Your Venus sensibilities may feel drunk, overwhelmed, or plunged into darkness during her transit of Scorpio.'Venus Inebriated by a Satyr' by Carraci c.1580 {{PD-Art}}

Venus enters Scorpio at 10:50 PM PDT on the 8th, and the astrological symbol of Love, relationship, and assets enters the dark, enveloping Water embrace of the Scorpion. Venusian matters take on an intensity, and a mystery, that encourages us to go to the neglected corners, caves, pits, grottoes, and valleys of our relationships, our hearts, our aesthetic natures, and our finances (for what are these but little bundles of energy, given and received?) The Venus transit of this sign is the closest we get while she’s direct to that expression prevalent when Venus goes retrograde, except that rather than our Venus antennae ‘losing’ the usual aesthetic and viewpoint signal, we are immersed in sensations that are normally hidden, buried, submerged, or occulted by something else; the result, though, is very similar to the retrograde effect, with a disorientation that is feeling (Water) based. She will be drawn to (or attract!) secrets, normally curbed impulses, rage, the desire for root-deep change, sex, destruction, the experience of re-formation and re-birth, and will find beauty in the discarded, degenerated, destroyed or degraded.

Unless your Venus is in a Water sign, this may be an overwhelming transit for you in feeling terms, as the Venusian sensibilities are thrust into the dank, hidden territories of Scorpio. The company our lady keeps here is non-existent, at least for the first week or so, until Mercury catches up, and that means that Venus is exploring the Scorpionic depths alone. Look to the natal placements that Venus aspects in the early degrees of Scorpio as perceptual anchors; the natal planets and points affected will furnish a familiar viewpoint through which the current Venusian matters can be examined. The 9th sees perfection of the trine of Venus to Chiron, which may invite us to retreat to old wounds and to pick at emotional scars–obviously, don’t! Venus may be alone in Scorpio for a time, but that doesn’t mean she needs to lose her natural, aesthetically-keyed ability to discriminate, and to know what’s worth pursuing~

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