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This piece has been turning in my head for a bit— I had to come back and say thank you for the enlightenment!

It had me think about how businesses became individuals under law in the USA. I thought about how businesses have recently been acting more like how humans do in survival mode— reactive, hoarding, etc. I thought about how individuality grew entrepreneur culture and encouraged people to get business licenses. I thought about how contract workers are becoming more common in the tech space. All of these themes correlate to Aquarius imo. Additionally, businesses are the children (metaphorically speaking) of billionaires— tying this into the mythology behind Aquarius.

Perhaps businesses will legally become their own full-blown entities — almost like feudalism reborn. A promise of prosperity that morphs into exploitation (pretty fast too considering it’s Aquarius!)

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Hi Sumayah! Thanks for your thoughtful comment. I'm glad the piece got you thinking about these issues. I think you are onto something here. Air is a mercurial element and it would make sense for transformations of the kind you mention to take place in this era, given Pluto in Aquarius and the wider Age of Air. I think there is the possibility for new forms of business that are much more democratic and participatory to come into the world during this period. The idea of the Network State that I mention at the end is where I suspect things might be going. This would be a business-minded yet also potentially idealistic state that people only participate in voluntarily, and where resources are shared according to certain pre-agreed rules.

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I agree with you in terms of where things might be going, but I disagree with the idea of a "potentially idealistic state". With the philosophy of the current capitalist society (productivity above all else), I'm a little nervous about the philosophy of an upcoming Network State:

The pre-agreed rules is where exploitation can sneak in -- humanity has learned that laws and text can remain the same but their understanding and application can be twisted. In a world where value comes from bartering within a network, there comes a likelihood that a percentage of people will not be able to or willing to participate in that network. They could be exiled. This train of thought comes from mythology of Ouranos -- the exiling of his children that did not suit his vision of order. Aquarius is often tied to the word "exile" in my astrological readings, influencing my track of thought.

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Yes I'm afraid this is a possibility. That said, I think there's also the possibility of something with a grander more inclusive vision coming to pass. The Saturn-Neptune conjunction at 0 Aries in 2026 is the one to watch. Saturn-Neptune is about making grand, all-encompassing dreams a reality. Think of the 1917 revolution. And 0 Aries seems to speak of a new beginning. Of course, At the same time, the way this unfolds is going to be messy, I think. It will be many futures, all at once, some positive, some not, as always.

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This analysis was stimulating and thought provoking for me so I hope you will be alright if I share some thoughts it raised for me about the trajectory of Pluto's evolutionary Aquarian intentions.

I was immediately reminded of some other social movements that took place in the late 1700's that were not noted in this historical record of Pluto and particularly the ascendence then and now of a huge, discontented group in the third estate.

"What class of people has risen to great influence and prosperity, yet finds itself at odds with formal power structures in our societies?"

I would suggest that this question perfectly describes women and people of color. Increasingly likely to be highly educated and highly successful, these groups find themselves, not only underrepresented in government, but their rights are under increasingly severe threat. As the Pluto transits the final stretch of Capricorn regressive, conservative, authoritarian forces seem determined to eliminate certain individual rights and to exert totalitarian control over targeted populations. This threat is being met with vocal dissent by these groups in the US, Iran, and elsewhere.

The last ingress of Pluto into Aquarius shined a light on these same groups. The late 1700's saw many Enlightenment philosophers defending the rights of women including Jeremy Bentham, Marquis de Condorcet, Mary Wollstonecraft's (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman), Olympe de Gouges (Declaration of the Rights of Woman), and Abigail Adams.

The first abolitionist society in the US was founded in 1775. 1783 saw abolitionist efforts in Britain and Ben Franklin submitted an anti-slavery petition to the First Congress in 1790. Pluto in Aquarius raised the issue of human rights.

While I see the point you are making from the perspective of Tech billionaires, is it objectively true that they are being shut out of the ruling class like the French bourgeoisie were?

"We need to think hard about the imbalances, contradictions and injustices Pluto’s transit through Capricorn has already revealed."

I would suggest that Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Silicon Valley billionaires can hardly be described as facing injustice or being on the receiving end of imbalances. These plutocrats more closely resemble France's nobility, who were exempt from taxes and laws affecting the common man, than they do the third estate. In fact, their stratospheric wealth often provides strategies for paying no taxes at all (like French nobility) and places at their disposal a different justice system with delayed or little accountability.

Further, they are not underrepresented individuals barred from running for office or casting a vote as a citizen like everyone else. Their enormous wealth ensures they will have an outsized seat in the halls of power and a loud voice provided by an army of lobbyists. The perceived injustice by plutocrats is the outrage that anyone would dare to regulate them on behalf of the common good. And shock that they are mildly constrained from wielding the unchecked power of kings over their fellow citizens who agreed to be governed by elected representatives who wield power on citizens' behalf. Plutocrats' grievances and resulting behavior can be more accurately characterized as thwarted entitlement with ensuing frustration rather than some true injustice.

What seems to have been revealed under Pluto in Capricorn is a brazen declaration by the authoritarian/nobility/plutocratic class that, "laws don't apply to us, we are exempt from regulation, taxes are for the little people, elections don't apply to us, neither personal nor national boundaries apply to us, and some people (like us) have inalienable rights and intrinsic value while others do not." Today's "nobility" has demonstrated the shadow of the entitled classes through profoundly ignoble behavior: open abuses of power, corruption, racism, misogyny, and the violent entitlement behavior seen in naked power and land grabs.

In the last ingress of Pluto in Aquarius, the bourgeoisie advanced Aquarian philosophies to secure their own rights while actively disenfranchising others. They created a ruling class comprised of themselves while preserving a peasant class to be ruled over. Perhaps the evolution of this coming turning is to erase that hypocrisy and to codify inalienable rights for everyone that cannot be overpowered by authoritarian and plutocratic power grabs? And as Uranus progresses through Taurus perhaps this evolution is no longer about the concerns of the moneyed class, but a revolution of values. What has value and who? Will it finally include everyone?

What if the roadmap for the future is actually being telegraphed, not by the grievances of plutocrats, but by the determined assertion of the inalienable rights of the heretofore "peasant class" as evidenced by the unfolding struggle against domination in Ukraine, Iran, the US, and in many other nations, organizations, and homes around the world?

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Hi there Pb, thanks so much for this detailed and thoughtful response to the piece, I love to see this. You've mentioned some important areas this piece didn't touch on. In an earlier draft of this article I had a paragraph explaining that these were somewhat scattered thoughts and not meant to present a holistic vision of Pluto in Aquarius, but alas, I removed it in the interest of brevity.

I certainly didn't mean to give the impression that I thought the tech billionaires I mention were victims of some kind. I was more making an observation about how power tends to work. I wouldn't argue that the bourgeoisie were "victims" either; in comparison to the heavily taxed and exploited peasantry, they were not. But they nevertheless staged a successful revolt in alliance with them because they felt that they faced injustice. That is a little how I see the tech industry, from listening to what they say. But since the bourgeoisie were the rising class, so I'm not sure I'd agree Musk and Bezos et al are more equivalent to the nobility.

Part of the picture is that this is an Age of Air, and the Age of Earth is already behind us. What is most likely to be swept away is the modern managerial-technocratic state that grew over the past two centuries. I personally believe the ultimate trajectory of this Age of Air is towards decentralisation and away from centralised power structures, including those the billionaires sit atop of. But in the short term, I'm not so sure.

If you read my piece on Pluto through the bounds of Capricorn, I discussed some of the movements against injustice that came to prominence during that period, including Black Lives Matter, #MeToo and the Arab Spring. I believe the injustices these movements highlighted and many others are likely to be revisited in a more transformative manner in the coming two decades. My reference to "imbalances, contradictions and injustices" was meant to refer more widely to issues such as those raised during the Capricorn transit, not to the tech industry. If that's how the piece read, that's my error.

Anyway, you may turn out to be right in your optimistic vision. Look at the outer planet configuration in July 2026. Andre Barbault thought this was the best astrology of the 21st century, and would symbolise a great victory for the underprivileged of the world after a great crisis. It is not so clear to me right now what this will mean, but a lot can happen in a short amount of time these days.

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Hi Dan,

Thank you for the thoughtful response and additional background information.

To clarify, I did not read the piece as you asserting that the tech billionaires were victims. It seemed to me from what you wrote that they might see themselves this way.

The thoughts on the Age of Air towards decentralization and how that will affect the modern managerial state make a lot of sense.

I'll check out the outer planet configuration in July 2026.

Thanks for the thought-provoking article and your response!

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I commend this perspective, thanks for sharing!

History is still living itself out and the stars continue a story that started centuries ago— perhaps the French Revolution correlated with Plutoquarius has unfinished business that plays out this round. ☕️

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Hey Dan, I sent you a message in chat. Also, having trouble accessing the worldastrology website. I keep getting 403 forbidden message

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