At Cruising Altitude

It is that time of the year, when I dust off an old crystal ball, don a dark burgundy robe and try to make sense to what the planetary processes indicate for next year. Using the analogy of a long trip to co-create what I have loosely called the new civilization, we spent 2023 deciding whether to get on board or remain behind to defend the status quo. Even though the quandary was posed subconsciously for most people, there were plenty of opportunities to realize that something radically new was being offered.

Dane Rudhyar often remarked that, at the current stage of humanity’s evolution, Pluto is the planet calling the shots; particularly since we became conscious of its process of transformation in 1930, when it was discovered, since prior to that it worked subconsciously. In 2023, Pluto spent many months forming a powerful T-Square with the nodal axis, in other words, forming squares (thus rocking the boat) with the North Node, the symbol of future life experiences, and the South Node, which refers to past experiences, even karmic ones. Regarding the trip analogy, 2023 ended with a vessel full of co-creators taxiing towards the runway.

Prior to taking off, a plane must gather speed on the runway. On a high-altitude airport like Mexico City (2240 meters or 7350 feet), the air is so thin that it takes a considerable amount of time (and speed) to achieve the needed lift. As a result, a passenger sees the outside world speeding by in the opposite direction while being powerlessly pressed against the back of the seat. That was the analogy used for 2024, a year when we were bombarded with chaotic events, at times seeming like blurred images of reality.

Nothing really slowed down in 2025 but we symbolically took off and lost contact with the ground as we began to climb through rough patches of clouds that we now start to see beneath us. With a much lower noise coming from the engines, and the vessel somewhat leveled, we are ready for a calmer stage of the trip. Even though the journey should be reasonably smooth, we are to keep our seat-belts fastened, for periods of turbulence lie ahead, as we will see.

However, before enumerating a good number of milestones, some of which may bring turbulent events, let me give you the overall picture of what to expect in 2026, a pivotal and transformative year for humanity. Also, in the latter part of the article, I will try to give concrete examples of what we should co-create once we arrive to the new civilization, in terms of new social, political and economic paradigms.¹

The Time to Start Over

In his yearly video, José Millán called 2026 a year of starting over. Indeed, it will likely be the year when we realize that most everything is so wrong that it is simply not possible to keep patching things up. The current versions of democracy and capitalism have failed to deliver a better life for anyone but one percent of society.

A recent study by Oxfam² showed that the richest 1% worldwide own more wealth than 95% of humanity and own 43% of all global financial assets. Furthermore, more than a third of the world’s top-50 corporations, with a combined market value of more than $13 trillion dollars (US), have a billionaire either running the company or as its principal shareholder. Such inequality is being exposed as Pluto transits through the revolutionary phase of Aquarius, which we will further analyze later on.

As mentioned earlier, the current situation has been brewing for the past couple of years, ever since Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, the transpersonal planets, began to act as a team to energize a rise in consciousness in Gaia, the name often given to Earth when considered as an evolving organism. Since humanity may be considered the conscious mind of Gaia,³ it should not be surprising that such energies affect us all.

Of course, when I say that those planets “act as a team”, I am referring to the Minor Grand Trine configuration they have formed since 2023. Such a configuration appears as an isosceles triangle with a trine aspect (120°) as base and two sextiles (60°) as equal sides. The sextiles are highly productive aspects while the trines are very creative, so the configuration is “driven” by the planet with the two sextiles, its “vertex”, while the other two act in unison to provide support.

A Disappointing Perspective

The current configuration has Neptune as the vertex planet. It began with the three planets in Yin signs which act as confirmation symbols of their previous Yang signs. For example, Neptune entered Pisces in 2012 after being in Aquarius promoting global connectivity and the advent of social networks since the turn of the century. However, in Pisces, it ushered the rise of disinformation and the so-called “fake news”. Something similar could be said of the other two planets but the point is that, when they formed the Minor Grand Trine, they first needed to finish what they had started in years prior in order to collaborate on the new endeavor. In 2024, Pluto was the first planet to move to Aquarius, a sign it had sampled in 2023, but returned to Capricorn in time for Trump’s reelection as we saw in a recent article.

In 2025, with Pluto firmly installed in Aquarius until 2043, both Neptune and Uranus briefly entered the Yang signs they will occupy through 2030, while the Minor Grand Trine will be in operation. Neptune’s entrance in Aries coincided with Trump imposing tariffs on most countries, which created an economic upheaval worldwide, whereas Uranus entrance in Gemini, forming an immediate trine with Pluto, resulted in the massive inflation of what is now the “AI bubble”. The bottom line is that both Neptune and Uranus returned to their Yin signs and there is no indication that things improved at all. This is why 2026 must be a full restart.

Another Violent Start?

We had a similar Minor Grand Trine during World War II which partly explains the pervading feeling that we are dealing with a comparable set of circumstances like the rise of fascism in many corners of the world. I dedicated several paragraphs in the aforementioned previews of 2024 and 2025 to analyze the similitudes and differences between now and then. Without repeating too much, in both cases the configuration was initially formed in Yin signs before all three planets moved to the following Yang sign while keeping the Minor Grand Trine in operation.

Like now, Uranus began in Taurus, where it has shown to energize fascist thinking, before transitioning to Gemini, but Neptune and Pluto were exactly opposite their current positions. In 1939, Neptune was in Virgo and entered Libra during the war whereas it is now half a zodiac ahead, transitioning from Pisces to Aries. Meanwhile, Pluto had entered Leo a few of months before the war began just as it recently entered Aquarius, the polar opposite.

Therefore, during World War II, the order of the transpersonal planets was Uranus (Taurus to Gemini), Pluto (Cancer to Leo) and Neptune (Virgo to Libra), which implied, first, that the configuration was driven by Pluto in Leo, the planet of power in the sign of individual expression as wielded first by Adolf Hitler against Europe and later by President Truman against Hiroshima and Nagasaki.⁴

Since Uranus is the faster of the three and was bringing up the rear, its synodic cycles with the other two planets were in the waning phases, where they either consolidate or reject what was shown at their oppositions. Given that Uranus began new cycles in 1966 with Pluto and in 1993 with Neptune, it is now leading the pack and their synodic cycles are in the waxing phases of new action. Furthermore, the order within the Minor Grand Trine is Pluto (Capricorn to Aquarius), Neptune (Pisces to Aries) and Uranus (Taurus to Gemini), which is why the configuration will be driven by Neptune in Aries, a much different energy than Pluto in Leo.

Personal and Societal Effects

The transpersonal planets work at a level beyond the world of material structure symbolized by Saturn, the last planet we can see with the naked eye and which was thought to be the boundary of the solar system for millennia; until Uranus was discovered on March 13, 1781. In a natal chart, Uranus symbolizes what Carl Jung called the personal unconscious and its processes manifest in our psyche primarily as intuition. On the other hand, Neptune processes correspond to the collective unconscious which we mostly perceive as inspiration. Finally, Pluto processes operate at a level of transformation that goes beyond the individual or collective psyche. Its energy operates directly at the level of our incarnated soul, and refers to its evolutionary destiny and karmic condition.⁵

The uniqueness of 2026 is that the transpersonal and the social planets, Jupiter and Saturn, are in agreement and working together to build a new world. There will be lots of action since Mars will move very quickly from Capricorn to Virgo, forming conjunctions with all the big planets and thus triggering important events, as we will see shortly. I have a mental image of Mars acting as the archangel Michael with the flaming sword, ushering dramatic changes to the world.

It should be noted that the transpersonal processes have powerful shadow aspects. Excessive Uranian energies are manifested as rebellion and craziness; Neptunian extremes include a tendency towards victimhood, redemption and even martyrdom; and there is hardly anything more powerful than Plutonian fury and its ensuant destruction. Recall that all energies from these planets will be funneled to society by Jupiter and Saturn acting from fire signs: Leo and Aries, respectively.

A Turbulent Beginning

As mentioned earlier, the smooth riding at cruising altitude is bound to encounter zones of turbulence and I compiled a non-comprehensive list of milestones for each zone. For starters, the first new moon of the year will have a powerful stellium of six planets, four of them in Capricorn. During the lunation, Uranus will change direction in Taurus and head towards its final sign exit. Meanwhile, Neptune and Saturn will leave Pisces and begin a new zodiacal cycle in Aries.

• January 18: Six-planet stellium (new moon)
• January 26: Neptune enters Aries
• January 27: Conjunction of Mars and Pluto
• February 4: Uranus direct in Taurus
• February 14: Saturn enters Aries

Although many astrologers warn us about violence surrounding all Mars and Pluto aspects, their conjunction is more indicative of how power will be wielded at a personal level for the following two years. Some of you may remember that their cycle began in February, 2024 at Aquarius 0°46′, marking their first cycle in Aquarius since the late 18th century and many of us have felt the power of ideas personally. That said, it should be noted that the January 27 conjunction will occur in the same degree of Moon in China’s chart, making the next cycle a key one for the people of that country since Moon represents a nation’s population.

First Eclipse Season

Right after Saturn enters Aries, and before it forms the much anticipated conjunction with Neptune, the first eclipse season will begin with a partial solar eclipse. During the lunation, which will also have a lunar eclipse in early March, Venus will enter Aries and form conjunctions with Neptune and Saturn.

• February 17: Solar eclipse in Aquarius
• February 20: Conjunction of Saturn and Neptune
• March 3: Lunar eclipse in Virgo
• March 7: Conjunction of Venus and Neptune
• March 8: Conjunction of Venus and Saturn
• March 13: Conjunction of Mars and the North Node

Full Steam Ahead (Except Cryptocurrencies?)

A different story may be told in the second half of April, when Mars will activate Neptune and Saturn in Aries, the sign it rules. The conjunction of Venus and Uranus in the last degree of Taurus, shortly followed by the entrance of Uranus in Gemini, may signal a key development in the area of cryptocurrencies. The best financial advise I can give is to never take financial advise from me, but it is easy to foresee sudden jolts in that area.

• April 13: Conjunction of Mars and Neptune
• April 19: Conjunction of Mars and Saturn
• April 24: Conjunction of Venus and Uranus (cryptocurrencies)
• April 26: Uranus enters Gemini

A Powerful Trapeze (or Cradle)

As mentioned earlier, once Uranus and Neptune enter Gemini and Aries, respectively, the Minor Grand Trine they form with Pluto will finally take shape in the Yang signs they will occupy for many years. The “base” of the configuration, the trine between Pluto and Uranus, will be exact five times between July 2026 and May 2028. On the other hand, the sextile of Neptune and Uranus was already exact twice in 2025, in the Yin signs of Pisces and Taurus, but will be exact again three more times between July 2026 and June 2027.

Finally, the synodic cycle of Neptune and Pluto is quite unusual and they have been forming sextiles off and on for over eighty years, since World War II.⁶ However, all good things must come to an end and their final exact sextile will fittingly occur on a leap day: February 29, 2032! Meanwhile, it will be exact five times between July 2026 and June 2028, and afterwards seven times, including the last one.

As soon as Uranus enters Gemini, the Minor Grand Trine will empower the advancement of new paradigms. That will be felt more strongly as we get closer to July when, for a span of two weeks, all three transpersonal planets will be in the fifth degree of their respective signs, although with Neptune and Pluto moving retrograde. As we have seen, the combined angles of the two 60° sextiles in a Minor Grand Trine span 120°, which is the trine at the base. If we add another sextile, the three of them together will span 180° with the first and the last planets forming an opposition. In the past I have called such a configuration a Trapeze, for the opposition is parallel to the middle sextile, but some astrologers call it a Cradle, which it resembles when inverted.

Whatever the name, once Jupiter enters Leo, it will form an opposition with Pluto, a trine with Neptune and a sextile with Uranus, forming a Trapeze that will be exact when Jupiter is at the fifth degree of Leo and forms the opening sextile of its cycle with Uranus.

• June 19: Chiron enters Taurus
• June 30: Jupiter enters Leo
• July 4: Conjunction of Mars and Uranus
• July 7–31: Same degree Minor Grand Trine
• July 15: Sextile of Uranus and Neptune
• July 17: Trine of Uranus and Pluto
• July 18–22: Same degree Trapeze or Cradle
• July 20: Opposition of Jupiter and Pluto
• July 21: Sextile of Jupiter and Uranus
• July 24: Sextile of Neptune and Pluto

Second Eclipse Season

Prior to the second set of eclipses, the lunar nodes will change signs, which they do every eighteen months on average. The North Node in Pisces brought events related to mass migrations and record floods at a global level. Personally, we may have had opportunities to work on our spirituality and altruism but should have been aware of charlatanry. The move to Aquarius will shift the focus to sociocultural issues and, at a personal level, to the relationship with our communities. The South Node in Leo will make available what we have learned in terms of self-expression.

• July 27: Nodes enter Aquarius (North) and Leo (South)
• August 12: Solar eclipse in Leo
• August 28: Lunar eclipse in Pisces
• August 30: Trine of Jupiter and Saturn
• September 17: Chiron returns to Aries

The opening trine of the relationship cycle of Jupiter and Saturn is a key socially-creative moment that will be even more important this time, for the 2020 Great Conjunction, in the first degree of Aquarius (0°29′), was in fact a Great Mutation that began 200 years of such conjunctions occurring in air signs, after a similar period of time in earth signs.⁷ Although Jupiter and Saturn formed a same-degree trine in 2025 (never quite exact), it was in the Yin signs of Cancer and Pisces, respectively. Conversely, the trine of August 30 will be the first of three to occur with Jupiter in Leo and Saturn in Aries, both Yang (fire) signs that may reflect better the nature of the Great Mutation. The other two trines will not happen until 2027.

A Feisty Period

Right after the mid-term elections in the US, Mars will energize Jupiter, the last of the slow planets to be conjunct with the fiery planet in 2026. It will occur while Jupiter forms a conjunction with the South Node, thus forming a triple conjunction. The effects are best understood as the conjunction of Mars and Jupiter in opposition to the North Node, indicating a time of sociocultural difficulties that we will be able to meet head on, for together Mars and Jupiter bring out energies that can conquer it all—or so it will seem.

• November 12: Conjunction Jupiter and the South Node
• November 14: Conjunction Mars and the South Node
• November 16: Conjunction Mars and Jupiter

Exit Events

Amongst the milestones just mentioned, we find several sign entrances: Neptune and Saturn into Aries, Uranus into Gemini, Jupiter into Leo, and the North Node into Aquarius (South Node into Leo). There is also a three-month transit of Chiron through Taurus but its real entrance won’t occur until April 2027. Whereas we talk about events heralding a planet’s entrance into a new sign, it is worth noting that these are sign changes and there are often events marking the same planet’s exit from the old sign, which Millán calls their “goodbye power”. In many cases, the consequences of an exit event are faced once the planet is installed in the new sign.

A perfect example was Pluto’s final transition from Capricorn to Aquarius which occurred two weeks after the US presidential election promised the largest concentration of material power ever seen. Just like these issues will be addressed with Pluto in the sign of Aquarius, Neptune will make us deal with the results of our Piscean decisions from Aries. Globally, issues like disinformation, fake news, or the prevalence of false messiahs and faux spirituality in social media will be addressed head on.

Later on, before leaving Taurus, Uranus will strongly fuel fascist ideologies along with economic and technological bubbles. The massive AI data centers that exploit Earth’s resources are a perfect example of Uranus in Taurus: the planet of technology in the prototypical sign of our planet.

About Social Networks…

All of these issues and many more will be confronted by the outermost planets, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, once they form the Minor Grand Trine in their respective Yang signs of Gemini, Aries and Aquarius. As we mentioned earlier, Uranus is now leading the pack so the planets have been moving through Aquarius in their “natural” order. In a nutshell, Pluto will take away the illusory fantasies of Neptune and attempt to restore the original ideals of Uranus.

Of course, when talking about Uranus and Aquarius, technology comes to mind. Uranus moved through Aquarius from 1996 to 2003 and humanity experienced the advent of the Web so it is likely that the aforementioned “original ideals” are related to the promise of free information-sharing by communities worldwide.

Back then, Neptune was not far behind Uranus; it entered Aquarius in 1998, while Uranus was still in its sign, and didn’t leave until 2012, thus overlapping the transit of Uranus through Pisces (2003–2010), the sign ruled by Neptune. When two planets are located in each other’s signs, they are said to be in mutual reception, a situation where their energies commingle in important ways. In this case, the mutual reception of Uranus and Neptune gave us a huge sociocultural phenomenon: the social networks.

Their “Golden Age”…

Uranus in Pisces symbolizes technology for the masses while Neptune in Aquarius corresponds to technology made fashionable. Both statements talk about the rise of the smartphone as a key component for the social networks predominance in everyday communications. The introduction of the iPhone in June 2007, often considered the birth of the smartphone, falls squarely in the years of the Uranus–Neptune mutual reception.

In the meantime, Pluto entered Sagittarius in 1996 and formed three sextile aspects with Uranus in the next twelve months which empowered visions of technology-driven global integration; in fact, both planets had already formed an initial sextile when they briefly entered the signs in 1995, Pluto in Sagittarius and Uranus in Aquarius.

Their “Dark Ages”…

Pluto entered Capricorn in 2008 and gave us the global financial crisis in an effort to correct some of the earlier Sagittarian exuberance but also empowering the development of large ambitious corporations seeking to control and profit from all aspects of society. Uranus moved on to Aries in 2010 and technology raced ahead disregarding any collateral damage it was causing. Between 2012 and 2015, Pluto and Uranus, in the signs of Capricorn and Aries, respectively, formed seven squares!

According to Rudhyar, the cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn) release their energy in a straight line without a care for anything else. Indeed, a few companies got immensely rich pushing technological advances down everyone else’s throats. To make things worse, Neptune entered Pisces, its sign, in 2012 which gave rise to loads of disinformation and the so-called fake news.

And Their “Renaissance”?

Uranus entered Taurus in 2019, after a brief visit to the sign in 2018 much like it visited Gemini in 2025. We have talked about the nationalistic angle of Uranus in Taurus, which was evident in Mexico when López Obrador, a parroquial populist, was elected president. However, in terms of technology, Uranus in Taurus signals consolidation. Unlike cardinal signs, fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius) release their energy in a circle that, instead of advancing, keeps trying to improve what it already does; thus producing the most stubborn signs of the zodiac.

As we already mentioned, Pluto entered Aquarius in 2024 and will not leave the sign until 2043. While transiting an area that requires transformation, Pluto exposes in its rawest form what is really going on in there. Moreover, Pluto does not have any moral concerns, if it has to destroy something to achieve its transformative goals, so be it.

It should be clear that the current state of social networking requires a true metamorphosis if it is to achieve its “original ideals”. Moving on to Aries in January, Neptune will no longer be interested in promoting the victimhood mentality and disinformation it fueled while in Pisces. For the next couple of years, it will all be supported by the trine between Uranus in Gemini and Pluto in Aquarius.

It is hard to overstate the power of such an aspect, given the nature of the planets and the signs. A trine is highly creative and indicates easy energy-flow between the planetary processes involved. In this case, we will have the truth-seeking Uranus in the sign of information and communication exchanging energy with Pluto, the lord of transformative power. Also, by ruling Aquarius, where Pluto is located, Uranus is Pluto’s dispositor and therefore influences its manifestation.

A Market Collapse?

Prior to its final entrance into Aquarius, Pluto temporarily visited the sign in March 2023, coinciding with the release of the non-research version of ChatGPT. Since then, for better or for worse, Pluto in Aquarius has been associated with AI and many of us are expecting setbacks in its runaway growth, not unlike what we experienced in 2009 after lax lending and subprime mortgages had inflated a housing bubble, or in 2000 when the valuations of internet companies were insanely high.

Uranus in Taurus also symbolizes mining technology, whether to extract the rare-earth minerals needed to build sophisticated AI chips, or in the speculative search of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. In any case, the result is that market growth is being stimulated by an obsessive pursuit of profits that only benefit a tiny fraction of humanity.

Scarcity and Neoliberalism

At the beginning of this article, I argued that it is time to start over. We have said many times that everything created by humanity was initially an idea in the mind of one or a few persons. This is why we speak of the co-creation of a new way of living and, indeed, of a new civilization, for what we currently have has failed us. It has failed to provide happiness and well-being by elevating falsehoods to the stature of dogmas.

Society has been built on a foundation of scarcity rooted in the belief that there are simply not enough resources in the planet for all of us. Economic theories designed to manage such scarcity assume that some people must suffer because, alas, there is simply “not enough”. The result is a chase for the elements of survival in which our neighbor is viewed as a competitor for what little is available.

Nowadays, most of the western nations, and many eastern ones, have embraced neoliberalism as their economic and political philosophy. The key concept is that competitive markets are the most efficient mechanism to allocate resources—remember, they are scarce!—and driving economic growth. The market is viewed as a superior information processor and neoliberalism aims to extend market logic and competition into all areas of life. Its policies include deregulation, privatization, fiscal austerity, free trade and individual responsibility.

The role of the state is thus reduced to devise and protect a framework that ensures a smooth market operation which would imply unlimited growth and profits. This is believed despite the fact that markets are not free at all, they exist because the state institutes laws that allow their functioning and the availability of employed people who can participate in them.

An Alternative: MMT

Even though something that grows indefinitely is basically a cancer, the philosophy also excludes any reference to the people’s economic welfare, much less their happiness. Any service provided is viewed as a cost to the state whose income depends on taxing its citizenry. The state is therefore supposed to operate “within its means” as if it were a household, either raising taxes or reducing services to avoid bankruptcy. However, while this is true for a household, it is a fallacy in the macroeconomic reality of a nation for one simple reason: a nation creates the money it uses to pay its bills and, therefore, it cannot run out of money.

An alternative to neoliberalism is the modern monetary theory or MMT which instead of maximum profits seeks maximum employment and where the state is not at the service of the markets but of its citizens. I will dedicate a full article to MMT in the future but let me try to give you an idea of its main tenets.

Crucially, the state is encouraged to invest in infrastructures required for the full utilization of its available resources, starting with its people and extending to other resources. Such resources are treated as national treasures and so the people’s welfare and the proper use of all natural resources is paramount which, incidentally, implies paying close attention to climate change.

Of course, printing too much money would generate inflation so MMT uses taxation as a tool to regulate the money supply. Government bonds are not seen as debt but rather as the most secure savings and their interest rate is no longer the mechanism used to control inflation. Instead of adjusting interest rates periodically, tax rates are what the state adjusts to control the economy’s temperature.

About Democracy

It is no secret that democracies all over the world are in trouble. In a way, this is also a byproduct of the two phenomena mentioned earlier: social networks decadence and neoliberalism. The former has produced a cacophony of messages while the latter has given rise to mass schizophrenia.

People are not sure what or whom to believe but are driven to fight others who are after the same piece of pie. Power is being concentrated in those who have access to wealth and who use such power to increase their wealth. Therefore, those who are supposed to represent the many in government are incentivized to generate their own wealth and the end result is rampant corruption. Corporations looking to maximize their profits buy their way into powerful politicians and money is spent to ensure election results.

Many of these problems would simply disappear if the notion of a representative democracy was abolished, at least partially, in favor of a direct democracy where each citizen is able to vote in most bills, or at least the consequential ones. Such a system is already implemented in Switzerland where people are asked to vote in many referendums.

A transformed system of social networks could deliver an experience in which each individual would really be one voice and one vote. And there is a need for a new type of elites: people who are morally responsible.

Epilogue

Communities and nations are built around myths and humanity is in dire need of new myths. The new and metamorphosed social networks will provide a fertile ground to build such myth-founded communities that may or may not be based on a common geography.

The ethereal world of Neptune will acquire tremendous force once it installs itself firmly in Aries and will inspire new myths. In general, the next two to six years will be very creative and we may not recognize the world that will emerge on the other side.

Astrology itself must be transformed by Pluto and shed many superstitions and overall confusion it acquired while Neptune moved through Aquarius and Pisces. It is time to retake the metaphysically-sound path on which it was going in the second half of the 20th century.

Best of all, Gaia, our planet, will also evolve, heal itself and become more powerful as humanity realizes we truly are her children.

Happy New Year! I hope 2026 is a wonderful year for you, your family and your friends.

Always Love. 🌹🙏💖

Notes

1. I am reading a new (to me) book by Rudhyar, titled “Culture, Crisis and Creativity”, in which he uses the word “civilization” as a process and instead uses “societies”, or more specific “culture-wholes”, when talking about specific sociocultural groups. The historian Arnold Toynbee studied the rise and fall of such groups in his monumental 12-volume work “A Study of History”, calling them civilizations. For the time being, I will continue to talk about the new civilization. ↩︎
2. Oxfam International, founded in 1942 in Oxford, England, is a confederation of 21 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in over 90 countries to end the injustice of poverty and inequality. ↩︎
3. Two books by Rudhyar: “The Planetarization of Consciousness”, which I consider his best work, and “Beyond Individualism” contain extensive discussions about such a view of humanity. I have summarized the first part of the latter book. ↩︎
4. Recall that when a planet goes “out of bounds”, that is, exceeds the 23°26′ of maximum solar declination, it is said to be “unsupervised” and thus acting with an extreme expression of its energies. Due to the large tilt of its orbit, Pluto goes out of bounds to the North while in Leo and to the South in Aquarius. The astrologer Rosie Finn has done extensive research over thousands of years of Pluto’s orbit and concluded that when it goes out of bounds to the North, power is concentrated in vertical institutions with one or a few individuals at the top, whereas when it goes out of bounds to the South, power is spread horizontally to the masses. This is, of course, consistent with the archetypes of Leo and Aquarius, respectively. ↩︎
5. The father of evolutionary astrology, Jeffrey Wolf Green, published a seminal book “Pluto: The Evolutionary Journey of the Soul, Volume I” in 1984, which completely revolutionized the way Pluto is now studied, along with the lunar nodes, as referring to a soul’s journey through incarnations. In 1998, Jeff then published “Volume II, Pluto: The Soul’s Evolution through Relationships” before going into seclusion shortly thereafter. A third volume, “Essays in Evolutionary Astrology: The Evolutionary Journey of the Soul” was published in 2010, but it was compiled by his daughter, Deva Green, from the workshops Jeff gave over the years. ↩︎
6. My natal chart, seventy years ago, has a near perfect sextile: Pluto at Leo 28°32′ and Neptune at Libra 28°49′; a distance of 60°17′. ↩︎
7. Although there was a Great Conjunction in Libra (air) in 1980, it was deemed a transition and not a Great Mutation to a different element. The Great Conjunctions in earth signs, dating from 1842, signaled a period of time when hierarchy, physical possessions and tangible power became important since material things are supposed scarce and subject to division. In the future, air-based societies will place an emphasis on decentralization, innovation and human connections as the sharing of information and knowledge becomes paramount. ↩︎