Jupiter Conjunct Pluto
The Jupiter-Pluto conjunction fuses the thirst for growth with the drive toward depth and power: you think on a grand scale and can change the reality around you.
In the Birth Chart
This conjunction happens about once every thirteen years, everyone born within a few months shares it, and for a generation it brings the theme of large resources, influence and social transformation. In a personal chart, especially near the Sun, Moon or angles, it gives a powerful inner conviction. You feel capable of a great deal and aren't satisfied with little. You are drawn to the essence of things, to the hidden mechanisms of power and money. This is a force that can build empires or change lives for the better, if it serves more than just you.
Relationships
In relationships you look for depth and complete involvement. Superficial ties are of no interest. You can be a very generous partner, but also strive for control. Strong feelings require trust. A union blossoms when both partners grow together and don't fight for the upper hand. Willingness to show your vulnerability brings you closer than any strength.
Work and Money
Big business, finance, research, politics, psychology, resource management and reform suit you. You see opportunity where others see crisis. A career can make powerful leaps. Money comes through strategy and influence, but demands ethical handling, or power turns against you. You cope well with responsibility that frightens others.
Strengths
- The ability to see big opportunities and reach large goals
- The power of persuasion and influence over people and circumstances
- A knack for rebirth after crises, coming back stronger and wiser than before
Pitfalls
- A drive for power and control for the sake of power itself
- A conviction of being right that tolerates no objection
- A tendency toward extremes, 'all or nothing,' in important decisions
How to Work With It
Ask yourself whom your strength serves besides you. Big goals are within your reach if they have meaning for people. Learn to listen to objections; valuable information is often hidden in them. Regularly let go of what has outlived its time: this aspect grows through renewal, not accumulation. Strength given to a cause comes back as respect.
In the Sky: What It Means for Everyone
Jupiter conjoins Pluto, and the world enters a period of powerful transformation: centers of power, big money and social structures are changing. This is a time when enormous resources move behind the scenes of events. New economic players emerge, spheres of influence are redistributed, and large companies and states consolidate or restructure. In society interest in power, wealth and secrets sharpens. For an individual the period opens possibilities for deep change, if they are ready to let go of the old and invest in a serious goal. A slow aspect: a theme of weeks and months, the background of the time.
How It Shows Up
- News of big mergers, reforms and changes of leadership
- Discussion of power, money and hidden mechanisms in society
- People decide on deep changes in career and life
- Interest in psychology, research and the search for the essence of things
Good to Do
- Set a big goal and build a strategy
- Get rid of whatever is slowing growth
- Invest in deep learning or research
Better to Avoid
- Fighting for power at any price
- Acting out of obsession rather than clear intent