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“1 objects big enough for nuclear fusion.
2 objects big enough to be round, but to small for nuclear fusion.
3 objects even smaller.”

First of all, I would like to say that I found that rather amusing, so thank you for that.

Second of all, you missed an “o” on “to” -
It should be “but too small for nuclear fusion”, not, “but to small for nuclear fusion”.

Now that we’ve had that little grammar lesson, I would like to say that I am entirely in favour of pluto being demoted, and long live Eris and Ceres.

Thank you.

Pluto the Dwarf – It’s Alive!
The Power of the Small

Last month, a client with a late Sagittarius AC and massive Pluto transits in the past few years brought me a real funky and priceless gift, hidden in a bag: A little plush Disney Pluto dog that she had in good Pluto fashion dug up in a garage sale – the perfect model of rebirth from the old and cast away! The invincibility of a good dose of humour and perspective is what I love about Sag energy…Now while I’m writing this, canine Pluto is mischievously and faithfully smiling at me as my nightly muse…
The seemingly minor event offers me a fun yet meaningful way of illustrating what’s going on with Pluto these days, and how its archetype is alive and well in effect.
We live in a synchronous universe where events and experiences that have a meaningful connection with each other a-causally mirror one another (which is in modern, Jungian terms another way of expressing the hermetic wisdom that astrological tradition is based upon, “As above, so below”).
Synchronicities weave threads and make wise and humorous new connections.

Now, how does that relate to Pluto and its new astronomical status?
For one thing, back to my cute and yet deep Pluto encounter the other day: I wasn’t sure whether my client knew the anecdote about the naming of Pluto when she decided to give me the dog:
The planet was discovered on Feb 18, 1930 out of an observatory in Flagstaff, AZ. When it had to be given a name, top astronomers were invited to give their input. One of the first suggestions was submitted via an astronomy professor and came originally from an 11-year old English girl, Venetia Burney, who favored the Disney dog’s name “Pluto”! (A more serious variation of the story says that she was excited by Greek mythology, and favored the actual god of the underworld as a suitable addition to the astronomical pantheon of planets – which one do you like better?). In any case, the suggestion was adopted and (not?) surprisingly perfectly fit the mythology associated with its hermetic understanding – in this case, “as above and around us in Pluto’s orbit in the solar system, so below, not only on the Earth but in our underworldly experiences of going through various ‘tunnels’ in life.
The archetype of Pluto / Hades is THE underworld energy that takes care of what’s energetically dead, and recycles it to transform it into new life forms. Going with Pluto energy and through (no way talking yourself out of it) a Plutonian process means acknowledging being pushed through a life – death – rebirth canal where the ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ takes a while to emerge. The only thing that’s certain is that the old is irreversibly gone and outlived, the new is in becoming anyways, and there are nature forces at work that we can neither push nor prevent (like puberty, menopause, pregnancy in an individual life, nature’s catastrophes, and the whole course of evolution). A lot more could be expanded on the archetype of Pluto as such, and I deliberately leave that at this point, and refer you to the “Special Feature” workshop on Sept 22, or to the “Pluto” evening on Dec 12, 2006, in the context of the “Planetary Archetypes” series.

What I find fascinating now is the recent decision of the IAU (International Astronomical Union) on Aug 24, 2006 to demote Pluto (which was acknowledged by astronomy as a planet ever since 1930) to a ‘dwarf planet’, by redefining the term ‘planet’, in order to avoid having to adopt a whole number of newly discovered objects as planets which are at least the size of Pluto. For more info, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto
On Aug 24, 2006, we had an alignment with New Moon, Mars, and the South Node in Virgo, the sign of scientific and otherwise classification and organization (‘order into chaos’ mantra). It seems like the ‘creative chaos’ out there in space is overwhelming for the (conservative part of the) astronomical mind, and needs to be ‘cleaned up’ and categorized, in order to know ‘what belongs where’. After all, the term ‘astronomy’ comes from astro-nemein = Greek / Latin, ‘the order and arrangement of the stars / celestial bodies’, and names, categorizes, and explores the physical properties of celestial bodies, whereas astrology (astro-logos = Greek / Latin, ‘the writings and knowledge about the stars / celestial bodies’) deals with their archetypes and meanings.

Fascinating, how Pluto is astronomically categorized as a ‘dwarf’ planet now – which I imagine actually suits the archetype of Pluto quite well who can now hide its power even better, under the appearance of the small, and make a descent into the underworld from which its archetype will resurrect in due time. Wondering what the universe has to tell us synchronistically and hermetically about the phenomenon that Pluto has been scientifically denoted at the time when with its position in the Zodiac, it points to the Galactic Centre, a black hole energy vortex (See above, under ‘Major Stuff’)?
With this ‘dethroning’ of Pluto for organizational (Virgoian) scientific purpose, the archetype is symbolically by mainstream science sent into the underworld. Yet, as it goes with myths and fairytales, what is ‘not invited’ or rejected will sooner or later compensate energetically, for purpose of wholeness. Now, I don’t know whether or how Pluto’s ‘underworldly empire strikes back’ if we don’t let the (deep transformational higher power and) ‘Force be with us’ and rather rationalize it away… It might seem far fetched, and some of you might wonder whether I exposed myself a bit much to myth, ancient and modern. My sense is though that this decision is symptomatic for an overly relying on ‘old world’ Virgo (South Node) mode in the mainstream world that would be problem solving oriented, and could use a good dose of Piscean (North Node) inclusive approach and honoring intuition. Where is Albert E. when we need his spirit?
Also, interesting that in the physically based astronomy, size and in this case smallness (Virgo) would be a criterion, whereas energetically and archetypically, Pluto is the very representative of the principle that spirit and essence is what counts and makes for potency of the agent (examples: atomic energy, homeopathy, and flower essences where the substance is ‘shaken away’, so that only the essence carries the information – the more ‘disembodied’ the higher the potency!)
Presently, Pluto is squaring the Nodal Axis, and serves as a catalyst for bridging and balancing the seeming dilemma between these two approaches.

Well, the archetype of Pluto operates independently of how the astronomical world categorizes the respective moving body - and there are other not as planets acknowledged celestial bodies, like Chiron and the Asteroids that we astrologers have been working with for long time. I will certainly keep using Pluto in all astrological applications as before. Its descent into the quasi-invisible is in itself part of the myth, and so I shall not analyze more and follow the stream of the ongoing story line, reporting the ‘travel log’ back to you estimated readers…

SAVE PLUTO!!!

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