Transiting Pluto conjunct Natal Midheaven

This is an extremely important transit that will affect the entire course and direction of your life and what you will actually accomplish. It is also a rather long transit, whose effects will be manifested over a period of up to two years.

The central issue here is your life direction. Where are you going? What are you doing? This is a time of vigorous scrutiny when you will probably examine everything that you have done with your life up until now and ask a number of questions. First, do you really feel that what you have been doing is valid? Don't think solely in terms of your job, although that is certainly an important part of the question. Many people's true vocation consists of what they consider to be an avocation. For example, Sir Isaac Newton's actual job for many years was with the Royal Mint of England. He studied science, his true vocation, on the side, although his mint work left him a great deal of time.

Second, are the means you have used been appropriate to your ends and to your own inner being? This is an extremely important question. With Pluto, what is required is not just success; it must be won properly. If you have had to violate the rules of your game in order to win, this transit is likely to bring you crashing down in failure. And even if this doesn't happen immediately, don't feel that you have gotten away with it, because this effect of the transit continues as long as Pluto is in your natal tenth house.

Your response to this transit depends on your answers to the above questions. If you discover that you are not fulfilling your true calling in your work or another area, Pluto will bring inexorable forces to the surface that will drive you out of your present position. You may leave voluntarily, or you may be forced out by being fired or laid off. If this happens, let your inner feelings guide you in an entirely new direction.

If you have been on the proper course all these years, this transit will give you a massive push to succeed. Only watch out that your push does not arouse too much opposition from above that could slow you down. The forces set loose by a Pluto transit are often very difficult to handle. Also be careful about breaking the rules of the game as mentioned above, for this can destroy your efforts.

If you have been on the right course, but have not been going about it the right way, you will make big changes in the way you pursue your goals.

Whatever else happens now, there will be many large changes in your life, clearing the way for you to follow your proper life course. There may be significant changes concerning your family or parents that tremendously affect your own life. Things or persons connected with the past may pass out of your life at this time. Do not try to hold on to them, for their departure is part of the clearing process.

Transiting Pluto sextile Natal Midheaven

This transit has widely varying effects upon different people. It can be a time in your career when you make a fundamental change in your objectives. Or it can be a time when you turn inward and evaluate your spiritual progress, with the probable result of a significant change of objectives.

In terms of your career or life direction, it may be that forces operating behind the scenes, which you probably not aware of, will give you a chance to exert more personal power for making changes among your fellow workers. The people working on your behalf may have a c plan, or you may just happen to fit into a changed circumstance that presents the opportunity.

Sometimes this process may involve a change in jobs or even careers, but usually the change will take place in your present situation.

But there are changes taking place in your personal life also, aimed at increasing your effectiveness in pursuing your life goals. You may improve your immediate living conditions or even change residence for professional reasons. At the same time there will be more emotional intensity in your most intimate relationships with your family.

This process is a reflection of the positive changes taking place within your mind. New psychological pressures are coming to the surface and transforming the way you think about yourself. Quite often emotions associated with past experiences are reactivated at this time, which effect your life very powerfully. This can be a chancce to get rid of psychological complexes from your past and to live more freely and with less compulsion.

You may have to look to other people's resources or financial backing to fulfill your current plans. Feel free to do so, because other people may be in a position to help you out tremendously in making changes either in your personal or domestic life or in your career.

Transiting Pluto square Natal Midheaven

At this time you have to be careful not to let your actions stir up resistance from others. Try to avoid acting in ways that say you are out to change people's lives and habits and that you will not compromise at all. Without even being aware of it, you may become obsessed by achieving certain objectives with an energy out of all proportion to the significance of your goal. This is what scares people and may make them work against you.

On the other hand you may experience this kind of energy from others. Persons or circumstances may attempt to change you against your will. To a certain extent this is a positive encounter, because it forces you to become very conscious of what you are doing so that you can defend yourself against the pressures for change. And indeed it is inevitable that you will change, but the changes can be for the good, if you don't waste all your energies trying to fight them. Your whole conception of yourself and your goals in life will change, and in many ways you will be a new person after this transit.

Your domestic life is particularly likely to change in some regard. Any tensions in your marital and family life will surface at this time, and you will have to do something about them. Do not hope that they will go away, because they wont. But you do have the opportunity to create a whole new relationship out of your present one, if you are willing to face the challenge. Sometimes these pressures for change are manifested externally. You may suddenly need repairs on your house, or appliances may suddenly break down, and as a result the physical health of either you or your family may suffer. This is also a sign that changes are needed, so you should look very intensely for the cause of the difficulty. Perhaps you need to move. Sometimes this transit coincides with a change of residence, which enables you to see what to do more easily because your new surroundings reveal previously hidden problems. You need not expect catastrophe with this transit by ant means, but do not shrink from the challenge of change. Only in this way can you keep your life vigorous and challenging.

Transiting Pluto trine Natal Midheaven

During this time gradual changes will take place in your life that will make you more aware of the external and internal forces that make your life move in certain directions. You will gain great psychological insight into yourself and others at this time, and you will go below surface appearances to seek out the fundamental elements of any issue.

This is also a time when you may gain power over others in some way, either in your personal or your professional life. You may be given the authority to direct a project or a group of people working together. However, you should be aware that you are acting as an agent of forces that transcend your own individuality, and that everything you do must be for the common good, or it will be to no avail.

Sometimes the power can take a form that has nothing to do with authority. It may be that your own personality becomes powerful from within, making you a person of moral influence. Without even being aware of the process yourself, you speak with wisdom and others heed what you say. People may be drawn to you, fascinated by your energy and power. Of course this confers the greatest possible responsibility upon you, because you can misuse this power, but the consequences for you would not be good!

Under this transit you may choose to undergo psychotherapy or work with other mind-expanding disciplines in order to increase your self-understanding.

In your professional life you may feel that you have a very significant task to perform at this time, one that is far more important than your usual work. You feel that your work could transform the whole nature of your career, not only for yourself but for others in the same field. You have a much greater sense of purpose in your work than usual. If you take the time to communicate this in detail to others, you can be really effective. But if you assume that your insight is obvious and that everyone else sees what you see, you will become isolated from those who could help, and therefore you will be ineffective.

Transiting Pluto quincunx Natal Midheaven

Transiting Pluto opposite Natal Midheaven

This is a time of great change in your personal and family life and a time of great inner psychological change. The effects of this transit can vary greatly, but it is always an important transit.

On the psychological level, you may encounter certain psychological effects from your past- your childhood and early home life, your relationship with your parents, your hometown or even something from the more distant past of your family or heredity. Psychologists know that the experiences of early life have a strong conditioning affect upon adult behavior, and it is essential to understand the psychological mechanisms created by this experience in order to free yourself from neurotic problems that arise in adulthood. During this transit you can gain such understanding, because the forces within you are much more powerful and near the surface, where they can be observed in action.

On a less profound level, this transit can signify that you personal life will go through great changes as certain things pass away and new things come into existence. Obviously this happens all the time, but the changes are much more dramatic now. There may be great changes within your family, such as divorce, death, a major change of residence or the need for major repairs on a building, to name a few of the changes signified by this transit. The main point is that at some level of your personal and domestic life needs to be overhauled so that it can be reconstructed along new lines. Often you need to be liberated from the past, not only at the psychological level but in your everyday practical life as well. This is the time to build a new order in your personal life. However, people often attempt to resist such change, with unpleasant results. The energies merely build up to such a point that they are released through a dramatic or unfortunate incident, such as the breakup of a marriage, sudden damage to property or the like. And resisting the energies of change is a waste of an opportunity to totally regenerate your life from its very roots.