On Thursday, October 3, 2019 we have Pluto stationing direct at 20° of Capricorn. This comes just after our Libra New Moon, just as Venus is making her exact square to Pluto, and just as Mars moves into the sign of Libra. In short, this could be an intense week in love my friends! But…. other stuff too.
Pluto rules the sign of Scorpio and the 8th house of our zodiac. The natural 8th house is all about death, power, rebirth, sex, intimacy, psychic powers, fears, other people's money, taxes, etc. It’s safe tp say it’s a complex house! These issues may come to the fore for some of us, especially as Mercury, our mental focus, moves into Scorpio this week right around the same time, too. I want to emphasize that the intensity of a Pluto transit really is unique to your individual chart, and in fact, unless hitting certain points or planets, Pluto transits are felt more in the background of our lives, transforming at deep levels and over the long term.
The way I work with Pluto in a more conscious and foreground way is on a yearly cycle with his retrogrades. Pluto rules things like rot and refuse, stagnation and toxicity. There is a purpose to things rotting and that is so we can let them go, otherwise we are just attracting flies and toxicity into our lives. Pluto reminds us everything has it's time….and then it’s gone. We must learn when the vitality is gone from certain situations and that they are no longer good for us. We are constantly changing beings, and in fact because of this, we require death all the time in order to become the latest and greatest, most aligned version of ourselves. Pluto stationing direct is a great time to ask yourself, 'what has passed its due date and needs to go to the curb?'
On a more grand scale, especially when experiencing a personal Plutonian time, it is good to remember this is a Universe of duality, of light and dark. Pluto in your chart represents the dark, hidden soul desires and subconscious urges. The Universe fulfills all of our intentions in this life, my friends. I know this 100%. But many of our urges and desires are subconscious. We are either unaware of them and/or in resistance to them. This is where Pluto comes in. Pluto is the destroyer and he will show up in your life destroying any and every thing that no longer serves you so that these deeper soul desires can be fulfilled. Unfortunately, because of our resistance and fears, how we come to experience these Pluto transits is through pain.
Say you set the intention in this life to understand true soul connection. You might not know true soul connection were it handed to you from the start so in order to fulfill that desire, in your life you might experience circumstances that are the opposite of that, things such as prolonged and unfathomable loneliness. This loneliness serves a purpose as it tears down the ego and exposes the vulnerability of the soul. It is light of the soul that will attract true connection. Pluto simply gets rid of the barriers.
Personally, I try to take great comfort in Pluto transits because I know that, though difficult, they are meant to be in the greater scheme of my life. I know that beyond the mini death I may be experiencing at this time, painful as it may be, there is a new life for which I'm being made ready. It is a life, that between physical lives, I trust my soul set the intention for me to have.
As Pluto stations direct, his energy can be intense and the shadowy, more difficult aspects of our lives may show up for some attention. My advice during these times is to not resist. Just allow and know God is with you, co-creating this life in mysterious and sometimes just plain old fucked up ways. Life is funny like that, i guess. It's hard but that is how we learn and grow into who we are meant to be.
God is funny like that, too, by the way, but funny isn't how it feels a lot of the time. Honestly, I don't hesitate to let him know when it's too much. These conversations are not always pretty, by the way, but they're real and that's the point. I find he hears me and appreciates my realness by easing my load even if just temporarily. Don't forget to communicate with the Universe and ask for what you need to get through hard things.
I hope you have found this helpful. 💚
🙏Namaste🙏
✨Stephanie✨
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