Starting in the mid 1980s, the outer planets Neptune (15 years in a sign) and Uranus (7 years in a sign) transited the authority-loving Capricorn then the technology-loving Aquarius.

And now we have authority with a love of technology. Or technology as authority. Or love of authority that creates technology.

The foot-washing messiahs have given way to the tech-creating messiahs.

If you were born with Neptune and Uranus in the Capricorn/Aquarius mixture, these are your times. Interesting times, as the old Chinese saying goes that refers to potentially chaotic, rather than truly interesting, times.

Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus are outer planets representing “the times” or era in which one lives with all its focus, obsessions, interests, and value systems. Capricorn and Aquarius created a world that was both larger and smaller: larger in that we could connect with anyone on the globe and smaller because we can become self-absorbed in narrow interests (ironically, a “symptom” of autism, a disease of increasing volume).

If you were born with Neptune and Uranus in the Capricorn/Aquarius mixture, your early years were filled with buttons and images and information – very stimulating for developing young folks.

And then came Pluto.

Pluto in Capricorn

At the end of 2007, Pluto entered Capricorn for a 20-year transit. If you were born with Neptune and Uranus in the Capricorn/Aquarius mixture, life suddenly changed. Your parents might have lost their homes in the global financial collapse due to investor overleveraging, primarily in the housing market.

Capricorn rules social structure and now those born to embrace technology discovered that “brick and mortar” was being eradicated. Who needs a house? Why shop in a store when you can have all stores available to you online?

Compulsive by nature, Pluto didn’t waste a moment in the evolution of social life starting with houses, then moving to finance and government. “The Cloud” was launched during these times to move away from the physical and tangible to the intangible and permanently accessible by those who know how to make keys, eventually if not already, for every digital house.

At the very end of Pluto in Capricorn, technology was cemented into daily life and so that when a new illness emerged on the planet, governments (ruled by Capricorn) were able to create a “lockdown” situation where needs could be met by fewer people and digital communication.

Capricorn and Aquarius merged.

Pluto in Aquarius

Capricorn’s key phrase is “I use” and government and other types of non-elected authority are using technology to maintain authority. Aquarius’ key phrase is “I know.”

Pluto in Aquarius – it entered in 2024 – is now asking if technology can replace humans. And humans don’t particularly like this. But technology “knows.” Increasingly we technology users believe “we know” when we don’t have foundational or challenging information due to the highly manipulative nature of visual media and the comprehensive responses of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Aquarius is also the traditional sign of the humanitarian, concocting ideas for the benefit of the whole due to a love of ideas and perfect societies rather than as a means for acquiring wealth and status – think of the brilliant scientist lost to history as a colleague was able to sell the idea first. The scientist seeking knowledge for its own sake is Aquarius. The one making money on it is Capricorn.

In these early stages of Aquarius energy, there is response against the negative effects of technology on people such as withdrawal from social media, parent challenges to social media companies, and, of course, the outsourcing of humans to technology.

Thirty-Something’s Heed the Call

Thirty-somethings, you with Uranus and/or Neptune in Capricorn and/or Aquarius – it’s your time, your era, your culture to shape and shift.

What will it be? Humans or machines? Or what combination?

Text me when you figure it out 🙂

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