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by Brian Habit

You have Pluto in Virgo in the 6th house. 

Pluto is the “higher octave” of Mars. He symbolizes how we might assertive ourselves in a transpersonal way, in a way that affects many others’ lives. Pluto represents that part of us that wants to transform ourselves or the world around us, that wants to do something “important.” Pluto represents a sense of mission or destiny. With this planet, the question is whether you can identify some sort of wisdom in yourself that could make a great difference in the world and then fulfill your destiny by humbly sharing it.

You have Pluto in service-oriented, quality-minded Virgo. Therefore, you have the potential to use your personal power in a way that affects many others profoundly through your paid employment or other ways in which you learn skills, assume responsibilities, and act competently. Part of your life work involves becoming the embodiment of some principle that you believe in. If you believe in the free enterprise system, then you need to become the epitome of the self-made entrepreneur. If you believe, like the ancient Greeks, in a sound mind in a sound body, then you need to become a paragon of that principle. Somehow you need to become the personification of a principle through the way that you learn and hone your skills and apply them in your routine responsibilities. There’s a lot of power in whatever you do in a spirit of serving others, however modest your role might seem to you, so wield your power conscientiously, methodically, with kindness and humility.

With Pluto in Virgo, you’re also called to face the dark side of this sign--those less appealing qualities that Virgo has the potential to manifest but you wouldn’t necessarily want to own up to. For example, maybe you worry over whether you are competent or whether you act responsibly enough. Maybe you hold yourself or your work to overly high standards, as if you needed to compensate for some horrible personal defect by being superlative.

You also have Pluto in the 6th house of responsibilities. This is the same house that contains your Venus and Uranus. With Pluto in your 6th house, you need to continually increase your skills and expand your responsibilities in order to feel that your life has a deep sense of purpose and meaning. You need to serve others in a way that involves mucking through life’s darker experiences. Somehow you need to deal with people who have been hurt or wounded, abused or neglected.  Part of your life’s work or destiny involves acting on your conscience, acting responsibility. You need to “do the right thing” by easing other people’s pain or helping them transform their condition, but you need to do more than simply help them. You need to get at the root of their pain. You need to break taboos by speaking up about the causes. You need to protest the conditions that lead to their suffering. You also need to challenge those people who would passively resign themselves to playing the role of a victim. That doesn’t mean putting them down for being in painful circumstances. It means rousing them out of their condition, calling them to rise up and claim their own power to do something about their condition. It means pointing out their options, what’s within their control. It means helping them not walk down the same streets and fall in the same holes over and over by supportively, but honestly, calling them on some of their “stuff.”    

It’s your choice whether you accept this mission. Doing it requires hard work and self-discipline. It’s understandable if you don’t want to “go there.” However, you should know that if you take on too little responsibility, it will lead to problems. For that matter, going to the other extreme (taking on too much responsibility) can also lead to problems.

If you take on too little responsibility, then this could take all sorts of forms. Perhaps you don’t act reliably at work or in your personal life. You’re the student who plagiarizes on a test, or the gambler who owes people lots of money. Maybe you’re a habitual liar, or you look to sponge off other people rather than learning to support yourself. Another possibility is that you keep yourself in menial work. It stifles your spirit and bores you to death, and maybe your boss acts like Attila the Hun, but it’s what you came to believe that you were capable of. You don’t believe that you’re capable of doing more in your work, so you don’t try to do more, and you don’t get any more out of it. You feel bored or humiliated. In another dark scenario, you take on the wrong sorts of responsibilities. Maybe you conspire with someone else to gang up on a third person, or you agree to help hide the evidence of someone else’s crime.

If you take on too much responsibility, maybe you become the worried workaholic. Maybe you knock yourself out for other people, but you still feel like you’re letting them down. You slave away. Maybe you always end up in a one-down position in your relationships. You’re there for your romantic partner or your friends, but they’re never there for you. You try and you try, and what you accomplish most of all is burning yourself out. You feel ashamed and exhausted. You spend all of your time on busy work, on tasks that have no personal meaning. As part of acting too responsibly toward others, perhaps you play into the hands of someone else who treats you abusively. For example, you’re the child who’s bullied by an aggressive parent, or your romantic partner tries to use power and control to keep you “in your place.”

By taking on too little or too much responsibility, your life could take on a dark, dismal quality. Let’s say you’re never there for others, or you look to them as your first line of defense in life, to rescue you from your difficulties. If that’s the case, then it’s not too hard to slide into cynicism about others. “They’re only out for themselves. People can’t be trusted. No one really cares about anyone else in this world.” You could decide that life is pointless. Let’s also suppose that you knock yourself out for your company, or the kids, or your friends, or your sweetheart, but it seems like it’s never good enough. You could say, “People can believe whatever they want to believe, or care about whatever they want to care about, but in the end, it doesn’t make any difference. None of it matters.” You could become bitter or resigned.

That’s what could happen if you go to some extreme in developing your Pluto. How about if you make a strong response to your Pluto?

In that case, you strike a healthy balance between acting responsibly toward yourself and acting responsibly toward others. You ask other people for advice, or you ask them to teach you how to do things, and you don’t settle for just anyone who wants to feel important or take charge of your life. You hold out for mentors or helpers who go beyond being “nice” to talk about some of life’s starker subjects. They’re intense, and they’re willing to face life’s more unsettling realities and ideas. They’re not scared of the dark. They spend their time on tasks that you’re either drawn to or you’re already committed to spending time on yourself. They are deeply committed to what they spend their time on, but they don’t chain themselves to it. They act responsibly, and at the same time, they maintain some semblance of a balanced life. If you make a strong response to Pluto, then somehow you expose yourself to someone who serves as a light or a beacon for you. You let that person rub off on you.

From there, you go on to shine in some capacity. You dedicate yourself to work that you get fired up about. You do it because you believe in it and you love it. You follow your passion and, maybe as a by-product of doing that, you make a real difference in your community. Perhaps you start a program to provide vital services free of charge for those who would otherwise not be able to access them. You could be the actor who demonstrates an unabashed willingness to throw herself totally into a new role, or the volunteer who helps raise money for pediatric cancer research. You could even put yourself in the line of danger as a bodyguard, police officer, firefighter, or soldier.

You don’t have to put other people’s interest front and center per se in order for your life to mean something beyond looking out for Number One. You just have to do something that provides other people with opportunities that they wouldn’t have otherwise. You just have to demand that they rise to some occasion or strive to meet some standard. For example, you could be a hardworking insurance agent, stockbroker, salesperson, or social worker. Whatever you do, you contribute by pursuing it with passion, until eventually you pass on the torch, by sharing what you know with someone else. 

 

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