The Cosmic Wrecking Ball Doesn't Take No For An Answer
A Can of Worms Opens: Pluto in Aquarius and the Great Unraveling (2024–2043)
Su Terry reminded me of Pluto’s recent transit into Aquarius. WTF?
Alright, strap in—this rock just hit the ignition on a two-decade joyride through chaos, collapse, and cosmic renovation.
We’ve opened a can of worms. And it’s not the kind you can close again.
On November 19, 2024, Pluto entered Aquarius for a nearly two-decade stay, marking the beginning of a profound collective transformation. This isn’t just another astrological transit. It’s the kind that rewrites the operating system of society itself. The last time Pluto moved through Aquarius was from 1777 to 1798, a period that gave us the American and French Revolutions, the Industrial Revolution’s first stirrings, and the birth of modern democratic ideals. History doesn’t repeat, but it certainly rhymes.
This time, the revolution is digital, decentralized, and deeply disorienting.
What Just Got Cracked Open
Pluto is the planet of death and rebirth, power and shadow. It doesn’t do surface-level repairs. It excavates, exposes, and forces confrontation with whatever has been rotting beneath the floorboards. Aquarius, meanwhile, rules the collective, technology, innovation, and the structures that bind us together as groups. Put them together, and you get a pressure cooker of repressed tensions around how we organize, who holds power, and what it means to be part of the social fabric.
The can of worms? It’s everything we’ve been ignoring about technology, surveillance, artificial intelligence, media manipulation, and the slow erosion of shared reality. It’s the unspoken bargain we made with platforms that harvest our data, the creeping influence of algorithms on our thoughts, the fragility of institutions we once trusted. Pluto in Aquarius will drag all of it into the light, whether we’re ready or not.
The Themes That Will Define the Next Two Decades
Technology will be both the battleground and the weapon. Expect escalating crises around AI governance, digital privacy, and the concentration of power in the hands of a few tech behemoths. The question of who controls the tools that shape our reality will become impossible to avoid. Decentralization versus centralization, open-source versus proprietary, human autonomy versus algorithmic control: these are the fault lines.
Social contracts are disintegrating. The old agreements that held society together are buckling under their own weight. Trust in governments, media, healthcare systems, and educational institutions has been eroding for years. Pluto will accelerate the collapse, clearing the ground for something new. What replaces these structures remains to be seen, but it will be born from networks, grassroots movements, and experiments in collective organization that bypass traditional hierarchies.
Identity and truth are up for renegotiation. Aquarius governs group identity and ideological belonging, but Pluto’s influence means we’re going to have to confront the shadow side of tribalism, echo chambers, and ideological rigidity. The way we construct identity, both individually and collectively, will be stress-tested. What happens when reality itself becomes contested? When community fractures along lines of belief rather than geography? These questions will define the era.
The pressure to evolve is relentless. Aquarius is the sign of progress, but progress doesn’t happen smoothly under Pluto. It happens through crisis, breakdown, and the kind of discomfort that forces change. Systems that refuse to adapt will crumble. People who cling to outdated modes of being will find themselves increasingly out of step with the times.
What This Means for You
On a personal level, Pluto in Aquarius asks: What role are you playing in the collective? Are you propping up systems that no longer serve? Are you hiding behind group identity to avoid confronting your own power? Are you resisting change because it’s uncomfortable, or because you genuinely believe in another path?
You might feel a growing urge to challenge norms, question your allegiances, or reconfigure your place in society. You might find yourself drawn to communities that prioritize innovation, justice, or radical rethinking of how we live together. You might also feel alienated, unmoored, or disillusioned with institutions you once believed in. All of this is part of the process.
Resistance makes it harder. If you dig in your heels and refuse to evolve, Pluto will find a way to force the issue. The cosmic wrecking ball doesn’t take no for an answer. But if you engage with the transformation, if you allow yourself to let go of what’s no longer viable and step into the unknown, you become part of the solution. You transform.
This Is Only the Beginning
Pluto will remain in Aquarius until 2043. That’s nineteen years of upheaval, innovation, and reckoning. We’re at the very start of this process. The full scope of what’s coming is still unfolding, still revealing itself in real time. But the can of worms is open. The shadow is surfacing. The old world is dying, and the new one is being born in the wreckage.
The question is: What will you do with it?
Dang! Whether you are an astrology devotee or not, and I am probably not, this is the future that is unfolding before our eyes. There is a curative nature to our collective karmic causes revealing themselves so poignantly in a way that grabs our attention and demands thoughtful action. Humanity’s instinct to “fight back” against regressive, stagnation or self-consumed greed and disrespect, is already manifesting in the form of artistic creativity. Community building begins with dialogue and is strengthened by everyday acts of kindness. A Renaissance in every sector of society is needed, in my opinion. And according to what you have revealed about the cosmic forces bearing down upon us, that will be our reality, like it or not.
My impulse tends toward determinism, but I haven't worked it out yet. I waver. But astrological speculation is not one I adhere to. Still, I find it intriguing.