It all seemed to come so gradually until it didn’t.  We started out rebuilding the economy after the dot com boom and bust of 2000.  We inflated everything with a grand Pluto in Sagittarius.  We built big houses, had no doc home loans, increased our physical sizes until a third of us became obese and even built mega churches with “pastorpreneurs”.  Then came the bill for it all.  Around 2007 and 2008 Pluto circled the sign of Capricorn, father time, the grim reaper, Chronos.  Pluto began the visit in the death and transformation sign of Capricorn.  Things began to shrink instead of expand.  Everything got more serious and more regulated.  Government and corporations became even more powerful and consolidated so that  just about any industry was controlled by 4 large corporations.   The average person on the street became more aware of stagnation of the paycheck, a shrinkage in the safety …