Neptune-Pluto

Neptune-Pluto in tense alignments combines the dreamy qualities of spirituality, imagination, and idealism of Neptune with the deep instinctual drives and hidden powers of Pluto.

because of the slow movement of these two planets and the resultant rarity of instances in which they are aligned in tension, examples of their combination are not easily illustrated by examples from the twentieth century.

Below are examples of famous people born with this combination in their natal charts (natal chart is another word for astrological birth chart, or pictographic representation of the sky when they were born). When we witness how this combination shows up in the lives of others, we can become more self-aware of how this combination shows up in our own lives. The more we are conscious of the ways astrological alignments (otherwise known as “aspects”) show up in our lives, the more the archetypal tensions involved can become integrated in our lives, thus revealing their inherent strengths to us.

Please note that the tension of this archetypal combination, as illustrated in the lives and creations of the famous people in the examples below, may be demonstrated in ways that are more integrated or less integrated.

• The poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, born with this combination in his birth chart, demonstrates the tension between spirit and nature in the following line from his famous poem Memoriam A.H.H.:

  Are God and Nature then at strife,
     That Nature lends such evil dreams?

• American playwright Eugene O’Neill, born with this combination in his birth chart, demonstrates the tension between these two archetypes in his play The Iceman Cometh. The play follows a cast of characters who dwell in a basement bar and are addicted to alcohol. The subterranean locale of the play reflects Pluto’s association with the underworld. The addiction to alcohol reflects Neptune’s association with states of intoxication and dissolution. Additionally the play reflects a journey to the underworld (Pluto) of our tendency to project into the future a fantasy (Neptune) that is unreal.