Pluton

Pluto (Hades to the Greeks) ruled the underworld, the realm of the dead and of hidden riches. Unlike evil in the Christian sense, Hades was a neutral sovereign: he administered the passage of souls and guarded the treasures buried within the earth. His abduction of Persephone is the central myth of death and renewal in Western culture. Pluto was discovered in 1930, the decade of the Great Depression, totalitarian regimes, and nuclear discovery -- all expressions of Plutonian power.

Pluto represents the principle of radical transformation: death and rebirth, the exposure of what is hidden, and the confrontation with power in its most raw forms. In a natal chart its sign describes generational experiences of collective upheaval; its house reveals where the individual undergoes the deepest, most irreversible change. Pluto transits are slow and often uncomfortable, but they strip away what is no longer essential and reveal the core of what endures.