It is the individual that must travel this path alone. It is then that Virgil (the psyche, represented by Mercury) begins to lead Dante down into the underworld where each of his sins are “punished” ( Saturn, Capricorn) in the inferno ( Pluto, Scorpio) which represented the soul ( Sun, Leo).ĭante’s poem continues with other twists and turns but the point here is that a major Pluto aspect or measurement is not unlike the one where Virgil accompanies Dante into hell and the abyss. Dante is assailed by beasts (a lion, Leo/Sun, ego, and a she-wolf, Mars, Aries), and he finds it impossible to evade them no matter what he tries all the while searching for the “right way” (discipline, Saturn). It is on the night before Easter Sunday, and Dante is thirty five years old when the poem begins (enough time for Pluto to make a major aspect to an angle or planet), and Dante finds himself lost in “sin” ( Pluto, Scorpio). ![]() Pluto, in measurement to the Sun, Moon or any number of midpoints are equally influenced by Pluto leading us into the descent of the underworld ( Pluto or Hades is the ruler of the underworld). When one is affected the other one is as well. The matching angles of the Ascendant and the Mid Heaven are never far behind because the back needs a front and up needs down. Often, but not always, an encounter such as Dante’s is met with the Astrological activation of the chart angles such as the Ascendant ( first house), and Mid Heaven ( 10th house) along with their corresponding angles and houses ( Descendant or seventh house, and the Imum Coli, or fourth house). Pluto heralds the coming encounter(s) through mathematical measurement (aspect) to sensitive parts of the Astrological chart. So it is with the progression or transit of the planet Pluto through sensitive parts of the Natal Astrological chart. In other words it is the actual experience of the writer that you are envisioning. For those of you who have not read this extraordinary poem it is written in the first person. In the Divine Comedy, a poem (dreams?) written by Dante Alighieriduring the last part of his life while in exile, ( between 13) it is the Roman poet Virgilwho leads Dante through hell and purgatory. These “designated dreamers” were often called Shamans ( soul diviners, Pluto). ![]() Some of the communal leaders even had a designated dreamer for the village if the men were off to war, or there had been an illness that had devastated the community/village population. Many of the communities as well as the smaller villages encouraged the need to dream and the tremendously important information that was received through them. There have been cultures that have extolled the dreams of the individual and the community collectively while attempting to maintain the individual experience as a separate one. ![]() Our emotions are our leaders into the experiences that we all engage, and until we understand our dreams we will not be able to really understand ourselves. Although there are many contributors to the telling and the direct experience of dreams, and dream work, there is no better contributor than our own minds, and dreams. For the last while I have been researching the psychology of dreams through a number of metaphysical and scientific sources as well as my own experiences.
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