Pluto Retrograde Apr 24 – Oct 3 ’19

Whenever the planet Pluto rises from the horizon of my thoughts, I can’t help but remember the shadows that once loomed in its company. It is the potent influence that can graze an old scab back to sensitivity. Pluto reminds us that nothing stays the same, a transformative energy that forces us to grow, or shrink in the dark corners of pain and resentment. Surrendering to its powers and lessons means a clean metaphorical death, resisting means a long agonizing one.

A planet that works subconsciously on a personal level, it symbolizes death and rebirth, causing crisis and massive shifts, an intense effect that can break or make you in certain areas of life.

When it goes retrograde, like all other planets, it turns inward, but unlike any of its cosmic friends, Pluto does not invite, he summons. Wherever Capricorn falls in your chart, themes of authority, structures & traditions will be closely examined for the next 6 months. Pluto will help to bring up all the dregs of that house, buried old shit we haven’t wanted to face or have long forgotten about, secrets can now surface. The nature of that house can get ugly and uncomfortable as shadows from the past show up, or the raw truth of a situation comes to a head.

Take comfort in that it’s also a metamorphosis from scythe to lantern, a light in the dark to give us the chance to look at the raw, the ugly, the shadows in the face, throw it profanity and ideally call a truce. Pluto is where we can own our powers by braving the unknown or parts of us we’d rather forget, confronting what has limited and controlled us, being aware what has thwarted our true essence. By going inward we are meant to clear out the old or honor who we are in the shadows and travel down to the deepest parts of ourselves so to eventually emerge with new skin, having made the once looming phantoms into our greatest allies.

Art: Daria Hlazatova