Breaking Down the Pluto Square Pluto Transit: A Midlife Crisis That Reveals Your Inner Strength
If you’re 39 - 42, you’ve either recently been through or are about to go through a huge cosmic experience that will push you to become a stronger, more resilient version of yourself. In astrology, transits (the ongoing movements of planets) act as triggers, activating different parts of our lives and pushing us toward growth. One of the most intense and transformative transits occurs in our early 40s: The Pluto Square Pluto Transit aka The Pluto Square.
This transit marks a profound crisis point, a moment when life seems to corner us, forcing us to dig deep and uncover our true power. It marks the point when Pluto in the sky forms a 90-degree square (angle) to its natal position in your birth chart. This is a midlife initiation, a time when the universe demands that you shed old layers of identity, power structures, and control mechanisms that no longer serve you.
Most will experience a loss of some kind during this transit, whether a job, a relationship, even a loved one or a pet could leave our lives. Depending on your natal Pluto sign and house placement, this transit can manifest in different ways, but the core theme remains the same: a confrontation with your deepest fears, obsessions, and buried strengths. When Pluto squares itself, it applies extreme pressure and forces a reckoning—an unavoidable confrontation with whatever has been suppressed, manipulated, or left unexamined in your life.
Pluto rules: death, rebirth, transformation (through crisis), power struggles, sexuality, and the subconscious shadow self. This is why the transit is so intense to feel as we’re going through it.
To confidently navigate the Pluto square Pluto transit, you must embrace the breakdown. Whatever has been destroyed, needed to go. Now is the time to find a deeper connection to your self through shadow work, therapy, or journaling to confront buried fears or power imbalances in your life. Release control; resistance only intensifies the pain. The surrender accelerates your transformation. I know that it’s painful, but use this crisis to shed outdated versions of yourself and reclaim your power. Focus on rebuilding from within, trusting that destruction precedes rebirth. Stay patient and know that this chaos is necessary and forging a stronger, wiser you.
If you’re in your early 40s now, you’re a millennial, and all millennials have Pluto in its home sign of Scorpio, this means we are IN our Pluto Square Era as Pluto is in Aquarius. As a generation, we’re defined by depth, intensity, and yes, transformation! We possess a natural understanding of power, psychology, and the unseen, and we’re often drawn to taboo subjects like sex, death (hello true crime), and the occult. Our lives are literally marked by cycles of destruction and rebirth, collectively (9/11, The Great Recession, The Covid Pandemic, Political Unrest), but also personally (relationships, careers, personal identity). It can feel like we’re constantly being punished by circumstances out of our control, but ultimately, we are the alchemists, masters of reinvention, unafraid of the dark.
If you’re seeking more support or guidance during this time in your life, I do encourage booking a reading. I’m happy to take a deeper look at this transit for you, to see where specifically in your chart this crisis could be activated.
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