The Planets are Cooperating-and That Could Change Everything

There is something happening astrologically right now that I think is much bigger than whatever your horoscope says this week.

The three outer planets — Pluto, Neptune and Uranus — have all moved into new signs, and they are forming unusually harmonious relationships with one another.

Pluto is in Aquarius. Neptune is in Aries. Uranus is in Gemini.

And instead of fighting with each other, they’re basically cooperating.

Pluto and Neptune are sextile. Neptune and Uranus are sextile. Uranus and Pluto are trine.

If you don’t speak astrology, the simple version is this: the three planets astrologers associate with massive generational change are currently helping each other.

And that doesn’t happen every Tuesday.

These aren’t fast planets. Pluto stays in a sign for many years. Neptune does too. Uranus takes about seven years to move through one sign. So when we talk about these planets, we’re not really talking about whether you’re going to have a good afternoon.

We’re talking about eras.

Pluto is associated with power, destruction, transformation and rebuilding. In Aquarius, a lot of that transformation is centered around technology, networks, communities, institutions and who actually holds power in society.

Neptune is associated with dreams, ideals, spirituality, imagination, confusion and the stories we collectively believe. Now it’s in Aries, a sign concerned with identity, independence and action.

And Uranus — the planet astrologers most associate with disruption, invention, rebellion and sudden breakthroughs — has moved into Gemini, the sign of communication, information and how ideas move from one person to another.

You don’t have to be an astrologer to look around and think those subjects seem fairly relevant.

Artificial intelligence is developing at a ridiculous speed. The way we get information is changing. The way people communicate is changing. Traditional institutions are being challenged. Ideas that would once have taken decades to spread can now move across the planet in hours.

We’re also having enormous conversations about who controls technology, who controls information, what counts as truth and how much power we’re willing to hand to systems most of us barely understand.

That’s why I think this particular planetary arrangement is so interesting.

A lot of major astrological periods involve tension between the outer planets. One force is trying to tear something down while another one is resisting it.

This time, they’re making harmonious aspects.

That doesn’t automatically mean what happens will be good. Astrology doesn’t work that neatly.

Pluto can be ruthless. Uranus can destabilize things very quickly. Neptune can inspire extraordinary creativity and compassion, but it can also create mass delusion.

Harmony simply means the energies can move together more easily.

And honestly, that might be the part worth paying attention to.

Because when the planets representing transformation, technological revolution and collective imagination are all feeding one another, change may not crawl along at the speed we’re accustomed to.

It can compound.

One breakthrough enables another breakthrough, which changes the culture, which changes what people believe is possible, which creates another breakthrough.

That’s how an era can start feeling very different very quickly.

And these aspects aren’t disappearing next week. We’re talking about a pattern that develops and repeats over the next several years as these incredibly slow planets move back and forth through their early degrees.

So I don’t think we’re looking at one interesting astrological event.

I think we’re looking at the beginning of a period that people may eventually look back on and say, that was when the world really started changing.

Maybe the most interesting question isn’t whether astrology can tell us exactly what those changes will be.

It’s whether we’re capable of imagining how different the world could look by the time these planets are finished with this conversation.

Because I have a feeling we’re underestimating it.