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Pluto in Scorpio: the Millennial Generation
by Carolyn Elliott & Aeolian Heart
2016
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Contents -Generation IntroductionScorpio: - pg. 4 An Occult Look at the Millennial Generation Disarm You with a Smile
- Pluto in Scorpio in the First House - pg. 15
Mind on My Money and My Money on My Mind
- Pluto in Scorpio in the Second House - pg. 21
Vows Are Spoken, to Be Broken
- Pluto in Scorpio in the Third House - pg. 28
Tonight I think I’ll Walk Alone, I’ll Find My Soul As I Go Home
- Pluto in Scorpio in the Fourth House - pg. 33 I Don’t Want to Stop, ’Til I Reach the Top
- Pluto in Scorpio in the Fifth House - pg. 38 I Don’t Care if i t Hurts, I Wanna Have Control
- Pluto in Scorpio in the Sixth House - pg. 43
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I Am Human and I Need to Be Loved
- Pluto in Scorpio in the Seventh House - pg. 48
Just Like a M use to Me, You are a Mystery
- Pluto in Scorpio in the Eighth House - pg. 53 If I Ever Lose My Faith in You
- Pluto in Scorpio in the Ninth House - pg. 58 I’m Miss World
- Pluto in Scorpio in the Tenth House - pg. 63 And Oh, My Dreams, It’s Never Quite as It Seems
- Pluto in Scorpio in the Eleventh House - pg. 67 The Sun is Gone, But I Have a Light
- Pluto in Scorpio in the Twelfth House - pg. 73
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Generation Scorpio: An Occult Look at the Millennial Generation We, the authors of this book (Rachel Capurso and Carolyn Elliott) were born at the onset of the Millennial generation. As Millennials, we were collectively born under the influence of Pluto in Scorpio, part of the cohort that arrived here in this world between 1984 and 1995. While much has been written about the proclivities and motivations of people in the Millennial Generation, not much has been said about exactly what it means for a group of folks born with Pluto in Scorpio to now be coming into the prime of their adulthood. Yet as we inquire about and come understand how the generational Pluto in Scorpio influence shapes Millennials' drives and purpose, we gain immense insight into a Zeitgeist that's likely to unfold world-wide as Millennials grow in power and influence. The growth of Millennial influence, of course, happens as that of the Baby Boomers (the Pluto in Leo generation, born 1937-1956), the Pluto in Virgo Generation (alas, they never got a catchy pop culture name, born 1956-1971) and Generation X (Pluto in Libra, born 1971-1982) begin to recede.
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Let's begin first by briefly discussing what natal Pluto placements in general can indicate, and what Pluto in Scorpio could theoretically / mythologically signify.
What Pluto Placements Indicate The placement of Pluto in the natal chart shows where we are most touched by darkness, where our conscious experiences are eclipsed by the repressive instincts of the psyche. Repressing what, exactly? Generally, a truth so over-whelming (about who we are, about what the world is) that it could dissolve our ego, sending us into enlightenment or into madness. In other words, the truth of the Underworld. When Pluto was first discovered in 1930, it was transiting the sign of Cancer. Its discovery came just after the birth of modern psychoanalysis, when Freud and Jung began to probe the unconscious. Also, shortly after Pluto came on the scene - advancements in nuclear physics provided the key to the invention of the atomic bomb, the world’s first human-controlled Doomsday Device. While Cold War hysteria has faded, the looming apocalyptic urgency of nuclear bombs still lingers in our global consciousness, urging dramatic transformation. There’s a clear injunction to humanity built into the very existence of nuclear weapons technology: figure out how to thrive with each other, or risk everything on earth being deleted with the press of a red button.
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Atomic science and the art of nuclear weapon-making is a profound “occult secret” that jumped out into the forefront of the world’s awareness with the emergence of Pluto. It’s the possibility of vast power and vast pain. Upon first examination, one’s natal Pluto seems to represent a place of vulnerability: an area of the psyche that both emanates and attracts the vibrations of trauma which distort memory into forms of deceit, delusion, or amnesia. But the placement of Pluto in one’s natal chart also represents the evolved ability to “see through a glass, darkly.” To “see through a glass, darkly” is to reveal, confront, and finally integrate the murkiness of our unconscious and repressed experiences. This is why Pluto also represents your most profound potential for catharsis, revelation and empowerment.
Pluto in Scorpio: born during the AIDS and Crack epidemic…. Astrology sees the first wave of millennials (1983-1995) as a generation that is intricately woven together by Pluto’s 12 year transit through Scorpio. Pluto “rules” Scorpio, meaning that Pluto is most at home in Scorpio. Being born with Pluto reigning in the sign of its rulership indicates a throbbing emotional intensity and the voracious appetite for both pleasure and pain, shared by a whole generation. Pluto in Scorpio thunders somewhere inside each member of our generation with enough trembling power to tear through the barriers between the conscious and unconscious.
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Hence, Millennial generation is one bound together by a deep collective desire to discover secret hollows where the echoes of primordial wisdom can still be heard. Pluto in Scorpio is best described by the triumvirate of transformation: sex, death and the mystery of what is beyond the beyond. Thus, this generation is notably involved in a collective maturation, best catalyzed through the exploration of all manner of taboo, cryptic, and mystical experience. Mystery, defined by secrecy and an inexplicable nature, prompts the seeker to strive to penetrate the veil drawn between the living and the dead and to know what is believed to be unknowable. For the Pluto in Scorpio generation, the mysteries of the ancient world are deeply resonant. For instance, the famed mystery cults of ancient Greece were based upon myths that revolved around cathartic encounters with Pluto, god of the Underworld. In ancient Greece, the story of the rape of Persephone was the basis for the Eleusinian Mysteries, which ritualized the seasonal cycles of the Earth: light into darkness and darkness into light. In a manner that recalls these kind of ancient mysteries, the Pluto in Scorpio generation has been challenged to adapt great invasions and victimization, ultimately destined to find a place of sovereignty in the realm of the Underworld. Those who find the rare courage to transform from victim into sovereign, discover that the putrefying qualities of corruption invariably lead to the rejuvenating qualities of purification: each ebbing and flowing like the ocean tide.
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Likewise, the Ancient Greeks also based their Orphic Mysteries upon a Plutonian myth that told the tragic story of the divinely gifted poet Orpheus. Overcome by the intensity of grief when his lover Eurydice died, Orpheus violated the laws of nature by descending into the underworld in an attempt to resurrect her. According to Edith Hamilton’s translation of the Orpheus myth (srcinally told by Virgil and Ovid) Orpheus’ song of love, “Drew iron tears down Pluto’s cheek, and made Hell grant what Love did seek.” Like Orpheus, the first wave of Millennials have unique courage to express vibrant emotionality in the face of Plutonian darkness, meaning that within this generation many laws pertaining to sex, death and resurrection have been pleaded and appealed.
Magic and the Pluto in Scorpio Generation The Pluto in Scorpio generation grew up on wonderful magical fables: among them, the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. It’s not a coincidence that a story about a young magician enraptured and inspired the whole Millennial generation in their youth. The Pluto in Scorpio generation has a natural interest in the occult. After all, what is “unseen” is the special province of Pluto, and the special province of Scorpio. So unsurprisingly, as our generation comes into maturity and cultural prominence, spirituality once considered fringe has come mainstream
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prominence - first yoga, and now, more and more, tantra and alchemy - the transformation of consciousness using the volatile energies of sexuality. Indeed the whole world is currently witnessing an occult renaissance fueled by the interest and enthusiasm of Pluto in Scorpio people, facilitated by the internet. A fine example of occultism gaining increasing mainstream interest can be found in the fact that the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles recently offered a whole show on the life and work of the notorious witch Marjorie Cameron.
And speaking of the internet…. The Millennials born under Pluto in Scorpio emerged into awareness on the shoreline of a tumultuous aeonic shift, poised for the coming of the next great flood. As visionary artist Leigh McCloskey once said, “The last flood was of water; this one was information.” With the dawn of the Information Age, the Library of Alexandria had collided with the Seven Circles of Hell, leaving the Pluto in Scorpio generation to come of age in a vast digital underworld realm without any guide. Indeed, the first Millennials were weaned quite early from any nurturing sense of seclusion and privacy. For the first time, with the dawn of the internet age, information was without any guardians: thus the uncensored extremities of the human psyche were splattered on one giant scroll for limitless inspection.
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Really think about this. For the first time in history, the internet put inevery home access to extreme pornography and twisted conspiracy theories, hate and abuse and trolldoms - and also spectacular oases of art and connection and affirmation, including the most venerable wisdom of the world’s occult traditions. All that genius and depravity, sprawling in every living room and bed room and on every lap, and glowing in widely-accessible html code, laid bare for a billion seekers to so so easily find — again - it bears repeating for the first time in history. All of it available at the stroke of a few keys. A shocking time, yes, but remarkably natural to the Pluto in Scorpio generation. Due to being born at the nexus between eras, the Pluto in Scorpio generation has been required to process both the ecstatic and tormenting feelings created by a multitude of eschatological beliefs (end of the world scenarios).
Apocalypse Scorpio Historically, the transitional Millennial years will be remembered by the rapid succession of these aeonic prophecies, including: Y2K, the Apocalypse, the Kali Yuga, the Singularity, the Aeon of Horus, and/or the Return of Quetzalcoatl, global economic collapse. Though the typical reactionary response is to shriek in terror at the notion that “we’re all going to die!” the spiritual labors of the Pluto in Scorpio 11
generation have the power to transmute these fears into something more philosophically viable.
The Pluto in Scorpio generation is here to bravely face the eschaton, encouraged by the revelation that the death of an era heralds an important transformation through the dark canal of re-birth. This is why this generation hungers so much to find truth, seeking illumination through experimentation with drugs, sex, occultism, and deep psychological exploration.
Themes to Notice Broadly speaking, we can take note of some common themes and attitudes among the Pluto-in-Scorpio / Millennial generation: ... an unflinching, tireless airing of the world's dirtiest secrets: Edward Snowden and Julian Assange aren’t millennials themselves, but they are indeed millennial heroes of a sort. So is the hacker collective, Anonymous.
... a general disinterest in protecting privacy, arising not out of a distaste for individual liberty but out of a stark awareness that all secrets must out in the end: so why try to have them in the first place?
... a deep attraction to kink of all kinds, not out of "perversion" but out of a fascinated recognition that all sensation is transmutable: all pain can be pleasure, all pleasure can be pain.
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... a celebration the validity of genderqueer / gender nonbinary identity, again out of a recognition of the fundamental fluidity and transmutableness of all dualities.
... a relentless mainstreaming of occult topics (magic, astrology, channeling, entheogens, tarot, tantra, yoga) previously considered fringe or taboo. ... celebration of black feminine creative & economic power at previouslyunseen pop cultural levels (Beyonce, Nicki Minaj, Rihanna).
... rape culture coming to the forefront of discussion, a piercing and public dialogue.
Real Hope When we consider the deep transmutative ability of the Pluto in Scorpio we gain hope for the future: because yes, the world is in a very, very dark time and Pluto in Scorpio is well-equipped to meet it. The Pluto in Scorpio generation is meant to widen the access that humanity has to commune with the Divine. Their individual lives usually unfold as a series of unexpected initiations into spiritual paths and psychological modalities that truly penetrate into the soul, healing sexual wounds and reigniting magical power. By exploring the haunted halls of the collective unconscious, the Pluto in Scorpio generation has the capacity to integrate and distill humanity’s most valuable inheritance, the many lineages of esoteric knowledge (tantra, 13
magic, depth-psychology). The older and wiser this generation becomes, the more these gifts and abilities will emerge.
So whenever you feel a bit overwhelmed by the shifting tides of this world, try having faith in your millennial brothers and sisters. Each one of us is equipped with a fathomless sensitivity and in-born darkness that’s simultaneously a profound talent for illumination.
How to Read This Book First, discover your natal house placement of Pluto. A simple way to do this is to go to astrodienst.com, and select free horoscope -> natal chart, ascendent. Then enter your birth date information when prompted. astrodienst.com will then show you an image of your natal chart. You can look for the symbol that resembles a “P” - that’s for Pluto - and note which “piece of pie” the “P” symbol sits within. Those “pieces of pie” each have numbers - they represent the 12 houses of the natal chart. Take not which number is associated with the “piece of pie” in your chart where the “P” symbol lives — that’s the house where your Pluto resides. So for example, if your “P” symbol lives in the #6 “piece of pie” - that means you have Pluto in the Sixth House. You can read just the section of the book about your Pluto in the Sixth House, or read the whole book to gain an in-depth understanding of what everyone in the Scorpionic millennial generation is dealing with.
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Disarm You With a Smile Pluto in Scorpio in the First House song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1acEVmnVhI
What you can’t see With Pluto in Scorpio in the first house (the house of your personality and how you appear to others) you are basically a walking Scion of the Underworld.
You’re Mephistopheles in a sharp, fresh-pressed Italian suit, appearing in a blast of acrid smoke to Faust in his chambers, offering a deal for Faust to sign his soul away to the devil in exchange for all knowledge and all power.
All neatly written out on an antique scroll of Nilotic parchment, ready to be signed in blood on the dotted line.
There’s something about you that has an undeniably vampire chic vibe. Everyone pot-boiler.can easily imagine you starring in True Blood or an Anne Rice
You can’t hide your Pluto vibe from anyone. Paradoxically, the depths of your innermost intensity are automatically, loudly broadcast to all and sundry. They’re out in the open. 15
And of course, because it’s Pluto in Scorpio, it’s not just any old Pluto vibe you’re constantly giving off - it’s the most potent Pluto vibe possible. You are a insanely Plutonian person. A clearly marked emissary of the depths.
That means you win the grand prize of receiving the absolute brunt of everyone else’s desperately fearful and shaming projections regarding the intense, Plutonic dimensions of life.
Congratulations.
According to the masses who encounter you, from the time you were a little child, you’ve been sent this kind of shaming message:
You’re too honest, too unflinching. Your eyes are much too penetrating. You see too much. You’re too sexual, too knowing, too powerful - too too too much.
And since we humans tend to form our idea of ourselves based on how the people around us respond to us (that’s what social conditioning is, and getting free of it takes a fuck ton of work) that means that by the very virtue of your power (super-obvious and super-intimidating to everyone else)
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…. what you very likely can’t see, what is most hidden from your conscious awareness is your own power, your own stunning potential for shatteringly effective action.
What is revealed through experience As someone with Pluto in Scorpio in the first house, you have again and again experienced being too much according to other people - but you may not even know that that’s the message they were sending you.
You just saw people freaking out at you, and most likely drew the conclusion that you are not good enough.
I mean, if you were good enough, if you were powerful and valuable, people would just be kind to you and accept you and love you, right? No, not really though. Only people already securein their own power and value and Plutonic depths will be able to be immediately loving and approving of you. Everyone else thinks you've been sent to torture them and wants you to go away.
And as of the current state of our civilization, secure-with-themselves people are rare. So - ironically - by the very fact of you being so upsettingly powerful and valuable, you have internalized a sense that you are bad, wrong, dangerous not good enough, not okay enough, not loveable. 17
Your wound is that you’ve been hypnotized by societal rejection into thinking that you’re impotent, when exactly the opposite is true.
It’s likely that you’ve experienced accusations of harming other people not through any particular action (though some weird, improbable crime may have been drummed up by your flustered accusers) but with your presence. Your presence, the signature energy of your being, is itself an offense to people who are not okay with the darkness in themselves. You’re a living paradox. A confrontation to the agreed-upon rules of propriety.
Because you’ve received this shaming, it’s likely that you’ve worked very hard to shrink yourself down into a socially acceptable frame, or spent long periods of your life in either an institutional or self-generated monasticstyle renunciation.
You may have given up telling the uncomfortable truth, asking directly for what you want - because you’ve received the feedback that your truth and your desires are overwhelming and taboo.
Healing and Integration
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“And Life itself told me this secret: “Behold,” it said, “I am that which must overcome itself again and again.” - Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
You may be beginning to suspect that you can either live out your life in the hopeless conviction that the world can’t handle you and you can’t handle the world….
…. Or, you can offer a radioactive 100-foot tall neon pink cursive fuck all ya’ll to the shaming and shusshing that’s come your way and decide that you just do not give a damn anymore.
Like, you’re going to be you, you’re going to be relentlessly honest, sexual, distilled, brooding, vampiric, willful, deadly, confronting, perilous, disruptive you…. No matter what.
They can burn you, crucify you, torture you. Whatever. You don’t care. You’re going to live out who you are, tell your truths, embody your knowledge, no matter what.
This means: dropping every last ounce of judgment and self-righteousness that you have concerning anything “evil.” Hitler, Jim Jones, George W. Bush, Elizabeth Bathory, Donald Trump, the President of the World Bank.
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Also: all the people you’ve ever met who have been relentless assholes to you and made you feel not good enough, wrong, bad.
All of them. You’re the one who needs to be able to whole-heartedly see their perfection in the great nondual mindfuck that is life on earth. You’re the one who needs to be able to bow in profound love and gratitude to them.
More than anyone else, you require sympathy for the devil, because the devil is you, and everyone can see it.
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Mind on My Money and My Money on My Mind Pluto in Scorpio in the Second House song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI3yXg-sX5c
What you can’t see
With Pluto in Scorpio in the Second House, what is most hidden from you is your very high worth, and the fact of your mortality.
Pluto, as God of the Underworld, is also the god of extreme wealth - and, of course, death.
What have death and extreme wealth got to do with each other? Well, for example, we find both diamonds and also the bones of the dead buried in the ground - literally, both the most precious stones and our ancestors are in the world that’s under us, in the land beneath our feet.
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In fact, diamonds are made of highly compressed carbon - layers of living beings, plants, mostly - dead and pressurized for aeons into gleaming gorgeous gems.
A diamond is forever, and so is death.
Once you’re gone - you, the specific body and personality and intersection of genetics and culture and soul that forms the nexus of your existence you’re gone forever.
Sure your soul may soldier on, the light of your consciousness may meld with the eternal song of Brahma, you might be reincarnated as a plucky street urchin in Napoli in 2061.
But the you that you generally know yourself to be - with your name, your face, your parents - that you is toast. Guaranteed toast.
Since this fact has been hidden from you by the pain-avoidance mechanism of your own psyche and also by the collusion of our entire culture (which simultaneously intensely worships death, climax, explosion scenes - and also strenuously shames, hides, and denies it), that means your ability to carpe the diem has been severely compromised.
It’s likely that unless you’ve already done intensive shadow integration work or spent a lot of time meditating in cemeteries, you’re currently living your life in some condition of hazy, vague, procrastinating indifference that’s occasionally spiked by a heady cocktail of anxiety about your sustenance. 22
What is revealed through experience To deal with your anxiety about your sustenance, it’s likely that you’ve kept yourself economically dependent on family or a partner, or you’ve turned to shady means of making a living, including theft or dealing in blackmarket goods and substances. You’re bolstered in your dare-devil life of outright crime or subtle manipulations by a child-like faith in your own invulnerable immortality.
Friendly neighborhood millennial drug dealers tend to have Pluto in Scorpio in the Second House.
You may have learned while very young that a good deal of money can be made in breaking society’s rules or catering to someone’s emotionally codependent demands- but your real challenge is to learn to break your own rules and care for the well-being of your own heart. For others, taking a walk on the economic wildside of the black or grey market, or surrendering into the care of a loved one might be a stretch that would lead them to tremendous personal growth. For you though, it’s just the same old, same old, it’s stale, and you’re just as oppressed by it as some folks are by their 9-to-5.
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You may be viscerally experiencing your own boredom and frustration with your present situation, but not know how to pierce the veil into genuine freedom.
Healing and Integration With Pluto in Scorpio in the Second House your healing lies in realizing that the fact of your death, paradoxically, is your wealth.
How so? Well, economies require supply anddemand. In order for something to be extremely valuable, it must be both tremendously desirable and in tremendously short supply. Consider what the highly adventurous, successful, and globally-treasured poet, Maya Angelou, had to say to Smithsonian Magazine about how she became “liberated”:
“Q: You have never been bored? How is that possible?
Maya Angelou: Oh God, if I were bored, now that would interest me. I’d think, my God, how did that happen and what’s going on? I’d be caught up in it. Are you kidding? Bored?
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I realized when I was about 20 that I would die. It frightened me so. I mean, I had heard about it, had been told and all that, but that I . . . ? [She points at herself and raises her brows as if in disbelief.] It so terrified me that I double-locked the doors; I made certain that the windows were double- locked—trying to keep death out—and finally I admitted that there was nothing I could do about it. Once I really came to that conclusion, I started enjoying life, and I enjoy it very much.” reference: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/growing-upmaya-angelou-79582387/#zbfSUutZQCRSvcO2.99
Angelou’s numerous careers included fry cook, sex worker, nightclub performer, actress, foreign correspondent, director, professor, and poet laureate.
Angelou gained the strength to put herself in those varied and challenging situations in large part through her vivid realization of her own death.
You, too, can take a giant stride towards healing your stuckness by imbibing a vivid realization of your own death. Why not travel around the world, sing and dance, write heart-breaking memoirs and poems? Why not break free of your familial conditioning?
Why not lay yourself bare for the sake of other humans?
Whether you do or you don’t, you’re definitely going to die.
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Since you’re definitely going to die, you might as well break your own taboos, push yourself well out of your comfort zone, and stretch and grow while you’re here! In fact, as a person with Pluto in Scorpio in the 2nd house, it’s a rather sure bet that you won’t find your fortune and your profound sense of self-worth until you start violating your personal taboos with a vengeance. Violating your personal taboos doesn’t you should turn into a pedophile cannibal serial killer, but it does mean that you should examine everything you tend to subconsciously believe that you personally “shouldn’t” do. You might find that list includes plenty of enculturated taboos that you could violate without actually harming anyone at all. Stuff like…. …. Romantically pursuing / having sex with someone (a consenting adult) who’s of a gender, race, or age group with you don’t ordinarily romantically engage or have sex with
…. Disappointing your parents’ expectations, breaking patterns learned from your parents’ mode of relating
…. Hanging out in cemeteries at night alone …. Getting a straight job
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…. Recalling and feeling sexual sensations you had as a child which were incestuous or otherwise “inappropriate” and allowing yourself to feel and have those memories without shame or judgment.
You, your incarnated personality, is in tremendously short supply. You, like all of us, may die at any moment. We just never know. An unforeseen brain aneurysm could do any of us in within the next ten seconds. Even if you survive the next ten seconds - well, there’s your commute to work tomorrow! Modern traffic is a mortality dice-game.
I say this just to emphasize: we are all incredibly fragile: souls tenuously united with these meaty bodies by the just the flimsiest of cosmic threads.
Your task is to not just to have the fact of your imminent death as some vague and uncomfortable notion that disturbs you with anxiety attacks at 3 in the morning, causing you to wake up and weigh the weed and count the cash…
….but rather to have it it be an adamantine knowledge that permeates your awareness, making you joyfully, acutely aware of what a rare, elusive commodity you are here on planet earth.
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Vows Are Spoken, To Be Broken Pluto in Scorpio in the Third House song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0AKJMGxwpE
What you can’t see With Pluto in Scorpio in the 3rd house (the house of writing, thinking, teaching and quick messages), you inevitably see through the illusions of permanence that others have, see the piercing presence of death all around us, and communicate profound truths that others find unbearable.
You’re like Hermes, the Greek messenger of the gods, returning from the Underworld with news that pretty much no one is ready to hear.
This placement makes you acutely aware of the daemonic power of words to entrance, to kill, to heal.
Socrates’ Plato,(another in the Phaedrus, discusses the story of the Egyptian writing, Thoth archetype we could readily associated with god Plutoof in Scorpio in the 3rd house - Thoth’s power as scribe was absolute in the Underworld, making him a rival of Ra and Osiris), who gave writing to humankind as an aid to memory.
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Memory, as Mnemosyne, is the dear Mother of the Muses, the wombfountain of all art. She’s also one slippery trickster.
In the Phaedrus, Socrates calls the written word, Thoth’s sacred gift, a “pharmakon.” Pharmakon, of course, is a highly ambiguous term which can mean both poison and medicine. Socrates was pointing to the drug-like nature of words, their ability to alter consciousness for better or for worse, just as intensely as any psychedelic philtre. The drug-like nature of words is something you’re very sensitive to. You see the way people use words to deceive each other. You love intensely - and yet you’re ruefully in tune with Juliet’s observation in Romeo and Juliet: “At lovers’ perjuries they say Jove laughs.”
It’s hard for you to trust and take affirmations of commitment seriously, simply because you’re so in touch with the fact that everything dies, including the joys of infatuation.
You sometimes cast spells without even knowing that you’re doing it. Some of the most damaging spells you’ve ever cast have been against yourself. This happens because while you can readily perceive the gloomier elements of life, you’re not always so approving of them.
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You’re just as scared of some of the stuff you see as everyone else is - the difference is that you simply can’t afford this fear. It will cripple you if you let it.
What is revealed through experience Growing up, you may have felt repeatedly silenced by those around you who didn’t care to receive your penetrating observations and insights.
It may even come as some surprise that we’re talking about the shamanic powers of your words to hurt and heal - as you probably most often have the experience of feeling like people don’t really hear you when you talk, as if your words are ineffective.
This experience of not feeling heard has carried some deep pain with it. You wonder if what you have to say is worth expressing.
Rest assured: what you have to communicate to us is extremely valuable, and the unconscious minds of your friends and lovers hear you, even if they seem to be tuning you out.
People seem to be tuning you out, and you feel ineffective - because what you’re saying - (and what you’re saying is in the the energetic transmission you give with your communications even more than in the words themselves) - is a threat to everything false within them.
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And human beings really, really hate that, as a general rule.
Healing and integration The lesson of Pluto in Scorpio in the 3rd house is that in order to be most deeply fulfilled, and communicate most richly, you need to learn how to give gigantic love and approval to even the darkest, saddest facets of the world, which you so readily perceive.
When you give this huge fearless love and approval to your perceptions, your communications will have a softening gentleness in them, and you and your wisdom will be potently received.
With Pluto in Scorpio in the 3rd house you’re a natural-born poet - but you’re not really meant to be the kind of poet who sits at oak tables at respectable conferences, drinking luke-warm coffee and getting published in government-subsidized journals.
Instead, you’re born to be the kind of poet who - as Rilke recommended behaves like the bees of the invisible, gathering up fleeting impressions of this heart-breaking world and transforming them into nourishing, preserving honey.
Your quality of consciousness can render you the best kind of poet - one who not only pens verses but who off-handedly speaks words to friends
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and strangers in the course of daily life that happen to drastically alter the course of their existence for the better.
Here’s Rilke’s own words on the subject, written in a letter to his Polish translator, Witold von Huluwicz: “Nature, the things we move among and use, are provisional and perishable, but they are. For as long as we are here, our possession and our friendship, sharers in our trouble and our happiness, just as they were once the confidants of our ancestors. Therefore it is crucial not only that we not corrupt and degrade what constitutes the here and now, but precisely because of this provisionality it shares with us, that these appearances and objects be comprehended by us in a most fervent understanding and transformed. Transformed? Yes, for our task is to stamp this provisional, perishing earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its being may rise again, ‘invisibly,’ in us. We are the bees of the Invisible.”
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Tonight I Think I'll Walk Alone, I'll Find My Soul As I Go Home Pluto in Scorpio in the Fourth House
song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUjUTG3hwyQ
What you can’t see Pluto in Scorpio in the 4th House connotes a deep awareness of the importance of family, an intimate knowledge of the wealth that comes from tradition, and a vast hunger to nurture a thriving clan. You have a profound understanding of what most all of society has seemingly forgot: that life-long, committed bonds are what gives life its meaning and depth.
This is not a matter of sentimental attachment, but a fundamental, primal longing.
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each seen one another nearly every day since they were born, and will see each other every day onward until they each die. Each of their personal well-being is unavoidably linked to the success of each of the others.
For thousands of years the human race lived and died by their tribal, clan connections. The “nuclear family” ideal of modern times is a lame, pale substitute for the glory of the clan. With this Pluto placement, you have a great gift and a soul-level imperative to re-create hearth and home, clan and tribe, out of the rubble of our disjointed, fragmented communities.
This talent arises because there’s such a clear memory in your being of what it is that we’ve lost, and what it is that we need to aim for again.
You may not know and see this yet, though, because your usual experience is probably an intense loneliness.
Most likely, you grew up inside one of those atomized nuclear families or one of their fractured variants - either way, whatever flavor of connection that you received growing up very likely was just not enough.
You know that you’re lonely, you know that you can acutely see and feel the loneliness in others, but you may not have yet realized that you’re homesick - and that your homesick nostalgia for a life grounded in intimate commitment with friends and family is a priceless lighthouse that can lead us weary voyagers back to solid land.
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What is revealed through experience From your earliest awareness, you’ve seen your deepest values (for hearth, home, and clan) rejected by society, and you’ve probably experienced more than your fair share of rejection in personal relationships. The rejection that you’ve experienced from the people closest to you hurt intensely. Subconsciously, you may have taken those experiences of rejection as a sign that you’re just not loveable.
Yet ironically, we as humans tend to reject not what’s valueless but rather what’s so valuable and beautiful that it overwhelms us. And your capacity for nurturing, for loving, for ride-or-die level commitment makes you a bit overwhelming for people who don’t allow themselves to know how deeply they desire exactly that. Overtime, you probably have grown to expect rejection. The expectation of rejection tends to create a crab-like closed-off-ed-ness that automatically pushes people away. In other words, you’ve created walls around yourself to protect you from the pain of feeling rejected by others.
While this strategy can save you from the acute, momentary pain it has the downside of isolating you. That isolation is something that you just can’t afford.
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Healing and integration Healing with Pluto in Scorpio in the 4th house entails cultivating a willingness to experience rejection, again and again, until you’re no longer afraid of it.
You need to find the willingness in yourself to be radically open to people and to let them push you away, if that’s what they want to do.
This may feel a bit like walking around as a mollusk without a shell. It’s raw and tremulous. The good news is that eventually, your revolutionary willingness to experience rejection and keep opening your heart again and again, will lead you to find the solid compatriots with whom you can form a real and lasting clan. Walt Whitman expressed this work of radical openness well in “Song of Myself,” comparing himself to “the quahaug in its callous shell”:
Mine is no callous shell, I have instant conductors all over me whether I pass or stop, They seize every object and lead it harmlessly through me. I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and am happy, To touch my person to someone else's is about as much as I can stand. Is this then a touch? quivering me to a new identity, Flames and ether making a rush for my veins, Treacherous tip of me reaching and crowding to help them, 36
My flesh and blood playing out lightning to strike what is hardly different from myself, On all sides prurient provokers stiffening my limbs, Straining the udder of my heart for its withheld drip, Behaving licentious toward me, taking no denial, Depriving me of my best as for a purpose, Unbuttoning my clothes, holding me by the bare waist, Deluding my confusion with the calm of the sunlight and pasture-fields, Immodestly sliding the fellow-senses away, They bribed to swap off with touch and go and graze at the edges of me, No consideration, no regard for my draining strength or my anger, Fetching the rest of the herd around to enjoy them a while, Then all uniting to stand on a headland and worry me. The sentries desert every other part of me, They have left me helpless to a red marauder, They all come to the headland to witness and assist against me. I am given up by traitors, I talk wildly, I have lost my wits, I and nobody else am the greatest traitor, I went myself first to the headland, my own hands carried me there.
Like Whitman, you need to be the “greatest traitor” to your own selfprotective tendencies, wildly willing to be met “on all sides by prurient provokers” who have “no consideration, no regard.” The trick is to let them quiver you to a new identity.
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I Don't Want to Stop, 'Til I Reach the Top Pluto in Scorpio in the Fifth House song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GECvsnfOXmA
What you can’t see
With Pluto in Scorpio in the 5th House of all things short (love affairs, performances, children), you’re the life of the underworld party.
One might imagine that heavy, dark Pluto-in-Scorpio might be a dampener to 5th House leonine exuberance, but au contraire - Pluto in this placement doesn’t signify dullness - it connotes serious play.
How serious?
Well, think about children who are engaged in their favorite game of pretend. They’re likely to be absorbed in a profound state of focus - utterly immersed in what they’re doing, their whole beings concentrated on the unfolding of their adventure.
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We could say they’re “just playing” - but we could also say that they’re etherically drawing upon the rich heritage of the mythic imagination, bringing it to life within their bodies and hearts, opening an experience of nonduality between their young selves and the flow of time and imagination. The play of children is a kind of sacred undertaking that re-vitalizes and recreates the dance of meaning that makes life on earth worth living.
Most adults forget how to enter that condition of timeless, concentrated play that children enter effortlessly. But as a denizen of Pluto in Scorpio in the 5th House, you’re gifted with this capacity throughout your life. You have the rare talent of serious play.
A major challenge for Pluto in Scorpio in the 5th House, however, is that our current society does not much honor realcreative play. The capacity to consume is far more respected on a day-to-day basis in our world than the capacity to create.
What is revealed through experience Given the current state of affairs in our world, it’s likely that you did not feel deeply honored as a creative being while growing up.
Even if your parents celebrated you - you probably had many disheartening experiences at school and with peers where you were made to feel ashamed of your performative playfulness.
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Since you have Pluto-in-Scorpio, it’s likely that even if you came from the most wholesome of families, your youthful creativity evidenced dark themes that made the grown-ups feel very uncomfortable - torture, incest, murder, cannibalism.
Those are just the kinds of extremely intense, boundary-violating, stomachflipping things that Pluto-in-Scorpio likes to think about, and the 5th House pretty much demands thinking-out-loud.
So rest assured, you imagination isn’t any more morbid or twisted than that of anyone else in our generation, you’re just way worse at hiding it.
Which is wonderful, actually: because these themes shouldn’t be hidden. Keeping them repressed and taboo and judgmentally shoved into closets is actually what empowers and perpetuates real-life horrors.
We need storytellers, artists, party animals, and lovers who are willing to kindly engage in serious play with the most excruciating possibilities of existence. We need to be able to look at these things together, to aesthetically, ritually feel their raw energy and know that this is part of us, too.
The shaming that you received growing up in connection with your expressions of your dark imagination might have wounded you so much that in your adult life you distance yourself from being associated with anything “creative.”
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Maybe you make a living as an editor when what you secretly want is to be writing novels, or you’re a music promoter instead of a musician.
You have full permission to stop telling yourself the lie that your creative power is too much, too disturbing, too wrong. We passionately need you to stop telling yourself that lie, actually.
Healing and integration Pluto-in-Scorpio in the 5th House asks that you find huge joy within yourself precisely so that you can do the work of giving us imaginative reflections of the deepest darkness.
A great role model for you in this capacity would be the film director, David Lynch.
Lynch’s films (including Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and the tv series Twin Peaks) are famously violent, creepy, and disturbing - while also being beautiful and wildly entertaining.
After David Lynch became a public spokesperson for the benefits of Transcendental Meditation, a reporter from The Guardian, Mark Kermode, asked him: “if TM creates positiveness and all the things you've talked about - and I can see that it genuinely does - some people might ask what about all the darkness that's in your films?” 41
David Lynch replied: “We are all different at the surface and one at the core, unity. We are one world family. On the surface, different - I like this, you don't like this. And we catch ideas. Sometimes, we catch an idea that we fall in love with. And if it's a cinema idea, we see what cinema could do to that idea and we're rolling. Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things. But the artist doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You gotta understand it. You don't have to die to do a death scene. You just have to understand it in your own way, but understanding is the thing, understand this suffering, this anger, this character. And you go like that.
I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it's going to be over. It's not that way, it's so energetic. That's where all the energy and creativity is. Everything that is a thing has emerged out of this field. So it's tremendous creativity. And you don't lose your edge, you get more, stronger feeling for something and it can be magnified. And you don't get sleepy and laidback in this kind of flat-line peace. It's a dynamic peace. It's very powerful, it's where all the power is. So the thing is you can make all these stories but you're separate from it. And that's the key.”
Pluto-in-Scorpio in the 5th House asks you to find a way to access this kind of “dynamic peace” that David Lynch is talking about, so that you’re able to return from the depths with something immensely powerful to show us.
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I Don't Care if it Hurts, I Wanna Pluto inHave ScorpioControl in the Sixth House song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkzRNyygfk
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With Pluto in Scorpio in the 6th House, (the house of service, habits and physical health) it is most unnatural for you to submit to the will of other people without good reason. Deep down, you know that you were born to be free and that anything less is an outrage. Yet in terms of feeling personally empowered, there is an aching wound.
This may create a dynamic where you unconsciously seek out power struggles, wrestling with ideological opponents or martyrdom to work out your issues with authority.
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You find the status quo culture of denial and repression to be an insult to the primal essence of nature: the cycle of sex, death and rebirth. Ever aware of death’s footfall behind every exhalation, you live life with a throbbing intensity that causes other people to either fear or respect you.
Woe to those who meet you and respond by trying to exploit you. Though they may succeed at first, once you detect that you are being misused, a vengeful force spiked with venom is unleashed from within.
That heavy sense of mortality present in your daily life is often counteracted by the rush of blood to the head that obsession brings. Obsessions, after all, make you feel so alive! Obsession makes you feel so self-possessed.
With so much intensity hovering over every gesture, your every move in life tends to become hyper-ritualized. This can either make you a great magician or a full on obsessive-compulsive.
For you, the devil is in the details. There is always a danger of becoming numb to inspiration by relying too heavily on habitual practice. With sex, work, art or magic, rituals are essential, but should never be allowed to usurp your inherent emotional experience.
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This Pluto placement often creates an endemic condition of seeking people, activities, and ideas that prod you into action through sophisticated guilt trips. These may be found in any number of situations including but not limited to: family dynamics, political rhetoric, and religious fervor.
Why are you susceptible to guilt trips? Because with Pluto in the 6th house it is within your power to transmute predictable psychological patterns of manipulation and exploitation into much higher forms of ethics which respects free will. But Pluto requires that you become expert in the dark and negative forms of energy before you are permitted to be a witness to their complete transformation and rebirth. Thus you become attracted to negative situations in order to learn something about human psychology and power dynamics.
That means that your abusers, whether they be parents, lovers, teachers, police officers, or bosses have all played a part in revealing to you the real power that you have to exert your free will. Upon a Plutonian wave of transformation, senseless self-sacrifice shape-shifts into a confident sense of sovereignty.
Healing and Integration “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” - Mahatma Gandhi
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transmutation. (lead into gold) The lesson of Pluto in the 6th house is that you can only truly offer yourself in service to the world when you have declared yourself to be free in body and mind and soul.
The story of Mahatma Gandhi is inspiring to the whole world, and it serves as an excellent parable to describe the power of Pluto in the 6th house when it is properly directed.
Gandhi’s life is a story defined by the continuous burden of threats to personal freedom. Raised in India, even in a privileged class, he was constantly harassed and oppressed by the colonizers. Just as you have experienced in your own way, his most prevailing challenges became the impetus for his life’s work.
Gandhi became the preeminent leader of the independence movement in British-ruled India. Thus, he was treated as a dangerous criminal, especially after his unique mode of non-violent protest made him worldfamous as a political influencer. Gandhi suffered six known assassination attempts during the course of his life. In addition, he was tried for sedition and was sentenced to 6 years in prison for that crime.
Nevertheless, his unshakable sense of sovereignty and his devotion to service gave him the strength to refuse to submit to British authority or to violence. In the service of his country, he found the power to make huge transformations in society through exclusively non-violent means of protest.
Your life story may or may not be as dramatic as Gandhi’s. But with Pluto in Scorpio in the 6th House, you are here to become master of your own life 46
and to learn to offer your considerable gifts of emotion and spirit to the world without pretense or artifice. The lesson here is to match your highest level of integrity with your highest level of service.
When you can express genuine generosity, then your life will glimmer with the promise of a fulfilled destiny. Both peace and purpose will be everpresent, no matter how many challenges you may face.
For some inspiration and reorientation towards that destiny, read some more of Gandhi’s beloved wisdom.
“Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.” ! Mahatma Gandhi
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I Am Human and I Need to Be Loved Pluto in Scorpio in the Seventh House song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnpILIIo9ek
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With Pluto in Scorpio in the 7th House (the house of relationships, love and business), your naturally voracious appetite for intercourse and discourse with other people makes it so easy for you to fall in love. While this colors your experienceattached. with a certain joie de vivre, it also has some detrimental dissatisfactions
You can’t see the mystery embedded deeply in your eyes, but you long to find a beautiful reflection of it in the shining face of amour. It is Pluto that gleams within your magnetic gaze and those who get caught in those dark pools are almost bound to fall in love with you. It’s that sly come-hither stare. That strips their conscience bare. It’s witchcraft. When held in your eyes, people believe they can be transformed!
Deep down, you know that there is no “me” without the “we”. And when you mix you really mingle, which is why so many people like to imagine themselves as your lover, your dear friend, or your business partner.
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The truth is that you desire other people’s admiration, confidence, and encouragement more than anything else. But with Pluto in Scorpio in the 7th House, that desire is frustrated in early life because it is so easy for you to attract attention and yet so difficult to find those you can really trust.
You have to cut through many layers of pretense before you can learn what it means to be real with people.
Even in the ecstasy of sexual intercourse, you may still manage to feel isolated and impenetrable. The phrase la petite mort is a phrase very well understood by you. Thus, until such time as you can find true symbiosis with another person’s mind, body, and soul, (a marriage of true minds) all the admiration and attention you receive leaves you starving for transcendence.
What is revealed through experience With such an intense perspective on human relationships, from a fairly early age, you earn the title “Nobody’s Fool.” As an expert on treachery, betrayal, secrecy and the abuse of power, you can see people’s shadows even at high noon.
There are veils that have been forever lifted for you. Once you admit to the powerful insight and intuition that you have about other people, your instincts are revealed to be razor sharp and neither lies nor deceit go undetected.
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As a Scorpionic explorer of human relationships, you have most likely learned to be a good sport about your natural propensity to unveil the shadow-aspects of your closest friends and lovers. Pluto’s transmutational power would be feeble unless you have explored every side of sexual politics: playing the victim and the victimizer, the stalker and the stalked, the beautiful and the damned.
The intensity of your human connections can be narcotic and your writhing emotions may thus become dangerous. The proclivity for destruction in relationships has most likely caused you to run hiding into seclusion, looking to be purified of your desires through distractions, pain and isolation. Remember that these periods of conflict and rehabilitation have made you wise.
Having loved and lost makes you wise to the fact that the hunger for transcendent union is not satisfied by sex with a side of head-games and abuses. It also makes you wise to the fact of interdependence in the universe. Both human society, the ecology of the Earth, and the motions of the planets are an interdependent web of relationships. Your instincts are good: there is no “me” without “we.”
And in this intricate web of relationships lies an elegant path for your ecstatic orgasmic rebirth. Remember, there is no shame in getting lost in a maze unless you give up trying to navigate your way through. Let Pluto’s atomic desire and volcanic rage propel you through to the end.
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Healing and Integration “Let me not to the marriage of true minds. Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove . . .” - excerpt from Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
For you, the healing comes from knowing your instincts about people to be spot on. Once confident of this truth, you can invest your love and attention into a person who reveals themselves to be truly worthy of your devotion.
The integration of all the trials and tribulations comes when your willingness to heal wounds and your passion for intimate knowledge of another person is properly reciprocated. Yes, your journey of healing depends upon the goodness of another person, upon a mutual process of transformation.
But this is true for everyone, in one way or another. Some experience it through mentor relationships, parental relationships, or even animal relationships. But for you, it is centralized on romantic relationships. In this realm, your needs are meant to be met and your desires are meant to be satisfied.
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adaptable as a climbing vine, you will no longer suffer the Plutonian lovers who identify with victimhood: narcissists, drug addicts, and nihilists.
Instead, you will find a marriage of true minds with a person as deep and aware and penetrating as you are. This person is in love with you, not enchanted by you, for enchantment is easily broken. And Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
This person does just as much work on themselves as you do and seeks to grow in tandem with you, serving as inspiration and support. This person knows well your flaws and weaknesses and still comes home. The mixture of you and them creates a unique chemical compound that inspires good faith, stability, and wholeness. This is the fertility of experience available for those who let the graveyard of their past pain and unfulfilled desires transmute into an abundance of fruit and flowers.
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Just like a Muse to Me, You are a Mystery Pluto in Scorpio in the Eighth House
song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fzeNUqQbQ
What you can’t see With Pluto in Scorpio in the 8th house, you possess some of the most insightful and cathartic gifts of your generation. Why? Because the 8th house is the native placement of Scorpio and Pluto rules the sign of Scorpio and its endemic associations with sex, death and rebirth.
Thus these energies are at home in your psyche and have great authority over your Your instincts and connection to athe primal at powers of life. magic are penetrating both unsettling and magnetic. You are blackstar, the center of it all.
With Pluto in the 8th house, you are drawn to all that is forbidden. As Mark Twain once said, “There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it 53
unspeakably desirable.” Your immediate environment makes you want to wander far away. The obvious information that you have access to bores you to death.
Underneath every decision that you’ve ever made there was an unflinching hunger for potent transmutation: come hell or high water! You are obsessed with the mystery of metamorphosis, looking for every opportunity to transform your soul. When you heard the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, did you really condemn Eve for tasting of the fruit? It is doubtful. You probably thought, “Eve was right!” because that is exactly what you would have done under the same circumstances. You love breaking taboos because you are a devoted seeker of mystery. Eve, is in fact, one of your idols. Both you and she know that Paradise is a prison if it is required that you remain ignorant in order to live there.
To put it simply, you are a born Gnostic.
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A real life Pluto in Scorpio in the 8th house person once told me, “My problem is that I’m extra as fuck!” This is right on.
Whenever you are added into the mix, an atomic blast goes off, leaving people awestruck by your presence. It is a blessing and a curse to have people react to you so strongly. No matter how much you try to subdue your energy, people still are attracted and repulsed by you, often with a little too much force. People love or hate the way they feel around you so much that you often become an obsession: an idealized idol or an object of scorn.
For those who you may call your friends and lovers, you experience too often that they earnestly believe that you have the answers they seek. They come to you with their problems and leave feeling like your words have the magic power they need to transform their lives for the better.
What results from this pattern we will call, “The Oracle Complex”: a condition where you are revered and desecrated; worshipped and destroyed. To some you are an angel and to others you are a lowly fraud.
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politics. Metaphysically speaking, this happens because you have power over others and terrible tangles and strife are the natural result of that fact.
Socially speaking, you are the person that must learn Pluto’s lessons through the drama of betrayal and heavy loss. In the fray of these lessons, your yearning for Gnosis may become entirely sublimated in favor of bare survival.
However, you can’t really hide your light, no matter how hard you try. You have a knack for making even the most mundane situations into an intense study of all things psychological, occult, or taboo. Around you, secrets are unearthed and ignorance is banished. With so much valuable experience, you will always find a position of strength in whatever situation you find yourself in.
Healing and Integration “Death is the midwife of very great things... It brings about the birth and rebirth of forms a thousand times improved. This is the highest mystery of God.” ! Paracelsus
To heal and integrate your deepest wounds, you must submit to the alchemical process of transmutation, which includes the experience of death and the subsequent state of decay. Alchemy itself is an ancient study and practice dedicated to transforming the lead of the unrealized self into the gold of the perfected spirit by enacting the process of spiritual death and rebirth. 56
In a culture that largely suppresses the magical potency of sexuality, many exploitative sexual politics must die within you before you can heal. Remember, the seed-form of magical intention lies in every sexual act, thus profoundly intimate explorations of your passions are sacred and essential to your quest. In psycho-spiritual terms, what must die are your most clinging psychological dysfunctions, including but not limited to: ego-mania, jealousy, and greed. Alchemists understand that it is often the over-inflated ego that is mistaken for the spirit.
Therefore, psychological mortification is absolutely necessary to experience real purification and transformation.
It is in your rebirth that you may then discover the breadth and depth of the river of consciousness which flows through you.
You will then know your passions to be your very life force, the quintessence of the whole universe, propelling you to seek communion with the divine. As a medium for the infinite stream of consciousness, shared by all life in the known universe, you will have the gift of seeing emanations of the divine in other people’s eyes.
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If I Ever Lose My Faith In You Pluto in Scorpio in the Ninth House song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7km4EHgkQiw
What you can’t see With Pluto in Scorpio in the 9th house, you were born to be a priestess of higher consciousness: a philosopher of the Information Age. Your keenest senses only really come alive when they are engaged in a quest for truth. No matter how cliche it may seem, you really are searching for the meaning of life. This almost destines you to play the dual roles of iconoclast and dogmatist.
Your unique generational purpose is to immerse yourself in ideology, breaking down the orthodoxy of the past in order to distill out the essential qualities of revelation and mystery. Whatever beliefs, customs and practices that you ultimately deem to be anachronistic are thus sacrificed to the dawn of the new era.
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push all the way to the edge is by throwing yourself fully into the mix. It may not be de rigeur to admit it, but fanaticism is something quite well known to you.
With your Pluto in the 9th house of religion and philosophy, you were born with the penetrating insights of a theologian or a scientist. You want to see the big picture of reality and so you instinctually seek paths of higher knowledge. Once inspired by an idea or a theory, you take off on that road with reckless abandon. In your youth, you are easily caught up in the buzz that acquiring knowledge brings. In your mind, obsession and devotion are synonymous with “interest”.
What is revealed through experience For those with Pluto in the 9th house, there will be an initial devotion to a faith, ideology or belief system. Don’t think you can opt out of this fact just because you may not have been raised in a church.
If you happened to escape Judeo-Christian ideology, your beliefs will likely be shaped from political views. If you happened to escape the influence of political parties, your beliefs will be born from atheistic dogmatic materialism.
If you have happened to escape institutionalized science, this devotion to an ideology or belief will find its way into your life through popular culture.
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The point is that no matter what form these fanatical beliefs take, it is your liberation from them that serves great purpose in your life.
Whatever path of knowledge that you find yourself on, Pluto creates a sometimes more than subconscious urge to exert influence and authority upon those around you. When you believe that your mission is on the right side of history, there are few who can stop you from climbing to advantageous positions to preach, teach, and espouse.
No matter where you may have started in life, you see yourself rising to a place where you will be highly regarded as an expert. The desire for power over other people’s minds is something that must be kept in check, for your influential ideas can easily be weaponized. Think about it.
No matter what path you are on in your quest for truth, at some point, you will be forced to reconcile that facts are strung together by beliefs, not the other way around. This is the final head fuck that obliterates whatever system of knowledge that you have been devoted to.
With Pluto in Scorpio in the 9th house, your dark night of the soul is the torment of theodicy, the problem of evil and ignorance which has never left. God is dead and Nietzsche is too.
These epiphanies will feel make you feel hollow and betrayed.
Your idols fall. God foresakes you. Science is for sale. Your worldview crumbles.
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In these moments, you feel the chaos close in with nothing to bring you comfort. Though these scenes are filled with fear, this temporary obliteration of your reality is when the real strength of your natal Pluto is called forth.
Healing and Integration “All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.” - Robert Anton Wilson
The realof gifts of your Pluto intothe 9th house areexpansive to integrate as many models reality as possible create the most picture of meaning. Through you, the historical past is birthing the future and you take visceral pleasure in that knowledge.
To that end, you feel most powerful and embodied when you are on the frayed edges of spirituality and theoretical science. Your natural roles include heretic and ex-patriot.
Ultimately, you transmute that inborn faith and devotion into a vision of human knowledge as a fractal wave that forever spirals out into the beyond. Your radical desire to find truth is tempered by your remarkable gifts for adopting a cosmopolitan culture: becoming multi-lingual in your speech 61
and polyamorous in your beliefs. You benefit from anything that continues to challenge your assumptions including foreign travel and philosophical research.
After your initial fanaticism has been sacrificed, your position in society as a leader of thought will inspire you to teach what the philosopher Robert Anton Wilson called, “guerrilla ontology.”
He said, “If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind. It's only possible to see people when one is able to see the world as others see it. That's what guerrilla ontology is — breaking down this one-model view and giving people a multi-model perspective.”
Once you practice teaching others to think for themselves, your legitimate questions about life can come into focus. Your life is meant to be a quest for revelation and you know that initiation into the mysteries never ends.
However it is that human history dilates out into eternity from here, you always want to remembered as one who saw it coming.
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I’m Miss World Pluto in Scorpio in the Tenth House song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS1Ckczz0LQ
What you can’t see With Pluto in Scorpio in the 10th house, you were born dying to live an important life. You may think everyone shares this potent sense of purpose, but this is not entirely true. Everyone wants a certain amount of status and reputation, but for you power and influence are the lifeblood of your whole being. Images that really turn you on include thrones, crowns, and possibly even dungeons.
In terms of competition, you will usually be one of the top contenders in your chosen field. However, in order for your life story to truly embody that cathartic Plutonian intensity, there has to be a struggle. Like in any great drama, the first act of your life-story is spent establishing the conflict.
Thus, your powerful yearnings and desires are met with disapproval, obstinance, and trouble. In other words, there is a challenge to your throne and in truth you would not want it any other way. It is in conquering this struggle that you test your mettle and demonstrate your value as a leader.
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It is likely that you have seen a clear vision of your future from a very young age. With Pluto in Scorpio in the tenth house, you observe the development of your position in life from a very high place, meaning you have a certain objective distance from the world. This makes you strong enough to face human suffering without flinching, giving you the unshaking hands of a surgeon or the impenetrable focus of a homicide detective.
What is revealed through experience Pluto in Scorpio in the 10th house makes you responsible for transforming your society, by destroying outworn hierarchical institutions and introducing systems of thought that enable explorations of the occult, spiritual healing and mystical revelation.
In your contemplative moments, you watch and wait, like a spirit not yet descended into matter. Gifted with this vantage point and Pluto’s penetrating insights, you become enamored with and repulsed by the many levels of institutional corruption and manipulation present in the world. Life is a theatre of cruelty and yet you are somehow compelled to play one of the starring roles.
Here is where things become tricky. When you seek to embody a “largerthan-life” persona, you begin magnetize many people into your midst with your charisma. But in your youth, rather than being the incredible taste64
maker and leader that you ultimately imagine yourself becoming, you become quite vulnerable to manipulation through the expectations of others.
Think of how many magnificent rock stars have ultimately been artistically destroyed by the pressures of fame and by the greed of record company executives.
It is often for someone else’s interest that you have expended your energies in the pursuit of chimerical happiness. Wielding the kind of innate power and charisma that you do, many parasitic people have surely attempted to exploit you as a resource. Invariably, the way that they have done so is by influencing you to be ignorant of your own value and merit.
The brilliant student is made into a jealous professor’s lackey. The ingenious musician is kicked out of the band for not being cool enough. And the aspiring actress is told she has no talent whatsoever.
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Your healing arrives when you finally reach the climax of the conflict by embracing your innate power. Once enough miseries, fears and anxieties have inspired you to seek catharsis, nothing can stand in the way of your ambition to change the world with your vision, your art, or your dreams. In order to manifest these desires for potent transformation, you must patently reject the roles that society has imposed upon you and completely reinvent yourself.
The PhD student becomes an independent scholar of the esoteric arts. The medical student becomes a holistic chiropractor. The banker becomes a sex worker.
Under Pluto’s veil of mystery, whatever new identity is born will command great attention by making you magnetically seductive. When you can mystify people and inspire their cooperation, you have mastered public image and finally achieved a position of power.
The tenth house is the place in the natal chart that represents your own manifest destiny, that sense of entitlement to a place of influence in the wide world. Thus, with Pluto in the tenth house, you think of yourself as the protagonist in a grandiose epic.
In your mind, life should always be in full Technicolor and Cinemascope: a classic rags-to-riches story with a bit of a kinky plot twist.
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And Oh, My Dreams, It's Never Quite it Seems Pluto in Scorpioas in the Eleventh House song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plZd9IUfCnc
What you can’t see
With Pluto in Scorpio in the 11th house of social organizations and friendships, your life will be one that experiences the highest highs and the lowest lows of human collaboration. For you, community and intimate friendships are experienced as a throbbing and vital necessity! Yet, your Plutonian visions of idealized community and social niceties are punctuated in early life by a bitch-slap from the unspeakable corruption and deceit that lives inside so many people.
With Pluto in the 11th house, you were born with access to powerful consciousness that innately understands that man is not the measure of all things.
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In your dreams, reality is something far removed from the mundane experience of human subjectivity. You feel that there is a transpersonal force of intelligence, infusing everything on our planet. You may call it the divine spark, morphic resonance, the stream of consciousness or something else that evokes this feeling.
Pluto in the 11th house Scorpio does not vibe with the Sun centered/Ego centered view of the universe that favors the individual’s point of view.
Instead, Pluto calls you to meditate upon thoughts like, “if all stars are Suns, then there a million Galaxies like ours dancing throughout the multiverse ad infinitum.”
The implications of this are staggering for the human mind, but nevertheless you have the subtle capacity to tune into infinity.
Thus, in your quieter moments you are aware that there is a lot more to the experience of life than the gratification of individual egos. This is why you love community activism, collaborative arts and myths that describe humanity working together as a collective towards a higher purpose.
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there was a specific moment of disillusionment that occurred which presented humanity’s less than angelic side.
This experience would have to be catalyzed through your friends and within organizations that you once believed in. Until you were bent under the wheel of this crushing betrayal, the dark side of humanity was more theoretical for you. Some hypothetical examples of great betrayals, Pluto in Scorpio-style, include:
• Your cool new friends are all going to a desert rave! You’ve never done anything like this before so everything is crazy exciting. Suddenly you begin to feel like you are being carried away by the wind and your field of vision tunnels. As you claw at the ground in terror, your friends laugh because secretly dosing people is one of their favorite past-times. For the next 12 hours, your psyche melts into a puddle of helpless despair. • Your first boyfriend kills himself a week after you break up. You heart is completely broken. Even worse, your peers begin to erupt with pretentious remembrances of him. Real grief and loss for this boy are turned into a pageant of attention seeking and lies. Everyone wants a piece of the action. • You are young and enamored with a church as it provides you with a sense of belonging and faith in the power of love. Just after high school graduation, your best friend is raped by another member of the church and she is shamed into silence. Nothing is done about it. What harrowing scenes like these do to the human spirit is terrible, but with Pluto in Scorpio in the 11th house, you have more strength than you could ever comprehend to distill this pain into an elixir of divine compassion. 69
Healing and Integration “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” - Harriet Tubman
The real gifts of Pluto in Scorpio in the 11th house are not something that an individual matures into quickly. It is a long process of healing that your particular wounds require. Your dark night of the soul is very dark indeed, for it includes apparitions of the whole world’s pain throughout the centuries.
The flailing reactions of self-destruction are the first poisons that must be sucked out. Once you accept that peace will never be found in the avoidance of life, the stasis of angst and indecision transforms into righteous anger and passionate purpose. Both creation and invention return!
A certain amount of gratitude grows in response to your initial disillusionment because the more gaping the wound, the more ferocious your hunger for answers becomes.
Your ravenous path of healing will initiate you into many occult practices, mysteries, and paradigm shifting visions of what is beyond the beyond. Having been cured of naiveté, you will take your knowledge and rise to a
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level of great influence where you inspire many people to broaden the scope of their insight into the human condition.
Yours is the vision of the shaman, one foot in this world and one in the dreamtime of the gods.
By embracing a wider view of the nature of reality, your innate compassion will continue to emerge in the form of many unusual gifts and talents that offer innovative solutions to life’s most plaguing problems.
With Pluto in Scorpio in the 11th, the necrosis of society’s most rigid structures will embolden you to break social taboos and explore the mysteries of unconscious.
It is people like you that disallow social groups to hide scandal and corruption: whether it is a church or a transformational musical festival, you are willing to expose lies.
It is people like you that are the ones insightful enough to investigate the world’s grossest exploitation: sexual abuse, slavery, and political intrigue.
These are the collective wounds that you have the heart and soul to heal. Knowing the good, the bad, and the ugly of what people are capable of transforms you into a savvy leader of thought.
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Not many of your followers will know or understand from whence you get your instincts and your visionary powers. But a little veil of mystery never hurt anyone before.
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The Sun is Gone, But I Have A Light Pluto in Scorpio in the Twelfth House song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Nyjzq5jCg
What you can’t see
The 12th house, ruled by slippery, cinematic Neptune and traditionally known as the house of self-undoing, can be the shoddy site where we unravel ourselves in compulsion and addiction, or it can be the grand theater where we access the truth of compassion. Does “accessing the truth of compassion” sound maybe a little bit lame to you? Well, that’s understandable. Compassion in our society is so impoverished and sentimentalized that - as we usually conceive of it - it is rather lame.
But that’s not the kind of compassion we’re talking about here. Pluto in Scorpio in the 12th house is the most epic Pluto placement that one can possibly have.
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So we’re talking about compassion as a quality of perception so intimate, so awake, so utterly transformative that it is the bedrock foundation of all apparent phenomenon.
With Pluto in Scorpio in the 12th House, the flavor of compassion accessible to you is of the most rare, fierce, dangerous and profound variety - it’s a diamond compassion: a penetrating, electric and catalyzing awareness of the very unnerving fluidity and dreamliness of all existence. Pluto in Scorpio in the 12th House, in other words, is compassion as understood by Vajrayana Tibetan Buddhism - it’s the jewel in the lotus, the sword in the stone, the blood in the graal. It’s bodhicitta - a lush, pulsating, sexual energy (also known as tummo, kundalini, the red woman) that’s grown so intense that it merges in passion (com-passion, com being a prefix that means “with”) with the heart of all beings, with the seed of all reality.
This is the Pluto placement of a tantric bodhisattva warrior.
What is revealed through experience Of course, with the level of awareness into the ultimate nature of reality afforded by Pluto in Scorpio in the 12 house comes an intense, unavoidable consciousness of pain.
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…. but it’s equally possible that you simply came into this life with such an exquisite sensitivity that just witnessing the daily, quite ordinary suffering that permeates life on earth shook you to the core. This kind of awareness of pain in yourself and others usually leads to one of two automatic responses. The most common route of response to acute awareness of the pain of others is what Chogyam Rinpoche calls “idiot compassion” - wherein you deplete yourself in the act of emotionally and materially babying people. Idiot compassion creates a tiring cycle of codependency - with you endlessly, endlessly giving to self-crippling people who are all too glad to live off the abundant milk of your human kindness. It’s likely that you’ve been taken advantage of quite a lot in your life - by parents, teachers, friends, lovers.
Everyone can sense the vast generous depth of feeling and empathy in you and is happy to lap it up, even when - as in the case of parents and teachers - by all right it’s their role to nurture you and not the other way around. Idiot compassion tries to allay the pain of others, even when it’s pain that they need to have in order to grow and become self-responsible. It seems saintly but actually it’s a form of enabling people to perpetuated their own self-destruction. It’s also important to keep in mind that idiot compassion is actually a selfserving, aversive reaction to pain rather than a response - it’s an impulse to make the pain of others “go away” rather than a willingness to simply be present with it. 75
Indeed, there’s a distinct flavor of masochism in the practitioner of idiot compassion, because idiot compassion produces dependency and the perpetuation of suffering rather than liberation from it. Which brings us to our next point: sadism.
The other automatic reaction to this kind of overwhelming awareness of pain is the fearsome route taken by the Marquis de Sade (who also had Pluto in Scorpio in the 12th House).... …. De Sade, a brilliant and visionary man in many regards - chose to heartlessly revel in the pain of others. So of course, from his name we draw the term “sadism.”
Though de Sade fell far short of realizing the real potential of Pluto in Scorpio in the 12th house, he was onto something: revelry.
The Marquis’ mistake, however, was that he revelled in a manner that distanced and alienated him from the overwhelming pain of others. All of his scandalous abuses were no more daring or glamorous than the enabling codependent tendencies of masochistic idiot compassion.
De Sade sought to experience himself as an empowered and aloof subject through treating others as objects to be tortured. The sort of reveling that Pluto in Scorpio in the 12th house actually calls for is just the opposite of subject-object alienation; instead, it’s a mode of celebration that generates much greater intimacy rather than greater separation. 76
Healing and integration There’s no way to sugar-coat this: healing for Pluto in Scorpio in the 12th House calls for an infinite willingness to feel the pain of the world. Yikes.
Sound like a tall order? It absolutely is. The good news is this: the fact that you have this placement signifies that you’re capable of fulfilling it.
“Infinite” here is really the key. Why? Because anything short of aninfinite willingness to feel pain constitutes a layer of aversion, of reactive resistance.
And while pain is absolutely inevitable for all beings, suffering is a choice (though often an unconscious, inherited one) caused by resistance.
In the absence of resistance, in the presence of infinite receptivity, of infinite willingness to feel, pain is still pain, but it doesn’t create the horror of ignorance, of subject-objection alienation.
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subject-object boundaries, that ends the isolation of the ego and thereby ends suffering.
With practice - this raw, huge sensation fully received can even be experienced as a kind of orgasmic pleasure and an endless well of transmutational power. Bodhicitta. The blood in the graal. That’s the secret of the 84 mahasiddhas and the secret of Christ. They learned to receive all experience with zero resistance, zero grasping. And in that pure receptivity they dissolved the Saturnine limits that usually make life on earth seem so slow, stuck, and “concrete.”
When matter no longer stubbornly resists the inspiration of spirit, this waking world becomes as malleable as a night-time lucid dream: it’s possible to turn water into wine, to walk on water, to raise the dead.
So this is the sort of revelry required by Pluto in Scorpio in the 12th House: a reception and celebration of pain that’s so wanton it turns into pure power and joy.
An excellent inspiration for this kind of work is the bodhisattva Yeshe Tsogyel. Yeshe Tsogyel, born a princess in Tibet, left behind her inherited power and position to be the consort of the wily guru Padmasambhava, the avatar who brought tantric Buddhism to Tibet from India.
In time, Tsogyel became just as advanced as her guru consort.
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One day, while traveling alone through the wilderness of the mountains, Tsogyel was attacked and raped by 9 bandits.
Yet the quality of Tsogyel’s consciousness was so pure, so profoundly receptive, and her bodhicitta fire was so intense, that all her attackers instantly became transformed into buddhas through their sexual contact with her. During the assault, Tsogyel perceived each of her attackers as her enlightened consorts, and that is what they spontaneously became. That’s a bit of a terrifying story, and it’s one that the part of us who loves the sado-masochism of victimhood hates to hear, because it points to the way that at a deep level, we each have an absolute power over our perception of this dream of life. In this fragment of song, Tsogyel describes the realization at the foundation of her alchemical ability to turn even the worst violation into a revelry of illumination:
What we understand to be phenomena Are but the magical projections of the mind. The hollow vastness of the sky I never saw to be afraid of anything. All this is but the self-glowing light of clarity. There is no other cause at all. All that happens is but my adornment.
- Yeshe Tsogyel, Advice from the Lotus-Born, translated by Erik Pema Kunsang
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