♇︎ Planets
Pluto
Irreversible change: where the old ends to make space
What it means
Pluto – irreversible change: where the old ends to make way for the new, and where a person confronts power, both their own and others’. It provides the ability to endure loss and rebuild, and when imbalanced – it manifests as control over close ones.
In balance
Ability to endure loss and rebuild, honesty about power
Out of balance
Control over loved ones, obsessiveness, destruction as the only option
What this object is
around two hundred and fifty years per cycle, up to thirty years in a sign
Pluto was discovered in 1930, and in 2006 astronomers re‑classified it as a dwarf planet. For chart calculation this makes no difference: the body's position is used, not its classification. Its orbital period is about 248 years.
Rulership of sign
How to read in your chart
Pluto’s sign is generational; its meaning is given by the house and aspects. Pluto conjunct the Sun or Moon brings themes of control and survival. Its transits last for years, so they are experienced as a life period rather than a discrete event.