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.
Major Karmic Purge
Under Neptunian rulership, Plutonian forces find here a highly significant depth, particularly on psychic and emotional levels, where they can prove highly revelatory.
The very important point of this transit to encourage may be the surfacing of unconscious and karmic matters (even transgenerational ones), with the aim of being able to purge / purify them.
This may confront one with certain fears, limitations, or feelings of guilt, with the purpose of enabling one to reclaim personal power over them, to spiritualize them, to elevate oneself, or to forgive what is necessary in order to be freed from them.
This is a favorable transit for enabling various forms of introspection or psychoanalysis, through various methods allowing one to deepen hidden elements, as well as one’s faith, the perception of universality and the Absolute, and the search linked to the quest for meaning.
One may experience more significant dreams with these forces, including prophetic ones, or development of various mediumistic gifts, an increase in Synchronicities, and so on.
This can form a more significant personal and emotional crisis, commensurate with the heightened receptivity to the psychic realm and the unconscious, simply because there may be very important needs for review that can call one’s entire incarnation into question (the notion of death / rebirth being maximized).
This may call for confronting one’s Shadow more directly, the obscure part of oneself, one’s own demons, in all that this can hold that is violent and destabilizing, but also fundamentally transformative in the long term.
This does not exclude certain phases of Depression, understood as mechanisms of purging and Mourning to be undertaken regarding certain facets of the personality and incarnation, in order to accept changing, to cleanse oneself inwardly.
It remains highly important to encourage, for instance, various techniques of meditation, breathwork, yoga, or prayer, with the aim of channeling the emotional expansion this calls for, and of not drifting too long within the shadow side of these processes.
The transit over the end of the 12th House will be particularly important to follow in this regard, as over several years it can form an intensification of these processes.
Likewise, Pluto’s angular passage over the Ascendant will also be highly important to follow, as it can carry a particularly significant and powerful liberating charge regarding unconscious mechanisms, this can form a kind of “second birth” for the personality (see then the transit of Pluto in the 1st House or in Aries).
In the long term, thanks to this Plutonian transit, one may, for instance, become an excellent psychologist, someone capable of helping others combat their own Shadow, to face their fears and limitations, to heal, to forgive, to open toward the Absolute.
A transit of retrograde Pluto in the 12th House or in Pisces may represent a period of even deeper psychic exploration.
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…