Under Pluto in Capricorn, we are all experiencing some major changes in our societal and worldly structures. Our collective definitions of success and accomplishment are changing, and as result, the standards for “making it” in the world are changing. There is no blanket definition for being at the top echelon of society any longer, if there is even a top echelon anymore. These changes are challenging many of us to figure out what success and accomplishment mean for ourselves, collectively and therefore, individually.
With Cancer being opposite Capricorn in the Zodiac order, there are naturally changes in the rest of our lives when the societal structures we live within change. As our structures change, the ways we nurture and care for ourselves and our loved ones also need adjustment. In doing so, we also get to define how we nurture, care for, and protect our collective and individual interests, both privately and publicly, personally and professionally.
Sun in Cancer means that the “spotlight” is on how we “mother” the people, beings, and things that we care about or love. It brings attention to what it is we actually nurture and protect, and has us check if we are indeed truly caring for what we say we care about.
Pluto in Capricorn means that the great agent of transformation is now transforming the standards of power and influence by changing the defining benchmarks of public and private success and achievement. It is having us create a new definition not only for us collectively, but with Pluto in retrograde motion, we are also creating it anew personally as the retrograde shifts the focus of Pluto’s energy inward.
How does the “mother” energy within us show loving care for our loved ones change now that the goalposts are moving? And what is the “father” energy to strive for, or even more basically, to provide for its loved ones as these benchmarks change?
This great balancing act is brought to our attention clearly through this transit of Cancer Sun opposite Capricorn Pluto, exact at 5:05p PDT on July 1st, 2013.
In an interesting sort of way, this is a demonstration of the partnership that exists between the cosmic mother and father energies of Cancer and Capricorn. Pluto is making the institutional or “paternal” changes, and the Sun is revealing them fully so we can adapt our “maternal” energies to nurturing ourselves through the death of the old world to eventually give birth to a new world around us. And though we are admittedly still on the ‘death’ side of things where the old is still being cleared away, this transit gives us a chance to awaken and to recognize, if only for a few days, how we are cultivating the death of the old.
The Sun also awakens us enough for us to remember Pluto’s promise of transformation, helping us to maintain optimism through it all, for it is the promise of the phoenix that burns itself out only to rise again from the ashes that can help us through what are likely to be some challenging times ahead.
After all, there’s a lot of cultural and institutional change occurring right now under Pluto in Capricorn, and much of it is happening in very different ways from before. With Pluto in retrograde motion, individuals are standing up and coming together to take ownership for the changes they want to see in the world – they understand that these changes affect them on a personal level, not just in a blanket or far-removed way.
There are peaceful demonstration marches in Brazil and most newly in Egypt – both with numbers in the hundreds of thousands if not millions. There is a redefining of civil rights in the US with the overturning of California’s Proposition 8 last week in the U.S. Supreme Court. Even with the less peaceful efforts in Syria and Turkey, there are major changes occurring to those societal and governmental establishments as well. And those are just a few examples. This is a time of profound change, and frankly, a great transformation of the world we live in.
For historical reference’s sake, the last time Pluto was in Capricorn, it was the time of the French Revolution and the U.S. Revolutionary War (1762-1778). Before that, the Spanish landed in the Americas and the “Reformation” period began in Europe (1516-1533).
If we consider all of that, we can now recognize that we are in the midst of an extraordinary period of the journey of humanity, and possibly even of the Earth itself. We are living in especially historic times, and this transit of Sun in Cancer opposite Pluto Retrograde in Capricorn gives us an opportunity to recognize, realize, and personalize this experience.
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