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Pluto ✧

Welcome to my page dedicated to Pluto! Here you will find information about Pluto in a planetary magic sense, along with their Orphic Hymn.

Disclaimer: The notes on this page are an amalgation of notes from books and blogs, some of which are straight up copy/pasted without proper citation. Sources are listed at the bottom of each page. Information may or may not be accurate.
Pluto goes through all of the signs approximately every 90,560 days (sidereal orbit since tropical orbit unknown, ~248 years), spending approximately 14-30 years in each sign.

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NASA image of Pluto

Pluto Keyword Correspondences and Associations

From Pluto, the Sun is so distant that it is hardly anything more than a bright star. From the point of view of Pluto, the Sun is nothing special and Earth is just a tiny speck of dust. Found in 1930 (during the time people were discovering existentialism), Pluto forces us to stare at our meaningless existence. Pluto is at the edge of our solar system, but there are countless celestial bodies and galaxies beyond it. To deal with this, we leave our mark on eternity and change our world. Sometimes people affect the world through power and abuse, and as such Pluto is associated with the change and terror that comes with that. It brings about our deepest fears, compulsions, and obsessions; that is, the most taboo of subjects.

Pluto deals a lot with hidden concepts, such as secrets, the occult, illicit or clandestine activities, the inner dimensions of the psyche, taboos, and our deepest fears and obsessions. More literally, Pluto was associated with treasure as in the past, the minerals that held value were hidden in the ground.

Associated with Pluto and Hades, it’s natural that the planet is associated with death and rebirth, as well as transformations of all kinds. Pluto was discovered after the Great Depression, and in an era where the world was plunged into war with the rise of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Francisco Franco. Around this time, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Alfred Adler were researching psychoanalysis.

The negative aspects of Pluto include megalomania, grandiosity, violence, preaching, dogmatism, rigidity, dictatorial behavior, hunger for power, a sense of meaningless or absurdity, and end-justifies-the-mean thinking.

NASA closeup image of Pluto

Pluto in the Chart

If you meet someone whose natal Pluto contacts one of your personal planets, that person is likely to transform you in some way (for good or ill), and they might bring out the best or worst in you. You may feel strongly drawn to or repelled by this individual; power struggles and control issues are often linked with Pluto contacts, as are passionate sexual attractions.

The Plutonian Symbol

planetary symbol for pluto

The symbol of Pluto incorporates a crescent pointing up representing the Moon sitting atop a cross representing the Earth with a circle representing the Sun above the crescent. The cross being below the crescent alludes to the underworld nature of Pluto, with perfection (circle) and the tides of time (crescent) both above the Earth (cross) showing all eventually journeys to the underworld.

Plutonian Magic

Pluto destroys, exposes, or controls what it touches.

Astrologers consider Pluto to be the ruler of magic, alchemy, and the occult in general. You can tap into Pluto’s energy to augment virtually any type of magical work, but it is especially useful in sex magic, in banishing and purification spells, to strengthen your inner power, or to transcend the physical realm and journey to other dimensions.

Like Uranus and Neptune, Pluto operates on a universal, transcendent, and karmic level with little regard for individual matters. Its role is to foster the evolution of all things, including humankind. Pluto’s power can help you seize and express your own power, overcome obstacles, eliminate unwanted habits, attitudes, and behaviors, or connect with your inner self and the higher realms.

Pluto will help you when you need to change your ways and to reveal all that is hidden.

Ways to Connect with Pluto

  • Use botanicals associated with Pluto, such as passionflower, echinacea, patchouli, or black pansy
  • Add gemstones associated with Pluto to talismans, such as howlite, snowflake obsidian, black tourmaline, smoky quartz, obsidian, hematite, black opal, or jet
  • Carve the astrological symbol for Pluto on a white, black, or scarlet colored candle and burn it
  • Draw the symbol on paper and put it in a talisman
  • Divine with bones
  • Do spells on a Saturday (check for retrogrades!)
  • Light incense with a scent associated to Pluto, such as passionflower or almond
  • Bury a symbol of something you wish to bind or release
  • Do trance work to access other levels of reality
  • Release old ideas/behaviors by writing them on paper and then burning the paper
  • Focus sexual energy toward desired goals

Orphic Hymn 17: To Pluto [Plouton]

Pluto [Plouton], magnanimous, whose realms profound are fix'd beneath the firm and solid ground,
In the Tartarian plains remote from fight, and wrapt forever in the depths of night;
Terrestrial Jove [Zeus Khthonios], thy sacred ear incline, and, pleas'd, accept thy mystic's hymn divine.
Earth's keys to thee, illustrious king belong, its secret gates unlocking, deep and strong.
'Tis thine, abundant annual fruits to bear, for needy mortals are thy constant care.
To thee, great king, Avernus is assign'd, the seat of Gods, and basis of mankind.
Thy throne is fix'd in Hade's dismal plains, distant, unknown to rest, where darkness reigns;
Where, destitute of breath, pale spectres dwell, in endless, dire, inexorable hell;
And in dread Acheron, whose depths obscure, earth's stable roots eternally secure.
O mighty dæmon, whose decision dread, the future fate determines of the dead,
With captive Proserpine [Kore], thro' grassy plains, drawn in a four-yok'd car with loosen'd reins,
Rapt o'er the deep, impell'd by love, you flew 'till Eleusina's city rose to view;
There, in a wond'rous cave obscure and deep, the sacred maid secure from search you keep,
The cave of Atthis, whose wide gates display an entrance to the kingdoms void of day.
Of unapparent works, thou art alone the dispensator, visible and known.
O pow'r all-ruling, holy, honor'd light, thee sacred poets and their hymns delight:
Propitious to thy mystic's works incline, rejoicing come, for holy rites are thine.

Pluto Facts

  • Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt. As of now, Pluto is believed to be the largest object in the Kuiper Belt, although it used to be considered the smallest planet.
  • Pluto was classified as a dwarf planet in 2006 when the International Astronomical Union defined a planet as having three key characteristics and Pluto didn't satisfy all three.
  • If Pluto was classified as an astronomical planet, it would require between 50 and 200 other objects to also be classified as planets.
  • Our Moon is 6 times more massive than Pluto.
  • Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, has a diameter more than half as long as Pluto’s.
  • Pluto was named by an 11-year-old schoolgirl in Oxford, England.
  • Pluto’s orbit crosses Neptune’s when viewed from directly above, but the two are aligned in such a way that they’ll never collide.
  • More than 98% of Pluto’s surface is covered with nitrogen ice.
  • Pluto entered Cancer in 1913, just before the start of World War I.
NASA closeup image of Pluto

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Page last updated: March 25, 2026