The following article is a transcription of Sonia di Astriepsiche's speech on the occasion of the 2019 Conference of the Astrologers Association of Great Britain.

When I read this year’s conference title  “From lead to gold”,  I thought it was  a perfect match with the principle that we can turn any shadow or challenge described by our natal chart into a personal asset.

Thinking about astrological challenges, what immediately comes to my mind is the relation between Pluto/Scorpio and the Moon in a chart: two archetypes that are very far one from another and not easy to integrate. The first relates to emotional nourishment, mothering, embracing and emotional needs in general, while the second one is so dark and tense and obsessive. Both of them are emotional, that’s right,  but in a very different way. The relationship between these two archetypes is never easy both in case of a Scorpio Moon or if we consider aspects between the Moon and Pluto. Clearly, having harmonic aspects between the two planets is less challenging than other configurations, but still hard to manage.

So what could be the gold we can extract from the potential lead of a Scorpio Moon or the Moon-Pluto aspects?

Well, Pluto/Scorpio is about digging in the depth obscure areas of life, it’s about power, it’s about manipulation, mysteries and hidden facts, but its potential is to bring to light what is hidden in the darkness of the underground. Pluto hides but also reveals the truth: the bad part of it is that, in doing so, it usually requires a painful transformation process.

In delineating the results of my research, I will show how Scorpio Moon or Moon-Pluto is a common element in charts of people who felt a profound emotional need (Moon) to go deep into mysterious situations involving the dark side of power (Pluto/Scorpio) and bring truth to the surface, so that everybody could see it.  Many of them, had to face harsh plutonian consequences  following their decisions: since Pluto is never mild, we will see that in many cases, satisfying this need, came at a high cost.

JULIAN  ASSANGE

Recently, Julian Assange was arrested after escaping abroad. The Australian IT expert released more than 251.000 confidential US diplomatic reports on November 2010 and he is now one of the most wanted men by the US Government. He is also the co-founder of “Wikileaks”: the renown website whose mission is publishing secret documents: state documents, industrial secrets, military and financial reports. The idea of taking care of people (Moon) revealing information related to some sort of power (Pluto) is quite evident here.

If we look at his chart (click here) we notice a Scorpio Moon but also other plutonic elements:

1. Pluto sextile Mercury.
2. Both Mercury and the Sun are in the 8^th house, the house of Scorpio
3. Pluto (together with Uranus) is in the 11^th house of social ideals

The idealism that stands behind his acts (showing that the trigger of his actions was a genuine feeling) is stressed by the following elements:

1. Social houses are very rich: an important 12^th house which houses the Moon, Jupiter and Neptune in tight conjunction, plus the important 11^th house we have already discussed
2. Mars is in Aquarius and square Neptune and Jupiter in the 12^th house

Please also note that there are no planets in earth signs: this feature will become important at a later stage.

 

Interesting enough, when Wikileaks was funded (October 4^th, 2006 at 5.54 a.m. in  San Mateo  - California)  - (click here to see the chart) :

• the Moon and Uranus were on the MC and the Moon was in sextile with Pluto.
• Pluto was angular
• Mercury was in Scorpio and in trine with Uranus

Please also note that there are no planets in earth signs in this chart.

A coincidence? Maybe, but let’s have a look at another person who faced a similar experience including revelations, mysteries and escaping abroad.

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