Pluto Is Going Retrograde—Here's What It Means for Your Sign

Pluto, one of the outer planets, rules over Scorpio, and represents power, rebirth, and transformation. Pluto impacts the stars dramatically and is considered to have an effect on things such as climate change, societal unrest, and governmental shifts.

From May 4 until October 13, Pluto goes into retrograde, which gives us some much-needed respite. This breather allows us to catch up emotionally, adjust to new normals, reflect, and figure out how we want to move forward.

Read below on how Pluto retrograde will effect each zodiac sign, and let the tarot cards guide you through it all.

During a Pluto retrograde, you can gather your intellect and insights and use your brave spirit to think of new ways to respond to the big issues we face. Activist? Inventor? Campaigner? Maybe all three. You are a natural leader and pioneer. Invest your energy into instigating positive progress.

Some of your closest relationships have received incoming criticism this year and you need to take stock, assess the extent and nature of the damage, then consider what repairs can be made. You take good care of your inner circle. This is a phase of healing and rebuilding those intimate, authentic bonds.

Geminis are experts at absorbing, processing, and disseminating complex news and turning it into something new and positive. This is your Pluto retrograde homework. Consider all you’ve learned about power this year and what lessons you could take on board in order to activate a new phase of change for yourself.

You’re ready for a reckoning, so you're looking in the mirror and noticing changes, both inside and out. These changes aren’t visible from one day to the next, but thinking back to a year ago, you appreciate the difference. So, who are you now? What does this 2.0 version of you think, feel, and want? Take time to get to know yourself again.

Things feel a little more settled, so you can stop fire-fighting and get back to your own agenda. Use this retrograde to reset your purpose, your mission, your goals, and ambitions. It helps you to have a focus. Don’t drift or be "done to" by others. Take time to set new goals that inspire you.

Being an adult is hard. Maybe you yearn for the era of childhood when other people took responsibility and knew what had to be done. Now you have to provide the answers rather than just asking the questions. Virgo, let yourself return to a more peaceful time in your self-care rituals. Think: nurture, rest, and play.

Reflecting on all of the changes in the world makes you think about what you want to bring to life and draw into reality. Is it family, wealth, art, service, or creativity? What do you want to create and give to the world? What will your legacy be? This is your retrograde thinking material, Libra.

Analysis is one of your hobbies, and the Pluto retrograde leaves you with a lot to think about. Start a solo project of meditation, research, and analysis on the topics that have fascinated you recently. Get mentally embroiled in things, which provoke you to decide how you can use them—or release them—positively.

You’re set on creating stability and security in your own home, career, finances, and family. That’s what matters to you after all you’ve seen and experienced this last year. You’re now being given the insight and motivation to make the plans that’ll help you achieve this goal in the coming months.

The Star has "dream come true" energy, inviting you to use the Pluto retrograde respite to make a wish and manifest it into your realm. You have until October to do it! What will it be? The Star always asks you to think big; the higher you aim, the better the outcome. Capricorn, you work so hard, so take a reward.

Pluto is moving into your sign, which makes you feel aligned with the big societal and technology advances coming. Be at the forefront of things! Live on the cutting edge of our world in the coming months, because you have the foresight and courage to explain things to others. This is your time to rise.

The best thing you can do for a future you right now, Pisces, is find a mentor or therapist to talk to, bounce ideas off, share fears and anxieties, and to get wisdom and guidance from. You are a deep and empathetic thinker and you absorb everything. You need to offload someplace safe and strong.

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