Pluto square your Ascendant.

Pluto transforms whatever it touches: it strips, exposes, empowers and rebuilds from the foundation. It brings depth, power and permanent change, and the loss that comes first. Your Ascendant is your rising sign: how you meet the world, your body and appearance, and in Whole Sign astrology the doorway to your first house and every house after it.

A square puts the transiting planet ninety degrees from your natal point: the two drives cross at right angles, and the friction forces a change. Squares are the transits that make things happen, usually through a problem. Here the transiting Pluto makes a square to your natal Ascendant, so Pluto's drive meets how you meet the world at that angle. Pluto runs a 248-year cycle, so each angle to this point happens once in a life.

Pluto takes between twelve and thirty years per sign, so a transit to one point lasts two to three years across up to five passes. It is the longest and most permanent transit there is: what changes under it does not change back.

Choose which front to transform and do it fully. The square rewards the person who rebuilds rather than defends.