Very slow moving Death/Rebirth Pluto, with a 248 year cycle, left 29° Capricorn in March 2023 for 0° Aquarius for the first time since this nation was born. That stay in the sign of innovation, freedom and mutual respect was extremely short. Pluto retreated back into rule-bound, goal-oriented, stern Capricorn in early June.

On January 22, 2024, Pluto entered Aquarius again, only to retreat back into Capricorn on September 2, 2024. Then on November 20, it entered Aquarius for the final time this cycle, where it will remain until 2043-44. We have nearly 20 years to absorb and integrate this fixed, mental, innovative airy placement of Pluto (and you know that AI will figure hugely!) before Pluto shifts once again, into watery Pisces.

I remind you of Aquarian Pluto’s background influence now, because I find it extremely interesting that the formerly laughing-stock Indiana football team, with newly hired Curt Cignetti as coach, took only two years to achieve the U.S. Championship, and did so, chock full of Aquarian team spirit. (See my posts on January 19, 20). A team of misfits, they call themselves, fractious individuals, each with his own skills and drive, determined to develop to the point where he can expertly play his specific role in getting the win, over and over again: 16-0.

And here’s what really interests me. Apparently, none of these players were “stars” to begin with. So the problem of “ego” did not arise. Nobody got special attention from coach Cignetti and his staff. Each one got exactly what he needed to fulfill his part in the whole.

Pluto in Aquarius: team spirit. Each individual playing his or her unique part well, the combination of which is mutually inspiring, stimulating, symbiotic, synergistic.

Yes. We all depend on each other. We need to realize that. And we all have specific parts to play in any common endeavor that depends on each of us bringing our own unique skills, talents, opportunities.

None of us is alone. All of us could be, will be soon, hopefully, given, for example, this year’s Indiana football team as a model, learning how to function uniquely, as-one. Not alone, but All-One. In groups, large and small — families, neighborhoods, city councils, regional gatherings, on and on, on out into the cosmos, synergistically mirroring the planets and solar systems as they too, circulate individually, each one unique and vital, embedded within the expanding universal whole.

 

Here are two slow-motion renderings of QB Mendoza (the most team-spirited of them all, and time after time thanking God first; I featured him on December 15, as A Living Archetype for Our Times), his extraordinary horizontal crossing of the finish line, a still photo of which I put up the other day.

https://x.com/gpaindiana/status/2014119058468143590?s=61&t=aUBDiSUrvn0aSlRBtZx0wQ

https://x.com/bigten/status/2014128111474942142?s=61&t=aUBDiSUrvn0aSlRBtZx0wQ

May each of us play our part in whatever collective earthly endeavors call to us specifically. No matter what. With grit, daring, and floating on wings of the divine.

Pluto, in Aquarius!