James Hillman is illuminating about this change of names:
Pluto, especially, is important to recognise in our euphemistic references to the unconscious as the giver of wholeness, a storehouse of abundant riches, a place not of fixation in torment, but a place, if propitiated rightly, that offers fertile plenty. Euphemism is a way of covering anxiety. In antiquity, Pluto ('riches') was said as a euphemistic name to cover the frightening depths of Hades. (查看原文)
Pluto is particularly difficult to work with unless one has some trust in fate; but how can one trust it, unless one has spent time in despair, darkness, rage and powerlessness, and has found out what supports life when the ego can no longer make its accustomed choices? I have never found anything cheerful or funny about the transits and progressions of Pluto, no matter how psychologically knowledgeable the client is. (查看原文)
Sometimes it may appear that the decree of fate allots some positive good to men; but from the totality of its functions there can be no doubt that its character is not positive but negative. It sets a boundary to limit duration, catastrophe to limit prosperity, death to limit life. Catastrophe, cessation, limitation, all forms of 'so far and no farther', are forms of death. And death is itself the prime meaning of fate. Whenever the name of Moira is uttered, one's first thought is of death, and it is in the inevitability of death that the idea of Moira is doubtless rooted. (查看原文)
Freud, who had Scorpio on the ascendant, formulated them very well in his concept of the id. They are too violent, too vengeful, too bloodthirsty, too primitive and too hot for the average individual to feel much comfort or safety in their intrusion. Along with 'wishes' may be included memories, experiences of great emotional intensity which are forgotten along with their objects. Thus large slices of childhood fall beneath the censor's knife - those slices which reveal the savage face of the young animal struggling for self-gratification and survival. (查看原文)
