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The Shadow Inside Us: An Open spiritual fusion, or a mist of illusion that we
Enemy only learn to see through over time. Pluto,
This dynamic of projection is not merely most intense of all, brings a magnetic, often
poetic — it’s deeply embedded in erotic intensity that activates deep psychic
ancient astrological wisdom. In wounds. Control, power, compulsion, and
traditional astrology, the 7th House is regeneration are all part of the Plutonian
known as the House of Marriage, but dance.
also, paradoxically, the House of Open
Enemies. Why? Because the one we love When these planets are active between two
most deeply often becomes the one people, we’re not just engaging with one
with whom we most profoundly clash. another — we’re engaging with something
The partner becomes the mirror — and archetypal. We may feel fated, haunted,
eventually, the mirror becomes too transcendent, or undone. These
honest. relationships don’t usually “fit”
conventional models. They often defy logic
In some relationships, the energies at or timing. But if we approach them with
play are deeply personal — tied to consciousness, they become initiatory: they
familiar complexes, childhood wounds, break us open and set us on the path of
or patterns of behavior we can individuation.
eventually name and integrate. But
other relationships feel as though they Coming Home to Ourselves
come from beyond us, as if some larger At some point, we each must make the
current is moving through the journey inward — not to fix ourselves, but to
connection. This is often the case when remember who we are beneath the
the outer planets — Uranus, Neptune, or projections. Love, as it turns out, is not
Pluto — form significant aspects in our about completing each other, but about
natal chart. These transpersonal forces accompanying one another as we return to
operate far beyond the realm of ego. wholeness. The people who stir us most —
They don’t just ask us to grow — they whether through desire or difficulty — are
insist we transform. often those who awaken a part of us we’ve
projected, disowned, or feared.
Uranus electrifies the bond, often
bringing sudden beginnings — or endings To see through the projection is to step
— designed to awaken us. The person we through a veil. It’s disorienting, sometimes
meet may shock us out of our patterns, painful, but also liberating. We no longer
push us into radical authenticity, or pull need to chase an illusion or push away what
the rug out from under our attachments. we don’t understand. We begin to recognize
Neptune dissolves boundaries. It can that love isn’t about finding the “perfect”
create a soul-deep yearning, a feeling of partner — it’s about recognizing ourselves
through the sacred friction of relationship.
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