As astrology is a knowledge of lived experience, the Pluto phenomenon cannot be known by words, images, or symbols alone, as these are merely connotative of the archetypal qualities of Pluto. Returning to the experiential quality of viewing a sunset, the feeling of deep mystery, intensity, and something transcendent and ultimately unknowable may arise in consciousness as the sun disappears beneath the horizon, however, even this experience doesn't quite capture a "full on" Pluto transit. Rather, thick in the throes of a powerful Pluto transit, one can feel quite crazy, terrified, enlivened, and exhilarated all at once. For those whom control, precision, and security are number one priorities, the phenomenological burning of a Pluto transit is painful, unjust, and aberrant. For those who desire life's fullest expressions and welcome a time of purification, cleansing, healing, and rebirth, Pluto transits are what life is worth living for.

Film, like no other medium, can instantly transport us into different experiential dimensions. By combining images, sound, action, and narrative all in one art form, film can draw us out of ourselves and place us into a new context, time, and place. More than words or images in isolation, film can capture the significance of an astrological archetype. As Carl Jung stressed, an archetype cannot be known in itself but can only be hinted at or alluded to by words and symbols. However, if any medium has an open conduit into archetypal forces, it is film.

Films that carry Pluto are unmistakable for their powerful and transformative viewing experience. Like the ground of material reality that dropped out for quantum physicists, a "Pluto film" has the effect of dropping everything out of existence except one's complete rapt attention on the images being projected on screen. One's worries fade away, you become oblivious to the people next to you, time and space don't really exist, and major tensions and strains that arise while watching the movie can only fully be expelled during the rolling of the final credits. Like a major Pluto transit itself, a Pluto film has the effect of draining and exhausting the viewer. More than simply a movie, a Pluto film is an experience, a long and winding journey, an encounter with a deep, profound, and often dark terrain that leaves an indelible mark upon one's psyche.

The following films, listed in no particular order, are exemplary for the phenomenological experience of the Pluto archetype they convey. These films do not necessarily deal with explicit Pluto themes per se-betrayal, transformation, rage, passion, hidden power struggles, manipulations-however their ability to allow us to access and feel the transformative, powerful, and eruptive force of Pluto are unparalleled. As Pluto is often outside the bounds of convention, these films are far from the typical Hollywood narrative film and cannot be recommended for all viewers. Graphic, frank, explicit, and often violent, these films do not skirt, but often revel, in taboo subject matter that is usually out-of-bounds for most productions.