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Pluto
packs a punch. When it hits you, you know it. Whatever it contacts in
your horoscope gets “transformed”. Pluto is death and rebirth,
decay and regeneration. It is very difficult to hold on to something
that Pluto is trying to take. Sometimes it is just better to let go.
Pluto also rules obsession. An almost insane desire to possess a
thing, or a person.
The negative side of this planet is more likely to
come out during the stressful aspects. The smooth aspects (trine and sextile) can strengthen whatever they touch.
Pluto
is the slowest moving planet in the solar system, so its transits to
the planets in your birth chart can take about two years or more to
pass completely. It can take over 12 years, however, to transit
through each of the houses of your horoscope.
Pluto's effect, as
always, is to clean things out. Yes, things get reborn wherever Pluto
goes, but they have to decay and die first. See which house in your
horoscope that
Pluto
is transiting through to find out which area of
your life needs attention.
This is important because the processes of Pluto are usually
hidden at first.
It works something like a volcano with pressure building up for years
until it explodes.
On the negative side, Pluto rules the “underworld” and illegal
activities. Beware of temptation to go this route when Pluto hits.
Pluto
Transits Through Your First House:
This starts with Pluto making a conjunction with your Ascendant (see
Pluto
Transits in Aspect to Your Natal Ascendant) , but the effect
can last for years. Usually, you will become more assertive. This is
the “Nobody better mess with me” transit. It also can bring
suppressed feelings and desires up to the surface, things that you
don’t want to face. Some tend to become more domineering with Pluto.
Others try to suppress this, but find instead that they seem to
attract people who try to push them around.
Pluto
transiting your first house can also make you more aware of things
around you, as well as the motivations of the people with whom you
come into contact. No, everything hasn’t changed. You are just more
sensitive to things under a Pluto transit of your first house.
Pluto
Transits Through Your Second House:
Watch
your money and possessions, especially if transiting Pluto makes
stress aspects (conjunction, square and opposition) with any of your
natal planets while it is going through this house. Stressful aspects
from Pluto tend to destroy things. Sure they can be built back later,
but first, they have to hit bottom. Watch out, in particular, for
temptation to make money by less than honest means.
The Second House rules more than possessions. It also shows what you
value, and this includes your sense of self-worth. This transit may
not only affect your possessions, but also the very things you value.
Get ready to clean house.
Pluto
Transits Through Your Third House:
During this transit, when you talk, people are more likely to listen,
whether you want them to or not. Pluto makes you come on stronger when
you speak, but you are not likely to feel anything different, at least
until you notice that people are reacting differently to you.
The
Third House rules siblings and neighbors as well. Pluto transits
brings things up from deep inside. If there are stress aspects from
transiting Pluto, watch out for trouble here. Any fight or dispute
with siblings or neighbors, that develops during this time, could last
a long time. On the other hand, if you handle it right, your
relationships here could be totally transformed and strengthened.
If you are in an occupation such as sales, writing advertising
copy, or even therapist, this transit can help you. Your words
seem to have extra power now to influence people.
Pluto
Transits Through Your Fourth House:
This
transit starts with Pluto crossing over the bottom of your horoscope,
the Nadir. When Pluto does
this, it also is opposite your Mid-Heaven,
your career, so that area of your life can undergo changes as well for
the one or two years that Pluto makes the exact opposition. Be careful
of power struggles both at work and home, with bosses, spouses, or
parents. Pluto tends to bury resentments, letting them build until
they explode
. After
Pluto passes your Nadir, it will no longer affect career, just your
home. Make sure your insurance is paid up. Pluto can break things.
However, it is a great time to fix up the house, or even move. If you
buy a new house during this Pluto transit, make sure it’s a
fixer-upper, a place that needs work. Pluto transits are great for rehabilitation.
Be extra careful, though, if the home seems
to need little or no work. Pluto rules problems that lurk beneath the
surface, such as bad plumbing or termite infestation.
Pluto
Transits Through Your Fifth House:
This is the house of romance, creativity, and children, as well as
gambling and speculation. Pluto is the planet of extremes and
obsessions. If you like to gamble, watch out for this one. It can lead
to gambling fever, which usually leads to big losses. The same is true
of the stock market. Astrology aside, it’s usually a good idea to
keep the bulk of your retirement somewhere safe. That is especially
true during a transit like this, especially if Pluto is making stress
aspects (conjunction, square, or opposition) while going through this
house.
You
may become obsessed
with gambling during this time, but the same is
true for other Fifth House matters, like sports, games, or hobbies.
Enjoy, but be careful about going overboard. If you are in the
creative arts, however, what the heck. Pull out all the stops. You may
do something really great.
Of
course, the 5th House rules Romance.
Any love affairs at this time are less likely to be light flings. More
like obsessions. Watch out for jealousy, which is another Pluto
problem. Relationships can have a therapeutic effect on you during
this transit. Or they can drive you to therapy. Pluto rules extremes,
after all.
Be careful of power struggles with children (yes, that happens). And
try not to drive them too hard while Pluto is around.
Pluto
Transits Through Your Sixth House:
This
is the house of both day-to-day work and health. What most books
don’t tell you is that Transits of slow moving planets through this
house can begin a long term
health problem, but you don’t notice the results until years later,
sometimes until the planet is ready to transit into the next house.
Well it’s always a good idea to get regular check-ups anyway.
Pluto
is also Rehabilitation, and
you are more likely to want to fix your body up at this time. But
remember that Pluto rules Obsession
too. Watch out for a tendency to overdo it. You know, like that
special diet to loose weight fast. Just starve yourself for 6 months.
If you are going to be extreme at all, try being extremely moderate.
Be
careful of office politics and strains with co-workers and
subordinates during this transit. Pluto rules large scale forces
beyond our control, such as the higher-ups in your company deciding to
downsize your department. Even if you’re self-employed, you will
have to watch out for changes in your industry that can force you to
the unemployment line. You are best off if your job involves something
Plutonian, such as wreaking or re-building, therapy or
re-habilitation.
Pluto
Transits Through Your Seventh House:
Be
careful of entering into any partnership when Pluto transits your 7th
House. On the negative side, Pluto rules power struggles and
underhanded behavior. No, this does Not
mean that every partner is going to turn on you or that every person
you interact with is going to try to do you in. But there is a
tendency for things like that to happen during this transit. Make an
extra effort to keep communications with partners open. Resentments
tend to be unexpressed at this time. They will just build and blow up
later, so take early action to keep this from happening.
In
a marriage, the passions can increase. Either you or your spouse may
want to do it more. Make sure you’re in good shape.
Pluto
Transits Through Your Eighth House:
Wow!
The planet of sex in the house of sex! Keep your pants on. This is
also the house of other people’s money. Be careful not to get
overextended with debt during this transit or you’ll wind up in
bankruptcy. On the plus side, if your business requires large amounts
of borrowed money, you can pull off deals bigger than you ever have
before. Watch out, though, for that downside potential. Make sure that
creditors can’t pull the rug out from under you.
This
transit is also a good time to fix things up. Anything from your house
to your body. Be careful, however, when Pluto makes stressful aspects
(conjunction, square, and opposition) to other planets in your
horoscope.
Pluto
Transits Through Your Ninth House: This
is the house of religion, philosophy, “higher mind”, the
principles we live by. Pluto is extremes and obsessions. When Pluto
hits, everything Feels
differently. During this transit, you may become more fanatical about
beliefs you already hold. Or you may junk them entirely and devoutly
believe something totally different. There will be a tendency to
engage in debates involving general principles. Be careful not to pull
out all the stops when discussing gun control of same sex marriages.
It’s only a discussion, not a matter of life and death.
The 9th House is also the house of higher education and long
journeys. This is a good time to take a course, especially if it is
about a Pluto subject, such as psychology, biology, archeology,
sociology, anthropology, paleontology. If that’s not your cup of
tea, start reading mystery stories. Any knowledge or information
concerned with the mysterious or death and rebirth will tend to appeal
now.
Any
long trip you take should be to someplace a bit mysterious. Perhaps a
place with archeological ruins. But watch out if Pluto makes a
stressful aspect to a planet in your chart. That could cause danger on
long trips from people who are not so nice.
Pluto
Transits Through Your Tenth House:
This transit begins when Pluto passes over the top of your horoscope,
your Mid-Heaven (example: Pluto
Transits in Aspect to your Natal Mid-Heaven). This can produce
major changes in career. One client had a business that was ripe for
franchising and Pluto hitting his 10th House would have been the
perfect time to expand. He wanted things to stay as they were. Shortly
after Pluto hit, his lease was up and the landlord decided to more
than double the rent. He couldn’t pay so he had to close. With
Pluto, you grow or die.
Be
careful of any desire to succeed at “all costs”. With this
transit, there are frequently increased temptations to “cut
corners” and break rules. And laws. Remember Pluto is extremes. The
highest and the lowest.
Pluto
Transits Through Your Eleventh House:
This is the house of friends, hopes, and wishes. What most books
don’t tell you is that this house also rules groups
of people. During this transit, there is a possibility of being
strongly attracted to a group. Pluto rules obsessions. Watch out for
cults. On the other hand, you may become affiliated with a group that
has positive goals and devote a lot of time to them. Even then,
however, be careful of overdoing it.
Friendships
tend to change under this transit. You will find that some old friends
just don’t appeal to you any more. Other friendships intensify. If
Pluto makes stress aspects to planets in your birth horoscope while
transiting this house, you will have to be careful of betrayal by a
friend, or what you view as a betrayal.
Your hopes and wishes will be affected as well. Some of them will no
longer seem attractive and you will let them die. And you may become
fanatic about other goals. Pluto transits give the energy and focus to
really achieve things. Just be careful not to overdo it. Few goals are
worth putting yourself in intensive care.
Pluto
Transits Through Your Twelfth House:
This
is the house of “self-undoing”, the dustbin of the horoscope where
we throw things that we don’t want to deal with. Pluto loves to go
through dustbins and dumpsters. During this transit, old psychological
problems, that you thought you had dealt with years earlier, come up
again and demand to be
heard. Don’t panic. Just face them (easier said than done, but you
have to do it).
This
is also the house of hidden
enemies. No, you are not standing there minding your own business
and these nasty people come at you. Check your own behavior to make
sure that you are not doing something to irritate them and set them
off.
Pluto
Transits in Aspect to the Natal Sun: When
transiting Pluto makes a stressful aspect to your natal Sun (a
conjunction, opposition, or square) the first thing you notice is that
you feel very drained. I remember when this one first hit me. To be
certain that it was Pluto, I called someone whom I knew had this
transit a few years earlier. “Oh yes” she said. “That was the
year I thought I was being pursued by demons”! Pluto is a slow
moving planet, so its effects will last about two years. Little things
that you would normally ignore will suddenly seem extremely
significant and overwhelming. Yes, you can feel drained, sometimes
very drained. But the worse this gets, the more people around you will
say how wonderful you look. That’s Pluto. Makes you look great on
the outside while feeling terrible inside. It’s not called the
planet of extremes for nothing. I’ve also noticed that in about a
third of the cases, there is an attack of insomnia. Pluto doesn’t
want to be unconscious and vulnerable.
So what do you do when this hits you? Take everything with that
proverbial grain of salt. Just remember that it’s pretty much the
same world as before the Pluto came around. It’s you
that has changed. If anything gets to you, ask yourself if it would
have irritated you a few years earlier. If the answer is no, then you
know that it is just Pluto having some fun. Another thing you can do
is to fix things up or throw them out. Pluto “energy” is great for
rehabilitation or elimination. As for the insomnia, as W.C. Fields
once said, the best thing is to “get plenty of sleep”.
The
transiting sextile and trine aspects are totally different. They can
make you feel energized, stronger, less fearful. Like all “good”
aspects though, they tend towards laziness. Things are going your way,
so why push. But this is the best time to make that extra effort
because the “good” aspects open doors for you. Take advantage of
that new found energy.
One
more thing. Resist the sudden urge you may get to dominate others,
even if “they are asking for it”. If you are normally passive,
Pluto can easily bring people into your life who will try to dominate
you. Or you may suddenly have the desire to be very aggressive. See if
you can transmute that into assertiveness instead.
Pluto
Transits in Aspect to the Natal Moon: The
Moon rules your emotions, the “sub-conscious”, home, and women in
the life. Pluto is extremes, death and rebirth, power struggles,
getting rid of things (and people). The harmonious aspects (sextile
and trine) simply bring a desire for change and a deeper awareness of
the emotional level in your relationships. The stressful aspects
(conjunction, square, and opposition) are, well, stressful.
Stressful
Pluto-to-Moon transiting aspects rip open the trap door to the
“subconscious” mind and let all the little demons out to play.
Fears and angry emotions you repressed since childhood come rushing to
the surface. This is a good time to enter psychotherapy since you are
wide open and can make great progress at this time. If you can’t do
therapy when this hits, at least start throwing things out. Clean up
your house. Transform yourself.
Pluto
Transits in Aspect to Natal Mercury:
Pluto likes things that are deep, significant. Shallowness turns you
off with this transit, no matter what the aspect. This is a great time
to get interested in new ideas, to start studying seriously.
Especially the subjects ruled by Pluto. Psychology, sociology,
biology, paleontology, archeology. Pluto governs anything that has to
do with death and rebirth. When this transit hits, you will find that
you have new insight into ideas and are better able to see what’s
behind them and what they imply. Pluto is very good at getting
secrets. Words have a greater impact now, in both directions. Your
words can have an effect on others like they never have before. And
the words you hear or read can affect you more strongly as well.
If Pluto is making a stress aspect, watch what you say. Your
speech can be a lot more caustic at this time. You won’t notice
anything different but those around you will. A remark that seems
totally innocent to you can hit the one you’re talking to really
hard. Pluto knows just where to wound.
Pluto
Transits in Aspect to Natal Venus:
Pluto
intensifies everything it touches. Hopefully, you will have a decent
relationship going when this one hits. If you don’t have any, then
this could be a frustrating period because this tends to increase your
sex drive. A lot. Pluto rules the deep subconscious and all your inner
desires, frustrations, and hang-ups start to come to the surface
during the stressful transiting aspects. This time, they can affect
your love life. Pluto can’t stand anything shallow. It wants depth
and intensity. Even obsession. If you have a stressful aspect, watch
out for power struggles. Your partners may try to dominate or
manipulate you during this time. You might try to do the same to them.
If
you are an artist or work at something creative, you will start to
feel a need to produce something more significant, more intense. Go
with that feeling.
The smooth aspects (sextile and trine) tend to produce the intensity
without most of the stress.
Don’t
forget to look at the House
that Venus occupies in you birth chart. If it is in your 4th House,
for instance, this transit may manifest as a desire to fix up your
house, or even to move. Also, check the houses that have either Libra
or Taurus on the cusp (beginning). They can be affected as well. For
example, if you have Libra on the cusp of the 9th House (long journeys
and higher education) you may have a desire to travel to some far-off,
exotic, and mysterious place. Or you could want to take an art course.
Several of these could manifest at once.
Pluto
Transits in Aspect to Natal Mars:
Pluto
brings things to the surface from deep inside. Just a few days before
I wrote this, I had a client who was meek and mild. Pluto was going
right over her Mars and she was very upset because, all of a sudden,
she wanted to tell people off. Even her friends. No, Pluto didn’t make
her angry. It simply brought up emotions that had been repressed for
years. A couple of years before this, I had Pluto going over my Mars.
A guy in a pizza parlor tried to short change me and I yelled so loud
they could have heard me across the street.
Mars
is energy and Pluto supercharges it, for better or worse. The
stressful aspects can bring up long suppressed anger, that’s true.
But any aspect that transiting Pluto makes to your Mars increases your
Energy. Make certain that
you give it a constructive outlet, otherwise...well, Pluto does rule
volcanoes. It could be you who is exploding, or, if you hold that
energy down too much, you could attract aggressive and shady people
into your life. Avoid dark alleys even more than you usually do.
Pluto
Transits in Aspect to Natal Jupiter:
The stressful aspects can temporarily “kill” your optimism and
“luck”. Your religious faith and the philosophy you live by can
also be “killed and reborn” under a stressful transit from Pluto.
Or, since Pluto rules extremes, you may tend to become a bit
fanatical, believing that you have found some great truth. Even if you
have, remember that it’s not polite to force it down someone’s
throat.
The
smooth aspects (sextile and trine) regenerate your “luck” and
optimism. They indicate a good time to go forward with major projects
(major for you, that is) furthering education, taking long trips, or
getting involved in social issues.
Pluto
Transits in Aspect to Natal Saturn:
The stressful aspects can make you believe that everything you need
for safety and security is being destroyed. To some extent, this is
true. Mostly though, it just feels
that way. Saturn is the planet of fear. Pluto brings it out.
Fortunately,
Saturn also rules persistence and discipline and Pluto can activate
those things as well. This can be an excellent time to start a
long-term program of change. Want to do over your house? How about a
weight reduction or work-out program? This can be a great time for
things like that. In fact, circumstances may force you in those
directions. When it comes to either Pluto or Saturn, don’t wait
until they push you.
Pluto
Transits in Aspect to Natal Uranus:
Both
of these planets rule change. Be sure to check out which houses Uranus
and Pluto Rule in your
birth chart as well as which houses they Occupy.
These will be the areas of greatest change. Naturally, the stressful
aspects (square and opposition) are naturally more difficult to deal
with. Friends can go out of your life now. Be careful though, about
new “friends” that come in at this time.
The
smooth aspects bring changes with less stress.
Pluto
Transits in Aspect to Natal Neptune:
As
far as the stressful aspects go (conjunction, square, and opposition)
Pluto can “kill” your dreams, faith,
and fantasies. (People born this century don’t have to worry
about the opposition though. It won’t happen unless you live to be
at least 125!). Under these transits, believers can become atheists
and atheists become believers. Pluto doesn’t care. It just makes
changes. Once more check the Houses
that both Pluto and Neptune Rule
and Occupy. Those areas
will be the ones to be affected the most.
The
smooth aspects (sextile and trine) strengthen intuition and
imagination.
Pluto
Transits in Aspect to Natal Pluto:
Since
Pluto is in the fast part of its orbit, it is possible to experience
the opposition --- if you plan to live to your eighties and nineties.
The square happens when you are in your early 40’s. Get ready for
the best sex you ever had! Sure, it can turn your life upside down,
but who cares. Actually, you had better check out the House that Pluto
occupies in your birth chart, as well as the one it is transiting
through. And don’t forget the house that has the sign of Scorpio on
the cusp (beginning). All of those areas of your life are probably
going to be affected as well. Check your health because Pluto rules
diseases that stay hidden and build up slowly (not that you will get
anything like that, but better safe than sorry). Watch out for sudden
anger and obsessions as well. As always with Pluto, utilize this
transit for fixing things up (rehabilitation) including yourself, and
for throwing things out (elimination). And of course, don’t forget
that great sex!
The
smooth aspects give you the ability to make changes without the
stresses, strains, and obsessions of the square.
Pluto
Transits in Aspect to the Natal Ascendant:
When Pluto crosses over your Ascendant (conjunction), you can become a
new person. Make sure it’s someone you like. I call this one the
“Nobody better mess with me!” transit. You will tend to become
more commanding and domineering. If you try to suppress this, you will
attract people who will try to dominate you until you finally assert
yourself.
The
square and opposition have a similar effect, but the emphasis is more
on tumultuous relationships. Watch out for power struggles and
manipulation that would even shock a writer for the soap operas.
Pluto
Transits in Aspect to the Natal Mid-Heaven: These
aspects can transform your career, domestic environment, and
relationships with your boss and parents. Watch out for office
politics at work, and power struggles both at home and work. This can
be a good time to make permanent changes in your home (either fixing
it up completely, or moving). It may also be favorable for changing
jobs and even careers.
Be
very careful that the desire to make these changes is not due to some
inner compulsion or obsession that you have yet to work through.
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