Dawne Kovan’s Blog

I am watching a wonderful two-part BBC Two programme on the history of religious music in Scotland. The development of a particular type of choral work, with its grace notes and flurries of great beauty, sung without accompaniment, seems to have been peculiar to Scottish churches during the early part of the 16th Century.

Then disaster struck – the music had to stop! No more singing! The written word became the way to God. And I knew at once that this was the influence of Pluto entering Capricorn – the Reformation had begun.

Now, for you assiduous readers of my column, you will see at once that the Church was the most powerful institution in 16th Century Europe, and that Pluto entered Capricorn at the time of the beginning of the Reformation. 

And so it is today – Pluto is once again repeating his sojourn in Capricorn and the most powerful institution is being reformed – but this time it’s the banks! Thus be thankful they don’t still burn people at the stake as they did then. And ask yourself this: what will be stopped – banned – by the authorities this time around? Remember, Capricorn is about corporate power…….

History is a wonderful study for understanding the patterns of human development flagged by the movement of the slow moving planets, with their huge long cycles.