Pluto Retrograde 2025
Death, Rebirth & the Art of Burning It All Down (on Purpose)
Dates: May 2 – October 13, 2025
Signs: Mostly in Aquarius, retrograding back toward Capricorn but not quite touching it again
Theme: Power, control, death, transformation, and the beautiful chaos of becoming.
🪦 So, What Is Pluto Retrograde?
Pluto is the planet of the underworld. Not metaphorically. Literally. Pluto’s job is to drag your soul into the basement, rip off your mask, and whisper, “Is this who you really are?”
When it goes retrograde, that reckoning turns inward.
Think:
Inner power struggles
Shame spirals
Obsessions and compulsions rising to the surface
Control issues, old trauma, subconscious sabotage patterns all screaming for a séance
Pluto doesn’t ask you to heal.
It forces you to look at what you’d rather bury. 🔥
🧠 Pluto Retrograde in Aquarius: The Collective Gets a Wake-Up Call
Aquarius is the sign of the future, innovation, rebellion, and community. So what happens when Pluto—planet of destruction and regeneration—starts moonwalking through this air sign?
You get:
Reckonings around power in systems (government, tech, AI, social movements)
Exposing fake allyship or shallow activism
Questioning whether your rebellion is authentic or performative
Shifting your role in community and society
It’s not enough to say, “I want change.” Pluto asks, “Are you willing to become someone new to make it happen?”
🔪 Personal Themes That Might Creep Up (aka, Pluto’s To-Do List)
Power dynamics in relationships: Who has the upper hand? Who’s manipulating who?
Addictions, compulsions, and control issues: Hello, shadow.
Ancestral trauma and inherited patterns: Time to break some generational chains.
Ego death and identity collapse: Welcome to your villain era, but make it soul-aligned.
🧹 How to Work With Pluto Retrograde (Without Losing Your Damn Mind)
1. Shadow Work Like It’s Your Job
Dig up those buried stories: childhood wounds, toxic relationship patterns, unhealthy obsessions. Pluto rewards the brave and honest.
Journal Prompt: What am I trying to control, and what would happen if I let it die?
2. Purge What No Longer Has Power
Clean out your closet, your altar, your digital footprint, your contacts. Delete the ex. Burn the love letters. Archive the past so your future has space to land.
3. Own Your Obsessions
If something keeps pulling at you (a fear, a desire, a fixation)—follow it into the dark and ask it what it wants. You can’t kill it until you understand it.
4. Do the Ancestral Work
You might be feeling your lineage tapping on your shoulder. Light a candle. Write the letter. Break the cycle. You are the end of the line—and the beginning of a new one.
🚫 What to Avoid
✋ Avoid surface-level solutions. This is deep surgery. Don’t slap a Band-Aid on it and call it healed.
🕳️ Avoid ghosting your emotions. Pluto will haunt your ass until you sit down and feel them.
🧛♀️ Avoid trying to control others. This energy is about self mastery, not domination.
🧙♀️ Witchy Tools to Ride the Death Wave
Black candles for banishment & transformation
Obsidian or onyx to hold the darkness without fear
Wormwood, mugwort, or skullcap in teas or incense
Graveyard dirt (ethically sourced!) for ritual release
Sigil work around death, power, transformation
Underworld altar—yes, set one up. Light a candle and invite the truth.
Final Brutal Truth: This Ain’t Cute, But It’s Liberating
Pluto retrograde is the long exhale after the collapse—the space before the rebirth. You are not being punished. You’re being stripped clean. And yeah, it’s intense. But what emerges afterward?
Unstoppable. Unf*ckwithable. Unapologetically you.
So burn the old story. Call your power back. Say goodbye to who you had to be—and step into who you were born to become.
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