Pluto: The Planet of Choice Underword archetypes

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take the old and create something new from it. Pluto is the Shadow Side that we must integrate into our personality in order to be well-rounded and balanced. At a certain point each of us must examine our Shadow. When we are younger, we may not want to deal with those people who are living the Shadow. However, at age 40 or 50, or whenever certain transits hit a chart, we suddenly become, on some level, the people that we could not tolerate ten or fifteen years earlier. That is because the Shadow is "invited to the party." Pluto energy is "the ultimate bulldozer." However, please consider that bulldozers in a neighborhood, raze the ground so that new homes and other construction can be built. People who have strong Pluto in their charts often have the capacity to be very wealthy. Since they have a naturalability, they are willing to take a big risk and willing to risk losing everything. However, some of the biggest winners have also been the biggest losers.

lives, it begins to work for us at some level. Other Plutonian characters include the Sea Witch in the movie 'The Little Mermaid" and Psyche descending into the Underworld. Consider, also, the classic story of Persephone, the tragic, but powerful Queen. One day when Persephone was a very young woman, just emerging from girlhood, she found a narcissus flower in the field and gazed deeply into its magic. At that moment, Pluto suddenly emerges from the bowels of the Earth. Persephone's father, Zeus (Jupiter) had given Pluto permission to abduct her. Pluto snatched her to the Underworld and with all his power seduced her and made her his queen. Now a woman, however, she becomes the all powerful Queen of the Underworld and shares her throne with her husband, Pluto. The same is true for all of us: when Pluto hits a chart, the individual is abducted, taken into their Underworld or Shadow, and then made a powerful King or Queen.

Another classic Plutonian character is Darth Vader. He sports a black helmet and Typical Plutonian Characters: robes but has no face; he is "The Invisible." Originally, he was with the Light, the Force; In the story of Sleeping Beauty. Briar Rose was a long-awaited daughter whose parents then he chose the Dark Side. In order to transcend, however, he was not allowed to breathe; christened her with a party to which the Good he then died and merged with the Force again. Witches were invited, but the Bad Witch was not. As a result of not being invited to the party, The point is that a positive Plutonian image is transformed from the very terror to which it was the Bad Witch placed a curse on Sleeping subjected. Beauty. With each of us the Shadow is lurking somewhere in the chart; where Pluto is in your chart is where the Witch or Warlock lives. Once we invite "Bad Witch" (sometimes called "The Shadow"), to the party and integrate it into our


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