Reaping the Saturn-Pluto Square
By Ivana
Unemployment and job pressures are on the rise. So is corporate fraud; and so is something else rarely talked about, but also a direct result of a poor economy: workplace bullying. Employers’ abuse of power over their subordinates has become epidemic, and is by far one of the nastiest side effects of the contracting job market, where workers are finding it harder than ever to get a paycheck.
Power abuse in the workplace has always been around, but current unemployment rates and fear of job loss among those still employed help escalate the abuse of power to despicable proportions. This increase also coincides with an ongoing Square between transiting Pluto and Saturn. This hard aspect between such two relentless forces; change and control, defines the limitations of power. Misuse of power is a Plutonian problem and fear is the Saturnine problem that enables it. Since there’s a flip side to every coin, both planets represent abusive behavior and its consequences; something lost on bullying employers who think they can get away with power-tripping on their subordinates without a backlash.
Numerous companies lose money because of high turnover caused by employee lack of ability or lack of desire to contribute, due to ongoing emotional abuse. Yet, abusive employers still bully, thinking that nothing will ever change.
This ultimately is their downfall. Some bosses are blind and some pretend not to see that the only certainty is change itself. Change transforms even the most hardened position. Every single person has Saturn and Pluto in their chart and every single person is subject to their transits. Pluto’s mission is to make sure that no one ever gets away with murder. If you ever found yourself at the mercy of an employer who has none, take comfort. It doesn’t matter if they die warm in their bed, everybody in the thrall of this transit gets a taste of their own medicine, their just desserts.
Saturn’s placement in our chart is our point of insecurity. We, however—not Saturn—determine how we are going to deal with it. Dysfunctional Saturn manifests as effort to make those we target, like our employees, feel insecure. An emotionally and mentally balanced individual builds his or her own confidence and security by enhancing those qualities in his or her employees.
It is much easier it is for a business to make a profit when its employees feel empowered. Never mind how emotionally disturbed bullying employers are, they appear to be straight-up stupid not to make the connection.
Enter Pluto. Insecurities and addiction to power precede logic. Pluto rules the underground, so its positive influence is rarely as obvious as its negative. One of Pluto’s negative manifestations is that it makes some people in a position of power feel insecure. They feel powerless, too; so they rob their subordinates of power to make themselves feel better. Only spiritually evolved individuals know the path to power is to empower others. The effective leader is a positive manifestation of Pluto, equally powerful but a less obvious force of change.
All of us must strive to develop all the planets’ energies in the most positive way; and when we don’t, we land on the other side of the equation. With Saturn and Pluto in the picture, it’s always a painful side to be on.
The bad economy escalated bullying; but the same force behind the power of bullies is now behind a growing opposition. The present series of Saturn-Pluto squares expresses the last ditch effort of bullies to hold on to power. As we move into a long-term Saturn-Uranus-Pluto T-square, employees’ demand for respect and equality will increase to the boiling point and so will their unwillingness to take the same crap a minute longer. Push is coming to shove —someone will fall from grace and it won’t be just the workers.
Abusive employers are spiritual lizards—no offense to lizards—and they are too blind to see that the power they use to destroy the lives of their employees (Pluto) is the same power their employees will use to fight back.
I watch in awe as employers with their Pluto out of whack turn into chicken shit puddles when met with a forceful spirit of opposition that their abuse created in their subordinates.
Tyrants can dish it but they can’t take it. The one undocumented trait that bullying employers all have is being terribly out of touch with reality. It escapes their notice that nobody stays in power forever. However irritating it may be to watch bullies abuse their employees, it’s all the more entertaining to see the tables turn on them when they finally land on their face …after falling from a very tall tower.
Your job, even if you’re the boss, (especially if you’re the boss) is to
• Cultivate a strong sense of security and confidence (Saturn) within yourself by cultivating a strong sense of security and confidence in others, and
• Empower yourself (Pluto) by empowering others.
If you indulge in abusing your subordinates and cooking the books without a care about thousands of people who will lose what they spent their entire lives working for, Saturn and Pluto will make sure that you personally end up “cooked” yourself and that the rest of us will have a blast watching the comeuppance.
Next time you go to your workplace, the workplace you own, or manage, you might want to curb your enthusiasm. You have forgotten that without your employees you’re a joke, and I’d be happy to remind you.
Because really, that’s all you are.
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