Pluto’s First Forays Into Aquaria
The dark lord has departed the craggy wasteland of the old world trailing destruction in his wake. Since 2008 razing the mountains of what passed as power in the age of empire and exploitation, drawing the curtain all the way back on who and what ruled the globe, its tides and its people. Though his work in Capricorn is not done yet, we have seen enough of his handiwork to cultivate change from chaos and duel with the shadows he conjured.
Until June, Pluto makes his first foray into Aquarius and a new generational chime rings out. More deep sub than bell tower, Pluto's impact is occulted and works from the ground down and the inside out. The last time he descended into the water bearer's realm was an era of revolution and invention but we cannot infer the same direct impact in the age of information and tech. How Hades' clarion call to our humanity takes root is yet to be understood, cloudy forms taking shape in dark crystals that defy gnosis.
Pluto in anarchic mode is dangerous by design. Drawing rebellion from bodies frozen in fear of a police state that abuses its regimental force. Conjuring dissent from conditioning and refusal to conform. Fomenting fertile chaos that will reshape and reform power. So begins the process of unravelling the clinging tendrils of the old world from our kidneys and communities alike, tipping its fallen towers into the sea.
Pluto deals in shadows and his currency is power. A deathwalker who leads you through its merciless valleys as an initiation that earns you rebirth. We are all babes in his wild woods even as we play at order and pretend that domestication will save us from what lurks in the recesses and hidden places. A ruse that will no longer hold water nor bear weight.
Those who refuse the shadows can never claim their power. Hiding beneath its cloak and doomed to wander the wasteland of unrealised life. The next few months will likely reveal both in myriad form from the top down and deep underground. This is the good work of our next epoch, the one that has arrived to save the world from its old selves and the annihilation of what matters most. Prepare for chaos and transition. Seek its salve.
The shadow will be poked and prodded in a whole new way. This work waits for you to step towards it. Transformation becomes a non negotiable evolutionary marker. When you are ready, darklings.
Words c. Kerrie Basha 2023