Sun and Pluto aspects
The Sun and Pluto in aspect describe how intensity, power and change run through your sense of self. Together, in step or at odds, they set how far you transform and how much control you need.
You do not do things halfway. When you change, you change completely, and the old version of you is gone.
Pluto is power, depth, obsession and transformation; the Sun is the self. An aspect between them gives your will a weight people feel in a room before you speak.
Sun conjunct Pluto
You are intense, private and very hard to stop. You want to understand what lies under the surface of things, and you are drawn to power, your own and other people’s. A conjunction like this brings a few complete reinventions over a lifetime, each one leaving you stronger.
Sun trine or sextile Pluto
Your strength is quiet and steady. You recover from hard times, see through people easily and use influence without needing to dominate. Change does not frighten you. Resilience comes naturally with a trine; a sextile lets you put it to work.
Sun square or opposite Pluto
Power struggles follow you until you learn their pattern: controlling people, battles of will, a pull toward all or nothing. The square sets the struggle inside you, the opposition across from you in someone else. Each one you come through leaves you clearer about what you will never give up, and that clarity is your power.
How common is each?
Over the years the two meet in all five, some more often than others.
| Aspect | How common |
|---|---|
| Sun conjunct Pluto | about one birth in eighteen |
| Sun sextile Pluto | about one birth in thirteen |
| Sun square Pluto | about one birth in ten |
| Sun trine Pluto | about one birth in ten |
| Sun opposite Pluto | about one birth in nineteen |
Measured every six hours from 1920 to 2030: the share of births whose chart shows each aspect between them, within the orbs every chart here is cast with.
Find your own aspects
Your chart is free and takes a moment: the wheel, your Sun, Moon and rising sign, and every aspect between your planets, with how close each one is.