Hello, everyone.
This is the second part of a series examining the current position of Pluto in Capricorn and comparing it to the time of the American Revolution, the last time Pluto was in Capricorn.
We’re not to the point of revolution yet. If we compare the actual position of Pluto now to that historical period it is related to the years 1762 to 1765. During those years Pluto was transiting back and forth from about 0 degrees Capricorn to 5 degrees Capricorn, just like it is now. When the actual Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, Pluto was at 27 degrees of Capricorn, which it will reach again in 2022.
Birthing a revolution
The years between 1762 and 1765 were called by John Adams, an American statesman, when “American independence was then and there born.” Great Britain had just concluded what American historians refer to as The French and Indian War. While Great Britain did not expect the American colonists to pay for all of the costs of the war, it did begin to require them to pay for ongoing colonial defense. It also began to enforce certain mercantile laws that were in place already but had not been enforced strictly until this time.
These laws with their additional taxes were met with great resistance in Americans who believed that monarchs could tax people only with their consent. The resistance to this tax created a loose coalition among the various colonies in the region, colonies with fundamental differences and mistrust of each other, but a common goal to resist what they deemed as unfair practices by the British government.
Civic and religious duty
During the years leading up to the Revolution there was a fervor developing for “Republicanism.” In those days, Republicanism meant that men were required to put civic duty ahead of personal desires – that people should develop “a positive passion for the public good”, in the words of John Adams. And as Thomas Payne expounded in “Common Sense”, a very popular pamphlet that circulated just before the Revolution, it was also a part of every man’s religious duty to fight tyranny. He based this on the Bible’s exposition that men are equal to each other at creation; therefore there is no distinction between kings and subjects.
Revolution today
What are the correspondences to the Pluto in Capricorn of today?
I’ll name three that I see and I hope you’ll add to the list:
- We are at the very beginning of this Pluto in Capricorn cycle. The American Revolution occurred at the end of the prior one. Already we are witnessing the stirrings of a global overthrow of governmental and business structures. The Tea Party movement is an example of a similar sentiment to the colonists prior to the Revolution.
- Coalitions of people are forming who are historically distrustful of each other, yet united in their fervor to fundamentally restructure some aspect of society. This can be seen in some of the unlikely alliances in the Republican Party today.
- The religious duty to overthrow tyranny forms the basis of some of the most important global movements in our time.
Will this be BIG?
Are you wondering whether there will be an enormous societal change with this passage of Pluto in Capricorn like there was in the last? Yes, I think so. Capricorn as a cardinal sign wants to initiate something big and concrete, and Pluto is always birthing the evolution we need to progress as a whole.
What will it be? I’m not sure yet. John Adams didn’t recognize the birth point of the revolution until many years later. And this is a feature of Pluto, whether it is operating in a birth chart, a business chart, or the times as a whole. Pluto’s transformations are so massive it takes many years before we can look at what happened and say, yes, I understand it. Right now we’re deeply immersed in the throes of its activity – like the American colonists about twelve years before declaring independence.
If you see other correspondences between those times and now, let us know in the Comments section.
For more posts on Pluto in Capricorn, see the category at the right.
#1 by Annie B on February 25th, 2010
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I’ve had recurring dreams (I mean visions-while-sleeping dreams) about some kind of revolution/disruption since I was a teenager. I don’t like it one bit, but I’ve felt for many years that this is the time period I was meant to be born into and that the tumult is part of why I was born. Scary, if you ask me.
#2 by Ellen Longo on February 25th, 2010
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Yes, scary, but it could be for the better, right? I mean there’s so much that could be changed for the better, maybe it will go in that direction instead. We can hope, right?
#3 by Annie B on February 25th, 2010
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It’s true. And if I think about the dreams, there are many in which fear becomes awe in the final moments before waking. I remember one where I was with a whole bunch of people and the stars were literally falling out of the sky, but it was so so beautiful to watch.
I guess life is always beautiful if you really look at it…
#4 by Ellen Longo on February 25th, 2010
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You reminded me of this: “The sane know contentment because beauty is their lover, and beauty is never absent from this world.” St. Theresa of Avila
#5 by Annie B on February 25th, 2010
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Awesome. I’m gonna tweet that!
#6 by Annie B on February 25th, 2010
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And I’m not being flip. Beauty is truly never absent from this world, and this is the essential faith of an artist. Thank you for that quote.
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