Pluto in Aquarius - When the Center Cannot Hold

by Shawn Nygaard

Humanity currently stands at one of the most significant transformational turning points in its long history. With climate change and the accompanying extreme temperatures and weather conditions; economies rising and falling across the globe on a dime; divisive governmental stalemates and the rise of authoritarian rule in many countries; culture seemingly eroding, with the arts and artists as we knew and experienced them being eclipsed by “content” and influencers; and the power of social media constantly reduced to incessant arguing and conflict with no seeming resolution, the impulse toward a new way of living on Earth seems to ripple under the surface of each path pointing toward the future.

In 2022, the third year of a global pandemic, this certainly seems true. However, one of the most common phrases repeated in 2022 refers to “getting back to normal.” But to get back to normal is to fail the art of transformation.

Pluto — the planet signifying transformation — moved into the sign of Capricorn in 2008. On March 23, 2023, Pluto moves into Aquarius, where it will stay until it enters Pisces on March 8, 2043.

While the reality of what Pluto in Aquarius will look like remains to be seen, intimations of its ingress currently percolate in our collective and personal lives via Saturn’s presence in Aquarius. Considering that Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all made their way through Aquarius during the 1990s and early 2000s into 2012, Pluto’s entrance into Aquarius is like the long third act of a drama that began decades (if not centuries) ago. This article explores some of the archetypal dynamics we might expect to experience in the coming years.

All Kinds of People in This World

Pluto orbits in 248-year cycles, making any sign ingress a once-in-a-lifetime event in that sign. The shape of its orbit is such that Pluto spends around 34 years in the sign of Taurus, yet only 13 years in the opposite sign, Scorpio. Similarly, Pluto spends around 31 years in Aries, yet only 13 years in the opposite sign, Libra. The effect of this is that right now the planet Earth is populated with the maximum range of Pluto “generations,” spanning Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, and soon to be Aquarius. We have people born with the most variety of Pluto signs, creating complicated dynamics at the deepest levels of the collective psyche. In this context, I hear Nobel laureate Toni Morrison saying,

The destiny of the twenty-first century will be shaped by the possibility or the collapse of a shareable world.

Pluto in Aquarius represents a make-it-or-break-it moment toward that destiny.

Revolutions

Looking back, in 1543, while Pluto moved through the sign of Aquarius, Nicolaus Copernicus published De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the revolutions of the celestial spheres), announcing his astronomical discovery that the Sun does not, in fact, revolve around the Earth (as it had always seemed to do), but rather, the Earth revolves around the Sun. Today, we take this ordinary, common fact for granted. In 1543, however, this was rather extraordinary! The Sun at the center! The center was not as it had been imagined, resulting in a radical paradigm shift launching the Scientific Revolution.

Living at the Edge of the World: Views of Aquarius

Together, the signs Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces represent the watery part of the sky: Capricorn the mer-goat, Aquarius the water-carrier, and Pisces the fish. They also move us through the winter season in the Northern hemisphere, beginning with Capricorn initiating the winter solstice, the deepest, darkest, longest night of the year, following the Sun’s long descent to its lowest point. The move then is upward, like waking from a deep, hibernating sleep. Light returns, slowly but surely, refreshed. New life begins to form and move toward its emergence in spring. This climb upward can be hard work, difficult, and taxing. As Virgil reminds us in The Aeneid,

… to climb back to the upper air — there the struggle, there the labor lies. (2)

Typically, Aquarius is seen as the penultimate sign of the zodiac, just before Pisces and the imminent renewal of the cycle that begins with Aries at the spring equinox. However, if we begin from the perspective of the winter solstice — as they did in ancient Mesopotamia — Aquarius is the second sign, following Capricorn. We begin to understand Aquarius as a complex sign, on the one hand, representing the almost-end of a cycle of life, part of a dissolution process that ends in Pisces; and, on the other hand, representing the beginnings of new life aimed to emerge in the spring. The old and the new mix.

Aquarius can also be viewed in terms of its opposite sign, Leo. Where Leo is a Sun-ruled sign, Aquarius is ruled by Saturn. Where the Sun represents the center around which solar systems form, Saturn represents a profound limit, an outer edge. Until the discovery of Uranus in 1781, Saturn was the edge, its orbit representing the outer limits of the solar system. Thus, where Leo brings us into relationship with the center of things — like a king or queen at the center of their kingdom — Aquarius moves us away from the center, among the people, the citizens of the kingdom, and beyond. It moves us outward to the periphery, the fringes, the margins, all things ex-centric. When planets move through Aquarius, the focus turns to the edges.

When Neptune moved through Leo in the 1920s, the Golden Age of Hollywood lit up the silver screen with movies centered around their celebrities, their stars. The power of celebrity deepened when Pluto moved through Leo.

In the world so far, I’m the greatest star!

sang Barbra Streisand, born with Pluto in Leo, in Funny Girl. The outer planets Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto all moved through Leo during much of the 20th century, as did Saturn. As these same planets began moving through Aquarius in the last part of the century and into the 21st, the big screen became increasingly small, and the movie screens filled with celebrated stars gave way to television screens broadcasting “reality television” with its “reality stars,” where pretty much anyone can be a “star.”

Zeitgeist: This Is the Hour of Lead

Pluto’s shift from Capricorn into Aquarius is a massive archetypal shift that may or may not be felt immediately. In his book Re-Visioning Psychology, depth psychologist James Hillman described archetypes this way:

Let us … imagine archetypes as the deepest patterns of psychic functioning, the roots of the soul governing the perspectives we have of ourselves and the world. (3)

Pluto works in the invisible depths, the depths of the psyche, the roots of the soul, whether that is the soul of a person or a culture. Archetypes reveal themselves in persistent images and through the imagination that shows up in a person’s life or throughout a culture. As we near Pluto’s shift from Capricorn into Aquarius, what do we see in the zeitgeist, the spirit of the times, which speaks to the archetypal nature of Capricorn? The following list begins to answer that question:

• On January 20, 2021, Joe Biden became the oldest sitting president of the United States at age 78. (4)
• On April 23, 2021, at age 80, Sir Tom Jones released his 41st album, Surrounded by Time, which debuted at #1 in the UK, making Jones the oldest male singer to earn a #1 album in that country. The album features the song “I’m Growing Old.” (5)
• On April 25, 2021, at the 94th Academy Awards, Sir Anthony Hopkins, at age 83, became the oldest actor to win Best Actor for his role in The Father (note the title). (6)
• At that same ceremony, the Best Picture was awarded to Nomadland, a movie depicting older Americans who, in the wake of the economic recession from 2007 to 2009 (Pluto entered Capricorn in 2008), began traveling around the country in search of seasonal work. (7)
• On July 19, 2021, director M. Night Shyamalan released his 14th film, simply called Old. (8)
• On September 26, 2021, at the 74th annual Tony Awards, Lois Smith became the oldest person to win a Tony Award for acting when she was awarded Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play, at age 90, for her role in The Inheritance. (9)
• On October 13, 2021, also at the age of 90, William Shatner became the oldest person to fly into space. (10)
• One June 3, 2022, the New York Times published an article entitled, “Why Are We Still Governed by Baby Boomers and the Remarkably Old?” (11)
• On June 16, 2022, a television show called The Old Man premiered in the US to positive reviews. (12)

The theme clearly emerges. Woven throughout the culture we see the Old Man, old age, the Father figure, the Senex. We are, like Tom Jones, surrounded by time, which is to say we are surrounded by Saturn, the ruler of Capricorn. Saturn rules over aging, mortality, time, and the limits of our human lives. Saturn represents the governmental structures that hold society together. Saturn governs what we typically think of as cold, hard reality — “real” reality.

If we go back to Hillman’s understanding of archetypes as “the roots of the soul governing the perspectives we have of ourselves and the world,” and we hear again the question posed in the New York Times (“Why Are We Still Governed by … the Remarkably Old?”), we now hear an archetypal question. We can begin to see how profoundly domineering Saturn’s rule is over our ways of life as a culture. He is currently the authoritarian governing our perspectives.

Continuing this theme and going deeper into the Saturnian nature of Capricorn and its hold throughout the globe, on February 23, 2021, Shanna Swan, PhD, published her book Count Down: How Our Modern World is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race. (13) In an altogether astonishing article about the book entitled, “Plummeting sperm counts, shrinking penises: toxic chemicals threaten humanity,” published in The Guardian on May 18, 2021, consumer advocate and environmental activist Erin Brockovich wrote,

The end of humankind? It may be coming sooner than we think, thanks to hormone-disrupting chemicals that are decimating fertility at an alarming rate around the globe. A new book called Count Down, by Shanna Swan … finds that sperm counts have dropped almost 60% since 1973. Following the trajectory we are on, Swan’s research suggests sperm counts could reach zero by 2045. Zero. Let that sink in. That would mean no babies. No reproduction. No more humans. (14)

The science sounds staggeringly bleak, hard to believe! It almost sounds as if it’s out of a fairy tale: a king and queen, in their castle, unable to conceive a child. We shall keep this in mind as we continue.

Saturn shows himself yet again as a significant figure looming in the backdrop of our culture via the presence of walls and prisons:

• One prominent wall, of course, is the wall begun in 2017 by then-president Donald Trump, between the southern border of the US and Mexico. (15)
• At the Tony Awards on June 9, 2019, Hadestown won the award for Best Musical. The show, ten years in the making and unrelated to Trump’s wall, ends Act One with the remarkable and stunning song, “Why We Build the Wall.” Sings Hades (Pluto’s Greek counterpart), “We build the wall to keep us free.” (16)
• Earlier, on January 14, 2016, the television show Colony presented aliens arriving to colonize Earth, erecting enormous, epic steel walls around most major cities across the planet. (17)
• A wall featured prominently in the global television phenomenon Game of Thrones — another massive wall, this one built between the living and the dead. (18)
• In her Netflix documentary 13th, released on September 30, 2016, Ava DuVernay includes a chart showing the US prison population numbers from 1970 (357,292) to the present (around 2.5 million). The chart shows the numbers begin to skyrocket around 2008 (when Pluto first entered Capricorn). (19)
• The 2013 television show Rectify depicts the life of a man released from prison after 19 years, exonerated of his sentence in light of new evidence. The change from life on death row in a tiny concrete prison cell to the wide, open world brings him to the eye doctor, who diagnoses him with near-work myopia. His eyes were locked into near-focus from “lack of use at longer distances.” (20)
• Psychologically, Saturn rules over depression, one of the most common symptoms presented in Western culture. The antidepressant market in the US in 2020 grew to almost $15 billion. (21)

All of these pieces put together seem to constellate in a much larger image not unlike Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I engraving, (22) in which the contemplative, winged figure of Melancholy sits staring into space, with her chin in one palm, wings closed behind her (she is going nowhere anytime soon), having reached a limit, unable to go any further until she has given her situation much thought and consideration. It is as if she has, like our culture, hit a massive wall, an archetypal limit. We have reached a profound stopping point.

As Pluto moves through the final degrees of Saturn-ruled Capricorn, to use a phrase from Emily Dickinson, this is the Hour of Lead. (23) Again, we meet Saturn, the ruler of lead. Along with the Old Man, it is again as if out of a fairy tale: the king has gotten old, dried up, wrinkled, desiccated, needing the Water of Life for renewal and revivification.

A Return to the Spirit of the Depths

One day the owner of a goldfish discovered it was time to clean the fishbowl. He filled the bathtub and quickly and carefully transferred the fish from its bowl into the tub. Seeing the tiny fish swimming in the huge tub, the owner then proceeded to clean the fishbowl and fill it with fresh water. Going back to the tub, he noticed the fish swimming around and around in circles the same size as the fishbowl. Given that the tub of water was like an ocean compared to the size and scope of the fishbowl, the fish preferred the habit of its familiar territory with its accustomed boundaries. It is the same with Saturn. When Saturn dominates, he leaves these kinds of habitual patterns in his wake, these “same old, same old” ways of living and perceiving and thinking we often call “normal.” In the case of Western culture, the “same old” (emphasis on the “old”) now wins elections and awards and tops best-seller charts. Surrounded by time, we get caught and confined in the spirit of the times.

In stark contrast to Saturn, Pluto is the lord of the Underworld, ruling over the invisible depths of our lives and the world around us. Forever invisible to the world above, never to be seen, resigned to inner life, psychic life, image, ever-present. While all planets can be envisioned psychologically, Pluto most represents pure, invisible, psychological life. There is a reason we have a depth psychology and no height or width or length psychology. The direction for the psyche, and the direction for Pluto, is down, down, down, into the Underworld. Pluto is a planet of depth. When Pluto becomes confined to the spirit of the times, power dynamics ensue. A caterpillar enters the cocoon and emerges from the experience as a butterfly. When Pluto opens to the spirit of the depths, to the archetypal realm, real transformation can begin. Real change is archetypal change, at the archetypal level.

The French Revolution – Liberté, égalité, fraternité (24)

Pluto moved through Aquarius from April 1777 to December 1798, a remarkable period of history that included the French Revolution. For the purposes of this article and exploring the themes of Pluto in Aquarius, the French Revolution provides rich material.

The seeds of the revolution were sown throughout a large part of the 18th century during the historical period known as the Enlightenment, or the Age of Reason, a period that has its own roots in the Scientific Revolution (from Pluto’s previous time in Aquarius). The Enlightenment saw the emergence of a plethora of new ideas, philosophies, and fresh possibilities for how human beings can thrive in society and live happy lives. The Enlightenment privileged the pursuit of knowledge (evidenced by the birth of the encyclopedia, an exhaustive collection of all knowledge at the time) and what we would today call evidence-based learning. Sun-lit clarity and observation was valued over the moon-lit mysteries found in the shadows (depth psychology would emerge less than two centuries later to revisit those missing shadows). Paintings during the Enlightenment were realistic portraits aimed at depicting the external world with accuracy and precision based on careful observation. With its focus on reason and rational thought, the Enlightenment began to seriously question the role of religion and the church in society, ultimately aiming to separate church and state and promote ideas of social progress, liberty, tolerance, and equality. Decades of open discussion and debate on these topics, along with the resulting tensions, fomented the air for radical social change, turning ideas into ideals, and ideals into reality. On May 5, 1789, revolution broke out in France, with Pluto at 19° Aquarius.

By all accounts, the French Revolution is one of the most fascinating, intricate, and tumultuous periods of history, forever changing France, Europe, and Western culture altogether. As revolutions tend to be, it was also messy and full of unforeseen complications. For our purposes, what archetypal dynamics can we see within the French Revolution that help us understand Pluto in Aquarius?

From the very beginning, the French Revolution was a social revolution,” notes scholar Suzanne M. Desan, PhD. “The revolutionaries wanted to remake society from the ground up in the name of equality.

Before the revolution, French society was structured on a centuries-old tradition of hierarchy based on inheritance and privilege. Inequality was built into the system — for centuries. Atop the hierarchy was the king, the centerpiece of the kingdom, sitting on his throne, holding absolute power invested in him by God, monarch (“one who rules alone”) by divine design, shining like the Sun. Underneath the king was the aristocracy, the nobility, living in luxury, receiving special status before the law, paying very few taxes or no taxes at all, and making up 1% of the population. Parallel to the aristocracy were the clergy, also making up 1% of the population. Underneath the aristocracy and the clergy were the common people, mostly peasants living in poverty and paying more taxes than anyone else, making up 98% of society.

Decades of Enlightenment ideals began to merge with centuries of traditional ways of life under the hierarchical structures of power, profoundly challenging the entire system. Dr. Desan poses perhaps the most significant question to be asked at such a moment in history, a question most pertinent to Pluto’s time in Aquarius:

How do you wrench the modern out of the old?

Iconic in the early days of the revolution was the Storming of the Bastille, the enormous fortress prison built in the 1300s by the French monarchy to hold its enemies. Over the centuries, the Bastille became a symbol of the injustice of the absolute power of the king and his monarchy. Any threat to the king’s power — be it a person or even a book — could simply be thrown into the murky prison filled with bones and rats. On July 14, 1789, with the threat of hunger looming, desperate citizens — already living in poverty — stormed the Bastille, instantly transforming a symbol of tyranny into a symbol of liberty and citizen sovereignty.

The revolution proceeded to grow and upend society. In a stunning move, on August 4, 1789, the nobility surrendered their privilege, followed on August 26 by the creation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, the first attempt at writing a constitution for France, advocating for every citizen’s right to “liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.” The revolution grew unwieldy, unstable, and uncertain, eventually yielding to the Terror in 1793–94, with its infamous guillotine. During this time, the role of king came to an end once and for all with Louis XVI, the last King of France, unable to manage the revolution. The symbolic and political center could not hold everything together. The King was executed at the guillotine on January 21, 1793. Over the course of the first five years of the revolution, French society and its long, traditional history were pulled up by the archetypal roots.

“Once upon a Time” Time

As pointed out earlier in this article, certain dynamics — the presence of the Old Man, for example, and fertility issues — are reminiscent of fairy tales. What might this have to do with Pluto in Aquarius? Why talk about fairy tales in an article about Pluto in Aquarius?

To begin to answer these questions, it is of note that both Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm, were born with Pluto in Aquarius. At a time following the French Revolution, when Napoleon took over Germany and aimed to bring French Enlightenment values to the country, both Grimm brothers were disciples of Johann Gottfried von Herder, who fought against assimilation of culture and the erasure of difference. He believed that differences between human beings were a deep truth found within human nature. This inspired in the Grimms a resistance to Napoleon, a resistance that led them back to specifically German culture, and folk tales, tales of the people, the volk, in particular.

In the spirit of Pluto in Aquarius, the Grimms put out a call to collect fairy tales from the outskirts and small villages throughout Germany, gathering stories from the margins, the edges of society. The ultimate response to this call was the enormous collection of 211 stories we know today as Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales.

To back up for a moment, fairy tales themselves from any culture have a kind of wisdom that resonates at the soul level and often baffles the reasonable mind, especially the scientific mind. Fairy tales have an archetypal makeup that speaks to the soul in the language of story.

For example, the simple notion of the king and queen in their castle at the center of the kingdom brings us archetypally into the human world, the civilized world, the world protected from outside threat with thick brick walls. (Note: walls.) The human world is full of human limits and human problems, including aging, fertility, and rulers who become tyrannical. Problems in the human world are rarely, if ever, solved in the human world alone. In fairy tales, finding and fetching the Water of Life, for example, to revivify the aging king, requires venturing outside of the kingdom. In the enchanting 2009 fable-film The Secret of Kells, 25 a young son finds himself leaving his father and the safe walls of the city, and heading into the surrounding forest at the outer limits of the kingdom. Here, the forest is not just a forest. It is an archetypal realm populated with animals, darkness, shadows, mystery, wildness, unpredictability. The forest is the uncivilized contrast to human civilization. In fairy tales, it can hold unexpected solutions to human problems.

In this way, each fairy tale from any culture (especially your own culture) can be like a small, epic instruction manual for life, like how Robert Bly in the early 1990s used the Grimm fairy tale “Iron John” to launch what became the workshops and gatherings of the men’s movement of the time. To think, the life-changing men’s movement was founded on a fairy tale!

Science is important, but science — especially as Pluto moves into Aquarius — is not the whole story. If we step outside of the scientific frame, outside of the evidence-based research and all-too-convincing facts, we may find imaginative solutions to human problems. If science is the STEM, fairy tales are the roots, the archetypal roots. From the perspective of fairy tales, we do not encounter the steady, inevitable “count down” of Shanna Swan’s research alone. Rather, we encounter a motif as old as time, in fact older than time. When the king and queen in their castle, in the center of the kingdom, are unable to conceive a child, the solution comes when the Water of Life — a symbol for the renewing potential of the imagination — is found outside of the kingdom. You will have to read the fairy tale yourself to get the whole story.

A Center That Can Hold

The Old Man currently dominates the scene, and yet with Pluto in Capricorn, Saturn in Aquarius, and Neptune in Pisces — powerful planets inhabiting the watery part of the sky — the revitalizing Water of Life of the imagination is never far away. Perhaps the French Revolution yielded to two years of the Reign of Terror because the Water of Life dried up, resigning the culture over to harsh conditions and death. Before Western culture will be released from the conservative grip of Saturn, perhaps we must dip into what Irish culture refers to as the Well at the World’s End, or Connla’s Well. Saturn may rule prisons, but Aquarius rules wells. Like the goldfish swimming in confined circles, the Western imagination has been moving in increasingly smaller circles for too long. As the Irish philosopher, storyteller, artist, and shaman John Moriarty noted,

The forms of our European sensibility and the categories of our European understanding are a Bastille we have yet to storm. (26)

Pluto in Aquarius represents some of the most profound times in history when the center (be it personal, psychological, cultural, governmental, political, financial, or otherwise) is unable to hold. That is what happens by archetypal design when Pluto moves through Aquarius. The focus shifts from the center to the margins, of society and psyche. The point may not be to strengthen the existing center, but rather — in Pluto’s preferred style — to descend, to go deeper and deeper and deeper inside. Perhaps like Toni Morrison (born with the Sun in Aquarius) who, after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, was asked about her success in writing literary fiction for and about a widely marginalized culture in the US. Her response?

I stood at the border — stood at the edge — and claimed it as central. And let the rest of the world move over to where I was. (27)

Perhaps the next radical revolution will be an inner revolution, each individual finding within themselves a new center that can hold.

References:
All links accessed June 2022.
1. Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Essays, Speeches, and Meditations, Alfred A. Knopf, 2019, p. 17.
2. Virgil, The Aeneid, trans. Robert Fagles, Penguin Books, 2006, Loc. 3411 of 9474 (Kindle e-book).
3. James Hillman, Re-Visioning Psychology, Harper, 1975, p. xix.
4. See https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/18/us/politics/joe-biden-age-oldest-presidents.html, “Biden Is the Oldest President to Take the Oath.”
5. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrounded_by_Time, “Surrounded by Time.”
6. See https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/apr/26/anthony-hopkins-is-oldest-ever-oscar-winner-after-taking-best-actor-for-the-father, “Anthony Hopkins is oldest-ever acting Oscar winner after taking best actor for The Father.”
7. See https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/apr/26/oscars-2021-winners-the-full-list-academy-awards, “Oscars 2021 winners: the full list.”.
8. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_(film), Old (film).
9. See https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/26/theater/lois-smith-wins-tony-award.html, “Lois Smith is the oldest performer to win a Tony.”
10. See https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/science/william-shatner-space.html, At 90, William Shatner becomes the oldest person to reach the “final frontier.”
11. See https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/03/opinion/baby-boomers-gen-x-us-politics.html, “Why Are We Still Governed by Baby Boomers and the Remarkably Old?”
12. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Man_(TV_series), The Old Man (TV series).
13. See https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Count-Down/Shanna-H-Swan/9781982113674, “Count Down.”
14. See https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/18/toxic-chemicals-health-humanity-erin-brokovich, “Plummeting sperm counts, shrinking penises: toxic chemicals threaten humanity.”
15. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_wall, “Trump wall.”
16. See https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/09/theater/tony-awards.html, “Who Won and What Happened at the 2019 Tony Awards.”
17. See https://colony.fandom.com/wiki/The_Wall, “The Wall.”
18. See https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Wall, “Wall.”
19. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_(film), 13th (film).
20. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectify, Rectify. (Quote is from Episode 4.)
21. See https://www.fortunebusinessinsights.com/antidepressants-market-105017, “Antidepressants Market Size, Share & COVID-19 Impact Analysis.”
22. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melencolia_I, Melancolia I.
23. See https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/28/poem-of-the-week-after-great-pain-by-emily-dickinson, “Poem of the week: After Great Pain … “ by Emily Dickinson.
24. See https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00P3PPG56/ref=atv_hm_hom_1_c_lZOsi7_2_1, Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon. All facts of the French Revolution found in this section come from this series of lectures.
25. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_Kells, The Secret of Kells.
26. John Moriarty, Dreamtime, The Lilliput Press, 1994, p. 97.
27. See https://youtu.be/DQ0mMjII22I, “Toni Morrison interview.”

Images:
Center cannot hold: Background image by Bronisław Dróżka, Pluto by Peter Lomas, Aquarius glyph by Tanya, all via Pixabay.
Old man: Tumisu, via Pixabay.
Fishbowl: Ahmed Zayan, via Unsplash.
Storming of the bastille: Jean-Pierre Houël: The Storming of the Bastille, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Center that holds: Aquarius by Dorothe, Pluto by Peter Lomas, both via Pixabay.

Published in: The Mountain Astrologer, Capricorn Sol 2022/23.

Author:
Shawn Nygaard is a professional astrologer based in Minneapolis, MN. He is a tutor for MISPA (Mercury Internet School of Psychological Astrology) and has been a speaker at the AA, NCGR, UAC, SOTA, and NORWAC conferences, as well as the Minnesota Jung Association. His writing has been published in WellBeing Astrology Guide (Australia) and The Mountain Astrologer. Shawn is a graduate of the CMED Institute in Chicago, where he studied archetypes and symbolism with Caroline Myss. Visit Shawn's website at www.imagineastrology.com.

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