In astrology a square aspect is a 90 degree angle between a planet or point in the chart. It is considered a "hard" aspect. Meaning the energy portended is abrasive and challenging. Usually it is an impetus to action.
The Moon is significant in astrology for many reasons. For this topic, it is symbolic of the maternal nurturing we receive, the subconscious and the past. This Luminary is female energy.
Pluto is the planet of rebirth, regeneration, the underworld, life and death, resurrection and intense power.
This combination is often described as the "devouring mother". It is seen as a mother complex in the natal chart. The maternal influence in early life that micro managed and controlled the child. This perceived, all consuming powerful mother figure, deeply ingrained emotional survival or emotional death in the developing child's psyche.
So it can be seen as a primitive emotional drive, that would be compulsively tuned to annihilating any intuited control challenge to one's emotions. Obviously this can bring pitfalls and catastrophes in its inherent extremism.
Some of the preferred tactics of this astrological aspect are devious manipulation, completely freezing out others emotionally, obsessive compulsive behaviours to control their environment, frightening and violent displays of emotion, ruthless emotional revenge and/or repeating early environmental conditioning in an attempt at mastering the self, via repeated abusive relationships or sub consciously seeking dangerous situations. The need to heal and regenerate emotionally is an all consuming soul drive. The deepness of which goes beyond the native's individual life. It can be seen as a theme of the past and future. This brings me to the next part of my topic. Family astrology patterning.
I will use my family and the Moon/Pluto theme as an example.
I have my natal Moon square Pluto. My 2 sons have Moon square Pluto. My eldest child, my daughter, has a Moon /Pluto aspect, a sextile, which is a more positive action aspect of these energies. My only sibling, my sister, has Moon in Scorpio, Pluto is Scorpio's planetary ruler. So you can see from this that there is a definite generational connection in my family with the Moon/Pluto astrology energy. My sister is a Sun sign Cancer, the Moon rules Cancer. I have the Moon conjunct the Ascendant from the 12th house, which gives the Moon a very prominent placing in my natal chart. My daughter has the Moon in the first house of the self and identity. My youngest son has the Moon in its house of rulership, the fourth house. Again another prominent placing for the Moon.
Now looking deeper and analysing this example, we can see both my sister and I carry emotional intensity from our maternal nurturing in childhood. Our mother was overprotective, strict, domineering with an inability for emotional warmth. But it goes deeper than that. Typically Pluto like. Our Mother was made into this way and needed to be this way. She instinctively and subconsciously had to survive many traumas. She also needed to protect her children from traumas. Traumas that were in her past, in the present and in my mother's perceived reality of the future. Thus creating that future for her daughters in their need to rework the Moon/Pluto legacy of their upbringing. A projected prophecy. So typically Plutonian, regeneration and rebirth through redoing.
I then draw traumas and intensity into my experiences with the inherent need to master the emotional healing challenge to rebirth my emotions into a powerfully healing energy. Needless to say the process is fraught with damage and dramas of the dark and dire description. Yet my emotional power slowly emerges into my conscious awareness. It is by nature and design an ongoing "re" birthing process. Suffice to say one that no doubt will transpire of many incarnations. Again a Pluto principle.
Interestingly, my daughter has the morphed Moon/Pluto energy that is less negatively jarring. My daughter has perceived her major maternal influence, me, as powerful but with positive ability. This has been internalised by her as a positive emotional use. Remembering the Moon is female energy, representing the mother, so is more easily identified with by my daughter.
On the other hand, my sons have the square aspect. They perceived me as powerfully protective and fearful. I was seen as the opposite sex parent who could just as easily give life or death. Begin or end their world. I had to do battle for their lives and my own, with fearful men and circumstances. As I did with my daughter too. That was seen as empowering for my daughter's identification but disempowering for my sons'. Maybe my sons are to carry the torch now for the astrology alchemy of the Moon/Pluto energy for positive transformation in the male gender incarnations. Thus elevating the future family generational Moon/Pluto hereditary for all our future family line.
As a Moon/Pluto mum I know how to love my children from the depths of my soul and beyond lifetimes. Yes that can be very intense for a child. But as my sons both have wonderful Moon/Jupiter aspects also, which show they feel loved and emotionally secure through their maternal nurturing, I have full faith and confidence they will take the Pluto challenges instilled to rebirth into positive healers of self and others.
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