Pluto in Taurus
Pluto stood in Taurus from 1851 to 1884 and returns in 2095. It belongs to the ancestors who dug wealth out of the ground, and to the children of its return, who ask what the earth is worth.
The heart nobody expected on Pluto’s face is what they left you too: love, kept under everything they owned and argued over.
The god of buried riches
The Greeks called the lord of the underworld Hades, and also Plouton, the rich one, because everything of value that comes out of the ground, the gold, the silver, the seed that sprouts in spring, was thought to come from the kingdom below. Pluto takes its name from that god. Taurus, the earth sign that Venus rules, belongs to land, money, food and the body, and with Pluto here a whole generation was shaped by the struggle over what the earth could give.
Gold and oil
Its cohort lived through gold rushes on three continents, the first oil wells, the great railways across the plains, and the enclosure and clearing of land on a vast scale. Wealth was dug up almost overnight, and whole ways of life were buried just as fast.
They measured wealth in acres and livestock, and many knew hunger well enough to fear it for life. Their ideal was security in the most solid form: land, property, savings, a house that would be handed on.
In your family
If your family kept anything from this generation, it is heavy: a clock, a ring, a deed to land, a silver spoon passed down with a story attached. Their hands were rough, and their Sunday clothes were kept for decades. They believed in things that lasted, because they had seen how fast everything else could vanish.
Holding on
Possessiveness and greed are the dark side here. The rush for land and gold came at a terrible price for the people who were already on it, and the argument over who owns the earth has never really ended.
In 2095
When Pluto comes round to Taurus again, children not yet born ask the question afresh: what land is worth, and who it belongs to.
Somewhere in a drawer in your family there is something small and valuable that one of them held on to through every hard year, and nobody has ever quite been willing to sell it.
Were you born with Pluto in Taurus?
Pluto comes to Taurus once every 248 years, so no one born between 1920 and 2030 has it. It was last there from 1851 to 1884, and returns in 2095.
Find your own Pluto
Your chart is free and takes a moment: the wheel, your Sun, Moon and rising sign, and where Pluto sits in it, to the degree.