Turning Point: The United States' Pluto Return

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by Ray Grasse

© Ray Grasse, first published in the Mountain Astrologer, 2019 / 08.02.2021

The following piece about the coming Pluto return was published in late 2019, before the George Floyd murder, the economic crash of 2020, and the Covid-19 pandemic.

US flagLike individuals, nations experience “planetary returns,” too, when celestial bodies make a complete circuit around the sky and return to the zodiacal position they once occupied. But the full return cycle of Pluto is an especially lengthy one, taking over 240 years to complete.

While individual life-spans obviously aren’t long enough to experience one of these, nations and empires certainly can. Using July 4, 1776 as its birthdate, the United States is on the verge of experiencing its first Pluto return. While that’s technically not set to occur until 2022, when Pluto reaches 27 Capricorn, for a planetary cycle as long-range as this it’s necessary to allow for an orb of several years, if not a decade or more on either side.

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