angstoic.com Astrologer, Ang Stoic
Last time Ceres was conjunct Pluto was on 13 January 2020, only days after a lunar eclipse that saw the Sun, Mercury, and Saturn also in on the mother of all stelliums around the 22nd degree of Capricorn. Nearly five years later, they align again, this time with Venus at 0º Aquarius—a striking shift in tone yet no less laden with enormous gravity.
In 2020, this conjunction embodied the darkest aspects of the myth of Pluto and Ceres: abduction, exploitation, and the brutal imbalance of power. Pluto, the merciless devourer of worlds, met Ceres, goddess of sustenance and the life-death cycle, in the unforgiving terrain of Capricorn, the zodiacal seat of hierarchy, patriarchal control, and systemic power. This was the celestial backdrop as the pandemic erupted, unmasking the systemic rot hidden beneath seemingly invincible structures, a harrowing allegory of loss, grief, exploitation, and forced reconstruction.
Ceres embodies nourishment and cycles of life and death, yet here she met Pluto, who tears apart to reveal what cannot be ignored. This defining moment was not merely about a pandemic. The COVID crisis was the vehicle, the dark face of Pluto’s annihilating force exposing the rot within systems humanity had trusted for centuries—governments, economies, the patriarchy itself. Pluto, with Ceres, underscored an agonising truth: the structures designed to protect and provide had become the very agents of abuse, neglect and harm. The Saturn-Pluto alignment alongside them fortified the collapse, casting the event as an almighty catabolic fall, where safety, sustenance, and power fell into conflict and ultimate demise for those who claimed seniority and elite status.
Fast forward to Dec 2024, where the stage shifts from Capricorn’s top-down authoritarianism to Aquarius, the disruptor. Ceres and Pluto meet again, this time at 0º Aquarius, the boundary-shattering sign of revolution, with Venus bearing witness. Venus, goddess of magnetic attraction and worth, drags the themes of value, relational structures, and aesthetics into Pluto’s shadowy negotiation with Ceres. This is another mighty reckoning, but now centred on what remains after the old empires crumble. How do we break apart, redistribute evenly to feed and sustain ourselves when the systems of control are dead? What does power look like in a post-establishment collapse era, where it’s each for themselves, and resources and relationships must adapt to survive in collective frameworks rather than pyramids of power?
In the myth, Pluto abducts Ceres’ daughter Persephone, dragging her violently to his underworld. Beyond sudden loss and grief; the story is about powerlessness against a force so ruthless that it takes what it wants without regard for life’s natural rhythms. Ceres, in her anguish, withholds her gifts of abundance. She shuts down, retreating into a state of desolation and fury, her mental state is one of profound betrayal, spirals into obsessiveness over what was taken, refusing to nurture a world she perceives as complicit in her loss., plunging the world into famine.
When we see these archetypes fused in Capricorn, a sign already synonymous with authority and order, the world felt the myth unfold in real-time: the severing of humanity from its sense of security, the withholding of nourishment by systems that failed to sustain. COVID-19 appeared on the surface as a global health crisis; but it was Pluto’s wetiko (mind-virus) work—a deep-rot dismemberment of trust in the establishment, exposing that the health authorities and its elaborately instituted structures meant to protect and heal had become instruments of control, weapons of disease and agendas of neglect…
Pluto’s entrance into Aquarius is power decentralised and distributed, yet the cold, mechanical, roboticised, artificially intelligent logic of Aquarius offers little consolation to a grieving Ceres. The warmth of the hearth, the rhythms of the seasons, even the touch of human connection—these are threatened by the impersonal forces of technological and algorithmically systemic overhaul. Venus, fresh into Aquarius, must negotiate between the pragmatic and the relational. None of it ‘feels’ human any more, yet it is distinctly ‘humanitarian’. Can we build a society that sustains both progress and nurtures humanity? Or will survival in this new era demand sacrifices the earth-mother Ceres isn’t willing to make?
We need to talk about food, health, sustenance in this fast-approaching mini-ice age.
This transit, far from the optimistic stuff you might hear, reflects the enduring reality of the myth: power always takes, and what it gives back is rarely on the terms of the nurturer. The 2020 conjunction fucked us all—it was the greatest wealth transfer ever conducted with rubber gloves and surgical masks; this 2024 conjunction redefines. Pluto is here to remind us that no transformation comes without some destruction, some severance and tragic loss, while Ceres insists on the need to grieve exactly what’s been lost, in the meantime, shutting down our supply. Venus, standing between them, asks the most human of questions: how do we reclaim and redistribute our sense of worth, value, beauty, and love amidst the tightly run machinery of demolitions and collapse? This is the negotiation of survival in a new and unrelenting world. Watch….
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