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☽︎ □︎ ♇︎ Moon square Pluto

Ninety degrees of tension set tenderness and memory against depth and intensity; the square is the aspect that forces the issue.

The Moon governs emotion, habit, and the need to belong; Pluto governs power, depth, and rebirth. Read the aspect as the working relationship between them.

Here tenderness and memory and depth and intensity keep getting in each other's way. The tension is uncomfortable on purpose; it is there to force growth rather than to be resolved once and filed away.

At its best the friction produces a nourishing, honest emotional instinct tempered by the power to remake yourself from the root. Under strain it slides toward moods that rule the day colliding with a grip that cannot let go, the same energy turned against itself.

As a transit, the Moon moving to square Pluto marks a passing window, hours to days for the Moon, months or years for the slow outer bodies, when the theme is live and worth watching. In a birth chart the same aspect is a standing feature of character rather than a single moment.

Here the square joins Moon (instinct and feeling) with Pluto (power and transformation), held 90° apart.

Right now

Moon and Pluto currently stand about 141.1° apart, 51.1° away from an exact square. Watch it move on the live clock.

When: past and next exact squares

Computed from the ephemeris (UTC), not copied from a table.

More on this pair

• Pluto square Moon
• Moon conjunction Pluto
• Moon sextile Pluto
• Moon trine Pluto
• Moon opposition Pluto

Where these two stand today

• Moon in Gemini
• Pluto in Aquarius

Related squares

• Sun square Pluto
• Mercury square Pluto
• Venus square Pluto

In traditional astrology this is interpretation, not fate. More: about squares · all aspects.