Toward an American Revolution
Dear Friend and Reader:
We can count everything happening now as the Pluto return of the United States. Though it technically starts in 2022 and extends a few years, we are presently in the vortex of this once per 248 years event. Current circumstances are, due to the rarity of this aspect, much more meaningful and influential than they may seem, especially in an era where everything is considered irrelevant.
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Detail of the chart for the Saturn-Pluto conjunction on Jan. 12, 2020. All the Capricorn stuff is right on top: the event takes place at 33 seconds to noon Eastern time. Notice that Jupiter is also in the picture, in early Capricorn. The Jupiter-Saturn conjunction takes place after the election, on the winter solstice of 2020.
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There are three main elements to the U.S. Pluto return. One is the Saturn-Pluto conjunction of Jan. 12, 2020. I described this cycle in a few paragraphs in the most recent Monday Morning edition (third section).
In order to understand what is happening now — assuming you want to — this is essential reading. I have a couple of other pieces on the Pluto return that I will add in the P.S., below my signature.
The first element is the alignment on Jan. 12: Saturn and Pluto are joined by Mercury, the Sun and Ceres, all within about two degrees. That is how 2020 starts off. The second element is that this whole pattern forms a square to Eris in Aries.
Eris is not always as simple as discord (her Roman name was Discordia, patron saint of sci-fi author Robert Anton Wilson). In my 2007 monograph about Eris, I talked about the problem of personality fragmentation due to over-involvement with the internet. I’ll come back to that in a moment.
The Pluto-Eris Square
The third element, related to the second, is that Pluto-Eris square lasts for years, and is directly involved in the United States Pluto return: Eris will square the U.S. Pluto, and Pluto will conjunct its natal position. The position of the U.S. Pluto is that at the outset of the American revolution. So by current transits, the revolution that began in 1776 is being activated like it never has before — not even close.
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Fractal by Barbara Lane.
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The current discord of Eris involves living in a world where there is an epidemic of disembodiment. We are haunting the planet like ghosts in the machine, rather than fully inhabiting our bodies, our lives, our relationships, our work, or even our buildings. You can read more on this in my invisible environments article; I won’t go on about it here for too long, except to say that it’s a problem, and one that we can solve if we want.
Disembodied people tend toward violence. They also tend to be horny and don’t know how to connect with others, or trust them enough to do so. Disembodiment is the essence of the isolation we are feeling here in the digital age. The sexual desperation of our times smells like shorted-out electrical wiring getting hotter and about to burst into flames. Sexual desperation is so pervasive as to be environmental. Like any environmental toxin, it is ubiquitous.
Conclusion
There’s the real revolution: the mantra, “It’s not about them, it’s about me. It’s not about her, it’s about me. It’s not about him, it’s about me.” By that I mean your fears, your insecurities, your needs, your concerns, your untrusting thoughts, your jealousy, your fear, whatever. The people you can discuss this with will be potential friends and partners in healing as we wade into the future, or as it crashes over us like a wave.
With love and trust,
P.S. As promised, here is some of my previous work on the U.S. Pluto return:
The Singularity Point (Aug. 4, 2019) — Focusing on the approaching Saturn-Pluto conjunction, and the Saturn-Pluto cycle in general, in light of recent events.