Pluto Posts Coming Up

I’ll finish the rest of the Pluto articles—Pluto topics always seem to spiral into deep, psychological territory. Honestly, I’m not even sure where it’s headed anymore (probably somewhere very dark, let’s be real). If the articles get too long, you could always copy and paste them into a document and send it to your Kindle and read it in the garden. This might be fitting now that the weather’s getting nicer. I love reading about psychology out there—while others are into romance novels, I’m surrounded by books on mental illness, trauma, Pluto… It’s oddly relaxing. There’s something deeply satisfying about learning something psychological; it gives me a kind of high, like a rush from understanding something new. The very things that unnerve us—trauma, madness, the dark subterranean trenches of the human mind—can also be the most soothing companions when approached with curiosity and reverence. There’s something profoundly healing, almost alchemical, about choosing to sit with the shadows. It isn’t wallowing, it’s more trying to understand.

While others are swooning over fictional entanglements in corsets and drawing rooms, I’m there with my nose in Pluto’s dossier of death, rebirth, and transformation, probably giggling at how unhinged yet soothingly accurate it all is. It’s a torrid affair with my own inner underworld, where the plot twists come not from scandal but from sudden, devastating insight.

Also, I did start working on the house placements for the theme. I began by exploring Pluto in the 3rd house, trying to dig deeper—beyond just the mind stuff—into issues related to siblings and the neighborhood. While researching, I came across something that really struck me and made me feel like I do have Pluto in the 3rd (my birth time isn’t accurate). People with this placement might have a sibling who’s seen as the “golden child” or the “light one,” while you are cast as the darker, more shadowed sibling—sometimes even scapegoated or emotionally exiled. This hit so close to home. My sister and I have literally been described this way—she’s the outgoing, sunny (even blonde) one, and I’m more introverted (dark haired), astrology-loving… not darker in a negative way, just more hidden, inward. It was eerily accurate.

With Pluto in the 3rd house; I’m Persephone trapped in the suburbs (laughing), writing occult blog posts while my sister beams in family photos. I may feel it like exile at times, this role of the shadow sibling. But in myth, it’s always the one cast out who returns with power (cackles, but in a friendly way). The blonde, sunny sister is the one whose light reflects all the socially acceptable virtues. And me, more subtle, inward, shadow-kissed. I’m “dark” in the introverted and deep sense. Astrology is seen by many as “occult,” as if it’s something sinister, rather than what it truly is: a language of timing, meaning, and pattern. A mirror for the soul. A story that helps people make sense of their suffering. But most people don’t want to know about this stuff. There is a special sting in being dismissed for what you love. You try to honor it as best as you can. Wherever Pluto is in your chart, it can be cruelly isolating at times, but it is also the place of becoming. So yeah, definitely some deep Pluto-in-the-sibling-house rivalry stuff surfacing. It’s not fair, is it? I have never dropped the thread even when life yanked it hard, and I’m rarely seen, let alone praised. I guess when it comes to your Pluto placement, you don’t sparkle in the way the eyes are trained to see.

I also covered Pluto in the 1st house, which I thought turned out pretty well—though people with this placement might be better judges of it. To write about Pluto in the 1st without falling into the usual trap of “powerful aura/scary eyes/ trauma magnet” takes a kind of restraint and respect for the mystery. I have really tried to move beyond it. I did Pluto in 2nd house too, but I’m unsure if it’s as strong. This one’s trickier. This Pluto placement feels tougher—it keeps circling the same limited themes: money, self-worth, and survival instincts. But I could keep digging; there’s always more beneath the surface. It’s might often be overlooked, seen as somehow less dramatic than its splashier siblings in the 1st or 8th.I know a lot of people get more frustrated with Pluto in the 2nd house readings than with other placements—maybe it’s the whole money theme. It just tends to hit a nerve. Maybe I should just turn all the articles into a series—we’ll see how it unfolds.

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