Since I’ve been doing this work, I’ve had a number of clients survive transiting Saturn on their natal Pluto. But yesterday I got to talk to the reverse — transiting Pluto on her natal 8th House Saturn.
It felt like the “Death card” to me — from the Tarot.
She also has Neptune transiting her 10th House and sure, clarity is so-so (or absent!) these days but she can DREAM with this transit. She can create, envision the future.
BUT — she has to pass the almighty Pluto Saturn testing center before she can turn that corner and live again, live from her 10th House (which she must do, being a 10th House Sun).
All this reminded me of a Tarot reading I had the other day with awesome Tarot master/author, Rachel Pollack. She was showing me how I had to do such cards as JUSTICE and TEMPERANCE (both about honesty and balancing) before I could reap the rewards of THE STAR and THE SUN.
I do see the Death card as a good card. Once you see it, you “know.” Is it heavy? YES. Is it intense? YES. Things must change? YES YES YES.
It was the first card. Followed by another Major Arcana. THE WORK.
In the deck we were using (there are many renditions of the cards, as you know) we see a number of figures reacting to Death, including a child. Openness. No preconceived notions.
Funny to think of the child self. I have no sentimentality of childhood or family. I was born into death. Moon Pluto conjunction in my 1st House. That was THE transit of the last days of my womb life. Did my mother want to die? Or did she just want to change, to live?
I was born into this dilemma, but for the Pluto person, there is always future because Pluto reminds us that we have a mission journey, that there is a there THERE. Death’s horse is MOVING, always and forever.
Until you pull another card 🙂
Love, MP
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2 thoughts on “Pluto Conjunct Saturn And The Death Card”
Thank you, Aliza. This sums it all up, so perfectly. 🙂
Did she use the Victorian Romantic Tarot? I remember a small child in that Death card.
I have Pluto opposing my Saturn. Life is still a nightmare in ways. I put out a fire the other night – literally, and just in time – but has that stopped someone from drinking? Nope. I know it won’t be that easy, but her demanding the booze I took, when she was drunk yet again, and yelling at me? She could have died – we all could have died. I’ve been told, “You’re taken care of, you have a roof over your head, you should be grateful!” Grateful for the fact that a parent is choosing alcohol over her own child? That she’s doing herself in, and I get to watch it happen?