In Evolutionary Astrology, natal Pluto represents our Soul’s desires and evolutionary intentions. Evolution occurs by playing out our desires until we exhaust them.
We have a page about Pluto. I also highly recommend Jeffrey Wolf Green’s two Pluto books which are the basis for a lot of my thoughts on Pluto.
Your Evolutionary Intention
Pluto in the Ninth House or Sagittarius: This placement focuses on expanding one’s worldview and seeking higher truth. You have a strong desire for freedom and may feel alienated from your native culture. You are likely drawn to philosophy, religion, or foreign cultures. The evolutionary goal is to develop practical communication skills and to test your abstract ideas against everyday reality, as indicated by the Gemini/3rd House polarity point. By studying reality as it is, outside any dogmas or preconceived frameworks, you will learn to appreciate how personal truth is relative. Eventually you will come to understand the essential unity that underlies the great diversity of personal and cultural expressions of truth.
About Pluto, the Nodes, and Soul Evolution
Pluto represents the main evolutionary intention for this lifetime. This intention includes integrating the polarity point (the opposite sign and house on the chart).
The nodes of the Moon are also a huge part of the evolutionary story. The South Node represents our past-life experiences, identity structure, and attachments. It represents our comfort zone, what is familiar to us, including strengths and weaknesses. Depending on aspects to Pluto and the nodal rulers, it can also represent karma. (Register for a free report on your karma as represented through Pluto and the Nodes.)
The North Node represents the identity structure that would most serve our evolutionary intention. This is how the nodes and Pluto fit together.
Pluto’s role in our life is in many ways to push or force us to give up our attachments to past ways of being so we can embrace new ways of being. This is not always a process we go through willingly—hence Pluto’s reputation as a harsh teacher. The best approach is to try to cooperate with the evolutionary changes that Pluto brings.
