Love Letter to the Pluto in Scorpio Generation
If you were born between 1983 and 1995: You've entered the Underworld Chat
I surfaced today to inspire my loves in the Pluto in Scorpio generation. If you were born between 1983 and 1995 there’s a hefty chance this is also your signature. Before the crux of my point, allow me to provide some background info for those who are a bit less astrologically inclined.
SCORPIO- CTHONIC WATER ENERGY
In traditional Astrology, the sign of Scorpio is ruled by Mars and it is his nocturnal sign. Through this lens, Scorpio speaks to covert (militaristic) operations and precision in the darkness. For Scorpio as fixed water modality however, I often find myself thinking of the world described by Madeline Miller’s novel Circe, describing Circe’s home in the depths of the dark sea. The halls of Poseidon. Imagine a hall of dark black stone, maybe onyx or marble polished by the crushing weight of water over eons and eons, time immemorial. All other senses annihilated, there’s nothing left to do except feel. The depth of that feeling is both creation and destruction, a feeling that brings you both love and pain as you behold the unbearable beauty of an unbound emotional truth. What grief to experience such Love! What pain to truly feel! When you are alone in your own darkness with no one to pass judgement, what is the truth you reveal only to yourself? Which secrets of yours are safe only with you, in your heart, at the bottom of the dark sea of your flesh’s existence? Now you’re in the Scorpionic space.
PLUTO- GOD OF THE UNDERWORLD
Pluto was not discovered as a planet until February 18, 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh. So there is no basis for Pluto in traditional Astrology. With the evolution into modern times, modern Astrology was born. Modern Astrologers associate the planet Pluto to the sign of Scorpio instead of Mars. While Saturn may be the Lord of Death & Darkness, Pluto rules the Underworld.
So why does Pluto make home in the deepest darkest caverns of existence? Based on my experience in studying Pluto I find governance of wealth, greed and corruption. The ugly. You have no choice but to see it. The unavoidable. You have no choice but to confront it. The gravitational. You are swept away. True Power is gravity. It’s giving black hole energy. And so who then is Mars but only a small warrior, however persistent, standing at the edge of a galaxy, the edge of existence screaming his fury into an unrelenting void. And the void cares not. The void swallows fury.
PLUTONIAN TIMES
My dearest emotional lovers, we find ourselves in grave times. We are living through the United States Pluto Return. What is an astrological “return?” When a planet returns, it means that it comes back to the place in the sky that it was in at the moment of birth. And just as a person is born, so too are nations. The most recognized and famous natal chart for the United States is the US Sibly chart- named after Ebenezer Sibly, the English physician and occult writer who is responsible for rectifying a birth chart for the United States. The chart is cast for July 4, 1776 at 5:10PM in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. According to the chart, the United States is a Cancer Sun (Conjunct Fixed Star Sirius), Sagittarius Rising and Aquarius Moon- which in and of itself could be an entire lecture, but that’s not the point here.
The point is that Pluto takes 248 years to return. It’s been 247 years since the American Revolution and the founding of America in 1776. Pluto in the US Sibly Chart is retrograde at 27 degrees of the sign Capricorn. Today at this very moment in time Pluto is present at 28 degrees of Capricorn, pinging back to the “official” birth of the United States on paper. The very moment when we solidified the type of nation we are to be. A nation born of death, destruction, blood, gore and ambition for singular control.
On May 1, 2023 Pluto began its second to last retrograde from Aquarius to Capricorn, where it would return backwards (while retrograde) to none other than the original 27 degrees of Capricorn- its place at the time of the “official” birth of the United States. In the same place, 27 degrees of Capricorn, it would then station direct on October 11, 2023. In 2024 Pluto will make its final retrograde from Aquarius back to Capricorn again for our life times (unless you plan to live another 248 years). This will be from May 2, 2024 until October 11, 2024, just before the US Presidential Election in November.
When a planet returns and retrogrades over a same position or point- it asks you to begin a new cycle. But the new cycle is dependent on the choices that you make. It’s a checkpoint to ask you if you like how things are going. Would you like to continue in the same fashion? Or begin something new? In these Plutonian times- these are the questions which are being asked of every single one of us, not only in regard to ourselves and our personal lives but in regard to our country, in regard to the United States. If there was ever a time to break a cycle and begin again, the time is now.
TRUTH TO POWER
As a native Pluto in Scorpio individual (1990) I’m proud to be amongst your cohort. In the words of Chani Nicolas, ours “is the ability to expose taboos in order to protect those who are most vulnerable. To use our emotional radar to identify the places of rot in the culture so that it may become fecund.” And boy are we rotten to our core. We as a nation are rotten, spoiling ourselves, making it impossible to birth a new vision for life. And we as a generation of Millennials are rotten to those who came before us- so entitled and trouble-making, unwilling to go silently into the night. But what those former generational critics don’t seem to grasp is that the Underworld is our terrain and ours is the duty, the right, the blessing to speak Truth to Power. Pluto in Scorpio reaches into the caverns of the chest and rips loose the heart, holding it high above in the visible position for all to see. Pluto in Scorpio says there is no choice but to stare into the ugly face of obliteration and remain defiant. Pluto in Scorpio says that is has had enough of status quo existence. It warns that it is a force to be reckoned with.
A NOTE ON CREATION, DESTRUCTION & TRANSFORMATION
A dark truth may be that there cannot be creation without destruction. To build something new where something has already existed, one must dismantle, remove, destroy that which came before. In order to transform, one must create an alternative to the previous choice. Transformation after all requires change.
In Plutonian times the change and transformation is cathartic, it is not easy.
Since when does a singular power structure yield when asked kindly? Power has a vested interest in maintaining its power. That’s the difference between Capricorn and Aquarius. Capricorn rules singularly and top down. Aquarius rules collectively from the bottom up. That’s the difference between Pluto’s opportunity to function in Capricorn and Pluto’s opportunity to function in Aquarius.
Finally we are moving into an age (Pluto in Aquarius 2024 - 2044) where collective power, collective rulership is possible on gravitational and unstoppable scale.
THE DEATH RATTLE
In my opinion, Pluto’s retrogrades back into Capricorn (May 1, 2023 and May 2, 2024) speak to the death rattle of Power as we see and know it for ourselves today. Theirs is a time which is ending.
For those who abuse Power, the only thing preventing them from facing the consequences is maintaining ultimate and unchallenged Power. This is why people often say that it is “darkest before the dawn.” Because the dawn symbolizes the transformation from dark to light. Every day the dawn heralds the death of night and calls on the sunlight to illuminate ourselves and our worlds. These times are the times just prior to collective illumination. These are the times for top down corruption and rot to die forever.
CTHONIC SUMMONS
This is a love letter to you my fellow Pluto in Scorpio Sovereigns. May you always speak, dream and act your deepest loving truths. May you remember that in any act of resistance you are never truly alone. A generation of others stands besides you in the darkest night of deepest hurt and emotion and together you summon the transformation. Remember- it’s ugly, not easy but in the end it’s unavoidable. So what are you waiting for? I am giving you permission. Transformation will happen to the sound of the gravitational pull, the pull that is the black hole of our generation- the generation of Pluto in Scorpio. Are you coming?