Today, we’re going to explore Pluto’s entrance into Aquarius.
Over the past year, as Pluto briefly entered Aquarius and then moved back out, I’ve heard an intriguing question come up more frequently: Are we on the brink of a new era?
Could this be a leap in consciousness and a step into something better, or are we potentially heading toward a dystopian or apocalyptic outcome?
In this talk, I’ll address this question and present five key points that can help us reflect on the deeper archetypal meanings of Pluto in Aquarius.
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Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Today, we're going to take a look at Pluto's entrance into the sign of Aquarius. Pluto is now in Aquarius to stay—no more retrogrades back into Capricorn making our lives miserable. No. But today, I want to present us with a question that I’ve been hearing more and more over the past year, as Pluto has dipped into Aquarius and pulled back out. The question is: Are we at the brink of a new age, a new era? Are things going to accelerate and take us into something better, a leap in consciousness? Or are we headed toward some kind of dystopian, apocalyptic ending or disaster scenario?
The extremes in thinking about humanity, history, and the arc we are on have been really pronounced over the past year or so, especially with Pluto’s transit into Aquarius. So today, I want to address that question and bring up five different points that can help us think through this in alignment with the deeper archetypal meanings of Pluto and Aquarius. That’s our agenda for today.
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Pluto enters Aquarius today, Tuesday, November 19, and we’re going to be dealing with Pluto in Aquarius for a very long time. Look at this: year after year. By 2031, Pluto will be in the second decan of Aquarius, getting into the third decade around 2037, and not leaving until 2044 when it enters Pisces. That’s less than 20 years, close to 20 in total if you add in the time Pluto has already spent in Aquarius. So, we have about two decades to focus on Pluto in this new sign. That’s remarkable, especially when you consider the last transit of Pluto in Capricorn, which took us all the way back to around 2008.
The major transitions of Pluto through signs are something we can track in our own lives as well. I’m going to be doing horoscopes tomorrow, which will focus on the whole sign house where Pluto is appearing in your birth chart right now. That will be useful to refresh on. Stay tuned for that! Also, we did some horoscopes earlier this month, where Alex, Dana, and I covered Pluto’s transit into Aquarius by rising sign or sun sign. You can listen to that for additional insights.
Today, I want to address the big question that comes with Pluto in Aquarius: Is this the dawn of a new age, or are we heading toward some kind of apocalyptic disaster? It’s archetypal to be concerned about these things. So, first of all, any answers I have today are more about exploring the archetype of Aquarius itself and Pluto in Aquarius, rather than offering definitive answers. I think there are five important things to remember when thinking about this question: Is humanity heading toward a disaster, or is it heading toward a leap in consciousness?
First, it really depends on your idea of progress. What does your ideal human condition or society look like? It’s hard to answer this question objectively because the answer varies based on our perspective. This question of whether we are on the brink of a golden age or a dark age is, in itself, an Aquarian one. Why? And how can we think about it in terms of the archetype?
Remember, Pluto represents a journey of death and resurrection. It’s similar to the Sun’s descent into the underworld each night and its rise in the morning. There’s always a process of deconstruction and reconstruction. It’s not surprising that when Pluto enters Aquarius—a sign associated with humanity, symbolized by Ganymede the water-bearer—we’re contemplating humanity’s death and resurrection. Are we heading toward an apocalyptic doomsday scenario, or will we be reborn?
When Pluto was last in Aquarius, it coincided with the French and American Revolutions—major turning points when questions about humanity’s future grabbed the collective imagination. It was a time of competing visions for how to organize society, the trajectory of human beings, and how we should be governed. These themes are very relevant today.
It’s no surprise that Pluto in Aquarius is making us think about humanity’s arc, but we should remember that questions about progress and the future are deeply archetypal. People across the political spectrum are already debating what’s at stake. Each side claims that if the "other" party is in power, it means the end of the world. This kind of polarization is part of the archetype. We all tend to see ourselves as the ones who will save the world or lead us toward progress.
However, the tension between these competing visions of progress is something that has occurred throughout history. At key moments, collective tensions rise around what defines progress and which systems or structures will lead us toward a brighter future—or spell doom. This is Pluto in Aquarius.
But there’s a lot of pressure in thinking we must figure out which side of history we’re on. It can feel like the weight of the world is on our shoulders, and we must decide if we’re on the side of progress or on the side of doom. It’s a tremendous pressure, and we don’t have to bear it alone.
So, I want to share five things to remember when dealing with these big questions about the future. Number one: In a sign ruled by Saturn, we see oppositions—light vs. dark, good vs. evil. These binaries can feel heavy, but remember that both can be true at the same time. This idea comes from Nicholas Campion’s book The Great Year, where he explores astrology and history. He writes that individual and collective destinies don’t always coincide. In some ways, individuals living righteous, enlightened lives may experience a "Golden Age," even if humanity at large is still trapped in corruption.
This idea of metaphysical plurality helps us navigate these intense historical moments. Even if the collective is facing difficult or dark times, our personal consciousness—our cultivation of virtue—can create a "heavenly" experience for us, even in the midst of chaos. It’s important to remember this, especially during intense transits like Pluto in Aquarius. The binary between the individual and the collective can feel heavy, but it doesn’t mean our personal experience has to reflect the collective struggle.
We have choice and agency in how we approach the world. Even if history seems to be heading down a dark path, that doesn’t mean we have to live in that darkness. Our personal consciousness can be a source of light, regardless of the world’s trajectory.
I can be in a light place, I can be in a heavenly place while acknowledging understanding and having compassion for the darkness that humanity is experiencing. This is the same kind of attitude that we see from bodhisattvas, who come back into the world and refuse to be released from physical incarnation out of compassion for those who are suffering. There’s an empathy, a compassion, and there’s also a state of bliss that can be occupied at the same time. Heaven and hell are realms that are co-present. Consider that, right? That can help us live whatever collective stories are here to be lived, while also maintaining the integrity of our own spiritual experience and our own consciousness.
So holding that tension becomes important in Aquarian moments like this.
I think another thing that can help us deal with what feels like this immense historical moment, this weightiness of history that really ramps up when Pluto is in Aquarius, is to remember something about the archetype of Aquarius and the Age of Aquarius thinking in general. So I’m going to read you another passage. This also comes from Nicholas Campion’s Astrology and Popular Religion in the Modern West: Prophecy, Cosmology, and the New Age Movement. He says:
“There are two crucial features of Aquarian Age historiography. First, its crisis-laden language, sometimes fearful, but generally hopeful, stands exactly in the lineage of astrological apocalyptic literature, which can be traced back to the ancient Near East, especially to the Old Testament.”
First of all, again, it really is our job as people who are using astrology as a spiritual way of life—what do we use it for? I don’t think that we’re all going to participate in the world in the same way. We all have a side of the story that makes the most sense to us, things that we’re blind to, things that we don’t understand—things we’re here to work on, and we can’t avoid that. But astrology is also helping us to understand every season, every passage, and experience as archetypal. And when we understand them as archetypal, we become more conscious.
“Oh, I see the pattern.” “Oh, I see the gods and goddesses.” “I see the myths. I see the metaphors. I see the poetry of my experience.”
That ability to recognize and understand the archetype allows us to have more flexibility and less reactivity. It allows for more humility, curiosity, and reflectiveness within an experience, which, generally speaking, bodes better for us. Everything goes better for us if those qualities are how we interact with the unfolding of experience. And astrology is constantly giving us access to those qualities by helping us reflect on and identify the archetypal nature of what’s happening.
So when it comes to the Age of Aquarius and the kind of thinking that we’re all experiencing as a matter of the season that we’re in, archetypally, we just have to recognize there are two crucial features of Aquarian Age historiography. First, it’s crisis-laden language. History is on the line. The future is on the line. We’re on the brink of disaster. Everything could go wrong, everything could fail—but generally hopeful. However, if the right things are done, if the right programs are instituted, if the right people are leading, then we’ll progress. We’ll be saved from the worst, or maybe even more glorious than that, we’ll achieve some kind of ideal society, some kind of ideal human state, and we’ll reach our highest potential.
Remember, one of the other names for the New Age movement is the Human Potential Movement. But generally hopeful stands exactly in the lineage of astrological apocalyptic literature, which can be traced back to the ancient Near East, especially to the Old Testament.
You see questions about the arc of human history and what side you’re on. Are you on the right or wrong side? Are you on the saving or damning side? And the burden around that collectively, and the tendency to get identified with those big collective stories and which team or side you’re on, are archetypal. They’ve been around for thousands of years. And I highly recommend you read the other book I mentioned earlier, called The Great Year, if you want to see how deeply embedded in human history questions about the arc of history and whether it’s heading in the right or wrong direction have been. It’s just archetypal.
So it helps if we can think about the burdens we’re placing on ourselves with Pluto in Aquarius with respect to human history. If we can place them back into the hands of the gods and understand that this is an Aquarian mythology, it is a recurring mythology, it is ancient. However, what’s also interesting is he said, second, all the documentary evidence indicates that the use of the shift of the constellations as a technical basis for such prophecies appears to be a product of late 18th-century atheism filtered through theosophy and then adopted by astrologers.
We are, therefore, dealing with a clear example of an invented tradition, but one which has deep roots in the western mentality. So I would also warn people against thinking too literally about ages. Right? Because the Aquarian Age, the idea of the Age of Aquarius, as Nicholas Campion maps out, not only in that little passage but in this entire book, is a recently invented tradition. Doesn’t mean it’s nothing. I don’t mean to say that nothing recent can’t be valid. It’s just that people commonly think that the Age of Aquarius is somehow an ancient idea, and it’s a very new idea, and its roots are not well understood. Most people can’t articulate where the idea of the Age of Aquarius, as a literal thing, actually comes from. I highly recommend reading this book if you want to learn more about it.
But anyway, the point of that is just to say that the Age of Aquarius is not literally here. Is some new age literally here? No, I don’t think so. Because I think that the more we get caught up in stories about human history and human progress, we dissociate from our actual bodies, the actual Earth, and our actual personal life more and more. It doesn’t mean we have to ignore history, that nothing is going on. It’s just the more literally we think about ages, stages of history, grand narratives, and where we’re at in some map of progress along grand historical human narratives, the more we are entering into an archetypal fiction. We’re being seized by it, and we don’t even realize it.
So what I recommend is thinking about the Age of Aquarius as an archetypal thing, not a literal thing. And we’re primed to have a very deep experience of the archetypal Age of Aquarius while Pluto is in Aquarius. But I warn against the literalism that is behind such notions. So now, take it or leave it.
Number three, I think there’s a good question that we can ask, which is, in such moments where there’s a great emphasis being placed on, “Will humanity get it right?” The question is there. Will we get it wrong? Will we mess it up? Will we drop the ball? Or will we evolve? Will we save the environment, or will it be too late? These are tremendous questions, right? Real questions we might ask ourselves.
What does astrology have to contribute during such times? I ask myself that question all the time. I see what’s happening in the world. I have a lot of concern about some of what’s happening in the world. And I think to myself, well, what can I do as an astrologer that feels authentic to who I am and that can genuinely make a difference? I really like the way that Patrick Curry puts it in his book A Confusion of Prophets. This is a book that is really about a major shift in the history of astrology itself, in terms of how astrology is being seen and understood in the collective. At the end of the book, Patrick Curry reflects on what contribution astrology can make, or astrologers, individual astrologers like myself, can make to a world that is struggling, to a world that might be suffering, to a world that is asking itself, “How do we get better?” or “How do we avoid messing it up?”
I think this is a question that different people, different professions, different callings, will have to address differently. Some of you listening are approaching that question of how to help from the standpoint of your own gifts, abilities, and the field that you work in, or the people that are in your lives whom you have the power to affect positively.
But as astrologers, as people who are interested in astrology, what can we contribute to making the world a better place? I think what we offer is something that is valuable to all people. I mean that sincerely. There are people in my life—there always have been—who believe things that are very different from what I believe when it comes to what is best for humanity. I’m sure you have people like that in your life too—deep disagreements, divergent ideologies—and we look at each other and we still love each other somehow.
That doesn’t always happen. Maybe for some people, it’s rare, but I have had that in my life, and I’m very thankful that I’ve had that, and it’s meant enough to me to try to maintain that loving attitude. I see astrology as something that has something really tremendous to offer the world right now, which is something of value for all of us, regardless of where each individual person may stand with respect to what they believe is the best thing for humanity, for human history.
Those divisions, those battles, those debates, those conflicts, they may have to happen, and it may be really difficult for those conflicts to play out in the next couple of decades. Regardless, I think that I can show up, and I know that all of us, insofar as we share astrology with other people, can show up every day, reminding ourselves that there is something that is of value to all of us beyond these debates and questions about the arc of human history.
Granted, if we’re in the right place under the sun, then there may be some things that astrologers are unusually well-placed to teach us: a sense of wonder, an awareness of belonging to an intelligent universe made up of qualities as well as quantity, an appreciation of cycles, continuities, and responsibilities.
There are many other teachers, of course, and these are not the only lessons, but they are becoming urgent. These things bring us together and, in some ways, are bigger than history because they are eternal, and history, in a sense, is finite. There’s going to come a day where, you know, the sun will burn out, and life on Earth will probably be gone at some point. Who knows? But I think that’s a real possibility.
What are the things that are of eternal value? These are the things that astrology can contribute—a sense of wonder, that we can look at the universe even amidst the great conflicts of human history, and we can see it all without exception as sacred, that we can trust that there is an intelligent design working its way through everything. And we bring that kind of trust. That is something that can unite us and heal divisions—even if divisions have to happen and must exist—that we can see the universe through astrology as animate, responsive, conscious, and alive, moving in cycles and patterns.
And that we can place the great arcs of history into that living, animistic cosmos. This is of enduring value through all ages and all times. It is a refuge for the human soul, and if we don’t hold the tension of the individual human soul alongside the collective narratives that are so much a part of our experience, we will be torn apart by the collective narratives. That’s the point.
Number four on my list is apocalyptic impatience. One of the things that happens with the Age of Aquarius, or if we want to talk about it as Pluto in Aquarius, the archetype of Aquarius in general, is that the apocalypse means that which will be revealed. And of course, the water bearer Ganymede is a very privileged human being who is thought of as beautiful and sort of special and rare among humans, abducted by Zeus, taken up to Olympus.
The gods desire something mortal. And, of course, human beings desire things that are immortal. And there’s this tension between the gods desiring us and us desiring the gods. It’s at the core of the sign of Aquarius. One of the mythologies that’s often associated with the sign of Aquarius, through the modern rulership of Uranus, is Prometheus—Prometheus, who steals the fire from the gods. There is a way in which Aquarius amplifies our desire for transcendental knowledge, transcendental understanding, a revealing or unveiling of things that are secret and of a higher order.
We want more knowledge. We want more intelligence. We want more understanding. We want better technology. See, we’re reaching for things that are godlike. And one of the things that can happen in a Pluto in Aquarius era is that we can lose touch with the importance of mystery, of things being concealed and hidden, and how vital it is for things to be concealed, hidden, enigmatic, and paradoxical.
In our quest for better technology, better understanding, we often become very linear. Just a quick example would be: we’ve understood something about nuclear and atomic energy, and then we have a bomb. Right? There are ways in which, when things that are hidden are revealed to human consciousness in an impatient, impulsive, urgent, non-reflective manner, what is revealed can become dangerous. There’s something about really deep, profound knowledge that cloaks itself, and that really only makes itself accessible through a kind of ongoing, contemplative, reflective mindset. We have to really sit with things and digest them before we understand them or before we know how to use what we’re tapping into.
This can become a really important thing for us to remember during Pluto’s long stay in Aquarius. This is Socrates, who’s characterizing poetry in general as the production of riddles.
This is from a book by Peter Strzok called The Birth of the Symbol. Great book. I really loved reading it.
Well, this man, the poet of the Margites, is speaking enigmatically. “My good fellow, he—and nearly all other poets too—for the whole poetic art is by nature riddling. It is not just for any man to understand it.”
That’s Socrates speaking about riddles. And one of the things, of course, that Socrates loved to do was go around and ask people questions until their false sense of certainty arrived at through what I think Socrates would call a kind of impatient attitude, you know, came apart. They were no longer certain. He would reveal that they didn’t really know what they were talking about.
In that little passage, what I love is that Socrates is describing something that we know has been said by sages in the Buddhist tradition through things like Zen koans, that’s been present in things like the poetry of haikus, the presence of compact, dense little statements in Sanskrit, that’s present in the beautiful, short, tight little passages of Taoist poetry.
Anything that is really substantive is sort of a multi-faceted jewel or gem, and it is best spoken of through things that express multi-dimensionality—like poetry, like metaphor. When you’re learning the ancient hermetic language of astrology, one of the things that’s really amazing is that you’re only learning one concept deeply when you’ve understood something else that seems completely unrelated. Something about the 12th house will help you understand Saturn at last. And then the more you start unpacking something about Saturn, all of a sudden, now you’re able to understand something about the 12th house that at first you were only glimpsing just a little part of.
So there is such a privileging of what is enigmatic, what is cryptic, what is riddling, what is multifaceted in ancient schools of mysticism. Now, I’m not saying that Pluto in Aquarius will have no capacity for nuance, or that it’s somehow just an overly rational or linear placement. But my point is that because Aquarius has such a fascination and interest in what constitutes progress and knowledge, what can happen is we can get really impatient.
We want to see what we can’t see. We want to see what’s being hidden. We want to understand more. We want to have more technology. But we lose track of the fact that for most of human history, those things that have been thought of as the most deeply held sacred and secret truths of existence require a deep level of contemplation. They always involve paradox and require that we sort of riddle over them. And that sometimes you can’t even get there without something like music or dance or poetry.
So we have to keep these things in mind because we will be presented with powerful information in this Age of Aquarius—this next 20 years of Pluto in Aquarius—that doesn’t mean that all of it should be rushed. We should be reflective. We should pull what is being revealed into the inner space of riddling and contemplation. That should be our practice.
And then number five, an antidote to a kind of intoxication with humanism that comes with Pluto and Aquarius is animism. It doesn't mean that the two things—that only one can be true—but something that can save us from the most dissociative tendencies of progressive humanism, which Aquarius will just ramp up. I mean, the volume on progressive humanism will just get turned way up. While Pluto is in Aquarius, they'll be like, "What is the most progressive human story? This is good. That's bad. This is good for people. That's not good for people. This is the thing taking us into the best future. That's the thing that's going to take us into the past. This will bring disaster. This will bring salvation." Right? Like that. Those stories are so, they're so human-centric.
So I want to read to you one last thing here. This comes from James Hillman. If I can find it, let me see here. Know what? I'm just going to pause because I need to pull it up. Okay, sorry about that. So here is the quote from James Hillman on a lecture that he gave about animism in the animalized Cosmos: there is no progress either. Remember, this is cutting against the grain of the Pluto in Aquarius mythology, which is that the death and rebirth of human civilization is at hand. Big shifts in human history are at hand—like, and while that's real, listen to Hillman push back against that. And the reason that we would want to push back against that is so that we do not get unconsciously abducted, like Ganymede by Zeus, in the grips of this archetype, right?
So in the animalized Cosmos, there is no progress either. Let's say you own a cat, and you keep your cat for seven or 12 years until one day it dies stiff and straight on the floor. You get another cat, a different one, maybe a female one, and red. But there's no progress through the line of cats, or repetition of cats; memory makes comparisons among these avatars of the cat spirit. We see differences, but difference only becomes progress from better to worse or worse to better when differences are linked to history. For the native plains people in what is now the United States, the buffalo that appeared each spring to eat the new grass after the snow were always the same buffalo roaring up out of the earth and disappearing at the end of the season as the snows came on again—repetition, differences, and, it seems, to use Aristotle's basic category, suddenness, changes, epiphanies, anything but progress, yeah.
Therefore, a foundation that aims to support culture will plant one foot firmly against history, against civilization, in order to hold open a door to culture. It must welcome at its reception desk the apparitions that do not make historical sense, the appetitions that seem an abrupt break without progenitors, something in and of itself, without traces or sources, or with origins so remote they can only be imaginable. Nor may a cultural foundation build bridges that aid the assimilation of culture by civilization. The spirit does not use bridges. It prefers gaps so that it can leap.
Nor will a cultural foundation be occupied with renewal. New always implicates us in history instead of foundation. It will foster the pre-historical and a-historical, that civilized aspect of the soul, which today we are calling the animal soul. Like the French painters sought the South Seas and African masks to get out of history, to defeat its civilizing influence, but not to get to early man or the origins of art. No, the appetite for primitivity seeks the utterly different and alien beauty, like the displays of the animal soul, unadorned by civilization, archetypal in its constancy and therefore not new but utterly familiar.
Imagine, that we let go of depending upon the new—what then can the Americas turn to when facing the unknown? For American civilization always relies on newness to mask its anxiety. What can nourish our optimism, our manic excitations that insist upon explorations, improvements, inventions, that must speak of this hemisphere as a discovery? What would happen to God, the economy, and the frenzy of consumption from which this God lives, if the new were obliterated as a category? No new frontiers, no new fashions, new and improved products, diets, restaurants, no new generation of computers and cars, no new state of the art, no idea of the latest.
Without the new, we would have dropped completely out of science and technology, out of economic development, personality growth. What would we then notice? If we had no news, we would have fallen altogether through the supportive structure of history. What remains below history? Where does this fall out of history take us? Into the pool of the ancestors, the eternal ones, the invisible, watching, waiting in the dreams, waiting in the melancholy's whispering still from childhood, like animal spirits or animals themselves. They are not new. There are no new animals, nor can we embrace the secret of their existence with such terms as repetition, eternal return, or cyclical time. Since these terms just lead us back into history, the animal records no history, and is therefore neither old nor new.
Those fossil remains that establish its heredity, the carbon dating of its bones, the paleozoology that reconstructs the millennial animal are attempts to place this or that animal—the Jaguar, the lizard, the monkey—into our scheme of time, into history again with traces of animal evolution for the sake of what? The animal knows so that we can again be at the top of the tree of time, the crown of creation.
So I make this turn to the animal for the sake of this hemisphere, the reality of the world, Mundo, when nuevo is deleted as its qualifier. I am stripping this American world of its historical adjectives and attempting to undo the cosmology inherent in the very style and order of our assembly here and now—this architecture, this schedule, the very syntax of the words and ideas. As I stand here, clearly, my attempt is absurd and will fail, but better absurdities than conventions, better difficult failures than quick success.
The turn to the animal is an archetypal move when the mind has trapped itself into its own cage of thought—the thought of history. He's just, he's, he's, he's on fire right there, right? But now what he's saying is sort of extreme because it can, it can almost again, like much of this talk, could almost sound like what we're saying is "over, bury your head in the sand, pretend that human history and the importance of relevance of these epic historical narratives are unreal." Like, no, no, not at all. What it's saying is be aware of them as imaginal, as archetypal, because we can get trapped in thinking that history is literal rather than archetypal, which means all of the ways that we have of interacting with history itself are archetypal, not literal. And that allows us to engage with more consciousness. We can bring these things with us into the Age of Aquarius, so to speak.
I think we'll be doing good, and along the way, if astrology can help us retain the sense of wonder, this primal sense of presence in an animate Cosmos made alive by archetypes, by gods, by spirits, then I think we're in really good shape to contribute something good to the world as astrologers, and to also participate, to whatever extent we feel called to participate in the unfolding of these collective stories.
So I'll leave us there for today. Thank you guys for listening. You know, it was like, I think this was one of the harder talks for me to write in a while, because there's just a lot in the air lately. You know, there's a lot of hurt, there's a lot of anger and frustration, there's a lot of polarization, and I think that Pluto and Aquarius, this is, this is a really good archetype for us to work with and reflect upon right now. So I hope that I've provided you with something substantive and useful to that end, but also make sure that you, if this is a jumping-off point for reflections that take you in a different direction or to some different conclusions, that's a good thing. I'm not here to, you know, indoctrinate people into the way that I see things or the ideas that I'm working with. I just hope that I provide people with things that are useful.
So on that note, I hope you have a good day. We will see you again tomorrow, where we will take Pluto through all 12 sign horoscopes. Give you some practical placement of Pluto in your birth chart. After I sign off, there is an informational video about the rewards available through the Kickstarter. You can find the link to donate and help our cause this year in the description of the video in the comment section, or go to the website, NightlightAstrology.com, and click on the Kickstarter 2025 link, and stick around to hear more about the rewards that we're offering.
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