Midlife Transits

They converged on Washington awhile back. A whole bunch of people, exact number unknown, protesting Obama and various other things, some of which may not seem like they go together. On the YouTube video I watched, targets of wrath appeared to include gays, taxes, government spending, change of any sort, immorality, all politicians, health care, Cash for Clunkers, socialism, and various unspecified threats to the US Constitution, the future, and liberty in general.

Since nothing has actually happened to these marchers, so far as I can tell, that actually interferes with their liberty and since the Constitution has not been changed–it would be easy for a non-participant or a non-sympathizer to wonder what the heck they’re talking about. Especially since some of it doesn’t seem to make sense.

What they’re talking about is Pluto in Capricorn.

The protesters may seem to be all over the place in terms of identifying the exact nature of the threat, but they can feel it, and they can sense its vibe. And they’re right.

Pluto in Capricorn is scary. It does have a tendency to increase government power. And it doesn’t much care for liberty. Pluto in Cap is more of a control freak, and the protesters are rebelling already. Pluto’s barely gotten started in this sign, but he’s already stirred up all sorts of stiff resistance.

By November, Pluto will be duking it out with Saturn, and that’s rarely fun. Later he’ll be clashing with Uranus and that’s perhaps even less fun. Maybe the clashes will be scarier than Pluto by himself would be. But the clashes, difficult as they may be, also act to put something of a brake on what would otherwise be perhaps even worse in the long run, a world in which nobody (or no planet) ever challenged Pluto.

That doesn’t happen, though, because reliable old Saturn keeps chugging around the sky, periodically squaring and  opposing powerful Pluto, tipping off clashes that very few have any reason to like, but that periodically remind us that no power is limitless.

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