Is It Time to Turn Their Passing Into Purpose?
How Pluto, the 8th House, and Eclipse Season show when grief is ready to become purpose.
Grief doesn’t arrive politely. It crashes through your life, leaving rubble where certainty used to stand. For a long while, survival is enough: breathing, sleeping (if you can), feeding yourself, getting through a day without falling apart.
But there comes a moment — sometimes months later, sometimes years — when the rawness softens just enough for a question to rise: What now?
And underneath it: How do I make their life, and their passing, mean something?
Grief as the Great Awakener
Loss is brutal. But in hindsight, grief is also an initiation. It tears us open, revealing truths we might have ignored before:
that life is short and fragile,
that love is stronger than form,
that what we thought mattered… often doesn’t.
This is Pluto’s territory in astrology: death, endings, transformation, and rebirth. Wherever Pluto, the 8th house, or the 12th house are activated in your chart, you’re likely to feel this pull. The old world dissolves, and you’re asked to build a new one — not in spite of grief, but because of it.
How You Know You’re Ready
You don’t rush this moment. Purpose can’t be forced. But you’ll feel the signs when it’s time:
The tears feel different. They still fall, but they bring release, not only devastation.
Memories spark energy, not just pain. You begin to feel their presence guiding you, not just their absence haunting you.
A new direction whispers. It could be a career change, volunteering, writing, or creative work. Something you never imagined suddenly feels necessary.
Synchronicities multiply. Dreams, numbers, signs, or people arrive in your path, nudging you toward something bigger than yourself.
This is when grief shifts from breaking you to remaking you.
From Passing to Purpose
Turning their passing into purpose doesn’t mean you stop grieving. It means you choose to carry their love forward in a new way:
creating a foundation or project in their honour,
changing your career to one that aligns with the truth grief revealed,
writing the book or story that needs to be told,
becoming the person they always saw in you.
Purpose doesn’t erase loss. But it transforms it. It ensures that their life — and your love — ripples forward into the world.
Astrology as a Compass
In your chart, Pluto and the 8th house often show where grief initiates you into deeper purpose. The 12th house reveals how spirit and the unseen guide you forward. Even Jupiter transits can point to the expansion that follows endings.
Eclipse seasons, like the one we’re stepping into now, often catalyse this exact shift: sudden endings that eventually reveal new purpose.
The Controversial Truth
There is no right time to “move on.” That phrase is a lie. The real moment to watch for is when grief starts whispering purpose into your soul. When you feel that their story isn’t finished — it’s asking to be lived through you.
That’s when you know it’s time.
✨ Reflection Prompt: Ask yourself: What direction has grief been nudging me toward — even if I’ve been afraid to name it?
👉 If you feel you’re on the edge of this shift — unsure how to read the signs or where to begin — your chart holds the map. Book a Cosmic Guidance Consultation and let’s uncover how Pluto, the 8th house, and the eclipses are pointing you from passing into purpose.
With Love, Purpose & Soul
Sherile x