How Does Pluto's New Status Affect Astrology?
It doesn't.
Actually, there are two ways of looking at this topic:
1) Due to the law of synchronicity, there is a deeper meaning to the IAU's decision, relating to how the collective relates to the archetype of Pluto. Lynn Hayes has an excellent synopsis, including comments by Nancy Waterman and Rick Levine, regarding our relationship to violence, hidden resources, extreme emotions, nuclear power, and so on -- all aspects of Pluto. Rick goes on to say that the collective has failed in integrating this archetypal power into our consciousness. Think about it -- depth psychology is Plutonic, and Freud severely disrupted the Western world with his assertion that we are a seething cauldron of repressed emotions. Do we really want to get in touch with our dark, violent, sexual impulses? It's scary! But we do give our unconscious more power by neglecting it, and the result is an unhealthy acting out of our basest instincts.
2) The astrological Pluto is not equivalent to the astronomical Pluto. The astrological Pluto is an archetype. In astrology, this concept goes beyond the meaning of the Jungian archetype, although it includes it. Archetypes in astrology cover all levels of reality: both intrapsychic and physical. Jung, in his later years, acknowledged this with the term psychoid -- an archetype can be expressed both within one's inner world and one's external world simultaneously. This is the basis of synchronicity.
The astronomical Pluto is simply an instance of the astrological Pluto -- it just happens to be a big physical object millions of miles away from Earth. However, it is no more or less Plutonic than our biological drives or obsessions or quests for power. I like to think that God (or whomever designed the universe) created the solar system in such a way that -- when observed from Earth -- the movement of the planets (including "dwarfs") along the ecliptic corresponds with our psychological and environmental experiences. So the astronomical Pluto is like a hand on a clock, pointing to one of 360 degrees of the zodiac.
Therefore, the demotion of Pluto to a "dwarf planet" or "plutoid" does not negate the impact of the archetypal or astrological Pluto on our lives on Earth.
Tags: astrology astronomy IAU pluto dwarf planet archetype
Actually, there are two ways of looking at this topic:
1) Due to the law of synchronicity, there is a deeper meaning to the IAU's decision, relating to how the collective relates to the archetype of Pluto. Lynn Hayes has an excellent synopsis, including comments by Nancy Waterman and Rick Levine, regarding our relationship to violence, hidden resources, extreme emotions, nuclear power, and so on -- all aspects of Pluto. Rick goes on to say that the collective has failed in integrating this archetypal power into our consciousness. Think about it -- depth psychology is Plutonic, and Freud severely disrupted the Western world with his assertion that we are a seething cauldron of repressed emotions. Do we really want to get in touch with our dark, violent, sexual impulses? It's scary! But we do give our unconscious more power by neglecting it, and the result is an unhealthy acting out of our basest instincts.
2) The astrological Pluto is not equivalent to the astronomical Pluto. The astrological Pluto is an archetype. In astrology, this concept goes beyond the meaning of the Jungian archetype, although it includes it. Archetypes in astrology cover all levels of reality: both intrapsychic and physical. Jung, in his later years, acknowledged this with the term psychoid -- an archetype can be expressed both within one's inner world and one's external world simultaneously. This is the basis of synchronicity.
The astronomical Pluto is simply an instance of the astrological Pluto -- it just happens to be a big physical object millions of miles away from Earth. However, it is no more or less Plutonic than our biological drives or obsessions or quests for power. I like to think that God (or whomever designed the universe) created the solar system in such a way that -- when observed from Earth -- the movement of the planets (including "dwarfs") along the ecliptic corresponds with our psychological and environmental experiences. So the astronomical Pluto is like a hand on a clock, pointing to one of 360 degrees of the zodiac.
Therefore, the demotion of Pluto to a "dwarf planet" or "plutoid" does not negate the impact of the archetypal or astrological Pluto on our lives on Earth.
Tags: astrology astronomy IAU pluto dwarf planet archetype
posted by Jeffrey Kishner at 8/25/2006
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