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Pluto trine Pluto

the transiting Pluto's passage in trine to its own natal place, or one person's Pluto trine another's in synastry

What the tradition reads

A natal chart cannot show Pluto trine itself, since a single body cannot stand at an angle from its own degree; the tradition instead reads this key through transit, a station reached roughly a third of the way through Pluto's own approximately two hundred and forty eight year circuit. Cafe Astrology's transit reading describes this passage as a time of personal growth, shedding attitudes or situations that have been limiting a person, more strategic and more passionate and aware at once, connecting with instinct and ambition in a way that strengthens many areas of a person's outer life and brings a renewed sense of purpose or mission. Between two charts, a trine from one person's Pluto to another's is read through the same transformative character the tradition gives Pluto generally, made easy and cooperative rather than disruptive; because Pluto moves so slowly, partners a real distance apart in age are needed to produce this particular angle between two separate natal charts, rather than the near conjunction closer aged partners already share.

The story

A trine is a hundred and twenty degrees, a third of the circle; Ptolemy's chapter on the mutual configuration of the signs calls it, together with the sextile, harmonious, since the signs it joins are of the same kind, all masculine or all feminine, and Wikipedia's own summary calls the trine extremely beneficial, indicating harmony, ease and what is natural, more intense in its effect than the sextile though gentler than either hard aspect. Hades meeting Hades has no myth of doubling to draw on. The tradition instead reads the pairing through the god's two names and natures: Hades, portrayed in the older stories as the dark and violent abductor of Persephone, with few temples of his own, and Plouton, the name that came into wide use at Eleusis, where the same god was venerated as both a stern ruler and a loving husband to Persephone, and, since the Greeks connected mineral wealth found underground with the same chthonic power, as a god of the earth's buried riches too. Pluto meeting its own natal place at this easier angle is read through the same transformative character the myth gives Hades and Plouton together, old attachments loosening easily enough to be let go without a fight.

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Corpus key aspect:Pluto:Pluto:trine.