Pluto-Moon Transits
Pluto transits to the Moon directly affect the feelings, the public image, and personal popularity. Other people and things affected by Pluto are the mother, important women in the native's life, domestic life, and the home. Our early experiences often cause us to build a life "script" that incorporate our expectations from the world, and this process is ruled by the Moon. Pluto challenges this "script". In some cases, men live this transit through key female figures in their lives. Sometimes, the relationship with the mother or other important female figures come into focus.
What does the Moon rule in your chart? Look to the house(s) of your natal chart with Cancer on the cusp for areas of your life where Pluto is stimulating. Look to planets in Cancer in your chart to see other parts of your personality that Pluto is now infusing with intensity.
Pluto transits conjunct, square, or opposition the Moon
These transits bring intensity and passion to the feelings, a tendency to act on impulse, some irrational or compulsive behavior, and likely a stronger awareness of your deeper emotional needs.
Habits that spring from deeply ingrained fears are brought to the fore, and Pluto challenges you to face them, as well as to examine your deepest attachments--to people, things, conditions, and attitudes. It's very hard to listen to reason during this period of your life--even your own! You may find yourself acting clingy, jealous, possessive, and suspicious. Emotions that you may have never been in touch with, particularly of a darker, obsessive, or primal quality, come bursting forth. There is always some level of paranoia associated with hard Pluto transits, and the things you are paranoid about generally are the very fears that you are called upon to face. With the Moon involved, these fears have to do with significant women in your life, personal habits, emotional patterns, and the home and domestic life. Your attachments to these things may be challenged now.
Your relationships may be intense, complicated, or entangled at this time. Your desire for emotional depth and attachment is enormous, but may not be easy to find with the square or opposition. You can experience obsessive desires to uncover secrets, and levels of suspicion run high, as you may be living in fear that significant people in your life are not as attached to you as you are to them. You may resort to trickery, manipulation, or other such means to keep others dependent on you, or you could experience this through others and experience dominating or controlling behaviors in people close to you. You will be learning that self-control is the only path to fulfillment. By manipulating others or situations, you are giving up personal power to something or someone outside of yourself.
You are experiencing an emotional rebirth of sorts, in which you become (perhaps uncomfortably) aware of your automatic responses and the "darker" side of your emotional life. It can be hard to be objective now--your first instinct may be to cling to bad habits, co-dependent relationships, and other such things. You might fear their loss and attempt to control or manipulate the people around you in an attempt to keep them how you want them to be, possibly stifling them or pushing them away. What you need to do is avoid turning this into a self-fulfilling prophecy. The fear itself may lead you to compulsive, suspicious, or difficult behavior; and this behavior might cost you the very thing(s) that you hold dear. You are learning to let go, perhaps not completely, but enough to allow the people around you (and yourself) room and space to grow and transform, even if this scares you or threatens your feelings of security, comfort, and safety. You are learning that in so doing, you will eventually learn what is really yours, who truly loves you, and which habits and patterns serve your own growth. Your fears now have to do with the feeling of helplessness in the face of changes in the people and circumstances around you. Attempting to control your future and the people in your life will never fulfill you in the long term, however.
This can be a time of discovery and fulfillment--an empowering time--as you get in touch with your innermost needs and eliminate self-defeating behaviors. You may be especially fascinated by all that is hidden, repressed, or taboo. Particularly with the conjunction, you might enter into a new relationship that is pleasingly intense, eye-opening, and fulfilling; or you might uncover new depths of passion and understanding in an existing relationship.
