posted March 05, 2010 03:50 PM
I like Robert Hand's take on transitsTransiting Pluto square Sun isn't necessarily bad. It can just mean a Plutonian event involving your Sun. Cosmobiologists and Uranian Astrologers view squares as event-oriented aspects and not as something bad nor challenging.
any ways
page 488 and 489 of PLANETS IN TRANSIT Life Cycles For Living by Robert Hand.
This transit is a test of your strength and the energy with which you have established yourself in your world. The test may take many forms, but in any form it will require that your sense of personhood be in reasonably good shape; in other words, you should know who and what you are. If you do not really know yourself, this transit is likely to bring about crises that will cause major changes in your life.
One form that it may take is a test of your self-control as you try to get ahead in the world. This transit stimulates your ambition and desire for power out of all proportion. If there is a ruthless side to your personality that will do anything to destroy opposition, it will come out now. But, at the same time, forces in your world will try very hard to stop you. To overcome the forces arrayed against you will require extreme ruthlessness. On the other hand, you may know precisely what you need to succeed and go after just that, be willing to compromise and make your success also the success of others. This is the proper course to take, but unfortunately this kind of accommodating spirit is not often found in Plutonian transits.
If you are of a more retiring disposition, you may experience this transit quite differently. Instead of being the person on a power trip, you may have to contend with some else who is. Here again you must determine exactly your rights and needs as an individual and stand up for them. The problem here is not that you will overstep your bounds but that someone else will. But you must fight or at least resist. Either of these power struggles is most likely to occur in your profession, quite possibly with someone in authority.
Many people refuse to deal with the energies of Pluto, but this can create problems because the energy will come out, and you won't know where.
It can come out as a physical breakdown. Your body may go through a critical period in which it just has to stop and rebuild itself. Certainly if you have any kind of physical crisis during this transit, you should begin a conscientious program of physical exercise and therapy to build your body up again.
Pluto's energy may also surface in the outer expression of your life. You may be surrounded by conditions of breakdown and decay which are an outward sign of the need to rebuild within.
Under extreme conditions, this transit can release its energy in a single explosive burst as an injury or physical assault. Certainly you should avoid conflicts with others that may lead to physical fighting, because the energies here are quite dangerous.
On the other hand, if you successfully use this transit to establish yourself and make your position in the world clear to yourself and others, without transgressing the bounds of what is rightfully yours, you will be able to accomplish much that will be valuable later.
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