Francis X Caulfield

Pluto in Capricorn Pt 1: 2008 ~ 2024
Soul Making on Mother Earth

My Body is My Earth.
As I Heal My Body, I Heal My Earth

This article is the first part of a two-part article on Pluto’s entry into Capricorn. The first article provides a general overview of the subject, while the second article focuses on specific processes and planetary alignments that will be of use to anyone who is participating in the coming earth changes and the process of soul making on planet earth. While this article stands on its own, the reader will benefit from two previous articles, Soul Making and the Heart of the Galaxy, and Pluto in Sagittarius, both available at franciscaulfield.com/articles.html.

Pluto, the planet of soul making, having sojourned through fiery Sagittarius, the sign of the Centaur, symbolizing the vision quest for the past twelve years, enters Capricorn, the sign of the Goddess Gaia and Mother Earth, on January 25th. Pluto will spend four months in Capricorn before moving back into Sagittarius in middle of June. It will reenter Capricorn in late November where it will remain until 2024. While Pluto will be of great personal significance for all Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn planets, points and angles, it also exerts a powerful and life changing influence affecting everyone on the planet in one way or another.

Combining the symbolism of Sagittarius, the Archer, and Pluto, the alchemist of the Soul, one would hope that humanity and individual human beings, have learned its soul making lessons (Pluto), completed the Vision Quest (Sagittarius), and are now ready and capable of hitting the bull’s eye of truth with its arrows. Arrows are your thoughts, beliefs and intuitions. They symbolize how to reach targets and the goals that you have set for yourself. If not on the mark, you will more than likely rain down destruction or deception (Pluto) with arrows, thoughts and beliefs that fly off in any and all directions (Sagittarius), as has been the case, especially within the mass consciousness. For example, all the religious and sectarian wars and conflicts are an example of this.

In other words there is a big difference between Soul Vision (Pluto in Sagittarius) and what you believe to be true, the belief systems (also Sagittarius) that are dominated by the personality. By now we should at least know the difference, recognize our Soul’s Vision and the true visionaries from those who are lacking in Soul Truth. To not know the difference is to engage in and be trapped by destructive, unconscious behaviors.

Suffice to say that if we venture into the world with the intent on changing it according to our ideals (Sagittarius), we best come with our own medicine bag well stocked. It is all too easy to get caught up in the world mind and lose our way. Unless we have completed the tasks of Pluto in Sagittarius, i.e. acquiring our personal soul vision, better to take the time when Pluto revisits Sagittarius in mid June through late November to complete our vision quest and temporarily leave the task of building a new earth to those who have accomplished the Vision Quest and is a skilled archer.

It will become increasingly hard for anyone to participate in the world without having a personal soul vision for the future that one can align with in order to make a contribution to the world soul. Otherwise you run the risk of remaining in reactive mode at the mercy of destructive, personality (Pluto) forces unable to tap into the regenerative (the positive face of Pluto) forces of the Soul. Pluto destroys anything and everything that is outworn, corrupt, and personality driven so that the soul may come forth. It does this by drawing our disowned shadow energies in the form of people, circumstances or events wherein a power struggle is likely to take place. The end result is the recovery of our intrinsic Soul Power.

As always we begin with healing our self. Let’s start with the obvious.
1) In practical terms then, what have you learned over the past twelve years from your metaphysical explorations, divinations and vision quests (Sagittarius)?
2) What are your Soul’s Vision, life’s purpose and destiny? If you don’t know this, consult with someone, myself for instance, who can help.
3) More importantly, how will you actualize and manifest it? Again consult with a mentor, ally, or guide for assistance.

The symbol of Capricorn is the sea goat and not merely the mountain goat. The latter is consumed with climbing the mountain of success and reward. The sea goat, in contrast, is also connected to the ocean of existence, where it remains immersed in the mysteries of life. When Capricorn is consumed with material advancement and advantage alone, it disconnects from its Source and becomes materialistic, selfish, and separate. This is the current dilemma of our modern world and has led to the separation from and destruction of the earth and ignorance of natural law and the environment.

While Capricorn and its ruling planet Saturn have come to be associated with the patriarchy, its original meaning as a feminine earth sign is that of the Earth Mother, the Goddess Gaia, the giver of natural law and order. There are major three areas of healing that are significant and necessary: A New Vision, a New Humanity, and a New Earth. The following presents a thumbnail sketch.

1) A New Vision: Capricorn is concerned with stature, organization of material resources, wealth-building, and advancement in the world. It rules corporations, hierarchies, politics, banking, the patriarchy, governments, and the establishment. Unfortunately the current paradigm is soul deadening. Be prepared for major changes in all these areas and arenas. Before there are breakthroughs there must be breakdowns. The danger here is that fear will obscure the vision but remember that our personal and collectives fears must surface in order to be healed!

The ecological, environmental green movement has been gaining momentum since the 60’s. Colleges and universities are now offering degrees in these areas. Already we see signs of new structures, foundations, ways of being in the world as the health and well being of individual human beings are being placed on equal par with the earth’s material resources and assets. Any organization, etc must be aligned with the vision of soul making as their guiding principle and operational structure. The good news is that more corporations, governments, and institutions (Capricorn) are turning a previously blind eye toward the Green Movement and the development of human resources.

Increasingly, there is a worldwide movement that recognizes that we are all in this together, which helps to transcend nationalistic boundaries and develop a vision of a global family. We are all one.

2) A New Humanity: Capricorn, the earth mother and Cancer, the personal mother, comprise the parental axis and by extension our ancestral lineage. Pluto’s entry into Capricorn will necessitate a cleansing of the entire ancestral line of any and all traumas and abuses. The opening statement of My body is my earth. As I heal my body, I heal my earth, points toward this innate, natural though forgotten connection between earth and the physical body (the earth element). Before we incorporate our visions onto the earth (Capricorn), we have to clear the physical body of wounds, injuries, insults, tensions and deficiencies that we inherited from our parents and our culture.

Pluto literally means hidden treasure. By encountering the disowned, shadowed, soul wounding of our lineage, we recover all the treasures that have been lost or repressed. Many of us are already involved in this work healing ourselves from repetitive Soul wounds passed on from generation to generation. This results in the restoration of the body to its natural state. We acquire or reclaim the Original Body of Life.

3) A New Earth: The mysteries of Mother Earth will need to be honored and embraced during these transitional times. There will be hell (Pluto) to pay if we continue to destroy the earth and by extension our bodies and live as destructive parasites off our gracious hostess. Gaia has her own ley lines, archeo-astronomy locations, such as Stonehenge in England, one of many such sites, sacred groves and power vortices. Already the earth’s core frequency is shifting to a higher vibration, moving from roughly 7.8 cps in 1992 to over 11 cps currently. This vibrational shift is causing a similar shift in the cellular structures (Pluto rules the cellular matrix) of our bodies. We are entering uncharted territory here, yet one foretold in many ancient and indigenous prophecies.

With Pluto’s entry into Capricorn, the Soul (Pluto) will necessarily become aligned with Gaia and begin the alchemical process of reanimating our self and the world with her mysteries. For those of us who have learned the higher truths of Sagittarius this will be a welcomed task. We can incorporate the truths gleaned from the Sagittarian vision quest and thereby engage ourselves in building (Capricorn) a New Earth.

The popularity of Al Gore, a prominent political figure (Saturn) and his winning the Nobel Peace Prize speaks eloquently and loudly to this rising tide of mass consciousness (Pluto) and the restructuring of the earth according to natural, sacred law and order (Capricorn/Saturn). Not so coincidentally Gore’s chart has strong Sagittarian and Capricornian themes. His Moon, core intelligence, is at three degrees of Capricorn. We can expect his influence to grow larger in the next couple of years as Pluto transits the early degrees of Capricorn. And one of the ruling planets in his chart is Jupiter in Sagittarius at 28 degrees, where Pluto is currently located.

Is it any wonder that Gore was accorded the Nobel Prize and attained international acclaim for his vision of the world when Pluto was in close proximity? Jupiter by the way rules publishing and international relations! And his Jupiter is one degree away from the Heart of the Galaxy at 27 degrees of Sagittarius! Will wonders never cease?

"I believe that our civilization is addicted to the consumption of the earth itself. This addictive relationship distracts us from the pain of what we have lost: a direct experience of our connection to the vividness, and aliveness of the rest of the natural world. The froth and frenzy of industrial civilization masks our deep loneliness for communion…the price we pay is the loss of our spiritual lives [our souls]. The weakest and most helpless members of the dysfunctional [human] family become the victims of abuse at the hands of those responsible for providing nurture. In a similar fashion, we systematically abuse the most vulnerable and least defended areas of the natural world.

If the global environmental crisis is rooted in the dysfunctional pattern of our civilization’s relationship to the natural world, confronting and fully understanding that pattern…is the first step toward mourning what we have lost…and coming to terms with the new story of what it means to be a steward of the earth."
Al Gore: Earth in Balance, Ecology and the Human Spirit.

In Spirit,
Francis X Caulfield
francis@franciscaulfield.com
970-769-1102