Pluto, Astrology, and the U.S.

I have many reasons for taking astrology seriously—more than I could conveniently list. Here I would like to say a few things about it in relation to the destiny of the United States.

Although astrology certainly is used in personal contexts, it can also be applied on a larger scale, to the fates of nations. This is called mundane astrology.

Astrological effects on larger scales are more apparent and powerful with the outer planets, which move much more slowly than the ones closer to the sun. Saturn takes 27‒29 1/2 years to orbit the sun; Uranus, 84 years; Neptune, 165 years; Pluto, 248 years. From an earthly perspective, each of these planets returns to the same spot in the zodiac after those periods.

Astrologers have paid a great deal of attention to the Pluto return of the United States. Since the founding of the U.S. dates to 1776, the Pluto return was exact around 2023 (different astrologers give different precise dates).

So the U.S. is undergoing a Pluto return.

Pluto, having to do with death and rebirth (Pluto, or Hades, is the god of death), is the wrecking ball of the planets. It destroys everything that is false—mercilessly—and often does great damage in the process.

We are seeing the effects of the Pluto return today, dismaying as they may be. Tyrannical forces have launched an assault on the Constitution, civil liberties, and the very notion of human equality on which the United States was founded.

This process is frightening, and no one—not even an astrologer—could possibly say how it will turn out.

But we can see how precisely the Pluto return applies to our nation’s fate. The United States was born in a struggle against the tyranny of the British Empire, which, having left its American colonies more or less alone for 150, began to exert an increasingly arbitrary and tyrannical control.

The result was the American Revolution, culminating in the independence of the United States.

The present struggle against tyranny—this time from domestic forces—thus recapitulates the struggle of the colonies 250 years ago.

We know the result the last time: the United States was born, with all its greatness and faults.

Conceivably, we are returning to the same struggle—but who can say the outcome will be this time?

Some may object that astronomers have demoted Pluto to dwarf planet, of which there are a number in the solar system. But it seems to me that Pluto has had a major role in human events since its discovery in 1930; this is far less certain with similar astronomical objects.

After all, the discovery of Pluto coincided closely with the discovery of nuclear fission in 1938—which has proved to be a wrecking ball like no other.