When Pluto Comes Calling: A Love Letter to Those in the Underworld

Pluto transits to your Sun or Moon are some of the most transformative times in a life—if you're lucky enough to experience one. Not everyone will feel Pluto's hand on their shoulder, but those who do? They emerge utterly changed. These transits take their sweet time, typically stretching up to two years, because real transformation doesn't happen overnight. With a Pluto transit, change isn't just possible—it's inevitable.

It's like the universe's most intense professor just moved into your psyche and set up permanent office hours. Pluto arrives with a clipboard and a knowing smile, walking through the rooms of your inner world asking uncomfortable questions: "Do you still need this belief about yourself? This pattern? This story you've been telling for decades?"

And here's the thing about Pluto—he doesn't appreciate hoarding. Whether it's an outdated belief about your worth, a relationship dynamic that keeps you small, or a career that no longer fits who you're becoming, Pluto has zero patience for anything that doesn't serve your deepest truth. He'll take you into the underworld and strip away everything you thought you needed, only to reveal that what you were desperately seeking outside yourself was within you all along.

My Own Descent

It was during a Pluto opposite my natal Sun transit several years ago that I was pushed toward astrology. Before that transit, I had only dabbled in Astrology. This transit shifted me towards deeper learning and through this I began a journey of healing and personal transformation.

Here's what they don't tell you about Pluto transits: you can still remember exactly who you were before. It's not amnesia. You carry both selves—the before and the after—like looking at old photos of someone you used to know intimately. There's grief in that aftermath, a strange mourning for the person you once were, even when you know the transformation is part of your becoming.

The Slow Burn of Becoming

What makes Pluto transits so potent is the persistence. This isn't a quick cosmic adjustment—it's a complete renovation of your soul's architecture. For months, even years, you'll feel the pressure building. Old structures start creaking. Things that used to work suddenly don't. You might find yourself inexplicably irritated by routines you once found comforting, or suddenly unable to tolerate dynamics you've accepted for years.

The resistance is real. We fight Pluto every step of the way, clinging to our familiar dysfunction like a life raft, not realizing it's actually an anchor. We bargain, we deny, we try to make small changes hoping to appease the cosmic forces at work. But Pluto isn't interested in your renovations—he's here for demolition and complete reconstruction.

In the Thick of It

If you're in a Pluto transit right now, know this: the confusion, the loss, the feeling of being suspended between who you were and who you're becoming—it's all part of the design. You're not failing because you feel lost. You're not weak because some days you want your old life back, even the parts that were killing you slowly.

You're in the underworld, and the underworld has its own logic. Time moves differently here. What matters on the surface stops mattering. What seemed insignificant before—your relationship with power, your deepest fears, your authentic truth—becomes everything.

The Emergence

When you finally surface (and you will surface), you'll understand why it had to happen exactly as it did. Not in a spiritual bypass way, but in a bone-deep recognition that you couldn't have become this version of yourself any other way. The power Pluto reveals isn't new—it was always yours. But you had to lose everything you thought gave you power to finally claim what was real.

The grief might linger. You might sometimes dream of who you used to be, wake up expecting to see her in the mirror. That's okay. Integration takes time. You're learning to live in a new skin, to walk with power you're still learning to wield.

To those in the depths: trust the process, even when—especially when—you can't see the way forward. Pluto doesn't take anyone to the underworld who isn't strong enough to return. And when you do, you'll carry a light that only comes from having walked through your own darkness and survived.

The transformation is inevitable. Who you become in the process? That's the real magic.

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