# Pluto ♇ — The Magician

> The underworld power — where one is undone and remade.

**Planet** · Keywords: depth, power, rebirth

## What does Pluto govern in the psyche?

Pluto governs power, death, and regeneration.

## The archetype: The Magician

The wielder of death and rebirth who transmutes.

## What is the shadow of Pluto?

control and obsession; dominating what you fear instead of understanding it.

## Rulership

- Rules: Scorpio
- Exaltation: —

| House | Sign | Role | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | Scorpio | ruler | The shared depths — death, intimacy, others' resources, transformation. |

## The astronomy

- Body: 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.
- Orbit: 248 years
- Time per sign: 4–31 years per sign (wildly uneven)
- Retrograde: Retrogrades once a year for 5–6 months.

## Visual motif (School of Aesthetics)

obsidian, magma-veins, deep violet-black, a seed in the dark

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