A bit on Pluto

Pluto is a generational planet, meaning it transits a sign over the course of roughly 20-30 years, taking 248 years to cycle through the full zodiac wheel. It's in it for the long-haul, and it's power is in transforming our collective consciousness by challenging our deep-rooted frameworks slowly but intensely over the course of decades. Known as the "Lord of the Underworld," it's cosmic force lies in themes of death, rebirth, transformation, and personal power. So while it rules collective upheavals, it becomes personal when its transits trigger our own buried shadows. 

Pluto in this book

It's not punishment; it's the soul's relentless sculptor — stripping us of illusions and compulsive cycles. It demands we enter the underworld to bring unconscious material, buried wounds, and shadow sides to light. These intense and challenging experiences become portals of rebirth in which we retrieve lost parts of our soul.

Steven Forrest uses his evolutionary lens to map Pluto via sign, house, transits, and aspects with stories, myths, and charts, showing how to choose growth over fear in these slow-burn cycles. He uniquely blends psychological depth with free-will empowerment — no fatalism here, but rather choice amidst chaos. 

What you can get from reading it

• Navigate Pluto transits through the houses, helping to frame which areas of your life you may be affected — e.g. 12th house transit creates solitude, but in that solitude births mystic vision (but to others, it appears as mere suffering).
• Unpack your natal Pluto's sign and your soul lessons (evolutionary karma) within the context of your generation's story.
• Feel the difference in building tension versus breakthrough release through Pluto's waxing & waning aspects to planets.
• Learn conscious surrender tools during challenging aspects like squares & oppositions.
• Flip Pluto from fate to ally, framing Pluto cycles as free-will crossroads and transformational portals.

About the author

Steven Forrest is a prominent evolutionary astrologer, writer, and lecturer, widely recognized as one of the founders of the school of Evolutionary Astrology. He is best known for his emphasis on free will and personal responsibility, arguing that we can change ourselves and create our own futures rather than being limited by a fixed destiny. He offers apprenticeship programs through the Forrest Center for Evolutionary Astrology.

• While Pluto is a generational planet, meaning you'll share it's sign placement with others your age, its house placement is dictated by your rising sign, which is unique to you. So the ways in which Pluto affects your life can differ drastically from person to person. Check out Astrology 101 for more on the houses and to find out where Pluto is in your chart.
• Use this book to reference decades past through the lens of Pluto energy. You may spot patterns throughout your life as it transited signs or houses that can help you adjust now in order to better prepare for decades future, as framed by  the transits to come.