Pluto Finishing Up in Capricorn: What is the cross we’ve been carrying

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from nightlight astrology. Today, we're going to take a look at Pluto culminating once more in the sign of Capricorn, moving across that last anaretic degree, which is a very sensitive degree, a degree of culmination at the very end of Capricorn before entering the sign of Aquarius.

Of course, it'll come back to the 29th degree one more time, September through November ish, in 2024, so we'll be sure to visit it then as well. But it is a good time to kind of refresh ourselves on the symbolism of Pluto and Capricorn, reflecting where we've been over a long period of time as Pluto is moved through the entire sign and is now culminating, and also just reflect on the deeper themes and deeper significance of the sign of Capricorn in general. So that's our agenda for today.

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Okay, well, today we're going to reflect on the sign of Capricorn, and let's just take a look at the real-time clock to remind us of, you know, why we're why we are doing that. So, I'm going to put the chart up on the screen, and what I am looking at right now is this culmination, Pluto, in the final degrees of the sign of Capricorn.

So what do we have left of this transit? Let's take a look at the timeline. So if we go back, you can take this back; I'm going back one year at a time, and let's just see exactly when Pluto enters the late late degrees, here we go. So this is about January of 2008. That's like 15 years, right? So, 15 going on 16 years of Pluto being in the sign of Capricorn.

If we bring this up to the present moment, we're going to notice that Pluto has already taken a small dip into Aquarius in 2023 and then retrograded into these late degrees. The late degrees are sometimes called anaretic. They are the culminating degrees that degrees were the, you know, it's like the early degrees you might think of as creative degrees, the middle degrees as sustaining and the end as just deconstructing or destructive things that are ready to, you know, it's kind of like the very end of a cycle. So there's a powerful cumulative effect that's in the air with Pluto right now in our birth charts, but also, just in general, the finishing of it's like the last orders being placed.

So I think right here, this is about January 20 into the 21st, Pluto changes signs into Aquarius. Now, if you look at Pluto's, then you're going to spend time in Aquarius throughout the majority of 2024. It starts coming back into late Capricorn, and here it is by September 2, 2024. It will then spend a little bit of time at that 29th degree before finally leaving Capricorn for good around November 20. September to late November of 2024. As the only period in addition to the first 20 days of January. It's the only period in which Pluto will still be in Capricorn.

So, as we approach these final days of Pluto and Capricorn before changing into Aquarius coming up in January, I thought, you know, what could we do to reflect on all that we've learned? It's easy to start thinking about Pluto and Aquarius right now, and we will certainly be doing more videos and talks on Pluto's entrance into the sign of Aquarius as we come closer to that ingress because it is time to start talking about Pluto and Aquarius, just as we did last year.

But it feels appropriate to pause for a minute and say, what what have we learned from the sign of Capricorn? One of the things that I push back on is the conflation that is made in modern astrology between the 10th house and the sign of Capricorn. So many mistakes, in my humble opinion, come from the conflation of signs with houses; that is one of the hallmarks of modern astrology.

In ancient astrology, it is quite clear that there was a very separate rationale for the meaning and topics of the houses that had nothing to do with the 12 signs. The signs had a rationale, a reason for the planets being associated in the dignity schemes, the balance the decans; the triplicity sees the rulerships and the expectations. It's an elaborate mandala of philosophical and conceptual meaning, apart from the rationale and conceptual framework of the houses. So one of the reasons that people think of Capricorn as, I don't know, the patriarchy or Capricorn has something to do with, you know, the desire to get ahead and be dominant in the world through business and success and this kind of cold, ruthless, steely ambition and so forth.

A lot of that is due to the conflation with Capricorn in the 10th house because the 10th house well, for example, in Indian astrology, the 10th house is called arta, which is the philosophical area of life dedicated to the pursuit of success, fame, mastery, becoming really good at things being publicly recognized for being good at things. Achieving power or wealth through your talents, abilities, or your wit, you know.

So if we're associating Capricorn with have, you know, sort of subconsciously associating with all those philosophical pursuits, and we can poke holes in those philosophical pursuits. Just as you know, we're taught to do so; you know, in Indian Indian philosophy, we're taught that you need to balance of the different pursuits of life, dharma Arta, Kama moksha.

You can easily poke holes in, you know, basing your entire existence on the desire to be good at things and to get ahead and to be dominant and successful and climb hierarchical ladders towards success, and like if you associate Capricorn with all those things, it's easy to then think of Capricorn is nothing more than the problems of consumerism or capitalism or, you know, success and workaholism and stuff like that. But that is not really what the sign of Capricorn is about.

I want to take some time to read a couple of passages. I'm not going to read the whole chapter because it's very long. But I want to read you a couple of passages from Liz Greene's The Astrology of Fate, which I've been bringing in lately, as I have myself been brushing up on these.

I taught a masterclass series this past fall, which is available through the Kickstarter on temperament and personality, and I talked a lot in that series about the myths of the rising signs and how they shaped character throughout a lifetime and for part of that preparation, I revisited this section on the 12 signs, and so then you also saw me bringing it into some videos earlier this in the past couple of months and so anyway, there's a few things that I want to read from this.

So this is Liz Greene talking about the myths of Capricorn; there are many, and there's not just one. Following is the dream of a Capricornian client, a man who came to have his horoscope interpreted during the period when Saturn was transiting in conjunction with Pluto across his ascendant this long, and she's associating Saturn and Saturn here with Capricorn.

Anyway, my description of the themes, this long transit, had taxed him in many ways. My description of the themes of imprisonment and limitation provoked him to tell me the dream. I am with my wife in a prison. It is a peculiar place because the doors are open, and we are free to leave. But there is a feeling of having voluntarily accepted this imprisonment. A female guard stands outside the door, an older dark woman; she watches him personally but does not interfere.

My wife is uncomfortable about shutting the door, which I feel is necessary to show that we have freely consented. I reassure her telling her that imprisonment will not last forever, but for reasons which in the dream are obscure, we must endure it. At the outset of this transit, my client had been experiencing great dissatisfaction with his job, his marriage, his children, and his own physical body.

Everything in his life seemed to trap he had achieved considerable success in the field of law but had never felt it was really him; there was always something else that might have been better. This is characteristic of the puer; the puer is another name for something like the archetype of the use of the eternal youth, almost like a Peter Pan.

This is characteristic of the player who lives in a perpetually provisional state where the real thing is always later but never now; now is only a trial run and, therefore, not worthy of full commitment.

My client had always carried a sense of one day when I grow up a feeling of discontent and a fantasy of greater fame and achievement and a more satisfactory relationship. One day, the youth is not yet prepared to become a father because he fears the loss of creative possibilities and the destruction of the fantasy that he can be anything.

So, he remains a youth. Although my client was a father, in fact, and well into middle age. Although he was getting on in terms of age, he had only just begun to experience the inner initiation of father to son and the paradoxical freedom of the voluntary imprisonment. The stream suggests to me that my client was gradually changing through the course of the Saturn Pluto transit over the ascendant and that he was on the verge of understanding that the real thing was whatever was in his life. This is, at its most profound, a kind of religious attitude, for it's an acceptance of what one has been given in a voluntary decision to treat what has been given with respect and with the whole of one's care.

The theme of the stream, which seems to me to be about an ultimate coming to terms with one's life as it is, this echoed in Mary Renault's novel The King Must Die. The old King Pythias of says to the young Theseus, listen and do not forget, and I will show you a mystery. It is not the sacrifice whether it comes in youth or age or the God remits it. It is not the bloodletting that calls down power; it is the consenting Theseus. The readiness is all.

It washes heart and mind from things of no account and leaves them open to the God, but one washing does not last the lifetime. We must renew it, or the dust returns to cover us. The motif of voluntary imprisonment and crucifixion runs like A red thread through the dream and fantasy life of Capricorn.

This seems true regardless of the religious persuasion of the individual or his sex, for the relationship between puer and cynics, youth and old man, can be equally relevant for the woman whose creative spirit seeks expression in external life, the birth in flesh, the sense of sin before the wrathful father, the despair and bondage and dark night the cynicism and loss of faith and the dawning sense of a firm spiritual principle or ethical code by which one can, at last, commit oneself.

All these are in human form, the enactment of the myth of the Redeemer who must die in order to renew the old king. If life does not provide experience ready at hand for Capricorn to make his rite of passage, then he will create his problems for himself. It is no wonder that given the choice of the easy way or the hard, the goat will almost always take the hard one.

Nor is it surprising that it is only later in life that the jubilant boy at last contained by the father looks out of the eyes of the middle-aged man or the young girl full of the joy of a youth she probably missed an actual youth smiles from the face of the experienced woman.

This faith fought hard for doubted; Lost and Found again in darkness is the sustenance of the mature Capricorn, who man or woman can then father the next generation with grace. Through the Christian Church and the mythology of the Fallen redemption, crucifixion, and resurrection, the second birth of baptism, the initiatory, blow on the cheek at confirmation, the symbolical eating of the flesh and drinking of the blood solemnly and sometimes effectively, we are united to those immortal images of initiatory might, through the sacramental operation of which man since the beginning of his days on earth has dispelled the tears of his phenomenology and one through to the all transfiguring vision of immortal being.

In psychological terms, the puer and cynics are embedded in the myth of Saturn Kronos, first overthrowing his father, then becoming father, then devouring his own sons to prevent them from doing the same to him and outlast himself being overthrown by the young Zeus. Whether the cynics is a personal father, a set of rigid superhero ethics within the person, or the external institutions and authorities of the outer world.

Capricorn's daimon seems to drive him into this cycle so that he can experience its duality within himself. James Hillman, in his book Puer Papers, quotes from the 10th century pika tricks of prayer to Saturn Oh master of sublime name and great power, Supreme Master, Oh Master Saturn, thou, the cold the sterile, the mournful the pernicious, thou whose life is sincere and whose words sure thou the sage and solitary, the impenetrable, thou whose promises are kept Thou who aren't weak and weary. Thou who has cares greater than any other, who noticed neither pleasure nor joy, thou the old and cunning, master of all artifice, deceitful, wise and judicious, Thou who bring us prosperity or ruin and makes men to be happy or unhappy. I conjure the Oh supreme father by the great benevolence and the generous bounty to do for me what I ask.

Needless to say, this prayer is a mass of paradoxes and contradictions. Hillman points out that in the figure of Saturn, the dual aspect is more vividly real than in any other Greek god figure, even more than Hermes. Father Saturn is more pernicious and truthful, bounteous and stingy, and terrible but merciful. What he is not in this prayer is youthful, for the youth and himself is experienced in the supplant and the suppliant and is projected outside.

Hillman feels that astrology itself is a Saturnian art, as did Pacino, by the way, during the Renaissance and many other ancient astrologers, because it concerns the limits and boundaries within which the individual must develop. Quote, that's the personality descriptions of the cynics, given by astrology will be statements of the cynics by the cynics. It is a description from the inside, a self-description of the bound and fettered condition of human nature set within the privation of its characterological limits, and whose wisdom comes through suffering those limits, to accept these limits is, in a sense, for father and son to become one.

I love that, first of all, because what she's getting at, in my humble opinion, is so much richer than, you know, the sort of stereotypical ideas of Capricorn being all about, like hierarchical achievement, workaholism, you know, patriarchal dominance and all of this stuff. This is a feminine earth sign that is associated with the feminine, earthy version of Saturn, and what that really means is that there's a cross to bear.

Life includes crosses that we bear, and those crosses, as terrible as they are, whether they come from our parents, trauma that we experience, insecurities that we have to face, and things we lack and must cultivate through effort. such that the crosses we bear initiate us and they bring the youth ideally into contact with the adult in the same psyche, and so where Capricornia and energy is emphasized in a birth chart, there is usually the long, slow process of youth hood and adulthood, coming together through the difficult things that we have to commit to the difficult things that are just part of our life.

If we carry them with a willingness to carry them, we don't lose the youth in us, but we get the benefits of also reaching into the wisdom of adulthood, and so the that means becoming more fully embodied. This is why it's an earth sign. We don't think of it that way. But we should.

In an earth sign like Capricorn, we're talking about becoming more fully embodied as humans that are both children and adults, grandpa and grandma as much as little child, grandson, or granddaughter. We have within us all stages and ages of life, and we have within us all expressions of human wisdom that are found in all ages and stages of life.

But Capricorn is one of those signs that initiates the youth into adulthood through the need to carry the difficult aspects of being alive, and can you do so without those things? weighing you down, railing against them, thinking to yourself, I just gotta get through this, and once I do, then I'll be happy later.

No, it's like, can I be joyful? Can I be creative? Can I be happy? While I also have to carry things that could tempt me to think that that stuff comes later or that you can't do both at once or that I should, I should turn into someone that's resentful or bitter or cynical.

See, Capricorn contains those shadows. It contains the bitterness, the resentment, the cynicism, that is that is a byproduct of having to do hard things, and so you will meet Capricorns, and you will encounter Capricornia and energy that is sort of, you know, it's like sort of sick and bitter, and dark and edgy and cold and like that.

But on the other hand, you know, think about the people that have chosen to carry difficult things and just say yes to them; they will often have an absurdist, cynical, dark sense of humor and a joy and a lightness. They're able to do mature, hard, difficult things, stick to it, and understand that this is what life has given me, and with that kind of upbeat attitude, you'll find some of the most creative Capricornian souls ever.

People who they don't balk at the adults, the adulting. But they know how to adult in a way that's more than just, you know, the pride of discipline or the egoic temptation to think of yourself as better and more mature than others because you've done hard things. It's a recognition that life just includes hard stuff. As well as joyful stuff. Life includes the process of maturity as much as it requires that you always stay young. Those dualities are something that is trying to come together to give us a more rich and full sense of embodiment.

That's what Capricorn is about, that process, that journey; I often have compared the journey of Capricorn to the journey of Frodo and Bilbo and the hobbits in The Lord of the Rings. You start off as a kind of innocent country folk who are kind of a little bit ignorant of the, you know, the broader dramas of Middle Earth, and they come somehow, by chance to, you know, encounter the Ring of Power, which is the source of problems and pain and suffering, so to speak.

It's an emblem or symbol or token of that struggle, and they are tasked with carrying it; you child will carry this right young, kind of innocent hobbits, delightful creatures and that do not wanting to fuss around with the problems of the world. You carry this, you don't get your tea times anymore, you know, you have to walk this ring all the way to Mordor and cast it into the fire, and by the way, don't let it kill your spirit on the way.

So there's lightheartedness that's needed in order to carry heavy things. It's a child that has to carry the heavy things. This is echoed in the Christian motif of God becoming a little baby and being born and sort of inheriting the weight of the world that the story of Jesus, whether you think it's, you know, a sort of myth, the legend, the real thing, it doesn't matter as an archetype. That story is, by the way, common around the world, too. It's not the only story that's like it. But the story of Jesus is the story of a youth that has to carry the adult responsibilities of the world and what is he constantly saying: me and my father are one, and there's a sacrifice that has to take place, and there's a willingness to do it and still an ability to say, you know, my burden is light.

Or you think of the book of Job as another example of an encounter with the aspects of divinity in the universe that are heavy, and suffering is involved, and it's a mystery, why any of this should fall to Job, you know, or to any of us or to the hobbits and yet, you have to wrestle with that, keep going, keep your joy, keep your faith, don't let it bring you down and then the result is a mature faith.

You get, you know, at the end of the day, you know, the hobbits that come back to Hobbiton, you know, come back to their hometown and they have, they're still there, they still have everything that they had when they left, but they're older, and they're wiser, and they've carried something that has joined the ways of the world and the wisdom of the world and the earthly world, right, and they've seen it, and they've carried it and they've encountered it, they fought goblins and Orcs and they've carried a ring and, you know, they almost fell beneath the weight of it and became dark, like the ring.

That's the world. That's the biomatrix of earth that includes darkness, suffering, that if you take it up and you say yes to it, like the voluntary imprisonment, you say, You know what, I'm gonna say yes, then it's you don't delay, you know, you take that's a great adventure. That's a That's a super great adventure to take up in life. That's what Capricorn has been about.

In one area of our chart, there's been a very deep level of transformation at work in our lives for a very long time. Now, with Pluto moving through the whole sign house of Capricorn, wherever it may fall in your birth chart, look at those topics. You know, what have you been carrying? What is the what? How has the world invited you to go into it at a deeper level since 2008? It's a long period of time to be slowly walking a ring to the fire, and it's interesting because when I think about Pluto moving into Aquarius.

I really think about what does the world look like after initiation, and there's so much to be said there. You know, it's like there are so many plans and visions and dreaming, and we can see things because the ability to see comes from the experience of having carried hard things and not lost our joy, not lost our creativity, not lost our childlike nature, to not become weighed down to become like the thing we carry.

It's funny how many times I hear people talking about the weight they carry from their mother or their father. But frequently, as I'd say, you know, several times a week, I hear people say for as much as two things can be true at once. It sucks. I was a victim of my dad's alcoholism, or whatever it might be, you know, and it sucks. But because I've chosen to see this as something that I've accepted, I have voluntarily chosen to take this up, and then it has become my initiation. It has become the meaningful, hard thing that I've had to carry. It's become a kind of like a dare from the universe, I dare you to stay happy despite what you've been given. I dare you to stay strong and healthy and creative, and yet carry this hard thing, and there's something about it that's like there's a kind of like existential moxie that we get, you know, a little, just a little swagger and a little sense of inner confidence because we've chosen to look at the circumstances, our life.

Whether it's seriously, whether it's like parenting just super hard, or it's like your job, or your relationship, or the patterns you're dealing with in one area of life or another. They probably have a history, they come from your family, they come from trauma, and you just look at it, and you say, All right, I accept. I accept your challenge. Well played, universe, you know, and I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay happy. I'm going to stay joyful. I'm going to do my best, and that is that special. That's where we get the archetype of our elders from. That's what we any elder you have in your life has probably seen and done hard things and kept a child's sparkle in their eye. Not easy to do.

I reflect on the fact that, for example, this Capricorn, a long transit of Pluto, is taking place in the ninth house in my chart. Where has it taken place in yours? Think about it. I reflect back on the fact that I was finishing graduate school when it entered the ninth house, went on a lot of adventures in the realm of ayahuasca and religious communities and astrology and the astrological world, and the transformation of my beliefs and faith, and having to carry hard and difficult things that also come from a background, I was a preacher's kid, there's a weight to carry there.

It's been amazing. It's been amazing, and every step of the way, the thing that has made the biggest difference has been a willingness, and I'm not saying I have it all the time. But whenever I do find it, like a willingness to, alright, this is the cross I've been given to carry or, you know, this is the shape and look of it. Let's go. Let's do it. You know, let's do it and keep going. Don't give up and keep your joy. Have fun with it. See if you can smile or, at the very least, you know, keep a good sense of humor. I would say Capricorn has a sort of absurdist dark sense of humor, as I said before, but like, you know, it's kind of the best. It's like one of the best forms of humor. Because it's a humor that sort of tempered by some, some real truth about how hard things are and how dark things can be.

There's one last thing I want to read you guys. So she goes on Liz Greene does to discuss the another side of Capricorn that I thought was really interesting.

I would now like to explore the strange Capricornian goatfish, which is the astral emblem of the sign. Isn't that a strange thing? You know that ancient astrologers called this an enigmatic sign. There's like there's, I feel like, you know, as someone who's very, tries to be very conscious of the words I use to describe things in astrology and try to find new ways as soon as I fall into patterns of talking about signs or planets in certain ways, then it's like, okay, I can start to, I can start to hear myself saying the same things over and over, and so then it's like, well, how can I find a slightly different way? And I like that challenge.

One of the things that we should do is we should have a little quarter jar when you talk about Capricorn. If you use things like hardworking, achievement-oriented, workaholics and patriarchs or something like put a quarter in the jar. Think about it differently. I would now like to explore it. It's an enigmatic sign. It's one of the only signs along with the center that has as its constellation image of a mythic figure. I'd now like to explore the strange Capricornian goatfish, which is the astral emblem of the sign.

The mythic tale associated with this constellation seems at first disconnected from the theme of the crucifixion and resurrection of the earth king. According to graves, the fish goat or goatfish is almathea, the goat nymph who suckled the young Zeus on Mount Dijk day when his mother Raya hid him from the devouring wrath of his father, Chronos. This is a paradox, and we have met it already in several myths.

Kronos himself is the old goat and God of fertility, and Teutonic myth, as well as in Greek, that goat is associated with the harvesting of the grain, and with the abundant Cornucopia full of the fruits of early winter. Almathea is the sucker and goat. The one who gives life to the young and helpless son Kronos is the destroying goat who will eat his own young. Thus, as in the case of Theseus with his bull father, a single symbol unites all of the characters. Zeus was grateful to Amalthea for her kindness, and when he became Lord of the universe, he set her image among the stars as Capricorn.

Also when Zeus was being hidden from Chronos, who was trying to kill him, he was like an infant. He was nursed by the goat, who is the constellation image of Capricorn. Zeus was grateful to Amalthea for her kindness, and when he became Lord of the universe, he set her image among the stars as Capricorn. He also borrowed one of her horns, and it became the Cornucopia or horn of plenty, which is also always filled with whatever food or drink its owner may desire, a kind of grail.

This bounteous side of Saturn was worshipped by the Romans at their Saturnalia, which coincided with our Christmas, in other words, in Saturn's month. The strange pairing of the positive and negative sides of the goat embedded in this myth seems to suggest, as with Theseus, that there is a profound collusion between the dark and light aspects of the same deity.

The terrible father who seeks to destroy his son secretly and unconsciously also offers him salvation through the feminine aspect of the same emblem which he himself wears. It is this secret collusion which is quite awesome to meet and analytic work. One becomes aware that despite the individual's fears, resistances, symptoms, and problems, there is something, whatever word one chooses to give it, which has a secret purpose to those various symptoms and problems as though divided against itself.

Yet on some very hidden level, undivided and working toward the greater wholeness of the individual, that principle which causes Capricorn his greatest suffering, the rigid, guilt-ridden, narrow, fearful, paranoid Old Earth King, is also the same principle that gives him the endurance, determination, and foresight to struggle through that which blocks him just as in the myth where one face of the daimon Kronos attempts to destroy while the other face AlmaThea suckers and, and preserves. It is interesting in context of the symbolism of the goatfish to discover that there is a myth connected with it even older than that of Cronos and almathea. This is the ancient figure of the Sumerian waterguard, I think that's how you say that, and I'm probably getting a bunch of these pronunciations wrong.

This is the ancient figure of the Sumerian waterguard Aya, whose symbol is the fishtailed goat. This got later translated into a Ones in Greek; not sure we got that right either, and the name Ones, in turn, became John, and we arrived at the mythic figure of John the Baptist, who has an older theory of morphic forerunners and who prophesies is the coming of the Redeemer. This is the paradox of the strange Father God to whom Capricorn is bound the diamond of his fate. It is in many ways akin to Yahweh, although it is more God's law than God's fire that we meet in Capricorn.

This is the perverse and antiM and to know me and God, who both afflicts and suckers job, and paradoxically, according to Christian doctrine, brings his only son into the world and then crucifies him there by himself suffering the fate of mortals in order to redeem both them and secretly, himself.

That's really, really beautiful. It reminds me of there's these weird and brilliant things that Tolkien put into the Lord of the Rings that are very similar. He, by the way, was a Capricorn sun in the fifth house place, a children creativity place, it was called The Joy of Venus, creativity and the arts. What's interesting is, in The Lord of the Rings, there are many examples where although Frodo carries this ring, which is a weight, there are a couple of things that he needs along the way that can only be given to him by the very ring that he's meant to destroy.

There are numerous occasions in which he needs to use the ring to become invisible in order to hide, and the power of the ring in many ways, in weird ways, is like an ally up until it gets pretty close to the point where he needs to destroy it, at which point it becomes clear that it's really a burden that needs to be destroyed.

The point is that there's this weird way in which the things we carry are our allies for the purpose of individuation, healing, and growth, and we use them; we use the power of the heavy, difficult things we carry to help us be strong, or that so there's a kind of secretive collusion between dark and light and that's a paradox that, of course, has been pointed out by many mystical traditions and my favorite that I study quite regularly that reflects that paradox of course, Taoism but similar explorations of light and dark, and they're the weird way in which they work together throughout the Star Wars movies in the force and the Light and Dark Side of the Force.

The point is that in Capricorn, there are things that are a real affliction, to carry real suffering real trauma, real moments where maybe we've been victimized or harmed by others. We've been giving a there's a there is a kind of cynics old, crotchety Saturn, it's like out to destroy, you know, a devouring father, a devouring mother, whatever you want to call it. But there's some on the psychic level; there's a kind of secretive collusion between that figure that is meant to destroy us to give these gives us a hard thing we have to carry and the power of those very exact things to bring us up and to help us and act as allies and to be, you know, allies in a sense for our development and so the again the old and the young.

There's a duality that is so consistent with Saturn that it's important to remember that Saturn was considered the Lord of the opposition, which I went planets are opposed to one another in the possibility of polarization and having to confront and deal with dualities in the psyche in our actual soul that comes forth through Saturn ruled signs is Saturn exalted in Libra is another great example a little different in Aquarius, but we'll have an opportunity to talk about that as we talk about Pluto entering Aquarius in more videos to come.

So anyway, the thing we carry is something that is also bringing us up like a mother or a father, and the mother or father is terrible, and yet the mother or father is nursing us and empowering us along the way. So it's really a real enigma to deal with Saturn in a full relief, a full and well-rounded way. We have to avoid the temptation of thinking about Saturn in terms of, you know, extreme. Yeah, like you need to be careful that we don't become the shadow of Saturn in the very way that we discussed the Saturn-ruled signs. That's always a potential problem.

Anyway, I hope that this reflection on the sign of Capricorn has been useful. Why are we doing it again? We're in the final days of Pluto, culminating in 15-16 years worth of working through a Saturn ruled sign and creating deep transformation in that area of our lives. That is reflected by the whole sign house of Capricorn. So I hope that this gives you some things to think about. What have you been carrying? Look at that whole sign of Capricorn in your chart; look at the topics associated with that house. If you need a reminder, you could pop a question into the comment section; we have a whole community and people who know astrology they could probably help you if you're trying to get a reminder about what topics were beyond the scope of today's talk. But yeah, it's been a pleasure to talk about this for all of you.

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