Pluto, as we understand it astrologically, rules trauma, but trauma doesn’t only remain inside the person who carries it. We often imagine the wound as a private ordeal, a locked room somewhere deep in the psyche where one person suffers...
Over the weekend, I made a series of witchy comic strips, the sort where I drop the witch into all the petty little situations making ordinary life feel like a test of spiritual endurance. It felt deliciously cathartic. Not wholesome, Continue reading Witchy Comic Strips: Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned
In Jeffrey Wolf Green’s understanding of Pluto, a part of the human being lives far beneath personality, reason, and all the civilized explanations we give ourselves for why we do what we do. It is much older. Older than logic....
In astrology, Pluto represents the non-negotiable aspect of reality. It won’t wait until a convenient time for your psychological transformation. It tends to arrive through experiences exposing what has been buried, denied, controlled, hidden, or quietly rotting inside of you....
In astrology, Pluto is both creator and destroyer because, in the Plutonian world, creation isn’t separate from destruction. New life doesn’t appear because everything stayed comfortable and intact. It appears because something false, exhausted, rotten, or too small to contain...
In astrology, Pluto is the planet helping you gain perspective. But this isn’t the clean, elevated, intellectual kind. You don’t calmly realize everyone has their own point of view. Air perspective says, “Let’s step back and see this from another Continue reading Pluto: The Brutal Rebirth of Perspective
The myth of Persephone is one of the most haunting ways to understand Pluto. It speaks to the part of us being taken before it knows how to consent to being changed. Pluto is more than “intensity,” as people like...
Question: This probably isn’t very nice, and I won’t win your favor with this one … but I admit: Today I did something nasty – only because I believe it might confuse and maybe, probably, hurt someone. It was deliberate...
With Pluto transits, you can feel as though some part of you has been led down into a place where ordinary optimism no longer speaks the language. People may tell you things will get better, and you may nod while...
In astrology, some parts of the psyche are heavy. In a chart, Saturn and Pluto show where you do not get to remain unconscious without consequences. They mark the places where life becomes serious. Something in you is powerful enough...
Pluto, or Hades-Pluto if you want to give the old god his full subterranean dignity, represents the hidden realm beneath ordinary life, the place where everything buried, feared, forgotten, or suppressed is stored. In astrology, this makes him far more...
When we speak of Pluto in astrology, we are speaking of the archetype of descent. Of endings. Of the ego cracking like porcelain dropped on marble. Sometimes Pluto deals with physical abuse, sexual violence, death, threats, a feeling of being...