Cast & Chart

Placement

Pluto in Taurus

A chart describes tendencies in a symbolic tradition. It cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.

About this entry

Pluto's orbit is far from circular, so its visits run long at this end of the zodiac. Taurus held it from between 1851 and 1853 until sometime between 1882 and 1884, roughly thirty-one years. Scorpio, directly opposite, took about a dozen.

No book read here from before 1931 treats Pluto as astrological, and the name appears in these texts only for the god. Ptolemy's table gives Taurus to Venus and places the Moon's exaltation here. Modern tables that put Pluto over Scorpio often call Taurus its detriment, but that rulership has no source in our sources, so the detriment rests on a modern claim.

Everyone born in those decades has the same line in a table. None of them is living now, which leaves popular descriptions of the group with nobody to be tested against.

Where this text comes from

Statements credited to an older writer follow the scanned text named here. The modern readings are labeled as modern and come from none of these works.

Our own plain wording. Quoted lines keep the spelling of the scanned source.