These are overall Transit energies that must absolutely be nuanced according to your own birth chart, see the article on Pluto in transit; for interpretation of your natal Pluto, see Pluto in birth chart.
This is a profoundly deep transit, carrying significant latency and slowness; in any case, it spends several years per sign and lingers on each aspect for multiple years, often bringing about very radical and extreme transformations, sometimes by force of circumstance.
Plutonian energies often arrive to compel a process of corrosion, of digestion; they represent an inner fire that cannot be extinguished as long as there remains anything left to burn—so this is precisely what must be encouraged during this passage.
They can rhythmically activate spiritual awakenings in the long term, but are also quite frequently correlated with forces of Mourning or with mechanisms of Depression.
Function of Power
This is a culminating placement that remains highly potent for Plutonian forces; one can strongly link this sector to the very expression of destiny.
Pluto can enable one here to accrue very significant social power (whatever its form), since the planet applies itself to ambitious, responsible, determined forces, those linked to our social function.
In general, there are two major possible axes for the expression of this transit:
The first, more harmonious, will involve attaining significant recognition from the social sphere: a position of dominance, a promotion, things that will be spontaneously acknowledged by others (this is what one will have built by oneself, through the strength of one’s own hands, which will ultimately pay off in a spontaneous and natural way, imposing one’s leadership).
The second case, more dissonant (especially if the planet is under tension) may also indicate, for instance, notions of confrontation with authority (Plutonian forces are projected and encountered facing oneself), with various forms of possible socioprofessional trials or else violent revelations within this framework, but always with the underlying aim of succeeding in proving one’s worth to the world ! (there may also be certain notions of social retribution to be claimed through these forces)
In any case, this Pluto transit can carry a fairly revelatory charge regarding one’s destiny; it can enable one, in the long term, to refocus on one’s fundamental aims of incarnation (on one’s foundational karmic realization), to succeed also in evicting the superfluous, to purge what must be purged, and to focus on what one considers to be the right truth (or to rebuild things in that sense, if the planet has conveyed certain destructions).
Depending on one’s age, one may also feel weary of questions of power dynamics, and it may also be time to know how to pass the torch to a successor, to take more the role of the mentor, who progressively withdraws into the wings.
Analogously as well, this could involve expressing Plutonian energies within one’s professional sphere, so why not in activities linked to the esoteric, to healing, to investigation, and so on; see the many possible Plutonian analogies.
Also take care with various possible jealousies within the work context: because logically, often the more one rises and is recognized by others, the more this stirs vocations in people who wish to be “caliph in the caliph’s place” (especially among one’s closest collaborators, who are often best positioned to plant the knife in one’s back).
In general, with these forces, one does not inspire half-measures, incidentally: either one will be loved and adored for what one is and does, or one will be despised for exactly the same reasons !
It is above all this fundamentally polarizing nature that may express itself within various social relations.
Take care also not to abuse advantageous positions of power too much, as this could ultimately rebound karmically sooner or later, in proportion to what has been expressed.
A transit of retrograde Pluto in the 10th House or in Capricorn may represent a useful period for taking stock, for making an assessment, of one’s social function.
It’s important to contextualize this Plutonian transit within the full arc of its retrograde phases and its returns to direct motion, which can, of course, place prolonged emphasis on specific points in our birth chart, remaining within orb of influence for extended periods, particularly during the stationary phases…