Transit · Pluto in Cancer
Pluto in Cancer: 1939
Pluto transits by transforming: it strips you bare, destroys what’s dead, concentrates a power you didn’t know you had. Nothing stays the same. In Cancer (Water, Cardinal), this passage takes on the colour of protection, sensitivity and memory. Pluto stays 12 to 30 years in a sign: here are the exact dates, what this transit changes for everyone, and what it asks of each sign.
The dates of Pluto in Cancer
Entries and exits computed to the minute (Times in UTC.). The back-and-forth comes from retrogrades: Pluto enters, backs out, then returns for good.
| Entry | Exit | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, September 10, 1912 | Sunday, October 20, 1912 | 40 days | past |
| Wednesday, July 9, 1913 | Sunday, December 28, 1913 | 6 months | past |
| Tuesday, May 26, 1914 | Thursday, October 7, 1937 | 23.4 years | past |
| Thursday, November 25, 1937 | Wednesday, August 3, 1938 | 8 months | past |
| Tuesday, February 7, 1939 | Wednesday, June 14, 1939 | 4 months | past |
What Pluto in Cancer changes for everyone
Pluto transits by transforming: it strips you bare, destroys what’s dead, concentrates a power you didn’t know you had. Nothing stays the same. What this transit asks: looking at what you avoid, letting go of control to take your power back.
The risk: obsession, power struggles, exhaustion from resisting. The gift: a rebirth, personal power fully owned, a truth set free.
Pluto takes two hundred forty-eight years to circle the zodiac: each aspect is unique in a lifetime, and the square around ages 35 to 40 is the one almost everyone goes through.
And for you, sign by sign
Pluto in Cancer crosses a different house depending on your Sun sign (or your rising sign, if you know it: that is even more precise). Find yours.
For Aries: solar house 4
Pluto in the 4th house: roots laid bare, a family in crisis or rebirth, a home torn down and rebuilt.
Read Pluto transiting house 4 →For Taurus: solar house 3
Pluto in the 3rd house: speech that becomes influential, obsessive thinking, family secrets that resurface.
Read Pluto transiting house 3 →For Gemini: solar house 2
Pluto in the 2nd house: finances transformed from the ground up, loss then rebuilding, power over your own resources.
Read Pluto transiting house 2 →For Cancer: solar house 1
Pluto in the 1st house: a complete metamorphosis of personality; you die to one version of yourself so another, more powerful one can be born.
Read Pluto transiting house 1 →For Leo: solar house 12
Pluto in the 12th house: the unconscious surfaces, deep therapy, the end of a very long cycle; what was buried is released.
Read Pluto transiting house 12 →For Virgo: solar house 11
Pluto in the 11th house: friendships that die and are reborn, intense collective commitment, projects that change your life.
Read Pluto transiting house 11 →For Libra: solar house 10
Pluto in the 10th house: a career destroyed or propelled, ambition revealed, power struggles with authority.
Read Pluto transiting house 10 →For Scorpio: solar house 9
Pluto in the 9th house: convictions shaken, a journey that transforms, studies that give you power.
Read Pluto transiting house 9 →For Sagittarius: solar house 8
Pluto in the 8th house, at home: inheritance, debt, loss, intimacy: the great rebirth, after the great stripping bare.
Read Pluto transiting house 8 →For Capricorn: solar house 7
Pluto in the 7th house: a power dynamic in relationship, separation or fusion, a partner who transforms you; nothing lukewarm.
Read Pluto transiting house 7 →For Aquarius: solar house 6
Pluto in the 6th house: work and health transformed by a crisis; you take back power over your daily life.
Read Pluto transiting house 6 →For Pisces: solar house 5
Pluto in the 5th house: passionate love, powerful creation, children who transform you; all or nothing.
Read Pluto transiting house 5 →
In your natal chart
If you have planets in Cancer, Pluto passes over them by conjunction: that is where the transit is felt most. The signs in square, opposition, trine and sextile are touched too.
Your planets in Cancer: conjunction
Your planets in Capricorn: opposition
Your planets in Libra or Aries: square
Your planets in Scorpio or Pisces: trine
To know which planets and which house are concerned for you, calculate your free chart: the “current transits” section lists what Pluto touches today.
Calculate my chart (my transits)The other slow planets in Cancer
Frequently asked questions
When is Pluto in Cancer?
September 10, 1912 → October 20, 1912 · July 9, 1913 → December 28, 1913 · May 26, 1914 → October 7, 1937 · November 25, 1937 → August 3, 1938 · February 7, 1939 → June 14, 1939
What does Pluto in Cancer mean?
Pluto transits by transforming: it strips you bare, destroys what’s dead, concentrates a power you didn’t know you had. Nothing stays the same. In Cancer, this passage colours protection, sensitivity and memory for everyone; each person lives it in the house of their chart that Cancer occupies.
How do I know which house Pluto is crossing for me?
With your rising sign: house 1 starts at the Ascendant and Cancer falls in one of your twelve houses. Without a birth time, take your Sun sign as house 1 (solar houses): that is the sign-by-sign reading above.