*Judgement* card from the Rider-Waite Tarot deck

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Deities associated with Pluto include Hades, Hel, Hermes, Mephistopheles, Mercury, Persephone, and Prosperina.

Symbols for Pluto include a scepter, keys, and throne. The Major Arcana Tarot card is Judgement.

Pluto is the God of the Underworld. He is associated with transformation, doorways, death, and rebirth.

pluto astrology — *Angel Bearing the Keys to the Mysteries Alchemy: The Great Secret*, Andrea Aromatico, “Abrams Discoveries” series. Harry N. Abrams, 1 May 2000

Pluto is connected to all things death—assassinations, autopsies, corpses, crucifixions, the morbid, mortality, and mummies—rebirth—metamorphosis, obituaries, purging, purification, reincarnation, rejuvenation, renewal, and transformation—and immortality—legacies and infamy.

Pluto is connected to the unknown including amnesia, enigmas, oblivion, puzzles, and the subconscious mind.

Pluto is associated with the antichrist and ungodliness—corruption, demons, evil, felonies, kidnapping, nefariousness, pirates, tyrants, vampires, vices, villains, and wickedness

Pluto also corresponds to:

Betrayal and contempt
Decadence and sensuality
Earthquakes, landslides, and volcanic eruptions
Epidemics and plagues
Espionage
Fermentation, fertilizers, and fumigation
Global wars and holocausts
Inoculation
Intra-atomic energies and laser beams
Lust, orgies, passion, and pornography
Monsters
Nihilism
Obscenities
Venom and poison
Waste and debris

Places associated with Pluto include those that are subterranean including catacombs, and the underworld, including the societal underbelly of brothels. It is also connected to septic systems, sewers, toilets, and cess pools.

It is connected to the astral plane, the inner planes, and the deep abyss from which in many myths all life originally sprung out of. Pluto is also associated with pyramids.

Pluto is connected to places of death—cemeteries, crematories, gallows, morgues, slaughter houses, and tombs—and the afterlife—hell and purgatory.

In nature Pluto is connected to chasms, geysers, marshes, ponds, quagmires, swamps, volcanoes and volcanic regions. Pluto also rules disasters and infernos.

Professionals associated with Pluto include:

Archeologists, those who dig underground
Atomic and nuclear scientists
Criminals on the other side of the law—bootleggers, prostitutes, and racketeers—and vice cops
Dealers with death—coroners, embalmers, life insurance salespeople, morticians, pallbearers.
Diviners, magicians, and sorcerers
Garbage collectors and tax collectors
Those who work with a pseudonym
Television engineers and technicians

The idea of germination is ruled by Pluto, and Flora corresponding to Pluto include gentian, peat, and poisonous plants.

Fauna of Pluto include poisonous animals, reptiles, ants, swamp birds, wading birds, birds that eat carrion, animals that feed on carrion, poisonous insects, mice, rats, reptiles, rodents, tapeworms, scorpions, serpents, and snakes.

Body parts associated with Pluto include the anus, genitals, lower part of the kidneys, and bladder.

To learn more about how your natal Pluto aspects affect your life path and your current transits, schedule a personal astrological consultation.

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Orphic Hymn to Pluto (Plouton)

Pluto, magnanimous, whose realms profound are fixed beneath the firm and solid ground. In the Tartarian plains remote from fight, and wrapt forever in the depths of night. Terrestrial Jove, thy sacred ear incline, and, pleased, accept thy mystic's hymn divine. Earth's keys to thee, illustrious king belong, its secret gates unlocking, deep and strong. It is thine, abundant annual fruits to bear, for needy mortals are thy constant care. To thee, great king, Avernus is assigned, the seat of Gods, and basis of mankind. Thy throne is fixed in Hade's dismal plains, distant, unknown to rest, where darkness reigns. Where, destitute of breath, pale spectres dwell, in endless, dire, inexorable hell. And in dread Acheron, whose depths obscure, earth's stable roots eternally secure. O mighty dæmon, whose decision dread, the future fate determines of the dead. With captive Proserpine [Kore], through grassy plains, drawn in a four-yoked car with loosened reins, Rapt over the deep, impelled by love, you flew until Eleusina's city rose to view. There, in a wondrous cave obscure and deep, the sacred maid secure from search you keep, The cave of Atthis, whose wide gates display an entrance to the kingdoms void of day. Of unapparent works, thou art alone the dispensator, visible and known. O power all-ruling, holy, honored light, thee sacred poets and their hymns delight: Propitious to thy mystic's works incline, rejoicing come, for holy rites are thine.

Orphic Hymn 28 to Prosperine (Persephone)

Daughter of Jove, almighty and divine, come, blessed queen, and to these rites incline: Only-begotten, Pluto's honored wife, O venerable Goddess, source of life: It is thine in earth's profundities to dwell, fast by the wide and dismal gates of hell: Jove's holy offspring, of a beauteous mien, fatal, with lovely locks, infernal queen: Source of the furies, whose blessed frame proceeds from Jove's ineffable and secret seeds: Mother of Bacchus, Sonorous, divine, and many-formed, the parent of the vine: The dancing Hours attend thee, essence bright, all-ruling virgin, bearing heavenly light: Illustrious, horned, of a bounteous mind, alone desired by those of mortal kind. O, vernal queen, whom grassy plains delight, sweet to the smell, and pleasing to the sight: Whose holy form in budding fruits we view, Earth’s vigorous offspring of a various hue: Espoused in Autumn: life and death alone to wretched mortals from thy power is known: For thine the task according to thy will, life to produce, and all that lives to kill. Hear, blessed Goddess, send a rich increase of various fruits from earth, with lovely Peace; Send Health with gentle hand, and crown my life with blest abundance, free from noisy strife. Last in extreme old age the prey of Death, dismiss we willing to the realms beneath. To thy fair palace, and the blissful plains where happy spirits dwell, and Pluto reigns.