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Pluto in Fourth House Natal Meaning in Astrology

Posted on September 4, 2020September 4, 2020 by stargazer

If you have your natal Pluto in the fourth house, you have come to the right place. This article is all about this placement of Pluto in the natal chart.

Pluto in fourth house people often come from a troubled family. This placement can suggest even abuse or violence at home. Pluto is rarely an easy planet in the natal chart, and your childhood circumstances weren’t the best with this placement.

Often, this pattern repeats itself in the home and family you create as an adult. Power struggles are frequent with this placement, especially with one of your parents. These fights leave a deep wound in your soul, and the range often gets buried in your subconscious. However, it doesn’t disappear: it stays there, subtly controlling your life from the background.

Many Pluto in fourth house people have some karmic heritage to work through. With this placement in the natal chart, deep transformation is needed before you can create a loving and supportive family atmosphere.

This placement is somewhat similar to having Scorpio on the cusp of the fourth house, but more intense.

Keep reading to learn more about the meaning of a natal Pluto in fourth house in astrology!

Natal Pluto in Fourth House Meaning

What happens when Pluto is located in the fourth house in your natal chart?

Here, the primary area where the intense and deep energy of Pluto manifests is your home life.

The aspects of Pluto are very important, hard aspect suggest a more dangerous expression than a well-aspected Pluto. It is essential to treat the natal chart as a complex entity where all aspects and placements should be analyzed in context.

Pluto in the fourth house is not an easy placement. The fourth house is supposed to be the place of safety and support for a child, but with intense Pluto here, this was not the case.

Pluto in fourth house people often experience power struggles in their family.

You come from an unusual family. This placement suggests that you perceived the parent represented by the fourth house as dictatorial, controlling, even manipulative.

With hard aspects, Pluto in the fourth house can suggest domestic violence or abuse. Pluto can manifest in brutal ways. Hard aspects here often suggest a troubled parent. Opinions are mixed on which house represents which parent in the natal chart. Some astrologers connect the fourth house with the mother.

Pluto in fourth house indicates a domineering mother. Power struggles and controlling are constant in your relationship. Subtle manipulation is also possible with a natal Pluto in fourth house, it is not always brutal violence. ‘In extreme cases, your parent might be narcissistic. Often, the parent’s urge to control you doesn’t stop even after you move out and grow up.

This placement can also manifest as your parent going through depression when you were little, which is hard for a child. You experienced rejection in your family. Pluto in fourth house people rarely got the emotional support a child needs. They had to learn to be emotionally self-reliant early on in life.

Pluto in Fourth House

This placement suggests emotional baggage. Pluto in fourth house people often have something buried in their memory that bothers them. They are often unaware of it on a conscious level, but still, it is there, repressed, stopping them from being emotionally fulfilled, primarily in the life area of home life. Getting rid of this is a prerequisite for living a happy family life.

Moon-Pluto aspects and the Moon in Scorpio have similar characteristics as a natal Pluto in the fourth house.

Pluto in Fourth House and Your Home as an Adult

Until you resolve your painful relationship with your family, you are not truly free. Pluto in fourth house people can potentially become domineering and controlling themselves as adults. Of course, easy aspects to Pluto indicate an easier expression of this planet in your life. Some people choose to face their problems and become more evolved in the process, protecting others from going through what they experienced.

However, hard aspects can indicate a bully. People with this placement can become abusive themselves, too, if they don’t take care and do the work on themselves. Pluto hidden in the privacy of the fourth house makes this side of the person invisible to the world. Only your family members and closest friends know what is going on behind the scenes.

Domestic violence can be present in your own home as an adult. If you are not abusive yourself, it can happen that you start a family with a person who is, or there is some other person living with you who is manipulative and controlling, or even violent.

In the birth chart, the house of Pluto shows where you seek power, where you want authority. A natal Pluto in the fourth house indicates that the scene for power struggles is your home.

Pluto in the fourth house can manifest as a deep urge to transform your house. Many people with this placement enjoy renovating their home and interior design.

Pluto in Fourth House and Your Roots

Pluto in fourth house can indicate problems with your sense of belonging. Many people with this placement feel isolated from their family or people around them.

People with this placement often don’t like their heritage. Sometimes you dislike your genetic heritage, while in other cases, there is some secret in the family that makes you feel isolated from them.

Pluto in fourth house people often have a hard time accepting themselves. Pluto here can indicate a deep need for psychotherapy or a relationship where you can learn to be safe and nourished. The aspects of Pluto are important, with harmonious aspects this work is easier.

The fourth house shows your home in a wider context, too, such as your homeland. This placement suggests that you can be overly patriotic, to the level of fanaticism. Pluto in fourth house people often become religious when older.

Besides your childhood home, the fourth house also describes your last years. Pluto in the fourth house can suggest an old age spent alone. You often isolate yourself when older, or your family members can leave you.

Pluto in Astrology

Pluto is the last planet astrology. It is located so far away from the Sun that it takes 248 years for Pluto to make a full circle around the Sun!

Because of this, Pluto counts as a generational planet in astrology. It spends several years (decades) in each zodiac sign, what means that large groups of people share the same Pluto sign in their natal charts. By signs, Pluto has an influence over whole generations and changes in society. On a personal level, Pluto’s position by houses is more important.

In the natal chart, the house of Pluto shows where you undergo deep transformation. This is more often than not a painful process, but it can lead to finding your personal power and great wisdom.

Pluto is the ruling planet of Scorpio, previously ruled by the planet Mars (traditional astrologers still use Mars as the ruler of Scorpio). Pluto and Scorpio are connected with the eighth house in the natal chart.

Here is a list of some of the things Pluto represents in astrology:

  • death, birth, rebirth
  • transformation
  • psychology
  • secrets
  • things hidden under the surface
  • sex
  • investigation
  • the underworld
  • crime
  • intensity
  • power

If you want to understand Pluto better, check out this article about the meaning of Pluto in astrology!

The Fourth House in the Natal Chart

The fourth house is an angular house in the birth chart, its cusp being the IC or Imum coeli, Latin for bottom of the sky. This house is the lowest point of the natal chart.

The fourth house represents your home and family. It describes your private life that is not visible to the world (it is the opposite of the tenth house of professional life and public reputation).

In astrology, the fourth house is traditionally connected with the zodiac sign Cancer and the Moon. This sign and its ruler, the Moon have a lot in common with the symbolic of the fourth house in astrology. As a water house, the fourth house has some karmic associations, similarly to the eighth and twelfth house.

Some of the most important life areas of the fourth house include:

  • family (both the family you come from and the family that comes from you)
  • home
  • land, real estate, the house where you live
  • one of your parents
  • ancestry
  • your roots
  • old age, your last years

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