Something was dislodged, decentered, and destabilized around 1930. Like the earth being relegated to a peripheral location within the solar system after the Copernican Revolution, humans would soon be thrown from a safe, secure, and limited universe into a new situation in which the rational mind, financial security, material reality, and the ego's predominance over the psyche were overthrown, threatened, and made subservient to something greater than these products of the Enlightenment. The bottom dropped out, as it were, and the world needed to replenish itself to once again establish the truth of the deep mystery of things that no structure could easily confine.

We can also assume from the events surrounding Pluto's discovery that the core of reality is akin to a net of interwoven paradoxes, a lattice work of coniunctio oppositora, or an ecology of opposites. What could be used to manipulate, control, repress, and dominate could ultimately turn against us and destroy foundations without much predictability or control. What can be used to inflate the ego's supremacy could ultimately destroy it. What can be the engine used to fuel economic progress could also destroy unimpeded growth without warning. And finally, what can be the noble efforts to find an ultimate truth through a limited epistemology can destroy its own efforts. Another message of the archetype of Pluto is that an opposing force is always contained within-and not merely without-any given thing. Inherent within power and dominance is vulnerability and submission. Inherent within the gift of life is the proposition of death. Pluto is the source of pathology as it is the source of healing. Any act of creation is the destruction of something that existed before it. Inherent within order is chaos.

Pluto is the archetype of the transformative, evolutionary force that governs the conversion of one thing into its opposite. It is the eruptive, volcanic force that unleashes pent up potential energy in the process of nuclear fission, unleashing mass destruction from a tiny subatomic particle. It is the struggle of the an embryo, child, or adult that tries to remain comfortable at a point of security and confidence while uncontrollably and simultaneously thrown into a new evolutionary situation with new rewards, risks, and challenges. Pluto suggests the existential tragedy and suffering of life but also connotes a life-affirming, unimpeded fecundity. Pluto is the power of rejuvenating life force known variously by the world's religions and sciences as kundalini, shakti, wakonda, and libido. It is the death-rebirth points of the unfathomably long journey of metempsychosis: the stages of reincarnation of a soul through many lifetimes. Pluto is the dance of the destroyer god, Kali; the descent and resurrection of Persephone, Jesus Christ, Innana, and Isis; the Apocalyptic visions of the world's religions and belief systems: the Christian Bible's Book of Revelation, Norse Mythology's Ragnarok, the Hopi prophecy of the emergence of the Fifth World, and modern physics assertion of entropy and heat death of the universe.