Passion, Purpose, Position: Pluto’s First House Placing Spinning Power!
I enjoy the subject of astrology and especially with the MODALITY of Humanistic Cosmic Therapy, psychoanalytically delving into the ins and outs that it entails. I enjoy it, not only because it entertains and educates, but because I love dissecting various interlocking mathematical patterns and geometric relationships. Yes, angular patterns. Everything that exists happens because of the different associated patterns.
The pattern of water H2O (water) is different from that of NaCl (salt); however, both are needed in their own sphere of influence and function; more especially, in the electromagnetic functions they perform in the human body. So, too, the spiral patterns are linked to perform certain functions by their specific positions -in galaxies- whose subatomic-ionic radiant size influences us by their specific orbits.
Take the influence of Pluto (Scorpio) for example. Everyone has Pluto located somewhere in their astrological birth chart. However, Pluto-dominant people {those with Pluto located in the 1st house} are considered too selfish, skeptical, and harsh. You rarely feel sorry for them when damning consequences result from their abrupt actions. The confrontation proves to be a welcoming training ground. Most people say that they are nothing short of evil.
Others will say “Well, he (or she) deserves it, since he (or she) asked for it.” Unfortunately, Pluto ruled that people in the first house are not necessarily aware of what they did or are doing to bring ‘things’ upon themselves. They just want things and people to come out! They abhor falsehood. And, because they love to expose devious motivations, in themselves and others, they will stop at nothing to accomplish the task of exposing the fakes.
Today as I discuss the position and influence of Pluto in the first house of the astrological birth chart, I am clearly reminded that any of us question our purpose for being alive on planet Earth solely because of Pluto’s probing power. How could this small (seemingly inconsequential remote planet) subject the human race to such flagrant malaise?
The theme of death, which immediately sets the stage in Pluto’s realm, astrologically prompts us to find out what we can to illuminate the matter. Shallowness will not suffice when standing before the master of death. By the way, regarding the natal chart, if Pluto is near the Ascendant, the journey and delivery of the birth are involved in a crucial life and death struggle.
The mother was going through an ongoing phase of transformation when the child was born, which brought disappointment and marked dissatisfaction. Though the birth may not have resulted in a literal death, the mother is forever changed and irrevocably bound to the child in life-changing struggles. {A turning point in her life; No doubt}
The relationship between mother and child is so intertwined and so formidably linked that, though somewhat elusively disguised, it remains identical in composition. The child will have an irresolute fear of impending doomed motivations in people, to the extent that trusting them will be a constant problem.
We all instinctively feel the subconscious pervasive influence of Pluto (Scorpio), but we usually deny its range of transformative emotions!
Sometimes, due to this inability to pretend for long, the first house ruled by Pluto, people will quickly close the door on the immovable and frustrating past, and perseveringly, if reluctantly, move on. Friendships and connections are completely severed, with little chance of being revived. Labeled a ‘loser’ or an egomaniac, this person may simply disappear from the scene altogether.
In fact, the native Pluto is often hard to find and pin down, anyway, but in times of self-generated stress, he or she may simply disappear, leaving no forwarding address or any clue as to whereabouts.
The person in Pluto’s 1st house is intensely self-critical and, like a pushy parent, continually tries to remake himself. The internal responses to self-criticism create crises and personal changes in the personality, as well as in the events that surround it and in the person’s environment. This individual finds it difficult to know when he will stop putting himself down.
Ultimately, after trying to avoid the continual annoyance and pain of self-review, the Pluto person semi-self-destructs through denial of punishment. The lifestyle will seem to become a devouring avalanche, dragging this native to the wells, to the bottom, where he hears and experiences the crying and gnashing of teeth.
This kind of ‘all or nothing’ life creates alarming situations that do not seem to stop, but only help to continue the devastating momentum. In some cases, individuals lose their sources of income, their homes, their lifestyles, their relationships, everything; and they have to fight fiercely to start again to do something else. Others will avoid these people, fearing that the landslide could be ‘contagious’, that it could affect them.
I could go on for hours about the direct enigmatic influence of the dynamic position of Pluto which is in the first house of a person’s birth chart. Let’s just say: “crisis” becomes the name/path of the individual. And, unless you enjoy tearing apart each of the underlying motifs, steer clear! Of course, not all natives of Pluto in the first house have this particular problem of relentless crises; some will just sulk, balk, and boomerang.
But, EVERY person ruled by Pluto will generally be a very private person! Few, if any, people will get to know this person intimately. During the gregarious times of the personality, a certain danger is associated. With this aura of seductive excitement around native Pluto, suggesting that here is someone who lives life richly and excitingly, the sign reads, “Enter at your own risk!”
Being around such a person can add an aura of glamor to one’s life, but not without a heavy price. Others are somewhat intimidated, hesitant to ‘buy’ into the sheer raw power expressed.
It goes without saying that the person in Pluto’s 1st house acts with the skill of an expert magician, and that is what magnetically attracts others. Somehow, others just know that this person’s power can bring anything he wants into his life, anything!
Scorpio’s focus of consciousness is deep, and the sense of clear, unencumbered, intense, dynamic, and powerful inner motivations can tap into and ATTRACT from the attraction resources of the universe. Using clarified desire, Scorpio’s essential nature generates that innate magical ability into reality.
The native can experience life intensely in the moment and is extraordinarily perceptive. But, NOT when doubts are brought up on the home front! Much like a hawk or an eagle, people with Pluto’s 1st house are aware of their surroundings and how that environment reflects their own nature. They can live life with enthusiasm, involved in unraveling the mystery of reality and exploring their own magical resources, of which there are many!
The physical manifestations in the reality of the person of the 1st house of Pluto include several uprootings throughout life, {at least, of all the time in prison} as well as moving to other places, perhaps distant, which could imply the alteration family/home situations. There can be danger of freak accidents, particularly during a 1st house Pluto transit. Sudden and unexplained illnesses tend to appear revealing deep-rooted psychological difficulties.
More often than not, however, there is simply a withdrawal from external social events, a tendency to prefer seclusion, or a solitary way of life. Physical problems (ranging from alcohol/drug addiction to mental breakdowns) can absorb a great deal of time in treatment; and the native is often not opposed to the use of new technological or occult methods, turning his body into a testing laboratory, so to speak. He wants to KNOW, without a doubt, what he is capable of withstanding!
“Daring Risks” will be the motorcycle of choice to ride to make up! Ruthlessly determined to PROVE something, these people bow down to no one at any time! No strangers to disaster, protection and self-preservation, at all costs, rules them. In good physical shape, they entrench themselves against the inevitable desolation. They are loners who find it difficult to cooperate with others who are just playing idiotic games.
No one can match his treacherous need to be in control and dominate. They are also no strangers to the face of terrifying demons, they recoil out of nowhere. Thus spoke Pluto in the first house of his natal chart.