Capricorn is ruled by Saturn, the karmic planet that pertains to authority and business of all kinds, including government. We are now seeing the effects of Pluto on both the Republican and Democratic parties. The one worst at fault and most deserving of karmic retribution is the Republican party, which has finally manifested the diabolical demagogue of hatred that they nourished and grew from infancy. But the Democrats are not immune from Pluto's revelations. The establishment rulers of both parties that have obstructed and denied help for the middle class and poor, while enriching themselves, are now being challenged by Trump and Sanders. Revolution of the masses is taking place on both sides, with one signifying darkness and the other signifying light.
Pluto transits always bring exposure of what has been kept hidden, the destruction of the old and unworkable--razing it to the ground so a new and better way can be born. The symbolism is portrayed by the phoenix bird rising in a rebirth from the ashes of the fire that destroyed its old incarnation. As astrologer Melissa Johnson writes:
Pluto will continue through Capricorn until January 2024. Pluto cycles through the zodiac every 248 years, spending 10-30 years in each sign. Pluto entered Capricorn back in January 2008 and since then we have watched its energetic influence in a powerful and dramatic way. A near collapse of the Global economy and housing market, with groups such as Occupy Wall Street organizing massive protests and political corruption being exposed for the entire world to witness. Big Corporations, such as Monsanto being rejected by the mass Global community for producing Genetically Modified Organism via seed supply to world populations. If we look back at Pluto's last transit through Capricorn the year was 1760 AD, we can spiral forward in time overlaying the energetic resonance of those events on today. In 1760 we were in the midst of the American Revolutionary War for independence from the British Empire, with the United States Constitution being signed 16 years later in 1776 – freedom from the 'oppressor'. If we move forward 16 years from 2008, this takes us to 2024, right on schedule, with Pluto's transit through Capricorn complete and onward into Aquarius. The main theme we see manifesting with Pluto's 20 year transit through Capricorn is transformation revolutionary or epic in scale culminating with a sense of freedom and foundation at its end.
Symbology of Pluto in Capricorn:
Pluto represents power, transformation, transmutation, bringing the dark to light, Hades, the underworld, Phoenix from the ash. Pluto naturally rules Scorpio and 8th house, so deep consciousness rising to the surface, shadows surfacing, truth coming out, large financial and power structures overhauled/ collapsed/ re-birthed.
Capricorn is ruled by Saturn and naturally rules the 10th house. This represents Big Business, Big Government, Old Ways, Old People, Chronos/ Father Time, Authority, Stability/ Lasting Effects.
Put it all together: Powerful Transformation of Old Ways and Old People, Authority, Big Business and Big Government. Hades or the under-world traversing through the collective psyche in order for us to recognize the 'darkness' to be healed and becoming conscious or aware of our choice to re-birth into the 'light' of new structures and new worlds. There could also be a re-structuring or transformation of the way we view time, or experience time.
EXCERPT from the article below:
The Hillary supporters have the authoritarian mentality of small property owners. They are the mirror image of the "realist" Trump supporters, the difference being that the Trump supporters fall below the median income level, and are distressed and insecure, while the Hillary supporters stand above the median income level, and are prosperous but still insecure.
To manipulate them, the Democratic and Republican elites have both played a double game for forty years and have gotten away with it. They have incrementally yet quite comprehensively seized all economic and political power for themselves. They have perverted free media and even such basics of the democratic process as voting and accountability in elections. Elites on both sides have collaborated to engineer a revolution of economic decline for the working person, until the situation has reached unbearable proportions. The stock market may be doing well, and unemployment may theoretically be low, but people can't afford housing and food, they can't pay back student loans and other debts, their lives, wherever they live in this transformed country, are full of such misery that there is not a single word that an establishment candidate like Hillary Clinton or Jeb Bush says that makes sense to them.
This time, I truly believe, there's not a dime's worth of difference between them. When they did have a difference to choose from—i.e., the clear progressive choice, Bernie over Hillary, who consistently demonstrates beating Trump by double the margins Hillary does—the elites went for Hillary, even though she poses the greater risk of inaugurating Trump as president. And now you want us to listen to your panic alarms?
The game, for the elites, is over. This is true no matter what happens with the Sanders campaign. The Republican party as we have known it since the Reagan consensus (dating back to 1976) is over. The Democratic party doesn't know it yet, but Bill Clinton's neoliberalism (and what followed in his wake with complicity with Bush junior, and the continuation of Bush junior's imperialist policies with Barack Obama) is also over, or well on its way to being over. The elites are in a cataclysmic state of panic, they don't know whether to look right or left, they have no idea what to do with Trump, they don't know what to do with the Bernie diehards, they have no idea how to put Humpty Dumpty together again.
Our awful elites gutted America. Now they dare ring alarms about Trump, Sanders — and cast themselves as saviors
Both parties ignored workers, spewed hate, enriched themselves, hollowed out democracy. Now the problem's populism?
This week, on the night of the Indiana primary, I read one of the most loathsome political screeds it has been my misfortune to encounter.
It was an alarm bell raised by Andrew Sullivan, arguably the greatest hypocrite of the Bush era, on par with his partner in many crimes Christopher Hitchens (remember "Islamofascism?"). Sullivan proclaims that the election of Trump would be an "extinction-level" event. Well, perhaps it will be.
But the extinction Sullivan is most worried about is clearly that of his own breed of callous elites, who could care less about normal human beings who do not have decent jobs and who live in crappy housing and who are so desperate to find a way out of the trap that even someone like Trump starts sounding rational to them.
Now this panic alert, designed to get us in line behind Hillary, is raised by the man who ended The New Republic as we knew it (which then went on to end and then end again), promoting racist and imperialist dogma during his reign at the magazine in the 1990s, and then, with his finger in the wind (which to him and that other arch-hypocrite Hitchens meant being like George Orwell), turned into one of the biggest shills for the war on terror, the Iraq war, the whole works, all the while denouncing the fifth column within our ranks. This so-called journalist, who has no record of liberal consistency, who keeps shifting to whoever holds moral power at any given moment, is scaring us about the mortal threat that is Trump.
No, the danger is the elites, who have made such a joke of the democratic process, who have so perverted and rotted it from within, that the entire edifice is crumbling (to the consternation of the elites). Both parties are in terminal decline after forty years of ignoring the travails of the average worker (the Republicans admit they're in the intensive care unit, while the Democrats calling for Sanders to quit already have yet to come around to admitting that they might have the flu), and voters on both right and left have at last—and this is a breath of relief—stopped caring about the cultural distractions that have kept the elites in power. No, they want their jobs back, even if it means building a wall, keeping Muslims out, deporting the illegals, and starting trade wars with China and Japan—because what else did the elites give them, they're still opposing a living wage!
Sullivan comes right out and says it: it's all because of too much democracy, the same bugbear elites on both sides have been offended by since the "crisis of excess democracy" in the mid-1970s, the same lament that Sullivan's masters in the ivory tower, Samuel P. Huntington and others, have been leveling ever since they made it their job to put the exuberance of the late sixties and early seventies to rest once and for all. So they engineered the neoliberal revolution, where the "qualified" elites are firmly in charge, and the only way to get ahead is not democratic (or individualist) unpredictability—and who is a greater exemplar of unpredictability than Trump?—but elite planning, a certain coldhearted "rationality" that is as efficient as any totalitarian system ever was in sidelining those who do not have what it takes to succeed.
So, the problem, according to all the elites, is too much democracy. Thank you Andrew Sullivan, a Harvard humanities education—all that Plato you read!—was hardly ever put to worse use in the four-hundred-year annals of the institution.
You, Andrew Sullivan, and the Democratic party flacks who want the Bernie supporters to throw our lot behind the most compromised Democratic candidate of all time, Hillary Clinton, and you, who are so worried about the wall and the ban on Muslims and the attack on civil liberties, will you please tell us who started it all?
You did!
You've all now, the elite punditocracy on either spectrum, suddenly become nostalgic for George W. Bush, because he didn't—well, not always—use the crude and blatant vocabulary that Trump deploys to demonize Mexicans and Arabs and Muslims and foreigners. But Bush is the one who actually implemented, with your full support, plans to surveil, discriminate against (in immigration proceedings), and impose a de facto bar on Muslims from the "wrong countries" that is still, under Barack Obama, a severe disability on Muslims who may want to emigrate to this country.
Where were you elites when Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the Democratic party elite spoke as one with Republicans on endlessly strengthening border security, on the need to mercilessly enforce immigration laws, on imposing such punitive measures against potential legalization that it becomes possible only in theory not in reality?
The natural conclusion of these ideas is the literal wall, but Trump didn't start it, he's only putting the finishing touches on the discourse that you elites, on both sides, have inflamed for twenty-plus years. Bill Clinton started the demonization of immigrants—legal immigrants were made ineligible for benefits—for the first time since the liberalization of immigration laws in 1965. Bill Clinton ended welfare, tapping into racist discourse about African Americans, and permanently unmoored millions of people from the social safety net. No, Trump didn't start any of it, Paul Begala and Karl Rove, representing both parties, and the elite interests they represent, poisoned the discourse.
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