Latest Astro insight - Pluto is the planet of transformation only relevant to us as individuals in the generational sense, as a collective mass on a planet, an incarnated cellular being . ONLY.
But not an agent of transformation in the sense that transcends our incarnated earth self. It ONLY applies to us as earthlings, not as Selves with Higher Selves who reside in 5 D and beyond. Same goes for synastry.
As a Goddess , a deity, Kaali challenges our aesthetic sensibilities in appreciating her. Her very appearance can make the average westerner and even an occasional indian cringe as the first reflex.
Therein lies the answer to the mystery that is Kaali - why the reflex of withdrawal from her very sight ?
We have attempted to understand her thru the asteroid Kaali on this forum. Kaali is the first of the Ten Wisdom Goddesses a.k.a. Mahavidyas in Indian Tantra.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahavidya
http://www.rainbowray.com/dasa-maha-vidyas.html
These 10 goddesses are nothing but 10 principles of God-Intelligence that possess intelligence and integrity but no individual will of their own. They are Psycho-Spiritual processes as well as Cosmic energies that constitute Enlightenment and coming into Divine Being.
And Kaali is the FIRST . The Goddess of destruction,death and decay is the first wisdom goddess on the path to God.
WHY ???
In my own nativity,
Kaali at 29.5 Gemini conjunct Sun and Moon in Cancer and opposes Isis and Lilith at 29.5 Sag .
I often wondered the absence of Pluto influences on my luminaries - All I have is Pluto bang on the 8 th house cusp. As per Jeff Green it makes one Plutonic but his description of the Pluto in Eight fell short of the influences I feel on my personal planets. Not so much influence as much....well BEING.
Kaali is nothing but our personal Pluto - if we are to take Pluto as a generational planet then the position of Kaali is our personal Pluto point - the aspects it makes to our personal planets,angles and such are like a magnifying glass setting a paper on fire by focusing the fire of the Sun's core heat on a single point.
The below is more suited to UC forum but because I would like this thread to discuss the astrology of Kaali I am posting it here.
My understanding of Kaali is as follows.
Our Self, an eternal , infinte being imagines itself as a limited personality encapsulated further into Body-Mind-Action complex - we think we are ONLY that which is and was MANIFEST - as body, actions,experiences and mind reactions to the same.
We thus ignore and live separately from our Self and TIME which is UNMANIFEST and Eternal.
Kaali is UNMANIFEST TIME as well as the PROCESS and ENERGY of unmanifestation or destruction of our Self image as manifest .
All creation and transformation happens in the dark, the osmosis of Sex occurs in the dark of the Yoni, the conception of the egg by the sperm in the dark of the Womb. Our Soul endures the dark of the womb to be birthed into a new form.
Worshipped as Goddess Kaali the first Wisdom principle - energetically and cosmically she is the VOID through which we can rebirth as Divine beings free from all sense of separateness from our unmanifest, eternal selves.
Our universe is nothing but our perception based on the cumulative personality accrued from all incarnatory experiences.
Through Kaali this Universe can be destroyed by us in a single breath, every breath.
The " Kaali Process" neutralises our subjective,reincarnated self into our Real, Divine Self free from the complusions of experiencing and resolving all our Karma through the physical plane. Once Kaalified - we can mentally process and burn all our karmic seeds - daily and incessantly.
Kaali as an astrological energy will compulsorily subject all that is mortal and transient, about the planet or the house cusps it touches, to the process of death. For only what is mortal and unreal can and will be destroyed.
Conjunct a personal planet I can think of no greater astrological blessing, immortality can only be gained by the destruction of our mortality and that is what Kaali will do in our charts and our SELVES.
Kaali will take the planet and house it touches into the Unmanifest,Formless Nirvanic Field. To worship Kaali consciously is to beg her to merge us into this field.
Cosmically Kaali is the Electrical force - lightening that pervades our universe as the enrgy of transformation. Acting quickly,unpredictably it leaves no traces of the radical transformation it effects. In our bodies Kaali is the electrical charge that will resides in the heart chakra once invoked
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Once this astrological energy awakens in the chart by transit, progressions or in synastry she resides in the astral heart and radically changes our entire being so that we are transformed in a cosmic context . As an earthling the portfolio was and will be Pluto's domain.
Again the effects will be acutely felt by those souls who have worshipped this Wisdom principle as Kaali,Sekhmet or the like in past incarnations or have been initiated and opened to this Kinetic energy that is a part of our Universe .
I will post my research on Kaali's startling natal and synastry synchronicities later. I urge Knowflakes who have Kaali aspect Planet and house cusp to please post their insights and experiences.