Saturn-Pluto Semisquare

(Transit. Saturn → Natal Pluto)

Avesalom Podvodny. Aspects

Saturn’s semisquare: When deeply drilling the well of the inner world, instead of a fountain of spirituality, oil may gush forth. This aspect is not as harsh as Saturn’s square, yet more insidious, as it gives the person a sense of deep penetration into the areas ruled by the planet, but this depth is largely illusory, while the dogmatism of the methods used to achieve it is entirely real. For example, the Saturn-Mercury semisquare produces a person who always knows how things should be, especially in areas ruled by Mercury; here, their thinking is indirect, dogmatic, and unyielding, and proving its limitations to them is practically impossible. The Saturn-Pluto semisquare, on the contrary, produces a person who knows how things should not be and knows precisely how to eradicate them, having no doubts whatsoever—especially at a lower level—about this. As long as this person remains ego-centered, the planet’s sphere remains inaccessible to them, perhaps even causing irritation for not fitting into predefined frameworks; in reality, the person maims it, though they believe everything they do (structuring, rationally limiting, wisely guiding onto the true path) serves only its benefit. If Saturn is afflicted, this semisquare can inflict deep emotional wounds, but their source—the excessively harsh interaction with the planet’s spheres—will long remain unclear or invisible. Processing this requires great self-sacrifice and courageous deepening into the planet’s spheres through the eyes of others and in their interests, precisely when the person themselves already considers everything clear and obvious; only when they see the planet through others’ eyes, through the prism of their problems, and help resolve them, will the person be able to accomplish something truly valuable, constructive, and reliable. Pluto’s semisquare: The mafia should be buried in bulletproof coffins. At a low level, such a person will tend to ruthlessly eradicate evil in the planet’s spheres according to their clear conceptions of it, and it is precisely in the clarity and definiteness of these conceptions that their strength lies, as well as simultaneously their limitation in evolutionary development—which they will understand much later. For example, the Moon-Pluto semisquare may produce a great censor, an oncological surgeon, or a psychotherapist, but in any case, this person will have a clear image of evil and well-practiced techniques for its destruction. In inner life, this aspect brings rigidity and uncompromising harshness toward certain personal flaws in the planet’s spheres, strangely combined with the ignoring of others; here, the person should act indirectly, working on improving the external world in its interests or other areas of the inner world, and only then will their Plutonian tools—be it a set of toothbrushes or clothing brushes, depending on Pluto’s placement in the first or fifth house—become effective. An unprocessed aspect may bring deep inner traumas, as well as fatal disharmonious circumstances in outer life, which will be karma’s reaction to the conscious or unconscious cruelty the person displayed in their crude attempts at “cleansing” the planet’s spheres without understanding their true issues.