Pluto in Evolutionary Astrology: Meaning, Shadow and Medicine

Pluto: from destruction to empowerment.

I made this one for all of you carrying Pluto, which is everyone, since it lives somewhere in every chart. What most are taught is death and destruction. What I love about Pluto is that it's the roots of the whole chart, the deepest core soul intention you're orienting to in this lifetime, and that I look at it as the love story of our lives. Pluto rules Scorpio, so this one's the partner to the Scorpio post.

Pluto, in words

What it feels like: Life and death.

Pluto is always the emotional body. The mind is fast, but emotions take time, and fears can stay lodged for a very long time.

With Pluto we're talking life and death, the kind of things that we feel are going to kill us. Am I going to survive this?

The nervous system can hold us in safety, in the comfort zone, in the familiar.

What most are taught: The destroyer.

What most are taught about Pluto is death and destruction. All of that is in there. Pluto is the destroyer: it eliminates and clears the path.

Go deeper and Pluto is the deepest core soul intention a person is orienting to in this lifetime. Before you look at anything else in the chart, you find Pluto. Pluto is the roots.

The overflow: Empowerment.

Pluto represents power, pure power. We are sovereign beings. We have agency; we are equipped with the power, the will, to create.

Wherever your Pluto is, that is where you are radiating such core power. It is your strength, and you don't want it threatened.

Just keep moving in to the edge, because on the other side of it is all the power.

The overwhelm: Destruction.

Pluto will show us the territory where we will hold on for dear life. We will hold on even when we're wrong.

The most difficult is to know something is hurting you or destroying you, but you can't stop it.

I like to respect the process: rage is necessary sometimes, deep grief is necessary. When Pluto calls, let's surrender to it, and go with the process.

How it ripens: The Pluto square.

Pluto moves slowly, staying in a house of your chart for many years, which shows how long a particular lesson is lasting for you.

Pluto square Pluto is something everyone goes through, and when it comes depends on the sign Pluto was in when you were born. It's a total confrontation, the dark night of the soul.

We're metamorphosing from a caterpillar to a butterfly, but the caterpillar has no idea it's going to become a butterfly.

The highest

Pluto's highest expression is the phoenix, the one who has gone all the way into the underworld and come back carrying gold.

We're forced in on ourselves in this area by the circumstances that we are born into, and it does become our power.

I will say it over and over: I look at Pluto as the love story of our lives.

Drawn from my own teaching. None of the astrology was generated by AI.