The Sun in Scorpio Squaring Pluto Today and Into the Weekend — What to Watch For!

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Happy Friday everyone. Today, we're going to take a look at the sun entering the sign of Scorpio, immediately making a square to Pluto in the sign of Aquarius. I'm going to give you a list of five things to watch for, the transit perfects today, but I'll give you the timeline as well, since you'll likely notice this over the course of the next couple of days as the exact square slowly separates. So that's what we're going to take a look at today before we get into it.

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All right. Now on to our work for the day. We need to talk about the sun and Pluto today. They're getting together. Let's take a look at the real time clock. Here is the sun having this is Friday, October 24 and the sun has just entered Scorpio and is making a square immediately to Pluto in Aquarius.

Now I want to emphasize that you could have been. Feeling this yesterday as the sun entered Scorpio yesterday. So this square we could have easily talked about yesterday. We had other things on the menu for the week, but Sun was squaring Pluto yesterday. It perfects that square. Today, we're going to give it about three degrees of separation, which takes us to Monday before the two planets are completely apart within that three degree range that we typically consider that ancient astrologers called an engagement range.

So within this space yesterday through Monday, we have the sun squaring Pluto and asking ourselves the question amidst This Grand Water Trine that's taking place, by the way, what does the sun square Pluto bring to the table right now. So I want to give you five things to watch for, and I want to add a few thoughts about what it might mean that Mercury and Mars are in the sky, separating and creating the Grand Water Trine in the background.

I'm going to just try to add little accents or highlights with respect to that context as we go but these are five things to watch for that you can sort of set your clock to, with respect to any time that the sun and Pluto get together. But then again, some specifics with the context in mind.

Number one, when the sun and Pluto meet, we have the symbolism of the Sun, which is often related to things like ambition, will action and motivation. For example, when we read birth charts in ancient astrology, one of the things that frequently comes to mind is, what are the natives ambitions? In what way are they seeking to learn, grow, evolve, develop?

If you think of the Sun in modern mythological terms, modern psychological terms, you might think of the hero's journey. The Hero's Journey is one where the hero is set apart for a special mission or a special task, a special sense of purpose that comes with a unique set of circumstances. The sun is like that as a symbol in our birth charts we can read, with respect to the house and sign location aspects being made to the sun.

It'll often tell that sort of heroic story of our life. Not that the heroic story of our life is the only story that we pay attention to, but it's certainly a big one that most people who come into astrology readings are concerned with. What's my purpose? What's my special calling? When that the sun hits Pluto this planet of tremendous power and depth and intensity, transformative.

It is a planet that pertains to the process of destruction and regeneration when the sun hits that in any aspect, but especially the squares and the oppositions or conjunction is kind of hard aspects, you'll often get a intensified sense of purpose, an intensified need to act in a very specific way. That sense of ambition becomes clear.

Or if you are lacking action, motivation, ambition and feeling rather dead inside, that feeling may intensify, followed by a resurgence, resurgence of action, ambition, motivation, momentum, and suddenly you're taking action because something has been reborn within you. So the process of our sense of purpose, direction, ambition, action, motivation, willpower, going through a process of death or destruction, and then regeneration.

Is very common for this pairing. It's not uncommon for that to include, unfortunately, the temporary sense, usually earlier in the transit that maybe the as it's applying so maybe even yesterday into today. You can feel a sense of defeat, being without purpose or being disillusioned, or you can feel like nothing, that you're not that excited about anything, or a sense of direction or purpose is failing or falling short, or you're feeling disillusioned by it.

And then, typically, what happens is some wave or surge of momentum will pick you up off the mat and keep you going. You know, you'll you'll get up off your feet, you won't tap out, or you'll say, well, just because that wasn't it doesn't mean there isn't something else. And then maybe a new sense of motivation or purpose emerges.

Now we're talking about something happening within the span of just a couple of days. Here's what's interesting, all of the Grand Water Trine processing that we've been doing this week, talking about emotional intelligence, talking about the flooding and overwhelm of the water element. This could be closely tied, This Grand Water Trine window that we're in to a transformation of purpose, will ambition, direction, action, so that there might be a very strong way in which emotional currents of change are pressing an issue right now and saying, Okay, now it's time to act.

It's your ambitions, your motivations are being transformed, and it's happening in part because of the purpose. Presence of this wave of water energy. So you can consider that as if it makes sense, if it's intuitive, you can kind of put that together, that context may be relevant.

Number two, the death or transformation of solar figures. A solar figure can be someone who is famous, someone who is a leader, a central figure of power or authority, a father figure, or in some ways, any poster position we hold that has those qualities of leadership, authority being in the spotlight, if we ourselves carry some of those things, then it could be us.

But what you will see is that the roles that these figures play die or change, or have to be reborn or reconfigured in some way, or sometimes it's time for grandpa to leave his body, or it's time for dad to have a brush with his own mortality. And that doesn't have to be necessarily anything dramatic.

I remember when my dad had his you guys may I think I talked about this on the channel last year. My dad had his knee replaced. He had a knee replacement surgery because his knee was falling apart, you know, and that was happening during a sun Pluto trends transit, and I remember being really worried, like, Is my dad gonna die? Well, he didn't die, just had his knee replaced.

But for him, that was also, like, he did a lot of reflecting, very openly about, like, oh my god, I'm getting older. You know, I just had my knee replaced. I feel like, inside, I still feel like a kid. So it again, even just the encounter with the potential for the hero or the solar figure to die, to not live forever.

There's something about the sun in all of us that feels like an eternal child, an eternal hero. There's always an adventure. The Quest is never complete. There's always some next phase of our calling or purpose. In fact, one of the most defining characteristics of people who are very, very solar is that they can't retire, or they try to retire, and they keep doing things.

They keep staying busy, rather than transitioning toward the off ramp of life with, say, more focused, quiet time, immersing themselves in spiritual practice or contemplation or sort of slowing down, which is, by the way, recommended in the yogic system of life, the Varna ashram system, as you age, you're supposed to sort of gently move toward transcendent things.

That doesn't mean that some people won't still work in the world or have ambitions or missions. And by God, I'm not trying to be some kind of ageist who says that you can't have ambitions when you're older. That's ridiculous. Of course you can. But one thing that often naturally occurs for people, and I've seen it enough in my counseling practice to know that this is also very true, is that if you can't let go of heroic mission, purpose driven life, ambition, achievement, etc, aging gets harder and more difficult for many people to the extent that they're not able to slow down and let go a little bit.

This is often a transit that just teaches us that we can't be Hercules. We can't we're not unstoppable. We're not invincible. And that might be humbling, but it's also kind of relieving to take the burden off our shoulders and say like, I'm not, I'm not here to do these Herculean feats, or if I am, they can be toned down, or they can be scaled back, or they can be a little bit more humble or modest, or not as exhausting.

So the death or transformation of solar figures is truly metaphorical and often psychological, but sometimes it will actually configure with things happening to a dad, or the transformation of your relationship with your father. If you're a dad, like I'm a dad, I find that often Sun Pluto transits come up when some facet of my identity as a dad is needing to change or evolve or grow the fuck up.

You know, it's like sometimes you just got to level up a little bit with respect to the burdens of authority, responsibility or leadership that you carry in any area of life in the sun Pluto is wonderful at giving you that nudge if you need it also. Let's move on to number three.

Number three are hidden things revealed or illuminated. And by the way, actually, let me just go back to this really quickly before we go on, that death or transformation of solar figures also taking place in the backdrop of the Grand Water Trine. So the feeling of the shift in leadership or identity around solar figures coming during the midst of this celestial flood that's coming in is really fascinating.

What does that look like? There might be a lot of deep ancestral healing or releasing around solar figures right now, with all of that water in the sky, anyway, okay. Now number three, hidden things revealed or illuminated. One of the most beautiful parts of the Sun is that it represents Gnosis. It represents the illumination and enlightenment of the mind, understanding higher intelligence.

If you're a philosopher. Seeking enlightenment. If you're a yogi, you're seeking enlightenment. In the ancient world, the sun was the luminous symbol of higher understanding and wisdom, which is always both abstract, intellectual kind of wisdom, but it's also very embodied. The sun is our vitality and our spirit. And the way that you know that wisdom is being embodied is that people are luminous.

You'll often see, for example, in pictures of saints in the Christian tradition. But actually all over the world, even in the east, you see halos of light, as though a realized person is someone who's sort of glowing. And that light is warm and it radiates peace and joy and truth and beauty and goodness.

These are byproducts of that illumination that a person, when you're around a person who's an illumined solar figure, a sage, a priestess, a shamanist, whatever the case might be, she glows. She radiates light. And this is a transit that can truly take things that are dark and make them light. Things that are unconscious become conscious.

Things that are hidden become revealed. Things that are obscure or dark or shadowy suddenly become integrated. That's fantastic, and this is a transit that also allows us to see into the darker realities of light and understand the hidden Gnosis within them. There are a lot of people in this world.

There's a lot of suffering in the world. We all know that there's a lot of people who suffer the suffering because they can't make room or space for it. Making room or space for it doesn't mean you dress it up in unicorn paint or whatever. It means that you know that it has an evolutionary purpose for existence.

You don't have to understand it. You don't have to like it. In fact, it's, I think, probably more natural and humble for us to stand in kind of, there's a little trepidation, there's a little like sacred fear around the darkness and why it's here, why it exists. But it's, it really is foolish to try to fight darkness with the idea that you can get rid of it, that it doesn't have a divine reason for existing, that at least is not the recommended way of dealing with or resisting or opposing darkness that sages give us.

There's a different kind of resistance that has to take place. It's a resistance that resists while allowing, while surrendering, while forgiving, while you know it's gracious. Somehow the sun Pluto is like that. It is the wisdom of darkness. It is the light that's in a dark place that understands it has a reason for being there anyway.

So consider that in little transit windows like this, especially with so much water in the sky, what is, how is the watery signature of the moment connected right now to something deep and hidden or unseen that now you're bringing some Gnosis to there's some enlightenment happening, ego deaths. Look the simple thing about the sun and Pluto is that we all have, we all have an ego, a part of us that thinks that we're a special case.

A special exception is not the same thing as recognizing that we're special divine beings. Of course, we are. It's that part of us that thinks I'm more, I'm better, I'm an exception. I deserve some special treatment that lacks humility, that is it gets caught up in hubris and pride. And what we all know, the saying pride comes before a fall, and so the sun and Pluto are associated with fall, the fall of the light of the sun, the fall of the leaves from the trees, the descent of the sun into the underworld, the fall of the sun and the sign of Libra.

This is the sun. When the sun enters the underworld, the heart is weighed against the feather, and to have a light heart is a process that we're all developing and cultivating. This is why at Nightlight, we believe so deeply in making this Gnosis available to people, in making silent Sundays available. What's on my altar? The idea here is to help people use astrology to make the heart light.

To do that, we have to live with an ego, right? Because we all have one ego. Just means I just a sense of self and identity, but understanding that that i is a temporary midwife for the spirit soul that's coming through a body in a lifetime that's the spiritual roots of our practice and tradition.

And there are many cases times in life where in order to be the best midwife we can for the spirit soul that lives in this temple of the body, we have to go through moments where the servant, the ego, which is a servant and midwife of this spirit soul, comes back to its place because it gets out of place.

And it gets out of place when it thinks I'm more important, I'm more special, I'm better I'm, you know, all of these things. So Sun Pluto is a great. Little moment for an ego check. Not to say you're bad, you shouldn't have an ego, but to say, Hey, your ego's real purpose is to serve the light of the spirit soul, and to serve the light of the spirit soul of the world, the animal Mundi, the other beings that you encounter.

We do that through keeping an open heart and through keeping a servant's heart, and the servant doesn't mean that you diminish your own value or importance. It means that you recognize that the greatest value you have is found in your love, love for self, love for others and the ego facilitating that is its proper place.

That is how we're taught in these ancient traditions, at any rate, and the sun Pluto will often facilitate a reminder of that if we need it, or if we are someone who needs some help, hey, I need some help. I need Pluto means riches. And when the sun and Pluto get together, we will often find that resources come pouring in to empower us with the things we serve with the with the processes we serve with the any way in which we are trying to facilitate illumination of darkness in the world, in ourselves, in others, and we're doing so to the best of our ability, it is amazing how regularly resources, aid, support, flow in.

That's the real wealth of life when that kind of resource flows into your heart, your soul, your life as and it kind of buffers your ability to be a servant of love. Well, that is Pluto in the sun at its finest. And you'll find that transits of Pluto to your natal Sun often bring exactly those kinds of resources into your life, which is the real meaning of riches number five, lucid, clear thoughts and emotions.

Look, we've got a Grand Water Trine in the air, tons of water. But then we have the sun meeting Pluto from Scorpio to Aquarius. The power of this moment is the water reflecting the sky. If you look on a lake, Ashley and I were just talking about this because she was reviewing galens elemental theory in ancient herbalisms, we were having a conversation, and it was like, Okay, you have the pond or lake of your emotional body, and it's constantly moving and fluid, but if it's relatively calm, anytime you look at it, you can see the reflection of The Sky, which means Ideally, we should have a relationship with our emotions where we can say, How am I feeling, and if we sit and reflect upon how we're feeling, then suddenly thoughts rise up.

Intelligence comes to mind. Here's how you're feeling, and here's what to do, so that the rationality and the emotionality become the mirror in the sky, reflecting each other water the sky basically is water, invisible water in the sky, you know? So these that water and air can work together so nicely when we have what is emotional intelligence, the ability to thoughtfully reflect upon and move with emotions, not negating them with rationality, but using rationality to work with them.

If you have so much turbulent emotions that the water is so choppy and wavy and crazy, you're not going to be able to see the sky reflected in the water, in which case, sometimes we need to use we have to sort of try to bring relative calm to the water through any kind of practice that can still or chill.

You know, the emotions often meditation, prayer are a great way of doing that, or walking or exercise, so many things, and then it becomes relative. It's not, we won't stop emotions, but we want them to be relatively calmer. I mean, sometimes turbulent emotions are just part of life, and they're beautiful, but we want them to be like sort of relatively calm, so that, that way, we can reflect upon them, find some form of rational intersection.

And, you know, communication, so thoughts and feelings ought to be able to communicate well with one another. Now, if you're so in the sky that you are dissociating, eventually, it gathers congeals and bursts in a storm mentally that rains down to earth emotionally. So we can't dissociate, because eventually, then we'll we'll clog up our emotional body and it creates a storm.

But on the other hand, if we're so turbulent emotionally that we can't see the sky reflected, we won't have the ability to work with emotions intelligently. So the water in the sky elementally speak to the emotional body and the mental body. Well, the square between the sun and Pluto right now, given so much water, is a powerful moment to take what we're feeling emotionally and transform our sense of purpose or direction, because we're getting some greater lucid, clear, intelligent thoughts about the emotions, or in relation to the emotions.

So I think it's a powerful moment on that level. And I hope you're all able to, you know, find that balance between the mind and the emotions that's that's present right now. All right, that's my part for the day. I hope that this has been useful, that you have a great weekend. Check out.

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