Pluto has been in Capricorn a year now, and don't those people born from the 21^st to the 24^th of both December and June know about it!  Next year it will directly affect those born from the 23^rd to the 26^th of the same months, but that's the personal side of it.....  Pluto brings transformation at the mass level, whether through mass indoctrination, mass death, mass weddings or mass enlightenment.  It can be phobic and paranoid when young, borderline obsessive and compulsive.  It can be extreme, with border line crisis and trauma never being far away.  It can also be eliminative, regenerative and purifying as well as transformative and trans-evolutionary.  When looked at in a positive light, Pluto brings a sense of rebirth, of the snake shedding its skin, the caterpillar turning into the butterfly and ultimately the phoenix rising from the ashes.  When Pluto moved into Scorpio in 1983 we thought as astrologers that it would bring nuclear war but instead it brought a kind of maturity and the end of the cold war.  It also symbolised the onset of HIV.  Pluto in Sagittarius was predicted as the transformation of religion, and this has proved the case in that atheism and fundamentalism are on the rise everywhere.  Pluto in Capricorn should bring transformation into the global politic, a shifting of boundaries and borders from the physical to (hopefully) the moral and ethical.  It should bring a kind of world structure that is of more influence than current systems of government and religion (I suggest the internet is the tool of this).  A transformation of existing structures into something based more on common sense and pragmatism rather than idealism and rhetorical dogma.  And be sure that after oil comes both water and food as the resource wars intensify.....  Perhaps Pluto here suggests either mass starvation or the ending of hunger? 

In the last six days I've looked at the current situation involving Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.  I've been doing this in readiness for my keynote speech at the Astrological Lodge of London on Monday night (50 Gloucester Place), on ‘Acceleration of Evolution - A look at outer planetary transits from a modernistic perspective' - or something like that.