This weekend continues Pluto’s twenty-one month ingress to Aquarius finalizing at the end of this year after one more retrograde. We are an Aquarian city (January 24, 1853) in a Capricorn state (December 28, 1846). Of the 99 counties in yesterday’s Republican caucus our county and its Aquarian seat (also the state’s first capital city) was the only one won by Nikki Haley, which she won by one vote. People talk about the caucus sampling size, yet does this particular result not also demonstrate the power of one?
Sampling method is also the theme of a political documentary watched while results were coming in: The Disappearance of Shere Hite (2023) covers the timeframe of Pluto in Libra transit October 1971–November 1984 and the first years of Pluto in Scorpio particularly through the publication of Missouri-born Shere Hite’s (fourth) 1987 book. The film does not make clear what date she left the country; a doorman to her 828 Fifth Avenue building in NYC tells a longtime friend: “over the course of a couple of nights she just disappeared and was gone.” After a political shift to confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas, the documentary concludes with a brief look at Hite’s middle age and later years in Europe.
Pluto’s 2024 egress/ingress Capricorn/Aquarius:
January 15th: 29° 52′ Capricorn
January 20th: 0° 00′ Aquarius
May 2nd: 2° 06′ Rx Aquarius
October 11th: 29° 39′ D Capricorn
November 5th: 29° 47′ Capricorn
November 19th: 0° 00′ Aquarius
Image above: Shere Hite, June 1, 1981 by Gotfryd, Bernard via Wikimedia. Image below: https://results.iacaucus2024.com/.