“Security!”

So let me ask you: what constitutes security for you? Do you still have it? We are coming to the end of Pluto's transit in Capricorn. It won't truly end until 2025, but this year we get the hint of the ending, as Pluto goes into Aquarius for the first time since about 1797 (not a typo). I've talked about this before but I will caution you again: do not celebrate or mourn what Pluto is doing. Acknowledge what it's doing. That's the right spirit of the thing.

People born with Pluto in a given sign feel a deficit around that sign. I've got Pluto in Libra, and I have not expected things to be fair since sometime around puberty, because they just…never were. My people have a hangup about fairness in some way, shape, or form. And hangups about relationships, because Pluto in Libra inspired a *lot* of divorces. But then it went into Scorpio, and people with Pluto in Scorpio can never get enough emotional closeness...and some of them don't want any because it's too scary. People with Pluto in Virgo cannot make things perfect no matter how much they tinker. See Pluto in a sign and understand that there will not be enough of something OR there will be so much of something that you never, ever want to see it again. There is no Goldilocks solution to Pluto. With me so far?

So it leaves Capricorn for a little bit this year (in a few days, actually) and we get the first taste of Pluto in an air sign since it was in Libra in the early 80s. We can expect too much detachment (someone's going to hawk that concept as innovative and make millions, I swear). We can expect the rise of the machines or experiencing the downside of having everything be automated and the inability to speak to a human (we can yell “REPRESENTATIVE” all we want). We can expect people making loud noises about the joys of communal living. We can expect innovation and the downside of too much or not enough change. I don't know what else we can expect because I am waiting to find out. I need to experience the vibe before I talk about it more.

The thing about Pluto is it's about where it is and where it isn't. Once it leaves Capricorn for good, we *might* be able to take steps toward trusting other people in society again. We might be able to stop screaming on airplanes, even. Just as Pluto in Cancer shattered the sense of security of home and family, Pluto in Capricorn has shattered the sense of societal institutions (and large corporations) looking out for your best interest. Not that there was strong trust to begin with. But picking up after Pluto is like rebuilding after a big-ass tornado rips through everything, so don't expect customer service jobs to suddenly get pleasant. It's more that the egregious things stop happening and you begin to work on coming back to mental/emotional health *should you choose to do that.* Some people do NOT come back from extreme situations because they choose to replay the past again and again.

But the imprint will remain on children born with Pluto in Capricorn, and they'll be working as societal reformers and people who can't get enough respect their whole lives. Pluto in a sign doesn't stop once the transit is over, as it sees the planet with a bunch of children who embody the energy. There's no one alive right now with Pluto in Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, or Gemini, for example, so those transits have truly ended, unless you go back and read the works of people with that energy, where you'll find flickers of it.

Personally, I’m curious to find out what the vibe is like, and it’ll take a while before we truly have a sense of that. I’m a little sick of the Pluto in Capricorn everything-is-slog. I’m sure I’m not alone.