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Moon Square Pluto

A square from Pluto to the Moon sets the wish to be safely held against the certainty that anyone close enough to hold them is close enough to destroy them, and both demands are pressing.

The need is enormous and the trust is absent. That is the whole configuration. Early life usually supplied a household with an undercurrent in it, something powerful and unnamed that the child was expected not to notice and noticed exactly. From this the native takes a permanent conviction that closeness involves the surrender of ground, and a permanent hunger for closeness anyway. The two do not reconcile. They alternate, which is why this square so often produces attachments of great heat followed by withdrawals nobody saw coming.

In practice it shows in tests. The native sets small trials for people they love, mostly without admitting it, and reads the results carefully. Jealousy appears in a form that is more investigative than loud. A partner's ordinary reticence is treated as evidence. When a relationship ends the native does not taper it, they cut it, and then carry the amputated thing for years. Household possessions are periodically purged in a single afternoon. Food and the body become sites of control when nothing else can be controlled.

No aspect in the chart repays work more reliably than this one. The native who stops managing intimacy and simply states the fear out loud, in plain words, at the moment it arrives, breaks the mechanism in a way that no amount of insight does. Development here is repeated and late, and each round leaves the native genuinely more substantial: capable of great steadiness for others precisely because they know what the bottom looks like. The cost is real, though. Several relationships are usually spent learning it, and they were not wasted, but they were spent.

What It Gives

  • ◆strength that has been tested
  • ◆honesty about what others hide
  • ◆fierce protection of dependants
  • ◆capacity to begin again completely

What It Costs

  • ◆loved ones quietly tested
  • ◆attachments cut rather than eased
  • ◆control exercised over food or home

This is one line of a whole chart. The rest of it — every placement, house and aspect at once — is a birth date away.

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