Astrology isn’t just about signs and symbols — it’s a tool for navigating real life.
Hello and welcome to Astrology with Alisa. I’m your host, Alisa Dixon, and I’m so glad you’re here. Let’s dive in.
Last week’s episode on Pluto, the planet of power, transformation, and rebirth, sparked curiosity in one of my listeners — and their question was so thoughtful, so beautifully timed, that it inspired me to continue the conversation on Pluto with a Part Two episode.
I’ll share this question and answer it a little later in the episode, but first, I want to tell you about what unfolded for me this week — because Pluto didn’t just stay in the sky. It showed up in my real life, and in my family, in the most full-circle way imaginable.
Right in the middle of that station, last week, I was traveling back home to Connecticut for my brother’s wedding. If you’ve ever been part of a wedding weekend, you know it’s not just one event — it’s a marathon of moments. The rehearsal, the dinner, the welcome party, then the big day itself: hair and makeup early in the morning, photos, ceremony, reception, after-party, and somehow lunch again the next day before flying home.
It was a joyful, yet emotional, chaos. But in between all that activity, there were these quieter, almost sacred Pluto moments — moments that felt like time folded in on itself. At one point, I was asked to deliver the bride’s gift to the groom, and I brought my mom with me.
For a few minutes, it was just the four of us again — my mom, my dad, my brother, and me — the original family lineup. We did a little toast together, and it hit me: that was a fourth-house moment, pure and simple. The foundation. The roots. It was as if we had slipped through time back to those early years, yet we were fully aware of how much has changed since, and so much of that change has been Pluto’s doing.
Later that evening, during the ceremony, I saw something in my brother that I don’t think I’ve ever seen. He’s all Earth energy — Capricorn Sun, Taurus Moon, Virgo Rising — steady, grounded, composed, no matter what’s happening. But as he watched his bride walk down the aisle, his voice caught. You could see him trying to hold it together, and for once, the emotion won.
That’s Pluto too — the moment when something real cracks the surface, when depth breaks through composure.
And the astrology of the week could not have been clearer. Mars in Scorpio was sitting right on my brother’s natal Pluto. Activation ignition — new beginnings on the day he got married. At the same time, the Sun was shining directly on my natal Pluto, illuminating what transformation has meant in my own life with this family of origin.
My father is in his Pluto opposition — Pluto in Aquarius now sits across from his natal Pluto in Leo, a once-in-a-lifetime turning point. And my mother — she was having her nodal return. The North Node in the sky just came back to her natal North Node in Pisces, a cycle that happens every 18 and a half years.
Pisces energy is all about faith, surrender, and trust, and that theme was written all over this weekend. After I got home, I went searching for something — the last picture I could remember of just the four of us, my parents, my brother, and me, raising a glass together. When I found it, I got chills. It was taken in October of 2007 — almost exactly 18 years ago.
My mom used to host annual Oktoberfest parties, and that photo captured us in a toast at one of them — a moment frozen in time. Eighteen years ago, she had to follow her North Node and have faith that her first child — me — was on the right path, even as I moved far from home to start a new life. And now, eighteen years later to the month, she’s being asked again to trust that same energy — to release her son into his new chapter.
For her, it’s the North Node. For the rest of us, it’s Pluto. But both are karmic. Both mark turning points. And the fact that I’ve been so deep in this astrology all week — mapping the patterns, tracing the timelines, seeing the echoes from 18 years ago — that’s Pluto too. The planet of obsession, pulling me into the details, going deeper until the meaning reveals itself.
It actually reminded me of another moment earlier this year — back under the Scorpio Full Moon in April — when my husband went searching through old archives to find my grandmother’s birth data for me. That was another Pluto story — digging through the past to uncover something long buried.
If you haven’t heard that one, I’ll link to the episode in the show notes, because that’s the energy of Pluto — Scorpio and the eighth house — the pull to go deeper, to uncover what’s hidden, and to find truth in the process.
And that brings me back to the listener question that inspired this entire episode. This listener wrote:
“My Pluto is at 15° Libra in my 3rd house, conjunct my North Node at 14°. Does this theme repeat every 15 years?”
I love this question because it’s such an intuitive way of noticing timing — and it sent me down my very own rabbit hole of finding patterns this week.
The short answer is no, not every 15 years — but the longer answer is yes, every 30 years it will repeat.
That’s usually when a natal planet makes itself known again in your life. We often meet the planet for the first time when we reach the age that matches its degree, and then again about 30 years later, when its story resurfaces in a new form.
So, for this listener with Pluto at 15° Libra in the third house — that means they probably met that energy for the first time around age 15. A profound or transformative experience connected to siblings, close friends, learning, or communication. That same theme will likely reappear around ages 45 and 75 — not as a repeat, but as the continuation of a lifelong storyline.
Because Pluto doesn’t loop — it spirals. Each spiral brings us back to familiar ground, but through a wiser version of ourselves.
And as I watched my own family evolve this week — the Sun shining on my Pluto, Mars on my brother’s Pluto, my dad’s Pluto opposition, my mom’s nodal return — I was reminded these cosmic cycles aren’t separate from our lives.
They are our lives.
And my “Mr. 23” origin story kept unfolding too, because I actually reached out to my college friend — the one who first read my palm all those years ago. I wanted her to know that what she told me came true, and how that moment had stayed with me all these years.
She replied almost immediately, telling me she’d just had to make a big life decision that required her to trust her heart completely — and that my message arrived at the perfect moment. She said hearing from me felt like a sign from the universe that she had done the right thing.
That’s Pluto, too — the invisible hand weaving our stories together, bridging decades, and bringing the right people back into our lives when the timing aligns.
We’ve stayed in touch this week and even plan to reconnect soon over Zoom. Of course, I’ve already pulled her chart — and you better believe I’ve been looking for all the synchronicities between us.
As I flew home, I kept thinking about all of it — how these cycles keep returning, not to test us, but to evolve us. My first Pluto chapter came when I was 23. My next one will likely arrive around 53 — which, looking ahead, is another nine years away. My daughter is nine years old now.
That would put her around 18, a time when many young adults often leave home to start their own lives. While I can’t predict precisely what will happen with this next Pluto story, it will likely be another family transformation. Because my natal Pluto sits in direct opposition to my IC — the foundation of my family — that’s Pluto. It doesn’t end the story.
It keeps rewriting it, layer by layer, until every chapter shows you who you’re becoming.
So wherever Pluto is in your chart — in your house of self, of love, of dreams — remember: transformation isn’t easy. It asks us to feel everything — the endings, the beginnings, and all the emotions in between. But it’s always an invitation to trust the process of becoming.
📍 Thank you so much to the listener whose question inspired this episode.
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