plutonian survival spells | the version of us that cannot continue ...

 

Someone asked me about the language of "SURVIVAL SPELL" that I used in an earlier post in regard to Pluto, so I thought we would unpack the Pluto generations SURVIVAL SPELLS a bit here. 


Pluto is a slow-moving outer planet. The furthest planet from earth. We experience a compulsive sort of attention to matters related to the sign (and house) where Pluto resides when we are born. Pluto travels through a sign from 12 to 31 years and is one of three generational markers - together the three are more descriptive/accurate than the media's over-used Baby Boomer, Millennial, etc. Within each Pluto group there will be sub-groups based on our Neptune and Uranus placements. 


I did a series of posts called "feeding your customer's Pluto" over a decade ago (how is this possible!) on this blog - those posts are HEREHERE and HERE if you want to explore more about any of this. 


Pluto holds unconscious material/what has been buried. Survival instincts that predate us personally. Trauma imprints that lead to obsession and our control strategies. The God of the Underworld carries SHADOW MATERIAL. He is how we regenerate after loss and what we cannot control but must go through. 


Pluto is the force that says - "This version of you cannot continue." And he does not negotiate.


Pluto shows where a generation made a COLLECTIVE PACT WITH POWER. Each spell says - this is how we avoid death. This is how we get to stay. 


Until eventually Pluto asks - What if you were always here and always will be? What if you were never in that much danger to begin with?


Pluto transits become noticeable when the role we have survived through stops working/the identity we built no longer feels alive. Pluto rules death/transformation - think about the chrysalis when what was once a caterpillar is no longer a caterpillar and what will be a butterfly doesn't exist yet.


It's rarely comfortable ....


Let's take a look through the generations. If you are born near a 'cusp' check both signs or your natal chart. Pluto usually retrogrades in and out of signs in cusp years, so, see what fits. How he interacts with your inner planets tells a more complete story, of course, but the collective energies are a good 'jumping off' point. 

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PLUTO IN CANCER - born approx. 1919 - 1939


Many of this generation are gone now, but their imprint on the generations that follow remains strong. They lived through the Great Depression, multiple world wars and massive displacement. Survival was not abstract to them - it was very real. 


SURVIVAL SPELLIf I protect my own, we will survive or if I build a strong family, nothing can destroy us.


They learned that safety came from loyalty, family bonds, emotional containment/keeping their feelings to themselves and tribal belonging. They learned to hoard resources, stay close to home, trust blood over outsiders and protect the children/family at all costs. 


Pluto in Cancer Evolution - Security does not only come from circling inward. Love does not require control.

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PLUTO IN LEO born approx. 1939 - 1957


SURVIVAL SPELLIf I shine, I will not be forgotten or if I am special, I cannot be erased.


This generation grew up in an era of spectacle, celebrity and identity assertion. The fear beneath the noise? Being unseen, ordinary or irrelevant. Safety came though visibility/importance and being CHOSEN. 

So, the psyche says - perform, create, stand out, lead.


Pluto in Leo Evolution - I am safe even when I am not performing/being visible.

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PLUTO IN VIRGO born approx. 1958 to 1971


SURVIVAL SPELL - If I make myself indispensable, I will be safe.


This generation was born into cold war anxiety, nuclear threat (annihilation hanging in the air/over their heads), rapid medical and pharmaceutical expansion, the rise of systems/bureaucracy, the breakdown of "Norman Rockwell" 1950's-style order. 


Their collective nervous system absorbed one message - the world is fragile. Something is wrong. Fix it.


Pluto in Virgo Evolution - I tend what is mine to tend and I trust life beyond that.


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PLUTO IN LIBRA born approx. 1971 to 1984


SURVIVAL SPELL If I keep the peace, I will survive or if I am lovable and fair, I will be safe.


Born into cultural battles about relationship, equality and social justice. The unconscious move is to literally negotiate their existence. Safety comes though balance, diplomacy, being agreeable, becoming a bridge, smoothing tension, NOT BEING THE PROBLEM. 


Pluto in Libra Evolution - Conflict does not equal annihilation. I can survive being disliked.


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PLUTO IN SCORPIOborn approx. 1984 to 1995


(Pluto at home - intense generation)


SURVIVAL SPELLIf I see it coming, I can’t be destroyed or If I hold the power, I won’t be powerless.


This generation grew up during deep collective exposure of shadow - betrayal, secrecy, psychological complexity. Their instinct? Trust no one fully. Feel everything. Stay guarded. For this generation safety comes from control, emotional x-ray vision and strategic depth. 


Pluto in Scorpio Evolution - Vulnerability is not weakness. I don’t have to anticipate every threat to survive.


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PLUTO IN SAGITTARIUS born approx. 1995 to 2008


SURVIVAL SPELL If I keep moving, I won’t be trapped or if I find the truth, I will be free.


Born into globalization, ideological shifts, religious confusion and culture clashes. The psyche says - anchor yourself in philosophy. Keep your options open. Don’t get boxed in. For this generation safety comes from freedom, belief systems and big-picture meaning. Their fear? Dogma. Confinement. Smallness.


Pluto in Sag Evolution - Commitment does not equal imprisonment. Truth can change.

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PLUTO IN CAPRICORN born approx. 2008- 2025


SURVIVAL SPELL - If I achieve, I will be secure or If I build something lasting, I can’t be discarded.


This generation is coming of age during institutional collapse, economic restructuring and massive systemic pressure. The psyche here says - Be strong. Be responsible. Outwork fear. For this generation safety comes from status, competence and authority. Their deeper fear? Failure is extinction. This age group really does not like to LOSE (this is an important group who will need to rebuild the falling structures, ones that will bend instead of break, so they take themselves very seriously). 


Pluto in Capricorn Evolution - You are worthy without proof. Failure is not extinction. 


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PLUTO IN AQUARIUSborn approx. 2026 to 2043


POTENTIAL EMERGING SURVIVAL SPELLS - If I detach/intellectualize, I can’t be hurt or overwhelmed or If I belong to the network, I won’t disappear or If I disrupt the system, I won’t be controlled by it or If I don't stand out too much I won't be targeted.  


This generation is coming of age during AI and digital immersion, institutional distrust and climate instability. Their identity looks to be more fluid. Their community more digital. They will have to avoid - dehumanizing those they don't agree with, groupthink disguised as progress, disembodied action and connectivity without intimacy. Their fears might be something like - irrelevance, system/web collapse, being controlled by invisible forces.

Pluto in Aquarius Evolution - It is safe to be personally seen. It is safe to have a face, not just a profile/avatar. It is safe to matter as an individual. Something like this ....


xo all

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I hoped this would be mostly solved by now although that original chart offered no fast solutions. Happening on the Full Moon in Leo should have left the suspects with nowhere to hide, but Eclipses and all that third house chatter ran cover for them. 


I am sure the authorities know much more than we think they do. They likely have a very good idea of what happened and have delayed certain things so as not to endanger Nancy and in order to solidify their case. There have been energetic opportunities for breakthroughs and even solutions, but Saturn - the police/authorities/FBI - tied into foggy Neptune and having changed signs in the midst of all this, going from the frying pan and into the fire is not helping. 


The charts were confusing enough already.


Let's go back to the beginning. That 'last seen' chart. This is the chart for when Nancy's garage door opens, and we are told she is dropped off by her son-in-law. The person to last see a victim is pretty much always a SUSPECT. This does not mean they, in this case "he", necessarily did anything wrong, but it's the place law enforcement starts, so we will, too.


I just want everyone to keep in mind that astrology (although it can be quite literal) is symbolic and based on the study of archetypes and patterns - it CANNOT tell us that someone is guilty of a crime. 


It just can't. Not for certain. And in this case, we have a person in the spotlight anyway (family member), so it will not be possible to separate "who did this" from "who is in the spotlight". We can expect his chart to be activated. I was going to just stay away from this. But after looking at his chart and his synastry with Nancy I thought we would take a look - we just have to keep in mind the whole 'can't separate spotlight from guilt' here, ok?


We don't have the birth time of Nancy or her son-in-law and there isn't enough info online to rectify either one (determine birth time) with any surety of accuracy. But there is a technique in astrology where we bring the Sun to the ascendent/rising degree of the chart. If you study astrology and are tired of looking at your own chart - make yourself a solar chart, revise your birth time and bring your Sun to the ascendent. You will find it amazingly represents your birth natal/says the same thing in different ways. It's a very useful and accurate tool.


One thing we see right away when comparing the solar charts of Nancy and her son-in-law (and this is not impacted by time of birth anyway) is that Nancy's 11-degree Chiron (wound/vulnerability) in Leo is exactly conjunct her son-in-law's natal Venus. Almost to the second. 


And we had a 13-degree Leo Full Moon happening pretty much exactly as Nancy was being attacked. I wrote about that Moon HERE about a week before Nancy's abduction. Its theme was 'meeting the limits we have denied existed'. The Sun sat with Atlantis - over-reach/arrogance. The Moon - and remember all the charts we looked at for Nancy with that Aquarius pile-up had these energies sitting there, too - Hybris/more arrogance, Icarus/the SON who flies too close to the SUN and falls to his death, Amycus/who drags his prey to their death. This was not an easy Full Moon. And everything that is conjunct that Full Moon is tightly conjunct Nancy's Chiron (wound, vulnerability) and her son-in-law's Venus (women, relationships, money, what we want). The symbolism is striking. 


Let's think about this exact Chiron/Venus relationship in Leo because it will have big upsides and big downsides.


The Venus person (SIL) activates the Chiron person’s (MIL’s) wound around - love, worth, attention, being chosen, being special, possibly creative self-expression. Because it’s in Leo, the Chiron wound may involve - not feeling adored or prioritized, feeling overlooked in youth. shame around self-expression, difficulty receiving appreciation, complicated dynamics around pride. Now, how this plays out depends enormously on maturity. At its best the SIL may naturally appreciate, compliment, or validate the MIL. He may treat her warmly, theatrically or generously. He can unintentionally heal something in her about being seen and valued. She may feel lit up by him - proud of him, charmed by him. This is best case and I am sure there were times that felt like this. 


Now the Venus person (the SIL) is not neutral - he is getting something, too. 


With Venus touches someone's Chiron, the Venus person (SIL) can feel magnetized, significant, impactful, emotionally relevant (and there is almost no water in either chart!) and important in the other’s life/you need what I bring you/I am valuable here - remember this is what the SIL will feel when things are good between them. There is often a subtle sense of something like, "I matter to you in a deep way". That can feel intoxicating. On the downside with Venus what starts as warmth can end up like score keeping. 


Especially if resources are involved. Because Venus is not just affection it is also about money/resources, giving and receiving. 


And when SIL's Venus sits on MIL's Chiron and she is giving hm money this becomes very literal. He embodies - what she gives to/what she invests in and because it hits her Chiron it will be easy for this giving (or withholding) to activate very old wounds in her about being used, feeling unappreciated, feeling unseen for what she sacrifices. In Leo especially, this can feel like, "I give generously but do I feel adored? Does anyone see what I do? Am I valued, or just useful?". She experiences their exchanges through a VERY OLD SCAR. 


When this stuff sours, she will feel drained and he will feel judged.  


Now the SIL has his own Chiron, too. It's in Aries (conjunct his Mars/Jupiter making this wound a very big deal for him) and he is having his Chiron return. Chiron in Aries is almost always about autonomy and self-sufficiency, and it's tied into his Mars/Jupiter amplifying the whole masculine (maybe angry) side of this. This wound could manifest as feeling inadequate as a provider, a hypersensitivity to perceived weakness, defensiveness when competence is questioned and then he could overcompensate with bravado. He is a Sun Gemini which isn't a very solid solar structure - can sometimes be like two people. Then he has Juno exactly conjunct his Sun. Juno is about our marriages and our relationship to power/what we will do to keep that power. They sextile his natal Chiron, so his Chiron return is impacting these energies, too.


Nancy has no water and SIL's chart has only Saturn in Cancer (2nd house in solar chart). There will not be a lot of empathy between them if things go bad. The SIL's Saturn in Cancer is not soft water. This is structural/defensive/ancestral. And in the second house - this is identity through security. Saturn in Cancer speaks of early responsibility around family. Strict maternal conditioning. Fear of scarcity. And a COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP WITH MOTHER FIGURES. Then put this Saturn, who is debilitated in Cancer since Saturn rules the polarity sign of Capricorn, into his 2nd house of money/self-worth/what is mine/material stability and he could easily equate money with emotional survival, money with safety and see maternal provision/resources as foundational structure. 


He might have formed early expectation of family resources as collective and saw material support as stabilizing. Threats to this, especially coming at his Chiron return and the way he is tied into Nancy via her own Chiron could feel life-threatening to him and then look at her Chiron in her 7th house of others/the mirroring. He also has his natal Uranus opposing his natal Chiron and his natal Moon/Part of Fortune opposing the Jupiter/Mars - all in Libra. A traumatic act involving his wife's mother and tied into his masculinity/security fits the chart rather tidily. 


Astrology charts are symbolic, but sometimes quite literal. 


Remember in all the events charts the Sun sat tightly in between Venus and Mars in Aquarius. Venus and Mars were always the significators for the victim and the perpetrator. I once did a chart with an Aquarius Moon that was showing us - because Aquarius is eccentric and unusual - "not the real mother". In this chart the Aquarius Sun can be saying "not the real sun/not the real son". Always positioned between victim and perpetrator it might be saying "the not-real son" connects them together. And, then we have the follow-up Eclipse, in play at this Full Moon, that hides the Sun/Son! So, has he paid/promised to pay someone to do this - because the 3rd house so loaded in the crime chart rules commerce/exchanges and third parties and the SIL connects to Nancy's wound via money already. Or could he have inadvertently said something that set this into motion. I have said before that the chart could indicate the kidnapping idea comes after whatever happens at the house/in the neighborhood. Maybe the perpetrator or perpetrators have gone there with an even more devious job. 


Anyway, there are many more connections between these two including his Ceres (more mother energy/the grieving mother) strong in Taurus at the tight midpoint of Nancy's Moon/Jupiter (big mother) and Uranus/Saturn (sudden ending). Notice in Nancy's solar chart how her Uranus/Saturn falls in 4th (Uranus - trauma, sudden change) and Saturn in the 3rd (Saturn - endings, transport, commercial deal, local community, sibling). The solar charts when combined with the event charts paint a very clear picture, but we have to keep in mind IT IS A PICTURE WE ARE LOOKING FOR. 


We can't know. 


There is other interesting symbolism. It's Eclipse season and there is AGAIN (like the Kirk assassination) a connection to an attention-diverting mystery, a story that releases a great collective grief, maybe another murder for hire/patsy story but we will have to see what plays out here. Definitely another connection to Algol/off with their heads/turn men to stone like the previous Eclipse. 


The crime happened on February first. which is, Ground Hog Day. But long before Punxutawney Phil became famous, February 1st was celebrated as Imbolc. 


A Celtic holiday that honors the goddess Brigid (a triplicity archetype like Hekate – maiden, mother, crone - Nancy's natal Hekate conjunct her Chiron). Yes, a beautiful celt Goddess was replaced by a ... rodent. Can you believe it? Yes, I bet you can. Imbolc is the half-way point between winter and summer and celebrates the LEAVING OF THE CRONE/GRANDMOTHER aka winter and approaching time of the maiden (daughter/spring).

 

(it’s been interesting to me that Nancy is rarely mentioned as a grandmother and always as a mother. I realize this is because of that Leo Moon – mother of royalty/fame and Full Moon in Leo on February 1st that keeps our eyes here - but it’s still interesting. If I were the police, I would be calling her a ‘missing grandmother’ every chance I had, not every dangerous guy loves his mother, but most loved their grandmas ...)

 

We have an Eclipse on March 3rd at 12 degrees Virgo, so right in between Nancy's 13-degree Virgo South Node of Fate and her SIL's 11-degree Virgo natal PERSEPHONE. Persephone was the daughter kidnapped by Pluto and taken to the underworld as the mother grieved and the world dried up. Pluto in the events charts is in an exact trine to Nancy's natal Persephone (with Uranus applying to a conjunction). And the Sun at the next Eclipse will be conjunct SIL's natal Pholus - small events that have big ramifications/buck stops here energies conjunct his natal Black Moon Lilith (shame wound) and Nancy's North Node of Fate (destiny). 


I could go on all day about the symbolism but need to pack orders I made during yesterday's blizzard.


If you have water elements in your chart - be GRATEFUL folks.


xo all

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We are expecting a big snow and ICE storm here - you might be, too - so I thought I would get this up early. 


The MARS/PLUTO meet-up in Aquarius - this one will probably hit early and makes me think many people will lose electricity/internet during this ICE storm (yes, more ICE - it's words that make our world and the collective energies are being brought home to everyone now via the Aquarius planets interacting with Jupiter in Cancer).


This is our annual DANGER WILL ROBINSON conjunction. 


Then we have Neptune into Aries (now answering to Marsafter 13 years of answering to only himself) setting up his meeting next month with Saturn and everything all week is building toward Sunday's BIG Full Moon in Leo.


Let's unpack the week!


MONDAY - Neptune enters Aries

TUESDAY - Mars conjunct Pluto

THURSDAY - Mercury conjunct Venus

FRIDAY - Mercury inconjunct Jupiter

SATURDAY - Venus inconjunct Jupiter

SUNDAY - FULL MOON IN LEO


MONDAY - Neptune finally gets off that 29th degree of Pisces - the end of the end - and moves onto 0 degrees Aries (the Aries point, a collective point of ATTENTION/seeding). Neptune dissolves boundaries and Aries fights/leads ACTS. So, we’re moving from Neptune in Pisces (fog, denial, spiritual bypass, endless empathy) into Neptune in Aries (belief as weapon, faith as action, illusion driving crusades).


"I believe and so I act" replaces "I feel and so I drift". This is the end of pretending we don't know who the aggressors are. This is a surge of ideological courage OR ideological recklessness. 


We talked about Neptune in Aries in depth HERE


TUESDAY - Mars meets Pluto in Aquarius. Mars is action/heat/passion/force and Pluto is death and rebirth/transformation/power. Aquarius is groups/causes/systems/electricity/technology/the internet/future. You can kind of see what this means, even if we can't see exactly what is going to happen. THIS IS DANGER WILL ROBINSON energy and in play as soon as Mars gets in Aquarius (Friday, the 23rd) and for a few days. Aquarius isn't emotional or personal. In the United States this will at least partially most likely play out through this ICE STORM that is expected to impact more than 30 states as well as the ICE PROTESTS and whatever the hell is going to happen with everything so volatile. With Mars/Pluto here think - COLD RESOLVE. Also think - IRREVERSIBLE because Plutonian events always are ... drive carefully, measure twice before you cut once. No dark alleys folks. And keep in mind this is already in play when I post this. 


Disciplined action and power moves can pay off. 


THURSDAY - After the FORCE comes the conversation/narrative. This looks like collective statements about what just happened. Alliances can be formed. Values talked about. Just keep in mind that Venus in Aquarius is more loyal to ideas than people. Messaging can sound more humane than it actually is. Pretty words can be wrapped around hard choices. 


FRIDAY /SATURDAY - now comes the rocks-and-hard-places. Jupiter, retrograde in Cancer, is all about the PAST, home, family, security/safety, mom and apple pie. Venus and Mercury are at awkward angles from detached/intelligent and future-focused Aquarius. Venus in Aqua inconjunct Jupiter in Cancer is values vs care, the impersonal vs the deeply personal. Who deserves care/protection? Who is excluded in the name of progress or in the name of security? Mercury in Aqua inconjunct Jupiter in Cancer is words that don't quite sit right. Our head vs our gut. Intellect/systemized care vs maternal emotional care. Maybe here is where we are FEELING THE COST OF WHERE WE HAVE MADE AQUARIAN STYLE DECISIONS - head over gut. Or maybe sometimes vice versa. 


The Cancer/Aquarius inconjuncts are where the collective story leaks into kitchens, families and our physical bodies. It might not be dramatic for everyone, but it is de-stabilizing. 


Aquarius says - think smarter/detach to function higher/sacrifice the personal for the collective. Progress requires some space/distance. Use your head. This is the way we make the future more equal. Cancer says - tend to what is most vulnerable, protect what's close and what has come before. Care must be part of the foundation and not just some kind of afterthought before we proceed.


The inconjunct says we cannot have it both ways/there must be some give-and-take with BOTH SIDES, so what do we need to adjust. The danger here, because this Aqua stellium is MEGA is that people WITHDRAW. They get sick. They numb out/disengage emotionally. This is how we, as people/as a culture - get kind of HOLLOWED OUT. 


The MEDICINE with this inconjunct/the magic/the way through - and you might want to trust me on this one since I have an Aquarius Sun and a Cancer Moon (keep in mind collectively we are the personal planets adjusting to Jupiter and he is retrograde, so this won't be a totally new story - we have been here before) - is choosing one real relationship over a symbolic cause/has something important been neglected, choose rest/self-care without apology, the whole "No." is a complete sentence thing applies here, honor grief/loss privately or within a group if it feels right. Think about - how have I been sacrificing my inner home to maintain an outer system? Reconnecting with family members is very likely this week (and last) and the connections will probably be AWKWARD and require adjustment. That's ok. We don't have to agree with each other on every issue to find the ones we do agree on. Common ground/shared pasts. The storm here is pushing people to stay home/focus close to home. Keep this in mind.


SUNDAY - Full Moon in Leo - this one looks tricky and like some kind of RECKONING. 


Lots of asteroids involved including - Icarus (flying too close to the Sun/unprepared sons/falling from the sky), Apollo (extra spotlight, also connected to Trump's ascendent), Atlantis (advancement without wisdom, destructive tech), Achlys (grief), Hybris (hubris), Amycus (brute strength) - WOW. Our Leo King is opposed/outnumbered. 


That post is next. 


xo all

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