capricorn, which took place in the early part of 2008. So, in early 2008, we see that Pluto has moved into the sign of Capricorn. And I think the actual the actual day. I mean, if you're kind of curious about that, here we go. Well, it looks like it would have been around January 25 into the 26th of 2008, so that is just a really long time. I mean, when we add that all up, from 2008 to 24, I was 16 years old, and we have been working with this Pluto and Capricorn signature.

Now Pluto is in the sign of Capricorn. There was a little retrograde, initially, back into the late degrees of Aquarius, just like what is happening with Capricorn now. And you can see that Pluto's kind of around 2009, really establishing itself in the sign of Capricorn. And then, you know, it is a long, slow unfolding after that, and what were your highlights? That's a good question for the chat box today, like between 2008 and 2024: What have your Pluto and Capricorn highlights been?

I'll give you an example for me. It was, let's see. I'm just going to pop this along here. Take this along the timeline, and when you go forward to February of 2014, this is just after I got engaged and Pluto started opposing my moon. And then, my parents went through a divorce, and that happened during that year. And then I was married subsequently.

And then, by the end of 2014 or the beginning of 2015, my wife was pregnant, Pluto's opposing my moon still in Capricorns, or conjoining my Moon in Capricorn, I should say. And then, you know, we bought our first home and had the baby, right? So that was my first, and my parents went through a divorce during that period of time. Then we go forward a little bit.

My next big one was getting into right about 2019. Pluto started opposing my Sun, and that's from the third to the ninth in my house. There were a lot of things that happened, but one of them, obviously, was that I was initiated into a bhakti yoga lineage, had a guru, and changed my name. And I still laugh at it because it was a very meaningful experience in my life. It was also a pretty wild ride. Overall. I went to India a couple of times. The YouTube channel really took off.

So, it was a powerful and interesting space in my life for religion and philosophy. There were a lot of other things that happened, but the big one was obviously the culmination of a lot of religious experience in that bhakti yoga world and eventually changing my name back. So anyhow, those were my two highlights because I got the Sun and Capricorn and Cancer, Sun and Cancer, moon and Capricorn. What were yours like? What throughout this period of time? I thought this would be a fun question to pose today. Look back. You know, it's a good moment to take a look back and appreciate where we've been. So between 2008 and 2024, which transits of Pluto and Capricorn hit maybe planets and Cardinal signs?

Cardinal signs, for example, through the conjunction square or opposition, were the most impactful? Or did Pluto go over your ascendant, midheaven descendant? IC, those are impactful transits as well. How did Pluto affect the topics of the house that it was in in your birth chart? It was in my ninth house. This entire period also commenced alongside studying astrology, launching my career in astrology, and developing my school and my daily content. That's all been Pluto in my ninth house, a place of spirituality, religion, the place of astrology, in ancient astrology. So anyway, a good exercise to take a minute with.

Now, we have to bring this forward again to the present moment and let's look at how long Pluto is going to stay in Aquarius. Just so you get a feel. I'm just going to advance by year. If we're thinking about it as having started in 2023, we'll just kind of give it the full treatment. Then it really does look like the last if I've got this right, yeah, so it's right about here. This goes until January of 2044.

So Pluto and Aquarius until January of 2044 that's almost 20 years. Pluto stays a little different length of time in every sign because of the shape of its orbit around the Sun. It's a very slow-moving planet, of course, but it spends a different amount of time in every sign, some very long, some shorter. It's a long period of time in Aquarius. I mean, this is taking us all the way until, I mean, me, I guess I'll be in my 60s. That's wild. So, here is just a little bit of the timeline.

What I'd like to do now is talk about Pluto in Capricorn. I'm just going to put this squarely in the 29th degree. And I want to remind you of what house topics are being activated based on rising signs. And I'm not saying these are not meant to be like elaborate horoscopes as much as they are little horoscopic reminders.

All right, so the idea behind these is that we should just take a minute to review and remember which topics are going to be active after I do this; I want to talk just a little bit in closing about the kinds of things that Pluto and Capricorn will likely bring up, especially as it's in Grand Finale stage right now.

Aries
So, let's start with Aries rising. If you're an Aries rising, the work of Pluto for so long has been in the 10th house, the place of your career, your public identity and reputation, the degree of your success or notoriety, the role that you play in a more social dimension of life, even if you're not employed or working, it's your reputation socially, and it's where you find yourself engaged with the civic, social arenas of life.

So the work of transformation that began in 2008 is culminating there right now, and it's good to start thinking about where you've been and what the very last bits of work that you're doing as things finish.

Taurus
For Tauruses, this is me. This is my rising sign. I've known this ninth house, but all of us Tauruses out there, we've got this in our ninth house, the place of religion, spirituality, beliefs, the place of learning and higher education. This is the realm of sages and academics. It also pertains to foreign countries, travel abroad, and exposure to cultures and places other than our own home culture or place. This is also a place that speaks to how we perceive and understand truth. And so there has been much change, much deep, profound learning in this house over the years for Tauruses, and the learning is in a place of culmination that will come up in the next few months. So watch for that and reflect on that.

Gemini
For Geminis. Oh, thank God for Geminis. It is getting out of your eighth house. Now, if you attended my eighth house talk, you know that this isn't the world's worst place. It has a bad reputation, and for some good reasons, but largely, this is a place of the karmic exchanges of our lives, those people that we are indebted to and that are indebted to us, and that is not always a bad thing.

There is much that we receive from others who love and value us. There is much we give to others who we love and value. And then there are also those complicated entanglements where the give and take may be more about social, professional advantages or opportunism, and the complications and entanglements of that kind of karma is often a little stickier, but here we're talking about the completing of a long period of transformation with respect to our bonds with other people, what other people have and give to us, what we owe to them, what they owe to us.

There's a long period of work for Geminis that has been done in this area that is now culminating in a good time to reflect on it and finish things up.

Cancer
For Cancers, this is taking place in the realm of love, marriage, and relationships for a very long period of time. Now, Pluto, the Lord of death and rebirth, has been at work in the place of marriage, love, and sexual intimacy and was also originally associated with the seventh house. This is a house that Pluto has been working through for so long now, 16 years if you take it all in total, and so what are the very last things that you're meant to learn right now, with respect to intimacy, with any kind of interpersonal connection or relationship to other people, with respect to the way in which partners or intimate friends are meant to be agents of change? Transformation in our lives and in us in theirs.

So this brings to a head a long period of growth and development around love and relationships for cancers, all right? We go to Leo's in the sixth house. Well, thank God we're getting Pluto out of another difficult house, right? The sixth is a place Pluto's been here, obviously for a long time for you, Leos, and we're talking about a place of carrying a weighty sense of duty and obligation and work and service and responsibility.

That Capricornian energy in the sixth house is very chop wood, carry water, and sacrifice on behalf of things that require sacrifice, that are worth it. And are you seeing the fruits of your labor? Are you seeing also, maybe a change in philosophy with respect to work or your attitudes or perceptions around work? These would be normal changes to mark the culmination of Pluto in that house. Also, I wonder about transformation with respect to things like health and disease and also the expenditure of energy, time, and resources. What is a worthwhile form of worker sacrifice, and what is exhausting you? These are the kinds of culminating lessons we might be seeing for Leo right now, with Pluto finishing up in the sixth.

Virgo
For Virgos, we're looking at a very long process. Pluto has been in your fifth house for 16 years thereabouts, and this is a place of creativity. What is your creative essence? What are you here to give to the world through acts of creation or creativity? What brings you joy and happiness and a sense of creative fulfillment? What brings you just general happiness? What makes you feel good? The questions around these topics are a little deep and heavy for Virgos. Virgos don't always have the easiest time accessing that joyful, carefree, flowing state of happiness because they're very careful, concerned, and meticulous, and they have a service-oriented attitude.

It's not always so easy to access joy, and so it is not surprising we see Saturn ruled Capricorn in the fifth, where sometimes the experience of joy or happiness or sensuality and pleasure, all associated with the fifth house, which is called the joy of Venus, not as easy to find, because Saturn tends to be maybe a little repressive, or tends to be a little difficult. So, what has the transformational process been like for you with respect to joy, pleasure, and things like children as well? Come into the fifth house, so culminating lessons in that fifth house of creativity, joy, happiness, and children for Virgos?

Libra
All right, we go to Libra, and with Libras, we see that Pluto's culmination takes place in the fourth house. And the fourth house is the place of home. It is your property. It is your home environment. It is your family, whether that's your immediate family or, your family of origin, or you know, your extended family. What have the changes and transformations been like with respect to your home, your living environment, and your family that can extend into marriage, even in the fourth house, because it can be extended to mean the family of your own creation?

So, your spouse, your kids, your family of origin, and your parents. So there are some last, final things happening here with respect to family karma, home, and living environment karma in the next months, and they are reflective of the long process of transformation that began back in 2008, so watch for that. Libras, and reflect on where you've been. Scorpios, you've got this happening in your third house. This is the place of the environment and culture around you. It includes friends who are like siblings. It includes siblings and cousins. I think you know what the saying is: kith and kin? It's like that. And the third house is like the fish tank that you live in.

It's the environment, psychically, emotionally, and mentally; Scorpios have been going through a long, slow process of changing their minds, cultures, and environments, changing of learning new things and changing mental outlooks, changing communication styles and patterns of changes happening with respect to siblings and the people around you and. It is as though the environment of your fish tank has been going through long, slow, gradual changes over the years, and now we have some culminating changes.

These changes may also reflect the changing nature of who you are when we change the environment changes to match or suit us better, and so I would watch for these mental emotional changes and larger environmental or cultural changes, as well as major changes within the realm of siblings or people who are like siblings taking place here this fall. Obviously, that's if you're in the northern hemisphere. Those are also places to reflect upon.

Scorpio
If you're a Scorpio, what have you been through over the past? You know, 16 years, all right, Sagittarius rising takes us into the second house of assets, money, resources, and possessions. You've been going through a long process of building things, transforming things, and accepting a deeper role of duty or discipline. Well, the Capricorn energy in this house can be very productive, trying to transform the karma of money and values and relate your relationship to you know what you own or possess, how you value what you have, and so forth.

So a lot of interesting work that's taken place there that's now culminating; what are the final touches in this long process of transformation that Pluto will make here in the next couple of months, with respect to things like assets, money, and resources, how you spend them, income and expenditures, things like business and assets. Think about all of those kinds of topics, going through one last period of transformation. But also think back and look at where you've been.

Capricorn
For Capricorn risings, this is in your first house, which is the place of body health and identity. There is a long, slow process of personal death and rebirth, physical death and rebirth. Psychological death and rebirth, the transformation of character is complete. You are ready to complete the process of change that began back in 2008; it has been a long, slow, arduous journey of looking deeply inside of yourself to understand new facets of your being, to bring forth identity transformation and even physical or health transformation, and that is finalizing now in these last couple of months.

Aquarius
We have for Aquarians. Isn't it nice that Pluto will be getting out of your 12th house soon and coming into the first house, where it brings from an unconscious space a process of integration, awakening, and personal transformation?

See, that's the thing is that Pluto, in the 12th house, has been like a very long, slow process of laboring with unconscious material that will now have the opportunity as Pluto comes into your first house, Aquarians, to be integrated and understood as a part of who you are.

That unconscious material, coming now from the 12th into the first, carries with it the promise of recreation, like you get to become someone new, you get to die and be reborn as that process of unconscious material is now coming forth into the space of conscious and physical and psychological awakening and processing. It's like now I get to see what's been going on behind the scenes with Pluto in the 12th for so long. So I think that is a really promising thing, but you have to visit one last little layer of unconscious material, you might say, in the next couple of months.

Pisces
Finally, for Pisces, we have Pluto finishing its long process of transformation in your 11th house, the place of friends, the place of allies, the place of groups, networks, and colleagues, and a place where we find some form of social belonging or advantage or we find social cohesion and harmony with others that have the same values and aspirations. We find beneficial connections with people.

It's a really nice house, but Pluto in that house has suggested a very deep level of ongoing change and transformation, exploring the dark side of friends and groups and transforming your relationship with friends and groups over a long period of time. You have one last little layer of the onion to peel back here in the next couple of months.

Then Pluto's going to start going into very deep and relatively unconscious space in the 12th house, which I think will coincide with a long period of time in which you're going to start, you know, your dreams, the level of processing you can do in therapy and other forms of spiritual practice are going to be greatly beneficial to you when Pluto's in your 12th and you've already gotten a little taste of that, but finalizing the process of change and transformation in the house of groups, allies, friends, beneficorps in these next couple of months. So.

So, with that being said, I hope those were useful reminders for all of you so that you can look at these next months with some sense of what topics are likely to be activated. But I also want to talk in closing a little bit about some of the Capricornian themes we're likely to see.

So if you think about Pluto, you think about a planet that's work is always to be pulling and dragging things from unconscious space to conscious space through process, but also through moments of great catharsis and moments that carry a kind of signature of eruption, like a volcano that's erupting, Pluto likes to pop karmic pimples, and Pluto also, through process, gradually brings things up from the depth.

What comes up from the depths could be described as a process of purgation, healing, and cleansing to release things that are pent up and might be sort of toxic. However, when things that are released are toxic, the refreshing feeling that comes afterward is the feeling of regeneration. Ah, a toxic thing is left. I'm healthy again, on the other hand, and that feels good. On the other hand, the release of this energy is also a primal creative force and energy; it's not just toxic or sick stuff that has to go.

That's one way of looking at it, but another way would be to say that Pluto brings up and releases great primal energy, like an instinctual, primal force that we might be a little afraid of, but when it's released, boy, it changes our lives. It makes our lives more creative, or we can access deeper levels of intimacy in our sexual connection with a lover, or we can access deeper parts of our creative essence in our career.

So Pluto will coincide with a release of great creative energy from someplace, unseen or unconscious or a little stuck, or, you know, because often we're afraid of it too simultaneously, Pluto can drag, dredge up things that are unconscious and dark, that need processing and need greater awareness. So it can do all of those things.

And in the sign of Capricorn, you think about the sea goat as a sign that has to do with, there's with Saturn, there's always a sense of something that's distant. And here in Capricorn, where the light just starts rising out of the darkness, the distant goal is the summer solstice. Is the climb to the top of the mountain of transcendence, where the light is like a picture of enlightenment. The pictures of enlightenment and climbing up to the top of the mountain coincide with one another in so many different traditions around the planet for, you know, 1000s of years, climb the mountain, get to the top, reach the light, reach enlightenment.

Capricorn can take that archetypal mission, that sense of rising up from a lowly place and having to, you know, work and claw your way up the earthy, gritty mountainside, which is the world of hierarchies that exist that are very real. No matter how much we like them or don't like them, they're real. So when we look at, you know, the hierarchy that says, I want to become masterful at playing an instrument, you compare what you have a range of, you know, beginner level, you have representations of a beginner that you see and notice, and then you have great masters of a musical instrument, and that's the sort of hierarchy that's established.

The beginners are at the bottom of the mountain, and the masters are at the top. This is one of many ways that Capricorn often will conceptualize its goal in relation to a hierarchy and then just start climbing, chopping wood, carrying water, and carrying the cross up the mountain. And there's a kind of single, pointed focus that Capricorn has that's gritty, that's earthy, that's very realistic, that will do what it has to do to get where it wants to go.

Of course, the distortion, or dark, perverted version of all this is power, wealth, greed, success, fame, beauty, and the hierarchies of those things in the world, and the desire to have those things for the sake of dominating other people, or for, you know, more base, egotistical reasons.

And that's obviously one of the things that has made Pluto and Capricorn a very, a very dark at times a very, a very dark transit is that we have had many examples over Pluto's stay in Capricorn of the underlying motivations that people have for wanting things like to wanting to succeed in various arenas in life. I think about, you know, one of the great TV series that came out during this period of time, Game of Thrones.

You know, that's a very Capricornian series, by the way. And if I'm, if I'm remembering correctly, George RR Martin has some real Capricorn going on in his chart. But anyway, JRR Tolkien is also the Lord of the Rings. That series. Has so much to do with the development of Rings of Power and, that allow lordship over the earth and then the desire to destroy those things.

Capricorn is also a sign that truly is about the hard, difficult work of valuable, transcendental, beautiful goals that require real grit and work and sacrifice to get there; Frodo has to go a long way and through a really gritty process to destroy the ring, which is just as Capricornian as the potential for, you know, the development of a dark lord and the Rings of Power itself, right?

So that's the light and dark of Capricorn, a Capricorn. Tolkien was a Capricorn sun in the fifth house of creativity. You can see the arc of that story in the light and dark side of Capricorn is presented in the Ring of Power, the Lords of Power, the wraiths, and the need or desire to go through a long process, climb up a mountain, and destroy that ring.

So Capricorn is a journey of enlightenment for those of us who are doing our homework; Capricorn lends us the grit, the determination, the discipline, the maturity, the sort of respect that we need for, the seriousness, the gravitas of this mission of life to pick up a cross and go for it, you know.

So there's a little bit of work left. We have a little bit more to carry. We're not quite there. It's like, in these last two months, maybe it's a little bit like, you know, those last difficult steps Frodo has to take, to destroy the ring, to reach a place of transcendence, to complete a goal that is worthy and noble spiritually, that required a lot of hard work.

On the other hand, we can also see the last lingering elements of ego and our desire to succeed in various areas that undermine us, and that we may have to do some purging around some of our ambitions and like, why we're doing things and whether or not they are in alignment with our highest self and the cultivation of our highest self. So these are things to think about anyhow as we reach this last little stint of Pluto and Capricorn. I hope this was useful for you today.

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