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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 VIRGO 

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.

It is almost impossible to detach this influence from that of Uranus in Virgo, because that planet was in Virgo with Pluto between late 1961 and late 1968, and together they formed the extremely potent Uranus/Pluto conjunction. There was much student unrest and criticism of the values and standards of the older generation, so that Pluto's upheaval and Uranus' desire for sudden change emerged very strongly indeed. This generation has a very special power - to blast the world to bits or to rid it of much that is selfish and unjust.

The influence of Pluto can be a source of obsessional tendencies. It may not be, but if such traits are suggested in other areas of the chart, this placing will increase such an indication.

If the subject tends to be overcritical in a harsh incisive way, it may be due to the influence of Pluto.

There may be a tendency to constipation, since Virgo rules the bowels.  

 

Astrology, the Divine Science

 

Mindfire

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