We must live with the times.
Pluto goes retrograde somewhere in your chart (in your life) and you must pay attention. Who was I watching? Who was I reading? Someone… someone saying that Pluto retrograde is an INNER transformation. Maybe one of my astro pals can remind me who that was…
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Springtime and I’m social again even though in the Big City it’s a different jacket everyday now. Days ago it was in the high 70s and today it was chilly again.
But this post isn’t about the weather. This post is about getting your dreams back and that has everything to do with Pluto going retrograde in your chart. Because where Pluto is… is where you are changing, is where you must change but this change includes the PAST. Something, someone, forgotten. Left behind. God knows. But from April to September (the retrograde period), you *can* get it back (or visit with it or heal from it or know more, finally) although it’s not the same. It’s a new form. Do you recognize it?
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Tonight I went to a poetry reading with a friend (Pluto is beginning a long transit through my 5th House – creativity) and it was like it was 1994 again. No one was checking their cell phones. Everyone was listening to these two scholars read the words (in translation) of the poet. I didn’t feel like I was back in graduate school but it was a familiar feeling. Not everyone was dressed in black although I was 🙂 And, yeah, in case you are wondering, my hair looked good 🙂
This used to be my world, I said to my companion. It still is, he said to me.
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What I tend to do is track my transits and ask myself: what is this about? What is this going to mean? And I take my guesses. Some transits interest me more than others. Some scare me. I don’t spend half as much time pondering Uranus through my 8th 😉
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So tonight revived me again. Brought me back to life. Re-birthed (Pluto) me. The first revival was after my trip out west. Came back inspired. I decided I would write a book of poems, a poem cycle, seek publication for the first time in years. Got two rough drafts now, two new poems and seeking… the daily discipline, the structure to work on them, to finish them. To keep coming back to life. Will this be my Pluto transit? Maybe.
And then (synchronicity!) I get a text from my Sagittarius friend as I was leaving the hall. You should write a book he says. And he talked about Tarot writing, which I love to blog about, but no — not for a book-book. I’m going back-back for that. Back to the old dream that got buried, along with my mother, during Pluto through my 4th House.
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So you have a job to do, just like I do, and I know I’m a broken record, I know I’m always saying this, but you must find transiting Pluto in your chart, whether or not you even match it up to the transits it’ll make soon enough (squaring Uranus again, opposing Jupiter in Cancer…) but to focus on exactly where he is, whether he’s changing houses or in the same house for another many year or what. Go inside there. Mark it.
But enough about me. What are your plans?
Love, MP
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27 thoughts on “Another One For Pluto Retrograde”
When Pluto transited my first house Sagittarius, I got divorced and never looked back. Lost a long time job and quickly got a new one. Now Pluto is in my 2nd house Capricorn, soon to be squaring my natal Rx house Uranus and later opposing Jupiter when it too will be in my Cancer 8th house. I am one of those people who worries about my 8th house more than any other area of my chart.
8th = not my favorite place….. I get overwhelmed there
how about now??? grr
Sorry I am littering up your comment field with my attempts to give myself a happy face, lol
I remember you have Sagittarius Rising! 🙂
That avatar is cute, Kashmiri but still kind of frowny. I think you can create your own though if you want! Hey are you still blogging?
I thought I did…here I will try a different email. Not really blogging, nope. t.Saturn opp Mercury:)
Ahrhh! An opportunity just landed in my lap to exhibit some paintings at a newly opened cafe in London! The work I want to show is from an idea I had at the start of 2012 for a series about the beginning of time. ‘In The Beginning’… thinking about primordial sludgy oceans with my nose wedged in creation myths. There’ll be didgeridoo, drumming, spoken word and my pictures with coffee and fresh baked things for everyone! I lost this idea at the start of a relationship that began at the same time. But it suddenly feels urgent and it’s happening.
I just need to paint them.
(Not sure what Pluto is doing. I think he is making the high pitched beeping noise that no one can find which is making me want to move house.)
I saw the place at New Moon, hanging at Full and opening just after that.
Got Mars conjunct Venus in Aries, innit
Strangely, just realised all the people who I love an want to come see and perform I’ve met in the last year.
Wonderful!
Cool Verity! I’m happy for you 🙂
But I love hearing about you, ha!
Pluto will spend this Rx period in my 1st, conjunct my Moon in Capricorn. Emotional meat grinder, weirdly satisfying. I watch a show last night, this cleaning team swabbed a very dirty house for bacteria, cleaned it thoroughly, and then swabbed it again. That could sum it up.
🙂 and you shall! But seriously… “emotional meat grinder”…. eventually you get a good sandwich out of that? Oh Pluto…
haha. Taurus approves of a good meat sandwich;)
testing my new gravatar…that frowny face isn’t my cuppa tea
I didn’t know you could choose them…
Oh I forgot it can be set up generally, the gravatar thing – I still see that frowny though
Natally Pluto in the 8th house vigo but at the moment it’s going retro in my 1st. I have capricorn asc at 4 degrees. It’s certainly a long birthing process in this never ending tumble dryer! x
Another gal on this thread is also having Pluto through her 1st. It’s hard for me to imagine what this is like by transit. I have it natally.
That’s me! 🙂
The transit just started for me so we have a LOT of time to see what unfolds but I have a feeling I will look back in ten years and not believe how much has changed.
One note–on a superficial level– my appearance has morphed. Used to be more girly and have taken to a more androgynous look with a lot of black. I definitely think this is the work of Hades. 🙂
Has that happened to you too Kaz? Good luck on the journey!
xoxo
xoxo
There was someone else I was thinking of, ah Kashmiri – she too has Pluto in the 1st House now
I have a feeling too that by the end of this transit I won’t recognise the old life. So much has changed internally and in my understanding since 08 and getting into my 40’s that I feel like I’m getting a second chance after battling through the dark. Perhaps since I’m ok with Hades, heaven on earth will be a bit sweeter (says she swishing her black cloak ha ha!) x
Sweeter sounds good, Kaz. I hope so. Allow it, heavenly father! 🙂
Thanks – as always. I’ve never looked at transits (not sure how – but Google is a powerful thing ;-). So, it appears i’ve just – barely – begun a PL transit of my 5th house. Will do some research on what that means – what bit i read seemed like everyday-ordinary already. (Though reading the 4th – just finished – certainly resonated – so, perhaps, with time). Blessings on your bright self and your ventures and adventures. (My traveling family and i were just in NYC for two days. It was fun – warm and Spring looked so lovely as she dropped the Winter wrappings. First time in a quarter century i’ve visited. It was a nice feeling to enjoy it.)
Thank you Mary!
🙂 I already know I’ll be renegotiating neptune since it rules my 5th. I’ve been all about dreams lately. I lost my dreams both literally and figuratively when pluto first crossed my natal neptune. Bullet points, I need to use my neptune strength in a more purposeful way in line with creating a strong foundation for my dreams based in accepting the truth with without glossing it over or crushing my ego (sun trine/ eventual cardinal square).
I’m going to a poetry reading at KGB tomorrow. A very Pluto sort of place. Who did you go to hear tonight?
oh MP, “Back to the old dream that got buried, along with my mother, during Pluto through my 4th House.” I hear you speaking, words hard to come by to respond to that depth of statement. ((hug))
To your question, where is pluto transiting, he is in my 3rd house, he is trining my natal venus in the 11th, I am starting to feel like I am finding people I can talk to, dance with, be in a neighborhood, be friends with. It’s been a while. Natal pluto cusp of 11th house. People. Your neighborhood, important.
That’s wonderful, k 🙂
🙂 yes