Kee said
During my last Solar Return, I had Pluto less than a degree away form my Ascendant.

As the year has progressed, I have come to envision Pluto's transit through Capricorn (my natal fifth house) like a masonry worker that has to put a brick structure together piece by piece, in the dark with no instructions... just a promise that the foreman will show up with a light and I had better have things sufficiently along in progress.

Pluto, is conjunct Vertex... trine Mars-Venus midpoint (five degree separation) and square north node

Just wondering if anyone has had any similar experiences with Pluto.  

Many of us here have Pluto transits here. I'm having too. I'm not summing it up yet. It's still within a degree to my Sun and Ascendant. I'm not hoping for a bright new day too, not that I'm hopeless. Im just living day in day out lately, no matter what's being thrown in front of me, I know I ll have to deal with it somehow. Thats how I'm not summing it up nor am I waiting for a disaster. Whatever ll be, will be.

Thanks downtoearth!

I also Have the north node getting close to my ascendant (@ 2Virgo) in addition to the other transits...
I think that is why I am paying more attention to my solar return Pluto, challenging things are occurring during the days, but I keep bouncing back for some strange reason. Ive discovered that the Nodes are really kind of IMPORTANT!

Capricorn is my fifth house, as well. I have Mars at 4, north node and vertex at 16, Jupiter at 28. My natal Pluto is at 3 Libra in the second. I finally received my English degree last May. My blood is all over that piece of paper. It was excruciating. I'm a published writer yet I had a creative writing professor actually suggest to me that I drop her workshop. I didn't. I told her she could go fuck herself...not in those exact words, of course. But I defended myself and stood my bloody ground. I have three exes from last year alone. I'm living in my ex-husband's guest bedroom. Art school is kicking my ass. Some days I feel like I'm finally getting somewhere...I'm not a complete piece of shit...I have value. Then BAM. Knocked flat on my ass. My latest epiphany : I assign my own worth. If I say I'm a queen then goddamn it I'm a queen. The epiphany is the easy part. Conducting myself like a queen consistently, with grace, dignity, strength, wisdom and valor...that is the ass kick. I'm psychologically shredded. But I'm also the frog in the stork's beak. Never. Give. Up. Suicide may in fact be painless (Manic Street Preachers) but I'll never find out for sure. Fighting hard.

Misti, Ty. I would tell you hang in there, but I doubt you don't already have a game plan.

My vertex is a 17 cap, and Pluto was on that degree last Solar Return. I think that I am definitely more aware of the 'intersections' in life. Excited to have the NN move on to my 12th house So I can see what the hell is going on in my Fifth! Making progress, but in the right direction?

Thanks, Kee. I need to look at my solar return again. I looked it up a few weeks ago. I hope to receive my art degree from UTSA and then teach art in Mexico. I'm reading a book about the whole process of moving to Mexico.