Generational Transits — Pluto Square Pluto

Certain outer planet (Uranus, Neptune, Pluto) transits are known as 'generational' transits. Due to the planets' slow movement they are experienced at the same time by a large cohort of people, born within the same few years.

Pluto square Pluto, where transiting Pluto forms a square (90° aspect) with Pluto in your natal chart, occurs for everyone at some time between the ages of 36 and 61. The variation is due to Pluto's elliptical orbit. Currently, the third decan of the Pluto in Libra generation is experiencing their Pluto square, with the transit approaching completion for most of us born in 1981-1982. 🙋‍♀️

Pluto is the planet of raw power and represents a place in our chart where we can feel powerless or masterful. The sign of your Pluto provides clues as to how this relationship to power will be experienced. For Pluto in Libra, the sign of balance and realationship, I see the challenge as knowing what is ours to carry and having the courage to live authentically rather than being ruled by the desires of partners, families and society at large.

During your Pluto square, you will likely be thrust into experiences which test the foundations you have built and topple anything that is not in alignment with your soul purpose. This time can be devastating and destablising yet clarifying, encouraging you to rise like a phoenix from the ashes. The houses involved in the square indicate where in life this testing will occur.

I have Pluto natally in my 6th house of daily habits and work, and the square occurred in my 10th house of life direction and public standing. When the transit started, I was at the pinnacle of my career yet deeply unsatisfied, not sharing my true passions beyond a trusted few for fear of being judged as 'weird'. At the end, I am off the corporate ladder, practicing as an astrologer and weirder by the day! 😜🔮 And it only took a global pandemic to shake me from my stupor and realise that if the whole world can change seemingly overnight, how hard can it be to transform one human life?

Have you experienced your Pluto square yet? Where in your life were you called to rise from the ashes?