Pluto and its largest moon Charon superimposed on Earth.
Credits: NASA
From a mundane, objective perspective, the next two years will probably be very tumultuous for the world socially and demographically, economically, politically, and even militarily. The world is rife with evidence of big disruption. Based on what has notoriously transpired in just the last several years, it is not too far a stretch of imagination to prophesy major changes that will be truly paradigm-shitting for many, if not all, of the world’s peoples. For those of us with esoteric bends, astrology presents an extraordinary tool for gaining deep insights into, and over-the-horizon expectations and understandings of, such changes. The planets and other celestial bodies are in motion all the time and, according to the metaphysical wisdom of the ancients, “As above, so below.” Indeed, there is a veridical spiritual science behind life as we know it here.
What follows is an astrological profile of one major planetary transit in the near offing. There are significant others at work too, but this one will be particularly notable.
Astrology tells us the United States is set for its “Pluto Return” during the years 2022-24. Just like individual people have their own unique birth chart, so do countries. The birth chart of a country highlights its energetic vibrations and the themes that can be expected to unfold over time.
The issue with developing a birth chart for any country is knowing what date to use for its origin. The birth chart used by many astrologers for the United States is cast using the data of July 4, 1776, at 5:10pm LMT, in Philadelphia, which reflect the alleged date and time (and place) when the Declaration of Independence was signed, our nation’s founding document. As such, they could also be construed as sourcing the birth of the key memes, drives, and values of the United States as a nation.
According to this commonly used chart, the United States will be having its “Pluto Return” from 2022-24, which means that Pluto will be returning to the exact same position in the solar system that it occupied on July 4, 1776. Because a Pluto Return takes about 247 years to occur, this will be the first one that the United States has ever experienced.
Understanding Pluto
Pluto is the planet associated with death and rebirth. It is the force that destroys in order to build anew. As the Lord of the Underworld, Pluto exposes hidden truths, dark secrets, and all shadowy stuff. It brings the dark, the hidden, and the taboo up to the surface in order for it to be dealt with and faced. But Pluto is also highly creative, in that whatever is destroyed will give rise to something new, purer, and beneficially transformative coming to the surface. Pluto rules this overall process of transformation. Dark-night-of-the-soul moments will lead into a spiritual awakening and then ultimately a rebirth. Pluto’s energy is subtle and slow-moving, but when it is through with whomever or whatever it is working its potent magic on, we feel reborn, renewed, and recreated in some way.
America’s Pluto Return
Although our nation will officially experience its Pluto Return from 2022-24, it is already feeling the effects. Pluto will bring a revolution of sorts. Whatever intention was set for the country back on July 4, 1776, it is going to be revisited. The core questions will be: What needs to change, to be transformed, and to be honored?
We will be forced to look back to see whether the original intentions set for this nation are still being upheld or if anything needs to change. Readjustments will be required in one or more ways before we can move forward in a positive way. Americans may even have to revisit some of the energies that brought about the very need for the Declaration of Independence in the first place. And, because this Pluto Return is occurring in the sign of Capricorn, the spotlight will be on government, big structures, authority figures, and essentially anyone in a position of great power. A Pluto Return in Capricorn may manifest as the crumbling of a government or any established hierarchy, and then the building of a new one. It can lead to deep and lasting changes in the way that this country will be run and governed, and the rules and structures by which its citizens choose to live.
This energy will challenge the nation to face up to its dark side and expose any corruption of its highest values, best institutions, and ideal aspirations. While a Pluto Return can expose the shadows, it is also an incredibly powerful transit that can help a country to rise up and blossom into its fullest potential. While America will complete its Pluto Return by 2024, due to this planet’s slow movement it may take until 2028 to truly see what and how the metamorphosis has taken shape. That is when Pluto officially leaves the zodiacal sign of Capricorn for good on its eternal sojourn around the solar system.
Pluto Return Predictions for America
Based on what has unfolded in other countries that have experienced their own Pluto Returns, Americans can expect to see, among the following:
- Exposure of deep corruption, betrayals, hidden deals/secret dealings, and injuries/injustices
- Major changes in laws and shifts in governmental structures
- Power struggles, even open civil conflict
- Conflicts with other countries
- Changes in national allies
- New agreements/partnerships with other countries and/or breakups in same
- Changes or even overhauls in banking, economic institutions, business & labor organizations, and education
- Emergence of unconventional leaders, and the death or deposing of existing leaders
Ultimately, a Pluto Return is a very eye-opening, transformational, dark-night-of-the-soul experience. While it is likely to stir and provoke changes that may be uncomfortable, it can pave the way to the creation of a more balanced, free, fair, open, just, and safe country for all, in many tangible ways. Our times to come will certainly tell, and likely soon.
Sadly, the historical record does not appear to support most of the Pluto Return correlations described above. Although the Ottoman Empire’s Pluto Return (years 1696-1699) brought a first major defeat for that nation at the conclusion of the Great Turkish War, and the third of the three Pluto Returns for the UK (years 1799-1802) brought the Acts of Union 1800, the UK’s other two Pluto Returns (years 1309-1312 and 1554-1557) were both relatively uneventful. So, there is some historical support for a nation’s Pluto Return correlating to conflicts with other countries and to forging new agreements with them, but no support at all that I’m aware of for any of the many other assertions made in the OP.
If there are other national Pluto Returns that do support these other assertions, it would be good to have these Returns listed and explained.
Not to say that there isn’t plenty of astrological interest affecting world events right now. Pluto’s ongoing motion through Capricorn is certainly a contributing factor to authoritarian overreach on the world stage, while the current Saturn-Uranus Square correlates well to supply-chain snarls and crypto-currency uncertainty the world over. Transiting Neptune’s multiple impacts on the US’s natal chart could certainly explain much of the nation’s mixed messaging and false starts over the last year and a half.
Thanks for the informed historical insight into what effect earlier Pluto Returns have had on other nations and empires! As we both know, there are other outer-planet astrological transits affecting the United States now that, in combination, may well have an historically unique impact upon this nation in this epoch. Of course, only time will tell the full nature, scope, and extent of the changes that will be wrought terrestrially in reflection of what’s being foreshadowed in the heavens now. Obviously, we’re living in truly transformative times, however we choose to characterize the value of the changes that are occurring.