Venus-Pluto: Love That Kills

The interplay between love and power; the beauty which hides within the beast; the intense attraction for the mysterious depths.

This is the archetypal expression of Venus-Pluto, which is in an exact 28° alignment in the sky right now.

Venus: soft, tender, beautiful, artistic, and receptive.

Pluto: raw, taboo, destructive, animalistic, and transformative.

You can witness Venus-Pluto in the way Elvis Presley was utterly and completely consumed by his music––a body and soul experience.

He made women feel (Venus) something they weren't supposed to feel: an intense desire to consume him––the forbidden fruit (Pluto).

Or in the paintings of Frida Kahlo, such as My Birth which she painted in 1932 depicting the imagery of her own birth.

Her Venus (artistry) was compelled to evoke that which tends to be deeply buried (Pluto) in the human psyche.

Kahlo's Venus-Pluto came through in her creative yet destructive relationship with Diego Rivera––the numerous love affairs he had, especially with Kahlo's sister, and the fact that he was 20 years older than her. Jealousy and lust mixed in with profound love––can't get more Venus-Pluto than that.

If I really had to express Venus-Pluto in two words it would be: intensely beautiful.

Have you noticed Venus-Pluto in your life lately? Whether it's through love (Venus) for the natural world (Pluto), or in the urge to creatively portray (Venus) that which is disgusting or forbidden (Pluto), or perhaps in the erotic feeling (Venus) for someone who has an aura of darkness (Pluto)?