Aspects
Hygiea Opposition Pluto
The intense, transformative side of well-being tends to come at you through circumstances and other people. You may face health crises triggered from outside, struggles over control and the body in close relationships, or pressures that force a deep change in how you live. The body becomes a place where what you cannot control gets worked out. The work is to keep the power dynamic from running it: take back what authority you can over your own care, let crises transform rather than frighten you, and address the deep causes rather than the surface. Real health here is renewal through, not around, the hard passages.
Lean in — Take back authority over your own care and address root causes.
Watch for — Let fear or others' control run your relationship to the body.
- health-crisis
- control
- renewal
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads Hygiea by her namesake goddess of health as the principle of well-being, prevention, and the maintenance of wholeness.
- Greene, The Astrology of Fate (1984)Reads Pluto as elimination, regeneration, and transformation through crisis.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1988)Reads the contact in evolutionary terms, as renewal of the body through depth and crisis.