Saturn-Pluto Sextile

Saturn-Pluto Sextile — Pulse of Change

"I accept the chaos and in the following night, my soul approached me."

— C.G. Jung
The Red Book

A Saturn-Pluto sextile will complete at the end of this week, representing a deeply transformative, dramatic 'bass note' reverberating and intensifying throughout the week. The Sun — empowered by last week's Spring Equinox — activates and intensifies the Saturn-Pluto sextile. The Sun moves from a conjunction to Neptune at the beginning of the week and then conjuncts Saturn mid-week. The Sun's aspects put an intense spotlight on our individual responses to the dramatic changes initiated by the Saturn-Neptune conjunction. The Sun-Neptune conjunction this week also puts additional focus on the mutual reception factor that has been in place since the beginning of the month. Neptune (the 'esoteric' ruler of Pisces) in Aries and Mars in Pisces, ruling Aries have been in mutual reception since the ingress of Mars into Pisces on March 2nd. The Mars-Neptune mutual reception can feed an extremely fanatical zealotry when we are not laser focused on a deeply spiritual perspective. We reach the 'First Quarter' of the waxing lunar phase on Wednesday, coinciding with the Sun-Pluto sextile, encouraging us to seek entirely new solutions to very old problems. The Sun's sextile to Pluto just before the Saturn-Pluto sextile, suggests something like the opening of a 'portal' which offers opportunities for individuals to find a 'voice' in the development of the new world that has been initiated under Saturn's conjunction with Neptune. These opportunities for 'individual empowerment' will continue to expand as we move through the culmination of the current lunar cycle with the Libra Full Moon on April 1st (7:11 PM PDT 12° Libra). The Libra Full Moon may seem to produce a brief drop of our individual confidence but our individual power will remain high throughout this lunar cycle. Mercury's direct motion begins to pick up speed following the Mercury-North Node conjunction at the beginning of the week. We can begin to recognize the 'fruits' of wisdom provided by the period of reflection offered by the retrograde Mercury over the past few weeks. There is a deep wisdom that becomes available this week if we can see beyond the intense desire of Aries to be first — the drive to 'ACT' before considering all of the implications of our actions. Detachment, along with an ability to balance conflicting demands and responsibilities, will allow us to bring our individual wisdom forward. The ramifications of this week's Saturn-Pluto sextile will play out throughout the Spring and Summer. There are still many more 'puzzle pieces' that need to fall into place before we fully understand where this new environment is leading. Nonetheless, we do have a chance, this week, to have an influence on how these changes proceed. Although Mars in Pisces may seem to increase the potential 'zealotry', it is also keeping the 'water element' in force, which may be slowing down the 'fire element' of Aries. But this 'Water/Fire' interaction also suggests how the deeply nurturing, spiritual power of Pisces can feed the initiatory power of Aries. Mars will move into Aries on April 9th — followed by Mercury on April 14th — and rule the Aries New Moon on April 17th (4:51 AM PDT 27° Aries). By that time, we will see a remarkable 7 cosmic bodies in Aries (Neptune, Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Chiron, the Sun, and the Moon). There is certainly intense 'growing power' indicated by this Aries stellium, along with an extraordinary intensification of transformative change — the 'New Beginning' that is already underway. The wisdom that is offered this week offers us an important opportunity for individual participation — an opportunity to individually direct the dramatically intensifying energy towards the benefit of the 'Greater Good' using the the profound, powerful interaction between Saturn in Aries and Pluto in Aquarius.

Opportunities abound on Sunday. Energy and optimism is stirred to extraordinary levels but we'll do better to step back from the foggy inspiration and avoid making any 'snap judgements'. Detachment is called for on Monday, along with the need to balance conflicting demands and responsibilities. We can begin to recognize some important insights that can help us to separate our 'raw inspiration' from what is actually possible. We may be easily discouraged on Tuesday even if we seem to have some kind of 'lucky break'. In essence, it is especially difficult to see how obstacles can be opportunities. Even failures can provide us with opportunities for learning on Wednesday. We are being asked to look at our situation in entirely new ways. There is little compromise offered in Thursday's environment, despite a strong desire to open a dialog. The main challenges that we are facing are the strong emotional elements that aren't interested in listening. If we are able to stay focused on our long term goals and balance our inspiration with a broad perspective, we can make remarkable progress on Friday. But if we find ourselves sidetracked, the energy can take us far off course before we realize our mistakes. Saturday's atmosphere brings serious temptations to take advantage of — or 'get the jump on' — the general uncertainty and confusion connected to the dramatic changes that are underway. An extremely fanatical zealotry can surface when we are not laser focused on a deeply spiritual perspective.