This page is about all Uranus-Pluto aspects, like Uranus Conjunct Pluto, Uranus Opposite Pluto, Uranus Trine Pluto, Uranus Square Pluto, Uranus Sextile Pluto, Uranus Inconjunct Pluto. 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 Uranus. I also highly recommend Liz Greene’s book The Art of Stealing Fire.
About Uranus-Pluto Aspects
Overview
Pluto is the planet of death & rebirth, transformation, power, and depth. Both Uranus and Pluto are collective and generational planets, and when they form a major aspect it lasts 5-10 years. In a natal chart, Pluto-Uranus contacts can reflect a deep drive for change. Since these are generational aspects, they are less personally impactful if they don’t contact a personal planet or one of the four angles.
Gifts
- resilience in the face of intense change
- ability to see beneath the surface and connect the dots in unexpected ways
- envisioning radical solutions to deep-seated problems
- psychological insights into the nature of power
Challenges
- intense inner turmoil
- feeling torn between desires for freedom and control
- deep-seated fear of loss and the unknown
- ruthless or obsessive destructive impulses
- self-sabotage
- hypersensitivity to collective crisis or trauma
- power struggles
- control through manipulation
Lessons
- confronting deep-seated fears and subconscious patterns
- integrating the shadow self
- releasing limiting beliefs & patterns
- dismantling old ways of being so new ones can emerge
- surrendering to transformative processes
- taking accountability for controlling or manipulative behaviors
- stepping into your own authentic power
Potential
- deep personal evolution
- a complete metamorphosis of the self
- becoming an agent of profound change
- inspiring others to face their own shadows
About the Uranus Growth Journey
The Uranus growth journey involves coming to terms with a degree of instability. This is going to be hardest for the Moon and its corresponding sign (Cancer) and house (4th), because the Moon is all about security and comfort.
The growth journey involves detachment, which sometimes is very difficult. Sometimes Uranus shows up in our lives through other people or outside events that rip away our security. Sometimes it is just an inner fear that we have to work through.
What Uranus wants from us is to lift our vision higher, to see the bigger picture, that is beyond our human life and the attachments we have. It wants us to rely on our connection to a higher truth or wider perspective. The price of Uranian inspiration is that it brings us to some extent away from ordinary human life. We might feel lonely or alienated as we come to realize what makes us different.
The other risk of Uranus is losing ourselves in its collective energy. To hold Uranian energy well, we must develop our Saturn discipline and Solar individuality. In other words, we must have a strong ego and clear personal goals we want to achieve. Otherwise, our individuality may get lost in the spirit of Uranus prompting us to enact its vision of a better world.
If we can manage to weather these challenges and develop oureselves to be able to handle Uranian energy in a sustainable way, the reward is genius and liberation.
