Pluto in the 10th house
The 10th house: Career, reputation, public standing and direction.
In the tenth house, Pluto brings intensity to career, reputation and public role. You may feel driven to achieve something significant, and you might be drawn to positions of influence or to work that involves transformation, investigation or crisis. Your relationship with authority figures can be powerful and complicated, and you may find yourself either challenging power or quietly accumulating it, and sometimes both at once.
The gift is strategic ambition and the capacity to rebuild your path after setbacks. The difficulty is a hunger for control or recognition, or power struggles with those above you. Your public life may go through deep changes over time. Using influence in the service of something larger than yourself, and being honest about your motives, helps your ambition become a force for good rather than a burden.
The basics
Pluto (power, depth, transformation): Intensity, power and what is hidden; endings that make way for renewal. Discovered 1930.
Pluto in the other houses
Other planets in the 10th house
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Calculate a birth chartOriginal interpretation written for Scryway from common modern Western astrology. A description of tendencies for reflection, not a prediction.