Pluto

Pluto governs power and transformation. It represents depth, intensity, and the cycles of death and rebirth, the force that destroys what is no longer needed so something truer can take its place. Pluto reaches into the unconscious and the hidden, into everything we fear and everything we keep buried. It is the modern ruler of Scorpio. As the slowest of the bodies it takes about two hundred and forty-eight years to circle the chart and stays in a sign for many years. By sign, Pluto describes the deep transformations of an entire generation. By house, it shows the area of an individual life where a person meets crisis, power struggles, and far-reaching change. A consciously handled Pluto gives resilience, depth, and the ability to be reborn from hardship. When Pluto is unconscious, it can show up as control, obsession, manipulation, or destructive compulsion. Pluto relates to power, secrets, and what lies beneath the surface. Its work is true transformation, learning to release control and to let necessary endings make way for renewal.