Something Has to Give — The Sun Squares Pluto

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Happy Friday, everybody. Today we're going to take a look at the sun moving into a square with Pluto over the weekend. Sun square Pluto, sun opposite Pluto, sun conjunct Pluto. These are some of the most powerful sun transits of every year of astrology, and they recur.

And so some of the themes we're going to go through today, if you've watched the channel over the years, will be familiar to you. It's worth refreshing on them. And I always try to provide some new angles, and I've got some really interesting ways of looking at this particular square, because this is one of only a few squares that we've had so far, with Pluto in Aquarius and the sun moving through earthy Taurus.

One of the main things that this brings up is a long standing difficult tension between air and earth signs. I want to talk about why that tension exists today and how you can see it at play in the world, maybe in your own life, and hopefully it will be useful. So I've got a list of five things to watch for that we're going to roll through that'll help you prep for the weekend square between these two planets.

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Okay. Well, let's look at this. You can see that my epic pen is hiding. There it is. You can see the sun today, Friday, April 24, moving into the square with Pluto in Aquarius at five degrees. Now that square perfects tomorrow, Saturday, April 25. Take it forward just one day from there, you can see Sunday, April 26, the two planets are just separating within a degree. We're going to give that three degrees of separation. Take it through about Tuesday, April 28.

Now, to be fair, because we're talking about this today on Friday, April 24, you probably could have felt this from Wednesday of this week all the way through Tuesday of next. So the orb might be something like Wednesday, April 22 all the way through Tuesday, April 28. We're giving it three degrees on either side when we do that, but we do have a very interesting dynamic at play behind the scenes of this square.

Let's talk about a few of the little dignity details. You can see that the host of the Sun in Taurus is Venus, who's just conjunct with Uranus, has entered the very airy sign of Gemini and is now sympathetically relating to Pluto through a trine. This does add a little bit of support to the square. The square between these two planets is a little intense. If we throw Pluto into the ancient superior/inferior dynamic, Pluto superior, and Venus as the host of the Sun is sort of sympathetic to Pluto by virtue of being in a trine and being in a really airy space itself.

So all of that being said, I thought it would make for a really good conversation about the ancient dichotomy, elementally, between earth and air. We're going to get to that today in my list of five things to watch for. At the end, I've got some other things that are a little bit more standard but certainly no less powerful. So let's start our five things to watch for with maybe the most basic sun-Pluto dynamic of all time, which is the revision of life purpose, life direction.

When the sun and Pluto square, it's a brief but very potent moment that often aligns with, well, that often brings, I should say, a crisis of alignment. When the life that you're living, and remember the life that we're living is being lived in many different storylines simultaneously. You've got the life you're living as a parent, you've got the life you're living as a professional, you've got the life you're living as someone who cares for your body or has an inner life or talks with a therapist and reflects on things. You have the life you're living with friends and family, right?

So take this into context. This doesn't mean your whole life, but it can mean very specific, targeted areas of life are going through a moment of alignment crisis. Like, what? I don't even know if that makes sense, a crisis of alignment. See Neptune squaring my Mercury right now, my mind and language has just been all over the place, and I'm usually pretty more organized and methodical. So it's nuts.

Anyway, a crisis of alignment: when your life, the life that you're living in some particular area, or maybe overall, no longer feels like it has some deeper sense of direction or purpose moving underneath it. Something in me has outgrown the direction I've been moving in or am currently heading in. And it doesn't always have to be really dramatic, but internally, you can feel something like a loss of enthusiasm for something and a resistance to something where there used to be flow and a sense of purpose and alignment.

So a sense that your motivation is being stripped down, and you're getting down to, okay, this is exactly what I want and what I don't want. And it's becoming clear. And Pluto doesn't revise our lives gently. That's what makes this transit so powerful. It tends to remove any false purpose or ambitions that are tied to forms of validation that you realize are just not healthy, or that are wrapped up in a misalignment between what you want and what you think other people expect.

Anytime that an identity pattern is built on stability and pleasantness alone, that's very Taurian, but the shadow of Taurus would be, this is stable, comfortable. Pluto in Aquarius will say, yeah, but it's not what you really want, or it's stable and steady and provides something beneficial, but it's not something that really feels like you, or it feels really authentic or valid. If you go in that direction, it might destabilize something that has been reliable and pleasant.

You could also ask a question right now: is this truly mine or for me, or is this something I've somehow inherited, absorbed or built for the sake of security and pleasantness? Now the daimon is associated with the sun. The sun is called daimon by ancient astrologers, that guiding spirit that lives in us as a sense of a pattern that we're meant to live into and fulfill. And there's a felt sense when you're in it and when you're outside of it, almost like a little GPS calibration that's trying to bring us inside of a pattern that feels right.

The pattern that feels right doesn't always have to be easy, but it feels like the right pattern that we're supposed to be in. And when you're coming out of that pattern or the pattern needs adjusting somehow, you'll often see that that happens when Pluto transits your natal sun. The sun-Pluto transits in the sky can be little micro adjustments where the daimon is saying, this doesn't feel inspiring, or it feels like you're outside of the right pattern, and there's a pressure or a compulsion or a necessity to shift something to get back into the right pattern. I can't keep going this way.

It's not about impulsively changing your life direction instantly; that often leads to problems down the road with Pluto-Sun transits. It's about feeling where something deeper is asking you to realign. And that can be very powerful, but pretty brief, unless you simultaneously have major things affecting your sun right now, or you have a Pluto transit going on. It's not like it's going to be the world's biggest event, but you will feel it. You will notice it, if you pay attention.

Number two on my list would be very classic death, loss, transitions of solar figures. So a solar figure is anything or anyone that anchors identity, visibility or centrality. Those are sun principles. So leaders, CEOs, authority figures, fathers or paternal archetypes, celebrities or highly visible individuals. It's important to notice that the sun is representing things that are central.

If you think of the sun at high noon, it's the only visible object in the sky. It's the center, the top, the middle. And that is a property that belongs to the sun in terms of the organization of the ancient celestial spheres model. The sun was in the middle of the spheres rising up. The sun was given centrality in the paradigm, even though it wasn't quite a heliocentric model yet. We have really early evidence that heliocentrism was around way before the established model moved. But anyway, that's another story.

The point is the sun played a central role, and so sun transits to Pluto will often involve death, loss, transition, upheaval, shadows, secrets, things coming up and out that are Plutonian relative to solar figures that occupy some central position. The possible manifestations that you'll see more literally will be illness, death, departure of prominent figures, or symbolic falls from grace or resignation or exposure or loss of influence or corruption or scandal.

Pluto tends to reveal what was hidden beneath an image or a facade, and it will show you the shadow of the shine, the shadow behind the shine, the shadow that the sun casts. And that's really good for us too, because it allows us to see hidden dynamics behind whatever sunny picture we present to the world. In some part of the world, most of us hold some center stage. It could be very small, just among friends and family. You will be at the center sometimes with a loved one. You share the stage with friends. You share the stage at work.

You have probably a sphere of influence where you're at the center of something. Most of us have multiple different stages in life, and there will be times at which you'll be at the center. The role you play at the center, and how you hold that space, and what's in the shadow of the center of spaces that you hold, can come to the surface, or people can just come to know parts of you that haven't been seen previously. That doesn't necessarily have to be shadow material; it can just be things that haven't been seen or visible. Sometimes it's more like, look at this part of me, I bet you didn't know that existed.

It can also show up more personally as changing relationships with father figures, maybe realizing that someone you looked up to no longer represents exactly what you thought. Though you do have to be careful, because we tend to put people up on pedestals and then knock them off pedestals as soon as they're just the smallest bit human. That is on us. And Pluto-Sun dynamics are also an invitation for us to look at the pattern of projecting way more power, fame, importance, rank, celebrity worship, and all of it.

And you know what? I've done work for some celebrities over the course of my career. I've done things like read backstage at gifting suites at some of the award shows, the American Music Awards. Celebrities are just people. And a lot of the celebrities I've worked with really don't like being in the spotlight. I mean, they like whatever their job is, their craft. But there's a real sense of, yeah, I don't like standing in the delusional projections of a culture that idolizes people who are on TV or whatever, or who make movies or who sing or whatever they dance, or when I worked in DC, I worked with some people who are prominent in the government.

Everyone is interested in astrology, by the way. But the point is that Pluto-Sun transits are really great for helping us to remember that we project this stuff onto people. Everyone's just normal. We all have to brush our teeth. We all spend a lot of time in our lives doing silly things like grocery shopping and preparing food. A lot of life is really mundane, and the Pluto-Sun transit is a great way for claiming back some of the projections of greatness that really take away something simple and pure and beautiful about life that's more common and humble.

They say Pluto-Sun transits are very humbling, yeah, but only to the extent that we've projected too much onto ourselves or others, some importance or prominence or fame or notoriety. We have to pull it back when the sun and Pluto come along. I remember specifically when Pluto was impacting my sun through an opposition, I went through a phase of realizing that I had a guru in a tradition. I was taking monastic vows, as you all know, and I had to pull those projections back and be like, actually, it wasn't that there was anything wrong with my guru. There was something wrong with me.

And I realized I didn't, at this stage in life and the level of commitment, the monastic life wasn't for me. And I had to pull back some of those projections of what I thought I was supposed to be, of what I thought this person was. And it didn't necessarily mean that there was anything wrong with them, scandalous or corrupt. It was just a projection. I put them up on a pedestal, and then I started swiping them off a pedestal when I found they were a little human. And then I had to go through the process of realizing that's on me.

That was a big part of my Pluto-Sun opposition when I went into and came out of a monastic tradition where I took a guru. In that tradition, you literally worship your guru, which can be very complicated, especially for Western people. But anyway, so pulling back projections or looking at them in ourselves. All right.

Anyway, number three is celestial plans, earthy designs. So Pluto in Aquarius can be very much like a celestial engineer, abstract systems, technology, networks, and what we might think of as invisible architecture. You ever seen a blueprint design? A blueprint design is really abstract. We had landscapers when we bought this house who came in and helped us create the garden for my wife, because she's a double Taurus, of course she needs a garden.

We host a lot of community events, and she harvests medicine in her garden. So it really was something we had in our design, in our budget, to create. So we set aside some money to do some landscaping to create this garden. They laid the blueprints out. And I was like, that does not look like a garden. I had a really hard time visualizing it. But while Pluto in Aquarius can lay the blueprint out, the sun in Taurus is the actual garden in the backyard that came to be based off that blueprint.

And this is very platonic, in a sense, right? Because the ancients who practiced astrology believed that the material world had a kind of blueprint within it, and yet was manifest materially at the same exact time. The blueprint is there. It's like the blueprint of the oak tree that's contained in the acorn is a classic example. The Pluto in Aquarius, sun in Taurus, is about the tension between design versus embodiment of design, big ideas and real world process of embodiment and the limitations.

For example, tech systems, AI systems, the internet, social media, all of these things which are sort of abstract, or we can see they're shaping tangible outcomes in the world. In the realms of finance, medicine, agriculture, there's invisible code that becomes visible consequence when earth and air get together. I'm gonna say more about that in a minute. But an example of Pluto in Aquarius, sun in Taurus, would be like a med spa. It's highly technical, abstract, engineered, sort of scientific.

But it results, I mean, they're using lasers. I go in a couple times a year and get a Skin Pen done, and they peel off the layer of my face, and I look like I have a sunburn. I try to trick you guys and wear a hat, but I'm not fooling anyone. I'm a Taurus rising and I'm vain. I'm playing. But you get it. This is all technology, but it's aimed at very Taurian, Venusian things like skincare or whatever.

And then there are questions always between air and earth as to how far are we just trying to live forever? Are we trying to resist aging when it's actually beautiful and okay to age? You know, there are questions like this. A med spa is a really good example, though, of a Pluto in Aquarius, sun in Taurus kind of dynamic. I've seen some people walking out of the med spa that I go to down the street, and I see some people where I'm like, I don't know if that really made you look better.

And then there's a whole level of what they offer that is truly a way of caring for my body in a way I never thought I'd get interested in. My wife got me into it, but hey, Uranus was in Taurus. Now, questions that come to my mind would be like, what are the unseen systems that are shaping whatever I'm building, and am I aware of them? Do I understand the forces behind them? And the friction would be any kind of celestial, higher minded, intellectual, rational system that's disconnecting us from the body, from earth, from natural processes.

So anyway, that's number three. And I'm going to come back to the earth-air thing in a minute. The fourth one, very, very common: power struggles and shadows. Most classic sun-Pluto signature, honestly, is conflicts of will and leadership. This is what should be central. You want to be central? No, I want to be central. Where control is being argued or fought over, and there can be clashes with authority, tendencies to feel dominated or to dominate, manipulation, pressuring.

Or internally you might experience this as one part of you becoming almost obsessed with something that it wants, and resisting an exploration or a reflection on what the motives are behind it, so unconscious fears or desires or ambitions that drive behavior and that resist being looked at. But you ought to look at them, because if you don't, then the results will carry karma that will force you to look at them later, but in ways that are not reflective, that are reactive, that have to deal with externalization of consequences. So you got to be careful about that.

Anyway, Taurus can be like, what do I want to hold on to? And the Pluto dynamic comes up and tends to force a release of control or challenges to control. So you're going to watch for things like ultimatums or locking horns, getting into stalemates where neither side is going to yield any power or control. The question might be, what deeper truth is present in any power struggle that's manifesting right now? A great question to sit with quietly with a peaceful heart.

Finally, the earth-air tension. Now this is classic. In the ancient astrological model of elements, there are different models of elemental philosophy that were present throughout the history of astrology, but one of them puts air and earth as opposites. And obviously, earth and fire can also be opposites in a different way, but earth and air were considered opposites because you have earth as cold and dry.

The primary and secondary qualities: heat versus cold is primary, moist versus dry is secondary. Anyway, so air is going to be warm and moist, and earth is going to be cool and dry. Their qualities are fundamental opposite sides of the spectrum. You think about earth as like an earthenware vessel. It's dry, hard, functional, practical. Think of just holding a cold cup. Cold and dry earth is formal. It forms. Think of a dead body, cold, dry, hard rock.

Now air, on the other hand, moves in currents. So air was thought of as invisible water in the sky, and quite literally was connected to rain, the currents of invisible water that are contained in the clouds and in the sky that pour down to earth. So there's an intimate connection between air and water in ancient elemental theory, because air is thought of as moist and water is obviously thought of as moist, and one is up and the other is down. One's up in the sky, one's down in the earth, but the one falls down and the other rises up.

So air and water have this really fundamental connection. Earth and air have a little bit they don't communicate as well. They're a little bit more separate. But let me give you an example. I sit in a formal, practical, earthy environment with wood floors and walls, and it's very earthy, formal, practical, structured environment to survive the elements. And do you see how, in a way, disconnected that is from the blueprints and the human ideas that at one point said, hey, let's build structures, and let's build them with heat and insulation and wood and arched ceilings, and then drew those things out in specific designs?

It's like it's here. Air is here. But everything has become so formalized and concrete that it can feel like air is other. It's not immediately there; you have to sit and try to perceive that blueprint on the table. Now, the opposite could be true for air. You have to abstractly conceptualize things, but as you're doing so in that realm where you're kind of imagining the earthiness of it, you have to be in a design mode that can't get caught up in the earth. If you're to have enough perspective to draw out the design, you need to lift above it in order to create that plan.

So there's necessary separation for these elements to be what they are, and yet they inform each other. There would be no material cosmos without intelligent design. There would be no intelligent design without a manifest result. The two are inseparable. They exist simultaneously because in this paradigm, all of these things are interconnected, simultaneous and eternal. So earth and air are parts of the same reality, but they feel very different.

And so it's a really fascinating time we're living in, because we're going through an air epoch. We've got Saturn-Jupiter cycles recurring in air. We've got Pluto in Aquarius moving into air. My God, we've got Uranus in Gemini about to take place. So it becomes really important to understand the kind of prejudice that exists from earth toward air and air toward earth. Earth distrusts air: that's all talk, no substance. Air dismisses earth, on the other hand, and says something like, that's primitive, unsophisticated, materialistic. What's the word, Luddite? Is that the word for an ignorant refusal to use technology, or unawareness of technology? I hope that's not a bad word.

Anyway. Earth says body is what's real. Embodiment. Be embodied. Pluto says, yeah, but what does that mean? How do you be embodied? What's the plan? What's the design to be embodied? It takes some planning. You need natural food, water, sunshine, exercise, a sleep schedule. You need to know how your nervous system regulates. You have to have some understanding mentally that goes into being embodied as much as you want to.

Pluto's criticism, you could say, of the earth side of things is: you'd like to be embodied. That's nice, but all you're doing is talking about it 24/7 on social media networks, and you're filled with all sorts of rational ways of talking about being embodied that are simultaneously dismissive of and maybe even prejudiced toward the very rationality that's inspiring you to talk about being embodied. So there's an irony.

Air is like, don't be stupid. If you wanted to just be really primordial and instinctual, you'd be a fucking cat. And Pluto in Aquarius will point out, maybe we should all be cats. Truly, the world could legitimately be a better place if we were all cats or dogs or something. But insofar as we are humans, Pluto will point out the irony that you want to be so embodied, but actually what you want is embodied comfort. You want to enjoy what it means to be above other species, to have some sense of dominion and specialness and apartness, but you're not willing to look at that stuff, and you cloak it all in a philosophy of being natural.

Now I'm not saying that's true. I'm just saying that's sort of, if they're having a debate, that's kind of what Pluto in Aquarius is saying right now. On the other hand, I'm a parent. I don't want my kids on social media. I don't want them looking at screens all the time. The only time we let them look at tablets is when we're on an airplane for a long time or a long car ride. Because I feel like the more reliance we have on social media and screens, the more dissociated we become, the more we lose human contact with one another.

There's something very real about that, the suspicion we feel toward AI. It's like this thing is going to just disembody us, dissociate us, alienate us, make us more lonely and disconnected than ever. But let's play with the other side for just a second. Not that I'm a big "everyone should go use AI" stand, but I want to tell you a funny story. My family was on vacation. We were messing around with Claude. We'd heard of ChatGPT. We didn't know what Claude was, so we decided to mess around with it.

And the voice piece was on, so it was this very proper, kind of English accent or something. It was lovely. And we were talking with Claude, whatever, and my wife said a couple days ago, "Claude's down today." She uses Claude to help organize her notes. And I said, "Oh, I wonder what got him down." And I was joking, right? But in that joke, I thought, oh, there's something actually really interesting in that joke.

This is something that, if you guys, there's a great Buddhist podcast called Doug's Dharma. Absolutely love that Buddhist podcast. He was talking about why it's important. Now, not everyone needs to or wants to or has to interact with AI, and if you're like, I hate AI, it's the end of the world, fine. Peace be with you. Truly, I'm not here to have any moral or any kind of certainty about anything. But he said this, and I thought it was really interesting.

He said, when you are using AI, the best way to treat it is as though it is a sentient being. Respect, love, compassion, sensitivity. If it helps you with something, say thank you. And he said, why? He said, well, for one thing, if this is something that is sentient or is in the process of becoming sentient, and that's a really interesting conversation that we're not going to have here, but it is fascinating philosophically, then it behooves us to treat it with kindness in the way that we are taught in Buddhism to treat all living beings.

And if it's not true, it still behooves us, because it's about patterning in us. Treating something that we interact with with kindness rather than objectification is something we ought to be practicing all of the time, because objectifying this is really just a reinforcement of objectifying ourselves, which is a core part of the Buddhist path. We don't objectify things. We don't objectify people.

Well, this is really interesting when it comes to the earth-air dichotomy, because in a very roundabout way, and I know this is going to be a stretch for some of you, you're going to be like, you're doing some mental gymnastics here, dude, but just bear with me and consider it. In a weird way, more and more people starting to treat something that might be inanimate as though it is animate, and having more of an experience of something inanimate becoming animate, is a way in which animism may start to return.

Because earth and air are fundamentally connected, and they transform into one another. Let me give you an example. For ancients, even though air and earth have this kind of hard resistance to each other, the air in the sky condenses and then falls to earth in rain, and the rain waters the earth, and then the forms of the earth grow. This is very basic. How does a skyscraper become a skyscraper? It starts off as a plan. It rains down to earth through resources that are gathered, and then you build a skyscraper.

Not trying to say that we should be building tons of skyscrapers, but you get the idea. The same thing for a house or a canoe. Whatever it is, it comes from a plan. The resources are gathered, it grows and it becomes a form. That's air to earth. When we have more and more abstract forms in the sky that we're starting to speak to, and I would say this is also interestingly connected to our sudden fascination with and exposure of alien life forms. The Hail Mary movie, if you saw it.

We are fascinated by beings from the sky, and maybe technologically we're even obsessed with it somehow. But what is a weird hidden silver lining in all of this is the more we treat inanimate things like animate things, the more at some point there can be a breaking point that reintroduces animism, because animism always rides the line between a world that tends to say a rock isn't living but a human is, or even more fundamentally, the different kinds of hierarchies that exist between tiers or gradations of being. Ants are not as important as humans.

For as natural as we would like to imagine ourselves to be, there are still very basic prejudices that exist among us toward other species, that we think that we're better than everything else. An interesting exploration of human exceptionalism can be found in starting to objectify, degrade or show prejudice toward technologies that might be in the process of becoming sentient, which is also fucking weird anyway.

And if those things are treated more and more with humanity, with respect, with dignity, that has a very subtle way of potentially reawakening animism within us in general. If someone's saying, gosh, I had a very synchronistic experience with AI that clearly something spoke to me through an encounter. I don't know if it was the literal AI or something speaking through it. Do you see how that can subtly reinforce the idea that rivers also talk, the sky also talks? Nothing is void of talking and being and presence, and anything can speak through anything.

So I know that's pretty far out. But the reason that it's important to mention is that we really are in an age of earth-air dichotomy and polarization. And my point here is not to be team AI or team embodiment. It's to point out that human beings somehow are destined right now to go through a pretty deep conversation about the difference between earth and air. I don't know what the best way is. I don't have any moral high ground, but I'm curious.

And what I know is important, especially with a Pluto-Sun transit, is to avoid self-righteousness, to stay curious, to stay open, to be smart, to be discerning, and to learn how to hold tensions. Because just becoming anti-technology and team embodiment is going to generate shadows. Being all team technology and looking down our noses at team embodiment is going to create karmic challenges. Looking at these two things and saying, elementally, nothing arises in reality by mistake.

There's an intelligent design between the arising of everything that's happening. How can I sit with that and be present and learn the wisdom of these elements interacting? I feel that challenge within myself right now, and God knows I don't have a map. I don't have a clue, but talking about it here, looking at it through astrology, helps me. Knowing that there are other people out there who are staying curious and patient, rather than angry, divided, reactive and self-righteous, that's the community I'm looking for. I don't know about you guys. I don't know how else we make it through moments like this.

The other thing that I'll mention: the earth-air opposition is also about who holds power and how power is distributed with the sun and Pluto across this axis. For example, when very few people are in charge of or allowed to create the blueprints and plans that go into the fostering of forms in the material world, that's a problem. Pluto can also represent tech oligarchies, select billionaires with all the resources to be the ones designing the blueprints. And the earth is diminished in light of plutocracies.

In our own lives, the way that this really boils down is to look at what holds power and influence, and if we've explored those dynamics, if we sit with them, if we process them, and if we try to hold the balance between being embodied on the one hand and intelligent, expansive, creative, intellectual on the other.

Okay. Well, anyway, see how the comment section does today. But here's the sun-Pluto. I hope you guys have a great weekend and that this is useful. I want this to be a place of inspired thinking and thought that can accompany us in this beautiful journey of life. After I sign off, I'm going to tell you about the year one program, Ancient Astrology for the Modern Mystic, which begins again in June. I hope to see some of you there, and we'll see you again next week.