Pluto Retrograde 2024

Pluto retrograde 2024 begins on May 2 at 2° Aquarius and ends on October 11 at 29° Capricorn.

Generally, Pluto retrograde is a time of reflection about power and control issues in your life. Pluto retrograde 2024 is especially helpful if you are being controlled or bullied. It allows you to assert yourself more powerfully and eliminate harmful influences.

Pluto Retrograde Meaning

Pluto represents power, control, transformation, evolution, death and rebirth. It destroys to renew and brings intense needs and drives to the surface. It is associated with personal mastery, big business, wealth, the underground, surgery, genetic engineering, detective work, espionage, global organizations, dictators, organized crime, destruction, mass murder, genocide, nuclear power and nuclear weapons.

Pluto retrograde promotes reflection on power and control issues in your life. If people have controlled or manipulated you, then now is the time to let them go. It is also time to let go if you have been too controlling of others or situations.

This is not a time for power-tripping but a time for elimination. Fated events and repeating themes will reinforce which of your controlling habits, compulsions, addictions, or prejudices must be eliminated. Destroying things that have control over you will increase your spiritual power and lead to personal mastery.

The exact moment that Pluto stations retrograde is the perfect time to meditate on Pluto themes in your life. At this time, Pluto’s energy more easily penetrates your subconscious.

It is possible to feel the tremendous power as Pluto mines for deeply buried trauma, memories and secrets that have been suppressed or forgotten, perhaps relating to previous incarnations. It is preferable to be outside to avoid steel roofs blocking the energies from the universe.

See Pluto Retrograde Natal and Transit for more information.

Pluto stations retrograde on Thursday, May 2, 2024, at 02°06′ Aquarius. The most significant planetary influence comes from a positive Mars aspect, as shown in the chart below.

Pluto Retrograde 2024

Mars sextile Pluto gives tremendous energy, willpower and courage. It helps you focus on a particular task and achieve your goals with intense focus and determination. It is ideal for challenging tasks that seemed too difficult to achieve earlier, for taking the lead, and for making a good impression on superiors.

You can project yourself more powerfully and stand up and fight if threatened or provoked. With keen instincts and adrenal surge, you can also project yourself forcefully in the spiritual or psychic realm.

The Eagle Star

Pluto retrograde 2024 at 02°06′ Aquarius aligns with fixed star Altair at 02°07′ Aquarius. The brightest star in the Eagle has almost the same influence as Mars sextile Pluto.

Pluto Retrograde May 2024

Altair gives a bold, confident, courageous, unyielding, ambitious and liberal nature, great and sudden but temporary wealth, and a position of command. It makes its natives guilty of bloodshed and gives danger from reptiles. ^[1]It is good for the advancement of lawyers and military men. ^[2]

Constellation Aquila gives great imagination, strong passions, indomitable will, a dominating character, influence over others, clairvoyance, a keen, penetrating mind and an ability for chemical research. ^[1] It rules the U.S.A., space exploration, bombs, missiles and drones.

Pluto last aligned with Altair in 1777, a year that marked the turning point in the American Revolutionary War. Pluto conjunct Altair in 2024 has seen the continuation of the largest bombing campaign since the Vietnam War, with the destruction of Gaza. On April 13, 2024, Iran launched the largest-ever drone attack on Israel, Pluto conjunct Altair (0°05′).

Pluto retrograde 2024 ends on October 11 at 29°38′ Capricorn [see chart].