Venus-Pluto Semi-Square

(Transit. Venus → Natal Pluto)

Avesalom Podvodnyi. Aspects

Venus semi-square: Flowers of evil, upon close inspection, usually turn out to be artificial. This aspect brings hidden rigidity and schematism into social relationships within the areas of the Planet. Outwardly, the person may appear entirely adequate in social interactions, but close ones will sense an excess of internal formalism and a fixed internal framework of acceptable social situations, while the person themselves will be much less aware of it. This manifests especially clearly in love, where the individual will repeatedly encounter one (rarely two) and the same scenario—a kind of matrix—into which fate and the person themselves will imprint their lives and those of their partners, until this pattern becomes utterly unbearable, since it ultimately fails to provide satisfying emotional experiences, even though it may initially seem quite stable and convincing. Attempts to forcibly disrupt the natural course of events either fail or lead to catastrophe; the resolution lies in shifting focus away from solving personal problems, particularly emotional and social dissatisfaction, and redirecting attention toward the problems of others. In doing so, the person will discover that what seems obvious and dull to them often proves interesting, useful, and necessary to someone else—provided they do not insist on it. Social clarity is a very valuable quality, provided the person manages to make it an indirect rather than primary content of communication, and places it in service of higher goals, above all, in service to other people. Pluto semi-square: The mafia should be buried in bulletproof coffins. At a low level, this individual will tend to ruthlessly eradicate evil within the Planet’s spheres according to their clear-cut notions, and precisely in the clarity and definiteness of these notions lies both their strength and, simultaneously, the limitation of their evolutionary development, which they will understand only much later. For example, the Moon-Pluto semi-square can produce a great censor, an oncological surgeon, or a psychotherapist, but in any case, this person will possess a distinct image of evil and well-practiced techniques for its destruction. In inner life, this aspect brings rigidity and uncompromising attitudes toward certain personal flaws, which strangely coexists with the ignoring of others. Here, the individual should act indirectly, engaging with issues of 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 result in deep inner traumas, as well as fatal disharmonious circumstances in external life, which will be karma’s reaction to the conscious or unconscious cruelty the person displayed in attempting crude “cleansing” of the Planet’s spheres without understanding their true problems.