After 16 years in Capricorn, Pluto made his grand entrance into Aquarius on January 20th, and what a splash he has made at my house. On Sunday we noticed that 2 to 3 inches of ice had formed around my furnace room when I wasn’t getting any hot water from my water heater. I suspect that Pluto will consider plumbing in my house fair game as he is now in my fourth house of home, family, and mother, and my fourth house is ruled by Neptune, which is square Saturn1. I tend to have plumbing issues when I move into a new place anyway, so this is somewhat familiar territory.
My natural inclination is to look for what lesson I’m supposed to learn from hardships, and I’m at the point now when, if I look for meaning in a pipe freezing and I have to get a second job in the winter to pay for a new water heater, I just see senselessness. I don’t believe it froze because of my pride, and I don’t believe it froze because I’m not tending my emotional garden enough. This is part of why I don’t believe in god anymore, because the hardships just don’t square with what’s going on in my life, and with the insights that I’m actually getting from my spiritual life- there is no crossover. Then if you leave Christianity and move over to astrology and carry over that same mentality, that the planets want to lovingly edify you, you’re going to be equally disenchanted, I think. I think it’s ultimately easier in the long run to believe that suffering is nothing more than in step with our planetary aspects than to anthropomorphize the planets and expect a neatly tied bow on our life after all their carefully orchestrated tests and punishments.
I am looking forward to Pluto leaving my third house for good. He helped me gain a boyfriend (yay!), but laid waste my third house- not a transformed 3rd house atom in sight.
- I use Placidus for the psychological profile of the individual (hence why my fourth house is ruled by Neptune), but Whole sign for the transits (hence why Pluto is in Aquarius, and also in my fourth house). It seems to work. ↩︎