At the time of writing, the author has recently survived transit Pluto squaring her Venus, Mercury and Sun. The author also has her natal Pluto in Scorpio conjunct her Moon in Scorpio, and square her chart ruler (Jupiter). Pluto in Astrology is something she really feels she knows about, although Pluto is of course impossible to know in full.
Pluto! God of death, the underworld- plutonium… How can the atom bomb be our friend? I am reminded of the words of Carl Jung:
“This involves Man in a new responsibility. He can no longer wriggle out of it on the plea of his littleness and nothingness, for the dark God has slipped the atom bomb and chemical weapons into his hands and given him the power to empty out the apocalyptic vials of wrath on his fellow creatures. Since he has been granted an almost godlike power, he can no longer remain blind and unconsciou. He must know something of God’s nature and of metaphysical processes if he is to understand himself and thereby acheive gnosis of the Divine.”
Pluto is both our power and our lack of power. Blowing the whole world up into bits over a quarrel is not really power, is it? Controlling our relationships, our thought processes- fear and emptiness- that isn’t power. That is our attempt to be powerful, but it merely reflects our own powerlessness. However, it will lead us to chase power into a showdown of apocalyptic fury that will tear us into tiny, tiny pieces.
Death! Rebirth. Being pushed to the brink and being unable to take it any longer and forced, kicking and screaming, into the new form. I have talked to a soul on the brink of the underworld itself who lingered in the in-between because he was scared to walk into something he thought of as a “turbine”. For real, metamorphosis is a real chewing-up and spitting-out.
And yes, death does teach us to be responsible. It brings us back to the solid reality of our lives, that we are absolutely one hundred percent responsible for our own salvation, our own regeneration. Pluto, once unleashed, will not tolerate any weakness, any hanging-on to what is no longer needed and is now untrue. It hurts, but being human hurts by necessity, and death is just another birth- pain and agony will precede both.
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