Aspecting Sun
When you have Pluto aspecting the Sun in your natal chart, you’re meant to embody the deep, transformative energy of this planet. As an individual, and a significant part of your conscious personality, you are touched by an intense need to uncover the personal truths about life, its mysteries, and your own desires. Over your lifetime, you can expect to delve deep into understanding yourself, your motivations, and your place in the world. You must integrate your shadow self, desire self, and ego to live authentically and powerfully. It’s not about maintaining a pedestal of “goodness” but about embracing your raw and honest self.
You can expect the teenage years especially to be challenging, as this influence can make you feel out of place or at odds with authority and societal expectations. The more authoritarian your parents or “grown-ups” were in your life, the more you might have struggled, either through active rebellion or feeling the need to suppress and hide your true self. Feeling like a stranger in your own skin and going through the motions in life might have been common. Finding a place where you “belong” might have been a struggle, even among your peers.
As an adult, this dynamic can continue with any authority in your life. Rules and superficial interactions can be particularly grating. You’re naturally equipped to create deep transformations and uncover profound truths. When you don’t have a balanced relationship with this energy, you might become the stubborn rebel or feel like a ghost in the machine, perpetually out of place.
Shadows:
The most reactive shadow is letting Pluto dominate your identity. This can lead to becoming overly intense, manipulative, and focused on the hardships of life. You might fall into a victim consciousness, feeling like a victim of life’s circumstances and focusing on the negative aspects of your experiences. Alternatively, you might avoid desire-based pursuits that could actually be life-giving, fearing the potential pain or disruption they might bring.
Suppression of this energy often manifests as a disconnection from your unique qualities and gifts. You might have trouble forming deep connections and feel like an outsider wherever you go. The attempt to blend in can be successful externally, but internally, you might feel like a fraud. Alternatively, you might adopt superficial markers of “difference” without any real substance, like always wearing bold colors or exclusively listening to vinyl records. This is a sign that you need deeper self-discovery and integration.
Power:
You become a guide of authenticity and deep truth. You are someone designed to evolve and transform continuously without the guilt and shame that many people feel. You’re meant to lead through personal evolution, noticing where your life feels meaningless, boring, and mundane, and then shaking things up to discover what is real for you in each season. In doing so, people trust your ability to create deep transformation in the world. They believe in your insights and follow your guidance because they see you living your truth authentically.
You’re someone who can face unexpected events and find the silver lining, using changes as portals for your own growth and inspiring others to do the same.
Conjunction:
You are Plutonian in nature! Your entire personality is infused with the energy of deep transformation and power. Embodying the higher qualities of this aspect means focusing on personal transformation over a lifetime. Using dissatisfaction as a sign that a personal change needs to be made can be both gentle and extreme. Just make sure that when it comes to experiences and relationships, you give yourself time to see their value. Restlessness should not become your default state. If you find yourself bouncing from one thing to the next, it might be a sign that you’re avoiding the actual deep transformation you need.
Sextile/Trine:
This is a harmonious influence of Pluto in your life. You have a knack for knowing when it’s time to delve deep and make significant changes. Rather than staying stuck and complaining about the same issues for years, you have the ability to dig deep, uncover the root causes, and transform them. With practice, it’s natural for you to integrate your shadow self and work through your deepest fears, leading to profound personal growth.
Opposition:
This aspect can show that you may struggle to integrate your Plutonian nature appropriately. You might embrace it too much, leaving behind parts of your true self in favor of being the powerful transformer in your life. Conversely, you might struggle to bring your Plutonian nature into your personality, doing more to fit in and meet expectations while denying a part of yourself that seeks deep transformation and power.
Square:
The integration of your Plutonian part can get you into trouble and cause issues in your life if you’re operating in the shadow frequency. You’re more likely to experience intense struggles between embracing the power of your inner alchemist and the practicalities of everyday life. Changing circumstances can leave you swinging between extremes, stubbornly fighting against the flow of life and making sudden changes that may not serve you. Over time, you’ll find your way by combining these energies, responding to your inner impulses for transformation and growing through the challenges life presents.