Pluto and Change

In response to Kingsley who commented on an earlier Pluto post:

My Pluto square is done. Pluto square Pluto, that is. It was 1st House (natal) vs. 4th House (transiting). What WASN'T going to change with those two houses in square? Two houses so much about the self and its beginnings. And again, it was change or...

No. There was no other option.

Since my Moon is joined to my Pluto in my birth chart, they work as a unit. Can't separate them. I guess every conjunction need be judged on its own, but as for mine... Moon and Pluto are fused together. Memories/emotions/moods/mother/security.... all of that is married to Pluto. To transformation and resurrection. To power, desire, and death. Oy.

My mother died when I was 26. I've never looked at the Pluto transits from the time, but it would surprise me if Pluto wasn't doing something fierce then...

What doesn't, who doesn't, come back from the dead? Pluto People know the answer to this...

The Reinvention of Pluto

I wasn't always an Astrologer.

But I have Pluto prominent in my First House.

Pluto in the First can suggest a difficult birth (especially if it's joined to the Ascendent) or difficult beginnings. Any planet in the First is what people will see... when they see you. They can't help it. You come towards them. It comes towards them. Thus, Pluto. People see my Pluto. And I often wish they didn't.

Those of you familiar with Pluto's keywords or archetypes or imagery will understand. Pluto the creator. Pluto the destroyer. Pluto, God of the Underworld, mining. Pluto (associated with the sign of Scorpio) causing slow slow slow inevitable transformation. Will you go peacefully? Or will you go kicking and screaming? Pluto doesn't ask those questions but Pluto waits for the answer and does what it needs to do: change you.

With Pluto in the First House, one's identity will go through many transformations. And I can say this has been true in my case.

And it's not as though the "old you" never existed but that part of you or many parts of you had to change, had to burn up, and had to rise again.