Hades / Pluto - The Lord of the Underworld
“Facing Death, the Lord of the Underworld is fearful and scary...It is a battle of letting go of your sanity without losing it.”
On the day that Planet Pluto moving into Aquarius for the 2nd time, I pulled this major arcane card from Mythic Tarot. XIII The Death is attributed to Scorpio whose archetype is Hades / Pluto, the Lord of the Underworld in Ancient Greek / Roman mythology.
He represents Death and Rebirth, the transformational journey of inner alchemy. My Sun sign is Scorpio and my Moon sign is Aquarius - I feel like this special Cosmic Alignment is reflecting on myself deep within.
I have been going through this process since the last Eclipse Season happened with the Venus line (Libra-taurus Moon cycle) in October 2023. I went into the underworld with Goddess Inanna and Persephone to find some hidden aspect of myself to bring back into life again. That was my original intention but the journey with the Archetypes is really tough. You could be swept away with the superpower of the Archetypes to be too far off not to be able to come back - which could happen and is happening in many people every day.
You have to be extra mindful and committed like Goddess Inanna, to be an empty cup and bare naked to the bones. It is a humbling experience; rather painful and embarrassing to be honest.
Facing Death, the Lord of the Underworld is fearful and scary. It is irrational and instinctive. Your primal fear comes in and gets you to take over your kingdom of spirit as you unveil yourself one by one, out of 7, you must commit to surrender to the higher force, not outside but deep within. It is a battle of letting go of your sanity without losing it. Your inner being must be pushed to the edge of the cliff to take a leap of faith - but faith does not mean anything in the Underworld as even Zeus does not have the authority and ability to enter this world of the dead.
If you think about the goddess Demeter the mother of Persephone, you may be able to imagine the contrast of what is going on inside and outside of the same individual. You may be called crazy or inappropriate, misunderstood and judged according to the outer robe while your inner robe is transforming to break out to become the new outer robe.
Hermes & Persephone
This journey from the Underworld to the World of Living is like building a bridge from inside out, Below to Above, and vice versa. However, you need the key to open the gates of both sides and being guided to move through. In the Greek Mythology, this important keys are in the hand of the only and unique god Hermes the Mercury, the messenger god. With the Archetypal guide of the Soul Hermes the Mercury, this Journey of Transformation will be completed successfully.
Find your Hermes within - so that you can rise above, still maintaining the connection with the Underworld like Persephone did with Hades / Pluto. We cannot cut our root out from the Underworld where all of us came from. It is the beginning and ending - Alpha and Omega. We shall claim also the Underworld to fully embody our Kingdom of Spirit, as it is a part of the ONE THING. We must conquer the fear of insanity to become the Lord of our own Underworld like Persephone or Inanna, to shine brighter with the shadow. The light becomes more precious and real with the density of its opposite.
Claim and own your physical flesh including the DNA that holds all the keys to the mystery. It sure is tough and rough, but isn’t life like that anyways? If so, make it more meaningful as much as you can go - that is the message I heard from Hades / Pluto through the “DEATH” today. Surely Pluto is moving breaking the old into the new.
