Gonino School
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SCHOOL OF ASTRAPSYCHOLOGY · THE PLANETS
Pluto
DEPTH · POWER · REBIRTH
The underworld power — where one is undone and remade.
I.
The Aesthetic
obsidian, magma-veins, deep violet-black, a seed in the dark
Every image the School makes of Pluto begins here — the motif set on a parchment ground, painted in the School's house style: Van Gogh's impasto crossed with Monet's open air, drawn toward the Greco-Futurist line.
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PORTRAIT OF PLUTO — FORTHCOMING FROM THE SCHOOL OF AESTHETICS
II.
The Attributes
ARCHETYPE
The Magician
The wielder of death and rebirth who transmutes.
PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTION
power, death, and regeneration
The part of the personality Pluto governs — its job in every chart.
THE ROMAN NAME HOLDS
♇ Pluto
Pluto goes by its Roman name, which is already its astronomical name.
III.
The Astronomy
A dwarf planet of the Kuiper belt — demoted by astronomers in 2006, undiminished in astrology; with its moon Charon it forms a true double world, the pair circling a point in the open space between them.
ORBITAL PERIOD
248 years
TIME PER SIGN
4–31 years per sign (wildly uneven)
RETROGRADE
Retrogrades once a year for 5–6 months.
Its orbit is so eccentric it crosses inside Neptune's for twenty years of every circuit, and so inclined (17°) it rides high above the plane the others share.
Held safe from Neptune forever by their 3:2 resonance; so slow that no one alive sees it complete a circuit — it works on generations, not days.
IV.
The Meaning
The underworld power — where one is undone and remade.
In the natal chart, Pluto governs power, death, and regeneration. Where it stands — its sign, its house, the aspects it casts — shapes how that part of you shows up in practice: as depth, power, rebirth.
THE SHADOW
control and obsession; dominating what you fear instead of understanding it.
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Dominion
RULES
Scorpio
EXALTED IN
No exaltation is recorded — the moderns arrived after the table was set.
NATURAL HOUSES
VIII
The 8th House
The shared depths — death, intimacy, others' resources, transformation.
VI.
The Study
The Study — forthcoming
A thorough scholarly treatment of Pluto is being prepared by the School — its history, its cycles, and its full psychology.