Transiting Pluto opposite Sun is likely to dramatically increase your need to take control over your life and also of the lives of people around you. Pluto here acts to intensify your will power and ego to the extent that you find yourself acting out of character, becoming almost ruthless in trying to achieve your personal goals. You may be motivated by what you believe are good intentions, but the extreme nature of Pluto mixed with the antagonistic nature of the opposition can lead to such behavior as obsessions, compulsions, jealousy, revenge, domination, even megalomania and violence.
If you do exhibit any of those more negative manifestation of Pluto, then you will face strong opposition in personal and professional relationships, intense power struggles and conflict. There is a difficult polarity to balance out here, because there is also the possibility that if you take the meek approach you will be trampled by others on power trips, who will be trying to dominate you. Above all, Pluto is transforming your life now. It is through confrontation and power struggles that this soul evolution takes place. You are learning how to wield your own power within relationships, to find the balance between standing up for your own right while not imposing your will onto others. Finding the happy medium will involve give and take, going through periods of retreat then periods of attack. The very nature of Pluto means that you may swing from one extreme to the other in the process of finding that balance between your rights and those of other.
Pluto Opposite Sun Transit Dates
Cancer decan 1 (born June 21 to July 1) – January 2008 to November 2013.
Cancer decan 2 ( born July 2 to 12) – January 2013 to December 2018.
Cancer decan 3 (born July 13 to 22) – February 2018 to to November 2024.
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This has without doubt been one of the most potent transits of my life so far. My father passed away (at the age of 84, no surprise but a deeply profound and moving experience as I was there when it happened). I seemed to be on the receiving end of power struggles and have definitely experience positive changes in how I demonstrate my own power (I had been very meek!) I do feel like I’ve shed a protective skin or 3!
Thanks Jan. I had a similar transformation with Pluto square my Sun. Was meek, not any more!
And don’t people sit up and take notice when you start showing your power?
I have a cancer rising/pisces sun does this affectme?
Yes Hemisha, a little different for your Rising sign (Ascendant)if you know your rising degree it will help to work out the timing: Pluto Conjunct Ascendant Transit
when I have this transit, Pluto was also conjunct my midheaven. there was no megalomania, but there was workaholic and extreme ambition that made me work as hard as I could in getting ahead in education, and career.
Will experience this next year (at least exactly). Experience Pluto conjuct my Moon now. Glad to hear there are some positives to the Opposition to Sun.
Mark, there are definitely positives. Being a Cancerian – and if you’re anything like me you’ll be the same – you will protect yourself with a shell. If that shell’s too thick, as mine was, the transit will sort it out. I now see the few challenging things that happened to me as Pluto’s way of both forcing me to shed a few layers of my too-protective shell and simultaneously toughening up the one that remained. There are people who now do a bit of a double-take at some of the things I say but I take that as a compliment because I wouldn’t have said them before! Pluto was in my 8th house whilst it was opposing my Sun – it’s just on its way out – so the effects were intensified.
Thanks for responding, Jan!
Yes, I’m an 8Can Sun and a 7Cap Moon in my 10th. I think I may be feeling Pluto already and the protective shell metaphor sounds accurate. I just had my photo taken for the first time in years and I feel like I am facing the real me. It’s been both good/healthy and tough…looking at yourself and not deluding yourself.
I also know that I have a tendency to be meek…I just feel like taking full responsibility now for how I come across to people. And making any changes that I need to be my best self.
Mark … Pluto going through your 10th … that seems very appropriate for having the photo taken. Recording the emerging new public image. It sounds like you’re not only facing “the real you”, you’re also ready to show that to the rest of the world. Others will be seeing this happening, too – no hiding what’s transiting in the 10th! Those used to meekness may be getting a bit of a shock and that’s how it should be! Pluto is leaving my 8th, going into my 9th and it’s expressing for me by having writing published, much of it philosophical argument on taboo subjects!
I’m an 11Can Sun 0Cap moon in the 8th house. When pluto hit my moon my Mom died and I had to deal with powerful emotions and face familysibling issues that I previously didn’t want to deal with. (moon opposes my merc/venus in Gem in the 2nd)
As pluto approaches opposition to my Sun I can’t help but think my 97 yr old Dad will pass, again forcing me to “speak up for myself” (3rd house Sun)and learn to deal with family confrontation that I try to avoid at all costs. This will be difficult but necessary and hopefully ultimately empowering.
Kim, thinking of you with this transit. These are real rites of passage, and well done both for admitting that you hadn’t wanted to deal with the family issues that emerged with Pluto/Moon, and for how you’re viewing what’s emerging for you. “Difficult and necessary and hopefully ultimately empowering” seems perfect Pluto language.
What would happen having a trine sun by birth (also with Venus) and being a cancer ascendant (9, 14). Pluto is transinting my 6th house, capricorn (9th) and will conjunct my descendant. Dealing with Pluto is no game at all!
Kind regards and thankyou!
Rín.
Pluto on your DC is sure going to have an affect on relationships. I was just thinking about this last night and want to write it up after I get the 2012 horoscopes done.
Hello everybody, Pluto will oppose my Sun starting January next year. Pluto will is transiting my 2nd house and my natal sun is in the 8th, how would this opposition manifest itself in relationship to the houses? I know 8th house is about death, money, sex, regeneration, but confused as to what to expect and the areas it would manifest itself. thank you
Hello Lana,
I have exactly the same transit but in reverse to yours. My sun is cancer 9 in second house; pluto is opposing it in my natal 8th and just finished trining my 6 taurus moon for a year.
What I have lived up to now:
I have been stripped bare from a 20 year job (8 months now without income). Thanks to my second house sun squared to saturn and my taurus ascendant, I have been living on savings.
My 5 year relationship with my boyfriend ended after helping him out monetarilly for all those years (my neptune conjunct DC). Now I am totally vulnerable and he is not around to support me. Somebody else is supporting him now.
I guess the pluto transit wants to enpower us to become self reliant and self sufficient. I have proven to overcome this materialistically (up till now until my savings deplete) but, emotionally, I am consistently attached to the past and an illusion of a deceitful relationship that was meant to be ( My ascendant conjunct his north node) to enpower me emotionally (not achieved it yet) and get me out of this attachment rut to an illusion.
I have no definite direction at this point. I will follow up with you as the transit develops. I noticed it will start retrograde motion at 8 degrees, not sure if this affects a 9 degree sun.
Good luch
Hi Litza,
funny how you mention a deceitful relationship that ended. I went through one too, about a year ago, mine was short lived, and i’m happy i got out quick. We had the same aspect as you guys, my ascendant conjunct his north node. Well at the time, i was under impression that we had this mysterious connection and intense relationship that nobody could understand. Needless to say, it was not a healthy one. Once somebody opened my eyes that the guy is a sociopath, it was very easy for me to see things differently, to shut the door to my past. I realized it was all based on lies, mind games and brain washing. Yours sounds that way, especially if you said you supported him financially, sounds like a guy who kept making excuses as to why he can’t work. Forgive me if i’m wrong.
As far as the transit, i’m a bit scared, don’t know where it will hit me, wondering that. i guess your lesson was about financial stability and independence. mine would be concerning the 8th house which is a pluto house anyway so who knows what will happen. Maybe it will make me the little cancer less shy and more aggressive to go after what i want. Since my sun is conjunct north node, pluto will oppose the node as well, so no idea what that will do. It’s supposed to be at 3 degrees at the start of the year since my sun is at 10 degrees.
stay strong and shut the door to your past,
my birthdate is 27 june 1983,and time is 3:30pm I want to knw hw is 2012 year for me n i hv one son n his age is 4 years n i want to go for second baby i will get or not?hw many children i wil hv
Hi Jamie, i am little shaken, i used a a more settled life and all these changes are kind of scaring me. I am born on 27.06.1984 @ 11.55pm and would like to know a basic overview as to how this is going to affect me. I am facing problems @ home as well as on the work front and i dont think i can handle any more than this.
Regards
Nupur
Hey, i am a cancerian woman, 28 june. I am at the end of the transit pluto opposite my sun. I read about the transit and felt very scared at first. Now at the end i have to say i am grateful. It s like i have a different look on relations now and i so strongly beleive ia m going to meet the right one for me. Earlier , i am still working on it, i had a great lack of uncertainty about myself. When i met a guy, i did everything for him, i had no borders, until it always collapsed and i remain alone. I thought i am so strong why dont they love me. I had a relationship for 9 years with a married man.I ended it 3 years ago. Last year i fell in love with a man, and he didn’t want me. at a certain moment, i came sick and i cried and cried, i even couldn’t get out of my bed, alwaysasking myself : why doesn’t he love me? i went very deep in myself. it took me several months to come over it. I came tot the conclusion that i didn’t love myself.I asked myself, why don’t you love yourself? Because somebody, my father, didn’t love you? Don’t mess with yourself, you’re smart, goodlooking, very strong, you are fine the way just you are, and when you feel unloved, then cry and nurture yourself. I’ve read books about relationships and now i understand i attracted the wrong men. The married man was good for me because he couldn’t refuse me, so i was safe. I didn’t had him, so he couldn’t reject me. So that was easy. But when you have pain in yourself, you have to deal with it. Through the man whom i loved and didn’t love me back, i felt pain, hidden very deep in myself, and it came out. Now i am working on the pain and i feel so much better, i feel i am becoming stronger , more loving and compassionate and most of all i really feel for myself i am worth to be loved. I always thought nobody wanted me. I still have a bit of a way to go, but i am so happy, i finally understand. And i am certain i will meet and love the rigth man for me. So i would say, don’t be afraid of a pluto oppsoite sun transit. I was very scared because i thought it would do me wrong, but i feel myself worthly for love now, so i gained a lot.
i am having a very difficult time right now My partner of 20 years says i am very unloving and nolonger wants to be with me he has gone out every weekend and through the week for over 10 years while i sat in to see to our 11 year old son .Now he wants to sell the house which is breaking my heart, i gave up on him long ago after christmas and new year sat alone with a baby plus every weekend When you are a cancerian your home is every thing, i know i have big changes coming but i cant bare to go through with it all. i know i have been a fool for many years, and not had a life but my son and home is everyhing to me and will kill me to lose the home i love so much .
Hey adele, you are no fool because you choosed for you son.
At a certain moment in life you do what you do for best at that moment, it ‘s your life path.
I had times that i thought that i would have jumped under a train. And i read books of positive thinking and listened to some good advice while thinking you are not in my shoes, i can’t stand this any longer.
And now i am feeling better, did anything special happened except misery?
I am learning so much more and it is through the hard times you learn.
I think you have to learn how to let go.
You already gave up on your husband.
Now you have to do this with your home.
Think that your home is where your heart is.
You can make a new living in another house, maybe a brand new start, maybe you won’t have all you need at the beginning, but you ware a cancerian, you manage.
I bought a house 16 years that nobody wanted. With rats in the garage, a garden i couldn’t walk through. But i said : this is it, and i cried many nights that i thought : what have i done. But i din’t gave up (probably wanting to prove myself to earn the love of my father), and now it’s a cosy house, painting yellow with many flowers.
Think about what you are going to do in your new house. Paint it in beatuiful colours, flowers.. Buy a dog, a cat
Enjoy living simple, without a man that doesn’t love you
You can make it
I am sure within 2 years you will say : i am feeling fine.
It will turn out the best for you.
Imagine daily what life you will have. It will be better.
And what is a home , a house without love, when you have to be there with a man that doesn’t respect you? Is that a home for you?
It’s a lonely prison.
Good-luck.
It will be much better, i’ve been there also
aw just read you comments and it was nice to take the time to reply. At the moment i cant bring myself to say sell but i know it will come lifes tough at the moment x thanks
Adele – Your self esteem has been completely eroded which is totally understandable when any relationship is in the process of ending as well as having your foundation being taken away from you. Never remain in any situation where you are made to feel unworthy, powerless, unlovable, or unwanted. These are all negative forces that destroy one’s soul. I have several close Cancer family members and they are all very tenacious and willful protectors of their home and family; it is your right if this is what means the most to you. When I was 30, with a newborn son, I also had to leave my home with no savings and start all over again so that my son and I would get the wonderful opportunity to grow up in a much more loving, happier, and conflict-free environment. It opened up so much happiness for me, being single and no longer having to constantly placate a partner or need their permission for anything. I shudder to think how unhappy, powerless, and beaten down I would have been today had I not had the courage to start anew. Focus on the “you will soon be happier; he was not the right person for you.” It’s happened to just about all of us. So many others have experienced much more misery, never had a home of their own to live in, had no money or no job, had no children or other close loved ones in their lives to comfort them. Cancer is a cardinal sign (strong) and they thrive when they lead with their heart and emotions. Might be something new for you so, with goal set baby-steps, you just might amaze yourself. You deserve happiness which will radiate out to your son and greatly improve his outlook and future as well. Praise yourself on your best qualities as often as you can. Giving up on your future which would affect your son’s is not an option for anyone with a loving caring heart. Best wishes on discovering the beautiful new you.
Gina thanks for taking the time to write to me, i am doing my best to stay strong,even though i know its for the best i still cry everyday and seem to be fighting it, i know one day it will all be for a reason and will get there in the end. thanks adele x
Hi,
I am going through the most frustating and bad phase of my life loosing the touch between whats going on around. I am loosing touch of what i want and where I am heading and its dreadful. My birthday is 27 dec 82 and brithtime is 21:54 pm, Please help me if you can tell me what to do since this confusion is killing me from inside. I didnt wanted to marry the guy that I did since he was emotionally blackmailing me saying he will sucide since he loves me so much but our thoughts and the way we see life doesnt match and I am highly unhappy in this marriage but scared of breaking away since i will be lonely as everyone opposes me. I am in midst of struggle between breaking free and staying in.. Please advice me if you can and I am making impulsive decisions like giving up europe and my job since i want to be away from my husband . I am scared of what I am doing . I know I might end up dying coz of so much frustation and not reaching where I want to
someone please reply .. to my query above
Dana,
Off the top of my head I would say you’re going through your first Saturn return. You can look that up and see what it means in general.
Anyone who threatens to kill himself because he “loves you so much” doesn’t really love you. That’s not love. I think you probably knew that before you married him.
There are worse things than being lonely. I think you’re finding that out right now. If people oppose your leaving this man, I’d ask why they would do that. Of course, their opposition might not have anything to do with love in any case. It could be about religious beliefs or appearances or something else altogether.
I don’t know what’s impulsive about the decisions you’ve made lately, but I don’t think wanting to get away from your husband is unhealthy, considering the situation. Your verbal gesture of despair is telling me that you feel you might die for some reason, or at some level you’re threatening to kill yourself. That gesture tells me you feel trapped and hopeless and alone.
I’m not going to tell you what to do. I think you know what you want; and I think you know what’s good for you, what feeds your soul. My guess is that when you nourish your soul, you won’t be lonely for long. But you have to decide that that’s what you want and act upon that sense of goodness.
hey, if you talk about your husband this way , than ther’s only one thing you can do. leave.
you are 30 years old.
do you want children? yes? but certainly not from this man.
leave and stay alone for a while.
you have no time to hesitate because you have to finish this relationship and get over it totally before meeting another man. and the clock ticks.
don’t wait to long,that your children can have a young mother
greetings