Pluto is the energy of death and rebirth. It is very powerful energy. In a birth chart, it operates as a generational energy. The Baby Boomers were the Pluto in Leo Generation, for instance and they make a lot of noise. The Pluto in Virgos went to "political correctness". The Pluto in Cancers were raised during the depression and WW II and were caretakers, etc.

Pluto can add a lot of power and depth in a natal chart according to aspects, in trines and sextiles, it operates often in positives as power and initiative. In hard aspect it often means a coming to terms in this life with life and death issues.

But it is in its transiting aspects that it affects us most profoundly:

When Pluto is in hard aspect, you are going to change and at very deep levels. When you decide not to change, this energy is perfectly capable of blowing your life into complete disorder and letting you sort it out: which you will do in a different way. After the Pluto passage, it will be clear you are not the same.

In a person who has experienced a lifetime of growth, the change will be most profound. It is an initiation into a higher level of life.

Pluto's nature is deep, it is the Goddess as crone. It forces you to look death right in the face. Death as a concept, death as the experience of loss,. Death as transcendence, Death as change of structure, all of these concepts and more can be experienced in a Pluto passage.

Think of Pluto as Kali, dancing on human bones because they don't matter, because we transcend our physicality and this is to be celebrated. Pluto is the initiation into this highest level of thought. This omelet must break some eggs.

If you are holding on to your old beliefs, your old baggage, transcendence is impossible, so Pluto tears them away. It breaks you down. It brings in your devils and any incomplete drama (you thought you didn't have to deal with this anymore, surprise!) It brings them right into your face and you can't move.

If you are proud of something, secure in something, take your identity from something that is the very thing Kali will take out, break, tear apart and dance on.

When you are on your knees. Really begging for help for the first time ever. When you acknowledge that your ego is gone and you are lost, bleeding and plead with Spirit to help you find a way to die or to live, it doesn't really matter anymore.

Right at that time, Kali turns to you in her mother face and takes you in her arms. She lets you heal. She opens doors. You can begin to rebuild. But you are never the same.

Pluto changes your soul. Life never looks the same again.

The deeper it goes, the more you are transformed. The more you lose, the stronger you recover.

You may need to change your friends after a Pluto passage. They expect you to go back to being the person they knew before now that the crisis is passed. You can never be that person again, you are deeply changed. It doesn’t even interest you. You begin to seek out people who know you as you have become rather than as you were.

More evolved people experience this passage harder. People still operating in the herd mentality may experience a divorce or a bankruptcy and hardly notice a deeper change.

People who can and do control these changes or those who use it as an excuse to see themselves as victims will not experience any growth again in this life. Unless they have the opportunity for still another hard Pluto passage, their lives are a series of repetitions awaiting death.

Pluto passages are 1-4 years long. They are deep level changes and they give you time to assimilate the changes.

Pluto squaring the position of your Natal Pluto is usually the hardest Pluto lesson we all must learn in this life. Pluto square or mid-life crisis is generational; you can expect many others in your age group are experiencing something similar.

Sign and house positions as well as natal aspects and other transits all have and help to pinpoint the area and the intensity of the Pluto passage.

As they do in any planetary influence.

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