Sun quincunx (inconjunct) Pluto
Sun quincunx Pluto
With the Sun forming a quincunx with Pluto in your birth chart, you might feel disconnected from Pluto’s themes, like transformation and change, and uncomfortable with them. However, if you resist the need for significant change, renovation, and evolution, you might live with a persistent vague feeling of guilt or impending doom. This lack of self-awareness can also lead to problems in your relationships. Denying a part of yourself won’t make it disappear. In fact, it might cause that part to grow–away from the light–in unruly ways that can ultimately be disruptive.
Embracing change can be challenging for you, especially when it feels like you’re not in control. But the truth is, control is often an illusion. Fortunately, there are ways to bolster your confidence about managing change. By stepping out of your comfort zone mindfully, slowly, and in small ways, you can teach yourself that growing and evolving can be rewarding and that you are in charge of your own journey. These exercises can lead to a more fulfilling and enriched life, where you are the one steering the ship.
You might also work on resisting the urge to manipulate situations to go your way. Early experiences may have taught you that you need to find indirect paths to achieving your goals, like being overly accommodating or using guilt to get what you want. But these strategies can unnecessarily complicate your life and compound feelings that you’re ineffective. In truth, strategy and planning can be good when used appropriately. However, if your experiences have convinced you that you can’t be direct or if you’re resorting to schemes due to insecurity, you’re not using strategy to your advantage.
Unnatural, choppy expressions of traits associated with the planet Pluto, which astrologers call “Plutonian traits,'” can cause sporadic problems in your life, such as numerous altercations or power struggles with others. Your mission is to get more comfortable with these traits so that, over time, you express them smoothly. In early life, you may not easily recognize or identify with your compulsive or obsessive side. Still, with experience and effort, you understand when and perhaps why you act in these ways. This self-awareness, combined with exercising self-control, paves the way to empowerment.
Note: Quincunx and Inconjunct are terms that are used interchangeably for the same 150-degree aspect.
Astrologers tend to use a smaller orb for the quincunx aspect than with major aspects like the conjunction, opposition, square, trine, or sextile. Commonly, the orb used is 2 or 2.5 degrees. In other words, if two planets are anywhere from 148 to 152 degrees apart, they would be considered to be quincunx. However, 1 to 1.5 degrees is not uncommon.
Alternate interpretations:
Sun quincunx Pluto: Sometimes, you’re just too intense. Although you seem quite normal to yourself, the influence of your Sun in quincunx to Pluto indicates some inconsistency in your self-concept. When you’re feeling uncertain of yourself or insecure, you can overcompensate by becoming too compulsive or obsessive, and it is this intensity which can get in the way of your progress. By becoming more aware of the things, people and situations which trigger your vulnerability, you can compensate and become more consistently sure of yourself.
— Interpretation from the Astrology Profile for Women report.
Sun quincunx Pluto: In this lifetime, you are apt to undergo a series of death-and-rebirth experiences, deep personal crises which force you to make radical alterations in your self or your life, and to dig deep within to find the resources to begin anew. You are attracted magnetically and karmically to the very people and situations which will compel you to confront your true motives, the stuff you are really made of, and those aspects of life we usually keep hidden away.
The development of the will, and the use/abuse of personal power, are key issues for you in this present life cycle. Early in your life, you are apt to meet tyranny, domination and the excesses of another’s personal power, the results of which are likely to be your deep resistance to being controlled and a rejection of authority.
Your relationship with your father may be a particular focus for all of these issues (the early death or absence of your father may be crucial here also). While you may indeed have been a victim of another’s abuse of power, you also need to recognize your own will-to-power, your drive for personal recognition and self-glorification.
You tend to be intensely compulsive, and even ruthless when pursuing your own goals, not even realizing that you may be trampling over others’ feelings or life-requirements. You are capable of going to extraordinary lengths to get what you want, perhaps on an entirely unconscious level. This trait is apt to create havoc in your relationships, until you become aware of it and make conscious efforts to change it. At your worst, you can unconsciously assume that everyone in your life exists to promote your own objectives and, put bluntly, you tend to lack humility entirely until life brings you to your knees a few times.
Part of your life mission is to understand the taboo, hidden, or dark side. You may have a great fear of and fascination with death, with the “have not’s” or outlaws of society, with things that others may consider ugly, fearful, and unredeemable. Or it may be your own darkness and negativity that you must confront. Either way you will not be allowed to glide along on the surface of life.
To facilitate this process, certain gemstones may be helpful for you to wear or carry, including: amethyst, malachite, garnet, ruby, and green or watermelon tourmaline.
— Interpretation sample from the Karmic Insight report.
General discussion of Sun-Pluto aspects in the natal chart.
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Interpretations written by Annie unless otherwise noted.
