Pluto Line in Astrocartography: Welcome to the Forbidden Realms
The Pluto Line in astrocartography can get a bit of a bad rep. I think it’s probably the trickiest line in the whole of the chart to navigate, as much because it depends on the collective experience at the time, not just the personal pluto line and connotations.
So… I thought I’d write about it. Write about my experiences from my Pluto line which… I’ve visited by accident quite a few times. Oops!
I greatly dislike the interpretation of Pluto in the black and white sense, though I do often lean on the traditional musings to get started in readings. It’s death, rebirth and transformation. Life at it’s creation and at its end. It’s therefore growth in the darkness, like the seed planted in the soil, not knowing which way is up or down. And whilst that KIND of applies to the Pluto line, the experiences are actually much richer and much deeper and… classic Pluto, much more hidden.
I live in the UK, in Sherwood Forest actually - the little village of Edwinstowe, renowned for being the home of the Major Oak, and Centre Parcs. Lol. The reason why I share this, is that from an astrocartography point, I don’t live near any of my major lines. There is though, one line that runs through the UK for me that I do live under… something I often tell my clients not to do if they can help it. “Do as I say, not as I do.”
My Pluto Line runs directly down through the edge of the Norfolk/Suffolk border, cutting through France near Dunkirk and follows South, through Toulouse, through Barcelona, through Ibiza and it keeps going.
So what’s my interpretation of the Pluto line in astrocartography based on these places?
Some words you might want to explore with your Pluto line when interpretting your own chart are:
Transformation and growth
Hidden and secretive people, places and things
Nothing quite as it seems
Potentially a little risky…
Explores polarities of life - how birth and death can coexist
Opportunity to deepen personal skills - new hidden ‘skills’ or talents coming to the surface, possibly being misunderstood
Initiations into darkness - the underworld containing mental health, sex, death and “hierarchy”
Finding light in the darkness - when ‘bad’ things happen, what can we hold onto, where is the light?
Introductions to the underworld of life and society
It will also depend on where Pluto sits in your chart. Is it being aspected? What house is it in? And if there a significant Pluto transit aiding your experience at that time? For example, if Mars is aspecting Pluto in the 8th house, I probably wouldn’t bother going on holiday to my Pluto line during that time…
There’s a reason behind why I wanted to share this as a personal story about the Pluto Line in Astrocartography
For context, my natal Pluto sits in Scorpio in the 3rd house, within conjunction range of the IC. It’s trine the South node in Cancer, with a really supportive ‘remembrance’ quality to it, and sextile my North Node in the 5th house in Capricorn. A nod to consistently work at your craft… Though it sits square my Jupiter, the overall feeling of Pluto for me has been growth. Like a plant that has outgrown its pot and been uncomfortably moved to a new, bigger pot, albeit kicking and screaming for the first part of the lesson at least. The Pluto square Jupiter in my 12th house is a particularly important part of my story with my Pluto line, for one reason. Jupiter in the 12th house… expanding the beyond, the unseen and the realms of dreams…
In May 2004 I went to France on a school trip. I know exactly when it was because the final episode of Friends was airing… Now, obviously when I was 12/13 I had no idea where my Pluto line was. Though I should note, I had also JUST undergone my Jupiter return, my first big initiation. But anyway yep, you guessed it, I was holidaying on my Pluto line.
Now this has only just been bought to my attention to help me interpret my natal Pluto. My opportunity for foundations, roots, growth and going beyond the veil. I’ve been lucid dreaming over the past few days, remembeing the power of dreams and creativity, hence creating The Sleep Healer, but something special happened on this trip and it was the first time I’d experienced this sort of ‘trip.’
My lucid dreaming over the last few days bought me back to school trips, and specifically school trips in France. “Odd” I thought, because I literally haven’t thought about this trip for years. Why would I? Apart from this one thing, it was a pretty standard school trip.
But what did happen, was something I would now consider to be the manifestation of astral travel. And I quite confidently call it that, because I’ve had similar experiences since but in meditation type settings. I know I have the ability to astral travel when I require it, it’s just at the very start it was terrifying and so I completely shut it down. “No one understands.” “People will think you’re weird.” Classic Pluto protections.
BUT on this trip, I did it by accident, and it was terrifying. I remember we’d gone to the beach in the evening. As we got closer to the beach, I started to feel a bit weird. I couldn’t explain it. It was as if I was watching myself from just above the crown of my head, and I was watching myself go through the motions of life. It was beyond weird for a 12 year old. I panicked, told the teachers, and they seemed perplexed. Couldn’t understand it. “Miss, I feel like I’m watching myself.” I mean, what do you say to that!?
“Get a test for diabetes when you get back” was literally the advice that every teacher mentioned. I was told this a few times and told to eat more sugar… lol. I’m now 33 and have not got diabetes I can confirm. The sceptic might consider the the fact I was ‘disassociating’, though I would say I wasn’t stressed. Nothing traumatic had happened, and as I’ve had controllable experiences since, I don’t think that was it either.
I’ve since landed on the fact that it was my first experience with Astral Travel as I’ve had experiences since which have been under control and really rather exciting. They’ve given me something incredibly expansive to be able to use for my creative muses. Something I’ll be exploring more with the Sleep Healer and helping others to develop too…
The reason why I wanted to share this is for a more rounded interpretation of the Pluto Line. Beyond the traditional interpretations of life, death and rebirth.
Yes, it’s about death and life and everything hidden from view. But it’s also about hidden skills and gifts, things that could get you into trouble or hold you up as a genius, things that some will accept and some will ‘forbid’ you for, your mind and your PERSPECTIVE of what the darkness looks like.
So when you come to interpret your Pluto line, have a dig around - like what I did there!? It’s likely the meaning of it won’t come to view until you consider the things that have happened there or the people you’ve met from those spaces…
