Hi MaeMae!
It's the same energy in the air, that brought Jackson Browne to us at the same time. I went and looked his birth information up on astro theme and saw that he was born on October 9, 1948 at an unknown time. I thought about Kannon's thoroughly researched Ascendant Outlines and only by looking at his pictures, I would say he is a Libra rising because of his "ovate" head and "cleft" in chin, but also evenness in facial form that reminds me of the evenness of a Libra personality. But in his natal aspects, you can see the planets we were talking about, Neptune and Pluto! And he also has the Capricorn Moon you were talking about. His Sun is conjunct Neptune and sextile Pluto and Pluto is conjunct his Ascendant. It is no wonder that he has such a spiritually dreamy look in his eyes with Neptune there, but also the bright lighting in some of his music videos is reminiscent of an atmosphere of the stark reality of Pluto. It's as if reality is lighted up and never far removed from the music he sings. Where is your Hades moon song thread? I have another Plutonian song for you that would fit perfectly there.
Hi Waybread!
Thank you so much for your thoughtful and excellent advice! Yes, I completely relate to the stress of it all! I've found that with Pluto, one never knows which direction it will lead you. It's like a see-saw, so positively upbeat on some days and so negatively strenuous on others. But the point that I find that it drives into my head is to listen to its instinctual call. It exposes more and more of the truth that it summoned into our hearts all along. I see its ruthlessness if one were to suppress its advice, block it out of acceptance. It shows me the reality of people and their intentions, and I figured it out now that I had it in the past, though have only come to define it astrologically recently.
Pluto's shadow effects that you describe are interesting. I read the shadow effects in relation to the 7th house where we reflect the sign or signs of the 7th house onto partners and people we associate with ourselves. I can see this casting off of energy as another aspect of the ruthlessness of Pluto bringing them back into our lives to enforce the reality of our lives and the place where we need to make changes. But despite its ruthlessness, I feel relieved by Pluto because of the truth revealed, unencumbered by any conditions placed on it. It is with my Sun that I am most irritated because it is too stubborn and continues to persist out of habit, thinking that it can persevere through the severest of pressures. It's Pluto that helps it emerge out of the past into the present and future, in sync with the deepest enfolds of the spirit.
That "letting go" aspect of Pluto is not only liberating, but life saving. And Pluto is much easier on the self if the letting go is willingly done. The introspection that it incites are beneficent to us, the exercising off of the intolerable pressures to let them go from our system with the pressures of the past, the attention to sleep and rest that we need to recharge ourselves, and the healthy vitals we need to restore the faith in who we are. I find that with this Pluto transit, I am eating so much more fruit, twenty strawberries in a week!
But that's Pluto, bringing the best into our lives.