Pluto in 4th House

Pluto in the 4th house affects the home, past, parents and childhood. The 4th house rules our origins and the way we relate to our family. With Pluto in the 4th house you may go through many experiences that affect your security. The fourth house rules the father and so he can go through a personal crisis, be affected by mental illness, depression. The father could be the power-head of the family financially, controlling the resources at home. There may be a feeling of early abandonment that has a negative impact and there will be deep resentment. Equally, he could be deeply passionate about life, emotionally intense and signify a parental figure who has survived trauma. Upheaval at home tends to dominate the psyche and the death of someone close may have affected the whole family profoundly. Pluto in the 4th house represents heavy emotional baggage, that must be healed and family history needs to be explored.

There may have even been something considered taboo about your roots and parentage. The family may have even been persecuted in the past. Perhaps there is an emotionally manipulative parent, who is intrusive and threatening, suffocating you at home. They may come across as demanding, jealous or over-protective. Whatever the situation they over-whelm you with intensity. A partner can be unconsciously chosen that ends up being just like your father. Smothering you at home and you cannot get any breathing space. However, you could be that person who is over -controlling and protective with the family. A parents paranoia, obsessive behaviour or depressive moods, permeate the environment. Some may have witnessed a form of abusive behaviour and power-struggles in the hom and a family secret kept for years can upset security once it surfaces. With Pluto in the 4th house, emotional attachments are powerful and there is tremendous difficulty letting go of the past. A parent may have had a profound affect on you growing up; even their absence leaves psychological wounds. With Pluto just when you feel safe, a crisis occurs that takes away inner security.

You may inherit a home from your parent and some people with Pluto in the 4th house tear down old homes and rebuild them. Perhaps the home has been damaged badly and it has to be rebuilt again. The situation forces you to tap into those inner resources in order to cope. Sometimes Pluto in 4th house can become over-possessive of their family. If they experienced a difficult upbringing and felt unsafe, they try to do everything in their power to protect their own family. Abandonment and abuse early in life make you super-sensitive to threats concerning family safety. Home life may be kept private and there is often a feeling that there is something dangerous and engulfing that could strike at any moment and take away personal security.

The lesson here is to transform your attitudes about home, and understand what frightens you psychologically or physically. Look deeply at outworn and useless survival mechanisms in the family. Analyze the compulsive need to feel in control and safe. Through early emotional experiences, you may have developed considerable insight into the emotional depths of life. Some Pluto in 4th house types cut off emotional feeling altogether and emotions are suppressed. Is there something in your past that you cannot forgive someone for doing? Maybe you cannot forgive yourself. You have deep inner resources of power and strength. The experience of revealing the past and letting go, can be emotionally cathartic and cleansing. Forgiving can also help.

Mark Wahlberg has both Uranus and Pluto in the 4th house, his parents divorced when he was young and he stayed with his mother. The star was involved in crime growing up, racialized attacks, and had a turbulent and criminal past. In 2003, he experienced emotional extremes in the family, his girlfriend Rhea was in hospital giving birth to their first child. Hours later, he received a call informing him that his sister Debbie, who had been admitted for what seemed to be a kidney stone, had died, of a heart attack. Pluto rules the cycle of life; birth, death and rebirth, and he experienced it in the family on the same day. Transiting Pluto (death, birth, trauma, major life changes) was opposite his Sun. Transiting Saturn in Cancer was conjunct the Asc and forming a difficult t-square to Chiron and his 4th house Uranus.

Juliette Binoche has Uranus conjunct Pluto on the fourth house cusp, her parents divorced when she was four and she was sent to boarding school. Juliette said she hated being away from home, although it taught her independence. Her grandparents were Polish and were imprisoned and persecuted in a concentration camp because they were intellectuals.