The Planet Pluto

Scientific Facts:
The ninth planet of the solar system in order of distance from the sun.  It is the smallest planet of the system.  It has the greatest inclination and eccentricity in orbit of all the planets.  It has one known satellite.
 

Rules:
Top of the head, isolation, the unexpected, hermits, detachment, the bizarre, darkness, the alien, masks, vampires, death, womb, shock, schizophrenia.
 

Quality:
While Mercury rules logic and expression, the effects of Pluto are diametrically opposite.  The planet of shock, Pluto rules the unexpected, the unpredictable, the illogical and the strange.  Pluto deviates greatly from the plane of the ecliptic, giving it a new angle on affairs of the world (solar system).  Mercury communicates but Pluto is the Lone Wolf.
 

Childhood Development:
This planet symbolizes the stage when a child is still in the womb.  Through in the world, he or she is not of the world.  There is a close identification with the Mother, who, for the fetus, is the world.  No separate identity has yet emerged.  The faculty that Pluto represents is detachment.
 

In People:
Plutonian people tend to be dark, detached and aloof.  Rarely are they noticed and sometimes they seem invisible.  Free from all bonds of society, they nevertheless have insight into the world of spirit.  They are unorthodox, yet at the same time they can conceal anything.  They may be recluses.  If Pluto is afflicted or in a bad place, the person does not feel at ease in society and may possibly suffer from dissociation and hallucinations.  This implies a loss of contact with their own body.