Gabby Turner Tarot & Astrology

                In Part 1 of this series we talked about the solar return Ascendant.  In Part 2 we discussed Freedom and Limitation as indicated by Jupiter and Saturn.  In this installment of the Solar Return series, I want to discuss how and where Pluto’s influence will be felt for you in the year following your solar return as well as how you might use Pluto’s energy most effectively for personal growth.

                Astrologer Dane Rudhyar asserted that Pluto (along with Uranus and Neptune) is a planet that asks us to grow (and transcend our individual ego experience) through the experience of crises.  With Pluto, the crisis is this: it is the recognition of personal and collective power, power that can be wielded in both healing and destructive ways.  It is the moment of eating fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.   Pluto crises ask us to realize that destruction itself can be healing, and that healing can be destructive.  A surgeon cutting into a human body is committing a Plutonic act.

                When we meet ourselves at a deep psychological level with the intention of really knowing ourselves, and when we meet others at the same level, and with the same intention, and when we meet everyone and everything at the collective psyche level with this intention of really knowing and understanding, then we are repairing our roots in preparation for a raising of universal energy.  Working with Pluto is important work, even if it is often scary to do so.  Pluto asks us to be honest with ourselves and about our lives.  How do we use our knowledge of good and evil?  How do we use the power of knowing? 

                Pluto also asks us to examine shared values and resources.  How do we influence the values of others and how are our own values influenced?  When we have, does that mean that someone else must have not (materially, psychically, sexually, etc.)? Plutonic power wielded negatively can result in possessiveness, greed, jealousy and manipulation.  So we have to examine honestly if our use of resources affects the abundance of someone else as well as to examine (honestly) if others have really abused their own power in using/having the resources that they have.  Pluto recognizes the power in ownership of resources as well as the power in sharing resources.  From a spiritual perspective, what Pluto really wants us to learn is that (LOVE) is never-ending in its supply.  We do not need to covet, because we have all that we will ever need.  The universe provides (though it’s as likely the universe will provide us with a life lesson as it is to provide us with a $100 bill).   ;)  We do not need to hoard resources that others need as well as we do, because the universe provides.

                In my Solar Return Chart (to which I have referred throughout this lesson, in a way that has been very cathartic for me) you can see that Pluto is conjunct the descendant (or 7^th House cusp).  This house indicates romantic partners, business partners, clients, therapists, enemies, competitors, and friends or family members as well as anyone we have substantial one-on-one interactions with.  (Many people want to associate friends with the 11^th house solely, and that is where our networks or group friendships are, but one-on-one interactions are always 7^th House). 

                So looking at my SR chart, I can recognize that I will be attracting people to me who will have a Plutonic, transformative affect on me.  Like Adam in Paradise, I could metaphorically blame Eve for my sins, or like Eve, I could blame the serpent.  What I mean here is that instead of welcoming these Plutonic people into my life to assist me in my personal transformation, and instead of allowing them to hold a mirror up to my own sins and shadows, I might revert the blame for the unseemly parts of myself I see reflected in their mirrors.  To work best with Pluto, what I need to do is to be willing to see the truth of myself, to be willing to embrace my inner phoenix, to let parts of myself die away so that I can be reborn into a person who relates (7^th House) to others in a more healing (Pluto) way. 

                Where does Pluto ask you to do the same?  Where does Pluto ask you to cut into yourself and perform a psyche-surgery?  Your comments and/or e-mails on this issue are more than welcome.  If you are viewing this from the main page of my blog, you will need to click on the title of the entry above and then scroll down the page to access comments/commenting.  Or, e-mail me at gabbyturnertarot@gmail.com

                I hope you are having a blessed Solar Return year!