Pluto in Aquarius – Pluto has officially moved into Aquarius.
The last time Pluto was in Aquarius was 247 years ago… 1777- 1798. Are you ready to look at what was going on back then.
As Pluto re-visits Aquarius our lives are forever changed. The planet of transformation moves incredibly slowly, taking decades to cycle through the twelve zodiac signs. Therefore, we cannot deny what needs to be released when Pluto shifts into Aquarius.
While the late 18th Century is most known for the French and American revolutions, it also saw the world’s first successful slave uprising in Haiti along with the brutally suppressed White Lotus and Incan uprisings.
Successful or not, these rebellions against the established order set the scene for an era of artistic coups, gradual emancipation from archaic attitudes, flamboyant inventions and an extraordinary, society-rocking romance.
In The Making of the Modern Self, historian Dror Wahrman writes that before 1780, the question of “who am I?” would be answered within the constraints of the ‘ancien regime’ of identity.
“But towards the end of the 18th Century, a radical change occurred in notions of self and personal identity. It was a sudden transformation, nothing short of a revolution in the study of selfhood and of identity categories including race, gender and class.”
This unrecognized cultural coup, he asserts, was essentially the birth of modernity. Modernity, ready or not, is a hyper-Aquarian concept.
The scientific discoveries were certainly weird or groundbreaking enough to arouse the imagination (or anger) of the public. For example: Photosynthesis, black holes – or ‘dark stars’ as they were then called – the planet Uranus was discovered, electricity, water was a compound of oxygen and hydrogen, the smallpox vaccine, the efficacy of hypnosis and the elements Tungsten, Boron, Uranium, Titanium and Chromium amongst others were discovered.
And the inventions? During the last Pluto in Aquarius phase we devised submarines, tricycles + bicycles, the lithographic press, spinning technology that enabled ready-to-wear fashion, bifocal spectacles, the flush toilet, parachute and most dramatically, hot-air balloons – aka the first flight by humans.
Pluto in Aquarius was also when a Gemini named Louis Lenormand invented the parachute: his occupation was officially “inventor/monk” but he’d apparently only become a monk to get undistracted inventing time.
Is this more than you wanted to know? After doing my research and homework I was amazed, and I hope you found it to be interesting. I believe we all have something to look forward to with Pluto in Aquarius.
