Pluto in Capricorn and Uranus in Aries: Big Brother vs Anonymous (Part1)

By Jamal Ashley Abbas 

Remember, remember!  The fifth of November,   the Gunpowder treason and plot;  I know of no reason why the Gunpowder treason should ever be forgot! -  English Folk Verse (c.1870).

Pluto glyph

The world entered a new epoch in 2008, one that is changing socio-political reality as we know it. Pluto, that tiny planetoid in distant space, has the power to affect Earthlings in world-shattering ways. Pluto, in Greco-Roman mythology, is the powerful god of the Underworld. In astrology, Pluto represents Destruction, Rebirth, Mob, Dictators, Sex, Money, Earthquakes, Mass Movements and the Nuclear Bomb.

Pluto in Capricorn 

Pluto entered Capricorn in late January 2008, returned to Sagittarius in June, came back to Capricorn in November and will stay there until January 2024. And the world can expect disasters in the worst form as all hell could break lose. 

First, Big Business and Strong Governments will take over. Instead of overt wars against other people, there will be covert war against one’s own people – the citizens, the workforce, the ordinary people. But instead of bombs, the weapons will be Rules and Laws like the Patriot Act or the Human Security Law (Anti-Terrorism Law) or Cyber Crime Laws or State of Emergency or Martial Law. The name of the game is Security and Surveillance.

 And so this epoch will be characterized by the Plutonian Shadowy Power of Capricornian Big Business / Strong Government through Tight Controls. It will be George Orwell’s Big Brother come to life. 

The global crisis of 2008

January 2008 started with the downturn of US stock market and ended with the highest price drop in home sales in 25 years. By Sept. 7, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which controlled half of the $12 Trillion mortgage market collapsed and were taken over by the US government – in effect, nationalizing the housing market. 

And then huge investment banking firms like Lehman Brothers and Merryl Lynch collapsed. While Lehman Brothers was forced to close shop, the others were bailed out by the Federal Reserve – in effect, the government and its private banking partners took over the investment banking industry.

It must be noted that the US Federal Reserve System "is considered an independent central bank because its monetary policy decisions do not have to be approved by the President or anyone else in the executive or legislative branches of government, it does not receive funding appropriated by the Congress, and the terms of the members of the Board of Governors span multiple presidential and congressional terms". (source: Wikipedia) The Fed is actually owned by some 15 or so private banks which include JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America.

When Pluto entered into Capricorn, Big Business and Big Government created their coup and took over the banking, insurance and mortgage industries in the US and Europe.

From theory to practice

The theory or rationale for State Control was put in place while Pluto was in Sagittarius. The laws were enacted. The media spin was delivered. This time, with Pluto in Capricorn, theory is put in practice.

The Pakistani president, who had proclaimed a State of Emergency in early November 2007, jumped the gun in the race to Strong Governments.

President Arroyo tested the waters in February / March 2006 when she proclaimed a state of emergency. Unfortunately for her, not only was it premature, but Pluto was also in close conjunction to the Galactic Center, a super black hole in the center of our galaxy, which some astrologers regard as a purging and transforming mechanism.

But President Benigno Aquino had perfect timing. As Senator Joker Arroyo said, with the impeachment of Supreme Court Chief Justice Corona, President Aquino obtained autocratic powers without even declaring Martial Law. He is now in full control of the branches of government – controlling the House, the Senate and Judiciary. And with his connections with a TV mogul, he even controls the Media.

Historical precedents

Capricorn glyph

Pluto in Capricorn seems to have historical impact on the Philippines. Pluto entered Capricorn in 1515 and stayed there until 1532. Pluto in Capricorn creates states and humbles or even destroys empires. 

In 1515, Sharif Kabungsuwan arrived in Maguindanao and established the Maguindanao Sultanate.

In 1521, official Philippine history began when Magellan was said to “discover” the Philippines.

But such “discovery” led to the humbling of the great Spanish Empire, which historians up to now try to keep secret.  The chronicler of Magellan’s voyages, Antonio Pigafetta, recorded that in the Battle of Mactan, Magellan was killed by the men of the local chieftain Cali Pulaco who is popularly known as Lapu-Lapu. Afterwards, Cebu’s Rajah Humabon invited Magellan’s successor Duarte Barbossa and 25 of his men to a farewell luncheon where the Europeans were massacred. Pigafetta was fortunate to be wounded in the battle so he did not join his companions in the festivities.

Upon news of the massacre, the remaining men were not enough to take three ships. Hence, they abandoned the Concepcion and sped away aboard the Victoria and the Trinidad.  The Spaniards did not return to the Islands until 50 years later. And for 330 years, they made sure that the natives never heard of this massacre. In fact, until now, very few know of the massacre of Magellan’s men as historians, local and foreign, refuse to include them in their manuscripts.

At about the same time (1519 -1521), the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes arrived in the Valley of Mexico and started the systematic annihilation of the Aztec Empire.

Pluto returned to Capricorn on Nov. 8, 1762 up to Dec 1, 1778. This period saw the end of Europe’s Seven Years War. The French lost Canada and the West Indies territories to Britain and Louisiana to Spain. The fall of the French Empire paved the way for the French Revolution.

England, which had captured the Philippines and Cuba, returned these territories to Spain in exchange for Florida. England, however, managed to get territories -- Balambangan (Cagayan de Sulu), southern Palawan and North Borneo – in the name of its business arm, the East India Company -  from the Sulu Sultanate in exchange for its rescue of Sulu Sultan Azim ud Din I, who had been held hostage in Intramuros, Manila by the Spaniards for some 15 years.

However, in the later stage of this epoch, it was the British Empire’s turn to be humbled. In March 1775, Datu Teteng of Sulu attacked the British fort in Balambangan and forced the British out of Sulu. Sulu also got back its territories in North Borneo and Palawan.

On July 4, 1776, the United States of America declared their independence from Britain. Interestingly, 120 or so years later, when Pluto was in two-faced Gemini, the new power, the United States of America, decided to take both the Philippines and Sulu for itself through the 1898 Treaty of Paris and the Bates Treaty of 1899 respectively. 

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