24 March 2023-11 June 2023,

21 January 2024-2 September 2024

20 November 2024-9 March 2043

Last time Pluto was in Aquarius, 1777-1798.

When a slow outer planet changes signs it is a big moment. Pluto the agent of transformation, is changing signs from Capricorn to Aquarius where it will stay for 20 years. The transition from Cardinal Earth to Fixed Air, means that something is surfacing and rising, or maybe changing from something tangible to something intangible. Earth gives form to things, while Air disseminates information and ideas. As this is a slow planet, it will take one and a half year to make its full entry into Aquarius. Pluto is still a subject for astrological reasearch. So, it may be more helpful to appreciate its effects in this sign, slowly in our lives and collective experience, observe, ask questions and take notes:

1. With Pluto in Aquarius, the Moon in cardinal signs is finally free since 2008. This besides other interpretations could mean on a collective level that the vox populi (public opinion) will be liberated, more impulsive, and adventurous, and certainly harder to control, manipulated or coersed. It maybe easier to initiate, yet things will be tested for their follow up and consistency.
2. Do you find that the period that Pluto ingressed in Aquarius last Spring liberated your intuitive mind, the way you reflect on things, your responses, your natural self, habits, and needs? You may feel less ‘blocked’ about the area the Moon is placed and rules in your natal chart. There is still a bit more Pluto in Capricorn from Sept. to November 2024, yet we may have already noticed some fresh changes on the above, that we will practice more as this long transit of Pluto fully engages with the territory Aquarius. I have certainly started to change some unhealthy habits and I have become more aware of them. It maybe helpful to also look at your natal Pluto and Uranus placements, as well as the house that Pluto transits in your chart.
3. It would be interesting to see if Pluto in Aquarius will see the radical change of the way astrology is viewed as a therapeutic tool. We may see a strengthening of the practice of astrology and psychology joining forces. I mean therapy or healing through astrology, which isn’t at all something new for astrologers, but maybe it will evolve, and psychologists would acknowledge its value and start collaborating with astrologers. Aquarius is sextile and trine Aries and Libra (the partnership and consultation axis). Pluto in Aquarius will generally tend to act as an agent of transformation for all kinds of ‘marriages’, partnerships, contracts, treaties. Personal, national, or international.
4. Has the group dynamic or energy changed in your life? Aquarius is a sign of social aptness and aloof. Did you notice any changes in your creativity? Leo is opposite Aquarius. Did you notice any significant changes on the way you give and receive love, between you, your creativity, and your friends or groups of like minded individuals? Depending on which age group and generation we belong, this may take an altered meaning.

To be continued…

© Eleni Kostika 2024