Venus will be making a square to Pluto on Monday, September 30th, 2019. Venus is the planet of love, relationships of all kinds, money, sweetness, beauty, women, values, and style. She is the planet in your chart that works for you by attracting opportunities to you in whatever way she is able (depending on the sign she is located in your chart or what sign she is transiting in the sky). Squares are 90 degree angles between two planets that indicate challenge and strife. Squares, unlike oppositions, are workable, meaning that they can be worked out with effort and careful consideration, although they are not easy. Pluto, associated with the god of the underworld, is the planet of death and rebirth, deep honesty, crisis, catastrophe, depth, shadows, and trials and tribulations and the transformations that arise from them.
Pluto isn’t very fun, especially when all Venus wants to do is to have some fun through connection! Their goals as planets aren’t very compatible. What this means is that Pluto will force Venus to look deep within in some manner, whether it’s through a fight with your partner or best friend or perhaps a deeper look into what your values are. This transit could make you deeply reconsider your values, your friendships and partnerships, or your personal style. Perhaps you realize that you want to express yourself more deeply and authentically through how you present yourself to others. Perhaps you realize you need to take a more serious look at how you are handling your finances and make a change in that regard. Perhaps you realize that there is conflict with how you are making money and what your values are. Pluto will force a deeper look into these areas and will reveal the shadows beneath the beauty. Of course, this all depends on what house Venus in Libra and Pluto in Capricorn is transiting through in your birth chart. Knowing that information will give you a deeper idea as to what this could be about for you and it will become even more specific and more complex if you have personal planets involved in this aspect.
After this aspect, this isn’t the end of dealing with Pluto. Once Venus makes the journey into the underworld, then the planets following her will to. This includes the Sun and Mars. Mercury in Libra already made the journey on Thursday, September 26th, 2019. If you follow Astrology closely enough, you’ll find a story unraveling. Mercury, representing our mind and how we communicate, could have started the story, since he was the first planet to make this aspect with Pluto. Think back to Thursday of last week. Were you forced to communicate your truth to someone in an honest, yet perhaps painful way? Or were you contemplating (Mercury) about the deep nature of your relationships (Libra) and whether they are still working for you or whether you want to take them more seriously and maturely (Pluto in Capricorn)? There could be so many ways this plays out, depending on where this is happening for you in your chart. And like I said, the story is not done. First, it began with the mind and your thoughts (Mercury) and now comes Venus with her themes of relationships, values, and finances. Next will come the Sun in a few weeks, followed by Mars. I’ll write on those as they come. But for now, just observe. And perhaps write! Find an outlet to explore these deep themes as the story unravels.
Happy looking within!