Pluto Notes

Just some spurious notations, finalizing thoughts for a little book of transits, Pluto Notes.

The significance of the transiting Pluto cannot be underestimated. Sublime, powerful, weirdly exciting, and, at a times, exotic in its nature, the struggle with Pluto is quite real.

Whether it is a planet, a dwarf planet, or just an astroid-like presence, by now, its location is understood, and its astrological properties are better understood.

For the shorthand version, I’ll call it a planet, and for the shorthand version, I’m staying away from the definition, astronomically, but I’ll stick with it as a powerful unit — location, placeholder, planetoid, thing. Whatever.

Pluto’s orbit takes around 248 years, but as an observed point, it wasn’t seen until the early 1930’s, so we’re all short on observation. It has a rather oblong orbit, more like a racing oval than a circle.

One teacher suggested that Pluto was like Mars times Mars times Mars, or Mars to the third power. Mars(3). Not sure how the typeset will work on that one, but the idea is sound. But Pluto is very far away, and it can up to 20 degrees off the ecliptic, which means, even though a flat astrology chart shows Pluto in alignment, that alignment isn’t always as precise as we would like.

The singular note of some import? Ask the Sagittarius about the essence of the Pluto Transits. Those of us who have felt Pluto conjunction our Natal Sun, natal planets, or shift across Cardinal Points in our charts? We don’t care what one wants to call it, planet, dwarf planet, or merely a point on a chart, but its power is self-evident.

Just trying to make sense in a chaotic existence.

Kramer Wetzel’s little book of transits

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