Pluto reclines in a chariot pulled by Cerberus
Dutch engraving 18th cent.
a dark Pluto whimsy:
Proghozin…
Sabian symbol for his 9 plus Gemini Sun, is
“a plane doing a nose dive.”
Sometimes these symbols can be so very literal.
(and when JFK Jr’s
plane went down, in front of his Mother’s house on Martha’s Vineyard - the MC was, yes, “a plane doing a nose dive.”)
That's why we love cultivating metaphoric agility, so that we have the option of not being literalized out of existence..….
Jung was oft appropriately grumpy about the
dangers of becoming "important” - a prison…
or a celebrity, receiving mythic projection,
inflation -
"almost always forced to a fatal conclusion,"
said Jung,
with characteristic levity...
