“PLUTO IN THE FOURTH HOUSE”
Pluto/Moon, Scorpio Moon, Scorpio planets in the fourth house, Scorpio on the fourth.
This is a very Plutonian person, especially when Pluto falls near the fourth house cusp. One parent, most likely the mother, was powerful, intrusive and controlling. When one parent was outwardly domineering, however, the other may have been more subtly manipulative—“It's you and me against that monster.” Often there are great undercurrents of resentment in the home, particularly resentment of the child's needs, or of the necessity for nurturing. Sometimes a grand-mother exerted great influence, in the manner of a matriarch. There may have been an actual abandonment, such as a death of a parent figure, or there may have been the constant threat of abandonment if the child did not behave. Perhaps everyone was mourning a death near the time of this child's birth, so the mother was in a melancholic state and had little to give an infant.
With a Scorpio Moon or Moon/Pluto aspects, there may be difficulty trusting women, resentment of them, or manipulation to make women symbiotically dependent in order to avoid abandonment. A parent with this placement may resent having to nurture children, yet overcompensate or symbiotically bind children by doing too much for them. A parent may hold on to children in a life or death manner, feeling that this is at least one relationship where he or she will never be abandoned. Conversely, the scars left from the lack of loving nurturance in childhood may be so deep that this individual resolves never to become a parent.
When people have Pluto or Scorpio in the fourth, the adult home may become a batlleground for power struggles; or, to avoid repeating past family patterns, these people may decide to live alone. It can be hard to cope with living with anyone, unless this type has absolute control of the situation. My house is my private turf, my secret sanctuary, and I can't “really bear to share it.” It is essential that people with this placement respect their need for privacy and solitude, knowing that even when they live with others, they still need time alone. As they heal childhood traumas and resentments, it will become easier for them to live with someone else. The home life then becomes the wellspring of regeneration, giving them healing energy to take out into the world. They have the ability to heal themselves of early traumas and, when they do, they may share what they learn with others who have been similarly wounded.