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Pluto in the 2nd House – Those Who Cannot Buy Into Lies

Those who cannot pretend something matters to them

There are people who cannot nod when someone explains what they should value. It’s not rebellion or stubbornness – it’s that something in their internal structure automatically rejects any value that hasn’t passed through their own verification laboratories. As if they had a built-in lie detector that activates every time someone tries to sell them a prefabricated truth.

They cannot simulate enthusiasm for what they’re “supposed to” care about. They cannot pretend to worry about social status, conventional security, or others’ dreams converted into family mandates. Their internal system simply rejects what doesn’t resonate as authentic, with the same naturalness that the body rejects spoiled food.

It’s disconcerting for those around them. Why can’t they simply adapt? Why does everything have to pass through the filter of their personal experience before it can be accepted as valid? As if they were incapable of the social convenience that allows others to adopt values through inheritance or convenience.

More to read: Pluto in the 2nd House and the Intelligence of Survival

The relentless laboratory

When Pluto settles in the second house, it converts the consolidation process into an authenticity scanner that never turns off. Everything that enters the system – ideas, values, resources, beliefs about what’s worthwhile – must pass through an ontological verification that operates beyond conscious will.

It’s not that they choose to be skeptical; it’s that their internal structure functions as an inconsistency detector that cannot be bribed. Like an involuntary scientist who examines each element before allowing it to integrate into their personal periodic table. If something “doesn’t sound true,” it simply cannot consolidate as their own, regardless of how convenient or socially acceptable it might be.

This function operates with almost surgical precision. They can detect where a value system has structural cracks, where a belief about security is built on false foundations, where a concept of success is contaminated by others’ expectations. It’s not intuition – it’s visceral resonance with authenticity.

The resistance of the inherited

There exists in them a structural inability to inherit values without questioning. As if they carried inscribed in their operating code that nothing can become truly “their own” without having been dismantled, examined, and reconstructed from direct experience.

This turns them into involuntary orphans of family traditions. They cannot simply receive the conceptual and emotional inheritance that others adopt without conflict. Everything must be verified in the laboratory of their own experience before it can be integrated as authentic value.

The paradox is that the more they question what’s received, the more deeply they need to find what is truly theirs. Like archaeologists of their own authenticity, they excavate through layers of others’ expectations searching for the core of what genuinely resonates with their internal structure.

The price of authenticity

Their relationship with resources – material, emotional, conceptual – has the intensity of those who cannot afford lies. They cannot value something just because it’s “supposed to” be valued. They cannot desire something just because others desire it. They cannot feel secure with forms of security they haven’t personally verified.

This precision makes them misfits for the world of consensual values. While others can adopt social goals and feel motivated by them, they need every objective to pass through the filter of their internal authenticity detector. If something doesn’t resonate as genuinely theirs, they simply cannot mobilize energy toward it.

They live in constant tension between the need to consolidate something of their own and the impossibility of consolidating something false. As if they were condemned to authenticity in a world that functions on conventional agreements about what’s worthwhile.

No shortcuts possible

Their consolidation system operates from a logic that admits no exceptions: nothing can become truly “their own” without having passed through internal consistency verification. There are no shortcuts, no exceptions for convenience, no way to skip the authentication process.

This turns them into involuntary experts at distinguishing between what is genuinely theirs and what they’ve adopted through external pressure. They know, viscerally, when they’re operating from authentic values and when they’re operating from others’ expectations. But that clarity has a price: the impossibility of pretending something matters to them when it doesn’t.

The geography of the irreducible

Sooner or later, if they survive the confusion of the early years, they discover something extraordinary: that their inability to buy into lies is not a defect but a specific function. That their internal authenticity detector is not an obstacle but a navigation tool in a world full of counterfeit values.

When they finally embrace their Plutonian function instead of resisting it, something changes. They stop apologizing for not being able to value what doesn’t resonate as authentic and begin trusting their capacity to detect what is genuinely theirs. As if they finally understood that they’re not here to inherit values but to distill them.

It’s not that they become less demanding of themselves. It’s that their demands become creative instead of destructive. And then, paradoxically, they find that what is truly theirs emerges naturally – not because they seek it, but because they have cleared the space of everything that wasn’t authentic from the start.

Their gift is not having clear values, but being incapable of lying to themselves about what they truly value.

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September 16, 2020
Pluto in the 1st House – Those Who Cannot Pretend to Be Others

Those who cannot sustain masks

There are people who cannot present themselves in a convenient way. It’s not that they don’t know what role is expected of them in each situation – they know perfectly well. It’s that something in their internal structure automatically detects when they’re acting a false version of themselves, and that detection becomes viscerally unbearable.

They cannot sustain the social mask for more than a few minutes before something breaks. As if they had an authenticity detector that operates on their own presentation and cannot be deactivated. They know exactly when they’re pretending to be more pleasant, more normal, more adapted than they really are, but they cannot prevent that falseness from corroding them from within.

It’s disconcerting for those around them. Why can’t they simply maintain the social composure that allows others to navigate the world without friction? Why does everything they say seem to come from such a deep place that it makes others uncomfortable? As if they were incapable of the lightness that makes social interactions flow without consequences.

Read more: Pluto in the 1st House and the Intelligence of Self-Preservation

The walking detector

When Pluto settles in the first house, it converts every appearance in the world into an authenticity scanner that cannot be turned off. The detector function operates both inward – they cannot present themselves from false identities – and outward – their presence automatically activates the detection of inconsistencies in the environment.

It’s not that they choose to be disruptive; it’s that their internal structure functions as a falseness detector that cannot be bribed. Like an involuntary forensic scientist who analyzes every interaction looking for signs of acting or inconsistency. If someone is faking interest, sympathy, or any emotion, their system detects it automatically.

This function operates with a precision they themselves cannot control. They can perceive where someone is acting a social role, where a conversation is being forced, where masks are being sustained by pure convenience. It’s not intuition – it’s visceral resonance with inauthenticity in real time.

The unsustainable tension

There exists a specific suffering in this configuration that is not just “not being able to fake” but something more complex: detecting that your presentation is false but feeling compelled to maintain it anyway. Like being trapped between two contradictory forces – the detector that says “this is not authentic” and a compulsion to act from that falseness to maintain connections, jobs, family bonds.

In the 1st House, this manifests in every encounter: knowing that the “socially acceptable” version of yourself is false, but feeling that if you don’t operate it, you’ll be left without relationships, without opportunities, without a place in the world. It’s the specific agony of detecting that “being nice when you don’t feel it” is a lie for your system, but not being able to stop because it seems like the only way to be accepted.

It’s not generic suffering – it’s that brutal dissonance of being conscious that you’re acting a false version of yourself but not being able to stop. Like living divided between who you know you are authentically and who you feel you have to be to survive socially. The Plutonian detector cannot be bribed, but neither can the basic needs for connection and belonging be ignored.

The forced metamorphosis

Here is where the true Plutonian transformation appears – not as an evolutionary choice but as biological inevitability. The tension between detecting falseness in your own presentation and feeling obligated to maintain it eventually becomes so unsustainable that showing yourself authentically becomes the only possible way out.

Like the caterpillar in the cocoon: you don’t “decide” to transform because you want to evolve. A point comes where maintaining the mask becomes impossible – either you emerge authentically or you disintegrate. The transformation is not optional, it’s inevitable because the internal dissonance hurts more than the fear of rejection.

In the 1st House, this means going through the specific terror of showing yourself as you are without guarantees that you’ll be accepted. It’s walking through a dense forest at night, full of shadows that terrify: “What if my authenticity scares people away? What if who I really am is not socially viable?”

But the metamorphosis becomes inevitable because maintaining the false becomes more painful than facing rejection. And once you emerge authentically, you cannot go back – you no longer fit into the superficial interactions that once contained you, even though they were familiar.

The involuntary effect

Their presence has a particular effect they cannot control: they activate the detector function in the spaces where they appear. It’s not that they seek to create discomfort; simply their frequency of authenticity resonates with the surrounding falseness and makes it evident.

It’s like being a walking authenticity detector in a world that functions on convenient performances. Where there are social masks, their primitive authenticity makes them visible. Where there are forced conversations, their genuine presence exposes them. Where there is acting, their inability to pretend contrasts it to the point of absurdity.

That’s why they often feel like involuntary catalysts for extreme reactions. People behave strangely near them – more honest or more defensive, more vulnerable or more shielded. As if their energy field activated emergency systems in others: either they show themselves authentically or they protect themselves to the point of absurdity.

The geography of recognition

Sooner or later, if they survive the confusion of the early years, they discover something extraordinary: that their inability to sustain masks is not a defect but a specific function. That their internal authenticity detector is not an obstacle but a navigation tool in a world full of falsified performances.

When they finally embrace their Plutonian function instead of resisting it, something changes. They stop apologizing for not being able to pretend to be others and begin trusting their capacity to detect and express what is authentic. As if they finally understood that they’re not here to adapt but to catalyze authenticity.

It’s not that they become less intense. It’s that their intensity becomes magnetic instead of disturbing. And then, paradoxically, they find that genuine connections emerge naturally – not because they seek to please, but because they have cleaned their presentation of everything that wasn’t authentic from the start.

Their gift is not being loved by everyone, but being incapable of lying about who they really are.

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September 3, 2020
Mars in Aries – The Initiator

Mars is the planet of initiative. It rules the sign of Aries, the first sign of the Zodiac as well as Scorpio, the 8th. This planet symbolizes our vital impulses, both to go out for what we want and to defend what is ours. In this way, It can manifest as both a masculine energy (Aries) and a feminine (Scorpio). It represents what attracts us, what we look for, what we defend tooth and nail. In the birth chart, the sign where we find Mars describes the way that we face our circumstances.

The energy of Mars takes the form of the sign where we find it, whether if it is masculine or feminine, of Fire, Earth, Air or Water. We all have have Mars in our birth chart, men and women alike. However, when Mars is repressed, we can project its energy onto men – and sometimes on women who possess strong masculine energy. If this is the case, we will unconsciously be drawn to individuals who express the energy of our own Mars. Knowing the position of this planet in our natal chart can help us discover parts of ourselves that we have not yet become aware of or that we don’t know how to express naturally. Of course, the aspects that other planets make to our Mars will tint the expression of this energy.

Mars in Aries

Aries is the sign of the warrior, the conqueror, the pioneer, the survivor. As mentioned earlier, this is the first sign of the Zodiac. Here we see the energy of life seeking to be born at all costs, no matter how, but clearly knowing when. Aries wants everything “right now!”. It will open the way no matter what. Lash out with whatever comes their way without apologizing.

In Aries, Mars is in its own sign. Here he is very comfortable. Aries is a Cardinal sign and corresponds to the Fire element. In this sign we see the Martian energy in its pure state. Actions are impulsive. This Mars wants to win, loves competition and is not afraid of anything.

Mars in Aries faces challenges head-on, without really thinking about the consequences. It is known by its courage and daring attitude. If this Mars feels attacked, he will defend himself by attacking. They are the typical person who inspires others to dare to something. They are the ones who say: Come on, come on, you can!

When Mars is in this position we benefit from physical exercise. Especially in competitive and risky sports. Or kundalini yoga. Especially when our daily life does not demand large amounts of energy from us. Otherwise, we run the risk of acting recklessly, since the energy of Mars needs to come out no matter what.

In any case, Mars in Aries is brave and although he can often act inelegant, what he lacks in refinement he makes up for with his courage.

The attractions are spontaneous and short-lived. This doesn’t mean that individuals with this position get easily bored and need to go out and find something new, although sometimes this can happen. The important thing to keep in mind is that the excess energy of Mars needs to be discharged and when their lives don’t offer them challenges, they will look for them where they can find them. Mars in Aries needs to start projects, fight for something, defend what matters to them. When they do, their personal lives are much more peaceful than one might imagine.

This is the position of the initiators. In a way, Mars in Aries opens the way for the other signs.

The details of what we are looking for through Mars in this position will be given by its aspects, the astrological house where we find it, the sign of the Ascendant and the houses where Aires and Scorpio are.

Mars in the Signs

Mars in Taurus – The Sculptor

February 25, 2020
Uranus, Neptune and Pluto: Generational Waves

In Astrology, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto define generational groups, since being very slow planets, they remain in the same sign for several years. Each time one of these planets enters a new sign, an expansion of collective consciousness begins that will transform society, culture.

When we are born with some of these planets in the first degrees of a sign we can feel that we do not belong to our generation. This happens because we are at the beginning of a new generational wave of which we are the first to cross it. This influence will feel stronger if the transpersonal planet comes into aspect with a personal planet. In this case, this influence will be felt in a personal way. If this is not the case, we will live the generational effects in a more unconscious way (at least until it is activated by a progression or transit). In any case, when we are born with one or more of the transpersonal planets entering a new sign, we are the initiators of a new consciousness that has to do with what the sign represents. It is possible that individuals born with this configuration have difficulties in understanding or being understood by those who have the transpersonal planet in the previous sign. And for this they can be a long time trying to understand how to relate to the world that exists until they arrive at the moment when they discover that what they have to do is create a new perspective … Prepare the ground for those who will be born in the coming years.

When the transpersonal planets are within the first 5° of a sign, the generational gap begins to fade, since the values represented by the sign they are traveling begin to be part of our daily lives, especially when we interact with people that is about our age.

If when a planet that is in the first degrees of a sign arrives to an unexplored land, when it is in the last degrees it is already identified with the characteristics of the sign, and it takes the characteristics of the sign as if it were part of itself. All the planets that transit the last degrees of a sign are in the same situation, but the transpersonal planets live it in a more drastic way. When a transpersonal planet is at the end of a sign it is very comfortable in the society to which it belongs but cannot help feeling that there is a new energy approaching. This change can produce some internal anxiety. The next sign represents the consequence of the evolutionary process of the previous sign. Somehow a planet that is in the last degrees of a sign will need to use everything it has learned to be able to face the new generational wave that is at the threshold of its consciousness. Perhaps the biggest challenge is the identification with the collective conscious and unconscious represented by the transpersonal planet.

How long does transpersonal planets take to cross a sign?

Uranus about 7 years
Neptune about 13 years
Pluto about 20 years

When we see how long it takes for transpersonal planets to go around the Sun, we notice that Uranus changes signs three times during the time that Pluto transits one. The generational wave represented by Pluto will have three Uranian sub-generations. There will be three different ways of expressing individuality (Uranus) that will go through the same transformational process (Pluto). And Neptune, which takes 13 years to pass through a sign, acts as a catalyst for integration within the generation represented by Pluto and the Uranian generations.

The structure of evolution is wonderful when we observe it from the astrological point of view. It is very difficult to notice these changes from the present moment. We can glimpse it by looking at our parents who generally belong to another generation. This generational gap is very useful to gain consciousness of our the different waves: if there were no generational differences with our parents, it would be difficult to conceive the “I”, since there would be no contrast. But this also provokes the belief that there are only two existing perspectives in the world – at least during the first 30 or 40 years of life. When we begin to interact with individuals of all ages we discover that many facets of our personality are parts of a collective being, and thus we discover the characteristics of our generation. That is the first step to discover our individuality as a group and achieve integration with the rest.

The universe has been in balance throughout our existence and our natal chart shows us how heaven looked at the moment of our birth. The position of the planets as seen in our natal chart reflects that balance.

January 7, 2020
Moon in Aries Square Venus in Cancer

“Expansion of affective capacity through courage”

Moon Cardinal Fire – Venus Cardinal Water

Luna in Aries: “I need to express my personal power to feel emotionally safe.”

Venus in Cancer: “Affection is important to me since I am affectionate, protective, motherly.”

The Moon represents our emotional response to everything we experience, and Venus shows how we express our affectivity.

A person with Moon in Aries square Venus in Cancer will express their emotional needs in an assertive, spontaneous and / or martial way, especially when it comes to everything related to affectivity, caring for others and the desire to protect their own feelings . A person with this aspect can use aggressiveness when feeling hurt. Very explosive, the Moon in Aries will express what it feels without filters and will want to impose its will to get back their internal sense of security. Venus’s position will tell us what gives us pleasure, and when she is in Cancer, we will find pleasure in the intimacy of everyday life.

The artist’s only function is communication with others. Every creator who says otherwise is a hypocrite.
Jean-Michel Jarre

This phrase by Jean-Michel Jarre is a perfect example of a Moon in Aries Square Venus in Cancer. While he sincerely says what to him is an absolute truth, his phrase can only be applied to those artists who have a Venus in Cancer. His Moon in Aries is manifested when he imposes his truth on others and Venus in Cancer can be seen in his need for relationship and feedback. I took this phrase from the beginning of this interview. Even if you don’t understand French, you can hear his tone of voice (martial) when he describes the only function of an artist.

The Moon in Aries exemplifies the “I Am” as an emotional necessity. It is an instinctive moon that discovers its own emotions as it expresses them, not before that. When someone with the Moon in Aries has his Venus in Cancer, he will attract situations in which they will feel necessary to impose themselves. It is very possible that they attract people who seek intimacy since Venus in Cancer has a very rich affective predisposition. But, as they will first affirm their own needs, those who are attracted to them will soon feel emotionally disregarded.

With this square, our call is learning to express our personal needs taking in count the needs of others.

With Venus in Cancer, caring gives us great pleasure, but the Moon in Aries affirms their individual needs spontaneously and imperatively, and others will feel that we don’t consider their emotions (like Jarre when describing real artists), especially if we relate to individuals with a strong component of Water (Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces) in their natal charts, who will be strongly attracted to the warmth of Venus in Cancer.

When we learn to express our individual needs clearly and directly (Moon in Aries), in a delicately manner (Venus in Cancer), the effect of the square creates an expansion of relational consciousness, and instead of experiencing it as a conflicting aspect, we can live it as a creative opportunity. Keep in mind that the Moon in Aries reacts spontaneously, without agendas. The Moon in Aries does not know what her emotional needs are until she expresses them when she does not feel them supplied. This creates the need for emotional explosions in their relationships that, once they are appeased, allow them to understand themselves.

Finally, and it is very important to keep it in mind, is that the first thing that others perceive of us when we interact with them is our Venus. That is why a person with this aspect can attract people who are not necessarily compatible with their need to assert their will. If we have Venus in Cancer, we will project a very affectionate image, and that will attract people who seek warmth, care and intimacy. The Moon in Aries is going to take this as a validation of their attractiveness, and they will not understand that what is being asked is to include the others in their affective consciousness.

This aspect is only one within a natal chart where multiple aspects are found. When we read a natal chart, we realize that all aspects build the totality of our Self. If we interpret them separately, we might not have a global understanding of how and why these dynamic aspects are found in our astral chart. There are no negative aspects. All of them have a crucial importance to our growth as individuals. And the squares are responsible for opening new spaces of consciousness.

Celebrities with this aspect: Anderson Cooper, Jean Michel Jarre, Jerry Garcia, Alan Leo, Giancarlo Gianinni, Clemente VII.

August 28, 2019
Neptune and Pisces: the Integration of Yin and Yang of the Immaterial

Neptune has the ability to become One with the All that Is without ceasing to be Himself. Neptune, along with Jupiter, rules Pisces, the sign that culminates the zodiacal wheel. Pisces is the synthesis of the eleven previous signs, and its contribution to the evolutionary process is to harmonize what has been learned and express more complete emotional experiences, which contain the Whole.

Neptune

In Pisces, we see a very subtle perceptive capacity. Our sensitivity is so developed that for what for another person is normal, for us it can be extreme. The decisions are made according to what we feel. For example, we can leave a party without saying goodbye when we feel that our absence will not affect anyone. While for Pisces (and Neptune) this is an act motivated by love, others may perceive it as a lack of consideration for others. That is why those who do not understand energy exchanges can feel the Neptunians as little connected to “reality”. Many times I wonder if the “escapism tendency” attributed to Pisces and the Neptunians in general, has been defined by the other zodiacal signs. If there is something that Pisces must learn is to communicate his emotions clearly and concatenated, filling the gaps left by the shortcuts of his innate emotional skills. If they achieve this, the emotional refinement they possess can lead the Pisces individual to higher degrees of consciousness. The great mystics have very pronounced Neptunian qualities.

How to activate Neptune (the essence of Pisces) to increase our awareness

If we take into account the chemical composition of the elements, we can imagine that, for the air, music has a body. Many of us can feel deep sounds at the physical level (like shamanic drums or drum’n base). The shamans work with drums because the sound that the drum produces reverberates in our body – facilitated by the fact that our body contains 57-60% water.

Emotions navigate through our body constantly. The sound waves that have more density make us enter into a physical relationship with these emotions more easily than subtler ones. These sounds start moving emotions that have been forgotten into the unconscious as a result of social, cultural and family conditioning.

The energy of Neptune needs to pass through the body to fully manifest itself. And the body, being traversed by the waters of Neptune, can achieve mystical ecstasy and comunion with :Life.

To understand the energy of Neptune, listen to the singing of the whales. Listen to it until you can feel their voices and the water become ONE, and let it move through your body. That is the energy of Neptune … the integration of Yin and Yang of the Immaterial manifesting on Earth.

January 12, 2019

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