11/01/2025
Here's how the commodification of life energy and the awakening from it map onto the major collective transits and archetypal dynamics shaping the 21st-century United States and much of the world.
1. Pluto: The Shadow of Power and the Death of False Structures
Historical context:
Pluto (transformation, power, death–rebirth) has spent the last 15 years moving through Capricorn (2008–2024) — the sign of governments, institutions, and hierarchies.
Symbolic translation:
• Capricorn represents the structure of civilization: corporations, governments, economies.
• Pluto’s passage exposed what those structures were built on — exploitation, control, and illusion of permanence.
• 2008’s financial collapse marked the beginning: the hidden rot of capitalism revealed itself.
Current phase (Pluto entering Aquarius 2024–2044):
• Aquarius symbolizes collective systems, technology, and human networks.
• Now Pluto demands we transform who controls the system itself — shifting power from the few (Capricorn) to the many (Aquarius).
• This is why surveillance, AI, and attention-economy ethics are such charged issues: humanity is wrestling with whether technology liberates or enslaves consciousness.
In essence: Pluto is forcing us to see how power and profit have colonized life — so that we can reclaim it.
2. Neptune: The Illusion of Freedom and the Collective Dream
Neptune in Pisces (2011–2026):
• Neptune rules illusion, spirituality, compassion, and deception.
• In Pisces, it dissolves boundaries between truth and fantasy.
• It’s both the golden age of spirituality and the golden age of misinformation.
This transit has allowed mass awakening and mass confusion — the same energy that inspires empathy also fuels escapism, propaganda, and disillusionment.
It asks: what is truly sacred, and what is a glamour designed to sedate the soul?
3. Uranus: Revolution of Value
Uranus in Ta**us (2018–2026):
• Uranus brings disruption; Ta**us rules material stability, money, and the body.
• This is the digital-currency revolution, the work-from-home revolution, and the eco-awakening rolled into one.
It’s shaking the foundation of what we call “value.”
Where Pluto revealed corruption, Uranus electrifies innovation — teaching humanity to create new forms of exchange rooted in sustainability, autonomy, and authenticity rather than endless extraction.
4. Saturn: The Pressure to Mature
Saturn in Pisces (2023–2026):
• Saturn represents accountability; Pisces is boundlessness.
• This phase tests whether compassion can coexist with boundaries — whether spiritual ideals can take real-world form.
• It exposes false gurus, performative wellness, and escapism, calling us to embody spirituality through tangible service, not illusion.
This is the maturation of consciousness — the bridge between dream (Neptune) and reality (Saturn).
5. The U.S. Pluto Return (2022–2025): A Nation’s Shadow Work
For the first time since 1776, Pluto returned to the same degree it occupied at America’s founding.
This is the symbolic death and rebirth of the national soul.
• Every empire faces this when its foundational power structures reach moral bankruptcy.
• For the U.S., it’s the reckoning with slavery’s legacy, economic exploitation, and global militarism.
• The “insidious” feeling many describe is the psychic experience of collective shadow work — seeing what was buried come to light.
What’s collapsing is the myth that endless growth equals freedom. What’s being born is a redefinition of power as stewardship, not dominance.
