Pluto enters Aquarius on March 23rd at exactly 7:13 am CDT. Pluto dips in and out of Aquarius over the next few years due to retrogrades that occasionally bring it back into Capricorn. Here is Pluto’s full schedule:
March 23, 2023 Enters Aquarius
June 11, 2023 Back in Capricorn
Jan 20, 2024 Re-enters Aquarius
Sept 1, 2024 Back in Capricorn again
Nov 19, 2024 Returns to Aquarius for 20 years
Pluto is not the easiest planet to deal with precisely because it is so slow. Its lessons are exacted over time and drawn out gradually. So gradually that many of us don’t see Pluto coming until it is almost too late. Thankfully we get to experience Pluto entering Aquarius in stages before it makes Aquarius its home for the next 20 years.
Aquarius is an air sign ruled by Saturn, so it doesn’t care about your feelings - it cares about logic, reason, and universality. Pluto will take those concepts and force them into some very dark territory. Pluto in Aquarius will push some of us to recognize how illogical our choices are, and some of us will inescapably see how selfish our mindset actually is. Those who care for their personal feelings over facts will be ill-prepared for these upcoming years.
Our views on society will drastically change during this time. Humanitarian issues will face uncomfortable truths about their logical basis, and organizations will be held to their principles as we understand that we can not go through this world operating like we are the only ones in it.
Pluto in Aquarius will also transform who we allow to influence us intellectually. Many of us will shift who we look to for guidance. We need to move away from emotional manipulators to leaders and influencers that champion logic, lucidity, and rational decision-making.
Finally, we must be stubborn about the correct principles, as Aquarius is a fixed sign. Stubbornness yielded in the wrong direction only wastes time and energy, so direct yours toward envisioning a world where intellect and reason prevail over what is easy or popular.
Society will ultimately transform over the next 20 years. I hope we can work together to make it a vastly better place for all of us.