☌ Conjunction
Moon conjunction Pluto
Feeling at full depth. Read as an all-or-nothing emotional life, as unusual perceptiveness about what people are hiding, and as attachment that becomes control if it is not watched.
- Angle
- 0°
- Orb used
- ±6°
- Type
- Fusion
- Bodies
- ☽ ♇
What these two are about together
Need and power. Emotional intensity at its most extreme, and the tradition's clearest statement about what people do when they are afraid of losing something.
What a conjunction does
A conjunction is the tightest relationship in a chart: two planets sitting at effectively the same point in the zodiac, rising, setting and moving together. The tradition does not read it as good or bad on its own. It reads it as fusion. Whatever the two planets each govern stops being two separate concerns and starts being one, and it is often the placement a person is least able to see in themselves, because there is no distance from which to look at it.
How it reads
Feeling at full depth. Read as an all-or-nothing emotional life, as unusual perceptiveness about what people are hiding, and as attachment that becomes control if it is not watched.
In practice
Strongest of the five, and the most dependent on which two bodies are involved. A conjunction of two comfortable planets is usually experienced as a natural talent; a conjunction of two difficult ones is usually experienced as a single unavoidable subject that keeps coming round.
What to watch for
The absence of separation. Whatever these two do, they do at once, which makes it hard to tell which of the two is driving.
The two planets
Moon: Need, instinct and what settles you
Pluto: Power, compulsion and what will not stay buried
Moon and Pluto at other angles
- Moon semi-sextile PlutoThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon semi-square PlutoForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Moon sextile PlutoSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon quintile PlutoSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Moon square PlutoNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Moon trine PlutoA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate PlutoA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon quincunx PlutoA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Moon opposition PlutoDirectly across the chart: two ends of one axis
Find this in your own chart
A reading like this only tells you what the pairing is associated with. Whether Moon and Pluto actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.