Pluto in the Astral Map: do you know who you are? |

“Do you know who you are?” This will be the first question that a relevant Pluto presence in your Astral Map (make a free version here) it will force you to do it, either through the angles or in tense contact with your personal planets.

Frightening for many, but profoundly enriching, Pluto transits highlight our deepest weaknesses in order to strengthen us. Lord of darkness, Pluto knows our shadow, that part of us that we hide even from ourselves, and which, because it is hidden, constitutes a weakness.

Pluto in transit goes and touches precisely where we are weakest, to make those masks that we put on socially fall off and that, from wearing so much, we end up believing in them. We are strong, powerful, unstoppable and analyzed, until Pluto called it all into question.

When life becomes an open book

Because Pluto owns what is unconscious, therapeutic processes – especially those based on Freud, which use the unconscious as the main element of information and conduct of therapy – tend to advance tremendously in those who have this planet highlighted in the map, whether by transit or by astrological house.

A lot comes up, sometimes more than is bearable to manage. In this case, the competence of the specialist comes into play. Pluto brings it to the surface, but leaves the garbage out in the open so that it can be decanted and elaborated. With just this exposure, without the presence of a competent therapist, the person can look at that and ask himself: and now, what do I do with all this that I discovered?

Pluto brings it to the surface, but leaves the garbage out in the open so that it can be decanted and elaborated.

Masks fall, both ours and others, and lies are revealed. We often realize that we can’t count on anyone but ourselves; we find ourselves profoundly alone. But found out about what? It depends on the traffic in question. Transits through the Ascendant (1st house) and Descendant (7th house) highlight everything about ourselves, others and our way of relating to them.

These discoveries, without proper elaboration, can produce phobias, pathological anxieties and psychological disorders resulting from an emotional and cognitive overload, in which we are faced with much more than what we can manage.

Pluto puts all certainties in check

When the Plutonian transit takes place in the 4th house (bottom of the sky) or the 10th house (middle of the sky), we can discover things from our past or from our family of origin that unearth many unknown emotions and end up making us change our path in life. , or give our career another direction.

Everything we believed about our own life, our certainties, what we had designed for ourselves as destiny, is questioned. We are forced to stop and rethink everything, leaving a lot behind and transforming ourselves profoundly.

By the way, these are two fundamental words in Pluto transits: transformation and detachment, “leaving behind”. If we renounce what is not true, the process is easier. If we hold on, possibly what we considered fundamental will be ripped away from us without pity or mercy, and we will be forced to find a way to live without it.

You must know who you are without this person, this job, this environment and this situation you are in.

One of them, if not the main one, is self-knowledge. As the initial question said, you must know who you are, without this person, this work, this environment and this situation in which you find yourself. Do you know who you are in the face of this terrible secret you keep? Can you even imagine without the support you’ve always had? And when everything you built your world on is lost, who are you?

Hence the association of Pluto transits with death – not necessarily physical death, but the death of all that is not true and fundamental. However, it is not uncommon for deaths to occur, especially in the lives of those who cannot detach themselves, who resist the trends of transit.

And then you need to find out. Pluto leaves us with almost nothing, but there is one thing he doesn’t take away from us: ourselves! With his fierce scythe, he cuts down everything that is not fundamental, so that we can discover our real inner strength, so that we can discover what we are capable of without all that masking and fantasy.

Its objective is that, when confronted with our shadow, we can integrate it into our personality and bring it to light, making us stronger, more masters of ourselves, more true. Freud said that we are not even masters of ourselves, because we are dominated by our unconscious (Pluto).

What Pluto in transit does is make conscious this unconscious that dominates us, sabotages us and deprives us of contact with our true essence.

Seeing wealth and learning to live with our monsters

True, initially all this causes a lot of fear. But once we open the closet door and bring the monster out into the light, after due battle to understand what it is all about, we become incredibly strong and fit to lead a prosperous life.

Yes, because Pluto rules the underground and, as such, minerals. Therefore, it also represents riches, not only subjective but also material. Thus, an important and well-crafted transit of Pluto, in which detachment has been conquered and enlightenment itself has been set in motion, usually brings a prosperous future in the material and financial spheres.

When we find out what we really need to live, he gives us all the superfluous things we no longer need. Because, after all, his goal was never to make us miserable, emotionally or materially. Its purpose has always been that we learn to differentiate between what is important and what is superfluous so that, once we are masters of ourselves, we will be able to conquer the world.