2025 means Moon-Pluto no more!

[Jim Eshelman]

For many years, many - and, for a while, every - weekly lunar ingress has had a Moon-Pluto aspect.

Pluto first moved within 3° of 0° Capricorn in February 2019; was within 3° of 0° Capricorn non-stop from December 2019 to March 2022; and last left the 3° orb for the current Pluto orbit in November 2023. During these times, every lunar ingress has Moon (at 0° Capricorn, Aries, Cancer, or Libra) within 3° of conjunct, opposite, or square Pluto.

But it's not just ecliptical aspects - there are also mundane aspects. Moon-Pluto frequent aspects in lunar ingresses for Washington, DC go back to at least 2016 IIRC. Since then, we've had frequent (and often continuous) Moon-Pluto aspects week by week. This has clearly been a time when we were in more or less constant bombardment with the unprecedented, uprooting, overturning - events that stun our sensibilities and half the mind with their intensity and seem to irrevocably shift the nature of the world around us. I am sure you can relate to these words as describing most of the last decade - a time that has nearly numbed us to the sensational because the sensational - the unprecedented - has become routine.

Through 2024, this pattern has continued. In fact, the November 7 Caplunar has Moon-Pluto mundane conjunction 2°13'.

With 2025, this ends. We move from the nearly decade-long era of non-stop weekly Moon-Pluto to an era of Moon-Pluto No More.

[Jim Eshelman]

It's not exactly right to say "no more." Most years through the entire course of Pluto's orbit have an occasional Moon-Pluto mundane aspect, and that's the sort of pattern 2025 brings us back to. Moon-Pluto aspects occur in NO Caplunars, NO Canlunars, ONE Arilunar - and then a short run of several Liblunars mostly in the last half of the year. (That Liblunar run isn't really a continuation of the eight-year run, especially since it's separated by most of 2025, and these only run for a week each.)

For reference, here is the list of all Moon-Pluto mundane aspects in the 52 weekly Sidereal lunar ingresses of 2025. The ones that occur at all are all exceedingly close and probably mark weeks that will remind us, in some respect, of the last ten years. But most of 2025 will not!

Jan 21 - Liblunar - sq 0°05'
Aug 14 - Arilunar - sq 0°01'
Aug 27 - Liblunar - sq 0°43'
Oct 21 - Liblunar - sq 0°19'
Nov 17 - Liblunar - sq 0°18'

Think carefully about that last statement. If most weeks in 2025 will not remind us of the last eight or nine years, what else does that tell you is probably true?

[Mike V]

It seems to suggest that there’s no way Trump could have won the election.

[Jim Eshelman]

It does, doesn't it.

[Veronica]

Very big happy sigh of relief, followed by tears.