This article was first posted on the blog on June 27, 2011. This (slightly re-jigged) re-post comes as currently transiting Venus in Leo prepares to make a powerful opposition to Pluto retrograde in Aquarius at 5 degrees of the signs on June 17, 2026.
Venus in Leo will also form a sextile to Uranus in Gemini (2 degrees) on June 15, a trine to Neptune in Aries (4 degrees) on June 16, and a trine to Saturn in Aries (13 degrees) on June 25. A potent little transit for our lovely lady Venus in the sign of art, artists, style, and self-expression.
I'm always surprised when people are surprised that I'm quite Plutonically hardcore and so is my practise of astrology. It seems evident to me, but with all the Neptunian projection that goes on on the interweb, a disclaimer might be a good way to get it out of the way.
As is the case with most Plutonics/Scorpionics, I don't put up with any crap, and when people try to feed me crap (yes, I see them doing it, and yes, I know it's crap), I refuse it and dump it back in their laps. This generally leaves people miffed and/or stunned, but their crap is not my responsibility.
Some would call me bitchy. Or maybe it's witchy.
Plutonic/Scorpionic types are generally deeply intuitive and accepting of extremes, able to hold the energy of people in various emotional and psychological states - usually because they have experienced some variation of those states themselves. They don't shy away from the more difficult aspects of life, including death.
If you're dealing with a difficult situation (or a difficult life, period), if your life has just imploded, if you have a major case of the transformational yucks, or if you are just royally and righteously pissed off for some reason, someone with a good handle on this energy is the person you would want in your corner. You can tell them what's really going on for you - as long as it's honest and coming from your own experience - and they can not only deal but work with it intricately to help extricate you from the oppressiveness of it, all while empowering you and keeping you out of co-dependency.
It should be known that Plutonics don't let up easily. A dog with a bone. We're pretty close to relentless. We have to be. We're here to expose power dynamics that have been kept buried for millennia as well as the injurious, unjust, and deadly consequences of those buried power dynamics.
We're here to figure out what's poisoning and killing us so we can expose it and stop it. We're here to reach critical mass, to hit the marks that catalyze real improvement and real change, while providing such unerring, unfaltering evidence that it breaks through the mass denial that has been crystallized into insulating, deadened shrouds.
It's no easy task.
We're working with issues that people will do everything in their power to deny. People will kill (and do) to keep this stuff covered up.
Most would rather deal with a slow, unexamined, day-to-day poisoning that does not require anything of them than be faced with the raw truth of the situation - something they would then have to deal with.
Plutonics wouldn't, though. They can't. So they have to dig it out, and they're here to get all of it. Nothing half-assed will do. Any tentacle left behind will attach and re-grow.
Plutonic people can follow a thread for months, years, decades through thorny bramble bushes, over barbed wire, through mucky gutters, past armed guards, finally reaching the root and clearing away the detritus around it. In a lot of cases, as soon as they get it cleared, along comes a boot to kick mountains of earth back over it. Then the boot tries to plant itself in their faces.
But in other cases, not. In other cases, they find the spaces to move through and bring it up to the light of day. This is happening more and more. It's getting easier.
I'm not a fearmonger. I'm also not "negative," "dark," "pessimistic," "living in density/3D" or any of the other silly words used to discredit my point-of-view.
As I've said before, I don't see the world through the New Age light/dark, positive/negative filter. I believe that paradigm is an artificial one set up to keep people from their own authentic experience while denying the authentic experience of others - where the power is.
Incidentally, the denigration and demonization of "the dark" has its root in black/white racism and Aryan supremacy - something the New Age is intrinsically connected to.
From Howard Zinn's book A People's History of the United States:
"The colour black was considered distasteful in England. The Oxford English Dictionary defined it as: "Deeply stained with dirt; soiled, dirty, foul. Having dark or deadly purposes, malignant; pertaining to or involving death, deadly; baneful, disastrous, sinister. Foul, iniquitous, atrocious, horribly wicked. Indicating disgrace, censure, liability to punishment, etc."
The colour white, on the other hand, was often used, especially in poetry, to mean beauty, purity, chasteness, what's good and right."
(Black is my favourite colour.)
I'm well aware that the power and spiritual energy of righteous people is stronger than the nasty deeds and tactics being used by the criminally insane/inhumane who falsely call themselves our leaders. That has never been in question.
But I also know the ways in which people's most potent energy and awareness is being diverted, manipulated, and used for ends that are not in their best interests.
I know authoritarianism when I see it and feel it. You can dress it up, Photoshop it, call it enlightened, call it awakened - it's still authoritarianism.
So I strip the layers, bit-by-bit, as people kick and scream and fight to hold on, to stay comfortably blanketed in them.
What a Plutonic person knows is that in order for things to change this stuff has to be brought up and fully integrated into collective awareness. People have to be living as if it's real, as if it affects them, and as if the wrongs being brought down are being brought down on them - because this is the case. Decisions have to be made and courses have to be changed using this Plutonic awareness of what lies beneath, so we keep uncovering and providing it. We keep finding the cracks that we can widen.
And I guess knowing it can make people feel helpless and hopeless because we're dealing with issues that don't fit into the problem-reaction-solution model - another artificial construct. There are no easy, quick-fix answers. It can seem almost impossibly complex, complicated, tangled.
But working with this bottom-line reality is what I find meaningful. It's what I find exciting and interesting. Sometimes it's even fun. And it's what makes me a good and effective astrologer.
The soft, sleepy Neptunian clouds are maybe pretty to look at, but I do beauty, not pretty.
I know what has been brought down on the people of this planet, and I know what is still being brought down. The injustice of their injuries, poisonings, and deaths burns in me - because it is my own. This is not the ancient past. We are not "ascending" out of it. We do not simply "transcend" what has gone on and what is currently going on. The slaughters and poisonings were brought down 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 40 years ago, a century or two. It's the blink of an eye. It's yesterday. It's just the other side of the Neptunian veil dropped over the eyes of the willing. It's a single step outside the Aquarian virtual realities holding rapt attention.
I know the people who have been hurt - because they are me. These are the people whose hearts and souls are with mine. What has been brought down on them has been brought down on me and on us. That's real Pisces - not the separation and transcendence and lovey-lighty, awakey-ascendy gloss-over that's being preached and sold these days.
All this smoulders and burns until it is rectified. And until it is out in the open, understood, felt, loved, and dealt with en masse, so do I. So does anyone who feels it as their own. The Plutonics.
At this point, holding the awareness of what has gone on and what is currently going on is doing something. It's very important energetic and spiritual work on Earth. Making changes and decisions in your own life based on this reality is the way to fight back, to resist, to choose something better every day in every way. But most people are not doing so. It flits into their minds for a minute or two, maybe, and then it's onto something else.
So for all the Plutonic consciousness comrades out there:
Don't doubt yourself.
Don't ever let them reframe your lived experience into something more palatable and comfortable for them.
What you're doing, reaching the points of authenticity and honesty that you're reaching, is highly effective, and that's why it's such a threat to those who wish to maintain the establishment status-quo-as-you-go.
Rock on, Plutonics. I'll be rocking on right along side you.
