Pluto returns to Capricorn after 248 years, buckle your seat belts as we go back to the future!

February 26, 7:40 PMAtlanta Astrology ExaminerPatricia Lantz

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Astrologers look to the planetary cycles of the past to aid them in defining the future. So perhaps a look back in time will give us a clue as to what we might see happening in the world over the next several years as the we experience the present cycle of Pluto through Capricorn…a rare but tremendously important recurrent transit.

Continued from part 1

Pluto entered Capricorn in 1516 and one year later, in 1517, Luther nailed his ninety-five theses of dissent to the door of the Wittenberg Cathedral. His hammer blows excited a furor that eventually shattered the structure and unity of the Catholic Church. However, it was not until 1521, at the Diet of Worms, that Martin Luther uttered his famous defiance 'here I stand', refusing to recant his “heresy”. During the remainder of that transit period, and wth the assistance of some friendly German princes, Luther translated the Bible into German, founded a new evangelical movement and launched The Reformation, splitting the Church and reshaping the world forever. A rather amazing and influential time, you must admit.

Alright, that’s just one example. Is there a pattern? No. But what if something extraordinary happened the next time Pluto entered Capricorn? If it was as profound as The Reformation, then you could say astrologers are on to something. So, let’s see. What happened then? Pluto entered Capricorn once again almost 250 years later, 1762…and didn't exit until 1778. Anything of global significance happen then? Let’s go West to the New World and see.

Well, one little thing occurred: the end of the “Seven Years War”, or as it is also known, “The French and Indian War.” So what did that begin? For one thing, it brought about “The Treaty of Paris” in 1763 that was the official end of that bloody mess and with it: “The Proclamation Line of 1763” that set the final British expansion westward. After all, the British may have won the war, but it left the Empire in deep debt to both British and Dutch bankers. The British Empire could not afford any further Westward expansion.

What was good for the Brits, however, was met with a yelp of resistance from the American colonists who saw “the West” as an infinite expanse of lucrative “property.” How dare the British tell the Americans to stay put? On top of that, because the British Empire was now so deeply in debt, George III decided that the money to pay off this debt must fall upon the American colonists.

Soon thereafter, he and Parliament imposed The Currency Act of 1764 (making all colonial paper money illegal) and The Stamp Act of 1765. Both of these incited great fury among the colonists, enough so that for the first time delegates from each colony met to put together a form of mutual resistance against this huge, debtor empire that was squeezing them dry with heavy taxes and a huge standing army that they had to pay for.

Is this beginning to sound familiar?

As Pluto continued its journey through Capricorn, a giant recession hit the colonies, the American people went into deeper debt to the Empire, illegal acts by the colonists like smuggling became commonplace, and American colonists continued to settle further Westward.

The people came to feel that they were not adequately “represented” by their superior central government (Parliament at the time), and they began organizing in many ways to resist this oppressive government. The government’s response was more taxes and more oppression. These led to the Boston Tea Party in 1773 and The Boston Massacre of 1775, which, in turn, led to another meeting of the colonies in 1776 that eventuated in The Declaration of Independence….Thomas Jefferson’s masterpiece.

The American revolution had officially begun. One year later, in 1777, the Continental Congress crafted the Articles of Confederation, of the first U.S. national government, and soon thereafter the Articles were ratified in each colony. The United States of America was founded. Throughout 1777, the American Continental Army battled the British regulars in Princeton, Bennington, Brandywine, Saratoga, and Germantown. At the end of that year, General George Washington led a small band of his army out of its encampment at Valley Forge, crossed the ice clogged Delaware River, and successfully attacked a merenary group of Hessians in Trenton, New Jersey…a major victory.

Pluto ingressed into Aquarius in January 1778.

Yes, The United States of America was conceived, gestated and was born the last time Pluto journeyed through Capricorn. Now, as Pluto moves through Capricorn it will return to its home place in the USA horoscope (2022)...and what a mess he'll likely find...but this astrological fact reveals that for our country...in patricular...an old cycle is ending, a new is about to begin and it's likely the process has already begun.

Pluto entered Capricorn in 2008 and will not exit until 2024, What do Pluto's last two transits of Capricorn tell us? And what can we expect until then?

Suscribe below and come back for part 3: Pluto in Capricorn: What’s to come as we go into the future!