Pluto Transits to Chiron

When Pluto transits natal Chiron your need for transformation and power influences your wounds and need for healing. Pluto destroys and regenerates old structures and represents your need to be empowered and reborn in this area.

When Pluto transits natal Chiron it brings intensity and evolution to your wounds and need for healing, as well as how you share your gifts of wisdom and grow towards wholeness. This is a generational transit that affects whole groups of people at the same time but you’ll also experience it on a personal level based on your Chiron placement.

Pluto brings old wounds and unresolved issues or problems to your awareness to force you to change and find a way to heal. Circumstances and events in your current life could mirror the events of the past and you may need to relive an old trauma on a different level so you can develop a deeper understanding and release yourself from its grip.

Hard aspects to Chiron (conjunction, square or opposition) may be more challenging and you may feel overwhelmed by extreme feelings of rage, grief, fear, and guilt, or a sense of powerlessness and victimisation. You may need to confront issues with low self-worth or feelings of inadequacy and patterns of wounding that have kept you stuck for years.

You may need to be careful not to become obsessed with trying to heal as this could trigger some kind of crisis or make the situation worse. But if you take your time and work with the process, you may discover new ways to heal and let go of the past. It could be a good time to have therapy because Pluto encourages you to go deeper into your psyche to explore why you are the way you are.

You may need to learn to stand up for yourself and accept the validity of your feelings and needs, despite what happened in the past. You can empower yourself by recognising that you have a right not to be abused and victimised and betrayed. You can also see how you may have betrayed yourself in the past or made things harder for yourself.

Now you can choose to stop these patterns of self-betrayal and take better care of yourself. Even if you can’t completely heal, you can accept yourself as you are, including all the wounded and vulnerable parts. You can learn to have greater compassion for yourself and this changes your view of the past, allowing you to face the future with a new sense of wholeness and vitality.

Through this process of healing you can return to alignment with your deeper Self and this may release hidden gifts and wisdom that you can develop and share with others. You may discover a talent for healing and decide to become a wounded healer, or simply share what you have learned on your journey to self-acceptance.

Possibilities with Pluto transiting Chiron:

Exploring deeper healing techniques and therapies
Empowering yourself by confronting your traumas
Letting go of the pain of the past
Sharing your wisdom and gifts with others
Becoming a wounded healer

Watch out for:

Old wounds reactivated or triggered
Retraumatising yourself with victimisation
Overwhelmed by past wounds or traumas
Healing or health crisis
Extreme healing therapies

My Notes:

Pluto transited opposite my natal Chiron in 1974-76, from age 4 to 6, when Pluto was in Libra in my 8th house. This coincided with when I started at school which was probably pretty traumatising for a highly sensitive little empath who has no idea who she is. I don’t remember any specific event but I do remember feeling small and vulnerable, as if everybody else were giants, and I was often too scared to raise my hand or speak to anyone.

However, my nervous disposition was baked in by this point as I was already a mess by then anyway – see Chiron Return in Aries – but this transit probably didn’t help much.

Pluto transited trine my natal Chiron in 1998-99, from age 28 to 29, when Pluto was in Sagittarius in my 10th house. This coincided with when I started working part-time in boring office jobs to pay the bills. Despite having to leave a job I loved at the recording studio, working in offices forced me to learn new skills and get better at communicating with normies, i.e. non-musicians.

Overall it was a healing time when I grew in self-confidence and expanded my identity. Earning my own money boosted my feelings of self-worth and gave me more options for self-development into the future.

Pluto transited square my natal Chiron in 2012-13, from age 41 to 43, when Pluto was in Capricorn in my 11th house. This coincided with when I was on the dole and doing lots of writing and slowly healing after my health had collapsed two years before. The health crisis was triggered by a combination of stress due to being made redundant, plus death threats from my neighbour, and various auto-immune issues flaring up.

This transit helped me to heal by giving me the resilience and fortitude to keep going through the shitstorm. The psychotic neighbour moved out 6 months into the transit and my health quickly improved as soon as he was gone. Halfway through the transit I decided to go self-employed (to get the dole off my back) and this enabled me to finish my first novel which I published just after the transit ended.