The fifth house shows our needs in love and where we release fourth house energies and emotions. The more emotional we are, the greater the need for constructive channels of expression. All forms of self-expression, anything we create or do purely for its own sake, children of the mind and the body, love affairs (insofar as they represent fun and self-expression) or their lack, theater, dramatics, hobbies, speculation, play and amusement, are all indicated by this house. The more planets we have in the fifth, the more abundant the energy we have to release, with perhaps some disinterest in receiving the same from others. This is also the house of hidden karma resulting from the misuse of the will or love principle in past lives.

Astronomically speaking, the fifth house is that one-twelfth sector of the local sky midway between the western horizon and the nadir (see above picture) occupied by planets two to four hours after they set.

With Pluto in the fifth house you've felt a special purpose or destiny to fulfill since you were very young: to make your creative, individual mark upon the world. As a child you had a great need to be seen and recognized as special and unique, and could go to any length to get love and attention, even negative attention. You may have unconsciously manipulated situations to get this required recognition and attention, and this pattern can follow you into adulthood. You have an intense inner focus to shape your destiny by the strength of your own will. This could lead you to think you're a god who can create and destroy reality at will, or the inspired artist who identifies with and is a channel for the universal forces of creative energy. Your children may also be strong willed and self-centered, and the resultant conflict of wills between you can be very instructive in mirroring you to yourself.

This Pluto in the fifth house page and the entire website are excerpted from You and the Universe, a handmade, individualized fine art book on astrology, mythology and astronomy through which the recipient's complete astrological reading is woven.