Hello. I'm also new to this tribe, a Sag rising. Everyone sounds so upbeat! Does anyone else have natal Pluto in H8? Each transit is so unique. I'm thinking that I can handle mine and you can handle yours, but I probably couldn't handle yours and you probably couldn't handle mine!

I can relate more so to your post, Hannah, due to the multiple Pluto transits. I had Pluto cj natal NNode, Pluto quincunx natal Venus, Pluto oppose Sun, all right together, and then Pluto conj Asc and about a year later Pluto oppose transiting Saturn. It's like it all ran together. I also experienced physical change and a change in outlook. Thankfully, there was no baby for me, which I'm so grateful for under the circumstances, but a change in marital status, residence, employment, finance, and all 3 family dogs died, one right after the other. It was like everything I was familiar with disappeared in just a few months. Mars was retrograde, so I didn't even put up a fight. I remember feeling overwhelmed and that it would be futile to try to fight all of this, so I just let it go. Friends and friends of friends came from all points, and there were many wonderful opportunities that came my way.

I feel certain that due to Pluto conjuncting my NNode that this is the direction I was meant to go in. My husband ended up dying right after our divorce was final, and I think it would've been much harder for me to move forward if our relationship hadn't ended the way in which it did. I was finally able to see him more realistically. I'd say that there was much growth physically and emotionally that came from experiencing the transits. Looking back, I feel that I'd done much soul work in the previous years, so I think that made this transit easier for me, going with the flow. Through this experience I've learned that it's best for me to be in control of my own finances and not to depend on someone else for financial support. What was such a coincidence is that I'd always supported myself very well, had my own business, until a few years before this transit when my husband and I mutually decided that it wasn't necessary for me to work any longer. Funny how that worked out!

When it came time for me to move, there had been a few snowstorms in the weeks prior and so that made for extra work as I had to bring out my boxes going to storage on a sled from the house, going down a 100-ft driveway for a while, back and forth through the snow. Mountain living! So I lost every extra pound I was carrying right there. I'd let my hair grow out since quitting work, and it had gotten long. I was in my early 40's and now getting carded again. Jupiter was in my fourth house trining natal Jupiter and Pluto, and I hadn't experienced magnetism like this in a long time! I got a new boyfriend right away, and I sold my car and took the next year off and concentrated on slowly building my new life. I ended up really enjoying myself and my freedom, enjoying the basics. Getting back into the workforce was challenging due to the change in technology, but it ended up working out very well.

Pluto is about 1/2 way through my first house, so will be there for many more years. Right now it's trining natal Jupiter and Pluto and sextiling natal Mars and Neptune, so life is good. So much has happened since this started, one divorce, one death, three pet deaths, two marriage proposals, one almost engagement, three jobs, three cars, four moves, one move out of state, a big remodel, a new puppy. Life has been moving at this incredibly accellerated pace, and so now I'm enjoying this trine and feeling optimistic about the future once again.

Sincerely,
Moonstone

what i meant to say was i came into contact with ppl who had wounded me.......

Aquarius sun, leo moon 8th, pluto virgo 9th...life has been a constant state of transformation, and as I read previously, a continual process of death and rebirth. The last 7 years have been stable in the material since but with great restrictions (that are my freedoms). My life is so odd and I am so normal with it. Ok, I am happy with it (or puch drunk). I have also see reversals galore, for example, as a kid and until 95 I would shower for 45 minutes a day...the amount of water I used was incredible, now, I shower in less than 90 seconds and doubt if I use a gallon. I am know more changes await but I know not what they are. What I can say for sure is that I have come in to myself, and it was well woth it.
Frank

>There was a time, back in 2002 when not only was Pluto on its way through Sagi, but Saturn was sitting opposite it in Gemini. That was turbulent. I experienced it as an explosion of identity. I went all goth and dramatic in ways I never would have predicted. I explored areas of my sexuality that I'd never explored. It was exciting and crazy. I'm less crazy now, but retained a stronger sense of identity and self-esteem. I care much less about what others think of me. I know myself better. I shook off the societal constraints, I guess. Pluto vs. Saturn. I think I ended up somewhere in the center between them. The extremes were shaved away.<

Wow, guys!! It's gotta be worth all the effort!

Frank- LOL - I thought you meant since you were a kid until AGE 95!! (re: showering)...