Transit Neptune Conjunct Natal Pluto: A Meeting Beyond a Lifetime

Transit Neptune conjunct natal Pluto does not happen in the lifetime of almost anyone alive today. Since the Neptune–Pluto conjunction of the early 1890s the two planets have drifted apart; in the charts of people born over the last hundred years, Neptune sits roughly 45–65 degrees ahead of Pluto. For transit Neptune to conjoin natal Pluto, it would have to travel around most of the zodiac.

Why doesn't transit Neptune reach natal Pluto?

Neptune moves about two degrees a year. To close the birth gap and catch up with Pluto from behind, it would need to travel roughly three hundred degrees, which takes well over 130 years. So this page is not a description of a personal period but a symbolic reading of two generational planets meeting.

When the dream meets power

Symbolically, this conjunction describes Neptune's ideal mixing with Pluto's deep power of transformation. Collectively, the two planets meet about every 490 years, and these meetings are linked with eras when old belief systems dissolve and a new worldview is born. The late nineteenth century, when the last conjunction took place, saw the seeds of the idea of the unconscious, of cinema and of modern spiritual movements. In a personal chart, such a transit would mean a fear or power repressed by one's generation being dissolved with compassion.

Neptune–Pluto transits that fit into a life

The ones that can be followed personally are, for most people, the square in adolescence, the trine between 25 and 35 and the opposition from the mid-fifties into the early sixties. Because the actual birth gap varies from person to person, the dates should be checked in the chart. The house of natal Pluto and the houses beginning in Scorpio show where these transits are felt.