RT's Horoscope for '09. What's with Pluto?

19 December, 2008, 14:01

Michael Lutin was the astrologist at Vanity Fair for 25 years. The world famous astrologist has lectured all over the world and published three books. Mr. Lutin graced RT with his own predictions for 2009. Find out where you stand for the new year.

Pluto is in Capricorn in 2009 for the first time in 250 years. Since the whole world is in a state of social, political and economic transformation, evolution and revolution, you should know it will affect you for the next fifteen years.

ARIES

You cannot knuckle under to the Regime without sneaking in a few slippery snorts of escape and avoiding confrontations with the people upstairs, and you’ve been great at maintaining your independence from dirty enmeshments. Very soon, however, you will have to decide whether you’re going to come out as a fiery rebel or obey your ambition and admit some very conservative leanings. It’s between you and the voting booth.

TAURUS

If the issue of sexual performance or desirability has been making you uneasy (read obsessed), blame it on Pluto. If you’re more comfortable displacing your worries onto the fact that your life style has given you a big nut to crack every month, do so. You are about to embark upon a philosophical journey, and your expansion of consiousness and worldly education are about to commence. Get ready to bone up and fly.

GEMINI

Pluto helps people tap into creativity they didn’t know they had, but it’s also the source of the great human foible we all share: death anxiety. So stay positive and focused on vibrant, youthful, beautiful, hot, or just plain alive. It’s odd, though. If all the money wasted on hair dye, plastic surgery and other personal enhancements were tallied up and spent on food for the hungry, wouldn’t we all live in a better world? Yeah. Sure. Tell that to the I.R.S.

CANCER

For all the hype we hear about Cancers as clingy, needy little sucklings, you probably enjoy independence more. Who wants to be the dangling modifier to somebody’s sentence? Now with Pluto on the western horizon, your whole orientation is changing drastically. Even if you resist somebody’s power over you, eventually you will realize that you are facing not a monster, but one who can teach you what relationships are all about. Fasten your seat belt.

LEO

You’ll be happier when you embrace the idea that you are moving whole hog into whole new areas of work, health and mastery. At first the path will seem a lot less glamorous than the life you’ve dreamed of leading, but as Pluto wends its way through your sixth house in the coming years, you’ll come to see that a more humble and sincere and sober attitude toward life can be even more rewarding than the notion that you have to be a big movie star.

VIRGO

Virgos, arise! Your fifth house is active, which could mean a love life at last, so say bye-bye to your cherished image of innocence. You need love and you need it bad. No matter how young or old you are, children are not out of the question. They’ll be your teachers now, so slap on the hair gel and step out. A new period of creative self-expresion awaits you, in bed and out, but that will require you to close your eyes and walk out on stage, even butt naked.

LIBRA

Individuals who have a healthy connection to their families lead more secure, emotionally happy lives. No matter what you do, though, circumstances could alienate you from relatives. As Pluto now moves into your fourth house for the next fifteen years, you will be asked to dig deep into your childhood and heal any bonds that have been broken. A real relationship with parents is the key. Hint hint: Go get a large chocolate cake and rent “The Joy Luck Club.”

SCORPIO

Every time Pluto, your ruling planet, changes zodiacal sign, Scorpios shed their old skin like snakes and reinvent themselves. YOU and all the members of your sign will now likely leave a whole reality behind, transform your life again and develop a new way of communicating in a whole a new language. You won’t be content to be plunked down in one spot. Sibling issues? What about the elephants in the room that have been staring at you since you were six?

SAGITTARIUS

Until now survival has been the main theme, but isn’t it amazing? Not only are you still standing, but you have come through pain, worry and tribulation, and have also gained a sense of yourself you never had when you were politely yessing everyone to death. Now it can’t be just about survival. Pluto’s second house transit demands that you add prosperity to your list of priorities, so it’s ok to be selfish. Don’t get crazy, though. There are still tax laws.

CAPRICORN

You’ve had so many false starts, setbacks, and 180 degree turns, it’s no wonder you’ve lost faith. With the transition of Pluto from your solar twelfth to your first house, you’ve had just about all the selfless service and turning-the-other-other-cheek business you can take. Now show the world that you’re more able to kick ass than you’ve ever been. It’s funny how everything comes together when you get sick and tired of absolutely everybody.

AQUARIUS

Do the glittery baubles, bangles and beads of this earthly existence seem kind of cheap and tawdry? In fact, not much in the realm of earthly glamour and temptation guns your motor these days. You’re not necessarily bitter or turned off to the joys people chase after, but with Pluto in your twelfth house, you’re pondering the mystery of existence, why you’re here, what it’s all about, and why the hell you’re still puzzling over a stupid thing like success.

PISCES

You’re probably going cuckoo between wanting a commitment to and from another person or career. You still need to be free, however, to explore parts of yourself you haven’t had a chance to be in touch with. Right now there are Pluto in the eleventh house matters that require you to accept the fact that if you want to be deeply connected, you can’t come and go whenever you please. On the other hand, beng contained, restrained, or controlled, drives you even nuttier.

Courtesy of Michael Lutin

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