CaprLibraSquared
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As astrologer Steven Forrest put it, no planet is in our chart just to hurt us. We do have some choices as to whether we learn from and express a planet's positive "teacher" mode or its negative "trickster" mode.
When a planet bites us in the ***, it's often because we haven't incorporated its positive, helpful meanings.
Saturn through Pluto are often planets symbolizing energies that people deny or suppress. They aren't easy to handle for many of us.
I'm not a huge fan of Jungian "modern psychological astrology" but one thing I think Jung got right is that if there is something within ourselves that we deny or suppress because it's not OK with us, then we tend to paste it onto other people who seemingly embody those unwanted negative traits. Put astrologically, if Pluto's negative traits of domination and bullying are abhorrent to us, we tend to deny them within ourselves, and then to attract people who seemingly embody the unwanted traits, because the chart has to express itself in some fashion.
But we all have Pluto in our charts somewhere. Part of healing Pluto's problems is actually to get kind of down and dirty, and to admit that we have within us the capacity to dig deep, reach deep within ourselves, and slug back at the universe.
Once I understood that I am all of the planets in my chart, my Pluto problem got a lot better. This wasn't a pretty sight, but once I "got it," it was a huge help.
If people don't have a particular issue with what a planet symbolizes, then they are unlikely to experience the hard edge of its trickster side, and more likely to benefit from its teacher mode.
Nobody said this was going to be easy. But sometimes, "the way out is the way through."
Ok, but let's say I have a bully inside myself that I deny. I am not sure I understand how to look at that acknowledge? I have no doubt I can be an ***, but my nature is to be overly accommodating, which makes me people think they can get away with it. I always surprise people when I push back, which eventually I do. One can only take so much. I wonder if it is really my inner bully I suppress, but rather my own anger, voice and strength.