Pluto in Capricorn in the BirthChart

It's interesting how the concept of generation we have used all through the 20th century has some parallels with Pluto's positionings. People born in generations where Pluto has already reached a different sign could have distinct challenges, inner possibilities, concepts of power, and ways to deal with societal changes and transitions compared to others.

 

Latest periods of Pluto in Capricorn: 1762 to 1778 | 2008 to 2023

Suggests transformations in all structures and a shift in financial and governmental paradigms and hierarchical systems.

 

Pluto in Capricorn takes concepts such as control, caution, reserve, and ambition to extremes. Capricorn is a sign of strategic skills, mainly due to the determination to get things done. Transformation, elimination, and transmutation will act towards the rebirth of the principles and concrete foundations of hierarchical relationships, power, social relations, and authoritarianism. It will also apply ordeals and urgencies in processes of the material world and performing own routines.

 

During Pluto in Capricorn, patriarchy and many social, national and international concepts have been questioned and put to the test to undergo adjustments and transformations. In other words, all forms of crystallized power collapse vis-à-vis the urgency of reorganization. In its highest sense, Capricorn symbolizes social responsibility and the materialization of leadership principles. And this imposes challenges upon us regarding what is reality and what we co-create within that reality.

 

Among the scientific facts of this period that can make us reflect, we can mention NASA's mapping of 4,000 exoplanets that have been discovered since the 1990s. Closer to everyday reality, Capricorn also symbolically means organizational hierarchy.

 

Pluto in this sign can bring intense questioning concerning the paternalistic figure archetype, where each person is forced to assume the professional and organizational responsibilities of their own life and in the complete transformation of employment relationships at companies, institutions, and organizations.

 

The year 2020 revealed the absolute end of all conquered forms of stability, perhaps as one of the culminations of the results of a crisis that had already begun more than a decade prior. During this last Pluto-in-Capricorn cycle, one of the most decisive events was the financial crisis that started in the USA and impacted the entire planet in 2008. Considered by economists to be the worst economic crisis since 1929, the collapse occurred immediately after Pluto entered Capricorn.

 

Since the 1990s, home loans in the US have been expanding significantly. Banks continued the practice of offering credit even to those who could not repay the loans, which inflated the housing bubble. In 2008, millions of US banks could not cover their debts. Lehman Brothers, one of the safest and most traditional banks, went bankrupt. Then, there was a domino effect on the world's stock markets.

 

Another historic Pluto-in-Capricorn moment in the past was a time of major upheavals regarding authoritarian systems and rigid power hierarchies. In 1776, the American Declaration of Independence was signed; Adam Smith wrote "The Wealth of Nations" in the same year.

 

Speaking a bit on the arts, one of the greatest geniuses in music history – Ludwig van Beethoven – was born in 1770. Beethoven ushered in the activity of composing for oneself and no longer for some prince or other nobleman. He is the greatest composer of the 19th century and one of the greatest Romantics in Human History. Even if we aren't involved in classical music, when we hear one of his Symphonies, we immediately know it's Beethoven. From the age of 5, he was forced by his father to study music daily and for long hours. By age 10, he had mastered Bach's entire repertoire. At 11, he composed his first pieces. At 17, he struggled with poverty due to his father's alcoholism. He became deaf at 26. He overcame the desire to commit suicide and continued composing until his death at age 46.

 

Being considered a Genius Prophet, he transcended the rules. He was the first musician–poet, conditioned by his love for nature and grand humanitarian ideals. This reveals Pluto's higher and transcendent side in Capricorn, in spiritual leadership applied to social responsibility in the visceral quest to overcome hardship.

 

Some exciting personalities born during Pluto in Capricorn:

 

Napoleon Bonaparte

John Dee

Luís de Camões

 

Birth Chart Interactions

People born during Pluto in Capricorn are under the overwhelming pressure of impulse and compulsive obstinacy to manage, direct, and control their business, their image, and exercise their ambitions. Willpower, excess power, and a relentless willingness to persevere and endure setbacks bring the challenges of transcending the compulsion to work to achieve and maintain security.

Capricorn means the resigned and resilient overcoming of pain and suffering, as most setbacks and frustrations for those with this sign highlighted in the chart occur early in life.

 

Saturn governs the imposition of laws and regulations for executing works through social responsibility. And in a higher sense spiritually, it reveals the Inner Teacher. Being a Teacher of yourself means having control of acceptance and understanding your instincts and reactions.

Learn more about the meaning of Pluto in Astrology.