Astrology guide / Signs
The meaning of Pluto in Sagittarius
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 Sagittarius — mutable fire — was set within a current that remade belief and meaning, religion and philosophy, and the very vantage from which we see the world, from the roots. It was a generation that carried an age when information crossed borders and worldviews expanded greatly.
What this placement handed its generation was a power of renewal to dismantle beliefs and conventions grown narrow, and to reopen toward a wider, freer horizon of meaning. Not bound to a single rightness, an adventurous spirit that would touch many cultures and values while seeking its own truth breathed powerfully in the mood of the age. An optimism that steps into the unknown with hope is this generation's great gift.
When Pluto's intensity joins Sagittarius's power to believe, clinging to one's own ideology and rightness can become the growing edge. Conviction may run to excess, and one may want to press hard that this alone is the truth. This is less self-righteousness than a process in which a heart that seeks meaning learns a larger tolerance.
The key is to add respect for others' truth to your gift for searching. 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 release a narrow rightness and question meaning with a wider view, the Sagittarius Pluto tends to shine with an expansive light of renewal.