Math and even simple arithmetic often disappoint me.
I expect pattern, order, logic – and this doesn’t always happen. For example, Uranus has roughly a seven-year stint in one sign of the zodiac. Neptune takes twice as long or approximately fourteen years to slowly make that thirty degree trip.
So you’d expect Pluto to stroll through its next sign, using about twenty-eight years or so, right? No.
No, because its orbit is more of an ellipse instead of a circle or an oval, Pluto will remain in Aquarius (with a little retreat every now and then) for only seventeen years, or until 2043.
Frankly, I was looking forward to that ‘logical’ twenty-eight years of dismantling entrenched systems, mayhem in public and private sectors and outright warlike skirmishes to stop bad government, reveal the chicanery and stop the graft, grift and blatant blackmail.
Well. I certainly hope Pluto isn’t going to sit on its duff and let nature take her course. Big problems require big effort to solve, in my experience. So let’s see if collectively we can’t keep hammering at the changes for good that we want in our societal fabric. Hold Pluto’s toes to the fire: insist the files be published, the biographies written, the interviews which ‘blow the cover’ off some nefarious scheme brought into bright daylight.
Sunshine kills mold, mildew, moss and germs. Let’s clear our government of any rancidity by strong sunlight and typhoon-strength winds of change. Not burning everything to the ground – you still must have a foundation upon which to build – but clearing the ugly to create the beauty of an idealistic governing system. We’ll have help from the universe for seventeen years. Let’s make the most of it.
And don’t forget to step on the cockroaches.