Pluto In Aquarius Associated With Cults?

Hi, Elsa!

Recently two, very human, imperfect women, who I have gained a lot of useful insight and information from, have been the target of an organized internet takedown. A community which had been previously quite cohesive and thriving around certain principles not commonly given voice on the internet, feels like it has split into two factions. On the extreme ends of these, accusations of ‘cult membership’ are flying – actually in both directions. Those who have shown support to them are being called fawning brainwashed cult victims. Conversely, those on the extreme end of the dissenters, are deemed gossipers, drama addicts, and slanderers. Of course, as usual, there are a majority of people in the middle trying to have thoughtful conversations, but these attempts at civility and nuance tend to get pushed down in favor of the clickbait and the ‘smoking guns.’

Trying to see the bigger picture, I did look at other people who could be deemed ‘leaders’ in their field of thought or expertise, especially those who are individualistic and perhaps controversial, and most of them have something similar, IE, there are entire forums online dedicated to determining, once and for all, that “Mr. Well Respected So-and-So is actually a cult leader, and here’s all the juicy evidence for it.” Meanwhile some accusations *do* make you pause, and then it’s easy to fall into black and white thinking: okay so this person is bad / untrustworthy, which subconsciously leads to trusting that someone else must be ‘good,’ or trustworthy, and then, where is the acknowledgement of the wholeness of human beings in any of this? It’s a narrowing of consciousness into binary thinking fueled by shades of projection.

Can we expect to see more of these types of situations while Pluto is in Aquarius (dark side of group thinking? the force of the unconscious affecting imperfect, human attempts at egalitarianism?) Or, is it something else, astrologically, that seems to be nudging along these themes? I can’t help but wonder what the future of online spaces is when anyone gaining traction by filling an unmet need, is either to be quickly spotted and replaced by AI creators, or be fashioned as a ‘cult leader’ by an army of anonymous profiles always waiting in the background, sharpening their knives.

Gal in Middle Tennessee

You have a great hack on this. I generally agree with everything you’ve written, but I’m not sure it all comes together. I don’t mean to be critical. I think you’re wanting to refine your thinking?

• Groups of human beings do tend of break away from larger groups. Try Protestants leaving the Catholic church. So it’s nothing new. These defections are generally orchestrated, by an individual  or a small group. I don’t think this can be tied to Pluto in Aquarius.
• The clickbait, smoking gun element is exactly that. It’s ploy or a tactic to get attention / deprive someone of attention.  If you want to tie it to Pluto in Aquarius, you might look at the bitch /anti-bitch concept I wrote about some years ago.

Dark Heart Redux: What Can We Learn From The Anti-Bitch?

• The extreme portion of your thesis, I would give to Pluto in Aquarius.  We’re being damned near swallowed  up by the dark side of humanity. All I see is content of men and women of every age and stripe, acting is disgusting ways.  I personally think this content is scripted and produced, but people are definitely influenced by it.  Humanity (Aquarius) is manipulated into degrading itself.
• As for the idea of starting a forum or harm or destroy a person I would give that to Mars, primarily.  It’s an attack.
• The future of online spaces is dark from what I can see.  I don’t think actual, every day human beings will have a voice. As you say, anything that works will be quickly copied and degraded.

To wrap up my portion, I think the whole of this topic falls under my original read on Pluto in Aquarius, from back in 2017.

Pluto In Aquarius – Down With People!

When you degrade yourself when you degrade others.  Losses all around. It’s a dark time for humanity, for sure.  I miss seeing smiling faces so I chose the picture to illustrate how far we’ve fallen.