When transiting Pluto makes a tense “square” aspect to Natal Venus, be prepared for a major remodeling, reconstruction, demolition, and dismantling of core fears. The old disintegrates, and something brand new is born in its place. Be prepared to surrender what is outdated and no longer of value to your evolution and spiritual growth. Certainly, old relationships, ways of relating, and giving and receiving will deeply transform. At the beginning of this transit, one may feel a profound loss, lack, or intense limitation. The most intense situation or issue is the pathway towards greater self-love and empowerment.
Be prepared to let go. I mean, really, really let go. With any Pluto transit, we are reminded to allow energy to flow, move, and transform from one state to another. This is especially true for anything or anyone that is no longer in alignment with one’s higher purpose. The square aspect symbolizes “major growth,” change, and potentially, maturity.
There is also a sense of feeling subjective and even blind spots, or feeling boxed in, with this transit. A person will certainly be the witness of where self-betrayal, lack of trust, or issues around powerlessness and extreme imbalance have occurred or are happening. Deep wounds and traumas may come up for purging, healing to lead one towards empowerment.
With a Pluto transit square natal Venus, there may be core fears and issues around intimacy, power, trust, finances, worth, values, boundaries, addiction, manipulation, and lack of giving and receiving. Things simply feel extreme, not enough of, and off-balance. If the “box” or symbolic closet is stuffed with unresolved or disowned issues, it will pile up until it explodes or implodes. One wrong move by anyone, and the stuffed box goes boom like fireworks that become ugly instead of magical. It does not have to be this way. You can start right now to work with the themes coming up. As soul, you are born with a natural wisdom, and you have everything that it takes to move through this transit with ease and strength.
Think of it this way: if self-imposed limitations have been created, they can be dismantled carefully and with a well-thought-out plan. Relinquishing control that is based in the egoic mind’s realm can be and is difficult. It is possible with courage and understanding. This transit and the nuances will challenge the individual to rise onto a higher ground of the soul and view the entire issue or situation from a different perspective.
This transit provides an avenue to step outside of blame or victim mentality and onto a foundation that is based on reclaiming trust within first, then trusting other people. What becomes obvious in this transition is where the hot spots are chronic repeated loops, or pain is holding on all levels: spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical.
If you look at a “square” aspect between Pluto/Venus, then you will sense symbolically and energetically a trapped and locked-in type of energy. It may feel dense, rigid, hardened, inflamed, cold, and other sensations. It is possible to realize you have been shut off or down for a very long time, like your tender self has been hiding in a corner within a steel vault for survival. And within that, there may be repressed and suppressed emotions, instability, depression, psychological coping mechanisms, as well as addictive tendencies that have been created out of self-survival. But who wants to live in survival mode for an entire life? That is extremely depleting to one’s life force or vitality. Not to mention it is a bleak life. You can’t even create or feel joy in that mode. Facing one’s innermost “demons” and turmoil that has been buried in emotional caverns and burrowed channels will be supportive with transiting Pluto “square” natal Venus. Then, one by one, the individual has the opportunity to realize what layers are false and what is genuine and real about self in relation to love, intimacy, power, and trust.
Creativity, Energy, and Money
When it comes to creative energy, money, and finances with Pluto “square” natal Venus, be ready to purge and let go of fears around money. Unwinding perceptions, thoughts, and beliefs that are tightly wound and stifling your ability to create and materialize will be of high importance. At times, it may mean the “deepest lack” shows up so you can evolve beyond the limitation and fear. Sometimes, it shows up as totally shedding and letting go of an image, a way of making money, a change of business, and creative output.
This transit reveals how creative energy shows up in the physical world as money. If your creative energy is stuck and distorted or being poured into toxic relationships, then you may see your finances revealing the issue of lack or depletion and debt. During this transit, a person gets to be honest with how the “investing and debiting” is going, both energetically and financially. There is potential to experience a fresh rebirth as the Pluto transit finalizes to natal Venus.
Relationships
During the Pluto “square” natal Venus transit, even if someone says, “I value you, I trust you, I love you,” the distorted filter it will go through is: “I don’t feel it” or “I don’t believe it.” Relationships of all kinds, personal and business, are activated now. Those that are based on a lack of trust and value or are toxic may have to be let go of. You can’t have genuine love and toxic codependency in one space. That is like having a moldy strawberry in a pack and thinking the other strawberries will not mold. It just is not possible. You have to have the courage to be real with yourself. Transiting Pluto “square” natal Venus initially brings up the “lack” so that it can help you peel away the walls to return to fullness of joy, love, and deeper lasting resources. A more profound relationship (love, romantic, business) that is based on trust and empowerment and that values who you are and what you are expressing in that relationship is paramount. Be willing to let go. Be willing to adjust. Be willing to honor the past and create a healthy space for the newness of what will manifest.
Self-Compassion
A few helpful keys with transiting Pluto “square” natal Venus are the application of self-compassion, honesty, and returning to core empowerment. Compassion for self is bringing the higher perspective blended with gentleness and firmness that the soul is. When a person experiences such a deep and intense cycle of development, being compassionate helps to create a safe, gentle, empowering space to be, heal, sort, purge, and evolve. Compassion for self can also mean creating a healthy framework or boundaries, a new self-care routine, commitment to heal and mature, and so forth. Then the application for compassion for others and life expands beyond old limits.
No-Nonsense Approach, No More Excuses
Think of this cycle of development as a way of learning and practicing a no-nonsense approach. Allow me to explain. If you are the type of person who overgives in a relationship, it has become a way of being loved, and there is always a looping back into feeling a “lack” of love, value, worth, or appreciation, then it may be a time for a no-nonsense approach with yourself. Perhaps with transiting Pluto “square” natal Venus, it is now at a deep void/lack where you can’t ignore it any longer. You are craving more. But first, it begins with the self.
Self-awareness of what your part in this situation is that you agreed to all of it. Then you can change it. You can alter the habit and fill your inner void/lack with loving yourself first before you self-sacrifice and deplete yourself in order to be loved by others. Think of it as a no-nonsense approach, no excuses of “inside out” first. That is, love, respect, and give to yourself first. Allow that to fill your being. Honor yourself. And then you are ready to magnetize others who will honor you in a similar way. This is core-level empowerment; inside out, instead of relying on externals (which is a temporary fix) to love you first.
Transit of Pluto “square” natal Venus carries the promise of the phoenix rising from the ashes and rebirth of more love, empowerment, intimacy, worth, and value. But not without your sincere effort to change and heal from the “inside out.” In the final stage of this transit, there is a strength, more resources, depth of intimacy, and love, as well as trust. There may be layered realizations of how the past shaped the present, and the future can be altered into something that provides joy and love of soul in daily life.
