So I promised I’d update this week if anything spoke to me, and I just heard something: a Finger of God with Pluto as the apex and the South Node and Mercury, as it’s poised to retrograde, as the arms in quincunx. First, this suggests that if Pluto (at 3 Cap 02 retro) currently aspects something in your natal chart, you need to really pay attention: the Lord of the Underworld is pointing right at you, and he doesn’t take no for an answer, nor does he go along with that spacey thing, where we pretend we don’t notice looming change, transformation, or profound and deeply affecting endings as they present themselves.
What venues are speaking to us with Pluto’s voice? And note, even those who are not receiving an aspect to a natal placement from Pluto will be at the very least witnessing this intensive energy, this deep wave of quantum change. So Pluto is the targeted outlet for all the energies and memories we carry from the past (the South Node) and what is likely our highly over-active and agitated mental process (Mercury); this latter is an energy under stress right now and will remain so through its retrograde, direction, and its pass back out to the retrograde degree (1 Gemini), just not so dramatically or obviously, as it moves along its course.
This Finger configuration focuses Pluto’s intensity and power, its ability to re-energize and re-create, to demolish and destroy and change matter in the closest thing we have to alchemy, on the mind and the memories. Being open to what it offers may feel scary, but it’s probably the best thing we could do, considering the current tense state of our minds and all communications as the Trickster pauses and turns around. We must also note that one of the outlets for the Plutonian energy may be our relationships, as Venus is currently still within square to Pluto–and sometimes we are prone to funnel energies into those areas we feel passionate about, without looking too closely at whether these are deserving of our upset or not, and the same goes for the past–we must be clear about what is triggering our feelings, so that we’re slaying actual dragons, not charging at ghosts from our past.
Illustration, Pluto and Persephone, courtesy of Karen’s Whimsy, link at right
judecowell said:
Zeeks Julie! i was about to post on the YOD in the Full Moon in Scorpio chart and will want to link to this post if it isn’t too much YOD info for my 3 blog readers!
This is great info; thanks for focusing in Yodlike fashion on this important energy pattern. Jude
Yod’da know better than that, Jude–we all 3 (million, readers, that is!) of us love the Yod, and can’t wait to hear what you say about it!
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neithonastrology said:
I saw that YOD when I was writing my Full Moon post and passed on it . . . great job of explaining it! I am going to link your post.
thanks!!
neith
Hello, Neith, and thank you! I too saw it earlier but chose to leave it out of my weekly–so maybe the tension of Merc ready to retro made me reconsider–hmm, wonder if that will be the retro’s theme for me? Best, and many thanks, jd
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Lainie said:
Alrighty! Natal Pluto at 2 degrees Virgo – close enough? Can’t wait to see what happens next.
I know what you mean, Lainie–my natal Pluto, too, 1.5, Merc square, on my IC–so far for me it seems to be breaking to the positive–but we’ve got three weeks to go!
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hitchhiker72 said:
Thanks for this, Julie. Yikes, Pluto is exactly opposite my Venus in the 7th house. Major transformations on the horizon, I can feel it, to do with establishing my own values, in the context of the values of (workplace, institutional) power, which, these days, are all expressed through money or anxiety about money.
I cannot tolerate having everything subsumed to the (il)logic of the market any longer. It was ridiculous when times were good but now that the cracks are showing, it’s even more ridiculous! i.e. to continue to assert the value of the market when the market has no value.
Thanks for your insight.
Hi, 72, and thank you. I’m with you on the market–it’s never made sense, and yet everyone’s just noticing? I find that hard to believe–and it’s almost an insult that we’re supposed to believe that it’s related to the real value of anything, rather than what it’s really about, the emotional responses of those who play the game.
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hitchhiker72 said:
Oh, I should also add that my natal Venus is also the apex of a yod in my chart. So I now have one finger pointing one way and another pointing in the opposite direction…. I wonder if I can stay in bed till 2012…
I love that! Two fingers, which to follow? I suspect you’ll figure out a way to, if not balance the opposing (in a sense) forces, bring them to an equilibrium that allows you to draw energy from both. Good luck, and don’t retire from the human race–we need you!
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Bregje said:
Woh, well, Pluto is right at my natal sun right now (natal sun at 3 degrees Capricorn), so what could this mean to me? The only thing I can say is that I have been through a horbble time the last year (lost a close relative, my job and my relationship is over) but since the beginning of May I am starting to feel better. SO, with this Yod thing are there more good things coming up for me?
Maybe important; my natal Pluto is at nine degrees Libra (in the eighth house), so square my natal sun (orb 6 degrees, enough to cause trouble? I think so…)
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juliedemboski said:
Hi Bregje,
It sounds like whatever Pluto dug up and transformed for you in transiting your Sun is over (or at least on pause) and now you can work with the changed energy. You ask about the Yod, if it will bring good things for you–but that’s up to you. A Yod isn’t energy that’s ‘done to us,’ but a challenge to work out–and how well we adjust and respond (the quincunxes) will determine how effectively we utilize the apex energy. The tie to your chart suggests this will almost certainly be about identity, and perhaps life purpose–so good luck!
jd
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Bregje said:
Okay, Julie, thanks! There is at least one thing; I am starting to feel much and much more at ease en certain of myself. This gives me, and my connections with other people, ‘good vibrations’ and happiness.
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william said:
zzzzzzz, huh? what? who me?
oops. yeah that pluto… no freaking joke… not much he didn’t
rip up from the roots here…. nope… checking- that’s everything
yup. That’s deep. Well at least I know…
for this aries… neither is mercury any joke… neither is venus…
good lord what is going on? never mind, I know exactly.
It’s all just so difficult to believe, that always defeats me.
probably no difficulty with that issue any longer… just a little too
late however… once again considering stamp collecting as an
alternative hobby… divination not for amateurs…
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william said:
wanna see something scary?
look at the connection between
Scorpio full moon and feb 6 eclipse.
Remember the Australian fires?
nice barbeque in California started
on May 5 and lasted a few days
pretty good too.
Nah, couldn’t be a connection.
(funny how media brought up
the buffalo new york air disaster
from feb 12 again too….. nahhhh…..
how come the crop circles stopped in
Wiltshire? (cropcircleconnector site
showed them going along nicely
every couple days then they
stopped on full moon weekend…
now that is disturbing…. they need
to come back…
interesting how a tv series called
The Last Templar tv series began
around then too, and a special on
the Spanish Inquisition on PBS
Interesting full moon…
just noticing…
what next? a connection
to the August ’08 eclipses?
perhaps the mayan calendar?
yeah, Pluto on zero degrees
Virg you guessed it…
yeah, gazing into the abyss
a little too much maybe…
(or not enough…)
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juliedemboski said:
Hi william,
If you’re interested in Mayan astrology, you may want to check out this http://www.astrologyexplored.com/ Scroll down to find Beth’s series on Mayan astrology, and check out Tara’s daily Mayan oracle here http://stargates54.wordpress.com
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Sarah said:
I also have two yods, each pointing in different directions…Mercury in Cap sextile Pluto in Pisces both quincunx Persephone in Leo, and Ture Node in Cancer sextile Pluto in Virgo both quincunx Waldemath in Aquarius. One pointing up, the other down.
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