Plutaquacy [Part II]: The Fate of Revolution

The Saturnian Time Loop

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If you missed Part I, you can find it right here:

Pluto In Aquarius [Part I]: Plutaquacy

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“To fight the empire is to become infected by its derangement.”

-Philip K. Dick

Any oppositional force is trapped on energetic terms with that which it opposes.

The underbelly of any revolution invariably shows it to be cut from exactly the same cloth as the orthodoxy. This story is practically archetypal. A pattern that finds expression at seemingly every scale of human power dynamics. And possibly in that of the macrocosm. Revolutions seal their fate at the outset by failing to divest themselves from the philosophical fundaments of that which they seek to overthrow.

With Pluto in Aquarius, we see the tech-utopian dream – the chase for liberation from the yoke of labor itself, through technological pursuit for the good of the collective – creating a nightmare of technological integration, isolation and frigid intellectualism, and finally collapsing on itself.

Over the summer, Pluto retrograded from Aquarius, back into Capricorn.¹ One final check-in with The Old before passing into The New. This brings me to the main event for this piece: an exploration of the Saturnian principles encapsulated in the passage from Capricorn to Aquarius.

There is no more emblematic sign for the orthodoxy than Capricorn. Representing the Saturnian principles that govern what has been amassed and what has been codified. What is stored and how it is rationed out to society, compiling order around necessity, and often through scarcity. Saturn is the only one who knows where the storehouse is, because he’s the one who built it - alone - grumbling to himself while everyone else was out having fun. No, he’s not going to tell you where it is. Yes, he loves that that pisses you off. Saturn is The Little Red Hen, doing the lonely but industrious baking when everyone else is too lazy or distracted. And he will decide who gets to eat the bread.

Saturn is the only planet whose signs of rulership are right next door to one another in the horoscope. Calling to the efficiency that Saturn so loves, he can check both his households back-to-back while he happens to be in the neighborhood. Other planets who pass through must endure one long, linear trek through his realms, reflective of the singular focus and determination called for in the midst of Saturn-driven experiences. In that process, Capricorn always comes first and Aquarius comes second. I sum up that motion with this phrase: Saturn visits the storehouse before going amongst the people. Concern with what is, before concern with what could be.

Revolutions, in all their bluster, can still only move through the worldly possibilities set before them. To some degree, they must rely on the channels of orthodoxy. If you’re fighting a corrupt government, you still have to feed your resistance. Your supply lines are still couched in the infrastructure you seek to overcome.² You are still subject to cycles, seasonal and cosmic. Still subject to contract law, Earthly and Heavenly. All is in the realm of Saturn.

To Contain One’s Opposite - a quintessential Saturnian power move, if I’ve ever heard of one. “I give you the resistance as I give you all the structures to resist. I have set the groundwork for every part of this when you weren’t looking. I have reasoned and measured even the most radical conditions of transformation.”

Such a thing speaks of totalizing control. This would make any true transformation impossible, wouldn’t it? Enter, King of the Underworld. A power that can supersede this Saturnian power loop. This also indicates that true revolution is mostly out of our hands, dependent instead upon longer cycles. Upon revolution.

I would be remiss here not to mention the modern Uranian claim to Aquarian nature. I’ve linked to a potentially useful tidbit about that here (browser only).

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Not insignificant here is that the U.S. has just gone through its Pluto return (3rd Decan of Capricorn), right before its ingress into Aquarius. This happens as the empire’s propaganda and surveillance apparatus reaches a shrilling apex before collapsing under the weight of its own madness. According to this guy, the shift into the Age of Aquarius began around 240 years ago, around when the French and American revolutions took place. What he doesn’t mention is that that’s approximately a Pluto cycle.

The USA would eventually go on to launch us into the information age, which we now recognize as part of the arrival of the Aquarian Age. Of course, the internet and all our data infrastructure is inarguably part of the spoils of war and centuries of exploitation, as well as the plan to continue the project of war and exploitation at home and abroad.

At this point, we’re familiar with the Jeremy Bentham wet dream of ARPANET, Berkely, Silicon Valley. Or we should be:

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In The Sky With Diamonds

Another very strange aspect of this is Catholicism’s introduction of an anime mascot that has set the internet on fire.³

Luce will also appear at the Holy See’s pavilion at Expo 2025, along with “The Entombment of Christ” by Caravaggio.

^That^ is giving this:

Wow. The death throes of a hollowed-out orthodoxy? How ham-fistedly emblematic of a movement from Capricorn to Aquarius. This whole thing just needs better writers. Don’t look at me (just kidding, do). The Entombment of Christ puts the icing right on the cake.

Also, how creepy. I haven’t seen such a mind-blowing technocratic distillation since this pic here:

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So it seems that the Deadking has returned to take his price in the Imperial Comeuppance Cycle, reclaiming the treasures that came from his stores in the first place.

If Saturn is the sower and reaper, Pluto is the scythe itself, eclipsing the repetition of cyclical power struggles. The Reaper of reapers. Taking the storehouse, its builders, its dependents – as well as all the context of their beliefs, morals, propaganda and other societal constructs – down to the dead realms. The unconscious denialism that props up the status quo. Everything that has been swept under the rug or dropped into the sewer of group power politics. Everything flushed from the upper echelons to fester in the gutters, endured by those who live just a hair’s breadth above the underworld itself; the poor.

Unfortunately, Pluto doesn’t come to right the wrongs committed against the downtrodden or pretend at any sort of morality. He’s more in favor of sweet release and clean slates. Death is truly the great equalizer. It takes the father with his sins. It takes the prodigal son with his virtues. It buries the hatchet with the very idea of hatchets. To hell with the bull and the bullshit.

Pluto will not allow the Age of Aquarius to commit the cardinal sin of pretending its shit doesn’t stink. Warmongers will no longer be allowed to pretend at ethical, progressive stances. Western medicine will no longer be able to pretend at human healing. Silicon Valley is long-since unmasked as the central hive of surveillance and cultural engineering, but now it will be impossible to ignore the menacing chrome skull looming over our lives.

The storehouse can and will be rebuilt, but the materials will be different. The construction and architecture will be different. What we choose to place in it, and how we access it will be different.

I looked into the Pluto Aquarius ingress moment, and you’ll find a quick forecast of that right here (browser only).

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Keep your eyes peeled for Part III, where I’ll be discussing the harmonic of Pluto In Aquarius with Uranus In Gemini.

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1. The very day that Pluto’s retrograde took it back into Capricorn, local supermarkets and banks instantly had a return to masking and sanitation stations as seen during the initial Covid era. There was also a sudden uptick of pandemic propaganda in the news cycle. This was accompanied by Mars’ transit through Cancer, which just so happened to be the Mars Return of the Vaccine Mandates.

This was a very tight astrological configuration that essentially marked a full plandemic “flashback”. This was *very* short-lived, with everybody seemingly chilling the fuck out within the span of a week; putting their masks and sanitizer and moral fervor back in the closet where they belong.

2. This reminds me of the way that Saturn and Mars illustrate each other as malefics. They produce suffering differently. They do war differently. Mars wants to attack the enemy directly - to slash and burn. Saturn does war by way of besiegement - to constrict and freeze.

3. I started writing this article months ago, but for some reason, I had an insurmountable resistance to finishing and publishing it. I think that’s because it wasn’t finished incubating. It needed this final piece as a functioning organ and refused to be born before it was fully formed