THE PLUTO LINE

Pluto governs depth, power, compulsion and transformation. Its lines mark where that principle was angular at your birth.

These places are astrologically associated with intensity — nothing stays at the surface, including things you would rather leave there.

People describe Pluto places as somewhere they could not stay the same. The tone is usually serious, sometimes dramatic, almost never light.

A common report is compulsive attraction: not liking a place, exactly, but being unable to leave it alone.

Associated with work involving power, crisis, money, research or other people's secrets — surgery, investigation, psychotherapy, finance, anything that goes underneath.

Not associated with pleasant working environments. Pluto is about what is beneath a situation, and that is uncomfortable in most offices.

Associated with intensity, and with the loss of proportion that intensity brings. Relationships formed here tend to be consuming.

Also associated with the ending of relationships that had been dying quietly. Pluto is not gentle, but it is rarely ambiguous.

• Ending something you have not been able to end
• Work that requires you to look at what other people avoid
• Genuine psychological change, of the kind that does not reverse
• Reclaiming power in an area where you have felt you had none

• Obsession, in relationships and in work
• Power struggles that escalate faster than expected
• Upheaval arriving whether or not you invited it
• The cost of transformation, which Pluto is never associated with discounting

Short visits to Pluto lines are often intense out of proportion to their length. They are not restful trips.

Relocating is a deliberate act. People who choose a Pluto line usually want something broken open. Nobody should end up on one by accident and expect a quiet year.