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  PLUTO

Pluto is the last planet in our solar system going outward from the sun, but it is also the first on the way in from interstellar space. Pluto thus reminds us that the last phase of any process is also the beginning of a new cycle, that death is a portal to rebirth, and that we reach farthest beyond ourselves when we go deepest within.

With Pluto all things tend to turn into their opposites when carried far enough. Pluto is thus said to represent extreme, pendulum-like swings.

Pluto represents all that is paradoxical; it is said both to breed secrecy and intrigue, and to force hidden matters out into the open. With Pluto, we must never be satisfied with surface appearances, but must probe deeply to the heart of things. Thus Pluto may symbolize especially cogent and penetrating insights and persuasive communications.

Negatively, intimate communications may be tainted by coercion, or the truth may be purposely obscured. Festering repressed feelings may be at the root of such negative Plutonian drives.

Yet true to its paradoxical nature, Pluto also represents catharsis and purity - catharsis as the result of a death-rebirth regeneration, purity as the expression of being what one essentially is. 

As our sun is also a galactic star, the message of Pluto is that we needn't go anywhere to find a source of light. It is within us. 

 

Leyla Rael

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PLUTO IN LIBRA 

Pluto, the slowest-moving of all the planets, takes 246 years to complete its journey around the Sun and through all 12 signs. Its orbit is eccentric, for it will take only 13 years to travel through some signs and up to 32 years to transit others. It is therefore a generation influence.

During the seventies there was a great deal of sexual permissiveness. The Pill had brought freedom from unwanted pregnancy and given women the right to decide when to have children.

Interestingly, those with Neptune in Libra, the "flower power" generation, were "doing their own thing". The emergence of drugs and "dropping out", the rock festivals and escapism in general were attractive to their generation. The burning of draft cards was synonymous with the War/Peace axis; as was the "balance" of Libra, with love and harmony on one scale and the horrors of Vietnam (Pluto) on the other.

In some ways Pluto puts some spice into Libra, but it does increase the Libran tendency to rock the boat, and especially to instigate quarrels in order to prove the partner's affection or lack of it.  

 

Astrology, the Divine Science

 

Mindfire

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