Re-Creating The World

For the next while, the two hot-heads of the galaxy, Mars and Pluto are conjunct. This ignites the Plutonian drive to transform with passion and urgency. Pluto's lessons can bring us to our knees, and we're seeing breakdowns that are beyond any one person's personal control. If you've ever been whacked by Pluto, you know that it's a journey to the underworld, and involves hitting bottom. We seem to be moving through a collective dark night of the soul, a disintegration of structures that have been the glue that holds society together. But what's so epic about this time, is that it's a chance to re-create our world from the bottom up.

In her book 2012 and the Galactic Center Christine Page writes about a meeting with her own mentor, who described how people would react to the dissolution of the old. He drew numbers in the sand: 40, 40, 15, 5. In his estimation, 40 percent will instantly recreate what has just been swept away. Another 40 percent, unaware that they have a choice, will find that the challenge of the void is too much for them and they will instantly fall asleep or become unconscious mentally. Fifteen percent will become confused, which will be expressed as irritation, frustration and disorientation, and 5 percent will understand, recognizing the opportunity to be vanguards and light bearers of a new creative cycle, both for themselves and for the world in general.

We're living in epic times, when being your best self, as Oprah says, dovetails with being part of this crossroads of humanity. This transit can bring out the inner strength you need to take your mental, spiritual and physical health to the next level. It can bring on the deep soul searching that takes you to the bottom of your own life structures. Donna Cunningham calls today's Mars-Pluto conjunction a manifestation magnet, when you get to experience some of that high achieving, deeply rooted Capricorn-style momentum. Look to planets or the house where this transit is exploding for insights about how it's likely to play out.

Many are finding it hard to see the path ahead, and even those that usually have a sense of direction are seeing the hands on the inner compass spinning around wildly. In her AstroFlash report, Barbara Hand Clow writes about this as an unreal time, maybe how the Atlanteans felt when their world was submerged. In the challenge of the Void, the time of free-falling can be unsettling as all get-out. The pain of Pluto is exaggerated when there's resistance to what's being destroyed. So many are facing tests of how much inner resolve we can muster, and how quickly we can let go of what's falling down around us. The old way of doing things is clearly in its death throes. It's a time to dig deep for real faith, the kind that can be the light in a seemingly dark time.