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    250: The Crisis of the Third Century — Rome's Near-Death

    Pluto in Scorpio

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    250
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    Pluto in Scorpio

    The Crisis of the Third Century — Rome's Near-Death

    The Roman Empire nearly collapsed under simultaneous military invasions, civil war, plague (the Plague of Cyprian killed 5,000 people per day in Rome at its height), economic collapse, and the complete breakdown of central authority. In a single 50-year period, the empire had 26 claimants to the throne. It was the closest Rome came to total dissolution before its final fall.

    The Sky: Pluto in Scorpio

    Pluto in its home sign of Scorpio brings death, transformation, and regeneration on a civilisational scale. The Roman state literally died and was reborn under Diocletian's reforms. Every Pluto-in-Scorpio transit forces civilisations to confront their own mortality and transform or perish.

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