Question: What is the most difficult Pluto placement to have? Some astrologers say that it is when Pluto is found on the angles as it brings great upheavals in life. People with these placements are confronted – often repeatedly – with wholly changed situations in their lives. It always concerns happenings or events which bring deep impressions into life. On a pure psychic level, I think Pluto in the 9th house may be the most challenging to deal with because...

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. A client lost her husband and two children in an airplane crash. What can you say? All you can do...

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 house 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. That phenomenon can take a lot of forms. At the sophisticated end of the spectrum, we might find you attending...

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 we appear to be to the social world. It’s the tribal definition of our identity: our work, our relational status,...

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 consistent with a shared scientific attitude, as well as a kind of streetwise sense of what makes people tick. In...

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. It’s a sexy energy, but the sense is that what drives your passion deeper than the natural hungers of the...

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 Side of the Force. Naturally, there are dangers in that, and you do need to be careful of being dragged...

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 a saint. You are also a magnet for such situations. You see more than your fair share of life’s difficulties,...

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. Obsessiveness and a strong accent upon sex bear witness to the fact that although you may have been in it...