Five Ways to Use Pluto square Pluto Positively

Thanks to astrologers like Steven Forrest nearly every one interested in astrology says they are watching Pluto and the effects it symbolizes in their life. If you are among them, this articles provides 5 tips so your dealing with this transit Pluto square Pluto is beneficial and transformational! You could also read What is Pluto square Pluto or Pluto in the Horoscope if you want to know about the specific influence of Pluto in the house of your horoscope.

Bear in mind that there is a huge difference to be found in how you look at the transit of Pluto square Pluto. The symbolism of Pluto square Pluto and its benefits are often said to be on opposite ends of the your life’s spectrum. In the world of duality the influences of Pluto could be classified as “good” or “bad”.

Here’s the simplest answer: Pluto comes to your rescue at a time in your life that you are ready for change. More broadly, it is an excellent opportunity for letting go of patterns that do no longer serve your best interest and begin practicing new ways to deal with yourself and your life. I use rescue in the sense that Pluto sets you free from confinement or to bring you back to your natural state of being. Why is Pluto often seen as “bad”? Easy: the effects of Pluto may hit you by surprise in that it may put you in distress for a while before you can see the good part of it. The benefits become clear after the initial distress leaves you.

Here are five ways to deal with your distress while still using Pluto square Pluto for your best interest.

Tell people close to you

You might like to inform your partner and closest family members that you have a need for them to be patient with you. Pluto square Pluto could be considered as one of those potential life changing events (as in getting married, change or loss of job, moving into another town) so you are now in a process of transformation. It doesn’t always look good when you are dealing with letting go of old patterns. You might feel the need to release anger, fear, sadness and other negative emotions. You could consider telling them that you are working on yourself at some level. They might not always understand and may be you might not understand yourself. But perhaps by telling they can let you do your work on yourself. Do not be shy to ask support. Transformational times can be challenging. People going through Pluto square Pluto often prefer to do this work alone, which is fine. If at some time you need someone to listen to you or just sit with you, ask for it. You might be surprised how the right person seems to arrive at your doorstep just when you needed them.

Be sweet on yourself

Change does not happen over night. Transformation takes time. The transit of Pluto square Pluto happens to take several months or even more than a year. Do not rush, keep breathing and tell yourself that you will be fine. Instead of worrying yourself to bits about Pluto square Pluto and everything the astrology books tell you about it, do not try ever to understand everything that is happening, relax. Go for long walks, have a massage, go to the sauna. Anything that will help you to get out of the habit of worrying. Or consider buying paper, pencils, paint, whatever inspires you. Doodle and pretend you are creative.

Focus on the good

Instead of looking at your life as being all wrong, look at the transit as something that will allow you to have new things fall into place for you. Pluto square Pluto is there to remind you also that you are in the right place, at the right time doing the right thing. The events in your life may hurt you and are at the same time inviting you to move into another arena. Resistance is a natural thing. Don’t overdo it.

Write

If you feel like it, sit down and write anything that comes to mind when you think about the transit of Pluto square Pluto and where it hits you. Look at this transit as an organic event. Life itself uses so many cycles and this is one of them. There will come a time that you look back and see what was going on exactly. While in the Pluto square Pluto transit let it all happen as much as you can. There will be ups and downs, look at them and feel its effects on you. You will be glad it happened, once it is over.

Break old habits

Everyone of us has habits that are out of date. They may be in different areas as in work, love life, dealing with family and loved ones or money and material things. Pluto square Pluto wants you to remove as many of the old habits that you yourself have known for some time now as to be no longer in your best interest. Look at them and see that you could let them go. No need to worry about new habits yet, they will develop by itself, learn to listen to what feels natural to you.

“Pluto square Pluto” is not a regulated or standardized transit- you are always able to deal with it and its effects. You can decide that you want to use Pluto square Pluto in a beneficial way. You can tell yourself to use the transit for your own good. And there is no science to say that you cannot deal with Pluto positively.

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Pluto in Your Horoscope

Do you want to know more about the meaning of Pluto in your horoscope? This is an article that explains in short sentences what the meaning is of Pluto in the houses, from the first house to the twelfth house. You can also find Pluto passing through the houses in transit.

Pluto in real life

Planet Pluto is in demand these days. Perhaps you are also born with Pluto in the sign of Virgo, just like a whole generation to be precisely. This means that you are probably experiencing the transit called Pluto square Pluto. As a result you end up here looking for answers.

Pluto in the Horoscope

Pluto does not move very quick through the 12 houses in a horoscope. The ‘great transformer’ can do its work slowly and thoroughly. How Pluto happens for you depends also on the sign and the house that holds Pluto in your natal horoscope. And of course all the planets that have connections or aspects with Pluto.What effect has Pluto in each of the houses? Short descriptions of Pluto in the natal house and what Pluto does in the house when passing through it. If you need your horoscope you can get it for free at Astro.com.

Pluto in the Houses

Be aware that these descriptions get you started, they are not everything that has to be taken into account. There is also the sign of the zodiac that Pluto holds in your horoscope and the aspects that Pluto makes with other planets. At the end I will put links where you can find more information about Pluto, the transit Pluto square Pluto and Pluto moving through the signs. So look for the place where your Pluto was at your time of birth, and read the information. Then look for which house Pluto now occupies. It is at the end of Sagittarius at the moment to give you a hint.

First house Pluto

Your sense of self, your awareness and how you show yourself to others. In this life you will become aware that this way no longer holds or is at least up for revision.

Second house Pluto

The worth that you put on yourself. How secure can you feel with yourself? Now is the time to value yourself and no longer look at others to do just that for you.

Third house Pluto

Communication with others, how do you talk and listen and express yourself in general? Is what you express in the world congruent with how you think about yourself? Or is there a cover-up version of you around? Expect the mask to be removed. People will relate to the real you, it is already there for everyone to see but you will be taught to see it too.

Fourth house Pluto

What is your concept of home and family? Your emotional foundation can be shaken at the Pluto transit again. Just for you to get stronger within you, at a soul level.

Fifth house Pluto

Creativity and fun, showing yourself in the world. Also connecting to children or being curious like a child. Pluto transit has you look at this again. When you have grown up a little bit too much, you will relate to fun in another way now.

Sixth house Pluto

This area is related to work and health. You probably have had your share of issues to do with that. This transit will show you new ways to relate to your diet, health and exercise and you might even find work that fits you better.

Seventh house Pluto

In relationships you will probably feel vulnerable and out of whack. It is less comfortable to share your life since it upsets your daily routine. The transit might evoke issues to connect with people on an emotional level. You will have learned through life that others show you yourself in the mirror!

Eight house Pluto

I would say this is the house to let go of things. You can stay on your soapbox forever or accept that some things can evolve over time as well. The transiting Pluto here will make you look at what you can release within you to relate to others in the world in a new way. You are ready for it, not in one day, soon.

Ninth house Pluto

The world is your oyster, truly. With meeting people and traveling and forming your own opinions you transform yourself. You cannot look at others to find your ‘truth’, that is a personal adventure. Transiting Pluto makes for an interesting shake up of your beliefs. Time to tidy up a bit and leaving old beliefs behind.

Tenth house Pluto

Where lives your natural authority? Have you found a way to respond to people and events that is authentically you? Your personal power and strength will be challenged over and again. The transit of Pluto here will have you look at this too. Grow stronger and dare to challenge authority by being you.

Eleventh house Pluto

The area of individuality and originality. How original do you dare to be? Transiting Pluto will perhaps challenge you with sudden changes in your community, to create a save way for you to show your original way of thinking.

Twelfth house Pluto

An emotional search for your connection to the spiritual area. Where do you feel the connection with the higher self part of you? Can you feel it somewhere? The transit of Pluto here will remove the old layers that prevent you from connection with your intuition.

My experience with Pluto

I am born in 1965, Pluto is in the 9th house in Virgo. I have already experienced my Pluto square Pluto. I wrote about it like this:

In March 2003, during a creative workshop I really painted my heart out. I had no idea what I carried within me. It was a surprise that I could draw and that I had a story in the drawings that said something about me. One of the paintings is totally black, very Plutonian black I would call it. The woman of the workshop really encouraged me to just be with the black. And then I started crying and put more black paint and the drops of the tears are on the paper. Beautiful! All the Pluto-stuff was there, it all came out. When the whole page was black I noticed a change. I was ready for another color. The next sheet got black like a wave and then the red got in, I was back in the womb as a baby growing inside my mother. I sort of got back into my own life as well. It was not bliss after that, but it got bearable in a way.”

Pluto in the houses at cafeastrology.com, Pluto in houses and signs also at skyscript.co.uk.

Related articles:

• Drawings Pluto square Pluto
• What is Pluto square Pluto

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What is Pluto square Pluto?

Perhaps you are dealing with the transit Pluto square Pluto yourself, you heard about it and now you are informing yourself on what it means for you. I first deal with the technical details. What is an aspect and what is Pluto, that kind of thing. The second part is about what Pluto square Pluto can do in the natal chart of people like you and me. If you already know that you are having this transit, you can skip the first part. The third part is an invitation to share your Pluto square Pluto story.

Technical Part

To understand Pluto square Pluto we first need to look at what is a square aspect? Apparently a square is an aspect. But what is an aspect? An aspect is the distance measured between two planets when they are in a circle. The circle holds 360 degrees. A square is the aspect of 90 degrees. Often referred to as a hard aspect, since there is friction between two planets at this angle. Friction can be solved by using the energy wisely. Use it, work it and deal with it until it is over and done with.

The planet Pluto square Pluto taken literally is Pluto 90 degrees apart from Pluto. When does that happen? Suppose you have your natal chart before you. First look for Pluto’s glyphs or symbols. There is two different symbols that you might have in your chart. The first symbol is a monogram of the letters P and L. The other one looks like a human. Now you need to find out what sign Pluto is in. Look at the outermost circle of your natal chart and look for the symbols of the signs of the zodiac, the Sun Signs as they are also called. Pluto will probably be in Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio or Sagittarius, for people born in the last 100 years or so. Look for the other info that is with the symbol, some information that looks like 28 (Virgo symbol) 24.

If your transit of Pluto square Natal Pluto is about to happen, it needs to be 90 degrees apart or almost 90 degrees apart from the position it had at the time of birth. How do you measure this? Find out what the position for Pluto is today [January 28th 2006 it is almost 28 degrees Sagittarius]. You can look it up at the front page of http://www.astro.com under the heading Current planets. For Pluto to make a square you diminish it with 90 degrees, and you will come back to the position of Pluto at your time of birth. So in this case that would have to be around 29 degrees Virgo to make an exact aspect of 90 degrees.

When is Your Pluto Square Pluto?

If you are born in a certain year we can tell when the transit Pluto square Pluto is about to happen. Here is an outline of the approximate time:

Born 1920, transit around 1974
Born 1930, transit 1974
Born 1940, transit 1984
Born 1950, transit 1990
Born 1960, transit 1996
Born 1970, transit 2006
Born 1980, transit 2009
Born 1990, transit 2033
Born 2000, transit 2051

Personal Part

What is Pluto? It is one of several planets that you can find in your birth chart. It is a planet that is relatively far away from planet Earth and it takes 248 years for Pluto to make one turn around the 12 signs of the zodiac. It is a slow planet, and it might even be the slowest that astrologers use.

Interpretations of Pluto are several. Most well known are Steven Forrest and Jeff Green, also sometimes lovingly called the Pluto-brothers. They both wrote a book about the planet Pluto. Jeff Green says: ‘ I would agree that Pluto represents the biggest wound, in the sense that the soul has been wounded ever since it had a patriarchal transition and experienced the progressive suppression of Natural Law. Any time we have anything natural which is suppressed, it’s going to become the basis of distortion and rage and wounds, because now the soul is being asked to live in violation of Natural Law. So, of course, Pluto’s going to connect with a deep wound. But then the question becomes: “What is that wound connected to?” And my answer would be “the soul.” This quote is from an interview that originally appeared in the mountain astrologer. You can read it here on the internet.

What does Pluto square Pluto mean to you? In general this planet is also called the great transformer. Or the shadow part of you. It is a symbol for many different things. It breaks down structures, removes the old to make room for the new. It could entail drastic changes, inner turmoil, anything to do with dreams, fears, or leftovers from our past. When it appears in an aspect of 90 degrees with itself in the natal chart, all of these things might happen. How that will happen depends on the sign and the house Pluto is in your natal chart. And all the other aspects that it involves. I wrote a post on Pluto in the houses and transiting in the houses.

It could be an intense time where emotions get out that you have not noticed before. It is hard to ignore that something out of the ordinary is happening to you. The messages that you get can hardly go by unnoticed. The solution to Pluto square Pluto, and anything else that seems to ‘oppose’ you and the life you are living is to look it in the eye! Deal with it, don’t avoid it. It is a time to reconnect with your inner being, the not so visible you, the you that is not so much in the mind but in the unconscious part of you.

How to Handle Pluto Square Pluto?

Bodywork, workshops to express the inner you through art, meditation, writing classes, tarot, music. Another way is to listen careful to the insights that you get. What do your dreams tell you or your intuition? Time to listen carefully here and with an open mind. Don’t discard ideas, listen to the ideas and don’t let the mind interfere. Suppose your Pluto is in your fifth house: deal with your self expression, be proud of how you can express yourself and do it. You no longer have to hide in the crowd, get in the spot light and do your thing. I also wrote an article on five ways to use Pluto square Pluto positively.

How does Pluto Square Pluto appear in one’s life?

In the transit of Pluto square Pluto everyone has their own particular experiences. Pluto is in a different sign and in a different house. To give you an idea I will tell you my story of Pluto.

My natal Pluto is in Virgo, 9th house and when the transit happened Pluto had moved on to Sagittarius, 12th house. 9th house is all about freedom, travel and finding one’s own truth or religion. No where to look but inside of myself. The 12th house is about finding a connection with intuition or the higher self. Nicely connecting the 9th and the 12th house since Sagittarius is the sign of the 9th house!.

At that time I was running a very successful business with my partner, I was happy, enjoying life and care free. My work involved travel and sharing my knowledge with others. In March 2000 I gave birth to my daughter. 6 months later the very successful business I had with my partners (also in the last stage of his Pluto square Pluto) collapsed. It all happened slowly and without warning. Clients moved away because of natural causes mostly. There was no where an argument or hassle with clients. Work just stopped. Like that. Since I had always identified with work and not being at home but far away, I felt horrible and useless. It was time to change and leave old ideas about who I was behind me.

Pluto was also in my 12th house and stayed there until the end of October 2008. During this time I was not able to find a lot of work. With all my talents wasted- that is how I felt it- I was a stay at home mum and lost my self confidence. I gave birth to my second child and felt the marriage changed at the same time. Feeling vulnerable, useless, guilty and most of all I had no idea how to fill my days. From a doing person I became a full time being person and I resisted with all that I had inside of me. I was not going to give in and be myself. No way. I was my own enemy and scared to step out or even look outside of the box of beliefs and restrictions that I had placed upon myself.

Over time I got better at “being on holidays”, the guilt dispersed and very slowly I got to appreciate who I had become. The fear left me, joy was not yet there though. In 2007 I made, totally unaware at the time, the transition to another life, as myself. I walked to Santiago de Compostela in 11 weeks. Events during the walk made it possible to come to decisions. When I got home I ended my relationship and found a place to live by myself. I am still working on sharing my truth and living it and speaking it.

If you want to share about your Pluto square Pluto tell us all about it.

If you have questions on Pluto square Pluto, just leave your comments and I will get back to you.

With love, Miriam

P.S. In the questions that people ask I notice the tendency to fear Pluto square Pluto. In my opinion there is no need to be afraid of anything in astrology; bad predictions or bad oppositions do not exist out there. Only I in my mind have the thoughts that make me worry and worry about bad outcomes of events. Life brings me challenges like all of us have them. I try and look at them and listen to my inner voice that is sometimes so hard to hear with all the clutter of worry already in my mind.

p.p.s This is one of my drawings made at the time of my transit Pluto square Pluto. I called it Birth. There is more drawings in another post on this web-log called Drawings Pluto square Pluto.

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