Astrologers everywhere are laughing at the astronomers' recent "demotion" of Pluto to a "dwarf" planet. This is like trying to demote a grizzly to the status of a teddy bear by merely changing its name.
The ferocious nature of a grizzly bear doesn't change just because you want to change its name. Neither Does Pluto. This is scientific arrogance.
Most astronomers tend to make pronouncements as if they really know what's going on in the heavens. But, then, ten years later they have to eat their words when they make another discovery that invalidates the previous one.
Ancient astronomers were much wiser.
In my own book, "No One Is a Mystery - How to Use the Planets to Understand Anybody" I wrote, "[the ancient astronomers] realized that the planets are not merely material objects traveling through physical space; they are also moving psychically through our inner space. Therefore, they are full of psychological meaning."
This poses a challenging question: "Why should we spend so much time and money exploring outer space when we have not even explored the planets that live within our psychic space?"
It is a great tragedy that most people have not yet awakened to a psychic awareness of their own inner planets. If they had, they would certainly be living their lives quite differently.
Pluto is not just a dwarf planet on the edges of our solar system. It functions as a very powerful force within the birth charts of many individuals. It's nature is to transform, destroy, eliminate, annihilate, or obliterate any opposition to its intentions. Let's look at a few examples.
Does anyone doubt the threat in the countenance of Hillary Clinton? Folks sometimes sense she is like a poised cobra ready to strike. Her overtly hawkish attitude toward pursuing the Iraqi invasion startled many people. Hillary has Pluto conjunct Mars and Saturn in Leo square the Sun, Venus and Mercury in Scorpio. These are powerful and coercive elements of a very demanding and threatening ego that will go to great extremes to get what it wants.
If you were to look at the birth chart of Bugsy Siegel, a notorious mafia figure in the 30s and 40s, you would see that he has Pluto in Gemini square (90 degrees) his Saturn, Sun, Venus and Mercury in the slippery sign of Pisces ("the thief"). This was a very violent man who freelanced as a hitman for mob bosses.
One of the most cruel and inhumane people of the Nazi regime was Joseph Mengele. He performed medical experiments on young children at Auschwitz. He also had Pluto in Gemini square Mercury and the Sun in Pisces.
How can we doubt the aggressive, brutal force of Benito Mussolini, the notorious fascist of World War II? He had Pluto conjunct Moon, Mars and Saturn in Gemini.
Further, does anyone doubt the arrogance of George W. Bush who has Pluto conjunct his Mercury and Venus in Leo rising? He seems to strut as if he is the emperor, the proud lion of Leo. He once said, "I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain -- I do not need to explain why I say things. I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation." At another time he said, "Our enemies . . . never stop thinking about new way to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
