Pluto is now in transit. (It will arrive in Capricorn November 27-28th.) If you feel like you've been going through hell lately, well, Pluto is the god of the Underworld. It could be said that Pluto gives mastery of the past- what's dead and buried -- or should be, allowing us to come back above ground and live. It's no coincidence that the gates to the Underworld swung both ways for only one individual, the god Mercury, the god of communication, the Messenger of the gods.
There are few renditions of Pluto (Hades) in ancient art. Understandably he was not popular. He took things away. But when he was sculpted or painted, he was always shown with Cerberus, the 3-headed Hound of Hell, that guarded the gates to the Underworld.
Now Pluto was the god of the Underworld and also of wealth, because one thing people have known since time immemorial is that there are things like gold, diamonds, and oil down there. In the literal "underworld." And if you use the information from Mercury and do the work of the Pluto transition, you will receive wealth beyond mreasure. Perhaps even the one thing you've always wanted to have, and never have been able to have.
Now 3 is a magical number. So what might this 3-headed guardian to the gates of entrapment and delivery to freedom and wealth be all about?
Some think Cerberus was guarding the gate to the skull - the brain. After all, the brain is where things are taken away. A hand-clapping in the forest thing: Would you miss anyone or anything if you didn't know it was gone? One thing Pluto will do is make you know what you "almost know."
But lets consider other things about the 3-headed dog. It could represent the triune brain: the reptilian, the limbic and the neocortex. Pluto can force you to give up anything from any of them: Addiction to pornography or being a pedophile or unfaithful (lust from the reptilian brain); an attachment to your mother or child (limbic) that is keeping you from a mature love with someone of your own age; or an
idea -- a thought that is, okay, making your life hell. Such as? Such as that you think you should be a lawyer, or that you can't be happy until blah blah, or that although Harriet is driving you nuts, you "can't" divorce her, or that everyone should be nice to you and everyone else or else you can't stand to live int he world.
Another 3 that comes to mind is the mental, the physical, and the emotional. A balanced life attends to the mental, the physical, the emotional and the spiritual, but Spirit is in charge of the spiritual, so lets look at the other three. Perhaps you need to give up obesity or drugs (physical). Perhaps you need to give up thinking you can't manage your anger, or give up repressing your grief over the death of your son, which is suppressing all your emotions (because that's like a rule of physics), or give up denial and get with Reality (emotional). Or perhaps you need to give up devotion to logical, rational thinking as god, or reading books and seeing movies about life instead of getting involved and living life, or give up being lazy and not "doing the math. Or give up ignorance and start learning. (mental)"
The good news is that Pluto's aim is to make your life work. The bad news is that Pluto's aim is to remove what isn't working in your life, and that you are attached to those things or they wouldn't be there.
Because we're humans.
Dogs, for instance … I asked an outspoken Aquarian, who had two old dogs, how the surviving dog was acting after the death of the older one. "Is she grieving?" I asked. "No," said the AQ with Sag, "actually she's relieved."
If only we could be that honest. That honest and that guilt-free. We do not cause deaths and removals. If we could be honest, like Verdi, the great opera composer who said opera was about the most important things in life … love, hate …
Since we are dealing with the magical number 3, here are 3 ways to deal with Pluto transits.
1. Find out what the purpose of the transit is for you and then get to work on it.
And don't try and bargin falsely with Pluto. The faster you get rid of things, WITHOUT LOOKING BACK, the better this will go. About this looking back - the only person who ever almost made it back from the Underworld, in myth, was Eurydice. Her lover, Orpheus made a bargain with Pluto to get her back, and the deal was that Orpheus promised NOT TO LOOK BACK. He did, and Eurydice was lost forever. (See
the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.
Get with Pluto, "the most moralistic planet there is." Get out of denial and see what's going on in your life. This means facing the hell from the past and present: that you WERE wrong, that it WAS incest, that your Mother DOES NOT CARE, that your boss IS a sociopath, that your daughter IS a parasite, that you hate where you live ... And even harder - that your pathetic career is because YOU have created it that way, or that the obstacles in your path have been placed there by YOU. Pack it all up, take it to "goodwill" and then DON'T LOOK BACK.
2. Grieve.
Grieve so that you can move forward. Grieving is part of letting go. GROW through it, don't just GO through it. One great soul-soother at such times is always music. Orpheus was a great musician with his lyre. It was said that with his lyre, he could "move rock, and change the course of streams." He used his music on Pluto (aka Hades), too. He says
With my song
I will charm Demeter's daughter,
I will charm the Lord of the Dead,
Moving their hearts with my melody.
I will bear her away from Hades.
Many of the great musical composers have been to hell and back, and their music can aid you on your journey. See Verdi, below, and
Vivo Per Lei for the healing effects of music.
3. Sweat.
It's hard work. Pluto is giving you a rebirth, and the birth process is long, laborious, messy, exhausting …but the the successful outcome is that you are then
alive! And like giving birth, where you get the greatest reward on the earthly plane -- your baby -- the sooner you get with Pluto, the quicker He'll reward you.
If you won't or can't, Pluto will kick it up and torture you some more until you finally "get it". He wants to move you from suspecting, and inklings, to
knowing for sure. A Pluto transit is when you've been suspecting your lover is unfaithful for years, wanting to 'know' if he's 'really' cheating, and finally step in it like a pile of Cerberus' poop. You are then removed from your state of denial and free to take action. That's Pluto.
And then you have to cry and grieve, because if you don't, and you suppress it, you suppress all the other emotions too. That's like a rule of physics. It's another twist on "no pain, no gain." If you won't feel grief, you will never feel happiness again.
Getting in touch with those raw emotions is how you get your moral compass back, and Pluto is the most moralistic planet of all. It heals us and lets us move on. This doesn't mean you put sugar in his gas tank, it means you cry. Because? You know why. Because you were hoping, pretending, fooling yourself … and Pluto doesn't like that. Get to the core. Let go of the attachment (See
Stockholm Syndrome). Quit going back for more abuse pretending that isn't what it is, pretending that it won't happen again.
The quicker you get with Pluto, the quicker he'll reward you.
Do the work of the Pluto transition and you'll say, like Verdi did, and I substitute words: "I adored and adore this art [of living]; and when I am alone and wrestling with my [life], then my heart pounds, tears stream from my eyes, and the emotions and pleasures are beyond description."
Incidentally, when young, Verdi lost his wife and two babies to a disease in a matter of months. Tormented as he was, he went on to write some of the most magnificent operas ever written, which, because of his own monumental losses allow us to bleed our own emotions and heal when listening to his soul-in-music.
Plumb the depths of Pluto for the treasure to be found there.
The power of music? You could not pray to Pluto, beg for mercy, bargain or plead with him. What did Orpheus do? Music.
[Orpheus' music] Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek,
and made Hell grant what Love did seek
How can an astrologer help you? The house that Pluto is in in your chart can give you an idea of where you are going to take the hit. Where you'll have to make the dramatic change, what actions to take, and where your power lies.
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