A huge
mudslide has washed out the roadway on California’s scenic Highway 1, which
rises high above the Pacific coastline, amid torrential rains. Drone footage
taken by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and local news
media shows a slurry of mud, trees and shrubs washed across the hillside above
the highway, and then a huge hole in the road several dozen feet across where
the cliff below it gave way under the mudslide’s pressure. https://sptnkne.ws/Fh4k
Just as the rock that forms over great lengths of time, Capricorn and its ruler Saturn symbolize structures, conditioning patterns and realities that have crystallized to such a degree they are resistant and largely impenetrable. In astrology, an essential archetypal quality of Capricorn/Saturn is that of preservation, as well as endurance.
Pluto, the God of the underworld, relates to the principle of entropy and regeneration. Pluto brings about transformation, sometimes through a descent into the unconscious, or through the volcanic eruption of repressed psychic contents. When Pluto is active in collective or personal events, an old order dies and falls away, and a new way of life emerges from the debris. In this sense, Pluto's archetype is destructive, but sometimes, destruction is necessary for the seeding of new life.
Under Pluto-Saturn or Pluto-Uranus, personal, collective or seismic/geological shifts take place. What appeared to be solid and strong suddenly disappears.
Places where the Moon phases bring the dynamic aspects of powerful planets to the horizon or meridian axes are the ones which face the full impact of the energies of those configurations. The Full Moon of Jan.28 at BigSur has a powerful Grand Cross (Mars-Uranus-Saturn-Pluto-TNP Apollon-Vulcanus) straddling the horizon. Is it at all surprising that the hillside has suddenly collapsed?
Meditating on the Sabian symbol of the TNP Apollon in the Grand Cross is quite revealing:
PHASE 215 (SCORPIO 5°): A MASSIVE ROCKY SHORE RESISTS THE POUNDING OF
THE SEA.
KEYNOTE: The inertia
of all institutionalized procedures.
Slow is the rise of
the land from the vast ocean, but once it is formed it develops a formidable
resistance to change in spite of storms. Likewise, once a culture has expressed
its basic symbols and its particular way of thinking, feeling and acting in concrete
institutions, these change very slowly indeed.
This is the last of
the five symbols of the forty-third sequence. We see in it how binding and
resistant a communal way of life can become. In this there is strength and
stability, and these are necessary factors in the social life of man — until new horizons beckon.
“Until new horizons beckon” is the keyphrase . With the powerful energies of transformation and change symbolized by Pluto and Uranus, the time for death and destruction of all that appeared stable is here.
PS:
In a stunning display of
nature's force, officials at Yosemite National Park said Thursday (Jan.28) that
a powerful wind storm that ripped through the park last week caused 15 giant
sequoia trees to fall in Mariposa Grove, a landmark forest visited by millions
of people over the past 150 years. https://bit.ly/2MgoxDa
Another example of
natural forces ruled by Pluto bringing down ancient giant sequoia trees. The
Full Moon chart at the Mariposa Grove in
California is similar to the one shown above for BigSur.
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