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Steve Judd’s Monthly Musings 17

A Modernistic Look at

Pluto

Steve Judd

Pluto was discovered on February 18th, 1930,
just over 88 years ago. Although its orbit is 248
years, it moves in an eccentric pattern, spending
30 years in Taurus, yet only 11 years in Scorpio
and Sagittarius. Since it was first spotted, Pluto
has completed fractionally over half an orbit
and is now within one degree of opposition to
the place it was at its discovery.
The mythological line of Pluto is clearly Recent discoveries of Pluto are pushing us to a power broker.
defined – Pluto in Greek myth is Hades, the first new understanding of our own unconscious. Instead, the astrological Pluto is truly
of five children of Cronos (Saturn), swallowed With the advent of both personal and about being power filled, acting as a conduit and
by their father lest they usurp him (as Cronos transpersonal psychology, individuals are being channel for Pluto’s power and becoming an
did with his father, Ouranus). Freed by his encouraged to go into their own personal dark agent for transformation and a catalyst for
youngest brother Jupiter (Zeus), Pluto, Jupiter and explore it, safe in the knowledge that there change. Indeed, perhaps catalyst is a good word
and the third brother, Neptune, divided the are no monsters in the caves of the unconscious, for Pluto – a catalyst doesn’t heal or change
firmament between them, with Neptune taking only dark. By going into these caves and others, they give others the power to heal or
the water world, Jupiter taking the overworld, bringing light into the dark and then returning change themselves, making individuals more
and Pluto taking the underworld. Gradually, the and bringing dark into the light, we are creating self-empowered and less dependent on others,
ideas of Hades and Pluto became separate, with a more unified and integrated sense of self. which in turn helps transform the world.
Hades eventually becoming Pluto’s domain. There cannot be light without also dark. They As more and more people engage with
From an early date, Pluto’s astrological are equal and opposite. Pluto and their own personal psychological
values became clearly defined and have As we become more aware of our own states, so the doorways of the unconscious and
developed since that time. From a challenging psychology, so we become more self- subconscious become wider and more available
perspective, Pluto has always been the planetary empowered to make decisions for ourselves that to all. Perhaps as we get a foothold in the third
influence that deals with obsession and eliminate doubt. Merciless and mercenary are millennium, so the emergence of Pluto into the
compulsion, intensity and extremes, as well as cruel and callous words, with no room for light becomes more of a metaphor for an
ideas of pain through crisis and trauma. At a empathy or compassion, but ruthless is just yes integrated transformation, both of ourselves and
neutral level, Pluto deals with purging, or no, black or white with no middle ground. the planet we share.
detoxing, cleansing, purification and The position of Pluto in our individual birth In this light, a more shamanistic
elimination, whilst from a positive perspective, charts is increasingly making us aware of our approach to life, the planet and our collective
Pluto is transformation and regeneration, the capacity for elimination and purging of self- responsibility towards it is signified, and to
caterpillar changing into the butterfly, the snake doubt and the vacuous through being ruthless, quote Terence McKenna, “Not a moment too
shedding its skin, and the phoenix rising from whilst retaining the capacity for empathy and soon.” Embrace Pluto. There is nothing to be
the ashes, reborn through crisis into a cleaner compassion – Pluto is beginning in certain scared of except fear itself. Pluto teaches us that
and clearer position. astrological circles to be seen as the dark death is not the end, merely the next step and
Since the New Horizons space probe feminine as much as the dark masculine! that we are eternal, with physical death just
visit to Pluto in 2015, we’ve been able to gaze A strong Pluto in the birth chart being the jump from one dimension to another.
onto the face of Pluto, seeing for the first time basically means that you don’t burn out; you We are all entitled to a good life and we are all
that which has been hidden, or occluded, from keep going when everybody else falls by the entitled to a good death. Pluto, after all, is the
us for nearly ninety years, suggesting that Pluto wayside. You make and take the hard choices planet of death and rebirth!
is beginning to give up its secrets. The first that others won’t or can’t. Pluto is setting you Steve Judd, late March 2018.
pictures from Pluto clearly show that half of the free and breaking your heart at the same time, to
planetary surface is covered in white ice, whilst quote ABGT. It removes the capacity for doubt About the Author:
the rest is dark rock or carbon, emphasizing the and elevates consciousness to a position of Steve Judd is a practicing astrologer with
Plutonic nature of black and white, yes and no, certainty, even if that certainty makes you 40+ year’s astrological experience. Check him
with little, if any, middle ground. The visit of realize things about yourself that aren’t very out on YouTube or at www.stevejudd.com. []
the spacecraft also showed how the Plutonic nice. It takes you above and beyond the confines
system, with Pluto’s attendant Moons of of normal emotional space and time, creating a
Charon, Nix, Kerberos, Hydra and Styx, is world view that is absolute. The dream is specifically the utterance
unique. Charon orbits Pluto twice for every one Many people make the mistake of of the unconscious. just as the psyche
time that Pluto orbits Charon, creating a kind of identifying the astrological Pluto with the has a diurnal side which we call
binary system with an absolute void at the notion of being powerful, but that carries with it consciousness, so also it has a
center – very fitting for Pluto’s astrological the idea of owning power, which in time will nocturnal side: the unconscious
meaning of depth, unconscious and corrupt and twist the individual into the dark psychic activity which we apprehend as
subconscious, darkness at the center. and negative side of Pluto, the manipulator and dreamlike fantasy. - Carl Jung