Pluto Retrograde in Aquarius

Pluto Retrograde in Aquarius - May 4 – October 10 - Reclaiming the Power

Pluto is all about power—and deep transformation.
Aquarius is about the collective: community, technology, big vision, and the future.

For the next five months, we have an opportunity to sink deeper into our own power—
to undergo a profound psychological expansion that liberates latent inner resources,
to heal the wounds we've carried from misusing power—or from being afraid to claim it.

If we want to build a world where power is equally distributed,
we must ask ourselves: Can we truly handle that amount of power?
If we were placed in a position of power, how would we handle it?

What we often witness is the misuse of power—rooted in deep fears of inadequacy.
This threshold of the Aquarian Age is asking us to transform the fears that lead to corruption.

Where have we been giving our power away?
To society?
To authority figures?
To technology?

How can we lean on social groups in ways that support, rather than restrict, our genius?
How can we embody new forms of leadership—beyond the models we've known?
How can we use technology to serve us, rather than dominate us?

We don’t have to figure it all out.
But we do need to gain clarity on our individual role within the collective.

We cannot fall short in the very qualities we want to see reflected in the world.
Each cell of the whole must be powerful and vibrant
for the whole to truly evolve.

One of the central themes Aquarius revolves around is individuality vs. belonging.
Pluto retrograde can stir our deep fears around this.

We’ve been living in an era of collective conformity—where we learned to homogenize.
We learned how to fit in, how to stick to societal rules and structures.

Now, we are going through a process of dehomogenization.
But we carry wounds from that previous period—because we were often punished for going against the grain.
We were ostracized.

Now, more than ever, it’s important to reverse this.
To choose ourselves.
To dare to stand out.
To carve our own path.

Even if we get excluded from familiar groups, we can trust that it’s good to let them go.
They weren’t connecting to our true essence.
They were either connecting to our inauthentic mask, or to their own comfortable projections—and we were playing along.

But our Soul’s yearning for authenticity is becoming louder than our Ego’s yearning for (false) safety.
We are learning that choosing ourselves is the only way forward.
It is the only way to truly belong.

During Pluto’s retrograde phase, we will undergo a slow inner transformation—
dismantling the fears that stand in the way of us shining brightly in all of our colors.