Pluto in a Goat-Fish Suit – We Become the Path…

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

With Mercury’s retrograde complete – with our analysis of any decisions that had been left hanging in the balance said and done – we step forward into the new energies of a new and lengthy cycle from the vantage of a new perspective of what has been.  Let it inspire you!  Today with the full moon you shall finally start to see the first fruitful glimpses of a refashioned path…

Pluto, symbolic of our divine seed-core of Knowledge, is now full-on into Capricorn, the structure that holds us upright and compels us toward an ever-higher height.  This isn’t about putting a new sheen on things or simply redecorating our lives – this is the time when skeletons are exposed and all things are remade at a structural level.  Truly, the bones of the world are being made new!

However it’s important to keep in mind that this isn’t an automatic process.  The very nature of Capricorn demands work.  To reach the heights one must climb, and climb some more, all the while navigating the precipices and crevasses, and cultivating motivation from the hope of unfolding a more expansive view; of being and becoming something greater.

It was well over a decade ago that my initiator, Al, spoke to me of this time (from 2009 to 2023) as laying the framework of the New Culture.  He told me that it would require a Great Work and “the right consciousness”, but in the end our inherent Divinity would be a common Knowledge and the deepest foundations of the world will have been remade with this truth (so that when Saturn arrives into Libra in 2023 we will be ready to plant the seeds of a greater social awareness, beauty, and peace).

But he also told me something rather curious, which I’ve written about here before.  He told me that he “wouldn’t be crossing that abyss” referring, in sweeping terms, to the period between the death of Pisces and the rebirth of Aquarius and, more specifically, to Pluto-in-Capricorn which would lead us ambitiously across the chasm of “the great center” (of the galaxy) which marked the end point of one Human epoch and the dawn of the next.  This, he said, was because his mind was steeped so heavily in the dualities and dogmas of Pisces that it couldn’t make the leap.

In the religion of his youth it had been “the Great Harvest at the end of all this” which compelled his process and commanded his Good Will.  He had spent so many years anticipating signs of “the end” that by the time he understood it was a new beginning as well, the realization was bittersweet if not unpalatable; why all the burning ambition for betterment if the event horizon was just another notch of change in the never-ending gears of life, even if a super-sized one?

This became a point of contention between us.  I beseeched him to take heart in the unstoppable march of the new (celestial) order of the Ages and thus in the same hope he taught of – the Divine inheritance within.  And that perspective was the very difference, he would assert in response.  Duality could never bridge the Abyss because it only allows for two opposite shores and a wide gap between them.

Now that we arrive at Pluto in Capricorn I can better understand.  The process of Humanity’s betterment becomes static in duality.  It gets reduced to a pair of seemingly opposing forces, and crystallized into a set of things:  The old and the new; the past and the future; the starting point and the goal…

Capricorn can become so ambitious to attain its objective that it disregards where it has come from and forgets to notice the journey along the way.  Every action seems born from a carefully measured discipline of avoiding the stick and chasing the carrot; every choice becomes a black or white option between “move-forward” and “fail”.  Capricorn is quick to discount any neutrality or tempered middle, and often seems to favor public opinion ahead of trusting in their own bones.

But Pluto, the very Lord of the Abyss, ruler of the invisible middle, will have none of it.  He is the journey; the everlasting Now we perceive as the constant of change; the Phoenix which regenerates from the ashes of itself.

As he slips on Capricorn’s Goat-Fish suit his message is a powerful one – as long as long as there is dichotomy any apparent motion “up” is illusory.  This is because extreme forces in opposition can only create mass – a hardening or stagnation called, symbolically, “the spinning of wheels”.  We “think” we are moving but until our Innermost Divine is at the reigns it is only in our mind!

Another way of saying this is that the refinement and refashioning of our innermost structures misses the mark when externally based.  The motion which brings true attainment doesn’t occur by way of limited, subjective preference maneuvering us through the never-ending barrage of life’s extremes; any motion now must take place from the deepest within.

This time around Capricorn’s mountain is ascended by crossing Pluto’s Abyss.  A bridge of mass – a thing – won’t help us.  Instead opposites must be held in neutral tension so that they become, each, as nothing; a union of something else entirely.  There can be no division; no picking and choosing sides; no avoiding or seeking.  Any discernment rendered by the twin hemispheres of mind, any suggestion born of separation from Oneness is child’s play; a condition of sleeping, as far as Pluto is concerned…  And he’s finally ready to share his knowledge so that we can awaken and rise.  The experiential reception of the middle is the bridge across!  To transcend duality we become indivisible within and place our hope and faith – consciously – in that process.

This reminds me of the often-referenced Zen Koan of the flag, which tells of two monks arguing on a windy day.  One describes the motion of the flag.  One describes the motion of the wind.  Their master corrects them by saying the only motion is in their mind.  And to that I would add, mind we can transcend.