Spiritual Enlightenment is a State of Mind - Sometimes

"A person is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he himself is powerless to do anything" Ramakrishna

"She's got Betty Davis eyes." Kim Carnes

http://www.examiner.com/x-2773-SF-Spiritual-Examiner~y2009m9d12-Are-you-a-Pluto-person

When I was nineteen, I was lucky to be taken by a college roommate to an astrologer who knocked my socks off. I arrived at her home filled with confusion, insecurity, and self-doubt, and left with a map of potential. It was the first experience I'd ever had of being 'seen'.

To this day I feel gratitude to her and remember much of her description. I prayed to one day be even remotely as helpful to others.

I remember her saying this was a 'short-leash' incarnation. When she saw my chart had many aspects with very tight orbs, especially to Saturn and Pluto, she knew little wiggle-room was available.

"If you do good, you'll get good." she warned. "And if you do bad....I know it sounds simplistic, but that's how it is. Your horoscope has quick karmic turnaround. Some charts choose to delay the consequences of their actions for another lifetime, they're here for a rest. Your kickback is pretty immediate. We're all on different payment plans for our actions. Just don't forget you wanted it that way. You're dealing with it now. We pick it."

I was filled with relief. Until then I didn't know why such crazy things were always happening. Like the time I slightly dinged this polished black BMW in the middle of the night that was parked in front of my dorm. "Oh the owner is so loaded, I'm not going to worry about it, " my eighteen-year old self thought.

The next morning my window had been smashed and the stereo stolen.

That kind of stuff.

Pluto people tend to have that immediacy of karma.

So, how do you know if you're Plutonic?

Well, if you could relate to that story.

But also if you're Scorpio Sun, Moon and/or Ascendant since Pluto rules that. Or if you have Pluto making strong angles to any of those points and/or Venus, Mars, or Mercury. Or If you have a bunch of planets all located in the 'House of Scorpio," number eight. (And if you have any of these, yesterday's forward motion of Pluto affects you big time).

So you could be a Pisces or Gemini who behaves like a double Scorp simply because Pluto sits on your horizon or squares your sun.

Even if you don't know your chart fully, you're also likely to be this type if you've been asked your whole life, "Why are you so intense? Can't you chill? Can't you be normal?"

Luckily Plutonic sorts usually find each other in their semi-obsessive search for depth and transformation. (Good thing because other people can find them a bit...unnerving.)

You also may be Plutonic if you don't evoke neutrality. People will tend to either love you or hate you.

Or if you have X-ray eyes that look right to the bottom of anything.

Or if you're a sensation-freak of sorts. Being ruled by the planet of death and rebirth, the goddesses Kali and Durga, Pluto people are often seeking profundity and intensity spiritually, sexually, intellectually, creatively, or just in any blessed way possible.

They also may stir up a lot of 'trouble' without even trying, including evoking other people's psychological shadows. Deciding to hold your energy in a place of compassion no matter what the reaction is invaluable.

On the lowest level, Plutonic sorts can get embroiled in petty power struggles, manipulations and resentments galore. But when that is abandoned, other options bloom. At the highest level, this drive can focus on spiritual enlightenment, awakening to one's true nature, a burning away of identification with the small self. Pluto can create a drive for transcendence from the cage of ego. Even people who wouldn't call themselves conventionally 'spiritual' may feel this pull.

So can you relate?

Are you Plutonic?