Pluto Direct: Learning to Go Without

Pluto rules Death because, ultimately, it takes things away. In the myth, Pluto was an abductor, taking Persephone away from her mother, and thus taking the harvest and brighter weather away until her part time visitation rights reunited them again and the world once more felt spring and summer - albeit only for an allotted time before she returned to the underworld.

In C S Lewis’ work, (an author who spoke in allegory), The Chronicles of Narnia, a hired abductor of children is himself abducted, amidst a frozen land where it was “always winter and never Christmas”. The theme of Pluto is to take, by various means - (this story also contains the other Plutonian themes of power, betrayal, physical death and resurrection). Pluto boils down to the removal and loss of something we seemed inextricably linked (or chained) to.

Whether by an “act of god”, sudden sweeping health changes, the exposing of shady shenanigans. a swift swipe from Mother Nature or via the agents of dark forces - all beyond our mortal control - loss is experienced, whether of a person, a place, a possible future, a position, a way of life or life itself.

As Pluto now turns Direct - after a retrograde period of ‘killing off’ certain behaviors or desires and fighting inner demons - we now can move forward with more inner riches and resilience, more of an ability to spot the nefarious outer demons, and an ability to survive and sustain storms others would be blown away by.

We get by without that which leaves. Learning to Go Without. The drug thats killing us. The special someone who was always there for us.  The special someone we want, who doesn’t want us back. A place we call Home we can never return to. The position we worked hard to attain, no longer ours. A divorce from that which was a huge part of us.

Here in Los Angeles, the President of the City Council was just forced to resign after a leaked audio exposed (Pluto digging up) her racist remarks. Overnight, her position of Pluto power was Pluto lost. Across the globe there will be countless manifestations of these major shifts as the pendulum swings.

Learning to go without can be such a soul-relief. The toxic partner who drained our self-worth. The cancer that consumed our very cells.

The promise of Pluto Direct? That which disempowers us, during Pluto passages, ultimately ends up empowering us to greater heights, with seemingly superhuman power and even more substance and greater depth.

#plutodirect #plutoretrograde #plutocapricorn #plutoaquarius #cycle8 #cycle10 #surfingyoursolarcycles