Saturn-Pluto Quincunx

(Transit. Saturn → Natal Pluto)

Avesalom Podvodnyi. Aspects

Saturn’s quincunx: A person who lacks inner freedom has no moral right to demand civil liberties. This aspect gives the individual dissatisfaction with ordinary earthly means of deepening in the planet’s spheres, no matter how deeply they penetrate them, and the same applies to working with its principle in the inner world: here the person needs to hear a cosmic resonance and perceive a non-earthly depth, which they feel they are capable of. At a low level, of course, the person is unaware of all this, and their Saturn quincunx manifests as minor annoyances and limitations in the planet’s spheres, related to their orientation toward ordinary earthly methods of addressing corresponding issues and inability to view them from a cosmic perspective, and although subconsciously the quincunx will be quite difficult. Generally, this aspect produces dissatisfaction with earthly wisdom and a desire to attain cosmic wisdom in the planet’s spheres; sometimes the person may feel they are gaining insight, but initially with strong distortions, since cosmic laws can only be grasped through conscious and subconscious departure from geocentric positions and the majority of social views, which hold people very firmly, especially in serious matters. Therefore, here probable poorly conscious shifts occur—from cosmic orientations which are attractive to the subconscious but suspicious, to earthly and established ones which are reliable but unsatisfying; as a result, the issue is repressed, leaving a general vague feeling of dissatisfaction, or, especially if the quincunx is afflicted, stress develops. The inner work here is difficult, but yields cosmic wisdom, karmic vision, and the ability to harmoniously integrate cosmic karma into earthly life. Pluto’s quincunx: There is enough hatred on Earth to blow it up. At a low level, this is a rather harsh aspect, as the person in the planet’s spheres experiences the influence of both cosmic and earthly karmic cleansing programs, which are poorly coordinated, so the combined criticism may appear utterly destructive, and the overall picture of the corresponding areas will predominantly have dark tones. It should be noted that cosmic vision and cosmic aversion are entirely real sensations for this person in the planet’s spheres, although they do not always interpret them correctly. For example, if the planet is in the first house, the personality traits it governs will dissatisfy the person from both earthly (social) and cosmic viewpoints, and the combined effect may be extremely unpleasant, up to total cosmic hatred toward any mirrors. The inner work proceeds through careful differentiation between cosmic and earthly criticism and, first of all, through attaining cosmic ethics and understanding the limits of its competence in earthly matters, which requires great inner purity in the planet’s spheres; until this is achieved and the person tends to see evil primarily in the external world, they will receive backlash from the cosmic egregore, albeit through their own earthly projections. The inner work yields cosmic vision and perfected methods for cleansing earthly circumstances, as well as the ability to find the most harmonious way of developing earthly karma in cooperation with the higher cosmic egregore.