Today, we have the final Hammer of Thor aspect in a series of four since late July. If you’ve been feeling epically enraged and/or unfairly blamed and criticised lately, you may have been metaphorically wielding/receiving blows from this heavy aspect pattern, which has been activated as Mars, Mercury and Venus have moved through 9 degrees of Virgo. Now the Sun, around whom all celestial bodies revolve and on whom our energy and awareness depends, makes the same stressful aspect to Pluto at 24 degrees of Capricorn and Eris at 24 Aries.
If your planets or angles are at any of these degrees (or you have a natal Hammer of Thor) you may have felt this stress especially in power struggles, cruel isolation and trauma. If so, today could bring powerful breakthroughs as the Sun illuminates what Pluto has raised from the depths, revealing how we can take responsibility for our own power and actions.
The planet associated with transformation, trauma and riches, Pluto was discovered in 1930 at the height of the Great Depression, in response to which Roosevelt introduced the New Deal legislation, radically improving the lives of the vast majority of Americans as Hitler emerged in his steady rise to power. Its discovery also coincided with the research of Lise Meitner, the exiled Jewish physicist who would announce her discovery of nuclear fission in 1939.
Eris, on the other hand, was discovered by three scientists in 2005 who nicknamed her Xena (yes, Warrior Princess). Initially thought to be larger than Pluto, she was named for the Greek goddess of discord and strife, and her discovery led to months of scientific debate and the Astronomical Union’s eventual decision to reclassify Pluto as a dwarf planet. The outcast goddess, who took her revenge in mythology by tricking others into showing their true colours, led to the demotion of the tiny planet Pluto, god of death.
As such, Eris and the Sun might ask us to level the playing field in our power struggles, to integrate the parts of ourselves and others whom we would ostracise, and to recognise the possibility that those causing trouble might actually be quickening the process of our own miraculous transformations. With the Moon in Cancer nourish self care today, observing the transformations already underway as common carbon becomes jewel-like gems.
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