Node-o-rama

Hi Kate, I'm sorry to hear you had a hard time with your son, and glad that you both survived the tests that came up.

I also have Sag Moon cnj Cap Asc - Moon at 29,53 deg and Asc at 3 degs. Natally I have Moon in the 12th square Pluto in the 10th. I'm having the last hit of Pluto/Moon this week and I'm also about to begin the long drag of Pluto sqare Pluto. It's been a hard year. I also lost my job (but luckily got another one - I'm just not as happy as in the one I was retrenched from), my relationship ended, a close friend was diagnosed with cancer and my beloved tom cat died last month at only 7 years from leukemia (oddly enough he was given to me by the friend with cancer). I find that yoga is the only thing that really helps me at present - I also did a meditation course this year but I'm still struggling to 'settle' into it. Gardening also soothes me a bit but it's yoga that gets me through.

I've had plenty of Pluto transits since Pluto moved into Sag - but Pluto square Mars and Pluto cnj Moon have been the most challenging. I'm hoping Pluto square Pluto and Pluto/Asc will be a little easier to cope with.

Newmoon

Thanks guys for the feedback, its great to know one is not alone in this period of Transformation, Transmutation and inner turmoil and change.

As the old power and the old self goes, it is a rather raw sensation at times.
Thanks Newmoon, I think it is that Moon degree of ours with its conjunction to the Galactic Centre point that increases its' Pluto's crossing intensity. Have you any thoughts on that Moon/Galactic Centre conjunction?

Gin thanks for that feedback, glad it also connected with your experiences.

Most of these changes are still very new and I am still finding this new identity of mine, as it develops over this period of time.

But again,especially to you Newmoon as you are sensing the same through Yoga. thank God for Yoga and its ability to help balance the deep inner changes as they occur. Even though I have been with Yoga for so long now, I am finding a whole new connection to it now. Like I am really just getting to really understand it. But perhaps that is just the deepening of my experience with it too.
Blessings,
Kate

Hi everyone,

I decided to join this forum after searching for hints of Pluto conj. Moon and finding this. I have to confefss that I've been terrified wit the approaching transit, and although my aspects are at 2 degrees, I felt a Pluto whack already in April and now, and ongoing feelings of compulsino and obsession throughout the year.

I have Moon at 2 degrees Cap, Venus 2 Aries and Pluto 2 Libra- a perfect T-square. I started therapy in March and I'm also into a yogic breathing technique, which I'm trying to do almost every day to calm myself down. I lost weight this year, but I also have Saturn transiting my first house now.

Anyway, I'm going to keep an eye on these posts to find some comfort and maybe even some advice.

Thanks for starting this!

I am very interested in this thread. I have my moon in the fourth house in capricorn at 00'36. As transiting Pluto is conjunct my moon it is trine my natal Pluto. There has be a lot of energy lately with Mars and the Sun going over this point.

I have one teenage daughter  who finds it impossible to tell the truth and would like her FREEDOM now, do doubt with me financing it with no questions asked. I failed to tell you that Pluto sits on my asc natally and my closest aspect is Pluto square the Sun. (my birth info is May 31,1961 12:37 pm Southern Illinois.) You could say that I think I know what is best for everybody, and quite often right, but have way to direct of a delivery for most people. I have dabbled in Astology for years and know just enough to scare myself sometimes.

I love reading threads that pertain to my family astrology. I guess I am a born "shrink' at heart but work with Pets and people for a living.

Let's keep this thread going!!!!!

Thanks Plutonia, you sound like you have had positive experiences with Pluto.

I have found Pluto/Moon rather challenging. I have my ASC/Moon/Sun all square Pluto natally so lots of things I struggle with often came up and lots of grief is also surfacing. I have had years and years of Pluto transits and I feel a bit worn down. I am looking forward to when they ease off for a bit. I'm hoping that Pluto/Asc and Pluto square Pluto are going to be a bit easier than the other transits were. Luckily I have Jupiter and Neptune being good to me for the next year, so that's great.

Pluto trine Sun should be a nice one.

Newmoon

In the Pluto/Moon spirit I thought I'd tell the forum about progressions that are currently underway, all in the sign of Scorpio coming up to my 7th house Moon.  The progressed Sun hit my Moon in Scorpio about 4 months ago and I found myself (surprise!) in an obsessive relationship with a very sexy man, but knew pretty soon that I needed to move away from it.  Now it's gone (the relationship) and progressed Jupiter is approaching my Moon with progressed Venus about to conjunct the progressed Jupiter within a couple months.  P.Jup. is at 12 degrees, my Moon is 13 degrees.  I wish I could jump up and down and say "yipee!" with both the benefics about to progress to my Moon, but my Moon squares Uranus in the 5th and Chiron in the 11th.  So within a couple years my progressed Sun will square both those planets and I'm afraid that whatever happens in the conjunction will be taken (painfully) away by the squares to Uranus and Chiron.  I have been reading the posts about people undergoing pluto transits and I agree it is very wearing on the soul to be taken down to the depths so much.  Just what kind of contract did I sign and what was I thinking???

This conglomeration has affected my family:  My father (Sun) who I have always been semi-estranged from (he is a Pisces with Saturn conjunct his Sun, and very afraid of the feeling nature, sees people who feel things as "victims") is  now dying of cancer.  He has gotten more mellow, but he is very wealthy and still controls what he doles out (not that I think I deserve anything, just that he uses money as a control device) and in his dying days has gotten more controlling even though he is watching all his children undergo terrible events that leaves many of us destitute.  He has always believed that hardship is a "good thing", builds character, etc.  Anyhoo, perhaps the conjunction of p. Jup to my Moon will soften the relationship.  I have always said that Jupiter is sometimes a really difficult planet because it blows everything way up, and when it comes to Scorpio the drama can get blown up out of all proportion.  I do have a wonderful female friend (I call her my angel) that I think represents the Venus side of the progressions.  Our friendship  began about a year ago.  I am very grateful for the "good side" of these transits.  I also will post in the Uranus/Saturn forum because along with all the Scorpio progressions to my Moon I have the Uranus/Saturn opposition directly on my Sun (ruler of my 5th house) and it's hard to tell which transit is which because everything is hitting all at once.

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I don't think I'd worry too much about your children.  If you are married, however, you might look at what is happening in your partner's life, with his mother or other women around him.  Pluto opposite Moon is *not* a conjunction, although I've heard some people say that the best way to use it is to try to "make" it like a conjunction... i.e., don't go for the projection (and the 7th is a "projection house" anyway).  I have experienced Pluto Moon as a very deep transformative emotional experience, and with Pluto on the Asc. you can bet the transformation is about *you* taking off a "mask" of some sort, becoming more you than you've ever been before.  Please let us know what happens during this transit!

Today I had a big fight with my SO surrounding issues of our house and money, and so I decided to do some more reading on this transit. I was googling "pluto conjunction moon" and found this thread, and was interested in reading other people's experiences with this transit. Mine has been going on for over a year (moon is 0 Cap 29'21" in the sixth house). This may be the last pass over, I am not a skilled astrologer, but have been watching my major transits now for several years, and during a professional reading 2 years ago the astrologer talked a lot about this transit, in particular about the potential for a massive transformation with my mother (even perhaps a maternal death).

Well, my mother is STILL alive, but she is getting on years (mid-eighties). We have always had an extremely vexed relationship. and I have done my best to try to evade her motherly love (it never felt like love during my early years), and her company, suffering incredible guilt along the way, feeling like the bad daughter. (Interestingly enough, I have a cancer asc, and my mother is a cancer. I have always felt that there was a connection there, being that I have felt that through life I have rejected the cancer/water part of me and hence my mother. Does that make sense)?

About five years ago (my 40th year), I started on a more serious spiritual journey, one that involved doing a lot of self inquiry and attempting to start owning my projections about the world and people. I did a lot of work on my mother, and though a lot of other issues I had been having shifted for the better, I still felt exactly the same toward my mother. Nothing seemed to change.

So....long story short, pluto began conjuncting my moon, and it was as if this complete 360 degree turn happened with the way I viewed my mother. One day she called, and we started talking about her coming to visit me (a long trip), and in the past, I have always been reluctant to see her (that is a understatement). And, just out of the blue, I realized that I wanted to see her. It began a whole series of realizations over several months, I started to see her as a person, not my mother, and also seeing things from her perspective. I spent a lot of time going back through my life, and just viewing my memories of her and seeing them in different ways.

For the VERY first time in my life, I can say that I both love her and miss her presence. It wasn't that I just suddenly stopped seeing her negative qualities, it is that I saw her positive ones, which I had never been able to see before.

So, I have the pluto transit to thank for that. It was probably the greatest gift I have ever gotten, and one that felt like it would never happen. So now I am onto the other less 'healed' parts of the transit, working in harmony to fix this falling down house (bought, YES, during the pluto transit last summer). I hope there is hope for that one and the transit won't break up my marriage.

Thanks for letting me blather on, this has been cathartic.

NE16th what a lovely post.  I understand your feelings on both sides.  I have a similar relationship with my mother and also my daughter.  I don't know if it's a mother/daughter thing or certain family heredity, but it's been a very huge project to try to overturn the negative energy and make it about the positive.

I'm still working on it.  HURRAY for you for changing your attitude and welcoming her.  Last time my mother came to visit, she became very ill and probably will never be physically up to making the trip again.  She is 84 now. 

I can honestly say that being a mother is one of the hardest things I have ever done in my life.  Also one of the most fulfilling (sometimes).

Welcome to the forum, Maryl33.  Thanks for sharing.

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Hello, I'm new to this board too.  I'm a Cancerian 11degrees Sun with a 0 degree Cap moon in the 8th house that has been feeling the Pluto transit big time for too long now.  I guess Christmas makes one emotional, especially a Cancerian with Mars/Uranus in Cancer in the 4th, Jupiter in the 4th in Leo  there too. 

As Pluto approached my moon (within 5 degrees applying) my Cancerian Mother passed away.  Lots of deception about her will (8th house) with my 3 sisters lying to me about it.  I had a difficult relationship with Mom, and my younger sister was the executor of the will and lied to me about finding a second will, with me receiving less than all of them.  Funny my Mom never mentioned this. 

Also, my sister received a "loan on her will" to the tune of $100,000, this too, was information denied to me, with no paperwork showing it.
Sounds like a bad movie of the week, doesn't it?

Well, now my father, who's 95 and been divorced from my Mom for decades now, is ill and failing and that same sister is, you guessed it, executor of his will too.
One burned, I trust no-one. 
My Dad gave me some money to buy a new house (moon) $ from Dad (8th house)  Sisters found out about it, got riled up and now my father is demanding payment back on his gift.  I cannot afford to pay him.  Power-struggle stalemate with Dad's inheritance money (8th house) and he's not even gone yet!!!

My natal cap moon is opposite my mercury/venus in Gemini in the 2nd - siblings?
My natual sun in Cancer in the 3d....my relationships with bros/sisters

Looking at Pluto through 2010, it retrogrades back to just under 2 degrees after going out to 5 Cap.  I really, really have had to deal with ancient childhood issues of trust, greed, slander, self-esteem, being called too sensitive, and honoring my razor intuition.  I have also had to grieve about the loss of trust/real love in my family, which I had deceived myself about all my life, always giving people the benefit of the doubt.  Can't trust my own family - always with uterior motives about power and money.  My brother has inherited my father's lucrative business, but is an alcoholic and abusive as well.  I tried for years to help him.  I've found this transit helping me to realize that the cost of their love is for me to remain powerless and not to stand up for myself.  I can't do this any longer.  The cost of not standing up for myself is to lose my soul. 
I'm trying hard to forgive them and deal with being without a family.  I don't have children of my own, and family has always been an elusive source of strength (Cancer/me)
Does this make sense to anyone out there?  Pennies.....okay a nickel for your thoughts.......

Hi MoonLight, I can relate to your post. My 1 and only post was so long I could not even get to
all the family money issues.

"Can't trust my own family - always with uterior motives about power and money.  My brother has inherited my father's lucrative business, but is an alcoholic and abusive as well.  I tried for years to help him.  I've found this transit helping me to realize that the cost of their love is for me to remain powerless and not to stand up for myself.  I can't do this any longer.  The cost of not standing up for myself is to lose my soul."

Per your quote..I have found that I have to let go period. I have never done anything wrong to the people
I have loved in my family maybe except walk along time ago. My News years resolition was going to be...
If you do not respect me and wish me well...care about my life and feelings hit the road.

I think my mom will pass. My relationship with her has been very distant and basically, she is a horrible greedy person who  is only money, money, money... I reconnected with her when pluto hit cap because I wanted to
see if I was like her or if I could like her. Make sense? I am trying to make this a gentle departure. if this was Karma, I do not want to do it again

Moonlight, I'm sorry you experienced first hand a difficult time with the loss of a family member related to the will.

I used to work in the auction business with my husband.  Both of us have seen and been on the receiving end of the short stick, so to speak.  It's no fun.  I have watched many families go through WAY too much drama over death, wills, estate directions. 

The families that went through the loss of a family member with grace were few and far between, but a blessing.