Pluto

In a birth chart, Pluto represents deep transformation, power and whatever is happening beneath the surface. It shows where you live things intensely, where you have to let go, and where you come back renewed.

Astronomers now classify Pluto as a dwarf planet, and honesty requires saying so; astrologers still use it because its symbolism has proved telling. Its orbit is very elongated: it takes nearly two hundred and fifty years to circle the zodiac and stays roughly eleven to thirty-two years in each sign. So its sign describes a generation, and it’s the house, along with its aspects, that makes it personal. Pluto governs what people don’t discuss over dinner: power, shared money, sexuality, the crises that force us to transform. Where it sits in your chart, nothing is superficial. That’s where you make wholehearted commitments and go through deep questioning, like a snake shedding its skin. Lived badly, Pluto pushes toward control and suspicion. Lived well, it gives a remarkable power of regeneration, and the ability to look squarely at what others would rather ignore.

Pluto through the twelve signs

Pluto in AriesPluto in TaurusPluto in GeminiPluto in CancerPluto in LeoPluto in VirgoPluto in LibraPluto in ScorpioPluto in SagittariusPluto in CapricornPluto in AquariusPluto in Pisces