Astrology and astronomy: Pluto not a planet affect astrology?

Question

recently the International Astronamical Union declared that Pluto is not really a planet.
Do you think that this affects astrology? How and why?

Answer 1

Classical, traditional, and medieval Astrologers do not use the outer planets: Uranus, Neptune and Pluto in their delineations, modern Astrologers utilize them. The traditionalists still practicing today will continue to ignore the outer planets in their delineations, just as they have always done.

Whether or not Pluto is classified as planet or not is irrelevant to modern practitioners of Astrology. The qualities associated with Pluto: power, control, transformation and the destroying or reforming urge, are still applicable whether it is called a planet or an ice dwarf.

Astrologers know from studying charts for 76 years, since Pluto's discovery, that Scorpio is co-ruled by Mars and Pluto. That will not change.

Astrologers use other bodies (not just planets) in our calculations, such as asteroids. Ceres, an asteroid, one of the bodies they may call a planet, already is in use by modern Astrologers. Other asteroids currently being used are Juno, Pallas, and Vesta. Chiron, a centaur, is also extensively in use. Chiron is believed to be ruled by Virgo. Non-planetary bodies can be ruled or in dignity by one of the 12 zodiac signs. Another example of that is the lunar nodes. In Western Astrology, the North Node is Exalted in Gemini and the South Node is Exalted in Sagittarius. The North Node is in Fall in Sagittarius and the South Node is in Fall in Gemini.

It makes do difference as to what Pluto is categorized as, planet, ice dwarf, or whatever the astronomers come up with as a classification system, the characteristics associated with it still stand.

Answer 2

I truly think it loses power if you don't believe in it's power anymore. Pluto is in my fourth house in a stellium and I had a pretty hard childhood. The effects were felt a long time, but it seems that when Pluto was demoted those lingering effects left. I feel the astrological community should address it and reclassify how the energy is used or it loses it validity. If a planet was discovered it would be embraced, just as Pluto was embraced in the 30's, so why be inflexible by trying to keep it. I asked this question 3 hours ago.

Answer 3

Pluto, the last planet to join the heavenly pantheon, became the first to leave it. The status of Pluto had been under discussion for some time, but with the discovery of 2003 UB313, nicknamed Xena, the question became acute, for it seemingly had as much right as Pluto to be called a planet.

On August 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union surprised the world by voting in a new definition of planet, one that would exclude Pluto and bring the total number down to eight. (There had previously been been strong speculation that the redefinition would bring the total up to 12 instead of down.)

Pluto was instead classified as a dwarf planet, along with Ceres and the aforementioned Xena. The main difference between a dwarf planet and the real thing is that the dwarf variety has not cleared the area of its orbital path.

This redefinition met with a wave of protests from those who wanted to see the ninth planet grandfathered in, including but not limited to supporters of the late Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto in 1930. His widow, however, said he would have been accepting of the IAU's decision since "he was a scientist" and understood that astronomers had to take into account newly discovered objects in the Kuiper Belt (where Pluto is located).

But opponents of Pluto's demotion remain unconsoled and have generated a thriving industry in T-shirts, mugs and other memorabilia. Among the many slogans of this movement was one which played on the mnemonic for the names of the erstwhile nine:

Answer 4

I don't believe in astrology and even if I did it wouldn't matter. Pluto was only discovered in the last century and astrology has ben around for eons. What something is called affects nothing.

Answer 5

the pluto is not as planet or it is not evolved in astrology system it is also not acually a planet

Answer 6

no. plutos not a planet but its still there. ima scorpio so my planets pluto. im fine and so r the rest of us scorpios. ill just go steal another sign's planet :-)

Answer 7

this is irrelevant since science knows nothing about astrology.