Hades Moon: Part 1, Pluto, Pluto Moon aspect

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When I read Judy Hall's book Hades Moon I felt empowered and validated. I continue to lend my copy out to grateful Pluto / Moon friends who then keep it, and I am back to being without a copy. She defines this Moon as being in aspect to Pluto and gives generous orbs. I include a Scorpio Moon and Moon in the 8th house. Even with an 8 degree out of sign conjunction of my Moon to Pluto, this aspect has been huge in my life. This series of blogs is dedicated to all men and women with the courage to allow their feminine aspect to visit, embrace and transmute the dark shadows of The Underworld into Truth and Love.

For years I have been steeped in the metaphysical and spiritual study of the importance of the feminine connecting with the dark shadow, particularly during this transition time. And so I was struck by the significance of Eris and Ceres joining Pluto as dwarf planets. Eris is new for me, but I have identified with and used Ceres in my readings for over a decade. All three dwarf planets are intense. Eris is the Greek Goddess of strife, war, discord and suggesting creation through chaos. Pluto is the release or letting go of anything preventing the process of death and rebirth. Ceres experiences a quintessential Hades Moon experience when she must release her child into the hands of her nemesis Pluto for 6 months of the year into the underworld. There is no option for revenge, and her rage turns to deep grief when the lands she governs “die” in the winter season of Persephone’s absence. There is nothing she can do. The abduction is not negotiable.

Kelly Lee Phipps points out in a recent article “Ceres and the Urge to Belong” that wherever Ceres lands in your chart is the theme of surrendering to the loss and return. Eris asks us to be with the chaos. Pluto asks us to dive into the fire, enter Hades, and not shy from dark nights of the soul. It is all about transmutation at the highest level.