If you really want to try to get a handle on this Pluto/Saturn time period, read this:

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This is an abbreviated synopsis from THE MAN on understanding Saturn and Pluto combinations. Richard Tarnas, from his World Trade Center talk just after 9/11. His book, "Cosmos and Psyche", explains these combinations to the Nth degree.

His full 9/11 talk on Saturn/Pluto can be found at: http://www.gaiamind.org/WTCNotes.html

Here is an excerpt of each of his 25 talking points, in his words:

Here then are characteristic manifestations when Saturn and Pluto come into major hard alignment:

1) Dark, grave, momentous, deadly serious, profoundly weighty events.
2) Intensely dramatic times, with enduring consequences ensuing from current decisions and actions, with much at
3) The feeling of being caught helplessly in the grip of overwhelming, powerful, and often dark forces, of being
4) Deep humiliation effected by violence, violation, and defeat. A compensatory need to prove one's steely
5) The empowerment of forces of hatred, murderous aggression, of evil and the demonic, of the secretive and
6) Absolute determination, courage, and sacrifice, unbending will, intensely brave silent strenuous effort.
7) A deeply sobering awareness of the world’s dangerousness. The potential for either a highly grounded and
8) The empowerment of conservative or reactionary forces, bringing about an emphatic increase in defensive
9) A tremendous intensification of the harshest aspects of reality—material, mortal, existential. Negativity of
10) The encounter with that form of the numinous which inspires awe and dread, even terror; confronting a power—
11) The eruption of massive, titanic, volcanic, overwhelming elemental forces that have a negative, collapsing,
12) The annihilation of the established order and of the enduring structures symbolizing that order. Also,
13) Confinement and constriction intensified to claustrophobic, life-threatening, or even lethal dimensions (cf.
14) Experiences that in their traumatic intensity and gravity take many years to absorb, integrate, or heal from.
15) In general, the emphatic intensification of conflict and separation, of intractable enmities, of problems,
16) The tendency towards ruthless complete "othering": intense objectification of other subjects. This extreme o
17) A tendency to see things in terms of a confrontation between good and evil.
18) Both the confrontation with evil, with the shadow, and the constellating of it. Periods of collective intense
19) Historically a tendency in the collective psyche to constellate the shadow by eliciting or projecting
20) Experiences of irrevocable catastrophe, intense loss, endings, death, resulting in lasting sense of deep
21) A sense of the tremendous inescapable weight and burden of history, the past, errors from the past, ancient
22) The sense of an ominous, darker reality descending on an age.
23) A sense of the irrevocable end of an era; the destruction of the established order of existence, the end of an
24) A greatly intensified and deepened maturation of a person or a culture, leaving its puer dream and entering a
25) The galvanizing of the will, a sense of stern purposefulness, grim determination.

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