Transit South Node Sextile Natal Pluto
Composting the past
This transit opens a quiet door to the depths, where old coping strategies meet a deeper truth. It doesn’t demand drama; it invites an honest reckoning with what you’ve outgrown and what still holds medicine. The more you welcome what returns from the past, the easier it becomes to reshape it into power that serves your present life.
Strengths & Challenges
Strengths
- Emotional courage — easier to face buried stories without dramatizing them.
- Strategic release — knowing what to keep and what to compost.
- Quiet influence — depth that steadies others and earns trust.
Challenges
- Old comfort hooks — familiar habits tug harder precisely when you outgrow them.
- Subtle control games — using insight to manage outcomes instead of meeting them.
- Grief surfacing — tenderness needed as endings echo through the body.
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What stirs now is older than the current moment: reflexes learned early, patterns that once kept you safe, the script that helped you belong. Pluto doesn't shout here; it hums like a low drum, asking for honesty without spectacle. You may recognize déjà vu in your reactions, the sense of “here we go again.” But the sextile softens the edges, making it possible to sit beside what once overwhelmed you and see its root—fear, love, loyalty, survival—without turning away.
Working with this energy feels like sorting a house you’ve lived in for years. Not everything needs to be thrown out; some pieces carry wisdom and craft you can build on. The shift comes when compulsion becomes choice. You learn to harvest the skill inside the habit—the intuition, the resilience, the vigilance—while letting the defenses retire. Power turns clean: less about control, more about alignment. What stays begins to serve a purpose larger than the wound that created it.
Life Areas & Expression
Relationships & Connection
Old dynamics resurface, not to trap you, but to show where your boundaries were inherited rather than chosen. Honest, grounded conversations can transmute tension into trust, especially when you name what you’re done carrying.
Work & Purpose
You may feel called to streamline roles, projects, or goals that once defined you but now drain you. Influence grows when you align effort with truth, choosing depth over performance and integrity over speed.
Inner Life & Healing
Memories and body-knowings rise like silt in clear water, asking to be felt and filtered. Gentle ritual—journaling, breath, quiet endings—helps you release without abandoning the parts of you that once needed protection.
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Let this be a season of respectful goodbyes—to behaviors that once saved you, to identities that earned love, to strategies that can finally rest. You don’t have to prove your strength by holding on. Strength is the grace to look directly at what shaped you and say, with kindness, “Thank you. I’m choosing differently now.”
As you compost the past, you become more available to your life. There is a steadiness in owning your story without letting it steer. Allow the slow burn of transformation to do its work: less force, more consent; less hiding, more depth. What you release returns as ground beneath your feet.
I turn what once bound me into the ground I stand on.
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