'Pluto in the 4th house affects the home, past, parents and childhood. The 4th house rules our origins and the way we relate to our family. With Pluto in the 4th house you may go through many experiences that affect your security. The fourth house rules the father and so he can go through a personal crisis, be affected by mental illness, depression. The father could be the power-head of the family financially, controlling the resources at home. There may be a feeling of early abandonment that has a negative impact and there will be deep resentment.

The lunar eclipse on June 26 and the powerful cardinal cross configuration brings to light issues around power, corruption and the neglect of our most basic human values. We now have the opportunity to balance corporation with community and to bridge the gap between the material and the spiritual.

The tension and excitement is building for this summer's planetary line up with Saturn, Uranus and Pluto. The current alignments are encouraging us to to break free from limiting situations that are holding us back and to nurture our unique gifts and talents. Where do you need to make a change, let something go and what unique gifts and talents do you have to offer? Utilize the current technological advancements to live a better quality of life with more freedom, and time to nurture ourselves.

People with Mars-Pluto aspects have a reputation for being ruthless and desiring to control others. Outsiders would be surprised to learn just how much self-control Mars-Pluto can have. It takes self-control to cope with the powerful impulses that Mars-Pluto creates. Mars-Pluto people, who aren’t punching walls, throwing things, yelling, stewing in their juices or running someone off the road, know a thing or two about how to handle the beast within. They’ve mastered (at least somewhat) their instinctual nature.

An analysis of the continuing conflict between the UK and Argentina over the Falkland Islands and its resurrection yet again in 2010.  A look at the history and timeline reveals Saturn/Pluto at work.

"Trying to understand and write about this ongoing t square is difficult given all of its astrological complexity, but in a nutshell, this cardinal t square seeks to instill radical, total and complete change in our lives (more intensely so if you have planets at the early cardinal signs: 0-3 degrees Libra, Capricorn, Cancer, Aries) It asks that we purge our old ways of doing things...business as usual dies. It wants us to build new structures in our lives, based on higher spiritual truths.

"I generally avoid having a look at the charts of nations or the future of country developments. That is because there is always doubt about the ‘natal chart’ of a nation, because politics (and historic backgrounds) are complicated with many charts involved and because nobody knows what the future will bring us. With so many indications for disaster in the sky (except for Venus and Jupiter) it is more in line to speak of problems than to expect a glorious future.

"oday we re-examine how Saturn conjuncts the Pluto of everyone on Earth between 2006 and 2014, no small event! The past several years have profoundly impacted those born between 1956 and 1970, and right now everyone born in the 1970s are under heavy pressure involving both Karma and Dharma for the rest of 2010 into 2011.

"Years ago, back when I forecasted about the coming global crisis I used to get messages from people who said I was making my forecasts up; that the economy was humming along just fine; that I was a "gloom and doomer," and that astrological forecasting was a "pseudo-science" and "nothing but bunk."

People asked why I forecasted such things. It was never going to happen they said. A global economic crisis?

An article discussing the movements of Pluto in Capricorn through 2010, it's retrograde, sabian symbolism and how to use the energy to our best advantage.