Astrology guide / Signs
The meaning of Pluto in Libra
Pluto is the slowest-moving of the planets, taking some twelve to twenty years to cross a single sign. For that reason it reflects less an individual's personality than a deep theme of transformation and rebirth shared by everyone born in the same era. The generation that carried Pluto through Libra — cardinal air — was set within a current that reexamined relationship and partnership, and the very meaning of fairness, and remade it from the roots. It was a generation that carried an age when marriage, the roles of the sexes, and the shape of equal relating were deeply questioned.
What this placement handed its generation was a power of renewal to dismantle old ways of relating and rejoin them into more equal, honest bonds. A sensibility that questioned taken-for-granted roles and hierarchies, and sought relationships in which each person is respected, breathed in the mood of the age. A wish to build true harmony between people lives at this generation's core.
When Pluto's intensity joins Libra's longing for relationship, attachment to relationship itself, and unconscious power-play, can become the growing edge. One may accommodate a partner so fully as to lose oneself, or grow too sensitive to the balance of power. This is less mere wavering than a process in which a heart that longs for harmony learns to hold its own center.
The key is to add your own quiet truth to your gift for creating harmony. And where this theme moves most vividly in a life is shaped, person by person, by the house Pluto occupies and its aspects. Each time you move beyond surface balance to rejoin a deep and honest bond, the Libra Pluto tends to shine with a graceful light of renewal.