Moon/Pluto generally is extremely sensitive to seething undercurrents in a family situations. In childhood this soul may have been the receptacle for all the poisonous and suppressed family grievances. They learn to bury these feelings, only for them to explode volcano-like at a later date. The tension generated by the square in this Hades Moon is tough but creates black-gold which then fuels immense talent. The subjects feel compelled to purge their long-suppressed rage and emotions creatively, which can bring them power and success.
People with this aspect have often dealt with the emotional storms of the mother who could at any time destroy the balance and trust through anger, aggression, manipulation and instability that the child has perceived until from the phase of symbiosis and that led him/her to absorb a sense of profound impotence that could only be subsided through the control of his own and others’ emotions.
These mothers often bind their children to them through an invisible network of guilt that always conceals a broken creativity, a sense of internal impotence and a subtle resentment towards the male world that leads them to be very demanding towards their sons, who would like to become little Gods, while projecting their resentful male energy onto their daughters, and thus they will forge future women with negative paternal complexes who will marry men who are afraid to love them and so on.
Perception is very acute because the child had to understand in advance what was about to happen in order to survive the daily emotional rush of the mother.
Tackling these themes means having the possibility of transforming anger into strength. It means recovering the energy imprisoned on the destructive side of the archetype, and directing it to creative acts that will shelter from brutal acts. And, ultimately, it means experimenting and activating one’s own creative potential and ambitions without having to manipulate the surrounding with passive-aggressive strategies.
This archetype explains that becoming a woman is not only the fruit of a biological process, but has to do with a profound capacity for psychic transformation. Moon-Pluto is also symbolically represented by Hades which destroys ingenuity, illusions and the “psychic virginity” of Persephone, which finds in this drama the need to confront the darkness of her own soul. The encounter with Hades, despite all its violence and drama, allows Persephone to know its own inner dimension that is the only one that can guide her course of life. Thus, it is important to know even the worst aspects of ourselves in order to be accountable of what happens to us; Persephone will become a guide aka “the one who will take the heroes to the underworld”. Here is the key to the resolution of the Moon-Pluto drama: only those who managed to conquer their own light will be free and will be able to accompany other people to conquer their light.
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