With this combination you can think of Mars as the football player and Pluto as a great wizard. Your tremendous sexual/emotional energy needs to be consciously directed and channeled toward meaningful goals. It would help to align your personal will and desires with a higher will or more universal purpose. Without such a commitment, you can wander from one experience or the fulfillment of one desire to the next, dissipating your energy and losing your sense of self. This aspect signifies a potential for tremendous evolutionary development, growth and creativity, through the transmutation of your lower nature into your higher. You have a great natural capacity for Kundalini yoga, for example.

You probably resent or want to change external restrictions or limitations in yourself or your personal reality. You may wish to control or manipulate others, be controlled or manipulated by them, or experience obsessive or hypnotic sexual attractions. You may have had a very difficult and painful experience in this or a previous life, such as rape, incest or violence. If so, one purpose of this trauma is to externalize and objectify aspects of your own desire nature that need to be examined and dealt with.

In general, you have the capacity for total self-transformation or self-destruction, and may alternate between these poles. You have a relentless drive to get at the heart of things, whatever is under the surface or behind the scenes. This pursuit of the hidden or the secret makes you a good researcher or investigator. Emotionally you are hot stuff, rushing into areas and handling subject matter that others would never come near. Vulnerable issues and sensitive areas of the psyche are the first places that you head, and can amount to an obsession with you. Others may find you too intense to be around, for you can put them through a lot of changes.

This Mars conjunct Pluto page and much of this 550-page resource website are excerpted from You and the Universe.