The Pluto Transit

This is what usually happens in a Pluto transit.

First of all. The sequence of actual events is not predictable and someone else's experience has little or nothing to do with your own. You can get some idea if you look at the Scorpio sector of your chart, any planets in Scorpio, and the house and sign where Pluto is positioned. The transit is designed to get you, yourself, to actualization, a unique circuit in every person.

The human's prehensile grasp starts in Taurus and the strength of the grip is incalculable. The creature hangs on for dear life. In Scorpio and the 8th, the grip is released. It's usually not easy, but the difficulty varies greatly in each person. There is survival dependency in the original grip, but in Scorpio survival depends on letting loose. Pluto rules the bowels and elimination, a necessary act, and it happens in many dimensions. When Pluto transits a personal planet or house, that movement is indicated and elimination takes place. A purge and purification. Rites of passage and evolution are the results.

Pluto is equated with literal death and destruction but that is not always the case. It's true that the 8th house is one of crisis, but crisis means change. The 8th house is the door to the broader universe in the 9th, and to enter, something of the previous life has to be left behind. Pluto rules the underworld, the place one goes after death, and in order to pass the border, a price is agreed upon. Something is given to pay for the new wealth, the gain in psychological and spiritual knowledge. What is relinquished varies with the number of people on the planet. Some people are wise enough to feel the intended relief even as the separation occurs.

When Pluto crossed my 8th house I wasn't as knowledgeable as I am now, but I knew enough to work with it. Since I have Aries rising and the South Node in Scorpio in the 7th house, other people were scheduled to leave my life in order for me to evolve. And they did. All my dependents. Pluto is in my 5th house, so creative fulfillment was the aim. While these people helped my creative unfolding up to that point, they now would be blocking my further passage if they remained. And Aries, with the North Node in the 1st, best travels solo.

One thing I prepared for was the exit from the 8th where my Moon and Jupiter are positioned in Sagittarius, exactly on the cusp. For 10 years I wondered what would happen, but I had an idea. I was smart enough not to get specific. I knew, especially after the deaths, that the transit was designed to open me up for expansion into the world, unfettered and hopefully with confidence. That's what I prepared for. I think one has a say in these matters. Over time, almost all specific events become relatively insignificant, and the subtle evolution remains as the memorable entity. The development of character.

The difficulty in a Pluto transit is the strength with which humans hold on to the familiar. They instinctively keep a grasp on what they possess. Then the time arrives when one learns the real truth about fair exchange. With Pluto, one hand lets go in order to grasp the fruit, and although it can be unsettling when it happens, the gain is worth it. In fact, the gain won't happen without the price paid. What is lost, no longer is useful and if it remains, would likely decay and corrupt the whole system.

So in order to help the process, an individual can look at the natal chart and see what's being highlighted for removal and what's to be reworked. It can be almost anything. How it comes about can't normally be seen, but some gentleness is usually included in the accompanying sensations. And as I said.. relief.