For this week’s Pluto station, check out your sign as well as the house where 3º Aquarius 04’ falls in your natal chart:
Aries
(11th house) On Friday, your ruing planet Mars makes an exact trine to Saturn, bringing you a greater sense of purpose and determination. This can occur when you realize that you are getting positive results through some sort of disciplined action. It’s just that sort of positive feedback that gives you the motivation to keep going and further commit. Creating new and better routines and habits, can also have a remarkable impact on your over all confidence. If you can run one mile, then why not two. If you can juggle 3 balls in the air, why not try 4? This week Pluto stations, ending its retrograde phase. And as Pluto makes its station this week you may already notice something of a sea change, as you find yourself called to share your knowledge and experience with others. This is one of those transits that will not only allow you to have some sort of influence on the world at large, but which can also bring you some sort of inner meaning that by enriching your own life, will also enrich the lives of others. This will be all that much more meaningful as both Pluto and Neptune in your own sign of Aries, are working together in order to show you how you can be best positioned to be a beacon of light for others. And that is true even as you may be navigating some complicated personal areas of your life. Pluto is inspiring you to go high, transcending your current circumstances and limitations, just enough to recognize some of the more profound connections you are capable of making with others.
Taurus
(10th house) Venus continues to wend its way through the sign of Scorpio. And as it does so it approaches an exact square with stationing Pluto. Deep and penetrating, Venus, aided by Pluto, leaves no rock unturned. She researches, looks in places she dare not normally go, and reads the tea leaves in order to make sure that she is on track. What she uncovers this week could make your hair stand on end. But the creatures that are emerging from out of their lairs are not as monstrous as you might have originally thought. These are old companions, needing to be put to rest, once and for all. Pluto’s station in Aquarius is asking you to take greater control over your own life and destiny. This may seem harder than usual when dealing with people who are not necessarily on the same page. Or even worse dealing with the powers that be. With Venus and Pluto carrying on this week, you’ll be that much more aware of when power is being abused, as you attempt to smash glass ceilings, and take your place in the Sun. Just know that the purer and more inclusive your motives, the broader will be the support for your cause. But ultimately, the transformative power of Pluto is trying to get you to believe in yourself, and what you have to offer the world.
Gemini
(9th house) Mercury has officially entered its shadow and is planning all sorts of mischief over the weeks ahead. Dot your i’s and cross your t’s. With Mercury in Scorpio for the foreseeable future it would probably be wise to keep some thoughts to yourself. This week is no exception, what with lascivious Venus at odds with that stationing Pluto. Planets are especially strong when they station, and with Pluto in Aquarius, it’s all you can do to keep up with all the changes. With Uranus in Gemini trine Pluto you will be all the more aware of all the changes circling around. Both planets are attempting to align you with your truest and most authentic self. One thing that is important to Gemini are communications. The way that words are used, and the effect that they have on others. Sometimes profoundly so. And with Pluto in Aquarius or the 9th house of your natal chart, you will find yourself having the remarkable capacity to see the truth about things in such a way that you will never see things quite the same way again. This requires you to be open to looking at things from another perspective, or to welcome in new ideas. Just realize that when you do so, you will need to be prepared to have your mind blown in the process. Pluto never does things lightly.
Cancer
(8th house) This week, Pluto, the Lord of transformation and profound change, stations, ending its retrograde phase. Planets are always more intense when they station, and this is certainly true for Pluto. And in the sign of Aquarius or your natal 8th house it has this capacity to completely transform your psyche as well as your life. Pluto aims to break old cycles, break old self-defeating patterns and limiting habits that are holding you back and preventing you from growing. This area of the chart is one of those transformational houses in which it would not be unusual to even see the end of a way of life, while giving birth to another. The 8th house is where we are compelled to deal with issues surrounding birth and death, sexuality, obsession and compulsions over which we seem to have little control. And with a square to retrograde Venus, this could be felt even more so. The key to the 8th house, is to unveil, or uncover that which is hidden beneath. So this can apply to what’s under the covers, hidden within the psyche, buried beneath the earth or simply hidden from view. This is the house of surgery, midwifery, magic, archeology, investigation and psychology. And as a result of what we discover and learn during the many years that Pluto will be here, are what tools will be at your disposal in order to heal, reinvent and rebuild your life. And to be reborn.
Leo
(7th house) On Thursday, Pluto stationed, ending its retrograde phase. Whenever planets station they dig in that much more deeply, making their presence known in whatever department of the chart it is stationing in. While in Aquarius, or the natal 7th House, it is making its presence known through others, and through your closest relationships. And if you have done your work well during the previous 5 months of the retrograde phase, you will begin to see the results now manifesting in your outside world. While retrograde, Pluto’s focus is within, creating changes in the deep inner levels of the psyche. When it is direct its attention is ready to be focussed without. Its most effective changes are often during the retrograde period where it is addressing those internal changes. Often our inclination is to change the outer circumstances of our lives: fix those other people, change the environment, or shut them all out. But when we do the inner work on ourselves, our relationship with the outer world and with other people is transformed as well. It can sometimes feel with Pluto in Aquarius, that the catalyst to change comes through others, and if that appears to be the case, know that you are ready for the profound life-changing experiences that are possible when Pluto is in Aquarius.
Virgo
(6th house) Mercury has now entered the shadow of its retrograde phase, gradually drawing your focus within. This will be all that much more significant with Venus also retrograde during the same period. This week Venus makes an exact square with Pluto which just stationed, ending its own retrograde phase. It is not unusual to find yourself working hard when Pluto is in Aquarius or your natal 6th house. But when you have a passion for what you do, it does not feel as much like ‘work’. It’s what you cannot not do. Your work can literally subsume you when Pluto is here. You could also do well to seek out someone who serves as something of a guide or a strong influence in your everyday life. Like a coach, a therapist, or a trainer, someone who is motivational without being over-bearing. Someone who has your best interests at heart. Chances are you could even find this sort of guide in the work place, or through some sort of healing modality. There is a very strong mind/body connection when Pluto enters this department of the chart, where the psychological/emotional components intersect with the physical. Even the everyday things we do to maintain our health and well-being can feel like all-consuming work when Pluto is here. As often is the case with Pluto, there are bound to be things over which you have no control. Therefore focus on the things that you do have control over. And remind yourself, that finding a healthy balance between that which you are passionate about, vs. that which you are obsessed over are always key when Lord Pluto insinuates himself into our daily lives and routines.
Libra
(5th house) On Thursday Pluto stationed ending its retrograde phase, while square retrograde Venus.This is the cosmos trying to show you what your soul’s deepest passions and yearnings are, and what may be standing in the way of you having them. With Pluto now in Aquarius or your natal 5th house, this is about what your heart and soul is yearning to say when it is allowed to speak through you. That deep yearning can also be found through a deeply compelling and loving relationship. The sort of relationship that consumes your waking moments and fills you with a burning passion. Perhaps even bordering on obsession. These are the sorts of feelings about which great poems are written, and where breath taking moments fill your days. Let them in. In some way your passions, and your heart, are being asked to be reignited. And they do this in order to give birth to something from within you, whether that be an actual birth, or giving birth to yourself. Go where you are drawn. It is lighting a match to your heart. Pursue that much loved hobby, brush off the instrument gathering dust on the shelf, go where your heart is leading you. And do so at the risk of igniting all the other feelings that lay buried deep in your soul that also need to be laid out on the altar of your heart. Jealousy, obsession, or even fear can arise with Pluto. Welcome them all. Sometimes we have to move through these darker passions too in order to find those rarer and more beautiful gifts that have been patiently waiting in the wings.
Scorpio
(4th house) Now that Pluto is traveling in the sign of Aquarius it has been asking you to put down that sack of emotional debris that you’ve been carrying with you all these years past. During the retrograde phase of Pluto over the past 5 months, you were being asked to confront all those things that have undermined your own confidence in yourself. That includes all those inner dialogues, the should haves, the emotional abuse that you’ve allowed to play on a loop in your own head. This is also when you come to realize where the original script is coming from. Things are coming to light from earlier on in your life, whether that be family, the culture or the ancestors. Pluto is giving you permission to unload it all. Even if that finds you lying recumbent on the therapist’s couch. As a result all that stuff that you’ve been carrying around with you like an albatross around your neck, like a burden to bear just because it was handed down by the ancestors like some sort of a legacy, know that it doesn’t have to go any further than this. It’s well nigh time to re-write the narrative. Whatever dirt has been coming to the surface over the past 5 months, whatever the narratives, whatever the lines that you had previously learned by heart, it’s time for you to re-write the script.
Sagittarius
(3rd house) Now that Pluto is in Aquarius you are being asked to cultivate, hone and take advantage of the profound ability to cut through all the lies, misinformation and innuendo, in order to see the truth in all of its magnificence and glory. With deer stalker hat and magnifying glass in hand, you are ready to get to the bottom of things. Now that Pluto has stationed, ending its retrograde phase it allows certain truths to rise to the surface. This can be illuminating, and could even have the capacity to transform your whole perspective. During the 5 months of its retrograde phase, some of those most illuminating realizations were not found outside, but within your own heart and mind. And as a result, you are not quite able to see things the same way again. It’s as if you see more, notice more, and perceive the underlying meaning of things, in even the most simple and everyday experiences. Pluto here can indeed help you to discover why the neighbors do what they do. But it can also incline you to want to solve the great mysteries of all time. This is not a time for euphemisms, or a superficial glossing over of things, this is about getting down to the very essence. It’s about deep conversations, and daring to talk about subjects that make others shudder. You will come to see that no stone is left unturned when Pluto is in Aquarius and/or in your 3rd house, and therefore nothing is hidden for long.
Capricorn
(2nd house) Now that Pluto is in the sign of Aquarius, it is trying to show you something about your own self-worth. It is doubling down on prioritizing your needs and priorities, and trying to do so within the scope of your own sense of self-worth and how well you value yourself and what you have to offer. It has this amazing capacity while here to transform your whole relationship with things like wealth, power, money and even self-esteem. And this is all the more so when Pluto stations, as it did on Thursday, ending its retrograde phase. When we think of self-worth we often think in terms of our earning power. But it can also point to things like character and the sorts of skills that make you a contender, capable of surviving in a competitive world. Strong values. Self-integrity. And creating things that have long-term sustainability and intrinsic value. That’s what Pluto is about. Whatever talents and skills you have been honing up over the past 5 months Pluto is wanting you to realize the potential of what you have to offer others. There is something incredibly transformative about Pluto’s transits. And not only can Pluto transform the ways that you value yourself and your own self-worth, but can also help you to evolve and grow in ways that you might not have even imagined.
Aquarius
(1st house) When Pluto stationed for its retrograde phase last May, it did so with a few conditions. It may have even felt like a piece of your life was unraveling. But often what feels like destruction with the planet Pluto can also be the catalyst for something even better to come into your life. Cynthia Occelli tells us that in order for seeds to reach their fullest potential, it needs to become undone. The shell cracks, and its insides fall out. Along with all that stuff can be things that you had been trying to ignore in hopes that it would just go away. It doesn’t. But what can happen is that it can be transformed. And that is what the retrograde phase of Pluto was for. To fix all the stuff we’ve been trying to ignore. For it is that stuff, the shames, the fears, the wounds of the past, the things that haunt you, that are preventing you from taking control over your own life and destiny. And now that Pluto is ending its retrograde station, it does so with the promise of ever better things to come. Although Pluto stations can feel like they are heralding the end of an era in our lives, it can also create the conditions to be reborn out of the ashes of the life that was. And know that when Pluto travels in your sign as it now is, that it brings the opportunity to discover your own truth. And it is within the framework of that truth, no matter how stark that might be, no matter how painful, that you are then given the tools and the capacity to reinvent your life all over again. Working with Pluto is hard work, for it does nothing less than force you to face yourself. But by working through all this you also discover what it means to be empowered in such a way to fully take hold of the reins of your life.
Pisces
(12th house) There is something of an internal, evolutionary growth process that is occurring now that Pluto is in Aquarius or your natal 12th house. Pluto is literally changing you from the inside out. The work that is does on these inner subliminal planes has the capacity to completely change your world. And this will feel all the more so when Pluto stations as it did on Thursday, ending its retrograde phase. This can begin with an inner realization. A disclosure. Something that had been hidden from view, but is now being revealed and can totally change your awareness about things. Perhaps these are things that were there all along, gnawing at your psyche. But due to the experiences of the previous 5 months they could no longer be ignored. And now that Pluto stations direct, there is that moment of clarity like a light bulb switching on that dares you to see things as they actually are, and therefore understand. This is Pluto’s work on the unseen planes of your mind. And even if you try to resist it, Pluto is not to be ignored. And once the flood gates are opened, you will see all sorts of memories, thoughts, rising to the surface from out of your subconscious or from the past. Although this can feel disconcerting, it can also be remarkably illuminating. Know that this is an opportunity to arrive at a whole other level of healing and wholeness. And that is when the true transformation begins.