A friend who had nighttime wartime experiences as a soldier once said simply, “Some things can never be forgiven.” The look in his eyes brooked no debate. That wasn’t because of hostility or defensiveness on his part; that was because of a pain so deep and so personal that any comment would have been nothing but warm, wet, meaningless air....

We humans are all a little scared of the dark, but some of us are a bit less afraid than others. With your Pluto in the traditional hose of friends, you’re drawn to claim membership in a Plutonian tribe- that is, among people who are engaged in exploring perspectives and experiences that make the general run of the population jumpy....

Plutonian topics are by definition, nervous subjects we talk about carefully, if at all: sex, disease, death, money, aging. In social relations, we approach them with great diplomacy and almost Oriental indirectness-or with the marvelous, buffering illusions of emotional honesty that humor creates. The tenth house, on the other hand, is absolutely public. Nothing can hide there. It represents what...

With Pluto in the 9th house, there is a driving hunger to penetrate down to the honest heart of whatever matters face you. The ninth house always ultimately seeks understanding, and Pluto intensifies the motivation as well as aiming it toward uncomfortable perspectives – places where the human heart naturally tends toward avoidance and rationalization. The configuration is therefore quite...

Drama finds you. Psychological intensity radiates from you. When you walk into a room, there’s a witchy, almost shamanic energy just beneath the surface. These are Plutonian qualities and Pluto is the natural ruler of the eighth house, so its signature is very strong in you. Going further, you get the feeling that there is a real passion in you....

Ostensibly we all choose our friends- unlike family, those are voluntary relationships. But friendship, like deeper forms of intimacy, is partly karmic too. We have evolutionary business with people who seem to be inexplicable “choices.” With Pluto in the seventh house, you may be drawn to and involved with some people who are actually doing a dance with the Dark...

When truly dreadful things happen in life, you find out who your friends are. It can be a bitter phrase or a very sweet one, depending on whether the people you count on daily will prove reliable. With Pluto in your 6th house, you very likely deserve a gold medal in troubled times – you’ll come through for others like...

Power and transformation enter your life via your creative means of expression or romantic involvements. With the former, artwork, hobbies or drama can be quite heavy, death-defying or macabre. You wouldn’t just paint pretty pictures for instance; you’d really be working out some deep psychological matters in your art. The same cloak of intensity affects your affairs of the heart....

You know that conversation is going to head for the deep end of the pool. Maybe it will start out as humour – and you make a risque remark or offer some teasing “psychological insight” that actually cuts to the bone. In the blink of an eye, talk has gone into taboo territory. Maybe humor is bypassed entirely. You say,...