the last time this happened was 500 years ago...!
here's kristo's take on this blockbuster event of the Zeitgeist...
*** for the record, I gave the exact time as 4:58:28 AM GMT / UCT January 12th...
but it was, in fact 12 hours later (PM instead of AM) 4:58:28 PM GMT / UCT January 12th...
Time Zone Map
here's a look at the chart in my neck of the woods:
on Sunday, January 12th at about 5 o’clock in the afternoon, Greenwich Mean Time, or Coordinated Universal Time...
to be exact, it’s 4:58 PM and 28 seconds (GMT / UTC) Saturn reaches an exact Conjunction with Pluto in Capricorn…
(it will be January 13th in the Far East and Australia)
but this isn’t just a Saturn Pluto Conjunction...
the astrologic moment has a double kicker to it...
because it includes a Conjunction with our Capricorn Sun at less than a degree away and Mercury at less than half a degree away…
so what this amounts to is a moment of pure Kairos for the entire globe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairos
and yes... it’s even more significant if it’s happening within 3 degrees of any one of your natal planets, or especially if you were born between say January 10th and January 15th...
but this is something that’s going to affect all of us, and pretty much indicates a significant change of some sort...
but change means opportunity...
and that’s why I brought up the concept of Kairos...
so, I don’t know if you’re familiar with the concept of Kairos, but it essentially means the confluence of right place, right time, and right person who, by the way, had better take the right action — or else…
and that right person is YOU…
of course it’s also me, and every single one of us…
and that being the case, you might be wondering what that right action is supposed to be...
what you as an individual are supposed to do...
well, the short answer is, that all depends on you...
because it’s meant to be different for each one of us...
see... this powerful, wild and crazy conjunction is an opportunity for everyone on the planet to do the very thing demanded of them by their own psyche…
and I don’t just mean taking out the garbage, going to the gym or starting a healthy diet…
I mean making a decision to do that thing you know you were born to do…
your cosmic job description...
in other words, this astroNOMIC event is an astroLOGIC indicator that the time is ripe for you and me to make a kind of cosmic new year’s resolution…
except it’s not your typical resolution...
you know...
the kind you make with your head...
where you say you’re gonna do something because it’s idealistic or morally correct or it just sounds like a good idea…
you know what I’m talking about...
those are the resolutions that come out of wishful thinking...
you make them knowing full well that committing to them and sticking with them through thick and thin requires the kind of will power that few people possess...
well, the good news is that there’s absolutely no will power required for this resolution…
the circumstance you’re in is going to supply all of the will power you could possibly need to stick with this one…
in fact, this is gonna reveal itself to be something of a no-brainer...since it’s not gonna come from your head...
coming in Capricorn, as it does, this is gonna be something you’ll just feel in your bones...
the bad news, though... because whenever Pluto or Saturn are involved, there’s ALWAYS some bad news...
well, the bad news is that you’re going to be compelled to make this resolution and act on it because push is going to come to shove...
Saturn and Pluto are going to put you right between a rock and a hard place...
and you’re NOT going to like it...
now, being cornered like this doesn’t mean that you won’t have a choice in the matter...
you ALWAYS have your astrologic miranda rights...
meaning, you have have every right to refuse to cooperate with the circumstance you find yourself in…
that’s what’s called free will...
but this Conjunction means business, and the business it’s in is CHANGE...
written in all capital letters…
so, while we all have the option to reject that change and fight against it…
doing so will be pretty much like trying to stand your ground in the face of a hurricane or tsunami of psychic force…
so there’s no question that fighting this will prove to be exhausting...
and the reality is that you actually could withstand this...
but this would be the very definition of a Pyrrhic victory...
chances are, this change, whatever it is, is gonna win out anyway...
so, I don’t recommend trying to maintain the status quo...
what I do recommend is sitting with this and paying attention to the situation as it presents itself to you...
whatever it is, it’s going to be something of a psychic avalanche...
but one that you can easily ride out...as long as you’re willing to consider options you previously thought of as impossible...
or even forbidden...
so I realize that I’m building this up to sound terrifying…
but this isn’t actually meant to be some cataclysmic event in the world…
sure, there’s plenty of craziness on the world stage to regret and be frightened of right now…
and that IS representative of the dark side of this Pluto and Saturn in Capricorn Zeitgeist…
but in the context of your own everyday life…
this is something entirely different...
what it amounts to is that something important, steady and enduring in your life has reached the end of its shelf life...
and so having outlived its usefulness to you, unless you choose to respond to this new condition in a creative way, it’s going to inundate you with ridiculous demands on your time, energy and attention…
in other words…
this is some crumbling personal infrastructure that needs to come down...
whatever it is, it’s pretty much beyond the stage when you can properly repair and maintain it...
and I don’t think it needs rebuilding, either…
at least not the way it was originally constructed...
apparently, it’s time to let go...
and that’s NEVER easy...
but for whatever reason, that’s why we’ve got Saturn and Pluto in our faces...
they’re kinda like Jules and Vincent — the hitmen in Pulp Fiction...
except that they only team up once in a blue moon...
actually it’s more like once in 500 years...
but I’ll have more to say about that later...
all we need to know for now is that with the choices we’re been given, letting go is the smart one...
so all of this takes place in the context of an astrologic House that’s gonna be different for each of us, depending on which time zone we live in...
there’s a link in the show notes for you to figure out which one (if you don’t already know)...
all you have to do is to enter the city you live in and that will pop up on the time zone map...
and the House placement is useful because it gives us a bit of a heads-up concerning the arena where the change is meant to take place in our own lives...
but before we get to that, the addition of the Sun and Mercury to this Conjunction makes it all the more powerful of a stellium...
I think the Sun means this change is fundamental to our personal identity...
who we think of ourselves as...
and the presence of Mercury pretty much guarantees that the whole thing is going to be homeopathic...
meaning, whatever bitterness we taste in this changing circumstance...
as weird as it might seem...
it’s meant to heal us...and make us whole...
that’s the promise of Mercury...
Mercury also promises to make it quick...
okay, this all takes place in the context of a Leo Moon...
which just means there’s no way we can hide the change...
it’s gonna be obvious to everyone around us...
so, flaunting it is pretty much advised...
the Zeitgeist is also affected by the change in Uranus...
Uranus in Taurus goes / went Direct @ 1:47:52 AM GMT January 11th (and will remain direct for the next 7 months)...
I guess what that tells us is that we’ve got 7 months of work ahead of us in dealing with this change...
and we’re not going to know exactly how it’s supposed to look or even how it’s gonna turn out...
think of it as a construction site...
before the dust settles, sometime in August, expect things to be kinda messy and noisy, but trust that what you’re building is gonna be up-to-date and actually seem ahead of its time...
except that whatever it is, it’s gonna be RIGHT on time and PERFECT for the Zeitgeist...
for the record, the last time Pluto entered Capricorn was 1762...
it was there for about 17 years, but was never Conjuncted by Saturn...
Venus, Sol, Mercury, the Moon, even Jupiter...
they all made a Conjunction with Pluto...
but no Saturn...
now the last time Saturn Conjuncted Pluto was in 1518...
and it happened on January 13th (according to our Gregorian Calendar) and January 3rd according to the Julian calendar...
of course Pluto wasn’t discovered until 1930...but the astrologic influence...
well... that’s something to think about...
so we have a precedent for this...
and the very good news is that there was no earth shattering catastrophe...
humanity didn’t destroy itself and Mother Earth got through it all without working up a sweat...
but there were 2 historical instances of note that took place in that zeitgeist...
the first is more amusing than anything else...
I’ll give you the quote from wikipedia because it’s as good a summary as anything else...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518
something called the dancing plague (or dance epidemic) of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, in Alsace, in July of 1518. Around 400 people took to dancing for days without rest and, over the period of about one month, some of those affected collapsed or even died of heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion.
I guess you could call it the first Rave...
and let’s just leave it at that...
but the second historical incident of that Zeitgeist had an impact that changed the Western world...
and it took place less than 3 months prior to the exact conjunction... (just remember that Pluto transits over a specific point normally take about 5 years...while their peak of influence lasts about one year within that 5 year span...)
the incident in question took place on 0ctober 31, 1517 when Martin Luther wrote a letter to his bishop protesting the sale of indulgences... and included in the letter a copy of his disputation on the subject... his 95 theses...
according to wikipedia:
In January 1518 friends of Luther translated the Ninety-five Theses from Latin into German. Within two weeks, copies of the theses had spread throughout Germany; within two months, they had spread throughout Europe.
okay...
so how’s that for Change...?
and so this Conjunction in our own zeitgeist isn’t asking us to change the world...
it’s just asking us to do whatever it is we were born to do...
kinda like Luther...
because if we change...
if we do what we were born to do...
that’s how the world gets changed...
one last thing before I start talking about House placements...
Jupiter is going to transit over this astrologic point on March 20th...
and that signifies something of a rainbow after the storm of change we’re expected to go through...
it’s not likely to be a pot of gold...
but who knows...?
let’s just think through these house placements...
this Conjunction is going to take place in one of the 12 houses, depending on where in the world you are in the moment...
so let me take it one house at a time, and you can find out for yourself which one probably applies to you according to your individual time zone...
(although things get a little hinky, with time zones... since house placements have more to do with longitude and time zones are more of a human convention than a natural one... so they don’t always reflect exactly how far east or west you live)...
so for all practical purposes:
(counting + or - from the moment of UTC / GMT
which is 16:58:28 or 4:58:28 PM)
1st House:
UTC +13 (e.g. Auckland NZ) 4:58:28 AM January 13th
UTC -9 (e.g. Fairbanks, AK) 7:58:28 AM January 12th
First House...
I think that has something to do with Anger...
It also has something to do with Blazing your own Trail...
The way you deal with Anger...
The way you get Angry...
What you get Angry about...
Expect that to change...
2nd House / +11 UTC
that’s most of the rest of Australia... (all on Jan. 13th)
UTC +10 (e.g. Brisbane) 2:58:28 AM / UTC +10.5 (e.g.) Adelaide 3:28:28 AM / UTC +11 (e.g. Melbourne) 3:58:28 AM
the Second house has a lot to do with Money, but to me, it has much more to do with the Body...
with Animals...
all things Natural...
has to do with Gardening...
has to do with Music...
Obviously, things are changing over there...
(as far as Gardening goes)...
Forest Fires usually change the Landscape...
and when things grow again, from that space, they are different...
So, this fire ordeal / Second House / it’s awful...
but something good is going to come out of this...
something new is going to arise...
something is going to be built out of this...
perhaps something like the Chicago Fire when all of the architecture of Chicago changed afterwards...
there WILL be a Phoenix arising from this...
that doesn’t help right now...
it doesn’t make things any easier...
but that’s the nature of Pluto and Saturn...
it occurs in the 3rd House in Western Australia...
UTC +8 (e.g. Perth) 12:58:28 AM Jan. 13th
Third House is the House of story...
Something about the Story of Western Australia and the whole aspect of the Far Eastern continent...
It’s going to change around this time...
The Story changes...I don’t know how...but it changes...
4th House...
that happens somewhere between Western Australia and Moscow...
there’s that whole swath of the continent...
India, Kazakstan, parts of Western China, parts of the Eastern Soviet Union...
The Fourth House is the Psychic Basement...
either the Psychic Basement gets filled up with things that should have been taken care of — should have been cleaned out...
things get hoarded, perhaps...
or things DO get cleaned out...
the Psychic Basement gets renewed...
gets renovated...
space for doing other things...
you just have (make) more Psychic Space available
5th House it’s that Time Zone (UTC +3) (7:58:28 PM Jan 12th) that includes Moscow and Bhagdad...
Now that’s interesting because it’s, well, 5th House...
Creativity / Children
something Creative happens...
the capacity to BE creative improves, and it becomes obvious to everyone...
there’s something about Enthusiasm in this...
there’s a new Enthusiasm in the Middle East...
there’s a new Enthusiasm FOR it...
and it starts doing things in a new way...
6th House - that’s most of Western Europe
UTC (Greenwich Mean Time) (e.g. London) 4:58:28 PM / UTC +1 (e.g. Berlin) 5:58:28 PM / UTC +2 (e.g. Helsinki) 6:58:28 PM Jan. 12th
The Sixth House is the House of Work...
Our Work changes...
Who we Serve changes...
How we Serve changes...
7th and 8th House
this is interesting...
it’s all out in the middle of the Atlantic
not too many people that get affected by this
it also affects a big chunk of Greenland, but not too many people get affected by this...***
***I guess not unless you’re flying across the Atlantic at 2:58:28 PM (8th House) or 3:58:28 PM (7th House)... and that could actually mean a pretty decent number of people... at least a very select group, compared to the rest of the globe...
9th House is off the coast of North America UTC -4 (e.g. Puerto Rico) 12:58:28 PM / UTC -3 (e.g. Rio) 1:58:28 PM Jan 12th...
the Ninth House is the House of Sagittarius...
of Generosity...
of Big Stuff...
I think there’s a new capacity for Generosity...
I don’t know how it’s going to look...
I don’t know how it’s going to play out...
10th House
well, that’s most of the East Coast of North America, and a good chunk of South America...
UTC -6 CST / UTC -5 EST
well... the Tenth House... that’s Politics... Power...
there’s going to be a BIG change...
it’s not going to be Pretty...
I’ll just leave that to your Imagination...
11th House UTC -7 MST
New Technologies...
Doing Things differently...
it’s ALL going to change...
12th House UTC -8 PST
the West Coast of North America...
well... a new form of Consciousness...
a new Awareness of Consciousness...
what it means to BE Conscious
now that’s all a little bit sparse, I would say...
a little bit of a spartan look at the different Houses...
but I guess that’s the Nature of Capricorn...
Capricorn is a little bit Taciturn...
but just let me say for those with the Sun in Capricorn...
especially birthdays around this time...
how this affects you: it’s going to affect your very sense of Self...
it’s going to change your very sense of Self...
in a good way, though...
and for those of you who are experiencing a Saturn Return around this time...
Holy Smokes...!
that first Saturn Return around age 29...
with Pluto involved in it...
Oh my goodness...!
talk about Maturity...
we all go through a Saturn Return (a first Saturn Return)...
but for those having it now...
this is not about being scarred, this is about having Experience...
something changing that very few of us have had to go through...
and for those of you going through a Second Saturn Return...
again, talking about Maturity...
talking about Wisdom...
this is going to change your Beliefs...
much the way that Luther did...
so, actually, we could probably talk about this stuff all day, and debate it
but let’s just leave it at that for now...
you’re going to experience what you’re going to experience...
it would be so interesting to know what that is...
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Chiara Bertoglio performs Schubert's Impromptu no. 1 in F Minor
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