Pluto in astrology

Pluto is where you are remade: the part of you that burns down and rebuilds when it is given room. What it is ultimately after is honest power, no bargaining.

It is at home in Scorpio, so the affairs of Scorpio tend to be where it has the clearest hand.

The sign tells you the manner: the same power looks bold in Aries and careful in Cancer without changing what it wants. The house tells you the arena: the part of life where you will actually meet it, whether that is money, partnership or reputation.

Aspects then tell you who it has to negotiate with. A Pluto squared by Saturn and a Pluto trined by Jupiter behave very differently even in the same sign.

Moving overhead, Pluto excavates whatever it touches, for 248 years for one full circuit. Slower bodies make chapters, faster ones make days — which is why a Moon transit is a mood and a Saturn transit is a re-write.

Astro Nox reads your own transits against your birth chart rather than against a Sun sign, so a Pluto pass is dated to your degrees.

The Golden Dawn ties Pluto to the cards below — the trump that carries the planet, and the decans it rules among the pips.