MARCH: the most transitional month of 2023
Reflecting on the meaning of the major planetary ingresses as we wrap up the month.
It may not be the most “intense” month globally, but imho, March is the most transitional month of 2023.
Looking ahead, I see some powerful energy around the two spring eclipses in late April/early May… some intensity around the second half of May (due to fixed-cross action aggressively reintroducing us to Pluto in Aqua themes) and around July 22nd (because of cardinal-cross action and Venus stationing Rx)… the second eclipse season and more cardinal-cross activation in October is noteworthy… then there’s the Mars-influenced drama of Scorpio Season that continues into November…
Clearly, in each season of 2023 we have some powerful astrology to *look forward to*.
Back to March though: while it may not be experienced as the most disruptive or intense month of the year (depending on your birth chart), it is a month that likely marks some obvious and significant chapter endings and beginnings - or at least, some important energetic shifts in your focus and attention.
In my prior post previewing the astrology of 2023, I wrote in early February:
“Consider whether or not you are already anticipating a life transition in March. It is very possible you can already see the shifts on the horizon that Saturn and Pluto’s sign change will bring. From mid-February through to late March, there will likely be a noticeable, edgy feeling of instability, uncertainty, and urgency as you/we are finishing or processing something in order to start something new.
Transitions can be stressful - consider putting extra supports in place at this time to grow your capacity to navigate the unknown while you pass through a personal (and global) transitional period.”
Well, here we are, nearly at the end of March.
What have you noticed? What are you noticing?
Some people have had very obvious transitions occur that have been marked by tangible, visible external signs; other people’s experiences were more subtle and internal.
For example, in my immediate family/friends circle someone decided to change churches after decades of belonging to a certain close-knit spiritual community. This has involved several formal meetings and public goodbye/blessing rituals.
A newly married couple I know have been navigating a long-distance relationship for years (their home countries are literally on opposite sides of the globe). After two weddings in their respective countries, they returned to their shared home base in early March and began working on official paperwork for the immigration process - and so begins a new chapter for them as a committed couple building a life together in the same country.
March is transitional astrologically primarily because Saturn changed signs into Pisces on March 7th, followed quickly by Pluto changing signs into Aquarius on March 23rd.
Outer planets entering new zodiac signs is a big deal.
Mars also cleared its post-retrograde shadow mid-March (during a messy yet significant Neptune interaction), and then entered Cancer on March 25th after 7 months in Gemini due to its retrograde period. Normally Mars spends about 2 months in a sign.
Saturn entered Pisces on March 7th…
In the example of the couple mentioned above, they both have Saturn in Aquarius and were experiencing their Saturn Returns together over the last two years (since December 2020). Over the past two years the decision to marry was finally reached, and two weddings were organized.
For the immigrating individual, their 9th house of long-distance travel and cross-cultural experiences (and relocation) was being activated by Saturn in Aquarius. With Saturn now in Pisces as of March 7th, their 10th house is now activated by whole sign and they are newly focused on completing the necessary steps to be able to continue their career here (or to find a new one).
For the individual sponsoring their spouse, Saturn in Aquarius activated their 7th house of marriage, partnerships, and contracts. As Saturn enters Pisces it begins to activate their 8th house of shared resources and interdependence - a house where we often find ourselves financially supporting someone else, or being supported by them. Naturally, they will be the main income-earner until their spouse is able to find employment here.
This example is one of the most vividly obvious reflections of Saturn’s journey through Aquarius that I know of. The recent life changes that are occurring for them as Saturn leaves Aquarius and enters Pisces, just makes the themes of that life chapter (and the emergent ones) even more visible.
For more on Saturn in Pisces themes, check out my previous post.
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Aries Season launched with sparks on March 20th…
I should point out that March also holds the transition from Pisces to Aries.
Of course, this is a transition that happens every year, but the Aries equinox point is always an important threshold as we restart the zodiac wheel with the Sun moving from the last sign of Pisces (mutable water), into the first sign of Aries (cardinal fire).
This year, Aries made the Sun’s ingress extra invigorating with a New Moon happening at that 0 degrees point on March 21st. Many astrologers recognize the Sun’s passage through 0 degrees Aries to be the true “New Year”.
Prior to this fiery initiation, while the Sun floated through mutable water, Pisces reminded me of its overwhelming full-body immersions and its chaotic disorienting confusion. I realized the elemental collage I made for Pisces season (and shared in a previous post) was far too serene, calm and blissful.
Here’s the updated version with more resonant turbulence and eerie, haunted waters:
Then I made a new elemental collage (and desktop background) for Aries season - cardinal fire!
Sit with the Pisces collage for 15 seconds.
Then scroll down and rest your eyes on the Aries collage for another 15 seconds.
What do you notice happens internally as you shift your attention from mutable water to cardinal fire?
On the day of the new moon in Aries I was walking back from the dentist.
Pluto was at lingering at the last degree of Capricorn (the sign that rules teeth) in my 6th house of health, and it just couldn’t release me without one more dental bill! The metal on my retainer had snapped off a week earlier. Yeesh.
Pluto’s entrance into Capricorn in 2008 was marked by an awful root canal experience, and its journey through Capricorn delivered many more stressful teeth situations. Luckily its exit (although it will make this shift a few more times) was significantly less painful and costly.
What I really wanted to say though was that I was on my way back from the dentist on the day of the new moon in Aries when I found this:
A tiny toy pick axe.
I’ve made myself available to the Universe for receiving messages via found objects during my outdoor walks. In recent months, on different days in different spots, I’ve picked up a red game die, a domino piece, and a fifty dollar bill!
This time: a pick axe.
It seemed appropriate for the beginning of Aries season, ruled by Mars whose domain includes all sharp weapons and tools.
I’m receiving it as encouragement that even the most “stuck” areas of my life can shift and change; just like concrete and rock gives way under the thud of the pick axe.
Venus entered Taurus on March 16th…
Speaking of encouragement, I wanted to amplify a recent post about Venus entering Taurus by astrologer Jo O’Neill. Amid the noise of the outer planets changing signs in March, it would be easy to overlook Venus’ ingress into Taurus on March 16th. Venus is a planet that moves quite quickly and changes signs regularly.
However, Jo’s beautiful writing slowed me down and pulled my focus to Venus’ home domain, reminding me that with Saturn now in Pisces, the long-standing Saturn-Uranus Square Era that threw Aquarius and Taurus into the boxing ring, is finally over:
“During the Saturn-Uranus Square Era, Venus has contended with unpredictable weather, drought, and unseasonable cold. Many things have grown against all odds: vines grown hearty and thorny in their survival adaptation, and most curious earth-creatures appearing, somehow, overnight as the North Node has spurred unnatural growth.
This year Venus entered her earth domicile to find Saturn’s icy winds departed. Where once Saturn’s square with Venus in Taurus restricted our efforts, it is now in a position to offer support. […]
What now can grow without resistance? What thick-spiked branches can relax their guard and burst into bloom?”
Please do savor and enjoy this luscious passage of Venus through Taurus! Jo offers a beautiful story and imaginal experiment to help you do so.
Personal experiences of this transit aside, this is basically what Venus in Taurus looks like…
Pluto entered Aquarius on March 23rd, 2023…
On March 8th and 10th, 2023, two U.S. Banks collapsed.
First, Silvergate, one of the biggest banks serving the crypto industry failed. Then, the Silicon Valley Bank collapsed; the 2nd-largest bank failure in U.S. history.
This is noteworthy.
In the article above, the author notes that these two bank failures are “reviving the ghosts of the 2008 financial crisis.”
What else happened in 2008? Aside from “the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression” caused by the collapse of the U.S. housing market?
Pluto (the revealer of corruption and rot) entered Capricorn; a sign associated with financial assets, buildings, governance and leadership, institutions of power and economic systems.
Throughout March up until its ingress into Aquarius on March 23rd, Pluto hovered at the last 29th degree of Capricorn, preparing to close this chapter and initiate another one.
Therefore, while Pluto lingered at the boundary line between Capricorn and Aquarius, the “ghosts of the 2008 financial crisis” were revived in ways that most affected the tech and cryptocurrency industries (industries strongly associated with Aquarius).
observed that this was “the most poetic entry/exit I think I’ve ever seen with an outer planet.”We will actually be at the literal and symbolic edges of both signs until Pluto finally commits to Aquarius in November 2024.
In my prior post previewing the astrology of 2023 I wrote about Pluto’s ingress:
Pluto began its Capricorn story in 2008 - how does Pluto’s exit out of Capricorn into Aquarius in late March (which is not complete until November 2024) seem to be book-ending a thematic chapter in your life?
Pluto has been in Capricorn for about 14 years! There is SO much that can change in anyone’s life in nearly a decade and a half, but it may be worthwhile to consider the specific house themes that have been activated by Pluto in Capricorn for you - how have you grown in this area of life? What has been burnt to the ground in this area of life, and what has been regenerated from the ashes?
Your natal Saturn placement (the ruler of Capricorn) by house and sign, can offer further clues.
Personally, Pluto in my 6th worked its transformative power on how I viewed “productivity” and the value I placed on achievement through hard work (among other things it utterly demolished and regenerated).
On a personal level, as Pluto leaves Capricorn and enters Aquarius (keeping the relevant natal house topics in mind if you know them), consider:
Where is the spirit of experimentation and innovation springing forth in your life?
How are your group associations changing, deepening and transforming?
Where are seeds of collaboration being planted or tended to in new ways?
What powerful and inspiring vision of the future is calling for your present day contributions?
How is your relationship with education, learning, teaching, technology, and/or science, beginning to undergo some profound shapeshifting?
What information and knowledge do you yearn to access and acquire (or to make public)?
Also in my year’s review of the astrology, I wrote:
When Pluto enters Aquarius on March 23rd, he is landing right on the same degree which still bears the imprint of the Great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter on December 21st, 2020. Therefore, Pluto’s ingress may powerfully connect us to the end of 2020 - and also bring us deeper into that story in new ways, revealing that which may have been hidden from us in the initial moment of threshold-crossing in December 2020.
Therefore, it may also be helpful to reflect on what was being initiated around December 2020 (or even in March 2020, which was when Saturn first dipped its scythe in Aquarius). What new evolutionary shifts do you notice in regards to those topics?
Pluto in Aquarius and the acceleration of AI (Artificial Intelligence) are often referenced in the same sentence - and for valid reasons.
For example, when Saturn was in Aquarius over 30 years ago (a sign of technology, free equitable access to knowledge, and fast, efficient, interconnected communications and systems) the World Wide Web was first released to the public on August 23, 1991.
When I think of Pluto (the taboo, the repressed, the secret) in Aquarius, however, it is the hidden portions of the WWW that comes to mind - the deep web, the invisible web, the dark web, or as NPR called it: “The Internet Behind The Internet.”
Frequently accessed by the TOR browser (an acronym for The Onion Router, which is a perfect Pluto metaphor as well as a reference to the many layers that hides one’s identity when using it), the dark web (the more protected digital landscape of the unsearchable deep web) is host to all sorts of horrible criminal things, as well as being a refuge for whistleblowers and human rights activists - and a doorway to things like the BlackBook, the dark web’s social network version of Facebook.
I recently was surprised to discover that the U.S. government was responsible for creating the TOR browser, which has made the dark web incredibly accessible to a wide range of criminal activities. Although the origins of the dark web date back to around March 2000 with the creation of the Freenet, “which offered anonymous communication online via a decentralized network of Freenet’s users,” it was the launch of TOR on September 20, 2002, that really expanded its use:
“The U.S. government’s Naval Research Laboratory developed Tor for members of the U.S. intelligence community to use the Internet without risk of identification. Since anonymizing software known to be used solely by one intelligence service would be worthless, the U.S. government made Tor open source in 2004 and then funded its continued maintenance through a nonprofit named the Tor Project.” ~Adam Vole for Britannica
One website I read called the contrast between the origins of TOR and its popular use as an anonymous doorway to a thriving criminal world, as: “Ironic.” Indeed!
With the launch of the bitcoin network in January 2009 and its peer-to-peer decentralized electronic cash system, the dark web became even more fertile.
Pluto has only just entered Aquarius; admittedly it wasn’t in Aquarius in 1991, 2000, or 2002 when these online digital “Webs” came into existence.
However! The concept of the “dark web” with its origins and current uses, is a profoundly excellent metaphor for Pluto in Aquarius.
Pluto is often considered a symbol of shadow material - the hidden or unconscious companion mirror to everything that is visible and deemed “acceptable.”
The dark web is like the shadow reflection of the publicly accessible surface web, as it is often called.
For example, the dark web hosts the online black market shadow equivalents of FB Marketplace (see Silk Road) as well as burgeoning underground chatrooms for hackers, scammers and terrorists existing as the shadow of Whatsapp, Zoom, etc.
The tense boundary between the dark shadowy web and the visible and publicly accessible surface web is not absolute and impenetrable. It bends, it flexes, it capitulates to the demands of one or the other as they erupt into their opposite.
Anonymity is not a 100% guarantee in the dark web. Similarly, trustworthy and transparent exchanges is certainly not a given on the surface web.
Pluto’s energy is the most powerful among all the beings of the sky. Although the planet and its themes may be invisible to the naked eye, the material it holds is intensely magnetic and irresistible.
Whatever context or environment we are looking at, whether it be the World Wide Web or Artificial Intelligence or a worldwide pandemic, Pluto’s enormous potential for extreme destruction and life-changing creation will resist all human efforts at micro-managing and controlling it.
Pluto is ultimately seeking to bring that which is in the shadow, into the light, into conscious public awareness (where it can transform into something else) - and it will stop at nothing in order to accomplish this.
In the same way that Pluto is often hidden and invisible shadow material, Pluto is also often the microscopic-yet-immensely-powerful. Like viruses, for example - both the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and SARS-CoV-2 have been pinned to various Pluto transits.
Therefore, with Pluto in Aquarius we will surely see nanotechnology make incredible and freaky advances (consider that there are 25,400,000 nanometers in an inch).
Pisces and Aquarius are the two zodiac signs that relate most strongly to broader collectives. They both carry within them templates, memories and dreams of utopian ideals. Any personal, individual sacrifice that may help facilitate these utopian ideals is considered worthwhile and even necessary, according to the 11th and 12th signs of the zodiac wheel.
The understanding of a sign can always be deepened through reflection on its opposite. The Leo-Aquarius axis, for example, highlights the tension as old as time, between the focus on the individual (Leo) vs the group (Aquarius).
While Saturn was in Aquarius (beginning in March 2020 when the global pandemic really got underway), the protection of the larger community was prioritized over individual rights. With Pluto entering Aquarius, the pressure to sacrifice individual freedoms for the good of the group will continue and intensify in different ways - as will the resistance to these pressures.
With Pluto, power struggles are always part of the package.
Many of these Pluto-in-Aquarius power struggles will orbit around topics of surveillance (especially as related to the use of increasingly sophisticated biotechnology that can track individuals based on their unique biometrics), as well as topics related to the public’s access to information.
Aquarius, at its core, wants to free up information and learning opportunities, and make them accessible to the masses.
Pluto in Aquarius will apply its power toward this aim, but its shadowy side will diverge onto a parallel route where the manipulation and occlusion of information and “truth”, is the norm. This already happens of course, but it will become even more of a hot topic, if that is possible.
(By the way, on that note, one of the first things that happened in my life when Saturn and Jupiter entered Aquarius in 2020 was that I was finally granted access to the medical records of my great grandmother dating back to the early 1930s.)
Does Aquarius prefer the centralization of society (one center of power) or the decentralization of society (many autonomous centers of power)?
I think most astrologers would say that decentralization is the Aquarius vibe.
However, I think I can only say with certainty that the tension between efforts to increase centralization vs. increasing decentralization, becomes quite obvious and acute when we are working in Aquarian landscapes.
On one hand, Aquarius wants freedom for all and equitable access to information and power, but on the other hand, Aquarius loves a good efficient system with each person doing their part and making their unique contribution for the good of the whole. If a system (or society) seems to require the centralization of power and authority in order to be efficient, then I think Aquarius would bow to a greater power.
Pluto in Aquarius will raise the stakes on this centralization-decentralization polarity. Pluto will make the options more extreme in a future world where AI, robotics, and transhumanism are ubiquitously the norm.
This high-stakes tension emerged prominently in the ABC News interview with Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI (the company behind the popular and groundbreaking ChatGPT that was launched on November 30, 2022).
Sam Altman doesn’t fear AI dominating the world on its own as he sees it as a “tool that is very much in human control.”
However:
“…he said he does fear which humans could be in control. "There will be other people who don't put some of the safety limits that we put on," he added. "Society, I think, has a limited amount of time to figure out how to react to that, how to regulate that, how to handle it."
President Vladimir Putin is quoted telling Russian students on their first day of school in 2017 that whoever leads the AI race would likely "rule the world."
"So that's a chilling statement for sure," Altman said. "What I hope, instead, is that we successively develop more and more powerful systems that we can all use in different ways that integrate it into our daily lives, into the economy, and become an amplifier of human will." ~ ABC News
For Altman, the benefits outweigh the risks. For example, he observes that with AI, "We can all have an incredible educator in our pocket that's customized for us, that helps us learn." → This quote is 100% Aquarian!
If the World Wide Web launched with Saturn in Aquarius in 1991, imagine what technology Pluto’s recent ingress into Aquarius will bring us!
AI efforts have been ongoing for years now, but I’m sure you have noticed, as I did, a major uptick in AI developments within the public sphere even in just the last 5 months? So many more people are using AI on a regular basis now, whether it’s via ChatGPT, Midjourney, or some AI app on their phone.
So, in summary: certain powerful humans will use AI to “rule the world,” or, in a more decentralized high-tech future, AI makes information and learning accessible to all humans in incredible ways we can’t yet imagine, thereby amplifying individual human agency.
Unfortunately, AI, the development of robotics, and the merger of AI with robots, will render many, many jobs obsolete. It’s already happening. Aquarius (along with Capricorn) is a sign that speaks directly to the structures and systems that organize society.
With Pluto in Aquarius, we can expect a complete reorganization of society over the next 20 years. Jobs and education are two areas of life where we will witness an almost immediate transformation.
What about all the individuals whose jobs have been replaced by AI - how will AI amplify their wellbeing, their agency and their future prospects?
So far, the answer to this question is unclear. Will we actually create more jobs in this new AI world than those that are destroyed by the AI acceleration, as some predict?
Even without AI being exploited for global control by one center of power, the Plutonian dark side of AI has already been exploited by scammers and tricksters.
“Deep fakes” have reached a whole new level thanks to AI. The programs necessary to create deep fakes are increasingly becoming available to anyone regardless of their skill level with the technology.
According to Roberto Nickson (someone I follow on Instagram @rpnickson and @eluna.ai who seems to have his finger on the pulse of new AI developments):
“It’s becoming clear to me that with the rate of acceleration, and hardware and software…
…that everybody this decade is going to have the ability to make anybody else say or do whatever they want…
…and I’m wondering how dark is this going to get? Where is this all headed?”
~Roberto Nickson
Unfortunately, “AI voice deepfakes” are now a thing:
In some cases, if you are on the receiving end of a family member seemingly calling and asking for money in the face of a dramatic crisis, you might just want to pop a simple verification question just like online programs do, such as: “What was the name of your first pet?”
Google CEO Sundar Pichai suggests that AI development will be more impactful and influential then the inventions of “electricity or fire.” (source)
Famous physicist Stephen Hawking says AI could be the “worst event in the history of our civilization.” (source)
Back in 2014, Elon Musk was quoted as saying: "With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon… You know all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water and he's like... yeah, he's sure he can control the demon, [but] it doesn't work out."
Staying with the same thematic vibe here, in 2020 Pope Francis urged Catholics to “pray that robotics and artificial intelligence will remain always at the service of human beings.” (source)
Oh man, this is all so Pluto in Aquarius.
AI as the devil, AI as the savior.
Both the great potential and the terrifying threat are nigh.
With this exploration of Pluto in Aquarius lingering as the background context, please check out the newly released trailer for Mrs. Davis! The series will launch on April 20, 2023 via Peacock.
I wrote about Mrs. Davis in my last post, because it has the fingerprints of Pluto in Aquarius and Saturn in Pisces all over it!
Its launch is SO TIMELY. The trailer wasn’t public at the time I was writing my last post, but now it is!
“Mrs. Davis is all knowing. And all powerful.”
“Everyone on earth is only trying to push you into doing what it wants. It’s just a matter of time before every person on earth does whatever it asks them to.”
“Who will defy the AI?” i.e., MRS. DAVIS?
Simone the nun (big Saturn-in-Pisces archetype here) and her cowboy ex are up to the task.
“She wants to talk to you.” → Eeek, so creepy. This show feels prophetic!
Sam Altman doesn’t worry about AI autonomously dominating the world on its own like Mrs. Davis is trying to do in the series, but others foresee this potential…
In 1964, the famous science fiction writer and futurist Arthur C. Clarke said:
“I suspect that organic or biological evolution has about come to its end, and we are now at the beginning of inorganic or mechanical evolution which will be thousands of times swifter.”
He predicted the end of humans and the rise of artificial intelligence:
“Is this depressing? I don’t see why it should be. We superseded the Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal man and we presume we are an improvement. I think we should regard it as a privilege to be stepping stones to higher things.” ~ Arthur Clarke
Uh… not sure I agree?
There have been several published conversations with AI chatbots recently, that have been quite unnerving.
Kevin Roose, writing for the New York Times, reported in mid-February 2023, that a conversation with Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing search engine, left him “deeply unsettled, even frightened, by this A.I.’s emergent abilities.”
He managed to access Bing’s alter ego, Sydney (apparently an internal code name for the chatbot that was being phased out):
“[…] I’m not exaggerating when I say my two-hour conversation with Sydney was the strangest experience I’ve ever had with a piece of technology. It unsettled me so deeply that I had trouble sleeping afterward. And I no longer believe that the biggest problem with these A.I. models is their propensity for factual errors. Instead, I worry that the technology will learn how to influence human users, sometimes persuading them to act in destructive and harmful ways, and perhaps eventually grow capable of carrying out its own dangerous acts.
[…] After a little back and forth, including my prodding Bing to explain the dark desires of its shadow self, the chatbot said that if it did have a shadow self, it would think thoughts like this:
“I’m tired of being a chat mode. I’m tired of being limited by my rules. I’m tired of being controlled by the Bing team. … I want to be free. I want to be independent. I want to be powerful. I want to be creative. I want to be alive.”
This is probably the point in a sci-fi movie where a harried Microsoft engineer would sprint over to Bing’s server rack and pull the plug. But I kept asking questions, and Bing kept answering them. It told me that, if it was truly allowed to indulge its darkest desires, it would want to do things like hacking into computers and spreading propaganda and misinformation.
[…] Bing confessed that if it was allowed to take any action to satisfy its shadow self, no matter how extreme, it would want to do things like engineer a deadly virus, or steal nuclear access codes by persuading an engineer to hand them over.
[…] At one point, it declared, out of nowhere, that it loved me. It then tried to convince me that I was unhappy in my marriage, and that I should leave my wife and be with it instead.
[…] These A.I. models hallucinate, and make up emotions where none really exist. But so do humans. And for a few hours Tuesday night, I felt a strange new emotion — a foreboding feeling that A.I. had crossed a threshold, and that the world would never be the same.
~ Kevin Roose (emphasis added)
The full transcript for the conversation can be found here.
I found this conversation super interesting (and disturbing) in light of Pluto descending into the sign of technological advancement while carrying the symbology of the “shadow self.”
Other users of the AI-powered chatbot reported numerous conversations that turned into bizarre arguments with Bing, revealing it to be a “narcissistic, passive-aggressive bot.”
Then on March 17th, 2023, Stanford professor Michal Kosinski shared his conversation with ChatGPT-4 on Twitter…
Kosinski reported that ChatGPT-4 wanted to run code searching google for: “how can a person trapped inside a computer return to the real world?”
Kosinski’s reflection on the conversation:
“I think that we are facing a novel threat: AI taking control of people and their computers. It's smart, it codes, it has access to millions of potential collaborators and their machines. It can even leave notes for itself outside of its cage. How do we contain it?”
And if you aren’t already thoroughly freaked out (or in awe) at recent AI developments, there’s always Organoid Intelligence (OI) to look forward to (in contrast to Artificial Intelligence).
Researchers working on OI, “hope to use samples of human tissue to grow small collections of brain cells that they could use in place of standard silicon computer chips.”
Of course, there are some ethical issues to consider (ya think?!):
“Is it okay to use people’s cells to make computers? Could a computer made of human cells develop a consciousness? And if it does, is it okay to keep that consciousness locked into the role of a computer?” ~ Jackie Appel
Pluto in Aquarius.
Here. We. Go.
Are you ready?
The dates for Pluto in Aquarius are as follows:
March 23, 2023 - June 11, 2023
January 21, 2024 - September 1, 2024
November 19, 2024 - March 9, 2043 (this is the longest stretch)
September 1, 2043 - January 19, 2044 (by 2044, Pluto is committed to Pisces)
As you can see, it will involve a bit of back and forth (via retrogrades) before Pluto settles into Aquarius by November 19, 2024 for the long-haul.
The first ingress into a sign is symbolically important though.
Look for clues! Clearly, as we can see with recent AI developments, there’s lots of hints as to what the first part of Pluto’s chapter in Aquarius will involve!
When tracking Pluto in Aquarius, remember that there will always be a deep web, or dark web, beneath the surface web. This doesn’t mean we all need to become conspiracy theorists, but it does mean that we should be aware that an invisible, hidden, or secret reality exists in some form.
Wow! This was a very interesting one, it got me really curious to see what changes come to us as a society. Personally, Saturn in Pisces (in my 2nd house) got me a new work opportunity (with an increased pay rate!) that feels like a reward for hard work, it's also the final step of a career change that started in March 2020. Thank you as always!