Jupiter square Pluto: the wish to grow and the thirst for power push each other to the extreme.
Ambition meets power: the person learns to aim high without crushing anyone.
An intense ambition, able to carry out large-scale transformations.
Feeling at war, wanting to control everything, giving in to financial excess.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
Roughly three years after each conjunction, Jupiter and Pluto meet at a right angle, and again three years before the next meeting.
Between November 2016 and August 2017, Jupiter in Libra thus formed three exact squares with Pluto in Capricorn, and almost all children born in that interval carry it. This collective sharing means looking elsewhere for the personal color: in the sectors of the chart it occupies, and in the fast planets or angles it touches. On its own, it describes the intensity of an era.
When it is emphasized, this square would describe an intense, almost imperious ambition. The person wants to carry weight, to influence, to transform at depth. They sometimes clash with established powers, with institutions, with people defending their positions. These confrontations shape them: they learn strategy, tenacity, patience. They can accomplish considerable things when they channel this energy toward a just goal, and inspire others to follow.
The danger would be experiencing everything as a fight: wanting to control everything, wearing themselves out in endless rivalries, giving in to excess in money or ambition. Choosing their battles, keeping an ethical course, and remembering that the most lasting influence is often the most discreet, turn this tension into strength. With experience, this ambition often matures into a builder’s patience rather than a conqueror’s haste.
The relationship can be intense, marked by power issues and great expectations.
They look for a strong partner, and may fall into rivalry with them over important decisions. Children born in 2017 will often share this square, without their couples being characterized by it. In synastry, a Jupiter crossing at 90° the Pluto of a partner fifteen years older would suggest an intense bond in which each has to give up dominating.
This square feeds a precious ambition in finance, politics, management, and strategy.
The person aims high and does not flinch before obstacles; big challenges stimulate them. They may also collide head-on with established powers, or take excessive financial risks. Independent advice, clear limits set in advance, and partners able to say no protect their projects from excess.
Their days can be loaded with stakes: ambitious projects, passionate debates, decisions with heavy consequences for themselves or others.
They often carry a lot of responsibility, sometimes more than they admit. Moments with nothing at stake, a sport, a creative activity, an evening with friends where no one talks about work, help them release the pressure and regain perspective on their ambitions.
Absent from the ancient texts, this square was first described after World War II. It was then read as meaning excessive ambitions, conflicts with financial or religious authorities, and fortunes won and lost.
Versana keeps these judgments as documents, without drawing any forecast from them. Astrologers of current events readily see in it an echo of economic crises, and it was read as a will to power that needs to be put at the service of a cause.
The moderns see a powerful ambition that must learn ethics and measure, and that becomes personal only through the intimate planets it reaches.
Tradition calls it dynamic: the two functions are said to pull against each other and call for an adjustment, without foretelling anything.
Social planet. Greater benefic.
The profile of JupiterCounted between 83° and 97° apart.
The squareTranspersonal planet. Discovered in 1930 (Clyde Tombaugh); a dwarf planet for the IAU since 2006, kept by astrology.
The profile of PlutoExpansion and power confront each other here: intense ambition, a desire for influence, clashes with established powers, the ability to transform on a large scale. A whole year of births shares it; it becomes individual through its sector of the chart and the fast planets it reaches. Choosing your fights and keeping an ethical course temper its excess.
From November 2016 to August 2017, in three passes, between Jupiter in Libra and Pluto in Capricorn. The two planets cross at a right angle twice per cycle of about twelve years. Children born during that period almost all have it in their chart.
It is said to lend an intense ambition and a taste for influence. It describes no morality: each person chooses how to use this energy. Many put it to work for collective causes, transformation projects, and fights for justice, without seeking any position of power.