Pluto Aspects

[When Pluto aspects a planet in a birth chart, the stage is set for a style of avoiding or realizing the spiritual truth of who we really are. An element of ourselves, represented by the aspected planet, becomes the battleground between conscious and unconscious forces, between nirvana and samsara (peace and suffering), and between self-love and self-hate. A planetary function in aspect with Pluto must undergo severe experiences, but through these purifying fires the planet can become a vehicle towards enlightenment.

Pluto can be appreciated as a force which, although brutal, serves spiritual awakening. You could say that Pluto is the only planet that loves us enough to put on full-length rubber gloves, stick its hand all the way up our as-, remove the deepest causes of our suffering, and show them to us. Pluto's spiritual nature is to strip away from us every deep-seated and negative tendency--to strip away all that is false to reveal what is true. Pluto seeks to bring us to a mindful silence that can witness how we run away from our innermost freedom. The heaviness that comes with Pluto can be seen primarily as the acting out of the resistance of the ego-mind to deep peace and true healing. For these reasons, Pluto is like Saturn in that Pluto can be negatively and simplistically viewed as an enemy or positively and responsibly viewed as a spiritual friend. Yes, this is easier said than done.]

Article: http://astrologyforthesoul.com/moses/pludoaspctx.html
Aspects Covered: [Pluto] + [Moon/Venus/Mercury/Sun/Mars]

[Perhaps it is not one's negative personal karma as an individual soul that is the cause of our Plutonian experiences--perhaps it is an act of courage and compassion to be born with major Pluto aspects and experiences--because one hopes to help humanity set aside its karma and heal. I do not know if this is the truth, but I know it is a compassionate approach and possibility. Do we really know enough to judge karma, or even the evolutionary condition of the soul, from a birth chart? I don't think so. I think the chart shows the dynamics of the psyche and the evolutionary possibilities for one lifetime, but how would we know the karma or condition of the soul from an image of just one lifetime? And how can we know what is an individual's karma, and what is a collective or shared karma that one has chosen to become involved with?]
Discuss.