posted March 10, 2010 12:00 AM         

The Pluto-Saturn Preparedness Kit—an Overview of the Series
©11-10-2009 by Donna Cunningham, MSW
Transiting Saturn and Pluto will be forming a difficult 90° angle called a square during much of October 2009-October 2010, within a 5° range. People who follow astrology are becoming very anxious about what the aspect may mean, both personally and globally.

While I’m not denying that for some people, this will be a challenging aspect, the more anxious you become about some vague danger from huge forces you see as outside your control, the less effectively you’ll cope with it.

I’m creating this series called A Pluto-Saturn Preparedness Kit to give you information and tools to handle the transit—not just to cope, but to use those energies constructively to improve long-standing conditions in your life. Here, for those of you who just joined us, is an overview of the series, with links to guide you through the process.

Putting the Panic to Rest

People, Pluto and Saturn are NOT out to get you! The planets don’t CAUSE anything to happen to us, they just correlate with what’s going on in the world. You’ve lived through Pluto transits before. You’ve lived through Saturn transits before. You’re still here.

Depending on your age, you’ve probably even lived through the combined Pluto-Saturn-Uranus transits before, back in the mid 1960s. You’re still here. This is the 4th time in a little over a century that the trio formed major aspects. We’re still here.

We’re immortal, indestructible souls, and we’ve lived through times like these in our endless cycles of lifetimes hundreds if not thousands of times over the eons that humanity has inhabited this planet. We’re still here. If you’re buying into the fear-mongering about the supposed End of the World in 2012, read “Catastrophobia: What Causes it and How to Heal it” by Diana Stone.

Who does the Pluto-Saturn square affect? The slow-moving transit between Pluto and Saturn won’t affect everyone directly, only those with planets, the Sun, Moon, Ascendant, or Midheaven (10th house cusp) in the early degrees of the Cardinal signs— Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn—in their birth charts.

(We’re focusing on the Saturn-Pluto aspect by itself first to give you tools to work on any major issues this first aspect may bring up and get on a more solid foundation. That way you’d be better equipped to deal with Uranus later.)

How will the kit help you? It’s a series of posts and downloadable files to help you sort out how the Pluto-Saturn transit relates to you personally and your loved ones—if it relates to you at all. At each stage, you’ll learn more about the astrological and psychological makeup of this combination of energies. You’ll be given some self-help and healing tools to sort out what it means for you and those charts you’re scanning so avidly.

Who am I to be writing this? For those of you who just wandered in off the internet and don’t know me, here’s a bit about my qualifications to reassure you that I know what I’m talking about. I earned a master’s degree in social work from Columbia University in 1967, and within a year (circa Linda Goodman) began my astrological studies. I began doing charts for people a year after that and have continued to work with people with the dual combination of astrology and psychotherapy in the 40 years since. After 10 years of practice, in the early 1980s, I wanted better tools for deeper level healing of the issues clients presented, so I began working with flower essences, energy work, lightwork and other methods. If you need more information, see the About Page.

What You’ll Get from this Series of Posts

We’re going through a fairly orderly process, although in a somewhat disorderly way, as inspiration strikes or as readers’ needs become apparent. Lots of you have joined us in the middle, so here’s what you’d learn by working with the posts in order, step-by-step:

#1 HOUSES AND AREAS OF LIFE AFFECTED http://skywriter.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/the-pluto-saturn-preparedness-kit—part-1/

#2 BEST CASE/WORST CASE SCENARIOS http://skywriter.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/the-pluto-saturn-preparedness-kit—part-2/

#3 HOW TO USE THESE ENERGIES WELL http://skywriter.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/pluto-saturn-preparedness-kit-5-how-to-use-these-energies-well/

#4 TAKING CONCRETE ACTION TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE http://skywriter.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/pluto-saturn-preparedness-kit-3-–setting-goals-that-work/

#5 KEY PLAYERS IN YOUR DRAMA http://skywriter.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/pluto-saturn-preparedness-kit-4-key-players-in-your-drama/

#6 THE TRAIN IS COMING. ARE YOU STALLED ON THE TRACKS? http://skywriter.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/pluto-saturn-kit-5-the-train-is-coming-are-you-stalled-on-the-tracks/

#7 PROJECTS FOR A SAFER FUTURE http://skywriter.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/pluto-saturn-preparedness-kit-7-7-projects-for-a-safer-future/

Extras:
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THE PLUTO SATURN SQUARE: 2 EXAMPLES OF HOW IT WORKS http://skywriter.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/the-pluto-saturn-square—two-examples-of-how-it-works/

PEOPLE WHO MISUSE PLUTO AND SATURN: DON'T BE FOOLED BY SCARE TACTICS http://skywriter.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/people-who-misuse-pluto-and-saturn—dont-be-fooled-by-scare-tactics/

FROM CLUTTER TO CLOSURE: USING THE PLUTO SATURN SQUARE http://skywriter.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/the-pluto-saturn-square—from-clutter-to-closure/

posted March 10, 2010 02:01 AM         

In 2003, I think it was, I read something about recurrence transits. The author of the articles, was Nick Dagan Best. I think those of us with the Saturn-Pluto square in our natal charts, are undergoing a recurrence transit.

posted March 12, 2010 03:29 AM         

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Thank you for the post. I have a couple of planets in the first six degrees of Libra and Aries - Pluto and Jupiter - and another at 12*Cancer (Saturn).

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posted March 12, 2010 04:11 AM         

I think Pluto edged close to mine, and I fell into a deep depression over various things. *edited.

posted March 12, 2010 04:20 AM         

But that is 13 Aries. South Node, LUST, APHRODITE are between 21 to 23 Aries.