Using mythology, archetypal symbolism, and a wealth of case histories, this study provides new material and insight into the many facets of this major, transformative contact between the Moon and Pluto. Hall explains why PlutoMoon aspects are so important, and gives a description of the Hades Moon through the signs and houses. She shows us the symptoms and offers practical information about flower essences and techniques that can help people handle Hades Moon energy. A natural psychic, Judy Hall was trained in metaphysics and esoteric healing by the Western mystic Christine Hartley. Hall is a former counselor with the College of Psychic Studies in London, and has been running a psychic devlopment, karmic astrology, and past life exploration groups for more than 20 years. She is the author of many books including The Karmic Journey (Arkana), and her forthcoming title, The Hades Moon (Weiser, 1998). She lives in London, but travels extensively to teach workshops and see clients. The Hades Moon Pluto in Aspect to the Moon By Judy Hall Samuel Weiser, Inc. Copyright © 1998 Judy Hall All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-57863-039-4 Contents AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Dark MoonChapter 1. By The Light of the Slightly Tarnished MoonChapter 2. The Mythic MoonChapter 3. The Devouring MoonChapter 4. The Rejecting MoonChapter 5. The Raging MoonChapter 6. The Karmic MoonChapter 7. The Cathartic MoonChapter 8. The Sacred MoonChapter 9. The Renascent MoonChapter 10. AfterlightAppendix. The Pluto Moon DialogueEndnotesBibliographyIndex CHAPTER 1 By The Light of the Slightly Tranished Moon Pluto in any aspect to a personal planet means that there is an increase ofconsciousness due, a re-birth of sorts, with respect to that part of oneselfsymbolized by the other planet. — Stephen Arroyo An astrological chart is a map of the solar system seen from the perspective ofEarth. The luminaries appear to be rotating around the center of the chart, theunmarked and unnamed Earth and its Underworld; with enigmatic Pluto lurking inthe depths of space, inner and outer. The macrocosm is seen through a finelyfocused lens, the microcosm of the individual whose chart is being considered.So, the natal chart is a map of individual consciousness manifesting out of thesea of the collective unconscious which surrounds it, a consciousness coloredand shaped by the relationship of its disparate parts. THREE LUMINARIES AND THE EARTH From the Earth, the Sun and the Moon seem to be the same size. Both were asource of awe and numinous power for our ancestors, but the Moon was worshippedlong before the Sun. Linked to fertility and death, the Moon was primarily seenas "feminine" and most of the deities connected with it are female, althoughancient Egypt had its full complement of lunar gods—and solar goddesses. TheMoon is a cyclic deity. Like the tides, she ebbs and flows. She has her new,young face, and her ancient, timeless form. Time is different on the Moon. There the brightness of "day" and the darkness of"night" each last for fourteen days—half a Moon cycle. The Sun presents aubiquitously bright face to Earth, but the rhythmic Moon shows a face whichseemingly changes, waxing and waning mysteriously from dark to crescent to full,and then returning to the dark. This is because the Moon is actually presentingthe same face to Earth all the time and its light is reflected from the Sun. AsEarth from time to time intervenes between Moon and Sun, we see a changing face. These two luminaries and Earth have a special relationship to each other.Although the Moon is rotating around Earth, its gravitational center is the Sun;so Earth and Moon are "twin souls" orbiting around a mutual attraction—the Sun.Similarly, the planet Pluto and its Moon, Charon, are twin bodies circulatingaround the Sun. Charon, like Earth's Moon, does not orbit Pluto's gravitationalcenter directly. The two dance in a complex relationship around a mutual pointof gravity, far removed from the self-conscious Sun. Symbolically, Earth can be seen as representing physical incarnation andmaterial life. Its deeper, instinctual energies are an archaic, ingrained,collective level of earthy consciousness (the Plutonian Underworld); while theSun is the pull to Spirit and Self, a differentiation into individuality andseparate awareness. It is the life-giver, a source of power and indicator ofdestiny. The receptive Moon acts as a bridge and mediator between the two. Noone can look at the Sun directly without being blinded. So, the reflective Moonvitalizes and fertilizes Earth by stepping down the Sun's light. It thendestroys and annihilates consciousness by shutting off that bright light so thatthe forces of the instinctual Underworld can rise up for a time and engulf theEarth. This rhythmic cycle holds the balance for the polarities embodied in theapparent duality of earthly existence: sex and gender; light and dark, day andnight; god and goddess; life and