Pluto got demoted last week. What effect does this have on astrology? Well, it depends. If you’re healthy enough to be sceptical of labels, then the names self-appointed experts give to those big balls of rock zooming around up there don’t really matter. If you’re even healthier, and sceptical of astrology, then you’ll have realised that us starpeople are working off a system from two thousand years ago which doesn’t even match the current astronomical positions. However, bear with me for a minute.
Pluto in Sagittarius creates disruption in areas of philosophy, law, and religion. It charges us to bandy about phrases such as the clash of civilisations and the war on terror. It confounds the intellectual tenets of our lives, like democracy, human rights, and freedom, and twists their meaning. Our distant demi-planet arrived in that sign in 2000, so it’s safe to say we’ve seen plenty of its effects. Sagittarius is also the house of astronomy. Pluto is currently in retrograde, which causes conflict and dramatic change amongst academics. This decision, ironically, is exactly the sort of thing you would expect from such a transit.
Astrologers will no doubt continue to embrace Pluto. We quite like forces of disruption. Most astrologers already include Chiron in their calculations, so we keep up to date with new discoveries. However, we tend to watch the machinations of academic science with bemused patience, the prerogative of those in a far older discipline.
Americans are disappointed, of course. Pluto was their only planetary find. The Houston Chronicle even had the gall to call the decision a cultural backlash, as if the International Astronomer’s Union was somehow in cahoots with Al-Qaeda. I blame retrograde Pluto, of course. It’s easier than getting my head around the fact that millions of Yanks are stupid enough to buy into Bush’s mad crusade.
If you’re a Scorpio, this decision affects you personally. You are now ruled by a dwarf. Take from that what you will, I doubt it will change your outlook. You’re far too stubborn for that. Tiny in stature, but stubborn of will. A bit like Pluto itself.
As usual, no-one considered the children, who now have to rebuild their model solar systems with one less ball of painted polystyrene and learn a new mnemonic. If I may make a suggestion, Mad Vengeance Elected Makes Justice Shafted Under Nationalism has a nice ring to it.
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Pluto in Sagittarius creates disruption in areas of philosophy, law, and religion. It charges us to bandy about phrases such as the clash of civilisations and the war on terror. It confounds the intellectual tenets of our lives, like democracy, human rights, and freedom, and twists their meaning. Our distant demi-planet arrived in that sign in 2000, so it’s safe to say we’ve seen plenty of its effects. Sagittarius is also the house of astronomy. Pluto is currently in retrograde, which causes conflict and dramatic change amongst academics. This decision, ironically, is exactly the sort of thing you would expect from such a transit.
Astrologers will no doubt continue to embrace Pluto. We quite like forces of disruption. Most astrologers already include Chiron in their calculations, so we keep up to date with new discoveries. However, we tend to watch the machinations of academic science with bemused patience, the prerogative of those in a far older discipline.
Americans are disappointed, of course. Pluto was their only planetary find. The Houston Chronicle even had the gall to call the decision a cultural backlash, as if the International Astronomer’s Union was somehow in cahoots with Al-Qaeda. I blame retrograde Pluto, of course. It’s easier than getting my head around the fact that millions of Yanks are stupid enough to buy into Bush’s mad crusade.
If you’re a Scorpio, this decision affects you personally. You are now ruled by a dwarf. Take from that what you will, I doubt it will change your outlook. You’re far too stubborn for that. Tiny in stature, but stubborn of will. A bit like Pluto itself.
As usual, no-one considered the children, who now have to rebuild their model solar systems with one less ball of painted polystyrene and learn a new mnemonic. If I may make a suggestion, Mad Vengeance Elected Makes Justice Shafted Under Nationalism has a nice ring to it.
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