Understanding Pluto in the synastry chart
Pluto's key lesson is to prepare us for death as a major transformation in life.
We experience small dyings all the time during our lifetime, mostly through our relationships with others.
Pluto in the synastry chart should be viewed precisely from this perspective.
Manipulation and obsession that are often associated with the Pluto aspects are only the low levels of its manifestation. Also, they can be just as necessary as any other experience in life.
On a sensual level, Pluto indeed gives passion and jealousy, and both emotional states can greatly enrich one’s personality (rather than destroy). In addition, Pluto is not a planet of action, it signifies a mental impulse. That is why the passion and jealousy here are deeply psychological. How they are going to be expressed physically will show the quality of Mars, Venus and the Moon in the chart.
Pluto acts as a surgical blade in a certain sphere of the psyche. It cuts to the depths, to the place of rawness, where it can clean, destroy, and resuscitate.
In the synastry, Pluto will generate an act of dying and resurrection over a certain planet of a partner (i.e. the sphere of their psyche and life). This sphere of their psychic will first be laid bare, and then either significantly reshaped or destroyed and made reborn. By that, Pluto will reveal that the way this planet was manifesting itself before was not genuine enough.
Just like in the transits, when Pluto will send your the signs of a looming transformation in advance (here I wrote more about it), the appearance of a new person in your life whose Pluto aspects your personal planet will be a real sign that a revision is needed in this area, and possibly a radical one. The tense aspects, like square or opposition, will bring the most profound results.
If the action of Pluto does not get to manifest itself in higher vibrations, then a struggle and throwing tantrums will begin in the sphere of a personal planet. This is often called passion, but in fact it is NOT a passion, it is a death agony, which will most likely end with the departure of a person whose personal planet is afflicted.
As a consequence, such relationships leave huge baggage of accumulated emotions of frustration for both people that stem from a zero understanding of their karmic predisposition.
At a higher level, the Pluto person will literally make the other person experience the dying in a certain area of their life. Something is transfixed from being deeply exposed, then it is recognised as obsolete, and then slowly and often painfully it is being eradicated and starts being reborn.
If it is the Sun, then the sphere of transformation will be the Ego. If the Moon then the transformation will happen in the sphere of security, emotional attachments, and fears. Venus - values and sensuality, but perhaps the aesthetics of the owner of Venus will change a lot too. Mercury gets Pluto’s surgery on mental attitudes. The aspect with Mars will bring about the restructuring of one’s understanding of power of action, including from a karmic perspective. Aspects with Mars are considered being intense and even dangerous, but at a higher level, these aspects give tremendous work in spiritual development.
We also need to look at what the personal planet rules in the chart and take this into account. It may well change the complete picture. Let’s say, if the Mercury is the ruler of one’s 8th house, then receiving an aspect from Pluto will be a different story here, and the mental attitude may be the least to get transformed.
Unlike aspects of Saturn, where one can feel lots of pressure and austerity, Pluto feels like a laser penetrating all layers of a particular experience.
At the very beginning, such relationships can overflow with inner thrill and attraction. The owner of a personal planet is chained by the depth of waves coming from a Pluto person, while the second one will revel in his ability to go deep and transform someone's personality. If these vibrations continue to go up, then this will bring incredible spiritual renewal and maturation. Higher vibrations here would suggest the sensitivity of the two people to the process of this transformation.
If however, the vibrations tend to go down because of the inner level of the two people involved, such intense interaction may start feeling too intrusive for a personal planet and cause repulsion. Especially with planets such as Venus and the Moon, this repulsion can be very intense, almost visceral. The Pluto person, heavily feeling the vibration of rejection, will be inclined to retain his former power by all means, which may start with manipulation and then reach more violent methods of psychological oppression. (Again, the physical abuse in the relationships is not really the Pluto’s influence, it has to be confirmed by the Mars aspects).
All the above are more referred to the aspects of conjunction, square, and opposition. The trine and sextile aspects will hardly bring that inner force, but it doesn’t mean they are not offering a transformation.
The influence of Pluto in the relationships can hardly go unnoticed. By nature, Pluto is like a living surgical scalpel. It transforms everything it touches.
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