Saturn joined to Pluto pairs structure with deep change: what must end ends, and what must last is rebuilt.
Rebuilding on ruins: the person knows how to hold on and rebuild when everything collapses.
Remarkable endurance and a capacity to rebuild after hardship.
Carrying too heavy a weight, closing off, confusing rigor with harshness toward themselves.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
On January 12, 2020, Saturn and Pluto came together at 22° of Capricorn, a few weeks before the world went into lockdown.
The earlier meetings dated from November 1982 in Libra, August 1947 in Leo, and 1914 in Cancer, the year the First World War broke out. Children born in 2020 almost all carry this conjunction: it sketches the climate of an era marked by crisis, gravity, and rebuilding, far more than a trait of character.
When it touches the Sun, the Moon, a personal planet, or the Ascendant, this conjunction would speak of extraordinary endurance. The person can hold on when everything wavers, rebuild after a loss, and see through an effort that others would abandon. They take life seriously, sometimes very early. They often have a keen sense of responsibility, a capacity to manage crises, and a taste for work in which you get through hardship: rescue, reconstruction, in-depth research.
The downside would be the weight: carrying loads that are too heavy alone, closing off, being hard on themselves in the name of high standards. They may also fear endings so much that they cling to what should change. Allowing themselves to ask for help, and recognizing what they have already overcome, softens this gravity. The area of the chart it occupies shows where this rebuilding plays out: career, family, money, commitments.
They love with gravity and loyalty, commit for the long term, and get through crises without running.
They may be slow to open up, for fear of losing what they love. Children born in 2020 will share this conjunction, which will not color their love lives. When it touches a luminary in a much older partner’s chart, tradition reads a serious, transformative bond, which needs room for laughter and lightness.
Crisis management, reconstruction, law, research, engineering, public finance: they give their best when facing difficult situations with method.
They hold up under pressure and know how to reorganize what has collapsed, piece by piece. Colleagues turn to them when all seems lost. They tend to carry too much alone. Delegating, and acknowledging their limits, protects their endurance over time and makes them even more effective.
Their daily life can have a particular gravity: responsibilities taken on early, long-term projects, little room for carefreeness.
They prove reliable in all circumstances, and no one doubts their word. They readily forget to look after themselves. Simple pleasures written into the calendar, such as a sport, a game, or an evening at the movies, help them release a pressure they build up without always naming it.
Since Pluto was discovered in 1930, this conjunction is a recent notion.
André Barbault placed it at the heart of his work on historical cycles, noting that the 1914 and 1947 conjunctions coincided with the outbreak of the Great War and the start of the Cold War. The one of January 2020 was widely commented on by astrologers after the pandemic appeared. Versana reports these parallels without treating them as proven: historical coincidences do not prove an influence.
Modern astrologers read in it the alliance of limit and transformation. For an individual, everything depends on the intimate planets it touches.
Tradition calls it variable: the two functions merge, and its color depends on the planets involved.
Social planet. Greater malefic.
The profile of SaturnCounted between 0° and 8° apart.
The conjunctionTranspersonal planet. Discovered in 1930 (Clyde Tombaugh); a dwarf planet for the IAU since 2006, kept by astrology.
The profile of PlutoIt brings together structure and deep transformation: endurance, a capacity to rebuild, a sense of responsibility, gravity. Almost all babies born in 2020 received it; it only becomes a personal trait in contact with a luminary or an angle. Its downside would be carrying too heavy a weight alone.
On January 12, 2020, at 22° of Capricorn. The earlier ones dated from November 1982, in Libra, August 1947, in Leo, and 1914, in Cancer. The gap between two meetings ranges from thirty-three to thirty-eight years, as Pluto speeds up or slows down depending on its distance from the Sun.
André Barbault tied it to major historical crises, and the coincidence of 2020 with the pandemic revived these readings. Versana makes no prediction, whether collective or individual. In a chart, the conjunction would rather describe a capacity for endurance and rebuilding, which shows itself precisely in difficult periods.