These are global energies of Pluto in Taurus or in the 2nd 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.
Power, possessions, and detachment
This planet is in the element of Earth here, under Venus’s rulership, and this is a position that significantly strengthens these people’s connection with matter, possessiveness, and the need to secure their environment, but it also gives them a powerful ability to sublimate and detach from things.
Thus, this planet can very much be experienced in two ways. The first is a need for wealth, comfort, and possessions and a need to hoard money for reassurance (their fear of missing something is also more intense as a result of this planetary positioning). These people never have enough and may even be very compulsive with money and sex; with a carpe diem side to them, they have both consumerist tendencies and avarice, which may be very pronounced.
The second is about letting go, perhaps following various setbacks or “losses” in life. There is a need here for these people to get in touch with values that are harder, more enduring, more stable, and deeper inside of themselves, which they will find in more spiritual, metaphysical things, almost as though, having exhausted and “consumed” matter (Pluto carries out an alchemical “calcinatio” on it), there is nothing left but more transcendental energies that allow for a transformation that is actually highly connected to the principles of the 8th house in opposition with this position.
Here, this planet may impart values that are highly secretive, discreet, and hidden relative to that which these people possess and perceive, the money that comes and goes, and the concrete work that they accomplish. This is also a position that may be conducive to “professional secrecy,” so we may easily find these people working in professions that are linked to espionage, psychology, banking, finance, or even more esoteric fields, death, the police, and anything that requires an investigation or a search or that involves the need to delve deeper and conduct research, including research into that which is infinitely small, atoms, physics, and anything “underground.” These are often occupations that are difficult for the general public to understand, or even taboo (they may also be linked to sex or be unusual or illegal in some way).
Traditional astrology may tie this positioning to “poverty,” but this is highly inaccurate (like for Saturn in the 2nd house, for that matter); in reality, wherever Pluto is, it causes all possible fears related to the archetype in question to come to the surface, and here this is highly connected to a “lack of security,” which may go back very far karmically and may lead these people to be very anxious and fearful of any sort of financial difficulty, any position of personal weakness or dependence on others, or any feeling of helplessness (money is in fact only one of the direct translations of power). This planet in this position may also force people to abandon anything that is not useful, so here this means that they relieve themselves of some of the “weight” of matter, possessions, and money.
This is therefore a position that is very much centered around the idea of “I have, therefore I am,” and over the course of these people’s incarnation they will have to work on the verb “to have” and on the notions that are involved here both inherently on a concrete level and spiritually speaking. People’s ability to define themselves based on their possessions and purchases is limited, and so these people may also turn to values of altruism, giving, sharing, generosity, etc.
Pluto in the 2nd house / Taurus is very much there to teach people when to fight and when to let things go and go along with whatever “losses” occur as best they can so as to be reborn from the ashes, and this is how this planet gives the best side of its transformative energies: in this case it is not simply experienced but rather deliberately used.
Unfortunately, any problems related to matter and money are more intense as a result of this positioning. Consumerism is one of the potential quirks here, as well as avarice on the extreme opposite end, depending on the aspects that this planet forms and on the rest of one’s birth chart. It is also important for these people to be careful with the management of their personal finances, profits, and purchases/sales and more generally with all of their work; their personal transformation will come as a result of these things, but it may also be very painful if they are not wary of Pluto’s depth and the destruction that it may lead to.
With this positioning, the notion of possessiveness can also easily extend to people and lead to domination or jealousy, and so these people may have a desire to control and “conserve” others. They have a great need for a sense of belonging, though this may result in them having many “idiosyncrasies.”
Pluto retrograde in the 2nd house and Taurus
This planet’s Retrograde motion here has a tendency to accentuate earth’s crystallization and increase these people’s tendency to “cling” to things, so they may have trouble adapting to change.
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 2nd House
Bill Gates, Johnny Depp, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Spinoza, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeanne Calment, Rocco Siffredi, Luc Besson, Lata Mangeshkar, JP Morgan, Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Swami Muktananda, Henry Kissinger, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lucretia Borgia, Lee Harvey Oswald…
Celebrities with Pluto in Taurus
Carl Gustav Jung, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, Molière, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Joseph Stalin, Lenin, Winston Churchill, Edgar Cayce, Rudolf Steiner, Marie Curie, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Rasputin, Henry Ford, Sri Aurobindo, Ramana Maharshi, Swami Vivekananda, Mata Hari, Jeanne Calment (who also has it in 2nd house, reinforcing the meaning), Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde…