{"id":3430,"date":"2006-08-26T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-26T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3430"},"modified":"2006-08-26T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-26T11:01:00","slug":"pluto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3430","title":{"rendered":"Pluto"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I remember much of the astrology that I was obsessed with as a teenager – some of it still hovers in the background of my thinking, even though I think, on the whole, it is spiritually harmful – so I’ve been watching the debates about Pluto’s status as a planet with great interest. Of course, it exposes the pseudo-science pretensions of astrology quite wonderfully, but the psychological and mythological truths which astrology explores (I’m thinking here of Liz Greene<\/a> and this book in particular<\/a>) seem to be standing up quite well. For in astrology, Pluto is the lord of the underworld<\/a>, the dark realm from whence great riches flow. And as well as the links with fascism in the 1930’s, and the expanse of state control, there is also a very vivid link with oil culture, which really took off at the same time. And which is now coming to an end – just as Pluto itself recedes back into the nether regions.<\/p>\n

So this could be a coincidence. It could be synchronicity. Or it could be a really absurd bit of evidence that there remains some resolutely non-scientific truth in astrology after all.<\/p>\n

BTW I like the cartoons at Cox and Forkum – see this one<\/a> about Pluto!<\/p>\n

BTW2 for anyone who has a serious interest in astrology, my vocation experience, which was an utterly terrifying and dreadful confrontation with both God and my id<\/a>, but which bore great gifts as well, coincided to the day with a final Pluto transit of my natal 10th house Neptune (square natal Sun\/Ascendant, opp natal Saturn). Another coincidence, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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