Pluto retrograde 2025 begins on May 4 at 3° Aquarius and ends on October 13 at 1° Aquarius.

See Natal Pluto Retrograde for information about Pluto retrograde in your birth chart.

Pluto Retrograde 2025

Pluto stations retrograde on May 4 at 03°49 Aquarius. Venus sextile Pluto and Lilith square Pluto are the most significant Pluto aspects. However, Mars opposite Pluto may still have some effect and amplify the darker desires exposed by Lilith.

Venus sextile Pluto makes you more passionate about love and the things that you love. You may become more deeply involved with, concerned about, and attached to a person, possession, or anything else you value. Obsessions, infatuations, and compulsions are possible as you become more determined to experience companionship, affection, love, or sex more intensely and profoundly.

An existing relationship can evolve to a more profound or spiritual level. You would be more “into” sex than usual and may experiment with taboo areas of sexuality. If single, a new romance now would be intense and significantly change your life. You may seek more privacy now. Affairs may start, secrets may be kept, or uncovered. Your creative talents can be expressed dynamically.

Lilith square Pluto on April 30 stays within a one-degree orb from April 20 to May 9. It exposes the darker or taboo desires you have hidden to avoid criticism and rejection. This especially applies to intimate relationships and may involve exploring your sexuality, nudism, bondage, submission, domination, multiple partners, triangular relationships, pornography, and prostitution.

Power and control are significant themes. Lilith sought equality but not control, and rebelled against subservience. Pluto in the form of governments, dictators, corporations, or controlling partners may attempt to bully, suppress, dominate, disempower, alienate, persecute, abuse, imprison, or banish strong independent women, non-conformists, LGBTQ+, protestors, or immigrants.

The Flying Eagle

While the Venus and Lilith aspects are significant, the primary astrological influence on Pluto retrograde 2025 is the influence of an intense fixed star at 02°08′ Aquarius. Pluto is under the influence of the fixed star Altair for the entire retrograde phase.

• 01♒22 – Pluto Direct
• 02♒08 – α Aquila, Altair
• 03♒49 – Pluto Retrograde

Fixed star Altair in the neck of the Eagle confers a bold, confident, valiant, unyielding, ambitious, and liberal nature, great and sudden but ephemeral wealth, and a position of command, makes its natives guilty of bloodshed, and gives danger from reptiles. ^[1]

Altair is good for lawyers and military personnel. ^[2] Negatively, a mischief maker, disgrace, misfortune, and possible ruin. ^[3]

Constellation Aquila gives great imagination, strong passions, indomitable will, a dominating character, influence over others, clairvoyance, a keen penetrating mind, and ability for chemical research. ^[1]

In mundane astrology, Aquila rules the U.S.A., space exploration, bombs, missiles and drones. Pluto conjunct Altair in 2024 saw the continuation of the most extensive bombing campaign since the Vietnam War, with the destruction of Gaza. Iran launched the largest-ever drone attack on Israel, Pluto conjunct Altair (0°05′).

Pluto remains within two degrees of Altair from November 6, 2024, to February 14, 2026. There are three exact conjunctions:

1. February 3, 2025
2. August 13, 2025
3. December 10, 2025

On February 4, 2025, Donald Trump announced the US would take control of the Gaza Strip in an agreement with Israel, and that the U.S. military would be in charge of Gaza’s reconstruction. ^[4]

Pluto Direct 2025

Pluto stations direct on October 13 at 01°22 Aquarius. The chart below shows the stunning Magic Triangle between Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, which lasts from 2025 to 2028. This is the most positive, significant, and consequential planetary alignment in our lifetimes and this century.

With the focus on Pluto, a spiritual evolution or revolution could bring charismatic leaders and agents of change and new, unorthodox or strange ideologies, philosophies, or churches with a great diversity of belief and practice. However, there is still negativity in this world, and new extreme or dangerous ideologies, cults, and messiahs could emerge.

Many secrets will be revealed, and light will be shed upon hidden, sinister, subversive, and criminal groups and global organizations. This has already begun, from exposed celebrity pedophile rings and secret tunnels to unsealed UFO files.

Pluto Retrograde Dates

• 2024, May 2 to October 11 – 02°06′ Aquarius to 29°38′ Capricorn.
• 2025, May 4 to October 13 – 03°49′ to 01°22′ Aquarius.
• 2026, May 7 to October 15 – 05°30′ to 03°04′ Aquarius.

References

1. Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology, Vivian E. Robson, 1923, p.29, 135.
2. Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation, Elsbeth Ebertin, 1971, p.73.
3. The Power of the Fixed Stars, Joseph E. Rigor, 1979, p.196.
4. In shock announcement, Trump says U.S. wants to take over Gaza Strip, February 5, 2025, reuters.com.