Pluto turns retrograde in Aquarius

Pluto turns retrograde at 3° Aquarius 49′. Pluto is retrograde every year for over five months. In 2025, Pluto is retrograde from May 4th to October 13th.

Pluto Retrograde in Aquarius: May 4-October 13, 2025

• Pluto stations and turns retrograde on May 4, 2025, at 3° Aquarius 49′ Rx
• Pluto stations and turns direct on October 13, 2025, at 1° Aquarius 22′

Pluto stations and turns retrograde today and will be retrograde until October 13th. This shift of direction tends to bring about some initial confusion, heaviness, and magnification of problems.

Pluto’s retrograde cycle itself, however, is an excellent period for research and gaining new insight into our self-destructive tendencies, needs for control, and search for the truth by looking within. Outward pressures may ease somewhat during this period. Over the coming months, we may be reassessing how we use our power.

This is the first year that Pluto begins and ends its retrograde early in the sign of Aquarius (in previous years, retrograde Pluto returned to Capricorn, but no longer–Pluto took its final dip back into Capricorn in 2024).