Pluto in Libra in the 1st House

Pluto in Libra is learning how to balance relationships and how to relate equally. It takes Pluto 248 years to complete a full cycle, so a large part of the population will have Pluto in the same sign. A whole generation of people will have Pluto in Libra between 1971-1984. The metamorphosing (Pluto) of relationships (Libra) is felt individually through each of the twelve houses. Pluto is the evolutionary cycle of birth, death and rebirth, it eliminates waste and transforms old energy into new forms. One of the most powerful lessons Pluto will teach us is: how to survive. Wherever Pluto is placed in the natal chart is where we may face Plutonian crisis such as abandonment, trauma, death and power-struggles.

Pluto in the first house of the natal chart symbolizes a powerful need for independence and self-discovery. However, Libra is this opposite of "self" actualization and the Libra generation are compulsive and obsessed with fair-trade, equilibrium and balance. "Am I getting a fair deal" is how we often sum up Libra but we also need to question whether we are being "fair". Pluto exposes superficiality and power-plays in partnerships. For Pluto in Libra in the first house this may produce an identity crisis and your identity is "compromised".

Distorted power plays in relationships (Libra) means that you need to re-balance the situation. Pluto is an all or nothing planet, and you can feel passionately engaged in a relationship, and equally you can feel nothing. If others attempt to control, manipulate and control your self-image, all hell breaks loose eventually. If self-growth is limited within relationships, fate will tear down all barriers. Pluto rising people are deeply private and even if they present an open and friendly manner, they control what they choose to reveal about themselves.

Pluto rules deep change and transformation, and re-building a new self-image, rising from the ashes of the old and taking a new form. This can be distressing and traumatic if you are pretty fixed on your old self-image. If there is something in the way you relate to others that is less than self-honest, Pluto exposes false facades, and roots out the real-self that hides behind the mask.Tiger Woods has Pluto in Libra in the1st house. Woods built a fortune around his powerful identity he had a public front of a golfing superstar and family man. It was revealed that he had been having numerous affairs with other women. And all the secrets that he had kept are now out in the open. The 'front' that he presented was for the survival of his marriage and his relationship with the public. Pluto works like a volcano and stores anger, secrets, resentment, until it eventually erupts and releases all that hot and fiery energy that has been laying dormant inside.

Pluto rising often have a series of incarnations. Their lives fall into distinct chapters, each of which has a recognisable beginning and ending. They are one way for a few years, doing a particular profession, wearing a particular kind of clothing, exhibiting a particular kind of personality, espousing a particular set of values. Then something happens - not always visible - and they become somebody completely different. They build a new personality out of the ashes of the old. The former life is gone forever, and something new starts which may go on for five or ten or twenty years. And the same thing happens again. By Liz Greene

Britney Spears is another powerful example of Pluto in Libra in the 1st house. In one whole sweep, she shaved off her hair in a bid for self-control. When she first emerged on the pop-scene she was tightly managed as a powerful money making commodity. Pluto in the 1st house will not be coerced by others and told how they should dress or behave. Self-transformation involved a complete overhaul of her appearance, but a whole transformation needs to occur inside and out for it to be complete.

"Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you." - Les Brown

Control, manipulation or abuse in close relationships may occur depending on aspects. Again, a balance needs to be reached and Pluto in the 1st house can be magnetically attractive and there is something deep and profound about the way they approach life. Pluto has a powerful persona and will sometimes need to withdraw from social contact. However, they are obsessively and secretly plotting developing to come back with self-empowered.