Pluto
PLUTO
Keywords: underworld, death, rebirth, transformation, magic, occult, sex, obsession, fate, slow change, secrets, hidden wealth, power, control, tower moments
Pluto is the ruler of the underworld and the wealth that comes with it. Under the ground are dead people, ancient fossils, gold, crystals, seeds, lava, and more. The underworld can also symbolize hell or the like for some people. Pluto is associated with Hades. Hades came to be used interchangeably as the God of the underworld and the underworld itself.
In Mythology, Pluto kidnaps Persephone and holds her hostage as his wife. That is the obsessive energy we associate with Pluto. Other myths consider Pluto and Persephone to be happily married. They undertake the dead together. Pluto is committed and honors death and life alike.
Pluto in mythology was said to kidnap and flee to the underworld with Persephone, the daughter of Ceres. Other renditions of the story say it was consensual. However, the former story matches Pluto’s M.O. more. Ceres pled to Zeus to intervene but initially, he wouldn’t help her. Ceres was the goddess of fertility and agriculture. In order to force Zeus’s hand and due to depression of the loss of her daughter, Ceres stopped tending to agriculture. Ultimately, this cut everyone off from vegetation. Zeus told Pluto he must return Persephone. Pluto, who is conniving, manipulative, and methodical fed Persophone the fruit of the underworld, a pomegranate seed. This meant that Persophone couldn’t spend eternity above ground with her mother. She was forced to be
Pluto is also traditionally associated with luck, wealth, and fate. Pluto is derived from Plouton, a Greek name, meaning “wealthy one”. A lot of precious materials are found underground from mining, such as metals and crystals. Pluto rules those too. Pluto is also associated with power, control, and manipulation. Oftentimes, people gain their luck through exercising such behaviors. Just using the aforementioned mining as an example, that industry has terrible work conditions and wars have happened because of oils and other crude materials beneath the soil.
Crystals and oil have to go through some kind of natural metamorphosis or alchemical process to get to their final precious form. Pluto rules processes such as these. This is a form of magic. I think of occult things that happen under pressure but produce favorable results. Occult practices are often born from a need for protection, adaptability, and survival. These processes and practices often happen out of sight. These are valuable processes and ___ that once discovered can be exploited; magic, manipulation, precious metals, crystals, oil, secrets, sex.
Sex is a form of power. The constructs of power associated with gender are also associated with anatomy, especially genitalia. Further, these power dynamics can be observed in societal views of sex, which involves genitalia. Pluto rules the taboo and shadow dynamics of sex. Pluto has ties to fertility because in mythology Persephone, his wife, rules fertility. Life and death are intertwined. Sex is the inititation of life. Sex can also can have an obsessive and violent side. Sex can also being freeing and a release. Death can be all of these things as well.
Wealth and fate all tie together. Death is intricately interwoven into life as death is everyone’s impending fate. Aren’t we all lucky to be alive? Isn’t wealth a measure of the fullness of your life? What happens to wealth when we die? Someone probably inherits it, look at their luck.
Pluto represents death and rebirth. Energy cannot be created or destroyed. We move through a continuous cycle in life, the refining spiral. Pluto represents the way things come back around, what we might have to revisit. Pluto can represent a long slow transformation. Death is not always fast and instantaneous. As we are living we are slowly dying, everyday growing closer to our due date. Growth and transformation is not linear. Neither is grief, as we grow we lose things as we change environments or parts of us shed or fall away.
