Notes on the Waxing Pluto Square

Pluto’s 248-year orbit is rather eliptical, so people born in different eras experience the separating square to Pluto at different times in their lives. On average, it would be at age 62 that we would experience this, but people alive today experience it at younger ages. People in their mid-30s these days are experiencing theirs, bringing an entire generation a wake-up call about how fear and desire play a role in, and indeed shape, their lives.

Pluto in the horoscope from the perspective of evolutionary astrology represents our deepest intentions and desires, as well as our deepest wounding. Some see it as the marker of the soul, indicating by house, sign and aspect the arenas of life we over many lives desire on the deepest levels to experience and transform ourselves through. Others see it as the marker of the soul’s deepest wounding. I see it as both, as when we go for what we truly want, we are bound to encounter painful experiences along the way.

By transit, Pluto asks us to dig deep into our subsconscious in order to see how we tick. When it’s transited, we’re asked by various planets in various ways to uncover layers of resistance we have to working through our fears to find our most potent power. When the layers of our resistance to understanding our true natures are stripped away, we can begin having access to that most potent source of power. In effect, the Pluto square offers the opportunity to get real with ourselves, as real as we possibly can. And the challenge is to confront unseen parts of ourselves and heal whatever’s held by them in our deepest layers.

Evolutionary astrologer Steven Forrest says of this square it’s the time when the monsters who live under your bed come out and sit down with you at the dinner table. All of our deepest fears can be brought to light, and brought to life, via experiences and people who bring us our shadow (what we don’t want to see or know about ourselves) or present us with challenges that cause us to choose to dig deep within to find our ultimate source of strength…or not. As with any transit, whether potentially life-altering or not, we have the choice of how to respond to the pressures to change with which we’re presented. In the case of this square, we can choose to look our fears (and demons) in the eye and see what change is being asked of us, or we can shut our eyes and hope it goes away (which we should all remember it tends not to do). But, at the same time, if we look at what we fear, the monsters often turn out not to be so bad after all.

The opportunity is to understand our deepest fears, and whatever emotional stuff we haven’t been able to deal with or heal. It’s natural to want to avoid these serious issues, and it’s also natural for the ongoing clock of the solar system, transits, to highlight them for us and present the opportunity for confronting, processing and healing them.

If you’re experiencing your Pluto square, a good strategy is to allow the unseen parts of yourself air time to tell you what they have to say. The nature of Pluto stuff is that it will come up sooner or later, and the Pluto square is an opportunity to work with them while getting to the core of what’s happening.

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July 19, 2007 By Tom Jacobs