Pluto is the planet of death and re-birth, disintegration and regeneration. Pluto symbolises the most unconscious part of ourselves and yet the most powerful drive within us. Whichever area of the chart this planet touches, it forces us to deal with crisis and if we co-operate with this enormous influence, personal growth can ensue.

We must learn the lesson of letting go with Pluto. Possessiveness and compulsion must give way to the acceptance of the need to relinquish old attitudes, emotions and possessions. Pluto moves very slowly, taking between twelve and thirty-one years to move through each sign.

The sign in which Pluto is placed is very important generally but it is the house position and aspects which are crucial in the natal chart, though of course these are coloured by the sign too. As Pluto moves through each sign, it brings out crucial and permanent changes in humanity's attitudes and experiences.