Aspects
Pholus Opposition Pluto
The deep, lid-off release of Pholus tends to come at you through other people and fated events, where a small trigger from outside unlocks something profound, buried, or ancestral, and sets a transformation in motion. You may be the catalyst for others' deep change, or find your own depths uncorked by what they set off. The work is to keep it from being only something that happens to you: watch for the small causes with deep effects, take responsibility for the transformations you trigger, and meet the released material consciously. Real wisdom here transforms through the release rather than being swept away by it.
Lean in — Take responsibility for the deep transformations you trigger.
Watch for — Be swept away by what a small cause unlocks.
- deep-release
- ancestral
- transformation
Sources
- Reinhart, To the Edge and Beyond: Chiron, Nessus and the Centaurs (1996)Reads Pholus as the small cause with the large effect: the lid lifted from a sealed jar, releasing what was long contained.
- Greene, The Astrology of Fate (1984)Reads Pluto as depth, the ancestral past, and transformation through what is released and cannot be recalled.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1988)Reads the contact in evolutionary terms, as growth through a release that transforms the line.