Pluto Retrograde
Descent. Excavation. Revelation.
Pluto Retrograde in Aquarius — Gate 41 The Gate of Contraction.
May 6 – October 16
Pluto stations retrograde today, and he’ll be moving backwards through the early degrees of Aquarius all the way until October.
Five months.
Five months of excavation, illumination, and — if you’re willing to lean into it — some meaningful reclamation.
If you’ve been feeling a quiet restlessness lately. A tightening. A sense that something is shifting beneath the surface, but you can’t quite put words to what it is — I want you to know that feeling has a source. And this retrograde is likely going to bring it into focus, if you’re willing to receive what it has to show you.
Who Pluto is — and what he actually wants from you
In ancient mythology, Pluto ruled the underworld. Everything below the surface of the earth. The gold buried in rock. The diamond formed under pressure. The mineral wealth you can’t see until you’re willing to dig.
This is the thread that runs through everything Pluto touches.
He is not the planet of death in the way we fear death. He is the planet of what needs to fall away so something truer can live. The burning away of roots that have long stopped feeding you. The stripping back that always, always precedes the rebuild.
Pluto is about honesty. But that honesty is often mistaken for cruelty by the parts of ourselves he makes uncomfortable.
He will show you what you have been unwilling to look at. And he will keep showing you, in different forms, until you finally look.