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Pluto
Pluto in a birth chart is power, depth and transformation: where you meet what cannot be controlled and come out changed. It stays in one sign for twelve to thirty years, so its house matters most.
There is one subject you cannot leave alone, though leaving it alone would be easier: a truth about the family, a thing kept quiet for years, whatever lies underneath what everyone is discussing. Pluto is the pull toward it.
In your chart
The sign belongs to a generation, so your own part is house and aspects. In its house you go all the way: an intense relation to what you own in the second, to love and making in the fifth, to work and reputation in the tenth. Aspects show what it presses on. Pluto touching the Sun is a self rebuilt more than once; touching the Moon it is feeling that runs at the bottom of the well.
From a real analysis
In her chart: Pluto in Scorpio, in the 2nd house · 15°24′ Scorpio, retrograde
Pluto, the planet of depth and rebuilding, sits in Scorpio, the sign of intensity and things kept below the surface, in the part of your life about what you own and value. You hold on hard to what matters, and when something has to go, you let it go completely and start again from the ground. Your depth and your dreams help each other, so a loss turns into a new plan rather than a long sulk. And that depth backs your reputation: people trust you with serious things because they sense you do not flinch (flowing, close at 1.9°).
Themes
Pluto is power, obsession, endings, renewal and the recoveries that follow a loss. It is what will not stay buried: a subject, a person, a version of yourself. It is the friend who asks the question at the dinner table that everyone else was avoiding. Where it stands, you are drawn to look underneath, and unwilling to stop at the surface.
Control is the danger, and its mirror, being controlled. Pluto’s edge is holding on too tight, testing the other person, or making a small thing a matter of survival. What it gives in return is depth, and a capacity to change completely and come through steadier than before.
Slowest and strangest
Pluto’s orbit is stretched, and one full orbit takes about 248 years, so it lingers between twelve and thirty years in a sign. It is retrograde for close to half of each year, so its turn carries no special reading. The calculated position is as exact as any other body’s.
Scorpio is Pluto’s in the modern scheme, with Mars the traditional ruler. A body’s meaning never depended on its size, and Pluto keeps its place in the chart.
How the analysis treats it
Pluto is given a chapter: sign, house and aspects to the luminaries, the personal planets and the angles, read as depth: where you are drawn to look underneath, and what you rebuild from what you find.
Your chart places Pluto to the minute of its sign, and the analysis names it by its degree, its sign and its house. When it was retrograde at the moment of birth, the chart marks it with an R.
Sources: every position and date here comes from NASA JPL’s DE440 ephemeris and is checked against NASA’s JPL Horizons. How it is checked.
Your Pluto
That is Pluto in everyone’s chart. Yours stands in one sign and one house, and those two say what it means for you. Free, and it takes a minute.