Natal Pluto or Transit pluto represents an area of life where a person is likely to suffer the most trauma.

I have natal pluto in my 4th house which is the house of home and real estate. Finding a house (real estate) was one of the most traumatic experience in my life. Because i never felt satisfied with any house and i was always looking for a perfect home that i never found.

Then my transit pluto transited through my 6th house which is the house of health and diet. I tried to control my diet and i experimented with various types of diet. I tried fruitarian diet, raw diet, i tried reducing my weight, i tried fasting, i tried giving up oil, salt, dairy and so much. Ultimately ruining my health to the point that i was about to die.

Pluto seeks perfection and i was looking for a perfect house and a perfect health. And in my persuit for perfect health i pushed my body to an extent that my body was unable to bear the control and manipulation i was doing to my own body.

I gave up eating things that i really enjoyed and liked so much. Therefore in this case i manipulated and controlled my own body. And it got to the point i was about to die due to lack of essential nutrients and vitamins.

The lesson that i learned ultimately is to keep the faith in this universe. And realize that whatever that is given to you by the universe is already perfect for you. And when you become aware of this you stop looking for perfection elsewhere.

Trauma is caused not because of us being controlled by other people or situations. Because nobody else can control us unless we allow. Trauma is caused because we control our own soul due to lack of faith and trust in universe and fear or doubt.

Pluto represents an area of our life where our vulnerabilities will be exposed and we will be forced to give up control. Our pain would not go away unless we learn to surrender to the universe and keep the faith in universe.

Our life is the outcome of our thoughts. The physical reality of our life is merely the manifestation of our thoughts.

They tell us to think positive so that we manifest the positive. But my experience had been the opposite. Thinking positive does not really help. Because we cannot control our thoughts. Trying to think positive is futile endeavour.

Positive and negative thinking are the two sides of the same coin. Positive thinking does not help us get rid of our negative thoughts. In fact positive thinking creates an natural imbalance in our minds and that balance is always restored by occurrence of negative thoughts.

Therefore positive thoughts are always accompanied by negative thoughts. And as a result positive thinking mearly attaches us to a set of beliefs that manifest in both positive and negative forms in our life.

Take for example scarcity. Scarcity is a belief.

Poverty and filthy richness both are positive and negative sides of scarcity. You cant be filthy rich unless there is some level of poverty in society.

When you imagine yourself as filthy rich you imagine a society where poverty exists. And a society where scarcity exists. Does that truly feels uplifting or growth producing for our soul ?

What we need isnt positive thinking ... what we truly need to live a better life is to give up your unnecessary thoughts which can be termed as though effeciency.  

There are lot of thoughts which are unnecessary, unnatural and inorganic.

Thought effeciency is the process of getting rid of unnecessary thoughts. Which helps us achieve a cool and calm mind which has fewer thoughts. Thoughts that are really productive, useful and purposeful.

Unnesessary thoughts are thoughts which does not contribute anything useful towards our existance.

This is all good ... But how can we achieve thought effeciency ?

Though effeciency is achieved by higher thinking, maturity and wisdom. A person who has higher wisdom would look from a higher perspective. Instead of trying to become filthy rich he will try to build or imagine a society which is free from all scarcity. Where everyone is happy.

People with thought effecient minds will think less but what they think is really effective, purposeful and capable of making a significant difference in people's lives.

These people will speak less but what they say everyone would want to hear.

Thought effeciency is achieved through understanding of higher truths and spiritual understanding. Truths about universe, nature and society.

Though effeciency cannot be achieved by scientific methods or scientific methodology. Because science does not believe in soul, spirit and atman.

Thought effeciency can only be achieved thought spirituality. Understanding of spirit, soul and atman.

We manifest what we believe ... therefore they say ... belive in the positive so that we attract the positive ...

Over the years i learned that this approach is flawed. Because it still binds / attaches you to expectations and these expectations become another root cause of suffering ...

So what is the best thing we can do here ...

The best thing we can do here is to just stop beliving. Stop believing in the negative and stop beliving in the positive also. Just stop believing in anything at all ...

With belief comes the assumptions ... and i am telling its not a good thing to assume anything ... it simply obstructs the flow of natural energy.

The best thing we can do here is to take a backseat and just be an observer.

Instead of driving your life ...  let life drive you ...

... give up control ...

Let life manifest what it wants to manifest ... just observe ... dont belive and dont assume ... anything ...

And you will find inner peace !

Our life wants to manifest the best for each of us ... we just dont allow it because we are controlling our life and not allowing it to manifest  ... what it wants to manifest ...

Stop controlling your life ... and let life manifest itself ... and you will see magic !!

We as human being tend to so much glamourize the positive experiences in our life. We fail to appreciate richness and beautifulness in the negative experiences.

Negative experiences like poverty and suffering and depression and pain are not the experiences we did not wanted. Universe never gives us any experience which our heart does not desire.

We might consciously think that we dont want to be poor or we dont want to fall in depression. But unconsciously our heart wants to experience poverty and our heart wants to experience depresssion. And this is the reason why universe / nature / prakriti puts us in the situation which provides us what our heart truly wants and desire.

Nothing in this universe / prakriti is aweful or imperfect. Everything that exist is just perfect. It was always perfect and will always be nothing but perfect.

All experiences in human life are created equal. No experience is superior or no experience is Inferior. Every experience is valuable and every life is awesome and valuable.

Learning the appreciate the negative side of human life and finding richness in negative experiences in life is what helps you grow spiritually.

In Bhagwad Gita God Krishna States that ...

A Saint is the one who looks at the stone or the piece of gold from the same perspective. Both are equal for a Saint because he has no attraction (moha) for gold and he does not despise the rock or stones.

In order to be Grow spirituality and become Saintly we need to appreciate the negative experiences in our life and see how rich and beautiful these experiences really are.

And this is the real truth of human life behind the veil of this worldly illusion.

Since when i was 20 I had this feeling that somehow the standard diet that we eat does not suit my body and we can improve our health by simply improving our diet.

I experimented with and tried various different kinds of diets and finally reached on a conclusion that "Whole Foods Plant based Diet" is best for my body.  

I also found out that each one of us has different physical  needs and therefore what suits for me may not suit other people. And you need to figure out for yourself which diet suits your body the best.

I did various experiments and i  am giving below my observation and findings. This will help you save your time that i spent on these experiments.

The salt free diet

Yes you would not die if you gave up salt. Althought it appears like you cant give up salt. But your body can very well survive and actually can trive on  a salt free diet.

Initially the food without salt tastes very bland and tasteless. But do not worry because in 4-5 days your taste buds will completely adjust and you will not miss the taste of salt at all. If you add even a little bit of salt in your diet it will appear too much.  

I went salt free and initially i was seeing lot of good effects. I was feeling lighter and my health was improving.

But after i continued for more than a month on a salt free diet i was starting to see the brain fog and drop in mental performance. This lead me to conclude that giving up salt totally is not a good idea. We need some salt - (small amount thought) for optimum performance of our nervous system.

The best strategy is to keep salt to a minimum and not eat it in excess amount. And you  should not worry about the taste. Your taste buds can easily adjust in few days to any level  of your salt that you decide to add to your food.

Giving up Oil, Salt and Sugar and Processed foods

Oil, Salt and Sugar are highly processed foods and eating foods in their natural form is always better than  eating them in highly processed form.

You will see instant improvements in health when you give up processed foods and eat foods only in their natural and unprocessed form.

The raw vegan  Diet

Yes i tried raw vegan fruit diet also. Where you eat every thing in  an  uncooked and raw form. You can eat vegetables and fruits both.

Althought i tried  it ...  and it appear to give you very good results in short time. But it needs a lot of attention and guidance.  I mean it is difficult to follow it without any guidance and support.  

Although i absolutely recommend this diet it if you want to recover from some health condition like diebetes or any other severe health situation.  Because this diet can fully change your health.

But due to my busy lifestyle i simply did not find enough time and energy to invest in this diet. And therefore i finally gave up on it.

This diet has some issues also. It requires you to  give up cooked foods and with that you may need to give up lot of foods that can be eaten only in cooked foods. And that may cause nutritional defiencienes.

Giving up Dairy

Although i love cottage cheese (paneer) and cheese and butter. But I decided to give up dairy because it involves some kind of animal abuse.

After giving up dairy for a long time my body has adjusted accordingly.

And Now if i try to eat some dairy product my body simply does not react well to it. And i start to see adverse effect on  my health.

Its like my body has become somewhat allergic to Dairy !

Giving up Non-Vegetarian Food

I had been vegetarian since childhood. I gave up non-vegetarian food not for the religious reasons but for ethical reasons when i decided that i didnt wanted to contribute to  the animal abuse.

I never felt the craving for non-veg food and i dont really miss it.

My Findings and Observation

1. Its good not to eat outside - restaurant food or street food.
2. Processed foods are bad for body and you should always prefer whole foods rather than processed foods.  
3. Its not just the food but eating habits matter too. You should eat only when you feel hungry and not eat more that you need to satisfy your hunger.  Eating more than you need  is bad for health and eating less than  you  need is also bad for health. You need to  strike a healthy balance.  

Back in the days of Nikola Tesla, George Washington and Edison the biggest expense of launching a startup was developing the product. They did spent money on marketing but it didnt exceed the development cost.

Today the biggest expense of launching any startup is marketing and social expenses. Uber Spent lot of money on aquiring Drivers on its platform by giving Incentives. Food delivery apps like Zomato spend so much money on giving discounts.

If you are building a product or service which people like you shouldnt be spending so much money on marketing. Google didnt spend anything on advertizing still it is now such a big profitable company. Facebook didnt spend anything on marketing also. Both Google and Facebook are highly profitable companies.

Do you see any pattern here ?

Truly Successful and profitable startups were natuarally liked by people and therefore they never had to spend even small amount of money on marketing and if your startup cannot become successuful unless you are spending huge amount of money on marketing .. it is sitting on a marketing bubble which can burst anytime.

Startups like Uber, OLA and Zomato these are the kind of startups whose success has been artificially created. None of these startups are profitable.

I might sound a little old fashioned here ... but our old business values are still GOLD Standard ... The best way to start any business is to win people's heart by giving them better service.  You cannot compel people to like you by giving them massive incentives and discounts. People will still not like you.

Quality of your product and service is still the most important aspect of your business. Provide Good Service - Just like Google did and facebook did ... and you will be rewarded with people's love and free word of mouth publicity.

If you cannot become successful unless you spend millions of dollars on incentives and discounts ... you dont deserve success in the first place ...

Startups like Uber, OLA, Zomato ... all such loss making startups are sitting on a startup bubble - an artificially created success with the help of massive funding which could burst anytime.

We are starting a new article series where we discuss a common life issues we all face and we discuss here the kind of positive realizations and positive awareness that can help us overcome those negative issues and thoughts.

We are going to discuss the following articles

Our ability and desire is the same thing

We all are truly equals

Competition in Society

Scarcity in Economy and Nature - is an illusion and mass hellucination

We are never a victim

How relationships are formed and they end

Being misunderstood by our friends and people

We as people are so much obsessed with our fascination for celebrity lifestyle that we all want to be a celebrity at some point in our life. And this was what i used to believe also.

But as i am growing and becoming older priorities in my life are changing and i am starting to appreciate what i have.

We are always going after things that we don't have or we cant have but we fail to appreciate what we already have. And its important to appreciate what we have because it will give you peace of mind and a sense of gratitude !

Let us have a discuss the benefits of not being a celebrity

You have more privacy in your life

For celebrities privacy is a luxury that they cant have or struggle to have. What most of us common citizens take for granted is something celebrities struggle to have.

Life of Princess Diana is a perfect example that shows how being a celebrity can ruin the privacy. Princess Diana hated paparazzi and had huge dislike for being followed by paparazzi.

She was a kind of person who appreciated a private life and became a victim of her own celebrity status.

Princess Diana in her own words struggled to have things in her life which most of us take for granted. Things like privacy and freedom.

So this is reminder for us to learn to appreciate what we already have.

You have less need of security

Celebrities already have state funded security and they have arrangements for security.

But the freedom to move and go anywhere without the concern for your security is something that you can't have even if you have a really good security.

This is something that celebrities struggle to have in their life which we as common citizens already have.

You have more freedom in your life

Being a celebrity can surely give you more financial power and more connections. Which in turn can give you more freedom.

But the freedom that a financially independent common-citizen already has in his life is much more than what a celebrity life can give you. This is something we all fail to appreciate being a common citizen.

Being a common citizen you have less money and less security but at the same time you have less requirement of money, you have less need of security. You have less things to worry about.

Celebrities have lots of money which gives them financial freedom. But you don't have to be a celebrity to earn enough money that can give all the financial freedom you need in your life.

Technological revolution has enabled people to earn money from freelance jobs, work from home. It has become more easier these days to start your own online business and travel the world while you do your business.

All this freedom that you already have in your life just being a common citizen without the problems that comes in your life for being a celebrity.

Summary

Most of us as common citizens fail to appreciate that you as a common man is living a much better life compared to a celebrity life. You as a common man can potentially have more freedom in your life even compared to celebrities.

If i am offered to pick between two lives … a life of a celebrity or a life of a common middle class human being who has financial freedom and has enough time to spend with his family and friends.

I would pick a life of a common man … a life where few people know me and love me. I can enjoy and spend time with my family and friends and enjoy the freedom that i have.

Key takeaways from this discussion

Learn to appreciate what we already have. We as human beings are looking towards things we cant have or things we don't have but we fail to appreciate what we already have.

You can find happiness in little things in your life. And even having big things in your life can fail to give you happiness that you always wanted.

Sometimes life of less can be better than life of more.

It is more important to find happiness and inner satisfaction than becoming famous and rich.

The grass always looks greener on the other side. But we never see the problems that exist on the other side.

Being rejected for who you are is better than being accepted for who you are not !

Rejection does not always mean there is something wrong with you or something wrong with the other person who is rejecting you.

It simply mean that you don’t belong together. I know it’s really hard to swallow that ! Especially if it implies moving away for someone you love.

Rejection although is painful on an emotional level but it is not always bad. Sometimes you are being rejected because nature has something better waiting for you.

You are being rejected because maybe you deserve something better. Better than what you were being rejected for.

Sometimes Rejection is a bitter pill we need to solow in order to find something better in our life.

You cant avoid rejection in your life. If we keep taking rejection personally we cant really live our life. We will never enjoy our life and find true happiness.

Rejection is a brick wall that we all must learn to overcome in order to find success and happiness in our life.

People who have found success and happiness in their life are those who showed willingness to accept rejection in their life.

Most of us human beings are so much afraid of rejection in our life that we fail to take steps that are required to find happiness. And to avoid rejections in our life we keep rejecting our happiness. We keep rejecting what our heart and soul truly wants.

Don’t reject what your heart truly wants and don’t stop living your life due to your fear of rejection.

This is a lesson that i want to teach a younger version of myself

When i was young i used to dislike salesmen and i used to think its a shitty job. A role or a designation that is unnecessary and unproductive or useless.

Now i am in a situation where i have to market a product and i am starting to realize how much wrong i really was.

I am also learning to realize how much brutally we behave with our salesmen. And we don't treat them as human beings who in fact do deserve so much kindness and appreciation for their job.

Being a salesman is one of the most painful job and deserves more appreciation.

You cannot be a good salesmen unless you learn to accept rejections and not make a big deal about it. Most of the people don't have that capability.

Being a good salesman is a sign of humility and humbleness in your character.

So next time you reject your salesman try to understand his / her pain. He / She is a human being also and it must be crushing to face a rejection.

Its okay to reject something what you do not like and what you do not find useful. Its okay to say no. But you need to be more kind.

So next time you see someone who is trying to sell you something or trying to promote something. Its okay to reject them but atleast give an explanation for why you are rejecting them so that they get a better idea that could help them improve.

Every human being deserves kindness and salesmen are human beings also.

Yes you heard that right positive thinking may not always be the truthful and realistic way of thinking.

Truthful thinking is a balanced way of thinking which is not getting swayed away by too much attraction and positivity and not labelling something as extremely awful.

Too much positivity and over optimism can mislead you and often results in mistakes and failures. Stock market crashes and bubble bursts are a perfect example that shows what happens due to too much optimism.

When you are being overly optimistic or too positive you may not be looking at the true picture and a realistic picture.

a True and realistic picture emerges when you take your time to analyze things from the intellectual point of view. And not be lead by your emotions.

You are thinking in a right direction when you are neither being too positive or too negative. When you are simply understanding everything from an intellectual point of view. You are observing and understanding rather than judging and classifying things into right and wrong.

You get out of a painful life situation having a feeling of relief and thinking that somehow you will avoid and you will never get into such painful situation again in your life.

And bingo your life somehow again puts you in the very similar painful situation which you were thinking of avoiding.

This is the beauty of life.

Exams and Tests which we have failed in our life we have to repeat them until we get it right. We simply cannot run away from those exams.

Nature / God / Universe is a harsh but caring teacher and it wants you to learn from you mistakes and you cannot simply skip those exams and tests. Until you learn your lessons and pass those exams.

Patterns repeat in our life because we have made a mistake and we are given an opportunity to learn from our mistakes and do the right thing.  

Things we fear the most haunt us and keep coming back to us again and again in our life. Things we hate the most follow us !

You are made to face all of those things because Nature / God / Universe wants you to understand and realise there is nothing you need to fear, there is nothing to you should hate !

You cannot get out of a bad relationship or a difficult situation by AVOIDING that relationship or avoiding that Difficult situation. You can surely get out of this bad relationship and difficult situation by learning those lessons and correcting those negative beliefs which got you in that relationship and difficult situation in the first place.

Change comes from Inside not Outside

Your life will not change by changing your relationships or running away from difficult situation i mean you can do it but its not enough. Your life will truly change by learning and improving your thoughts and beliefs.

Your negative thoughts and your fears are the true cause which puts you in any negative situation. So in order to truly get out of negative situations you need to overcome your negative thoughts and beliefs.

So cancers get a really bad rap about not being able to forget the past ...

My moon sign is cancer too and i have heard this multiple times ... so i've thought about it and i wish to share my views on this issue in this article ...

... let us try to take a deeper look why cancers seem to keep bringing the past !

Well there is a difference between holding a grudge and taking a revenge or just trying to advice other person to fix their flaws and behaviour ... ( so that the flaws doesn't damage the relationship)

With most cancers i guess :) ... we never keep a grudge on other people and we dont believe in revenge ... we are quite forgiving in that aspect ...

Even if you have hurt us really badly in the past but if you genuinely feel sorry we will forgive and forget about it the very moment ... we will laugh with you and be friends with you like what happened in the past never really happened ... !

So in that regard we truly do indeed are willing to forget the past and move on ... give other people a chance ... but often we see that the realization or simply the understanding and awareness of how your words/ actions are hurting never really comes from the other person ... very rarely it at all ...

This quality of forgiving others is truly remarkable about cancers ... because even the proponents of "Forgetting the past" advice  ... most notably ... the sagittarius and aquarius ... they themselves ... i have seen them to KEEP GRUDGES for very long time ...

THEY are the ones who don't really actually never forgive the other person and move on with their lives ... even when the other person has apologized ...

REMEMBER ... forgetting the past is about forgiving the other person ... and cancers are actually one of the most forgiving people ...  more than aquarius and Judgemental Sagittarius ...  !!

If your Cancer Friend or Family member is trying to bring the past ... be aware that ...

We simply want the other person to be AWARE of how much painful their words / actions can be so that they can correct it ... so the relationship is not damaged ... due to such behaviour ...

... and that is all that is really needed to fix the problem ...

So cancers are often left with the situation where we are either forced to forgive the person even when they never said sorry for hurting us (really badly) ... or simply keep our mouth shut and say nothing about the brutality ...

We can ignore ... small issues which havent caused a lot of pain ... but for some issues ... which were very painful ... it is very difficult to just ignore it and accept it and let things just be the way they are !!!

Let us try to understand this issue with an Example :

If a rapist gives advice to a women who he raped to simply just forget the past and move on with life ... is that a sane thing to do ... (especially for a rapist)

A rapist should instead apologize and show some regret for his behaviour ... and say sorry ! ... and we all understand that its not difficult for a women who had been through rape ... to forget about the RAPE very easily ...

Surely forgetting the past (the rape) is a good thing ... but its going to take time to heal and get better ...

Rape is an emotionally hurting and ... you cant just forget about it and move on ... so quickly and easily ...

So with cancers its like this most of the time ... we get raped emotionally by someone and then also get to hear the advice (from the rapist) about why cant we just forget about the past (emotional rape) and move on with our lives ...

Cancers are quite sensitive ... and you can EMOTIONALLY RAPE a cancer quite easily if you have immature beliefs and thinking ... which most people do have ...

This is the reason ... when cancers become adults ... we don't really make friendship with someone unless we know the other person and have some assurance about their behaviour and maturity ...

We have been told to see the glass as half full rather than half empty.

What i want to warn you here is this approach ( looking at only the positive side ) is flawed and it will get you in trouble.

The truthful perspective is neither glass half empty ... nor glass half full ! The person who wants to understand the truth would see the situation from both the perspective and then try to understand it.

Yes ... people who are trying to think positive see only the positive side of the life and situation and often ignore the negative side and then often they fall upside down in their life ! When you are ignoring the negative part of your life situation you are seeing only the 50 % or the truth and you are ignoring other 50 % of the truth.

Too much positivity and too much optimism  ! ... is a recipe for getting yourself f**d !!

Try to be realistic ... try to see the positive and negative side both and then judge the situation ! ...

Seeing only negative side is also bad for you because then you be overly critical and you will miss out of some really good opportunities in your life !

Seeing only the positive side and ignoring the negative side would make you over optimistic and you would make some bad decisions that you may regret later !

A more balanced and healthy way to looking at things is to see things from both the sides and not just from one side.

Ketu signifies ... simplicity ... efficiency , elimination of waste and lack of materialism

Ketu represents transformation of your life from the life of waste and materialism to the life of simplicity and spirituality ...

Ketu is about cleaning up ... letting go of what is wasteful and unnecessary ...

when ketu transit or dasha comes ... long pending issues in that area of your life will get resolved.

For example if ketu is transiting through fourth house ... then there is going to be restructuring in your property ... if you have a 3 houses and you need only 1 house to live ... you may get in a situation where you will be forced to sell 2 houses that you don't need ...

Ketu forces (if you are unwilling) or teaches us to let go of waste ... so that we can live a more happier life ...

If you have to describe ketu in 2 words then ketu is about "Spiritual Transformation". This can happen in many ways ... if you are living a life of materialism and life of waste you will be forced to let go of your existing