Pluto may no longer be ascendant, but don’t think that’ll change your fate.
Astrologers say the demotion of Pluto to second-class planetary status will have no effect on how they read the heavens.
“It’s very interesting that Pluto’s been downgraded in a planetary sense because he could never be downgraded in a mythological sense,” said astrologer Russell Grant. “I will continue to use Pluto because he gives me the ability to look into people’s charts and see where they’re coming from psychologically.”
“Astronomers have had several cases in the past where they’ve made changes in the objects used by astrologers,” said Lee Lehman, dean of Seattle’s Kepler College, the only institute in the Western Hemisphere to award degrees in astrology.
Lehman said it took decades for astrologers to settle on the significance of Pluto after it was discovered in 1930.