Pluto Transit The 12th House – Mine: Relaxing Into The Cesspool That Is Society
Astrology in real life
When Pluto was first fixing to enter my 12th house, I googled and found a bunch of really nasty stuff, like I am going to die of syphilis or the plague or become a leper. I decided I should write about the transit at that time, just to provide another perspective to people who might also be searching. You can read these posts under tag – Pluto transit 12th and this is another.
I continue to be very comfortable with this transit. I think some of this can be attributed to my nature but I also think if I articulate how and why I am comfortable, it might help people who are having a harder time with this transit.
The 12th house dissolves things. It is boundless so with Pluto in Capricorn in my 12th, I feel merged with the shadow of the collective (Pluto).
Specific to Capricorn, this means I am merged with the shadow of the government, the shadow of business, the shadow of the system, the shadow of my father and of your father for that matter. You can see this in my posts on the black market on both the blog and the boards. I write about that stuff and feel no separation from it at all.
For example, that graphic? I feel no separation from that boy/man. I feel like I could be him and in fact, I already am him.
Here are other pics – Petrol on the black market, Soviet black market, Black Market in Japan
I feel no separation from any of this.
I bought my son new clothes over the weekend and regardless of what they cost, I am pretty sure they were made in sweatshops by slave labor of some type. or degree. I don’t think I am separate from this in the least and I mean not even one cell in my body is innocent. The point here is my acceptance of this has created a comfortable situation for me.
It’s no different then lying back in a pool and finding you can float. This principle applies even if you’re lying back in a cesspool which I assure you, I am.
22 Responses to “Pluto Transit The 12th House – Mine: Relaxing Into The Cesspool That Is Society”
Hmmm. This is interesting to me as someone with a natal 12th house Pluto (in Libra). Is there much of a difference between the natal aspects and the transiting ones? I just know Pluto in the twelfth is supposed to give you the capacity for rage and/or deep inner healing – but you describe its transit in yours, Elsa, in a very cosmic and concious way…is it how you use it?
Natal 12th house pluto- and I can sympathize with the part about the sweat-shop. Once you accept things it’s much easier, because the world is full of that kind of stuff. It’s everywhere and you have to accept to some degree that all life lives off other life.
I worry about being too accepting of it sometimes.
I don’t necessarily mean accepting sweat-shops in particular, but accepting that one person can’t right everything and some things can’t be “righted.”
It’s accepting that the universe is very, very powerful and sometimes horrific from the human point of view.
No, it makes sense what you are saying, Beth. Don’t know if it’s a 12th house function, but there are so many things where as you just keeping pulling back further and further from them (like zooming out on Google Maps 
) you actually see more and more of them. Elsa picks up a shirt for her son and “zooms out” far enough to see a sweatshop…but then even further to see beyond that, until it’s clear we are all part of a big picture and because we are that picture, we are that boy…Now I don’t know if that is what exactly she is saying, but both your posts and hers made me see 12H things that way and I just wanted to share, because it’s kind of a revalation. And, anyway, I don’t quite get it, in some circles 12th house planets seem to get a bad rap…but nothing about the twelfth house seems that bad if you take Elsa’s perspective on it, which seems far more evolved than “you will get syhphillis” any day.
I’ve got Pluto transiting my 12th. All sorts of painful realizations about myself, about my past, my family, have been flooding over me. Talk about drained–I’ve got permanent dark circles under my eyes! The word ‘heavy’ comes to mind.
Is Pluto always dark? It’s squaring my Chiron right now, and all I can see is the hellishness around. I don’t talk to anyone about it, but this world is set up on some dark premises. (And this is against my usual sunny outlook, but it’s really always underneath.) Sometimes I notice that you see this too, Elsa, unless I’m wrong.
I need to read your other links on this… Why do I shy away from knowing about Pluto?
Pluto is conj. my Venus in the 2nd house. Interestingly enough, I went shopping on Valentine’s Day and though I normally look at lables, to see where items were made, I didn’t give it a second thought this time. But I have always felt that this is something no matter how hard we try to compensate for by going green, buying clothes made in the USA, there is only going to be a percentage of people who would do that, so our continued greed around the world will always win. I agree with Beth. We can try but somethings will never be righted. It’s like Yin and Yang.
ha ha, I’d totally do what that boy is doing, too.
“relaxing into the cesspool” love it! i really loved my pluto/12th transit, too…it was a privilege to experience it, i feel
walking around my new neighbourhood last night, chatting with the old couple sellling tamales, I decided: I’m going to make sandwiches and sell them on the beach this summer.
I’m sorry, I need to make some extra money. No, i won’t be charging the new, extra %7 sales tax the government is imposing on EVERYTHING come this summer.
I’m going to make them in my house, and I’m going to walk out on the street and sell ‘em, just like a huge majority of other people on the planet do. and i’m going to keep every last extra penny for myself to keep myself going.
I’m gonna politely disagree with the notion of not being able to make a problem like sweatshops go away. I think if we begin to ween away from supporting this practice by ceasing to buy certain brands of merchandise for a while, it’ll stop, eventually. Because huge corporations that suck the life and blood out of people need to survive, no?
Sweatshops propose a problem because many who work in these factories are beyond uncomfortable in their work, and they are being taken advantage of day by day and usually not cared for in any capacity. If they get sick or make a mistake while stitching your work-out pants together, they could lose their jobs, entirely, and are easily replaced because… people need to eat.
Yes, as adults, we’d be willing to do what that boy is doing. But, given the choice, would you allow your child/ren to do work in a sweatshop or even sell gum in a high-traffic road in Mexico City, where they could be run over as a no-name? To be taken advantage of in this way? To pretty much be abused?
Sweatshops are unfair for the most part, and I feel that workers should be treated with some amount of respect. They can pretty much croak over a sewing machine and no one would care. But this is just what I feel…
Deb- I don’t disagree with you. It’s always easier to accept things that aren’t currently your problem, isn’t it? Sweatshops were probably a bad example, as it’s concievable they could be fixed. I’m a little sorry I went off on the sweatshop tangent, since I don’t think that was part of the main point Elsa was trying to make.
Elsa- You sell bootlegged petrol by the side of the road?
“Elsa- You sell bootlegged petrol by the side of the road?”
Beth – I would. And so would you if you were starving.
Hey, that’s not a bad thing to do. I know some Vietnamese immigrants who went to the park on Saturdays to sell cookies.
Did my post just get eaten? I think it did.
Anyway, I just said “hey, that’s not a bad thing to do.”
This is so interesting. I have natal Pluto in the 12th and totally understand this attitude. It’s about knowing and accepting the big picture. The world is how it is and people do what they have to do in order to survive. I have no problem with that. In fact, until I read this, it never occurred to me that other people might have a problem with it . Why would you?
The point about sweatshops is not whether they are right or wrong, but they are a fact of life. Changing that fact is not the issue under discussion and belongs somewhere else. the 12th house by it’s nature is a nebulous one, there are no clearcut boundaries in that way. It’s really difficult to even talk about, just keeps slipping away each time I try to define it…
Or walk into safeway and grab a chicken, bread and milk and walk out the door. If you are starving you are going to do this stuff. As people get desperate this kind of thing is likely to increase.
Beth, no need to apologize. We’re all free to express our opinions. If I disagree, I disagree respectfully is all.
You know, years and years ago, my friend told me that China was going to rise in such a big way. And it’s rising. I think that’s what’s going to happen, not just to China, but to other third-world countries as well. It’s time to allow other parts of the world their moment in the spotlight and their freedom and choices and to stop supporting unfair practices. My mom went door-to-door selling blankets she’d knitted in the 50s. She cleaned homes, worked for pennies. So did I. That’s what you do, and you work your way up.
But there has to be a line drawn somewhere when it comes to how we treat workers overseas. We’re not a superpower anymore, and, in my opinion, it would behoove us to aim to allow the poor and struggling the same rights that we take for granted… if only for the sake of karma. Just because you or I or others are poor and starving doesn’t mean we all don’t deserve respect.
The biggest example I can come up with as far as how awful some are treated overseas is Chiquita Bananas. Just when you thought that slavery didn’t exist, here you have an evil corporation to prove you wrong. Chiquita is among the most violent corporations out there and they literally have gotten away with murder and violent acts we’d never want to happen to us.
Pluto’s been traipsing through my 12th for a few years now… about the time it hit my mercury (about two years ago) I became aware of the sinister powers that actually run the world and the consequences for humanity if we all keep cruising along on automatic pilot, trusting governments to “take care” of us and letting the mass media to do our thinking for us.
I call this transit my huuuuuge wake-up call. It’s been ugly and terrifying at times, but I think about how “asleep” I was before and I’m glad I’m heading into the future with my eyes wide open, even if it isn’t very pretty.
I’ve seen the structure of my own life collapse in the past year, and all I can do is roll with it, really. Change is the only constant. It’s made me more grateful for small blessings, that’s for sure!! I have learned how strong I am, considering many dreams died all at once, in a very short time. Having major Scorpio/Pluto stuff in my natal chart helps!
Bottom line, I don’t think I’d want to be one of the snoozing, hypnotized masses, considering the astrological time bombs that are about to go off. *shudders*
(…slavery always exists. Everyone here working an unfulfilling, grueling 9 to 5, raise your hand. Im afraid that Chiquita Bananas is only the tip of the corporate slavery machine…)
Hey Elsa and all,
I ‘m also living a 12th house pluto transit. For me it has been about unearthing all the shit hidden. Craziest dreams, chronic back pain and assistance to detainees…
Regards,
Syd
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