I did another Pluto in the 3rd house research query online. The plan I’m on allows 10 research queries per month. I also ran one on Saturn, but it got really repetitive when it came to house placements—it might take a lot of weeding through. That said, if the research has already been done, you might not mind and could be interested to see what came up. It basically works as a refresher, kind of like a summary of most of Liz Greene’s Saturn insights. You might want a refresher, so I’ll add that in too. The other Pluto in the 3rd house research I did was to help figure out whether I have Pluto in the 2nd or 3rd house, since my birth time is slightly off. If Pluto is in the 3rd, then my Moon and Mercury get pulled into the 8th—which I’ve never really felt aligned with. I don’t particularly relate to strong 8th house energy. But some parts of Pluto in the 3rd do ring true. I’m not super intense mentally (am I?), but I do have a deep curiosity about things. People who aren’t mentally intense don’t usually question their own mental intensity mid-sentence. The very fact that I’m constantly analyzing my analysis of my own mental landscape is… well, 3rd house Pluto. But I’m also the type to casually mention “I don’t really relate to 8th house energy,” while secretly having read all the psychology books within a 15-mile radius. This isn’t surface-level stuff. I’ve also created a bunch of visually styled quotes about trauma and shared them online. Sometimes scream-into-a-pillow nature of trauma, and wrapping it in a soft-focus image of a sunrise or a moody forest path. It’s saying, “Yes, my childhood left emotional scars, but look—here’s a quote about it over a picture of foggy mountains. Healing.” Pluto in the 2nd matches in some ways—but then again, material concerns affect a lot of people throughout life, so I’m still trying to figure out if it’s extreme enough to apply to me.
Pluto in the 2nd vs. 3rd House: The Intrigue of Placement
To be caught between the 2nd and 3rd is to research into two very different obsessions—on one side, value and possession, and on the other, thought, speech, and the undercurrents of communication. Pluto in the 2nd house says, “What do you really value?” This placement isn’t the simple what you want, but what you’d crawl through fire to protect. It’s survival via stability—emotional, financial, or spiritual. There’s often a compulsion around scarcity, or the fear of it—sometimes manifesting in extreme frugality, other times in deep generosity once control is felt.
But Pluto in the 3rd, now here’s a placement where the mind is more of a minefield—what lies beneath the words, beneath the everyday small talk, beneath the facade of understanding. It’s the secret code beneath language, the psychoanalyst of the self. A curiosity so deep, it doesn’t ask, “What time is it?” but rather, “What is time, and who benefits from our belief in it?” The Moon and Mercury potentially slipping into the 8th adds to the psychic stew, but what if I don’t feel the brooding edge, an emotional entanglement and pull toward the taboo, then perhaps the chart is saying something else. Astrology is best when it rings true (laughs). For now, Pluto in the 3rd house is dominant, and I do watch true crime daily.
Anyway, I’ll add the Liz Greene–focused research on Pluto in the 3rd today, along with some general Pluto placement insights. There isn’t a ton of detailed info online, so the research tool kind of makes up a composite—half of it is pulled from real sources, and the other half is hypothesized based on what these astrologers might say. But honestly, it’s pretty on point. I thought it was insightful.
I’ll go with Pluto in the 3rd for now, since we have two versions—I’ve already posted the one with more astrologers I prompted it to search for, and the first one was just based on Liz Greene’s approach. I like her psychological interpretations, but she hasn’t really written much specifically on Pluto in the 3rd—not even in The Astrology of Fate book. Still, I think it’s a worthwhile read and could be helpful if you have that placement.
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