These are global energies of Pluto in Leo or in the 5th House which must be nuanced according to your birth chart, see the article Pluto in birth chart; see also the article on the general interpretation of Pluto.
The planet Pluto is one of the attributes of the Shadow in the chart, as such it can indicate a Projection of this one, especially intellectual projections on “social entities” (political party, club, syndicate, nation, church, etc.), everything that concerns more directly the psychological quest, the depth of spirit, the intensity of primary instincts.
It can materialize a place of upheavals, fear, destruction, fatality, losses, betrayals, darkness, submission, as it is also a vector of passion, domination, power, self-control, creation of purity.
It is often referred to the higher octave of Mars and is directly related to Scorpio.
As Pluto remains from 12 to 30 years per sign (due to the irregularity of its orbit), its position in houses is more meaningful for the personality. The energy of the sign especially gives a common elemental background coloring to a whole generation, which will apply more personally to the life sector signified by the house. Therefore, focus first on the house affected, the sign giving a background tone.
A huge challenge of purifying one’s personality
This planet tends to be in a strong position of exaltation here, where it has a significant effect on how the ego is constructed, in the best case scenario allowing it to be “purified” and in the worst case scenario bringing powerful forces of destruction and self-destruction to the table; in any case, this makes these people’s personality much more like Scorpio.
This “purification” may occur here through the alchemical process of “Calcinatio“, during which the psyche is symbolically “heated” and “put under pressure” in a significant way (often even in the context of the process of Depression) to allow them to remove whatever debris there is that needs to be eliminated from their temperament.
Thus, for example, we may rather frequently find people who spend the beginning of their lives living in some sort of “excess” or going through a downward spiral, or even having violent tendencies, and who “need to rediscover” certain parts of themselves to express these sides of themselves and find deeper inner peace and serenity that goes beyond all the emotional chaos.
The pitfall of this sort of process is all of the violence and destruction that it creates. The notion of a “psychological crisis” may constantly be very present and significant, and this may often activate all of the Plutonian “flaws:” possessiveness, jealousy, dominance, manipulation, compulsiveness, obsessiveness, manic behavior, the death drive, etc.
We can guess that many of these tensions impact these people’s connections with “others,”, thus having an effect through these other people, and in a way this positioning of Pluto can give people an affective and “social hypersensitivity.” These people may feel and arouse very intense, excessive emotions: when they love, they love very passionately and intensely (for that matter, love is important here: that is, loving and being loved), and when they do not like something they readily hate or even detest it. And for that matter, their own personality in a social context is very much like this as well, in that it does not arouse any half-hearted feelings or half-measures. They are either loved or hated, so almost nothing is lukewarm with them, and this all-in side may either serve them well or be detrimental to them.
Symbolically, wherever the planet Pluto is, it brings transformation and metamorphosis with it, given the energies that it deals with.
Here in this sector, this may often apply to various creations and anything that more generally concerns the personality’s need for radiance, but this planet also brings a certain weight, density, and depth here, in this corner of the heavens which is normally considered to be lighter and more playful.
There are several possible interpretations… For example, this may yield a child or a father who has been marked (or the relationship with this person will have been marked) by Scorpio and Plutonian forces, or it may lead to the establishment of a power struggle or confrontation with this person, for example, or a relationship that is more “acidic” in certain ways and which may be very invasive, potentially leading to intense clashes.
In certain cases, this may create compulsive risk-takers and carefree pleasure-seekers who are very carpe diem and who are likely to suffer substantial setbacks and significant losses, and there is a great risk for these people of often playing with fire and thus burning their hands more often.
Pluto in the 5th house / Leo can often bring about certain “losses or deaths” that are necessary so that these people can better examine their personality on a deeper level, and in a way there are things that they need to give up in order to move forward differently afterwards and move on to a higher stage of evolution.
These Leonine energies may be nicely expressed through activities like theater, for example, which may allow these people to explore different roles and more directly externalize these powerful, magnetic personal and psychological forces.
In the same way, the various practices that “cultivate” the Sun may be very helpful, such as Yoga, prayer, spirituality, and meditation, but these practices are definitely not accessible to everyone with this positioning, at least not so long as these people have not yet carried out this huge task of “purification” to keep their “intrinsic anger” away from these forces.
Unfortunately, these people will have to beware of obsessions, which may quickly become predominant with these forces and readily turn into an illness, and this may be highly destructive for these people and for the people around them.
In addition, it is important to know how to set limits in games of domination, both to avoid hurting others too much for no reason and to avoid the eventuality of one day hitting a brick wall and facing a backlash that reflects their own behavior.
This positioning may also accentuate destructive love for various reasons, and it may also be particularly helpful in the context of Synastry, for example, if one person has this positioning, for analyzing the pair’s overall Plutonian interactions, to see exactly how power struggles come into being, as well as who is likely to suffer and from what.
Pluto retrograde in the 5th house and Leo
This planet’s Retrograde motion in this sign may give some degree of balance to these energies, which will be quite welcome, but it also runs the risk of intensifying and deepening these people’s obsessive, compulsive side.
Retrograde motion of Pluto in a birth chart is much less important than for other dominant features of a birth chart, since, as it is a very slow, transpersonal planet, it is retrograde for much of the year.
Nevertheless, it is helpful to monitor the evolution of this retrograde motion through Progressions; a change of state here will not necessarily lead to a specific, noteworthy event, but it may still be an indication of a non-negligible psychological change in how this planet’s energies are used.
Celebrities with Pluto in 5th House
Friedrich Nietzsche, John Lennon, Thomas Edison, Lady Gaga, Robert Redford, Coco Chanel, Charlie Sheen, Carlos Castaneda, Johnny Cash, Stephen Arroyo, Barbra Streisand, Mao Tse-toun, Anders Breivik, Benedict XVI, Jean Dujardin…
Celebrities with Pluto in Leo
Leonardo da Vinci, Vladimir Putin, Voltaire, Bill Gates, Benjamin Franklin, Donald Trump, Steve Jobs, Christopher Columbus, Al Pacino, Bruce Lee, Pablo Escobar, Barbra Streisand…