Jupiter joined to Pluto gives ambition a particular depth and power: a desire for influence, a taste for high stakes.
Growing in depth: the person aims for large-scale transformation and gives themselves the means to achieve it.
A deep ambition, able to mobilize great resources to transform a situation.
Seeking power for its own sake, believing the end justifies the means.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
Jupiter meets Pluto again roughly every twelve to thirteen years.
These meetings took place in 1981–1982 in Libra, in December 1994 at the threshold of Sagittarius, in December 2007 at the end of that same sign, and then in 2020 in Capricorn, with three exact passes, in April, late June, and mid-November. Children born that year, the year of the pandemic, almost all carry it. It therefore describes first the climate of an era, often marked by economic or political upheaval, before it speaks of an individual.
When it falls on the Sun, the Moon, a fast planet, or the Ascendant, this conjunction would describe a deep ambition. The person wants influence, not out of vanity, but to transform what needs to be transformed. They can mobilize significant resources, persuade, and rally people around an ambitious project. They often have a flair for questions of money, power, and strategy. Their convictions are strong and they defend them with impressive tenacity, even when the wind turns.
The downside would be excess: seeking power for its own sake, believing the end justifies the means, wanting to convert others to their vision. They may also feel entrusted with a mission that wears them out. An ethical look at their ambitions, and a few kindly dissenters around them, help them keep a sense of measure. The house where the conjunction falls shows the area where this power asks to be exercised: money, knowledge, family, career.
They live love with intensity and total commitment, and look for a partner equal to their ambitions.
They may want to steer the other person, to help them transform, sometimes without being asked. Two children of 2020, once grown, will share this conjunction, which will not weigh on their couple. When it falls on the love planet or on the Moon of an older partner, however, it would describe a powerful, transformative bond, one to live without a power struggle.
Finance, strategy, politics, business management, research, crisis management: this conjunction would support careers that handle large resources and questions of power.
The person thinks big and goes to the bottom of things, where others settle for the surface. They may also get drawn into exhausting struggles for influence. A clear ethical framework, counterweights, and colleagues who dare to contradict them help them keep a sense of measure.
Nothing is trivial for them: large-scale projects, in-depth reading, conversations about the big questions of society.
They often manage their finances strategically and follow economic news closely. They may take on too many responsibilities, to the point of forgetting to rest. Setting aside moments with nothing at stake, a simple hobby, a walk, a board game, helps them release a tension they carry without always seeing it.
Spotted in 1930 by a young assistant at Lowell Observatory, Pluto is missing from the whole ancient tradition.
After the war, astrologers, who entrust Pluto with transformation and hidden power, saw in these meetings a combination of ambition and power, as favorable to great undertakings as to abuses. Mundane astrology sometimes links these meetings to major financial or political reorganizations, a connection Versana cites without vouching for its value. The 2020 cycle, which occurred during a global health crisis, revived these comments, though no study supports them.
The moderns read an ambition to transform, whose personal reach depends on the house occupied and the fast planets involved.
Tradition calls it variable: the two functions merge, and its color depends on the planets involved.
Social planet. Greater benefic.
The profile of JupiterCounted between 0° and 8° apart.
The conjunctionTranspersonal planet. Discovered in 1930 (Clyde Tombaugh); a dwarf planet for the IAU since 2006, kept by astrology.
The profile of PlutoIt joins expansion and transformation: deep ambition, a desire for influence, the ability to mobilize great resources. Almost all children born in 2020 carry it: its personal value depends on the planets it crosses. Its downside would be excess and the pursuit of power for its own sake.
In 2020, in Capricorn, with three exact passes in April, June, and November because of retrograde motion. The one before took place in December 2007, at the end of Sagittarius. The next meeting is expected around 2032–2033, when Pluto will have reached Aquarius.
It would describe a taste for influence and an ability to mobilize resources, but Versana announces neither success nor social position. The path depends on each person’s choices, ethics, and journey. Many live it in very discreet fields, such as research or counseling.