Pluto, Mars, and the evolutionary process

Evolutionary intention is a natural phenomenon that emanates from the Soul. For almost every one of us, the Soul is beyond our self-conception of "Me" as personality.

When we talk about Pluto/Soul, it's not about whether we decide its time or not time to develop our evolutionary intentions. When Pluto/Scorpio is active (through transit, progression, returns, whatever), this becomes self-evident - events occur over which we have no conscious control. It simply becomes impossible to continue living in the old way. We tend to experience this as life falling apart; as the rug being pulled from under us. The more we resist, the more difficult life becomes. Until, finally, (hopefully) we start accepting that we are simply being called into the new, the unknown. Then the inner pressure can start to defuse.

Pluto/Scorpio/8th house symbolize the forces in life that remove from life that which has become outmoded. As the outmoded disintegrates, it leaves behind space into which what is new progressively enters and starts growing.

Astrologically, the entry of the new is symbolized by Mars (the lower octave of Pluto), and the related archetypes of Aries/1st House/New Phase. These archetypes represent the continuous state of becoming that we all sense we are continually in.

Life is continually dying and rebirthing itself. Being alive, we are automatically a part of that process, regardless of personal preference or our opinion about it. The one thing that works in these new spaces is instinctual action in response to this unfolding inner sense of what is new being birthed within us.

The old life stops working because our sense of identity and awareness of how to walk through life is based on what has come before, and Pluto is effectively ending all of that. We are simply no longer the same person. We are being rebirthed, on a small or large scale.

In a birthchart, the location by house and sign of transiting Mars and Pluto indicates the areas in life where the evolutionary process is currently active in a person's life,
operating through the archetypes of the houses and signs and planetary archetypes of the natal planets they currently aspect.