This page is about all Pluto-Mercury aspects, like Pluto Conjunct Mercury, Pluto Opposite Mercury, Pluto Trine Mercury, Pluto Square Mercury, Pluto Sextile Mercury, Pluto Inconjunct Mercury. Hard aspects like conjunctions, squares, and oppositions tend to be more difficult than soft aspects like trines or sextiles. The closer the orb, the more intense the aspect.
We have a page about Pluto. I also highly recommend Jeffrey Wolf Green’s two Pluto books.
About Pluto-Mercury
Lessons
- reformulating rigid thought patterns
- developing mental concentration
- learning to penetrate to the core of any subject
- recognizing the impact of belief systems on perception
- learning to communicate with emotional power and conviction
- listening to others perspectives
- exploring taboo areas of knowledge
Challenges
- defending fixed ideas due to emotional security needs
- intellectual confrontations due to rigid thinking
- narrowness of intellectual focus or excessive mental openness
- immediately rejecting new information that challenges existing beliefs
Transformation
- ability to thoroughly absorb and integrate new information
- intellectual flexibility
- communicating complex ideas in accessible ways
- using mental power for personal and collective growth
- a deep understanding of human psychology through intellectual pursuits
About the Pluto Evolutionary Journey
In Evolutionary Astrology, natal Pluto represents our Soul’s desires and evolutionary intentions. Evolution occurs by playing out our desires until we exhaust them. Our 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 we need to release. 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.
