When Pluto transits the 4th house your need for transformation and power influences your home, family and roots. Pluto destroys and regenerates old structures and represents your need to be empowered and reborn in this area.
When Pluto transits the 4th house it brings intensity and evolution to your home and family situation, your relationship to your parents and grandparents, your roots and ancestors, and your private life. This transit brings a period of deep change that ends an old way of life so you can create new foundations that are aligned with your deepest soul needs. How this affects you will depend on the age at which it occurs and the circumstances of your life.
You may want to renovate your home or rebuild or move to a more suitable location. This need may be triggered by a change in your relationship to your parents or within the family and there could be power struggles or even deaths and separations. Other changes to your family could include births and new family members, or children leaving home, for example.
These changes could bring up memories from childhood, including emotional and psychological patterns that made you who you are. These might not reflect your true self so you may need to do some excavating and purging of old fears and compulsions that don’t really belong to you but come from family patterns.
Issues from childhood could return to your awareness and your current situation could mirror the events of the past. You may find yourself reliving old traumas so you can learn to see them from a new perspective and let them go. This may include redefining the relationship you have with your parents and you may be able to reconcile your differences and deepen your understanding of each other.
You may also want to explore your ancestral inheritance and the deeper roots of your family to discover more about where you come from. Karmic ties with your family could be activated and you can see how the patterns of the past influence the present.
Whatever happens, this transit is about getting back in touch with the depths of your soul and how that expresses itself through the most intimate part of your life. Pluto will challenge you to transform yourself on the deepest level and you may feel like withdrawing or spending more time alone so you can process the feelings that come up. It may be a good time for therapy where you can explore these feelings in a safe environment.
Possibilities with Pluto transiting the 4th house:
- Transforming and strengthening family relationships
- Renovating or repairing your home
- Moving home
- Exploring your ancestral past and roots
- Healing childhood wounds and conditioning
- Establishing a powerful foundation for life
Watch out for:
- Power struggles at home
- Relationship breakups or difficulties
- Reliving old emotional traumas from childhood
- Confronting the karma of the past
- Death of a parent or family member
- Loss of your home
My Notes:
Pluto won’t make it this far into my chart. If you’ve had this transit, please share your experience in the comments below…
More Pluto Transits: 1st house / 2nd house / 3rd house / 4th house / 5th house / 6th house / 7th house / 8th house / 9th house / 10th house / 11th house / 12th house / natal planets
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Jessica Davidson 
Pluto will be hitting my IC late next year. Does that mean mother can pass away. Iv seen a lot of transformation at work.
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Pluto crossing the IC could mean your mother passes away or experiences illness or other troubles. But transformation can work itself out on many different levels so you shouldn’t expect the worse.
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I think I’m in the middle of a twenty year cycle of Pluto transiting my 4th house so no surprises we are going through a house renovation that still hasn’t finished yet so I’m pulling out all the stops for increasing income in 2026.Also been looking at childhood emotional trauma and family ancestral generational history for many years to understand what I might be holding.Also the rule of karma patterns so hoping I’ve done enough to free this energy and consciousness in myself.
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Emerging now from what has been far beyond “hard,” my Pluto-in-the-fourth-house transit brought total upheaval in family, home, and identity — to the point of walking away from a toxic family structure. Though I finally feel free, this deep transformation is still unfolding, and I can’t wait to step into the 5th house has been the hardest transit so far.
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Thanks for sharing your experience – hopefully your 5th house transit will be less stressful!
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Using the Whole House Sign system, Pluto certainly made his presence felt in my life.
Our home purchased 10 years ago – a lovely old Victorian house – had horrors lurking, including every kind of rot and wood boring beetles imaginable, rising damp, needed the roof overhauled! Not the simple renovations we were hoping to do like replacing the old kitchen and bathroom etc. We even lost our cornicing due to the remedial treatments. We ran out of money and have been ‘camping’ in the house ever since, living with the essentials and no more.
Then I lost my mother; I was with her and it was a sacred moment. She left money, which meant that we could afford to continue with the renovations. But my husband was too busy with his work as an architect, and he wanted to do much of the work on the house himself. Now he is in hospital and when he does get out, life will be very different, as he will have a very long recovery. This is my worst fears realising. Home and family is everything to me.
On a more positive note, I did a course in transgenerational astrology, and have been delving deep into my family tree. A lot of what I carry in this life is the Neptune signature from my mother, father and both sets of grandparents.
It was not all bad however. Many happy times too.
I hope this conveys a flavour of what transiting Pluto in the 4th meant to me.
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Thanks for sharing your experience, Jennifer. Pluto often seems to manifest your worst fears, maybe to show that you can survive them and become stronger.
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