Sun Sesquiquadrate Pluto

(Transit. Sun → Natal Pluto)

Avesalom Podvodny. Aspects

Sun sesquiquadrate: It is not enough for a person to carry out divine will; he must also believe that it is his own. This aspect makes the person’s will in the planet’s spheres an insufficiently refined, sometimes overly crude instrument. His initiatives often turn out to be too straightforward (if the Sun is in Pisces or Cancer, the individual will tend to avoid responsibility too openly and often awkwardly, hiding within his shell); and for those inclined to self-observation, it may occasionally seem as though a foreign, deliberately coarse will is mixing with his own. A similar effect is observed in imperative external circumstances, which are not exactly openly hostile or directly obstructive (a sesquiquadrate is not a square), but are unfavorably rigid and often actually destroy the most interesting, promising, or appealing moments for the individual within the planet’s spheres; and if the external situation appears favorable, an inner demon suddenly activates—harsh and crude—which the person cannot overcome at the level of lower will. The work here proceeds along the lines of forming ideals and integrating higher will and higher direction, as well as careful analysis of subconscious programs governing the interaction between the will principle and the planet: somewhere here (a clue should be sought in situations of simultaneous activity of the houses occupied by the Sun and the planet) lies deeply entrenched ego, buried in the earth at a significantly lower evolutionary level than the individual himself. Processing requires awareness and transformation of this program, after which the person gains the ability for precise and subtle volitional control within the planet’s spheres. At a low level, this is the aspect of dictators who possess a rigid apparatus of external suppression, and their victims. Pluto sesquiquadrate: The flour that pours from the millstones of history is usually raw—from blood. At a low level, this aspect produces an overly schematic perception of flaws and vices within the planet’s spheres, overly direct methods and harsh tools for their destruction, which, under strong energetic activation, can turn the person into a merciless tyrant, relentlessly driving a desperately resisting people toward a bright future. Yet those same harsh tools of fate he will also feel upon himself, and here the individual will have to confront one of the most unpleasant variants of fate—a mechanical one, where the true causes of irreversible losses remain far beyond the person’s perception, and he is powerless to oppose destiny. The karmic tasks of this aspect are to recognize the imperfection of one’s cleansing instruments within the planet’s spheres and the coarseness of one’s perception of flaws in these areas, and above all, to illuminate one’s evolutionary remnants within the planet’s sphere and destroy or transform them; only after this does the person discover subtle instruments and perception within the planet’s spheres, enabling him to separate wheat from chaff without crushing a single cow from the collective herd with his winnowing fan.