Pluto Stations Retrograde
Pluto stations Retrograde
2nd PST 10:47 / 3rd PST 5:47
There’s a technological phenomenon that occurs on LCD monitors called “image persistence”. If you leave visuals stationary on a laptop screen for a lengthy period of time, a temporary ghost image will remain even after you’ve moved the window or closed the program. Its more permanent precursor, “screen burn-in”, was common if you lived during the age of cathode TVs.
Pluto’s retrogrades have the effect of image persistence, but relative to reality. You could say reality is one big display, after all. We know that Pluto moves SLOW. We know that its stations aren’t felt as acutely as the station of a faster-moving inner planet. Yet its transits transform landscapes. Pluto has been in Aquarius for over three months and it has only moved two degrees. It will take four months to retrace those steps, before it re-enters Capricorn for the final time in our lifetimes on September 1/2.
So, what is Pluto *doing* during that grinding back and forth? It’s creating an imprint. It’s agitating its surroundings and carving out a resonance. This will be most perceptible to those of you who have planets in the first degrees of the fixed signs, but collectively we are already picking up on Aquarian themes that will be relevant in the years to come.
Image persistence isn’t noticeable until you move what’s on your screen or turn off your monitor. And you probably won’t grasp the image persistence that Pluto has created in your life without the passage of time, because you can’t simply move whatever is in front of you out of the way when you’re existing within it. When you look back on the following date ranges with the benefit of hindsight.
3/3/2023 to 6/11/2023
1/21/2024 to 9/2/2024
11/20/2024 to 12/8/2025
this is when the dots will connect.
Written by Nyssa Grazda
