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What a Pluto square is

A deep confrontation with power, mortality or control in your life. Something ends so that something more real can begin.

from the Pluto square

It happens somewhere between 36 and 60, depending on your birth year. The exact dates depend on where Pluto was when you were born, which is why two people the same age can be a year apart in theirs. The app computes the start, exact and end dates for yours and puts them on your calendar.

What to do with it

The app writes guidance for every window it opens. For a Pluto square, which it reads as a demanding Pluto window, the guidance runs like this.

Do

• Let what is already dead in the part of life this touches go early
• Name the power struggle with the people involved rather than fighting it in the dark
• Keep {body} steady: this is a long renovation

Avoid

• Fighting to keep the commitment in front of you exactly as it was
• Secrets; they surface here

A practice

Write what you are afraid of losing in the part of life this touches. Then write what you would build if it were already gone. Start the second list.

As it moves

• Opening. Something in {area} starts to break down: do not patch it.
• Peak. The crisis point: choose what survives.
• Closing. Rebuilding; the ground is finally solid.

Did it land?

This is the part most astrology leaves out. revolutionary.life asks you to log your turning points, a job, a move, a relationship, a loss, and scores every window, including this one, against what actually happened: the share of events that fell inside a window against what chance would give. The number is shown whether it is good or bad.

• Saturn returnaround 29, 58 and 87
• Saturn squarearound 7, 14, 22, 36, 44, 51, 65 and 73
• Saturn oppositionaround 15, 44 and 73
• Jupiter returnevery 12 years: 12, 24, 36, 48, 60, 72
• Uranus squarearound 21 and 63
• Uranus oppositionaround 42
• Neptune squarearound 41
• Nodal returnaround 18.6, 37, 56 and 74
• Nodal reversalaround 9, 28, 46 and 65

Questions

When is my Pluto square?

Somewhere between 36 and 60, depending on your birth year, with the exact dates set by your birth chart. revolutionary.life computes the window (start, exact, end) from your birth date, time and place and adds it to your forecast and calendar.

How long does a Pluto square last?

The window opens when Pluto comes within about a degree and a half of the exact point and closes when it leaves, usually several months to a year or more for the slow planets, with one to three exact dates inside it because of retrograde motion.