The Sun Squares Pluto: Everyone Needs a Dark Room

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Happy Monday, everybody. Today we are going to take a look at a few transits that are perfecting; actually, today, we're going to take a look at one transit that's perfecting tomorrow and the other transit that's perfecting this week, right back-to-back and that is the sun square to Pluto. And then Venus is square to Pluto. Both are in Libra. Both are squaring Pluto in Capricorn, and they're coming consecutively. So we're going to take a look today at the Sun square to Pluto. And then tomorrow, we're going to take a look at Venus square to Pluto. Again, both of which are coming through about midweek. So that is our agenda for today.

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All right, let's take a look at the real-time clock. All right, so here is how it's happening this week. Let's take a look. First of all, at the square, here's the square from the Sun's square to Pluto. You can see it coming through this Wednesday, October 19. The day after. If we go forward just one day, advance it a day. You're gonna see then that Venus at 26 degrees comes through the square as well. So technically, the two transits come back to back. It's, let's see here; it's technically October 19, and the Sun in Libra squares Pluto in Capricorn. And then, by the 28th, Venus in Libra is squaring Pluto and Capricorn. These are two of our biggest transits of the week. So that's where we're going to start. Taking a look at these transits is going to set us up for, you know, the biggest transits of this week, and we're heading into eclipse season. So that'll be the news next week. But this week, these seem to be the big ones. So let's go ahead and break them down a little bit.

I want to start with the Sun and Pluto and five themes to watch for, just to prep everyone. So the first theme, which is textbook, is that when the Sun and Pluto combine in a square, squares are of the nature of Mars, which means they tend to be a little bit more contentious and action-oriented, stress of conflict, at worst, the tension of action and activity, and something to do or accomplish at best, but they're dynamic. When the Sun and Pluto get together, we have to look, of course, at the dignities and the signs and so forth. So the Sun is in Libra, the sign of its faults; of course, it's autumn, and the autumn equinox of the Sun's going into the underworld, so the Sun is in its fall. And as it is going into the square with Pluto, not only has the Sun descended into the underworld through the portal of Libra, but it is also hitting Pluto, the Lord of the underworld, the planet that's also related to subterranean or underworld-like themes. Now, that can mean a great variety of different things. It just depends on how we turn that jewel, the jewel of the archetypal combination of the Sun and Pluto, one of them that you will see are themes of depth, darkness, and the underworld. And they're not all identical, but they share some things in common.

Darkness can be a moral thing; you can be looking at something that is morally or ethically, you know, dark, like something that a compromised, you know, an ethical situation where you feel compromised, or moral ambiguities or darkness or evil. Those themes are very Plutonian. Now, darkness is not always evil, right? Darkness can be another word for darkness that might be helpful in depth. And the underworld similarly is not just an evil place but a place of tremendous depth. So, for example, when I was a kid in my family's house, the basement of the early childhood house that we lived in was a parsonage, which means it was the church owned it, but whoever the pastor of the church is lives in this home, and it's sort of like part of your salary or whatever. So we lived in a variety of parsonages when I grew up, and in the basement of the parsonage that we lived in was this room, and there was no light in the room, and it was this back room. And my dad turned that room into like, I guess now, you might call a man cave, but it wasn't like my dad was not like decorating it with symbols of machismo or anything like that. Rather, they were, they were symbols of depth. For example, in that room, he had glow-in-the-dark stars that he put on the ceiling, and he had a chair and a little lamp. And like, I think it was, like, a crate. And he had like a candle on it. And he had books and, like, there's like a little reading light or something. And he would go in there. And often, he would just sit in the dark with the glow-in-the-dark stars and relax. And I'd always, you know, I would ask my mom, like, why does he go in there? And my mom would say things like, well, you know, sweetie, he talks to a lot of people. And here's what a lot of people have to say about their life and their thoughts. And that's what it is to be a pastor. And then he goes down and spend some time in the dark to talk to God and to just decompress. And I remember my mom saying things like that, you know, more or less, maybe in kids speak whatever the kids speak version of that was, you know, and I remember thinking about it and just being like, my dad goes into a deep dark cave. And I would go in there, sometimes he would let me come in in the dark, and he would tell me like you have to be very quiet. And there was just this feeling of tremendous power and richness, like I think about that space now, like deep rich soil that my dad was having to plant himself in occasionally to rejuvenate himself from the duties of pastoral counseling and, you know, other things that he was doing. And as I grew older, my dad always had a version of that room.

And I think all human beings do; I don't think it's a man cave. I think it's a human cave. And I think we have; we need caves, you know. And that's a sun Pluto thing where there's a sense of I can only find my light in a dark place. It sounds it's kind of counterintuitive because most of the time, I find my light honest to God; I find my light and your sunshine and water. Like I'm a cancer sun. I love being near the pool, or the lake, or the ocean, and just sunshine, and I love laying in the Sun. And I love the sunshine. But it's true. As you can see, I don't know if you can see my closet back there that's filled with books. And there's this nice little carpet on the floor. And I go in there, and I close that door. And I sit there, and I just descend about 20 levels down. Do you know what I mean? So where do we go to find that rejuvenating light that can only be found, it's a small light in deep, cavernous places.

I remember another story one time; I was going backpacking to aisle royal, which is an island that is sort of north of the Northern part of Michigan between Michigan and Canada. And it's a beautiful island; it was home to a study that was done on the moose and the relationship between the moose and the wolves. And there's a lot of moose on the islands still. And I remember one time I went during rutting season, and if you know anything about running season, moose or the Bull Moose, they're getting ready to mate and so forth. And so I was on the island, and I was backpacking by myself. And I remember that you know, I was in my tent, and it was really dark. And it was, it was rainy, but not really bad. And I could hear these moose running. And they had these just deep sounds that they were making. And I remember laying there under the stars, no lights, you know, just my flashlight or whatever. And this is I did this; by the way, it was right before my daughter was born. And I went, this was like a, I guess, like a man-cation before becoming a dad. And anyway, so I was laying there late at night listening to the sounds, and they were so primal, I can't explain it. But it just did something good. For me, it was like medicine. So deep, dark, rich places give us light.

There's another instance of this in The Lord of the Rings when Frodo is carrying the light of a star that's given to him by; I think it was Galadriel. And he's carrying this little vial that has this light in it. And the light of the star is something that it, you know, eventually comes to guide him in a very dark cave, where there's a spider. And I think that there's, it only makes sense that that star could be so bright and so lovely in a place so deep and so dark. Now there's the connotation of there being like evil and getting lost and things like that in the cave and Lord of the Rings. But it's still the same idea, which is that some of the things that shine the brightest can't make sense or can't be found unless they're set in right alongside darkness. Stars are only wonderful because it's so deep and so dark. It's like you're looking not so much up and out sometimes as it feels like you're standing looking into a deep cavern that's filled with small lights. That underworld perspective is so healing, and we need that.

Now, of course, there is the evil darkness, the demonic, in the confrontation with our own darkness as part of what it means to enter the cave as well. But these are Sun-Pluto themes. And not like they're that long-lived, but you're going to notice them this week. So depth darkness in the underworld is number one.

Number two, power, hunger, desire, enslavement, and corruption. So power is not a bad thing. Empowerment. There's something about that dark, rich, fertile soil that we've been talking about. We find ourselves needing to plant into that, you know, there's, this is a funny story. So we have this new garden. And I suggested, well, I think my friends suggested that Ashley go and bury herself in the garden prior to it being established because they were in the process of making it right. And they said like, well, you know, she was saying, like, I don't know what to do to like, kind of, you know, solidify my relationship with the garden. Because really, it's the project you guys all funded to the Kickstarter, but it's something she'll mostly be tending to in terms of making the medicines that we give to other people. And so she was like, I feel like I need to do something. And we had some friends that were sitting by the bonfire. And they said, you know, why don't you go bury yourself in the dirt before all the beds are put in and everything, and she was like laughing, and then she actually did it. You know, and she went and connected with the earth, and she came back in, you know, and she had like the thing over her head that she had been wearing; it was pretty funny. But the point is that she said, then the words she said were something along the lines of, I feel like I tapped into this power that's there in the earth in this place, like the prana, or the chi, or I don't know what you know, but this primordial, earthy power.

That is what the Sun-Pluto can provide us with a sense of being connected to that. Now, we can also lust after that kind of power, or we can be taken over or enslaved by that kind of power. So it's about the right relationship to power. Power is just one of the elements of nature. You know, it's like when you're in a river, and you feel the current is powerful. When you're in a wave, and it comes in crashes, and you're you get taken back, even when you're only up to your knees. That's power. So there's power naturally in the world, in ourselves, in each other, in our sexual desires, in our creative impulse, in the stars in the Sun, and it's everywhere. What we can, again, just like any other energy, can take us over where we can sort of work with it. And there's a fine line. But that's the line that we're probably working on this week. Our hunger or our desire are very similar qualities in the strength of that that come that surges up. And the idea of it surging up from a deep place. That's Plutonian. Son, it's almost like nuclear. So that idea of power and if it is a positive thing, something we're connecting to in the sense of reverence or being a midwife for powerful energies? Or are we being enslaved by them? Are they taking us over somehow, and in which case is it closely related to the idea of corruption? So these are things to just be aware of this week?

Number three, a change of purpose and direction may be happening through catharsis. Now, let's just look up the etymology of catharsis that feels like the right thing to do. Okay, here we go. So, catharsis is a bodily purging from the Greek form of catharsis, purging or a cleansing to purify or purge to pure, clear of dirt, clean, spotless, open, free, clear of shame or guilt purified. Isn't that interesting? I think that it's super interesting that you have the idea of purging or cleansing but also to be free or clean of guilt or shame. There's something very empowering about Pluto transits where they can force us to look Sun, Pluto, at the things that we're most afraid of, within ourselves, facets of our own personality, or facets of, you know, our life that the ambitions we have, the desires that we have, and why am I so afraid of these things. And then, by getting in through a Pluto through a Sun Pluto transit, it is as though we can be empowered, and we can release the guilt or shame of who we are, what we desire, or what makes us feel strong. And it's like a big release.

For example, I've seen many Sun-Pluto transits or Pluto to-Natal Sun transits in the lives of my clients or parents of young people when they decide to come out and their sexual identity in one way or another. And so there's a release, I'm just going to be what I am, I'm letting go of guilt and shame, and it feels like something that's been held in fear is being released, and it's, it's volcanic. At the same time, sometimes facing darkness or fear is transformational; you could call it that. But this also with the Sun that has to do with ambition and life purpose, the ideal images by means of which we, our life, is directed, like the acorn, is directed toward the ideal image of an oak tree. Our change our lives are constantly moving toward different purposes in different areas. Well, Pluto and the Sun is about sometimes the death of an image that we've been pursuing or the transformation or change or shift of an image, often through a catharsis, a moment of purification, of releasing of guilt or shame, of fear of confrontation with shadow, and then it's released, and suddenly a new image or a new sense of purpose is instilled within us.

Number four is the death of solar figures. That phrase should be very familiar to you. If you watch my channel, it tends to come up with Saturn Sun-Pluto sun, and sometimes Neptune sun. A solar figure could be a father or a leader. Sometimes it's the symbol of any kind of like I said, an ideal image that our life is moving toward, like the plotline of a movie. It could be a grandfather; sometimes the Sun shows up as a spouse especially tends to be like a man like a husband. But not to say that people are going to die. Usually, we're saying is metaphorical, right? It's the transformation of such a person. It's the transformation of how you see or understand your own father, karmically or archetypally. And it can be very powerful. Now, sometimes you probably will see like, I would not be surprised to see literally some famous celebrity passing away under this because it all it's like clockwork, when you get squares from Neptune, Pluto, Uranus, Saturn, sometimes even Jupiter and the Sun, you often get squares or opposition's you often get, like a famous solar figure releasing from their body. It's as though the squares from the outer planets can bring up the mortality slash immortality of famous people. One of the meanings of the Sun is fame, which endures beyond the setting because it rises again, right? So the Sun is always an image of legacy. And that sense and fame and legacy sort of go hand in hand. So you might see the death of famous solar figures when Pluto and the Sun get together. Anyway, watch for transformation around karma related to your dad or your father or father figures or even internally looking at patterns in you that have some resemblance to some solar figure in your life, a leader, a mentor, a father, and of course, a solar figure could very well be a queen. It just it's a kind of royal symbol of someone who is a leader or sort of The Fountainhead.

All right, well, number five. And the last one for today is themes of justice, morality, and judgment. And this has to do with the Sun Pluto square, especially given that the Sun is in Libra and culminating in the final degrees of Libra. So you get this sense of reaching a judgment reaching a conclusion making an important decision, having to look at something is, you know, through making that discerning. The difference between something that is vain or superficial and something that is of real depth and substance? Those kinds of questions are pretty crucial for Libra, a Libra Sun anyway, the balance and the blindfolded lady of justice, you're looking at, you know, trying to make a judgment that gets into the heart of things. Remember that in the underworld, the heart is weighed against a feather. And so there's no way that a heart is ever lighter than a feather unless we're talking about the heart as a symbol for the spirit, rather than the soul, rather than the literal heart. So there are judgments that are not rooted in the literal metrics of the material world there. There's inner judgment and inner discernment versus external appearances and standardized units of measurement, like pounds or kilograms.

So how are we making judgments right now? And by what measure or means? Are we making a judgment? And is it a deep internal judgment about substance? Is it superficial, something like that? Also, just questions about justice and morality. And again, going back to themes of, you know, corruption and power. These are themes that are very likely to play a role in the week ahead, so watch for them. Now, what we're going to do tomorrow is we're going to come back and play this game again. But we're going to do it with Venus's square to Pluto, which should be just as interesting and deep, and we're gonna come up with five themes to watch for Venus and Pluto because they're really coming through as a pair. But I want to isolate them a little bit so that you can notice some of the themes more distinctly. But you'll be able to watch as Wednesday and Thursday of this week come through for these themes, and the themes will visit tomorrow with Venus and Pluto.

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