Pluto
Such a metaphor...to "lose" Pluto from the solar system. Leave it to science, or more accurately the politics of science, to do away with Pluto (by the by, I love science; it's politics that leaves me wondering where all the brave people went. Politics seems like a continuous series of stopgap measures taken to shut up as many people as possible, thus ensuring little progress toward change is ever made).
But I digress.
In astrology, Pluto represents the unconscious, symbolizing what is buried deep inside of us and needs to be brought to the light, or to have light brought to it. Pluto stands for transformation, change, death, rebirth and new growth....the opportunity for exploration of (and eventual breakdown of) psychological blocks that impede our evolutionary growth.
In a time, in this society, in a world, AS A SPECIES desperately in need of all that Pluto represents, we of course banish it to the netherworlds of obscurity, giving official license to disregard the knowledge of the underworld for visceral definitions of time and space and spirit.
posted by savagefredd @ 2:14 AM
3 Comments:
hey - i thought the scientific community revised its thinking and gace pluto back its planetary status?
does that mean we are ready to look at the dark underbelly?
your pluto musings put me in mind of The Tower card in the Tarot (can't recall what number trump card it is). The Tower is the accumluated status quo (the good and the bad) - and periodically, it's gotta go - gotta get shaken up brought down, blown up and the rubble cleared away to make room for new thought.
a difficult, messy, dirty and dangerous job.
Bird, so glad to hear from you. Great musings.
It's my understanding that Pluto in the end was downgraded to a "dwarf planet," a new category that also includes the asteroid Ceres, the newly discovered object 2003 UB313, and possibly dozens of others.
Rejection of the netherworld--typical of the American conciousness.
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