I think Pluto always indicates areas of the chart that life will encourage to be transformed and there can often be a great deal of fear surrounding whatever Pluto touches, but also a great deal of power.
Pluto is all about death and rebirth and that can be a scary thing, but like every Pluto person will eventually know in their lives, once you've died and have been reborn (metaphorically) there's nothing left to fear. You've experienced the absolutes and the fear of the unknown longer has any hold over you as it's no longer unknown. A person without fear is a very powerful person indeed.

I've noticed different people have different philosophies on handling Pluto. I've read some who say "do not try to divert pluto energy because it will destroy you, just experience it and let it transform your life" while others say, "if you are experiencing pluto energy, try to divert into constructive means."

It is almost as if the attitude towards Pluto, even for those knowledgeable in astrology, will always be colored by their own dealings with it. I even read an article that went so far as to say, "Just ignore Pluto people, they will never listen and you can't reason with them. It is best just to ignore them and not fuel the fire."

Then there is Pluto in relationships, which is a whole other can of worms. Some go, "Pluto means nothing because it is generational!" and others, "Pluto contacts can be the most profound!" Then still others say, "Pluto contacts will make the Pluto person obssessive" and others go, "Pluto contacts will make the other planet person obsessive."

I don't know of any other planet with such consistently opposite interpretations.

Is death really shocking? How about living?

i see pluto as acceptance of the dark/shadowy structures ...acknowledgment on a level of bareness, absolute core projections. emotional caches, x ray visions. I feel like the transformation can only happen when someone is aware on those levels. "The fear of death", the fear is a characterization of the trans-formative path. fear that can be avoided sometimes to make room for necessary growth and building, its about diverting attention so that you can learn about the world freely, but always it will be there, as something you haven't let become you. I think the question of orgins is prized in pluto , the development of "the unmoved mover" and all metaphysical questions and comparisons leveling themselves from the bulb of abstractions. The rising from the primordial, no beginning but a barely visible crease in time and space where death becomes life.
The acknowledgment of death and weakness are there for the purpose of discovering your priorities and I think this psychic awareness is more about preparing yourself for a total adventure so that you can fully discover your own personal truth.

Why Pluto is the planet of REVOLUTION...

www.seasky.org/solarsystem/sky3j.html

Pluto and Charon, its moon, are actually a binary planet system. Charon does not orbit around Pluto -- because Charon is more than half the mass of Pluto, they actually both orbit around a center of gravity located in space between them.

They form a system of constant REVOLUTION, each one revolving around the other, just like Yin and Yang in the T'ai Chi Ch'uan:

astronuts.tribe.net/photos/a...e989a4637

Aghora is a Vedic tradition which tenets and virtual lack thereof are
unmistakably Plutonic. It's training involves practices that can only be
described as antinomian - they seek to unify the mind by destroying what comes
natural to it :the tendency to look at the world through dualistic glasses.
By confronting themselves with their greatest fears and desires without reacting
to them, they become masters of their shakti (primordeal energy) and progress from
darkness to light, from delusion to truth.

In every living moment they recognize an opportunity to transmute their mortal
personality into immortal spirit by incinerating all the unredeemed aspects
of their being, fast and furious with no holds barred - cutting straight to the core
by leaving every solid part behind...family, caste, religion...etc.

There are no taboos in Aghora - things that are tainted and forbidden in
mainstream hinduism, like alcohohol, meat and sex are only steps to
leading to liberation, they live on the cremation grounds,
eat from a skull, meditate on corpses, there is no clean or unclean -
everything is just an aspect of the Self...
If there is anyone on the face of this earth that are able to go through
the tests of Pluto (Shiva) with an unflinching determination, it's an Aghori...
Still, they're a dying breed...

Here's the documentary:

www.youtube.com/watch

My natal Pluto is at 8 deg. Libra at the edge of the 7th house, 2 deg away from the 8th.

Pluto has been a dominant force in my my life for many year in a few different ways. Having all my personal planets in scorpio brings a pluto flavor to many facets of my life as well.

I can most clearly see how my Pluto plays out in my 7th house. Relationships are a very import aspect of my being, and they are one of the stronger vehicles for transformation in my life. Relationships have also been one of the greatest sources of pain and heart ache, but it has all been valuable experience... I read a great article today about pluto in Libra, that made lots of things click...

devagreen.com/plutolibra.htm

I have also have some experience with transiting pluto...

Transiting Pluto was a dominant force in my life from age 7 to 20.

I would say these were the hardest years of my life. Primarily because I raised a lot of wall in my being to cope with the experiences and intensity of feeling and/or repression of feeling. I felt out of place most everywhere but at home. I was blessed with amazing parents who loved me unconditional, taught me to communicate, encourage my creativity and unfolding as an individual. They never tried to mold me into anything, not that they could have if they tiered... ;) They were the only force in my life that kept me alive when I had a powerful urge to be dead.

It started with transiting pluto conjunct natal uranus at 29 deg libra, 8th h. I think this is around the time my babysitters son started sexually abusing me. The exact dates are a bit fuzzy some time between 1982-83.

I can not remember any specific events for Pluto conjunct, mercury(exact in 1984), mars(exact in 1987)......

The moon, sun, venus, conjunctions are etched deeply in my psyche and I remember most of it.....

Pluto hit my moon in 1990 and this when I first told my parents that I was sexually abused. It was also one of the most difficult times in my life, being a teenager and all. Deep feelings of alienation, depression, with very few pleasant memories.

(the rest of my experience during the pluto conjunctions is from a letter I wrote to my dear friend and cancer confessor)...

I know exactly what was going on when pluto conjunct my natal sun back in the fall of 1992 I was going through one of the most important periods of change and growth and hell in my life. That was around the time I was desperately trying to drop out of high school. At the time I was very depressed, and I had an aching wanderlust to go to California or anywhere far away from Ashtabula, Ohio.

It was my seinor year of high school. The year got off to a shity start mainly because my senior English teacher had me suspended the first day of school because I had green hair.....no tolerance for freaks... she made my life a living hell. After a month in school it became apparent that I would almost certainly fail senior English. Then I got sick. I ended up in the hospital with strep throat, mono, b12 anemia, malnutrition and dehydration. This was a blessing and the beginning of the end. I think I missed a month of school, and parts of it were hell. I remember going out into the meadows around our house and picking deadly night shade to make tea so I would continue to be sick and unable to go to school. I had some crazy deletions from that tea, thinking my parents were aliens and my whole life was an experiment, and my parents were in on it and they knew I did not belong here... It was a crazy time.

I was also dealing with one of my first heart break experiences at this time. Her name was Mia and she was catholic school girl. She relished taking me to her house and freaking her mother out with my freakiness(I had green hair and a nose ring. It was freaky for Ashtabula in 92 :). I remember having this conversation with her when she broke up with me. She said we were too different and we wanted different things, She said she wanted a nice house, to be taken care of etc.... I remember saying I wanted to be a homeless vagabond... I wanted to be free...... I remember feeling like there was something wrong with me, and that I was not worthy of being loved.... A theme I am still rooting out of my being....

I can not remember at what point my parents got me into therapy. I think it was before I got sick, but I managed to convince my therapist that dropping out of high school was the best choice for my mental health. She was very cool and supportive. Life slowly got better after that, and I started coming into myself, and living life with passion for the first time in years..........(end)

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Over the years I have grown to love the transformative power of pluto. I think most of my appreciation and integration of pluto energy has been catalyzed by Neptune and Chiron slowly squaring each of my Scorpio planets. . That has had it's own flavor of hell, but also a good deal of love, joy, and deeper understanding of my inner workings, warts and all....

I know there are lots of other forces at play, but theses have been the easiest to correlate with life experience

pluto and acid/drug trips.... ??


has anyone explored this correlation?

has anyone read diary of a drug fiend by crowley?