About Pluto :

Planets are in constant movement, some faster and others slower. As they circulate through the sky, they enter and leave the signs and make angles with other planets.

Since November 1995, Pluto has been transiting the sign o Sagittarius, and will remain in this sign until January 25, 2008, when it will enter the sign of Capricorn. Pluto will go back to Sagittarius on June 14, 2008, but will return to Capricorn on November 26, 2008 where it will remain for 14 years.

Pluto is a generational planet, because its movement is slow and influences the whole generation that is born during the period of time it moves through each sign.

Pluto is associated with death, transformation and rebirth. In astrology, death is not limited to physical death, but to all kinds of deaths we experience in our journey on earth.

We consider death as the end of a cycle followed by a process of rebirth that leads to different directions and new goals. Pluto forces us to engage in this process through lost and destruction, which is necessary to impel us to change and evolve.

Pluto in the sign of Sagittarius has been transforming issues related to education, travel, religion, beliefs, law, politics and international matters.

Pluto also brings to the surface what has been hidden in the underground, in the realms of our sub-consciousness. The secrets, the scandals and the filthiness of our society are all unveiled. Terrorism and travel are key words for Pluto in Sagittarius.

Pluto in Sagittarius is responsible for many changes in the way we deal with religion. The Catholic Church surprised all of us with scandals and revelations about priests, showing how incoherent that religion system is. It was very sad, because what was sacred for us became doubtful and questionable.

Our faith evolved to a higher level of consciousness where we find God within ourselves, not somewhere outside. We are realizing that our negative thoughts are the cause of our illness and diseases and not a punishment sent from a cruel and unmerciful God. Some of us are already discovering that we are able to heal ourselves and create the reality we wish, with faith and attunement, with our growing process as long as we learn our lessons.

With Pluto in Capricorn there will be a transformation in our spirituality. But for that to happen, the old has to die in order for the new to be born. We will live through the end of religion organized in hierarchy, subservient to dogmas or judgment. We will see the return of a true spirituality based on direct contact of man and God with no intermediaries.

Humanity will be able to develop one global religion based on the humanitarian principles of Aquarius Era, and not on principles of fear, judgment and prejudice.

Capricorn is the sign of the goat, climbing a mountain, following an objective without blinking, without paying attention to what is happening around. The important is to reach a goal while climbing.

It is the 10th sign of astrology, and the planet ruling is Saturn. Saturn rules over politics, government and higher positions of command, like work and laws. It is related to responsibility, perseverance, prudence and sense of duty, which are qualities essential if you want to make it to the top of the mountain. The downside of Capricorn is coldness, resentment, isolation, rigor, discrimination and prejudice.

We know little about the real effects Pluto will have while in Capricorn, since this planet takes 247 years to go back to a sign. We would need to go back in History to comprehend its effects on mankind, and even so it wouldn’t be the same, since other planets were in different signs. Astrology examines the whole and not isolated facts. We can only guess what effects there could be. Both the positive and negative sides will be manifested.

Possibly we will see most significant changes in religion, since the process has already started while Pluto was in Sagittarius. We may arrive at the end of the divide of mankind because of religion. Divide, which has triggered terrorist acts, based on the ideology that “My God is the only fair God and your God is wrong” We will live through the disappearing of hierarchical authority and we will take on responsibility for our lives.

Paternalism will be replaced by individual choices independent of sex. There will be a new order for humanity. Politics will evolve to establish a more humanitarian approach.
Capricorn represents ancestors, the old and mature.

We may live through the highest rate of mortality of people over 60. There will be changes related to health insurance, retirement, and protection to the elders.

Pluto will question all traditional values of Capricorn, will swipe the garbage of hypocrisy, will restructure working laws and create new job opportunities.

Speaking about jobs, it will be 15 years of hard working focusing on the serious things of life. When Pluto ends its passage through Capricorn in 2023 and enters the humanitarian Aquarius, possibly we will see a much better world, an universal consciousness, equality, fraternity to bridge the journey towards the spiritual sign of Pisces, manifesting unconditional love between all living people on earth independent of color, religion, or political party.

Pluto is not a planet anymore.

It is official now: science books can be altered. Pluto was downgraded, and the number of planets on the solar system is again 8. Pluto, the one that was known for seven decades as the 9th and most distant planet orbiting around the Sun, now is only a minor planet.

This is the end of a story that mobilized the astronomical community during the 26th general assembly of the International Astronomic Union, in Prague, Czech Republic. The first proposal made by a committee wasn’t approved. The idea that Pluto continued to be a planet, and others as well, like Caronte, Ceres and Xena or 2003 UB313, had no support of most members.

The main question was not about Pluto’s mass, which is less than the moon, but its orbit. Pluto needed to be dominant in its orbit, but it moves along with Neptune, which is 20 times bigger.

The decision of more than 2,000 members of IAU, in the meeting in Prague, was announced in August 2006 and establishes three categories of importance in the Solar System: Planets (from Mercury to Neptune), minor planets (round bodies that are not dominant in its trajectory or they are not satellites) and smaller bodies (any other that have orbits around the Sun.)

“Pluto is dead. Finally and officially there is 8 planets on our Solar System,” said North American Mike Brown, from California Institute of Technology in a press conference. “And we will have many hundreds of minor planets.” One of which Xena discovered by him in 2005 which helped raise the issue regarding what is really a planet.

Discovered in 1930 by North American Clyde Tombaugh (1906-1997) in Lowell observatory in Arizona, Pluto was soon after considered a planet. Initial observations considered it much bigger than its real size. New discoveries, especially the ones unveiled last decade about transneptunian bodies with similar characteristics, led the scientists to conclude that Pluto should never had been called a planet.

Nasa launched New Horizon spacecraft in a voyage to Pluto last year. Expectations are the spacecraft will reach its destiny in 2015.

The individual who has an aligned soul is conscious of his immortality and knows that the reincarnation process is continuous in life. The integration of “Pluto’s process” is a gift that should be welcome to our lives. In any circumstance Pluto is part of the Solar System and we can’t avoid its intense and powerful influence.

All of us have somehow been witness or been affected by the most negative energies of Pluto. But remember Pluto also has among its secrets, and it has many, the power to transform whatever is considered dead, final or lost. Regeneration and renovation are among the greatest gifts of death, both in a cosmic level as well as in a human level.

Readers should be wondering: “ How does this new category fit in relation to astrology?”
The answer is: downgrading Pluto to a minor planet will have no impact in astrology. Most astrologers will continue to use Pluto as they always used, as a celestial body that trigger necessary transformations in our lives.

The fact that Pluto represents death, regeneration and rebirth already answers the question.
However, only time will tell in which ways Pluto will regenerate in this universe of multiple possibilities.

Read how Pluto will influence your sign. Also read your ascending sign.