Beforehand: For the Sun Pluto conjunction, square, opposition we would give an orb of about 5 degrees, strongest felt 0-3. Remember if someone’s Pluto is aspecting your Sun it is likely everyone within that age group will also have their Pluto in aspect. How the two partners work together does not depend solely on Sun-Pluto hard aspects but other connections between the luminaries and the inner planets.
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When a platonic or a romantic relationship is actually established it is one where growth is highly stimulated. It is intensely felt and difficult to forget. A relationship where there is deep attraction, that serves to form a bond. This could even manifest as a feeling of not really liking someone but being drawn to them nonetheless. Such which stimulates change in you – for the Sun the scope is a new sense of self, the ability to reform the ego. For Pluto it might not be felt as strongly and will be highly dependent on the house position and natal aspects.
Sun Pluto aspects in synastry can offer added passion and sizzling chemistry, if the rest of the synastry supports it. As always with Pluto, even more so hard aspects, there is tension, which can lead to conflict, obsession and power struggles. The relationship could be quite volatile.
Ebertin says the combination Sun- Pluto’s principle is striving for power, craving for rulership, power of attainment. It might involve desire to exercise power, craving for rulership and disadvantages through the former.
The Sun represents: ego, sense of self, life force, vitality, your will to live
Pluto on the other hand represents: impersonal force, unconscious force, invisible might, power to change, metamorphosis.
Who is the Sun to Pluto?
(as always it depends on Pluto’s house and natal aspects as well)Â
It is a source of light, the essence of Sun is interesting to Pluto, so they might be attracted to the personality of the Sun person. As such it is an illuminator of the own hidden desires, regarding the house placement of Pluto. They might appear to be a person of authority and honour, perhaps exemplary in some aspect of life. They might offer warmth, happiness and a source of inspiration, though this might be coloured with difficult emotions related to a sense that Pluto lacks them.
And finally sometimes Pluto might not be that touched by the relationship, if the rest of the synastry is not there, then Pluto will be simply a trigger for a process of change in the Sun.
Who is Pluto to Sun?
A dark, mysterious, otherworldly human. It has a mesmerising, hypnotising effect, a power drawing the Sun in. At the same time it feels unsettling, a threat to their identity and a challenge to their sense of authority.
How does the Sun act and feel?
The Sun is attracted to Pluto like to a magnet, it goes through a process of death and rebirth of the ego, although most of the time this is quite a difficult experience, at the end it serves the achievement of maximum potential for the Sun. It helps to define new paths and scopes for the Sun that might have previously seemed too foreign. Could be pushed to take steps in aligning with its soul purpose, with hard aspects this could indicate difficult processes potentially triggering and hopefully releasing traumas that help the Sun get there.
In a positive relationship – protected and having a sense of purpose in the world. There could be a sense that Pluto makes the sun feel more in touch with its life purpose, that it feels its own vitality growing. But in hard aspects also often controlled and unfree.Â
A more difficult experiences might feel like one is dragged into hell, looking for the exit (negative expression of a weak Sun, hard aspects) might also manifest connected to the partner or alternatively they need to be confronted together with the partner. The Sun will feel a somewhat constantly that their identity is threatened – which might manifest differently but some examples: becoming a parent, having to redefine the own role in the world; being moved to travel and having to redefine oneself in the process etc.
As with all Pluto contacts there might be an obsessive attraction, to the point where it sometimes feels as if against their will. And it makes it quite hard to let go of the relationship once it has started. The sun might aim to highlight to Pluto the areas of life where they are too controlling, bringing to consciousness elements of the Pluto person’s shadow.
How does Pluto act and feel?
(depending also highly on the natal chart, spiritual development of the person and the rest of the synastry. People will always firstly act according to their natal charts):
On the outside neutral/aloof/cold, if secure in the relationship often with a nonchalant or even uncaring attitude. Pluto has power  in the relationship; that can be used in a more positive, growth oriented way, if the partners are emotionally and spiritually mature but in reality often is related to at least some form of control or obsessiveness. A more negative expression is Pluto trying to control, manipulate the Sun – make him do things for him/her. Turmoil and commotion are also common in most Pluto aspects.
Pluto might consciously or unconsciously cause break down of the identity of the Sun person. They can on occasion push them into exhaustion, even physical. This might serve the positive scope of healing and rebuilding a more sound structure. In some cases however it might be just powerful destruction. Pluto is likely to be trying to change things and potentially causing upheaval in the house the sun is and rules.
As the Sun, when dignified will resist control, Pluto may feel frustrated in the relationship as it needs to have its might. At the same time there is the need to guard his treasures, they also might be possessive of them but also protective. No single expression is entirely positive or negative. There is an aspect of becoming self-conscious or vulnerable due to the sun’s illumination of Pluto’s darker aspects. And as so often with Pluto – jealousy and fear of loss, wanting to keep the Sun and its radiance to himself are a part of the game.
Potential Dynamics
It is an aspect where the participants might avoid each other permanently, the Sun will often “chicken out” (depends on sun’s strength) as Pluto might be a serious threat to the sense of identity. Pluto challenges their identity consciously or just through who he is and this makes the Sun quite unsettled.
If accepted, it is a karmic relationship, where Pluto has its repressed parts illuminated and can work through past traumas regarding the house it is placed and the Sun has the opportunity to use the contact to reinvent itself, to change parts of the self and identity. Sometimes it can be as simple as becoming a parent, for others – working through childhood trauma. The sun might be pushed towards prominence, for example to get a better job, work harder for the family or have more authority in life. There may be changes awakened in the Sun’s aims in life if the more difficult dimensions of this aspect can be managed. These are potential positives but it might be hard for them to manifest with difficult aspects like the square or opposition.Â
They are drawn to each other strongly and can achieve an understanding on a deep level quite quickly. Passionate binding is often mixed in with fears of loss of the partner (for both). One must be wary of negative intentions, games and pushing buttons because this can lead to quite dramatic situations.
The End and the Aftereffects
Unhealthy dynamics can lead to an ending in any relationship. In a Sun Pluto one often it is the lack of balance of power, constant friction that eventually tires one or both partners down. The Sun might feel worn down form always having to rebuild.
For the Sun the suffering from the break up might feel quite physical e.g. energetically drained (Sun as the body). It might feel as their life force is threatened. The relationship will not be forgotten, but the Sun will eventually recuperate its energy. Less likely with hard aspects but healing and rejuvenation can be an end product of having passed through Pluto’s process.
Pluto will be quite unhappy with losing its treasure, and the radiant light of the Sun.
Longterm
The relationship is rarely a lasting one- although there are exceptions. There is a process of making a lot of unconscious processes conscious and working through them.
Positively (even opposition and squares) can show as quite constructive – where both partners can find new aspects of each other and confront the self and the ego in different areas in a way that leads to results starkly different to what used to be. This however requires great maturity on both sides.
Negatively it can manifest as a traumatic bond that presents with a lot of power struggle and mutual hurt. The Sun might perceive Pluto as constantly overwhelming and restricting. As unaccepting of who they are. Basically we see the full fruition of many of the traits we have seen when talking about what the Sun and Pluto stimulate in each other.