Astrology Tutorial: Retrograde Planets, A Summer Overview, part 4: Pluto

Today's astrology tutorial: retrograde Pluto, summer 2008.

Pluto's current retrograde started last spring. He'd enjoyed a brief introduction to the sign of Capricorn, but he decided to take another brief foray back into Sagittarius, his last Saggitarian "hurrah" in the life span of anyone on earth today.

He's still moving "backward" in Sagittarius, encouraging all of us to clean up any stray loose ends while he's there, financially, and in any other ways that might limit our ability to be truly present for ourselves and each other in the forseeable future. He asks us to strengthen the foundations we've put in place. He asks us to polish up the spiritual values we may have learned about or learned from, but might have forgotten to cherish, since the middle of the 1990s. He continues this prompting until he moves to station and then apparently shifts direction in a little more than a month from now, on September 8.

When Pluto moves direct in September, he'll ask us to begin to build on those foundations we've built over the last (more or less) fifteen years. Won't it be easierto do if at least the excavation's already begun?

When Pluto moves direct in September, he'll ask us to begin to transform our world with a practical application of our deepest, most heartfelt spirituality. Won't it be easier if you're already in active relationship with that part of your life?

When Pluto moves direct in September, he'll ask us what gifts we have to give to a world deeply in need of them. Won't it be easier if you've at least already acknowledged some of the world's needs? Won't it be easier if you've already considered your possible ability to help, respond to one or two of the world's needs?

Pluto always asks us to ask a lot of ourselves. Pluto brings the power of transformation right into our own back yards. Right now, he's putting us on notice.

"Wake up!", he whispers. Or maybe he's already begun to speak more loudly in your life.

"You're stronger than you know, more capable and resourceful," he persists. "You're more loving and lovable than you ever imagined. And the world needs you. Wake up!"