Pluto's First Synod in Sidereal Sagittarius
June 16, 2006

Revelation of the Gate of God

Nick Anthony Fiorenza

This year, 2006, marks a primary turning in the role of Pluto in our lives. The 367-day cycles created by the orbits of Earth and Pluto around the Sun (called Pluto's Synodic Cycles) had been occurring in sidereal Scorpio for many years, but now start to occur in sidereal Sagittarius over many years to come. This year, centering around June 16, marks the time where Pluto demands we step forth from the trials (sting) of past events in our lives, claim the wisdom from our past experiences, and shift octaves into living a greater truth and awareness about who we truly are, and to undauntedly pursue our greater dreams and passions individually held and collectively destined as a species. Pluto is an opener, and will now clear the way for this transition by dismantling that which is not supportive of this higher truth to reign in our lives. This marks the ending of dramatic wars that defend limiting false beliefs, a period that served to open the way for a greater truth to emerge. The time leading up to June 16 is the crescendo of Pluto's last cycle in sidereal Scorpio, a time that may result in abrupt endings of scenarios that had been long standing in our lives. In the time ahead, Pluto will continue to open the way, but now in a different way, by clearing away attitudes of ignorance so a greater truth and intelligence can begin to shine in our lives and on Earth.

The last eleven Pluto Synodic Cycles occurred in sidereal Scorpio, from 1995 through 2006. (Actually, Pluto entered the karmic-dharmic Chelae of the Scorpion in 1989.) Pluto's 367-day synodic cycle starting now, on June 16, 2006, is the first to occur in sidereal Sagittarius. Pluto will remain in sidereal Sag throughout 2020 with a total of fifteen synodic cycles occurring during this period.

See "Synodic Cycles" to learn the fundamentals about planetary retrogrades and synodic cycles.

For History Buffs:

Pluto made passage through sidereal Scorpio from 1745 through 1758. The last Pluto Synod occurring in the first degree of Sag occurred in 1758. Pluto then made passage through sidereal Sag from 1758 through 1772. Please realize although a planet, in this case Pluto, "apparently" returns to cover the same ground in a cyclic cycle, when it does, all of the other planets are in different phases of their cycles (creating an entirely different harmonic environment); we are in a different point in Earth's precessional cycle (a different point in the evolutionary cycle of Earth's soul collective); and consider this: from 1758 to 2006, our sun (and solar system) was speeding through space at 8,200 miles per minute (I'll forgo the math)--thus placing us in an entirely different interstellar field (environment) of cosmic energy.

Pluto's Psychophysiology

Pluto ensures Soul Integrity prevails: Pluto will destruct personality alliances and personality driven motivations to ensure soul's mission is attained, even at the cost of the personality life. This implies a need for letting go. The nature of the alliances destructed is a function of the location of Pluto in the astrological chart. Pluto is independent, individual, autonomous, the revolutionist, and the extremist. Pluto is of isolation and aloneness. Pluto fears not battle, war, or death. Pluto is also where, generationally, unacceptability occurs, where the antiquated must be destroyed--in the genetic / cellular patterns carried in ourselves and so in those expressed in the world.

Image of Pluto by Agostino Carracci, 1592 / Galleria Estense, Modena, Italy

Pluto works at a cellular and primordial level, with pre-birth and past lifetime issues. Pluto can invoke cellular level stored fear regarding death, transmutation, and survival issues; as well as all early childhood programming. Pluto is an "opener" and a "deprogrammer" that provides doorways for new growth and unfoldment. Pluto, lord of the underworld, brings to conscious awareness that which is hidden in the subconscious by removing that which is hiding it. Pluto-type experiences (those seemingly destructive) when worked with from this perspective can support tremendous spiritual growth.

Pluto is actually a dual planet: the Pluto-Charon System, two bodies rotating around a common point (barrycenter), in spin orbit synchronicity. Pluto has an extreme eccentric orbit and an ecliptic (orbital inclination) that is tilted 17.2° with respect to Earth's--partly why it cuts through the incarnational issues. Its rotational tilt is ~122°. The diameters of Pluto and Charon (not to be confused with Chiron) create a very slow beat frequency--part of its multifaceted astrophysical parameters responsible for undermining cellular patterning.

The key theme of sidereal Scorpio

Teaching the responsible use of creative power that governs life and death by cleaving in conflict. This is not without wounds, as the sting of the Scorpion (the harsh lessons of life) creates the transmutational elixir which falls upon the Altar of the Centaur where we make our metamorphosis (burning away our judgments, our lesser selves) and rise in a greater wisdom about our role to use the forces of life and death responsibly as co-creators of our reality; i.e., to take responsibility for our reality rather than placing blame outside of self as if we are bestowed either blessings or curses.

Consider Scorpio's theme and the Pluto-type events occurring over the last several years and what they may have been teaching humanity.

The key theme of sidereal Sagittarius

Defender and deliverer of Divine Truth (the Word) going forth with the swiftness of a Zen arrow undauntedly able to hit its mark. But let us note the Zen archer's arrow points to Galactic Center, the thrown of God, hence undoubtedly the archer is intently focused on revealing Divine Truth--the meaning of the mythical image of the Sag Centaur. Sag is willing to live and die for that Truth, called the true Messiah by some, an by others as being "the man with the bow sitting on the white horse" in Revelation 6:2 (this man mistakenly assumed to be the Antichrist by some in later times). Sag is clearly on a galactic mission (soul-sun-son-mission sanctioned by God), being the principal constellation and sign on the Galactic Equator, home of the "Gate of God" of the Holy Cross and of the heart center of our Galaxy, the throne.

Revelation of The Gate of God

Sagittarius is stargate to Galactic Center, commonly referred to as the Zen Archer, or the First Horseman whose arrow points toward Galactic Center. From Allen (Star Names): "the Strong One, and Illuminator of the Great City (i.e., galactic center); Light of the White Face; and on the stones of Sippara (the Sepharvaim of the Old Testament)--a solar city Sagittarius, 'appears sculptured in full glory'."

The First Horseman, the Sagittarian Centaur, is where the First and Highest Spiritual Light is found. Sagittarius is Galactic City of Light, gateway to the High Council or Throne referring to our Galactic Center and is responsible for our higher spiritual education. Overhead is the constellation Scutum, Galactic shield of the Holy Cross, which is emblazoned with the symbol of the Holy Cross. Sagittarius is supreme defender of the High Truth of the Holy Cross--the greater truth of our origins and evolutionary journey, of the spiritual fulfillment of humankind. The Sagittarian Zen Archer is one who is willing to live, fight, and die for this Greater Truth.

Predating our recent association of the Sphinx with Leo the Lion, we find Sagittarius to be a Sphinx, except with the double head of Shu and Tefnut in Egyptian Myth (picture language), as is shown in the Zodiac of Esné. This is the image of the Sagittarian centaur, but on the lion instead of the horse, with the human face of Shu facing forward (retrograde / west) overlooking Galactic Center and the face of Tefnut, his twin sister the Lioness, behind facing east (Massey: Ancient Egypt). Appropriately, this compounded, back-to-back face depicts the principle galactic equatorial division of the zodiac--the prime reference point of the Holy Cross, the galactic equatorial node (GEN), the "Gate of God" at 5° sidereal Sag. This is where the ecliptic divides the Great Waters of the Milky Way.

Shu and Tefnut were produced by Tem (without intercourse). This name is from the root tem, or temem which means "to be complete," and "to make an end of." This mythically articulates the division into two polarities of what was one complete or undivided consciousness. Shu, associated with air and breath, dry, and empty, and Tefnut with moisture, wet, with the dew or manna of heaven, embody two primary timestreams of consciousness and also reflect the separation of unity awareness into the masculine / feminine dual timestreams of consciousness that occurs at this point in the precessional cycle; i.e., when Earth's pole had passed over the Gate of God creating the first erect Holy Cross about 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. This was the time of the Great Flood.

This is also called "the Fall" in the precessional cycle because at this time Earth's pole leans away from the galactic plane, "falls from light," from unified awareness. This is when atomic hydrogen's angle of incidence no longer conducts light and the DNA dims. Here we enter the 12,000-year temporal half of the precessional cycle--the separation from source (galactic awareness). Consequently the DNA functions in its "off" state (not superconducting consciousness and illuminating), in a bio-logical mode of reasoning, comparing opposites in a perceptual dual-stranded labyrinth of shadow and reflection. Here, the full polarization of the feminine and masculine time-streams begins. This also marked the fall of humankind into original "sin." To sin simply means to experience (in)carnality, to have entered the last 12,000-year precessional phase of temporal darkness.

Shu and Tefnut are working together for righteousness at first (the essence of Sag), "Tefnut, the sister of Shu joined him in his battles on behalf of Horus, 'She is like fire against the wicked ones, ...thundering against those who are to be annihilated for ever...' " (Gerald Massey: the magical texts). However as the precessional cycle continues through the zodiak, we reach the epitome of polarity on Earth.

Shu and Tefnut also exemplify archtypical Enlil and Enki, the two Annunaki responsible for the genetic half-breeding of those of the Earth (humans) with "those of the sky (the Annunaki) as presented in the Sumerian texts from which the Biblical Genesis is derived. Enlil and Enki are also fitting to articulate the Gate of God, At the time of the Flood, the two became strongly polarized, Enlil, of the air, (sky command), was intent on dominating, controlling, and allowing the annihilation of humankind, Enki, of the moisture (Earth-based command) was supportive of the evolutionary fulfilment of humankind, their education and well-being.

The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL) is based at the University of Oxford: http://www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk/

About 5000 to 6000 years ago (at the 180° point in the cycle), when Earth's pole leans furthest away from the galactic plane. As the waters recede on Earth, we find the settlements of lower fertile lands, one of which is the Egyptian Delta, Here we find the timestreams of the twin-flamed soul of Shu and Tefnut, Enki and Enlil, expressing as Miriam and Moses, and finally the domination by the Enlil-timestream of consciousness and the submission of the Enki-timestream.

Miriam and Mosses articulate the further separation and degradation of the feminine and masculine principles in the midst of the dark temporal period, during dynastic Egypt. Moses, as he treks the Mountain of Horeb in the Sinai Peninsula (later and confusingly changed to Mount Sinai) is presented with the Hebrew Canaanites' fear-instilling patriarchal laws by the vengeful people suppressor Jethro the El Shaddai (Enlil) (later transposed to be Jehovah and confused as the Hebrew God giving Moses Ten Commandments) who supported dominion over, rather than the enlightenment of, humankind. Miriam, the sister of Moses and the true spiritual leader of the two, intent on continuing to lead the people under the benevolent people supportive principles of the "Lord" (Aton or Aten) (Enki) of the Israelites of Egypt, who supported the evolutionary freedom of humankind, is ultimately silenced and imprisoned. This set the seed for the personification of God as a fear instilling totalitarian male prototype which reigns to this day. Yet neither of these beings were God to start with, but people, opposing brothers / forces for that matter (as the the Petrie expedition through the Sinai and the archaeological excavation of the Egyptian temple complex atop the Horeb mountain of Serâbît reveals (Genesis Of The Grail Kings" Lawrence Gardner).

"Only during the past 150 years or so, and more specifically during the past 80 years, have the great storehouses of Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Syrian and Canaanite record been unearthed from beneath the desert sands. First-hand documentary evidence from before Bible times has now emerged on stone, clay, parchment and papyrus - tens of thousands of documents which bear witness to a far more exciting history than we were ever told." (Genesis Of The Grail Kings" Lawrence Gardner)

A few excerpted pages of Genesis of The Grail Kings can be found here: http://www.karenlyster.com/genesis4.html
and here: http://www.karenlyster.com/genesis5.html

Note: To read the entire 6 pages, you may have to type in "genesis.html, genesis1.html, genesis2.html, etc., in the url, as the links on the bottoms of these pages were not working at the time of this writing.

The distinction of these two deities, Enlil and Enki, articulating two polarized timestreams of consciousness, is later ignored and their titles (Lord, Jehovah, etc. confusingly become one God, Yet this is not referring to a God that embodies all of creation, all stellar civilizations, a true Divine Intelligence expressing of the mansion universes. Humanity has been merely left with the personification of forces expressing from a greater Divine Intelligence as a Patriarchal God, an awry and dominating masculine principle (Enlil timestream) using "the fear of God" to perpetuate the suppression and subsequent passive submission of the feminine principle (Enki timestream)--and all of the modern-day religions that support such.

Only now at the second (270°) Holy Cross, as Earth's pole crosses the "Gate of Man," it begins to lean back toward the plane of galactic light allowing the DNA to begin its re-illumination process, as galactic level awareness (galactic light) begins to avalanche through the DNA, superconducting consciousness, allowing it to illuminate (See the Holy Cross--DNA and the orientation of atomic hydrogen in the spherical geometry of the Holy Cross). This, in turn, is when the feminine and masculine principles can "start" to become whole individually and express in harmony / unity awareness together again. Here marks the time when the feminine can emerge from passive submission under the masculine dominion, and the masculine can mature to support the evolutionary freedom of the whole. And this marks the return of Christ (soul level) Consciousness on Earth--our deliverance from sin.

Pluto's Synodic Cycle of June 16, 2006

This first Pluto-Sag synodic cycle staring in June of 2006 marks a major shift of Pluto's role in our lives. It occurs curiously and appropriately in the Hyades Lunar Cycle--a theme of its own. Hyades indicates having been immersed, even potentially lost, in roles, scenarios, or concepts of self that if continued, would divert us from our greater visions, purpose, growth, and fulfilment in life. Here lies the need to wake up from a long induced slumber and live the truth of who we truly are.

Occurring in the very first degree of sidereal Sag, this Pluto synodic theme embodies the entire essence of Sagittarius. As such, this first synodic cycle can be thought of as the embodiment or the seed cycle embracing all of the Pluto-Sag synodic cycles about to unfold over the years ahead. Pluto's passage through Sag over the upcoming years may destroy abounding false truths, the uspurpers, and the unjust as Sag stands for righteousness and freedom, and abhors the false beliefs created by men that separate men. During this time we my find the crumbling of the false beliefs that keep the truth obscured about our origins, about our true purpose and evolutionary process, who we truly are--let us hope at least. The Zen archer pierces the veils, allowing the falsified, all that is not of essence, to dissolve, to see only his target and realize (reveal) its heavenly truth. Pluto will return direct on Sept 4, fully commencing this first new 367-day Sagittaraius synodic theme.

The next few Pluto synodic cycles are revelatory:

Pluto Synod June 16, 2006 - First Degree of sidereal Sag
Pluto Synod June 18, 2009 - Galactic Center
Pluto Synod June 20, 2008 - The Gate of God (5° sidereal Sag) ***This means the Sun is on the Gate of Man (5° sidereal Gemini) (on the solstice) creating a primary activation of the Holy Cross
Pluto Synod June 23, 2009 - The Solar Apex (7° sidereal Sag)

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