Healing Pluto Problems - Softcover

Cunningham, Donna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0877283982 ISBN 13: 9780877283980

Verlag: Red Wheel/Weiser, 1986

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Well written and moving account of Pluto in the natal chart, and how Pluto aspects can affect childhood, adulthood, and life in general. Open discussion of child abuse, rape, incest, violence, repression, manipulative types and how they got thatway. Also included are ways to heal Pluto problems using flower remedies, meditation and more.

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Donna Cunningham, MSW, was an internationally respected astrologer and author of 16 books on metaphysical topics. Listed in several "Who's Who" volumes, she has given seminars around the world and won the prestigious Regulus Award for her contributions to the field at the 1998 United Astrology Congress. She also had a Master's Degree in Social Work from Columbia University and over 30 years experience in counseling people. Donna's Red Wheel/Weiser title, How to Read Your Astrological Chart, is highly recommended for the intermediate student. She passed away in July of 2017.

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Healing Pluto Problems

By Donna Cunningham

Samuel Weiser, Inc.

Copyright © 1986 Donna Cunningham
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-87728-398-0

Contents

List of Charts
List of Exercises
List of Affirmations
Introduction
Chapter One: Understanding Pluto in Your Chart
Chapter Two: The Personality and Character of the Plutonian
Chapter Three: Healing Tools for Pluto Problems
Chapter Four: Guilt, Resentment, and Pluto
Chapter Five: Incest and Domestic Violence
Chapter Six: Pluto, Death, and the Transformative Power of Grief
Chapter Seven: Transits
Chapter Eight: Counseling People With Pluto Problems
Appendix: Help for the Beginner

CHAPTER 1

Understanding Pluto in Your Chart

The planet Pluto is naturally connected with the sign of Scorpio and with theeighth house. These three categories have some common interest in such mattersas birth, sex, death, power and transformation. Power and how to deal with it isa major Plutonian issue, both at the individual level and for humanity. In thischapter, and throughout this book, we will be exploring the psychologicalcomplexities of Pluto, both in the birth chart and by transit. Where themanifestations are mainly negative, we will seek ways of healing or amelioratingthe difficulties Pluto represents. This chapter provides delineations of Pluto'shouse position and aspects in the birth chart, as well as some thoughts on themeaning of Pluto in various signs. (For the novice or beginning student, theAppendix tells you how to find your own Pluto placements.) If you have a numberof Pluto aspects (or if the eighth house or the sign Scorpio is stronglyrepresented in your chart), you would also get further insight by readingChapter Two. A Plutonian personality is someone with Pluto very strong in theirchart, as described in the introduction.

Themes you might expect with Pluto placements are guilt, resentment, the desirefor control, spite, or revenge. Yet no one seeks revenge without being deeplyhurt, so there is often a horror story of some kind connected to the Plutoplacement in the natal chart. For instance, you may see the after-effects of acrucial death or abandonment manifesting in a tendency to develop symbioticrelationships, alternating with periods of isolation. Although some people aremore fundamentally affected by Pluto defenses than others, we all display somePluto traits in the areas of life Pluto touches.

An Overview of Pluto Placements

Much of what will be discussed in the following pages is aimed at the personwith a difficult Pluto. If your Pluto is well aspected (having only trines andsextiles) or if your Pluto is not particularly strong, this material may notapply to you to any great degree. Yet you may find that even the weakestplacements (such as Scorpio on the cusp of a house with no planets in thathouse) apply to some of the difficulties you have. If so, reading the commentswould give you some insight, even if you are not involved in some of the moredrastic behaviors of that placement. Whether your Pluto is strong or weak, youmay squirm at some of the readings, yet confronting the truth is the beginningof change. Once is not enough, though—we have to keep on knowing, and keep onconfronting, until the games we play are exposed so often they embarrass us andwe have to let go of them. Admitting them to others accelerates the process.

We are often obsessed with the matters of the house or planets involved withPluto's placement in the natal chart. And yet, what we can't let go of, we windup perpetuating. The same negative pattern may come up in our lives over andover, and with each repetition we are more fixed on it. Where we have been hurtor betrayed, we expect betrayal, so we select people who will betray us and thenset up the betrayal by our expectations. Even a decent person who is subjectedto constant suspicion can be pushed to say, "You don't trust me? If that's allyou think of me, then I'll go ahead and do it!" Thus we create our own self-fulfillingprophecies.

One dynamic which can be the cause of an obsession is a tendency to get intopower struggles in matters related to Pluto's house or aspects. Such fanaticalinsistence on winning can paradoxically lead to bitter failures. This oftenbegins as a power struggle with a parent (or other important authority figure)in childhood—someone who placed great emphasis on the matters of Pluto's houseand tried to push the child to succeed there. If the child succeeded, the parentwon. In order to spite the parent and win the battle, the individual had to LOSEin the matters involved with Pluto's house. The failure is perversely regardedas a moral victory. This dynamic has led me to call the house where Pluto isplaced "the fail for spite house."

Alternately, the parent may have taught the child that he or she would neveramount to anything in matters of that house, so the person extracts revenge byfailing consistently in ways that embarrass the parent. There is a death's headsmile as the person laments their failure ... "See, Ma, you were right!" Somepeople freeze that area out of hurt, controlling needs and feelings so rigidlythat even friends wouldn't guess it was important, yet they are not free of it.Along with this could go a sour grapes attitude—"I wouldn't want it anyway"—anda sense of moral superiority over those who do succeed.

Another bind occurs when the person buys into the parent's belief that thematters of Pluto's house or aspects are so powerful that it would transform (andcontrol) the life if he or she succeeded in it. As a result, an exaggerateddegree of power is assigned to that area of life. Because of the power given tothe Pluto department of life and the power struggles being carried on there, theperson can wind up being controlled by the thing he most wants to control. He ispowerless to succeed and yet powerless to let go of it, until he transformshimself. Paradoxically, when the Pluto area is healed and loses its power overyou, it is an area where you can manifest a considerable degree of constructivepower. In these patterns, you may recognize a bit of the scorpion's sting, foryou win the battle at the expense of harming yourself.

The person with a difficult Pluto placement can be a scorpion in that area oflife, acting out venom on others, usually in a covert or twisted manner. I callthis syndrome the vengeful victim, in that here is where the person feelswronged, yet feels most justified in returning that wrong to others. A man withMoon in Scorpio, for instance, may feel greatly wronged by his mother, and maysomehow feel justified in taking his rage out on any woman who gets close tohim. Not all of us are vengeful victims, of course, but many of us do likeplaying the victim at times, and if the Pluto areas of your life are difficultones, you might think about whether this dynamic is operating to some degree.

There may be the deep, dark secret in the Pluto area of life that makes you feelyou cannot be open with others. We all have Pluto somewhere and we all havesecrets. Readers may be relieved to know that we will not discuss the sexualimplications of the various Pluto placements. So often, the deep, dark secret isa sexual one. But it's not about sex, really. When there is sexual difficulty orsexual obsession, the real...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Red Wheel/Weiser
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1986
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0877283982
• ISBN 13: 9780877283980
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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