The Personal Dimension
The Personal Dimension of the Saturn-Pluto Conjunction
I have written about the mundane-astrological dimension of this important Saturn-Pluto Alignment which last occurred in the 1980s. Now it is from 2019 to December 2021.
Most people will anyway be more interested in how this planetary configuration acts upon their personal lives, rather than what it does to politics, and the world at large.
Well, it is the quintessential motor for change, and for personal advancement. For people however who are extremely change-unfriendly it may be the advent of a ‘bad time’ to pass. This is generally so however in all of astrology when strong planets act in strong ways, and the outer planets, the slow-moving ones, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are all ‘strong planets’ in this sense. They may throw things over your head if you are stubborn and do not flexibly adapt to new circumstances.
This being said, positively-minded astrologers do interpret this conjunction as a positive change-enabling factor in personal life and relationships. It means that the structures that Saturn has built — and it tends to build them sturdily — are wiped off, swept away or at least weakened by the active energy of Pluto, which is an energy that renews, transforms, transcends and dissolves.
It dissolves boundaries. Saturn sets boundaries, Pluto tends to widen them up, and in this sense Saturn can be said to be limiting and confining, while Pluto acts by sweeping away those (mostly self-created) limitations.
Hence, I do not agree with the many negative ‘predictions’ and life-readings out there that affirm big conflict for people this year, without detailing and explaining how this works in detail and what the benefits are of change! You may adhere to those (few) folks for whom all change is a thing to fear, but then the psychiatrist may help you rather than astrology.
In other words, when we talk about Saturn-Pluto alignment, we need to talk change management, and change mentality. What is your change mentality, friendly, welcoming, embracing, or fearful, stressed, and defensive? How do you manage change generally in your life? Would you not welcome an energy of some kind that helps you to change? Which energy is that? It is the energy of Pluto or Plutonian Energy. It is an energy that fosters change on all levels, an energy that is cleaning, sweeping, helping to dissolve old structures that have become useless and even counter-productive to growth and spiritual advancement. And the planet that builds those structures that are always by character of a limiting nature is Saturn, the Saturnian Energy.
Thus, you can say that the two planets somehow have a complementary nature, for when you see their interaction positively, you discover that this combination of the two energies contains a dynamics, which I would call ‘the dynamics of change and growth.’ If you go with the flow and do not resist these strong energies on your psychic level, you will fare well for you will recognize your need for change in the first place (rather than being oblivious to it), and you will flow with that change dynamics toward new goals, new intentions, new visions for your life, new relationships … and all you need to leave behind, you can do it by not attaching yourself to the old images …
This is just one of many ideas how to profit from this alignment for all of 2020 in your personal life and relationships.
