The Sun Conjunct Pluto: A Shining Shadow

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology Happy Monday. Hope you guys are doing well and had a nice weekend. We're going to start off this week talking about the Sun's upcoming conjunction to Pluto in the sign of Capricorn. I think we're going to spend two days on this today and tomorrow. We will, of course, have a continuation of the Tao Te Ching for astrologer series this week and some other stuff. But before we get into it today, don't forget to like and subscribe; sharing your comments in the comment section helps the channel to grow. You can always find transcripts of any of my daily talks on my website, which is nightlightastrology.com.

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Alright, let's take a look at the real-time clock. Before we get into it today. I have been reading a really interesting book, and I'll tell you about it in a second. Actually, let me show you the transit first. So this is the transit of Sun to Pluto that we are going to be seeing this week. Here we are on Monday, January 16. We're going to see the conjunction coming through on Wednesday the 18th, and then we'll give it until about Friday the 20th when the Sun passes into the sign of Aquarius before we're really seeing the separation, especially since it's jumping into another sign.

So that means this week is a Pluto Sun week. We've talked about Pluto in the Sun many times before. So one of my favorite challenges as an astrologer is to figure out new ways of talking about transits and hopefully give you guys a new way to turn that jewel and catch the light bouncing off from it at a different angle. So Pluto Sun transit this week in Capricorn. Of course, this is coming through also as we have a darkening moon. Over the weekend, we will have the new moon in Aquarius on January 21, followed by a Venus Saturn conjunction on the 22nd on Sunday. So at the end of the week, we're going to be looking at those transits, the New Moon and Venus Saturn the early part of this week, we're going to take a look at the Sun Pluto dynamic and also kind of keeping in mind that there is a dark moon around it. So that's sort of informed the way that I've approached preparing this week.

So onto this book that I've been reading, and I'm going to forget the name of it. So I'm listening to it on Audible. I like to take walks and listen to audiobooks. It's one of my favorite ways to take in new material. So this is called The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness by Stanton Marlon. And it has been perfect listening for the upcoming Sun Pluto conjunction. I highly recommend this book. If you've never heard of it again. It's called The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness by Stanton Marlon. It's about sometimes in alchemy; I guess there was a concept called Sol niger. And it was the concept of the Dark Sun. It was an alchemical symbol. And in Ancient Alchemy, the book is really about that symbol in alchemy and looking at it also from the perspective of depth psychology, a little bit of astrology, and archetypal psychology as well. So Jung and Hillman. And I feel like it might as well just be called the Sun Pluto book because that is someone who just went through Pluto opposite the Sun for several years, and maybe some of you out there have been through a Pluto Sun transit or were born with one I was born in a sun Pluto square. So this was also a really interesting way of kind of visiting that Sun Pluto dynamic that I was born with and transits that hit
one part of an aspect will often illuminate that complex in your natal chart.

So I found it really fascinating. Although outside of fascinating, it was a lot of other things. But nonetheless, I want to talk today about the Dark Sun as an alchemical slash psychological and spiritual symbol that correlates with a sun Pluto transit, some of which is inspired from the book that I was just mentioning, but some of which also comes from other texts and from my own personal experiences and observations having just gone through a sun Pluto transit.

So I hope you will enjoy this exploration of the Dark Sun as an alchemical symbol and why we use the Dark Sun because when the Sun and Pluto conjoin, it is as though we get a different kind of Sun; it is one way of thinking about it is that the Sun becomes a sun glowing with the darkness of the underworld, or it becomes a Hade's Sun. So what does that look like? And what kind of themes go along with it?

There are five of them that I want to talk about today, which I think you could work with. Or maybe you'll just notice this week as the Sun Pluto conjunction unfolds. So I'm going to take a little bit of time to unpack every one of them. But I think that, hopefully, this will be accessible and not like too, too complicated. Because if let me know.

So number one. One of the things that the Sun Pluto conjunction can help us to do or any Sun Pluto aspect can help us to do is to live with death as a present reality rather than an eventual or distant event. There's a way in which we live in the world. And we're like, oh, yeah, you know, I, I'm aware of death. Like I'm not ignorant. I'm not a fool. Like, I know death exists. But how many of us live with some awareness of death as contributing player every day? Not just like, well, I'm grateful because I'm alive. And you know, someday I'll die. And so I'm trying to be grateful for the moment or, you know, something like that, like a, you know, like an Instagram meme that's like, I'm just happy for today, because you never know what will happen.

It even that makes it feel like death is this stranger who could interrupt and, you know, mess everything up at any given time. And so just stay grateful state, you know, and try to stay in the present moment because death could mess it all up. And you just don't know when that's not really living with death as a present reality. It's living with an awareness of mortality, I guess. But it's good to stay grateful and present. I'm not opposed to that. But living with death as a present reality rather than some distant or possible event that you should stay aware of. And, you know, maybe try to stay present or grateful as a result, right? It's a totally different thing.

The Dark Sun as an alchemical symbol that comes up, for example, in therapy when as a symbol in people's dreams. Think, for example, I had a client who I'm gonna forget the name of. Gosh, what was his name? I'm going to forget it. It's the Soundgarden guy. Chris Cornell. Was that his name? Yeah. Chris Cornell. I had a client who had a Sun Pluto transit happening when Chris Cornell died, and I believe Chris Cornell took his own life. Let me just was it. Yeah, so this client was having a Sun Pluto transit. Yep, so Sun Pluto transit, Pluto transiting their natal Sun, in other words, when Chris Cornell died, and what I found really interesting was that they had fallen in love with Chris Cornell when they were in high school, during another Pluto transit, not to their Sun, but it was like their ascendant or their moon or something else.

And during high school, they had been super depressed. And this the Soundgarden album, black hole sun, I think that was the name of the album or was the name of the hit song, you remember that song black hole Sun, which Chris Cornell wrote and sang and so forth, had gotten, it had gotten at an archetypal complex that this individual related to very deeply and profoundly. And the way they talked to me about it was really pretty moving as a session I'll never forget because that was, like, one of a few. I mean, there's been a few times like that, that I can remember where someone has died that someone, one of my clients has not known personally, but like a famous person, and it's had like a really, really big impact on them. And this was the case with this client of Chris Cornell died. And they told me that it was during high school, so we look back.

And sure enough, they're having another Pluto transit, and black hole son had made this big impact on their life because it made them feel as though there was that their depression wasn't just evidence of them being off or wrong, or like, there's something wrong with you because you're depressed, but that Chris Cornell had given them the feeling that through this song that there was a luminous presence in that darkness, not that there's like a light in the darkness, not what I'm saying that there was a Dark Sun, that there is such a thing as a Dark Sun that there is an underworld and that that underworld has it's own an ontology, which is to say it has its own light. It has its own beingness. And its own validity. And that there was something shining in the darkness but not the shine of the daytime sun, the shine of the Dark Sun. And this person had decided made a willing choice, rather than being depressed, to inhabit that darkness. And they changed the way they dressed. And they changed their attitudes and outlooks in their bedroom. And their, you know, like, everything changed because they decided, I'm a creature of the underworld. And it was the song by Chris Cornell, Black Hole Sun.

So now, as an adult, they were going through this terrible crisis in their marriage, and Chris Cornell took his own life, and it was a Pluto transit to their son. And it was having this really devastating effect on them. Like they. I just think it's just so beautiful that this would even happen like this. But one of the things that we ended up spending a lot of time talking about, too, I won't go too in depth about this, and I do have permission to share the story.

One of the things that we ended up talking about quite a bit was like, Well, you know, here's another loss in your life, like they had set they had entered into like, normal, sunny day, adult life, they were no longer the like Gothic, you know, alternative, grungy rocker that they became in high school, they were more or less like, a square, you know, this is as they were kind of describing it to us. I'm not, like, trying to be mean or anything. Like, I'm like, a mom with kids and a marriage and a mortgage and a job and blah, blah, blah, and I'm like, I'm living a pretty normal life, like, I don't address normal, like, I've still got like the alternative, you know, iTunes playlist or whatever. But, like, I'm in this, like, normal adult looking life now. And then their marriage fell apart during a Pluto Sun transit. And Chris Cornell died. And they said that it was like being back into that underworld space. But as an adult. You know, there was this fear that, like, well, I can't just like, become a goth again, you can't just like dress goth. Again, I've got kids, and I've like living this normal life.

And but what we talked about that was really important was how do I get back to a good creating space in my life for the Dark Sun. By creating space for the underworld? To have a presence to have an ontology, I mean, a realness and a place. Not just that, it's an aberration, not just, Well, I'm depressed because I'm going through a divorce, and how do I make it all better? Right? It's like, no. How do I give reality a name? And how do I, kind of, like, how do I become a citizen of that world? Again, it had; she had been able to do that in high school, right? Well, this is what the alchemical symbol of the Dark Sun is all about. Death, darkness, the underworld as a present reality that needs space and place in our life, rather than just being something that comes up and, like, well, stays present. Because you never know, you know, try to stay grateful, because you never know when you could lose someone or when something bad could happen, or that's not living with that's not giving space for the Black Sun. Right?

It's saying, Well, I recognize that it's there, and I could really fuck me up anything that could really just storm in and, you know, flip my lid at any point. So I'm just going to stay grateful and keep posting the Rumi quotes, you know, this would be like, a little bit more in, like, what is the intentional way that we can create space for were citizens of a country that knows a different kind of light?

There's a sun in that country, but it's a dark one. And that's, it's not hell, it's not evil. It's not a place of zombies. Isn't it sad that one of the only, it seems like one of the only spaces that we know like, it's like, our imagination is so bankrupt when it comes to giving room for the Dark Sun. And you can tell that that's the case because one of our most popular types of shows or movies are zombie apocalypse movies. And, you know, when the Dark Sun can only appear as the literal dead or dead coming to life and slaughtering and killing people when, when the Dark Sun can only appear in like post-apocalyptic, nightmarish, you know, slaughterhouse movies and stuff like that. We've gone off the tracks because it's, there's, that's almost like one this is one aspect of what the underworld can be evil, dark, dead creepy horror like it can be that.

But there's, you know, the like one of the people I've always appreciated their ability to bring the underworld to life in ways that aren't just strictly like, you know, like the horror genre, although I like horror and suspense movies like, you know, here and there. I'm not, like, trying to come out against them or anything, but I like Tim Burton; I can always make things that are sure. Who's the other guy who did Pan's Labyrinth? Oh, what's his name? Guillermo Del Toro? Is that his name? I think so.

The Pinocchio that recently came out, I thought that was space for the Dark Sun. So how do you live with the Dark Sun as a present reality? It's not the same as the stay is saying, like, just stay present. Because, you know, bad things could happen. Keep your Chicken Soup for the Soul book handy, you know. So, death is a present reality. And this woman in this client session, I'll never forget that that session was all about becoming a citizen of the underworld again and going back to it, but it looks different. It's not going to be black lights and, you know, smoking weed and wearing flannel shirts and ripped up jeans, at least for maybe it is for you. And that's fine. God bless you.

For her, it was like, what's the version of that works for my life right now, you know, and it was about giving herself permission all over again to do that. And it was interesting to her that Chris Cornell was like a soul guide or so like a psychopomp. He as, at least as an archetype, played that role for her. So anyway, we all can play archetypal roles for one another even though we're also, you know, people, not archetypes.

Number two, death as the dimming of the real. One of the roles that Saturn plays as the ancient opposite of the Sun is the ruler of darkness. Saturn was also Prior to the discovery of the body that we call Pluto. Saturn was the planet associated with the underworld and darkness and with everything that, in many ways, Pluto now represents in modern astrology. One of the great services that Saturn does is to present a kind of doubt. It's a sacred doubt. And it's not a doubt in, say, you know, what can be very basic, I doubt whether what I'm doing is going to make me happy right now or over the course of my life. I doubt whether or not my relationship will last, or I doubt whether or not my kids will end up okay, or whatever, just we have doubts.

And generally speaking, in our very, like poly positive, bright, sunshiny kind of way. We tend to think of doubts as things to be overcome; I rose up, I had doubt, but I kept the faith, right? And we all huddle up and pray for the conviction to just keep going with our faith. And eventually, we'll climb that mountain, you know, it's like, it's very heroic. Nothing wrong with that. That's as I, as you guys have heard me say a million times, that is an archetypal reality, just as valid as any other.

But one of the great services that Saturn can do is to give us this doubt as a sacred vehicle for imagination. Here's what happens. And I'm sure you guys can relate to this. Let's just say that you are. You're walking around, and you're utterly confident, you know about something like, let's just say you're in, you're raising kids, and I just imagine this could be the case for me when my kids get older, you're raising kids, and they're in high school or something, and you're utterly confident that they are kids. You know, your kids are not doing drugs. You're like, they're good. They're good ones, you know; I've got kids; they're not smoking the weed. Like they're on the right track. So you got that confidence. And then one day, you know, you discover a bong and your kids' closet or something, and you're like, all of a sudden, all of this is a funny story about that.

When I was in high school, I remember we visited one of the there was like a when I was in junior high. The high schoolers, there were high schoolers who were like, our, like, kind of like our mentors for a youth group at church. And we were visiting one of the high schoolers' houses, and we found a Playboy in his closet while he was, like, downstairs doing something. We were in his bedroom hanging out with him. Me and this other guy that he was like our mentor, and we found a playboy in his closet, you know? Oh my god, he doesn't love Jesus.

Do you know? Just like we were right. But that that was such an important moment. And going back to the example of finding a bug in your kid's closet. Because all of a sudden, what that doubt does, is it opens up a portal, what you thought was real sunshine, it just like the Sun casts light on everything, and you go, oh, there's a tree, and there's a house, and I'm looking at the snow outside, and everything's clear and visible and, you know, clearly distinguish there's an objective truth, and it's right here. But what happens in the evening, you know, in the nocturnal hours, when darkness comes, then shadow and light swim together, and the distinctions and boundaries between things are less clear. You find the bong in the closet, and suddenly, am I a good parent? Is everything really? Okay? And it might initially like those are very, that's like a very moral example like, is this? What if everything that I've thought is good is actually not so good?

So oftentimes, doubt can; when doubt gets introduced, especially when we're living in a heroic paradigm, doubt will appear to us as a moral quandary. You know, like, I, for example, many, many people that I've talked to, there'll be going through a Saturn transit in their seventh house, and there'll be they'll find that they are interested emotionally in someone else. And they'll go, Oh, my God, you know, not being faithful, they'll get really worried.

One of the ways that I'll often speak to them is I'll say, Well, are you not being faithful? Or are you starting to see that things aren't exactly as you thought they were, or that things are changing, but some part of you wants to insist that they that a truth that was, you know, a truth that was is no longer and there's some resistance to that? So often, doubt will start to come in. And it basically starts to make something that we thought was clear and solid, it starts to make it translucent, and we can start to see through it. So I remember very distinctly that was in when I was in high school, and we found that Playboy in that high schoolers, closet, you know, but the doubt that introduced, opened up this whole imaginative world, well, it was complex, here's a really good guy who we really look up to who maybe has some aspects of him that at that point in time for me, I'm not judging him at all. But at that point in time, for me, were questionable, you know. So one of the things that living with the Dark Sun does is it causes us to cast doubt on things that we think of as luminous.

This is why you'll often see solar figures like a president or a leader of some kind, having some dark secret or truth revealed; oh, my God, the hero has fallen, right? And again, it's like moral, and it's, and we often spin it as corruption and, but we're rarely ever thankful for what it does, which is to make something that appeared like clear and objective and solid, just true. And it'll open it up and make it more translucent, which then allows for imagining to continue, it allows for contemplation to continue, and it allows for creativity to continue.

As soon as you start to see through something about yourself that you thought was an objective truth, and usually, you do so because doubt will come up, then, in a way, something is dying in you. But at the same time, an imaginative portal to what might come next, or what, what other truths could emerge, or what you know, any kind of contemplative act like that imaginative contemplative act that's caused because of, because of doubt, is a kind of death, but it's a death that introduces the continuation of imagining, and continued creativity.

So death, or doubt, as the dimming of the reel, but as the opening further opening or expanding of imagination. Really, really important. I remember when, you know, my parents were going through a divorce. I remember talking to my mom. And I remember she just said, I just feel like I haven't been like it because she got married and she was very energetic. She was like 19 or 20. And she just said, like, I just feel like the whole world is open to my imagination again. And this was something that had come through After what felt like this. A total Assault on what she thought was real or true or good or wholesome.

And the Dark Sun will do that to us. It darkens that sense of heroic certainty and truth and moral uprightness sometimes, but it also opens things back up into the nocturnal space where shadow and light swim together, and possibility and imagination are the prime material.

Number three, death is guardian angel. Um, you know, one of the beliefs that ancient people had. And this is true from Eastern religions, like really all across the world, that each of us have different kinds of guides or spirits that accompany us. And, like you could, there's probably a phenomenology of spirit guides that's, you know, vastly different from here to there around the world, right? But the basic idea that you'll see repeated is that sometimes there are dark spirits that guide us by dark; what we mean is they appear almost malicious like they're trying to do us some harm. And yet these spirits are sometimes considered to be the most protective.

I'll never forget when I was in an Ayahuasca ceremony, and I was incredibly terrified by what I felt were just completely dark, terrifying spirits that seemed to be harassing me; I don't know how else to put it. And in talking to the shaman about it and describing what I was seeing and feeling, he was able to relate to me that actually, those are, those entities are these very specific protective spirits that come in, and, you know, they sort of there's a theme of common throughout in shamanism all around the world of being dismantled or dismembered. And but with the ultimate aim of healing.

And so there is a sense in which the Dark Sun is often something that dismantles, dismembers, terrifies haunts. But it does so in order to protect and protect against what stagnancy and often is some kind of calcification of the heart and soul. It's as though we need to be scared out of complacency. And oftentimes, the hardest part about that is that you know, most of the time, complacency is something that looks and feels rather benign.

And so when you get terrified by something, it's easy to feel offended, or it's easy to look at the thing that is prompting you out of some benign, you know, kind of loss stuckness, and it's easy to look at it and go, Oh, that was evil. Right? Because what did I do to deserve that? But that's exactly the thing that keeps us stuck is often, not always but often, is this feeling that, like, well, everything in the world is just fine. There's I'm doing everything, you know, like moderately, okay, I don't deserve to have like, you know, a taser shot into me from the cosmos. I mean, I'm not doing anything that bad. You know that.

But that's actually the symptom of, in some ways of, being complacent. And so it's very easy when the Black Sun shows up and sort of prods us and terrifies us that it can feel like a dark angel. But it's often taught in various traditions that that kind of provoking us into continued growth and change is coming from a protective spirit that is often scary looking or scary feeling.

That's interesting. That's a heavy one. Alright, so if that doesn't sit well with you doesn't to me, either. It's not like I want to curl up on the couch with a nice PB and J after. Like after that one, you know, but, but there's something to think about.

Number four, transgression is the key to the Secret City. The Black Sun tells us that it's only when you mess up. Right, and this is a big one; we were kind of talking about this as went with death as the dimming of the reel. It's only when you mess up and make a mistake that you gain entrance into the lowliest of places. You have to feel like a real mess-up sometimes. In other words, before you can have true compassion and generosity of heart. It's like it's, it's easy. I find that, like, you know, like, one of the things that I see just in general in the social media world is that the quickness with which we leap to condemn someone or something that we don't like, we might have good reason to like on paper intellectually, it might be easy to list a few reasons for why someone doing something or saying something in particular, is outrageous or immoral or off.

But you'll find in, again, many different religious and spiritual traditions that there's a warning against leaping to cast the first stone, and I think one of the reasons to that is not just because it's like, well, be a good person, turn the other cheek and don't condemn it because all of those moral instructions are there, they fall flat if you don't get the sort of like the grit that they're coming from.

The grit that they're coming from is really about the underworld again; it's like, well, look, if you've ever really messed up if you've ever really hurt someone, if you've ever really taken yourself by surprise with your own self-destructiveness if you've ever really been horrified by some of your own thoughts if you've ever had those kinds of experiences, but you've, you've given space to them, just like we give, we have tried to make some room for the land of the Dark Sun. If you've made room for them with grace and mercy, you've forgiven yourself, and you've just allowed those aspects of your psyche to, you know, to be there, you've just said, Okay, well, that means that's there, too, I guess.

If you've done that, then you have gained access into the dark reality that lives in every human soul. In every being and in nature itself. It's like, Have you ever watched Animal Planet? Do you know what I mean? Like, you think we're exempt from that, you know, like, you know, I'm not you, but just like any of us? Are we exempt from that? No, we're not exempt from tooth and nail any more than were exempt from like, the, you know, it's the I love the parts of Animal Planet when David Attenborough is narrating, and you see, like, some beautiful chimp-like nursing it's, or whatever playing with its kids or something, you know, or you see the beautiful algae blossoming and multi-colored glow under the oceans under the surface at night or something, it's, it's, we live in paradise, you know, but I also like being reminded of like, the, you know, there's, there's the hunt, and there's a crazy, you know, there are frogs devouring bugs, and there's, and it's like, once you, you mess up, and you get access to your own shortcomings.

In a really deep way, you realize that you don't want to invalidate that world because that world is, is life-giving; that world is like the substrate, it's, it's like soil in our consciousness, that it's complicated. You know, like, it's not, you don't want to, like, I'm not trying to make it Sunny, but it's a Dark Sun. And once you appreciate that, that's here, that that's a part of everything else, it's a part of the web. It's a lot harder to condemn. You don't have to condone either, you know, but it's, it's like condemning it with some sort of self-righteousness, you don't belong here, get out, you know, this doesn't have a place like that problematic.

So making mistakes and the world that it opens you to psychically. That and having mercy and giving it place, right? This is why in not just the story of Christ, but in many stories, there's a story of descent, you know, the death, the descent into the underworld, and the resurrection. They all go together; they're all a fact. They're all part of the Unified Fabric. The Dark Sun is the secret city that transgressions make us aware of and that keep us from liking, worshipping, and idolizing the daytime sun without some quiet awareness of the Dark Sun.

Finally, number five is blood is light. So the Dark Sun makes us aware, and I was just sort of alluding to this when I'm talking about nature, it makes us aware of the fact that everything in reality, that at least the physical reality that we can see, we can observe, and you know, that we observe carefully, we will notice this it's fueled by blood and not just the blood but the circulation of blood, through the body through our own bodies, but also through nature. You can think of that in a million different ways from the blood deep in the earth, that is the oil that we end up fueling cars with, and from the I'm not suggesting that's a great path to keep going down forever, but the fact that life eats life.

That is a picture of the same kind of circulation of blood that's in our own bodies. Plants eat plants; animals eat animals. People eat plants and animals, all of it living all of it with lifeforce, whether your blood or whatever, you know, literal blood or other forms of energy that define the lifeforce of being blood, and the light creates an end and disseminates this lifeforce of blood and that throughout the day ages, the Black Sun has been the awareness of this that leads to the offering of this dark, red, luminous substance, which is like a Dark Sun back up to the, to the Sun to the light. All traditions around the planet have been aware of the need for sacrifices of blood.

Now, that could be the blood sacrifice involved in birth. That could be the blood sacrifice involved in building a village. It could be the blood sacrifice involved in, you know, animal sacrifices that civilizations had for rain or crops. And there's the same thing continues on nowadays. And there are forms of sacrifice that are about power and about the things we sacrifice for the sake of hunger and lust and desire and power and greed. And there are things that ways in which we can sacrifice that are more about circulation and reciprocity. There are different ways of participating in the circulation, but the basic awareness that blood is circulating and that blood should be lifted up, let me tell you the word blood etymologically means coming from the German and going all the way back into old Germanic, that which bursts forth also blood from Bloma flower to thrive and to bloom sacrifice meaning to one of the things that sacrifice means will be to make something sacred or to set or put something forth as a way of, of offering or of taking something and acknowledging it as something greater than what it is. And then alter what we put the sacrifice on from the Latin Altice, meaning to lift up high.

So the black Sun as an image is like blood. And it's the recognition that for things to grow and for life to move, there's always a dark force of circulation of exchange and of consumption and excretion. And it's dark; it's a dark thing that we it's very easy to skip over it. You know, and frankly just my personal opinion as someone who has been a vegan and vegetarian at different times in my life I don't particularly think that veganism or vegetarianism are exempt from this either. It's still, no matter what we're, you can't walk on this earth without killing things. You can't eat plants without killing things. So I'm not enough, so I'm not trying to suggest; by the way, I love all my vegan and vegetarian friends, mostly vegetarian myself. So I'm just saying that none of us are exempt from it. That's all I'm trying to say, not to condemn or lift up anyone who died or anything like that. So blood is light; that would be number five.

So these are things that these are archetypal images that can help us to center ourselves this week as we consider the Sun Pluto conjunction. I hope this has been useful for you and that you'll be able to use some of these thoughts going forward this week and find that your interaction with this transit is enriched as a result; maybe the wish for the week is that we would be able to make space for the Dark Sun somehow.

All right, that is what I have for you today. I think we'll do a little bit more on the Sun Pluto tomorrow. So stay tuned for that. And don't forget, as I was almost gonna say, Don't forget new class Roots and Spheres moon circle, where we pair plant teachers with the astrology of the month that begins this week. So you can check that out on my website at nightlightastrology.com Alright, take it easy, everyone. Bye.