{"id":74519,"date":"2016-02-20T17:56:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T17:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moonkissd.com\/?p=7769"},"modified":"2016-02-20T18:11:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T18:11:32","slug":"thoughts-on-pluto-in-capricorn-and-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/?p=74519","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Pluto in Capricorn and Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Empowered is a word that gets used a lot. I know I use it to describe when I feel like I am strong, in self-respect and self-honoring, and can take on the world. I know when I\u2019m not in my power. When I feel disempowered there\u2019s always a component of helplessness, the feeling that I cannot control, or escape what is happening -for what is power if not feeling \u201cin command\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n

I am sure all of\u00a0us are familiar with disempowerment, by degree; the banks own everything we have, we are the 99%, if anyone in our family got seriously sick our life fortunes would be compromised…etc., etc., etc. There is so much to feel disempowered around! My twelfth house Pluto in Libra certainly can\u00a0feel there\u2019s an imminent catastrophe looming around every corner. We may\u00a0equate material and physical things with power, money, influence,\u00a0health,\u00a0social status, but you don’t\u00a0take any of that with you to the other side. Spiritual power trumps all.\u00a0Think of Nelson Mandela, for instance, whose imprisonment and torture did not compromise his self-respect,\u00a0dignity or mission. Maybe I\u2019m speaking from that Pluto when I say:\u00a0it\u2019s easy to be confused about what true power looks like and how it works for us.<\/p>\n

So when a\u00a0friend (also\u00a0Pluto in Libra in the twelfth house) told me that an\u00a0explanation of power I gave her during a tapping session<\/a> had reframed her ideas about how she uses her own power, she said others might find it useful. \u00a0I was helping her\u00a0with worry and anxiety over making a decision (Libra). After tapping on specific fears, we reached a point where she felt deep sadness and grief for the unnecessary worry she has put her self through over the years. I floated the idea that her sadness over fretting about\u00a0outcomes outside of her control perpetuated feelings of powerlessness… and that\u00a0this might be\u00a0about power.<\/p>\n

Then I said something very Pluto in Capricorn to her: Personal p<\/strong>ower is the ability to make a choice and then to deal with the consequences of an unknowable outcome.<\/b><\/p>\n

This means if I decide to get my house renovated, then feel victimized every day by the toxins, noise pollution and invasion of space, I am not taking responsibility for my choice. I am taking myself out of my own power. In fact, that’s how this epiphany about power came to me.\u00a0 I was tapping on feelings of frustration and disempowerment over my house being renovated, when I remembered: Wait, who\u00a0made this choice? I did. So I get to deal with the consequences, too. As the saying goes: With great power comes great responsibility. Or, said another way: Where there\u2019s power there\u2019s always<\/em> responsibility.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Working with this idea\u00a0has since\u00a0helped change my perspective on\u00a0other difficult situations; situations I’d been experiencing\u00a0subtle feelings of disempowerment, feeling out of “command”.<\/p>\n

When we make a decision to do anything in our life, we always\u00a0enter into a contract with the unknowable consequences. The reality is: none of us can control the outcome of anything in life. Not one of us. On a spiritual level, our power rests\u00a0in making a conscious decision based on the best information we have going at the time and then taking responsibility for the consequences. Because, here\u2019s the kicker– even if the consequence of our decision turns out poorly, even if life sends us lemons, we\u00a0can\u00a0still be in our power. We made the decision; we deal with the results (and if we didn’t make the decision,\u00a0by\u00a0dealing with the consequences in\u00a0self-integrity, we restore power).\u00a0That\u2019s the deal with power. If we\u00a0go into victim, into \u201cpoor me\u201d, ie, if I weren\u2019t so (born disadvantaged, sensitive, sick, broken, had more money, he wasn\u2019t a cheater or liar, or whatever way we blame our self or other people or the government, etc.) then this would have gone better for me… we fall into\u00a0a\u00a0rabbit hole of confusion.\u00a0Power does not work that way. \u00a0We are obligated to handle whatever happens on the other side of choice- our response to the situation.<\/p>\n

It sure beats\u00a0feeling victimized when things don’t turn out the way we want them to.<\/p>\n

As Pluto transits through Capricorn, we are all learning about how power works. We see people in authority abuse it, we watch these same people pass the buck, and it\u2019s easy to feel the injustice. We may wonder who, if anyone, is ultimately accountable at all. But as we work with this on a personal level, perhaps through a Pluto transit, or\u00a0by having to make hard choices we\u2019d rather not make, free will remains a constant. Where\u00a0we\u00a0have the ability to choose, and take consequences, we have power.<\/p>\n

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Empowered is a word that gets used a lot. I know I use it to describe when I feel like I am strong, in self-respect and self-honoring, and can take on the world. I know when I’m not in my power. When I feel disempowered there’s always a component of helplessness, the feeling that I […]<\/p>\n

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