Pluto

Pluto

Pluto

Πλούτων (Pluton)/Ἅδης (Hades)

यम (Lord Yama)

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God of the Underworld and Death; Hades means “the unseen” and Pluto means “wealth.”

God of Death & Rebirth. Associated with subconscious forces, ruling all that is “below the surface.”

Pluto () is the ruling planet of Scorpio and is exalted in Virgo. In classical Roman mythology, Pluto is the god of the underworld who is extremely wealthy. The alchemical symbol was given to Pluto on its discovery, three centuries after alchemical practices had all but disappeared. The alchemical symbol can therefore be read as spirit over mind, transcending matter. Pluto takes 248 years to make a full circuit of the zodiac, but its progress is highly variable: it spends between 15 and 26 years in each sign. Astrologically speaking, Pluto is called “the great renewer”, and is considered to represent the part of a person that destroys in order to renew, through bringing buried, but intense needs and drives to the surface, and expressing them, even at the expense of the existing order. A commonly used keyword for Pluto is “transformation”.^[38] It is associated with power and personal mastery, and the need to cooperate and share with another, if each is not to be destroyed.^[39] Pluto governs major business and enormous wealth, mining, surgery and detective work, and any enterprise that involves digging under the surface to bring the truth to light. Pluto is also associated with Tuesday, alongside Mars since Pluto is the higher octave of that planet in astrology. Its entry in Cancer in 1913, the sign in which it was later discovered, coincided with World War I. It is also associated with nuclear armament due to such weapons using plutonium, which was named after the dwarf planet. Nuclear research had its genesis in the 1930s and 40s and later gave rise to the polarized nuclear standoff of the Cold War, with the mass consumer societies of the United States and other democracies facing the totalitarian state of the USSR. The discovery of Pluto also occurred just after the birth of modern psychoanalysis, when Freud and Jung began to explore the depths of the unconscious. In real life events and culture, Pluto has been a major astrological aspect. When it comes to art, movements like Cubism and Surrealism began to de-construct the “normal” view of the world. In medicine, Pluto is seen to be associated with regenerative forces in the body involving cell formation and the reproductive system.^[38] The majority of traditional astrologers do not use Pluto as a ruling planet, but do use the planet for interpretation and predictive work, obliquely making reference to projections of influences from higher to lower dimensional spaces.^[38] Pluto is considered by modern astrologers to be the primary native ruler of the eighth house.

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Death, destruction, wealth, sex, terrorism, river, tunnels, occultism, danger, regeneration Colors: Dark Red, Metallic Black Although Pluto is no longer officially considered a planet, we will interpret it in our astrological readings just the same. Careful analysis and a lot of work was put into determining its place, and this shouldn’t all go to waste because of terminology surrounding it at the moment. It is a part of Pluto’s nature to be dismissed as the one humankind doesn’t want to face and accept in its entirety. As Astrologers, we have a task to embrace and give freedom to all, and our approach to Pluto shouldn’t be any different. The fact is this planet was discovered just several years before the Third Reich was formed, and throughout time relates with clarity to Scorpio’s rule and everything it entails. Pluto is the ruler of all destructive choices and taboos in the world, speaking primarily of the human need for sexual repression that leads to deep unconscious frustration that tends to set itself free. It rules the sign of Scorpio which is, after all, the sign of sex and war, and Pluto is all of this comprised into one point where things explode, burst into flames, standing for the point of nuclear energy that cannot be contained. It can hold a lot, everything we shoved under the rug and under our mattresses in search for unrealistic instinctive fulfillment. Still, there comes a point in which Pluto can’t contain any more repression, and it simply spins out of control, leading to all sorts of destructive circumstances and choices. Apart from our beliefs and social norms, Pluto will take us into an entirely new whole, where justice is simply what it is, found in primal needs we don’t want to face.

Dwarf Planet Pluto

Pluto has been downgraded to a dwarf planet role due to its small size. Named after the Greek god of the Underworld, it wasn’t discovered until the 20^th century because of its size and distance from the Earth. The location of Pluto was predicted before it was actually discovered, since the orbits of Uranus and Neptune clearly pointed to the existence of the ninth planet behind the sphere that was visible at the time. Pluto is smaller than a number of moons that circle planets in our Solar system but has its own orbit around the Sun which still makes it act in a “planetary way.” It has an eccentric and inclined orbit, which at times brings it closer to the Sun than Neptune. Ever since it was downgraded to a dwarf status, Pluto found new friends in other dwarf planets – Ceres, Makemake, and Eris primarily. This fact seems to hide its mission to help us dig up the importance of one or all of these little outcasts in our astrological approach too.

Pluto in Astrology

No matter its planetary status, Pluto is still considered the ruler of Scorpio, alongside with this sign’s traditional ruler – Mars. The sign of Aries represents that direct, masculine energy, shown through the initiative and clarity Mars tends to give, and Pluto is its feminine counterpart, something presenting an end to Mars’ beginning and a Jin to its Jang. The actual strength of Mars is seen through its capability to accept the feminine within, and Pluto is here to show just how much it has been accepted. The division of the world into masculine and feminine wouldn’t be a problem as such if there weren’t so many misconceptions and wrongly set convictions nurtured through entire bloodlines, where one isn’t as good or as capable as the other. The sign of Scorpio exalts Uranus, and with it our human nature, individuality, and asexual character that overcomes specific parts of our physical body. If our Soul can move from one incarnation to the other, and our unconscious has the ability to move through all of the roles imaginable, how is it possible we still stick to superficial misconceptions that take away the importance of the role each gender, race, and religion have in the overall image of society? If you are searching for a maleficent planet in a chart, you will have to stop and look at Pluto for more than a second. Traditional Astrology won’t take it into consideration, and for the most part of our lives, we won’t feel its effects as much as we would expect to. Although there are people darkened by its rule or position close to the ascendant, reaching it and feeling its effects every day would be more than finding the point of enlightenment. It would be presented through our ability to ground any dream we have in an instant, ruling both time and space, and overcoming death itself.

Manifestations

Pluto doesn’t exactly manifest in the prettiest of ways. This isn’t the case because it is evil, but because we believe evil exists. If there was a devil in your chart, it would be presented by Pluto for sure, and from the house it resides in, you will see where you can search to find it. Depending on our greatest fear, Pluto will manifest as possessive behavior, jealousy, destruction, and our deepest and darkest inner anomalies and impulses. It is us beyond instinctive, triggered by dismissal, judgment, and deep repression that rules our entire existence. On a mundane level, Pluto will manifest through wars or natural disasters, as an energetic discharge bound to come at some point in time if the entire society and the universal consciousness doesn’t let things flow. Its rule and manifestations are typically connected to areas on Earth where people have trouble with “rivers” of ancestors, being tied to them or unable to accept the destruction and death preceding their incarnation. If the setting of Pluto is strong and its aspects good, we will see it representing regeneration, transformation and the atomic energy we carry within. It will show us all our own way towards deep change, one we might think we are afraid of, or put true healers and liberty-chasers in our path. It is the energy compressed into one point, and represents the core of planet Earth. If we get in touch with it, we will realize that our lives are fully our own responsibility, and that nothing is impossible in our realities, not even overcoming death.

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PLUTO

Astrology Quick Facts:

Glyph: Ruler of: Power, Transformation, & Rebirth Named for: Pluto, The Roman God of the Underworld Sign of Dignity: Scorpio Sign of Detriment: Taurus Sign of Exaltation: ? Sign of Fall: ? Physical Body: Pancreas, metabolism, elimination Changes Sign: Every 13-32 years (due to highly erratic orbit)

Astronomy Quick Facts:

Type: Dwarf Planet, Terrestrial

Length of Day: 153 Earth hours (~6 Earth days)

Length of Year: 248 Earth years

Moons: 5 (Charon, Nix, Hydra, Kerberos, and Styx)

Temperature: -228 to -238°C (-378 to -396°F)

Colour: Reddish-Brown & White

Size: 49,244 km in diameter (5.5x smaller than Earth)

Spins: Counter-clockwise

Rings: 0

Year Discovered: 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh

About Pluto

For those of us who grew up learning about 9 planets, 2006 was a sad year. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially stripped Pluto of its status as our solar system’s 9th planet. Pluto is now technically classified as a “dwarf planet” because it does not meet all 3 of the IAU’s criteria for planet status:

• It is in orbit around the Sun,
• It has enough mass to assume hydrostatic equilibrium, meaning a rounded shape, and
• It has “cleared the neighborhood” around its orbit; meaning Pluto’s gravitational influence is not enough to clear away space objects and debris from its orbit.

Despite this, Pluto’s influence over us on Earth has not “dwarfed” at all. As the planetary ruler of transformation and rebirth, Pluto made his own transformation to dwarf planet seamlessly and with great dignity. If you consider, as Joanna Martine Woolfolk explains, that Pluto is the planet of “destruction and annihilation, and then complete transformation,” Pluto’s relegation to dwarf planet status looks less like a demotion and more like a reclassification; a transformation and a rebirth. Call him what you like, Pluto and his pull on us humans remains just as potent as ever.

Plus, if Pluto’s Texas-sized glacier in the shape of a heart is any indication, Pluto never appeared to be particularly upset about his new title.

Tiny Pluto gets a particularly unique view of the solar system from its orbital path through the Kuiper Belt (pronounced kai-per), a doughnut-shaped ring of icy space objects and debris that extends out beyond Neptune’s orbit. He’s also followed around by 5 moons; Charon, the largest of which, is about half Pluto’s size and the reason why the pair are often referred to as the “double planet.” Pluto’s orbit is, of all the planets, the most erratic, and it takes him 248 Earth years to complete one rotation around the Sun. Pluto too is considered a generational planet, like Uranus and Neptune. These 3 planets are often called the modern planets or the Trans-Saturnians. Because these 3 planets move slower and are much further from the Sun, their influence impacts individuals and entire generations.

Since his comparatively recent discovery in 1930, astrologers do not understand Pluto’s influence to the same extent as they do the personal planets, the planets that come before Saturn in the solar system. But, since we can calculate where Pluto has been over time, astrologers can attribute certain characteristics to Pluto by examining it from a generational perspective. In the natal chart, Pluto’s placement is indicative of, in Woolfolk’s words, “the highest and lowest of which mankind is capable.”

For example, Pluto was in Sagittarius, the sign of truth, knowledge, and foreign places, during the Information Age, which the rise of the Internet and social media. Here, we saw an almost total annihilation of traditional, slower means of communication in favour of revolutionary new tools. Woolfolk points out that Pluto not only transformed how information is transmitted, but it transformed the “concept of distance” itself as it enabled humans to connect to one another instantaneously despite geographical space.

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Pluto Pluto, God of the Underworld, is the ruler of Scorpio. (In Greek mythology, the corresponding god was Hades). In Astrology, the energies of Pluto are transforming. Pluto represents subconscious forces, ruling all that is “below the surface”. On the up side, Pluto is associated with renewal and rebirth. It represents endings and new beginnings, as well as spiritual growth and rebirth. Negative expression of Pluto is an obsessive desire for power and control and general destructiveness. In the chart, the position of Pluto by sign will be shared with other people in the same generation due to the comparatively slow movement of Pluto, the outermost planet, in the heavens. By house, the position of Pluto shows where individuals search for truths and deeper meaning. This area of life may be associated with change, upheaval, power struggles, and issues of control. Pluto in aspect to other planets in the chart colors those energies with obsessive qualities, power struggles, the need to find deeper meanings, and willingness to explore and examine. Where we find Pluto in the chart is where we either seek change and transformation, or have it thrust upon us if we refuse to accept our deepest needs. If we fear Pluto’s energies, or our “dark” side, destructiveness (both directed at ourselves or others) is a byproduct. Pluto in the Houses Pluto in Transit Pluto’s glyph, or symbol, combines the circle (spirit) over the crescent (receptivity) and the cross (matter). This glyph suggests spiritual receptivity to “superworlds” or the superconscious, placed above the physical world. A common, although perhaps somewhat outdated, glyph for Pluto merges the letters P and L (which are the initials of the man who discovered Pluto, Percival Lowell), and is pictured here at right.

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Pluto

The planet of secrets, death, and rebirth

Pluto is the planet of major transformation, representing the cycle of death and rebirth. It is responsible for breaking down the old to make room for the new. Pluto can also represent power and control, and reigns over our relationship to authority figures and leadership. Pluto is the furthest and tiniest planet of all. In fact, this body is so small and far away that it lost its official status as a planet. However, that doesn’t change the astrological fact that Pluto packs a significant punch. Named after the mythological lord of the underworld, Pluto was discovered in 1930, a period of economic depression and rising fascism. These reflect both the depths and concentrated power with which this planet is associated.

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Fast Pluto Facts

Nickname: Lord of the Underworld Zodiac sign Pluto rules: Scorpio House Pluto rules: 8th House of Depth and Intimacy Pluto retrogrades: Once every year, with each retrograde lasting five months Pluto stays in each zodiac sign for: about 15 – 25 years Pluto makes a complete trip through the zodiac: About every 250 years

Pluto and Scorpio

The planet Pluto rules over the zodiac sign Scorpio. In Roman mythology Pluto is the Lord of the Underworld (hence the nickname), which describes this planet’s depth, passion, and intensity, not to mention its association with death. Scorpio and Pluto share common themes of death, rebirth, and transformation — all parts of the cycle of metamorphosis.

Pluto and the 8th House of Depth and Intimacy

The 8th House is all about the important things you share with others, from sex to money to space. This house is also associated with extremes, like life and death — just like Pluto. Both Pluto and the 8th house are only interested in the deepest and most intense emotions and experiences — those that will transform us.

Pluto’ Lessons

This content was written by tarot.com writer Jeff Jawer. The reason Pluto is so powerful is that it represents a code that can unlock and transform energy, including emotions. It is the E=MC² of Astrology, a formula for releasing powerful forces. The connection between Pluto and nuclear energy is clear, including, of course, its use of plutonium. Additionally, this distant planet was discovered at 18 degrees of the sign Cancer on February 18, 1930. Saturn, the planet of reality, reached this point within days of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. Uranus (as in uranium) was conjunct Pluto’s discovery point at the time of the first hydrogen bomb test. The little guy is powerful! On a personal level, Pluto is the principle of the shadow, psychologist Carl Jung’s term for parts of the psyche that we unconsciously hide from ourselves. This corresponds with the mythology of Pluto who was the kidnapper of Persephone. She was taken to his underground lair until a deal was made with her mother Demeter for her release that required her to return to the underworld for four months every year. This is a story of the returning darkness of winter. Pluto is about the descent into our own underworld or shadow. Yet it is also a story of rebirth, like the returning light of spring. When we refuse to look into our dark side we are incomplete and lack access to our full power. When we face our fears, doubts, misdeeds, and shortcomings without blame or recrimination, we are released from their bondage and grow more profound and potent. Everyone has a shadow, no matter how good they are. It is in the willingness to encounter these often shameful parts of ourselves and to embrace them with love and understanding that we crack our emotional code and avail ourselves of more energy. The workings of Pluto have been described as “addition by subtraction,” which begins with the purging (death) aspect of this planet that makes way for rebirth and regeneration. Simply eliminating habits, beliefs, behaviors, expectations, obligations, and ambitions that are not critical to one’s survival creates space for new ideas, actions, and aspirations to emerge. Prioritizing is Pluto’s way of working, requiring us to evaluate and choose how we spend our physical, mental, and emotional resources. It does sometimes take a dive into the personal underworld to recognize our deepest needs and desires, yet once those become clear, it’s easier to figure how to address them. A little purging and taking the plunge are keys to tapping into Pluto’s transformational and revitalizing powers.

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Larger than life: Omnipotent, alchemical Pluto may have been dubbed a dwarf planet by astronomers, but according to astrology, its force is among the most intense of all the heavenly bodies in the solar system! 

Named after the Roman god of the underworld, Pluto holds the key to our personal chamber of secrets. Everything from money, sex, power and shame fall under his hefty domain. If life is feeling like a personal hell, look to Pluto for help. But don’t expect him to do the heavy lifting for you! Pluto reveals our vices, addictions and our own undoing. But like the Phoenix rising from the ashes, he can show us how to transform that lead into gold. This will always involve a symbolic death—don’t forget, we’re dealing with the ruler of Hades here. Something must be released in order for something new be born. But Pluto knows that nothing ever really dies; it’s simply transmutes into another form. Pluto’s placement in your natal chart will show the thing you have to keep on sacrificing in order to do your most important soul growth! It can also show where you have amazingly regenerative powers, taking a licking as you keep on ticking. To find out your Pluto sign, run a free chart here:www.astrostyle.com/free-chart.

As the ruler of sex and money, Pluto’s position in the chart will show the way we bond with people and how we share resources.

Because of its chaotic and unpredictable orbit, Pluto will hover in a single sign for between 12-20 years. As a result, it is one of the planets that shapes generational trends. People born with Pluto in marriage-minded Libra (1971-1984) are the kids of the divorce era, watching the dissolution of their parents’ relationships and reinventing the rules of family as a result. The Pluto in Scorpio generation (1984-1995) dealt with heavy topics from a young age like gun violence, AIDS, and a rise in teen pregnancies; yet, this generation created an open dialogue about sexual identity and gender that is making laws more inclusive to this day. Pluto is outright possessive too, both with relationships and money! According to Greek mythology, he kidnapped young Persephone from her mother Demeter, forcing her to live in the underworld. The two struck a deal with Pluto releasing the girl to her mother for half the year (spring and summer) then holding Persephone captive again during fall and winter. This planet will definitely show our own nefarious sides. Where will we go to any length to get (or keep) what we want? Like the story of Pluto and Persephone, we often learn that things go cold—or outright die—when we hang on too tightly. As the ruler of sex and money, Pluto’s position in the chart will show the way we bond with people and how we share resources. This planet rules the sign of Scorpio, after all—the famed, yet sometimes feared sex symbol of the zodiac. Anyone who’s fallen under a Scorpio’s spell can attest to the allure of this enchanting energy! And while Pluto can amplify our charms it can also make us manipulative if we aren’t careful. Jealousy and a desire to dominate can show up in people who have a tricky Pluto placement in their charts. Since this planet governs wealth—specifically the money we “hoard in the mattress,” so to speak—our investment style can be revealed by Pluto’s chart position. Like the other outer planets, Pluto will spend five months of each year retrograde. During these times, we will often feel a relief from the planet’s intensity. We can work with the lessons of direct-flowing Pluto and incorporate them into our lives. They’ll probably feel a bit like “Extreme Makeover: Self Edition”, but when we emerge for the big reveal, strong and rejuvenated, we’ll thank the god of the underworld for making us so damn irresistible and magnetic.

Planetary Stats: Pluto

• Changes Zodiac Signs: Every 12-20 years
• Zodiac Sign It Rules: Scorpio

Pluto governs:

• Power (and power struggles)
• Sex
• Death and the afterlife
• Transformation, reinvention, regeneration
• Wealth
• Unconsciousness

Special positions of Pluto: 

Domicile: Scorpio The planet’s home base, an easy flow if placed here in the chart. Detriment: Taurus Opposite sign of home base, may need to work harder to integrate the planet’s energy if placed here in the chart. Exalted: Aries & Pisces The planet’s most powerful position, indicates ease and added fortune with using the planet’s energy if placed here in the chart. Fall: Libra & Virgo Opposite sign to the exalted position, can indicate struggles with utilizing the planet’s energy if placed here in the chart.

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Pluto in Astrology & Mercury Sign Meaning

In astrology, the planet Pluto symbolizes our inclination to transform what is repressed in our consciousness into something positive. Pluto can represent our sexuality, our more fanatical desires, and power. Pluto has territory over intense transformations that bring genuine changes to one’s personality. Since Pluto is the slowest-moving planet, a whole generation will have the same Pluto sign, giving it verifiable significance. Lasting changes in human progress can be connected to Pluto’s transits through the zodiac signs. When it comes to the natal chart, the house and the zodiac sign that planet Pluto falls in will demonstrate what in your life requires letting go, regardless of whether you want to or not. You may encounter emotional turbulence here or you may need to bear appalling circumstances, all in the name of letting go and transforming yourself into something greater. Pluto tears down what we need to alter and rebuild.

Learn more about Pluto in Astrology and your Pluto Sign

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Pluto  (to transform)

The Planet Of Transformation

• eliminate
• regenerate
• purge
• redeem

Other glyphs: ,  The normal symbol for Pluto is . This one,. is the initials of Pluto’s discover, Percival Lowell, who discovered it in 1930. The glyph for Pluto, , shows the circle of the spirit (the sun) within and above the crescent of receptivity, which is above the cross of matter. It is considered a higher octave of Mars. The keyword for Pluto is “transformation“. Pluto was the god of the underworld, ruling over the dead. While the god, Pluto, was not a god of death, which was determined by the Fates, he was concerned with the transition from life to death. The planet Pluto, however is associated with death, mainly as a transformation from life, in one form, to death, or rebirth, in another form. Life and death can be considered a transformation from one state to the other. “Life and death” should be taken as an allusion to a process whereby something is completely destroyed and is transformed into something new and usually better. This is made clearer by another keyword for Pluto, to regenerate, that is, create anew, in a better way. This can mean changing from being an unethical person to an ethical person, as in spiritual regeneration. Pluto the planet is associated with hidden and secret things, often deeply buried, perhaps in the mind. It is associated with psychoanalysis and similar deep therapies. It is also associated with atomic energy, which often involves the transformation of one element to another, with the release of vast amounts of energy. Pluto, like the atom, tightly holds onto its secret energy, but when it is released, it occurs suddenly, unexpectedly and powerfully. Not surprisingly, Pluto is associated with sex and the orgasm. The sudden explosion of energynaturally associates Pluto with aggression, passion and conflict. To understand the secret matters which Pluto is concerned with, we need to remember that, for instance, much of science deals with uncovering secrets of nature. As Pluto is associated with life and death, some of these secrets refer to understanding how to create life and transmute events in the biological cell. It is also concerned with life prolongation (death). Of course, Pluto’s secrets are also secrets of the mind. Areas where we might have hidden shame or guilt, the skeleton in the cupboard. But really these are areas that we cannot own or have because they are considered bad or they are considered too good. We hide both the saint and the sinner within us. When Pluto digs up any of these, it causes serious conscious conflict, and the good may horrify us more than the bad! The personal secrets also include areas of possibility and potential that we dare not even dream about (except symbolically). Normally, such areas are only made manifest when we are ready to receive them and to transform. Pluto also gives us this ability. In a natal chart Pluto indicates how a person will cut through the veneer and get down to life or death, sex and survival matters. The expression, “cut the crap” is Plutonic because Pluto is concerned with elimination and cutting through to the cause or basis. Pluto is considered by astrologers to be neither good nor bad. For instance, where the keyword “annihilation” is used, it is probably only half the truth. Pluto does destroy the old, but it does so to create the new, and the better new (regenerate). Some more keywords related to Pluto are: elimination, purification, exposure, intensity and extremes. Pluto rules over the basic conflict between spiritual development and worldly living. While Uranus will change the old into the new, Pluto will destroy the old to make room for the new. Pluto is the ruler, or co-ruler (with Mars), of Scorpio.

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Pluto – the use and misuse of power

Astrologically, Pluto has come to rule the unconscious mind, deep instincts, and the underworld. It represents the power to create as well as the power to destroy. It symbolizes the power of radical transformation and revolution. Keywords include power-it’s use or misuse, obsession, death, birth, regeneration (sex), destruction, and metamorphosis, exchanges in genetic material, genetics, research , spiritual regeneration, the phoenix rising out of the ashes. It represents the principles that something must die in order for something new to take place and survival that requires collaboration. One modern branch of astrology – Evolutionary Astrology – uses Pluto and the Moon’s nodes as the primary indicators of the soul’s journey.

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Pluto

I transform

To change into a different form, substance, or state. Thoroughly change.

I regenerate I eliminate

I destroy the existing

Positive: constructively Negative: destructively

Planet of Transformation

Pluto

I transform

deep, impersonal energies and transforming forces, intense, obstinate, obsession, penetrating, persistent, power, secretive

Communism, compulsive, crime, darkness, death, deep, hidden, magic, mystery, nuclear energy, occult, orgasm, paranoid, profundity, psychology, rebirth, recycle, reform, renewal, reproduction, revolutionary, self-transforming therapies, healing, sex, subconscious, taboo, transformation, unconscious, underneath, undermining, underworld, volcanoes, the underworld, detectives, disruption, decline, regeneration

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Pluto (Renewal)	Providence, invisible forces, power and influence. Obsessions, fanaticism, secretive, and rejuvinating Astrological Scorpio Numerological #10	Elimination, regeneration. Exceeding limits, seeking the infinite. The inner soul of the Solar system.
	Pluto is second to eccentric and ethereal behaviour only to Neptune. This planet was unknown until 1930. It seems that the esoteric system of celestial bodies influences us and that Pluto has subtle and powerful – as a rules of dictators and the masses. This power is subtle and is the ‘octave’ power of Mars (also of Uranus – 11, Sun – 1 and Moon – 0/2) and therefore is seen at the subtle level as one that influences the masses particularly in areas of destruction and war. Positive tendencies: Regeneration, power, intensity, rejuvenation, birth, rebirth. Negative tendencies: Death, destruction, ruthless, compulsive, obsessive, fanatical.

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The Story of Pluto

Pluto was the oldest of Zeus’ brothers.  After Zeus and his brothers overthrew their father, Cronos, they drew lots for the division of power.  Pluto was the last to draw and was left with the underworld, hence he was designated as the god of the underworld and ruler of the dead.  Pluto also ruled over the precious metals deep in the earth, and so was also the god of riches. There are other names for Pluto, but the most common of the earlier names is probably Hades, meaning “the unseen”.  Orginally, Hades was the name given for the home of the dead, where all souls go when they leave their mortal bodies. Hades rarely visited Olympus and was not very welcome anyway, since he was unpitying — a terrible, but just god.  It was the job of Hermes (Mercury) to guide the souls of the dead to the river Styx, where the ferryman, Charon, would take them across if they had money for their fare.  If not, they had to wander around until they found the pauper’s entrance. There, he sat her on a black marble throne and covered her in jewels.  As she wept, her heart turned to ice.  All she wanted was sunshine and flowers and her beloved mother. Eventually, Demeter convinced Zeus to get her daughter back.  Hades had to obey and soon Mother and daughter were joyfully reunited.  Unfortunately, before leaving the underworld, Persephone had absent-mindedly tasted the food of the dead.  Hades smiled, knowing that she would have to come back. However, Zeus, in his kindness, ruled that she only had to go back for three months out of every year. So, every year when Persephone left her, Demeter would grieve and Hades would have his queen while there was winter on the earth.

Pluto in Astrology

Because its movement is so painfully slow and it has such a penchant to wreak total devastation upon entire generations,  Pluto is classified as one of the Transpersonal Planets. Pluto demands that we look at and deal with our obsessions and jealousies, our hatreds and resentments.  Once purged, we can channel that power into mammoth undertakings.  We can build the Panama Canal or the Hoover Dam.  We can feel love as deep as the ocean.

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PLUTO

Keywords: Rebirth, Renewal, Change, Transformation Gods: Pluto (Roman), Hades (Greek) Tarot: Judgement Palmistry: – Symbolism: Key, Multi-headed animals, Sceptre, Pomegranate Like the other outer planets, Pluto was discovered relatively recently in 1930. This was long after the establishment of traditional fortune-telling forms such as Astrology and Palmistry. Therefore, there are no Palmistry correspondences for Pluto. Pluto is the planet of rebirth, renewal and transformation. No surprise there, as it is the planet of Pluto/Hades, the God of death and the underworld. Often, death is associated with major change and new beginnings. In Tarot, the Judgement card is ruled by Pluto. This is a good fit because Judgement has a similar meaning to Pluto: it is the card of transformation, and life-changing opportunities which are not for the faint hearted. As it represents death there are many symbols which correspond to Pluto. These symbols (including multi-headed animals) symbolize renewal and change. However, the symbol which is most used – and one you will see most frequentlyin dreams and crystal balls – is that of the pomegranate. In Greek mythology, Hades took a fancy to Persephone and had her abducted from Earth and brought to the underworld. Eventually she was rescued. However, because she had consumed the seeds of the pomegranate she could not leave the underworld 100% of the time. For one third of the year Persephone must return to the Hades and this causes the world plunge into darkness (the winter months). Therefore, pomegranates are symbols of death, winter and the underworld. Are you tired of Googling Tarot card meanings? Well then feel free to download the free Predictive Tarot Card Meanings PDF! It’s fun, it’s free and it is instantly downloadable on mobile, tablet and computer!

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