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Venus into Cancer: ‘A Shifting Emotional Palette’

01 Saturday Jun 2013

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'Mirror of Venus' Edward Burne-Jones {{PD-Art}}

‘Mirror of Venus’ Edward Burne-Jones {{PD-Art}}

Venus is leaving Gemini for Cancer, where she can really nurture relationships and projects that will bring in the dough, but where she also may be too emotional and too clingy to successfully interact in a way that respects others’ boundaries or prerogatives. Volatility may also be a problem, as is a too-quickly shifting emotional palette. Venus in Cancer needs something she can pour her nurturing energy into; find that and you’ll have a relatively smooth time elsewhere.

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Venus Into Gemini: ‘Talkity-Talkity-Talk’

09 Thursday May 2013

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'Au Theatre' Albert Guillaume c1925 {{PD-Art}}

‘Au Theatre’ Albert Guillaume c1925 {{PD-Art}}

Venus entered Gemini this morning Pacific time at 8:04 AM, and made no, yes I said no, immediate aspects. A planet off on its own like that, freshly into a new way of expressing, will generally take that form and run with it. Relationships, artistic expression, finances, and those subjects of Houses with Gemini on the cusp in the individual natal chart, as well as those in Venus-ruled Houses, and those issues related to bodies posited in Taurus and Libra, are likely engaged in a chatty, effusive, information-filled communing fest; thoughts race, concentration suffers just a little, and ideas are almost literally bouncing off everything and everyone around us. Fun, but tiring, and a bit frustrating for the goal-oriented or those under serious Saturn or Pluto transits–they may resort to desperate, pulling teeth sorts of interaction–and are probably surprised when their ‘victims’ up and run away, first chance!

This lasts through sometime on the 13th, when Venus makes her first aspect, a square to Neptune. At that time we can expect relationships, finances, or values to conflict with the creative urge; we’ll find out what the cost is of implementing our imagination, or our dreams. Will we want to pay it? That’s an individual matter; the only thing we can be sure of is that there will be a price, and that we will need to seriously weigh the potentials of both sides of the equation (think them over, or maybe talk them over, with Venus in Gemini) before we choose.

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Just a Little AstroEssence 26-28 April 2013: ‘Stop-And-Go’

26 Friday Apr 2013

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It may not be as easy, figuratively speaking, to get where we want to go this weekend. 'Charles the IV enters Saint-Denis' The Grand Chronicles of France, illustrated by Jean Fouquet c1457 {{PD-Art}}

It may not be as easy, figuratively speaking, to get where we want to go this weekend. ‘Charles the IV enters Saint-Denis’ The Grand Chronicles of France, illustrated by Jean Fouquet c1457 {{PD-Art}}

When I just look at the current transit chart and move it through the weekend, two things stand out: the way the Sun and Mars move closer to opposition with Earth (always opposed the Sun!) and Saturn; and the way it starts today with Jupiter quincunx the North Node (a measured point, not a body, of course) and then by Sunday Pacific time Venus sort of inches into the picture by conjunction with the South Node. These are just impressions, aside from the ideas we get from a complete accounting of current in-orb transits and perfections to aspects that occur this weekend; think of it as an intuitive reading of what might predominate over the next three days, to be added to the aspect and Lunar inventory included in ECLIPSE.

So what do I see? Problems with energy utilization, a stop-and-go of clear, productive, and Soul-expressive urges that is somehow stymied, like traffic flow stopped by an accident that happens round the corner: your car isn’t moving, but you don’t know why–you have fuel, the car runs, but the way is blocked. And with Saturn in Scorpio and the aspect an opposition, we shouldn’t be surprised that the reasons for suppression or repression won’t be clear. I’m not sure there’s any way to combat this, other than to accept that you might not make as much or the kind of progress you would like to. It might be tempting to blame things on the social sphere, our education (or some missing component of it), on religious intolerance, on publishing or broadcasting snafus, on foreign entities, or on travel issues, personal or otherwise (all Jupiter, and to include the matters of the House Jupiter rules in your natal chart). By Sunday, though, we may get a little more perspective, and so be a little less judgy of ourselves and others, as things are presented through the eyes of those we love, through financial matters, through seeing our values in action, and particularly by recalling what was precious to us in the past (Venus-SN). The potential for an internal reconciliation is possible as the weekend goes on and Venus semi-sextiles Jupiter, possibly offering us a way to expand on those things we love or desire, as long as we are willing to modify gently (the quincunx) our thoughts and communications (Jupiter in Gemini) so that they respect both ‘what was’ and our relationships and values (Venus-SN).

Have a great weekend! For more, see ECLIPSE!

 

Just a Little Astro Essence on Venus in the Natal Chart

10 Tuesday Jul 2012

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Venus, of course, makes her presence felt by House at least twice in the natal chart, once in her rulership of Taurus, and once with Libra. These two signs are naturally quincunx each other, and this describes the way we quite typically see relationship matters (Libra) as incompatible with material ones (Taurus). We tend to believe that the lowest form of relationship in which we can engage is one where we receive a material benefit; we call this person a ‘prostitute’ or label them ‘kept’ and act as if this (a money for  action or energy exchange, and we condemn this in spite of the fact that a job has the same general parameters) is in itself a moral failing. Our natural uneasiness in mixing or equating the two must be tempered by an awareness that living in mutually beneficial material situations is really what we must do, not just for survival but in order to build civilization. We tend to see a relationship that involves love as more noble than one that provides something we need–and yet we mix these things, love and material need, all the time, particularly when we are in partnership–and perhaps that is one of the underlying reasons the mate relationship is so fraught with emotional landmines: we hold ourselves and our loved ones to impossibly high standards, demanding ‘pure’ love be given and received, and yet the very fabric of day-to-day requires an interdependence that, if we recognize any facet of it as a cold, material exchange, may de-value our relationship in our own eyes.

Taken from ‘Your Money-tude’ in the current issue of ECLIPSE; to see this article or to get the daily forecast (planetary aspects and those of Sedna, Chiron, Vesta, Ceres, Juno, Pallas, and Zeus, as well as most Lunar aspects, too) delivered to your email every Thursday, subscribe!

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05 Thursday Jul 2012

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A Taste of Venus Retrograde 15 May 2012: ‘Tastes Change’

15 Friday Jun 2012

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The hat Venus wears here is the kind of taste mistake we could make during the retro period. ‘Cupid Complaining to Venus’ by Cranach the Elder {{PD-Art}}

Here’s a little of what I said in ECLIPSE about today’s retrograde of Venus (at 7:32 AM PDT at 23 Gemini 59):

Any Venus area where we have met a dead end while she’s direct is an area prime for rejuvenation during retrograde.

This means that the changed tastes and willingness to try the new and unusual in Venusian pursuits that typically surfaces during this time can be a means to re-generate a part of life that we have worn into a rut with too narrow a viewpoint, taste palette, or definition of what’s ‘right’ or appropriate for us. ‘New’ can definitely be the keyword that frees up an area and an approach leading to new relationships, experiences, and an enhanced aesthetic sense that lasts and benefits us long past Venus’ direction. The retro period can serve to modify our Venusian standards and perceptions so that they are wider and at the same time more refined once the planet appears to move forward again.

What do you make of the impending Facebook IPO during the retrograde period of the planet symbolizing, among other things, relationships and cash? I haven’t studied any charts related to FB, including Zuckerberg’s, but do feel that the stock is immensely overvalued, and that it may plunge drastically within months of the initial offering. Don’t say I didn’t warn you 😉 (then again, if I’m wrong, you can take yourself to lunch on your earnings!)

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Relax With A Cuppa, and ECLIPSE! New Issue Out Now!

14 Thursday Jun 2012

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Mucha’s ‘Seated Woman with Coffee Cup’ is all golden-y and Venus-like, don’t you think? pre-1939 {{PD-Art}}

So sorry, I’ve been MIA getting the new ECLIPSE together: this week an article on finding traits brought from past lives in the horoscope; Venus’ Direction and a Little on Uranus/ Pluto’s perfection, both coming up later this month; plus the Weekly Aspect and Lunar Forecast, and the New Moon! Subscribe and get it fresh in your email, at around 6:30 PM Pacific time tonight, the 14th, and every Thursday.

Here’s a peek, from ‘The Direction of Venus’:

Venus goes direct on 27 June at 8:06:49 AM Pacific time at 7 Gemini 29. Is all this down-to-the-second precision necessary? Not always, but this time she’ll be catching up with the Sun by semi-sextile less than 24 hours after her direction (and of course quincunxing the Earth), and is within  aspect of Pallas/ Uranus (sextile), a sesquiquadrate of Saturn, a square to Chiron, and a quincunx to Pluto, which is less than one degree from exact conjunct Earth. That’s not even counting aspects at more than 2.5 degrees, because we don’t get all sloppy and invite everybody to the party, do we? Of course not; we only want those who will be intimately bound up with (or at least fencing with) our goddess of Love. How else would we know what she’ll have her eye on?

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Dance With Neptune, Watch Venus Kiss the Sun

05 Tuesday Jun 2012

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‘Dancers in Pink and Green’ Degas {{PD-Art}}

If you felt Neptune’s retrograde at all, it was probably something of a heavy thump, the gentle placement of leaden boots onto your feet, the pulling down of a woolly, brain-stifling cap over your head, the settling of a thick blanket over you that traps humidity and causes a vague, unreachable itch, or, for a few, feeling like the heart is a huge thing, turning over with a thud just under the breastbone. It’s more likely to arrive in a feeling of foreboding or nameless weight that sneaks in during the daily routine than it is to make for the kind of distinct effect other energies do: ‘before Neptune’s retro’ and ‘after Neptune’s retro’ are not so easily or clearly defined. This behemoth turned around at 3 Pisces 09, with the most immediate shift felt via natal placements that he is either squatting on or aspecting by hard angle; you might also feel an alteration in the trade winds buffeting the House in the natal chart with Pisces on the cusp, or perhaps the settling in of something dense and obscuring related to those matters. But in those instances of conjunction or aspect of Neptune to the natal, you will likely sense or be presented with a change in the creative flow, imaginative abilities, to the fantasy life, or to the ‘tune’ you normally dance to in this life area. Changes are not necessarily negative, especially if you have Neptune retro natally–then you might feel ‘back in the swim’ in a way you haven’t lately–but even if you are suddenly more comfortable with the flow of things, it can be disorienting (a Neptune specialty!) and even one who’s celebrating wants to avoid happily twirling through the fog and right off a cliff.

Today is Venus’ visible transit across the Sun, a startling phenomenon that will not be possible to observe from our vantage point here on Earth again until 2117. Don’t look directly at it–just as with an eclipse, you must protect your eyes from unkind consequences–and there are many places online to watch, should you be in a clouded area (as I am!) Astrologically, this is simply a Sun/ Venus conjunction–it’s the angle that makes it special, as it’s allowing us to see dainty Venus with the furnace of the Sun as a backdrop–but it is a meeting of retro Venus and Sun in Gemini, suggesting at the very least that the attention spotlight is on a re-consideration of relationships and/ or finances. Look for a denouement of sorts, in spite of the fact that the retro period isn’t yet over; expect some kind of ending, conclusion, wrap-up, or resolution that will probably surprise or enlighten in some important way.

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Venus Enters Taurus: ‘Slipping Into Something More Comfortable’

04 Sunday Mar 2012

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Venus tiptoes into the sign of the bull at 2:24 AM PST on the 5th of March, and we’ll hear a general sigh of relief as shoes are kicked off and toes run through new spring grass, armor plate is unbuckled and set aside for something soft and cozy, and we stop demanding what the ego wants and start filling our pie hole with the culinary glories we’re suddenly noticing all around.This is one of Venus’ two homes (the other being Libra), so she’ll be super-happy here, right?

Umm, not so fast–as she changes signs she positions herself in an exact semi-square from the transiting Sun. uh-oh. The great Isabel Hickey spoke of this, the only possible aspect of discord between Sun and Venus, noting that this mild negative is the most dissonance that there can be between the symbol of the Soul (the Sun) and the principle of Love (Miss V). This suggests that, at least at first, Venus will be gettin’ into the tangible comforts of home, the sensual, and the creative at least in part because she’s a little upset–maybe jealous, envious, or wanting ‘more’, all typical Venusian ‘faults’–or because her vanity, aesthetic needs, or attempts to show love are not being seen in a flattering light. Whatever it is, Venus retreats in what is essentially a passive-aggressive stance meant to say, “I’m done pushing forward (her time in Aries), I’m unhappy when I try to partner, or with the Other, who doesn’t appreciate me (her other sign, Libra), so now I’m going to hide away, indulge myself, and relax–with the added purpose of ignoring you, and concentrating on me.”

Watch the tone around the time of, and directly after, the sign change, and note where resentments seem to bubble to the surface, in ourselves and others. In just a day Our Lady of Love will sextile Neptune, and with both in their own signs, this may make for a potent elixir of Love, idealism, delusion, or deception, that turns us away from resentment and puts us on a creative, and hopefully kinder (to ourselves and others) path.

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A Little Astro Essence: Venus Into Aries

09 Thursday Feb 2012

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With her red hair, a Venus in Aries type-'Portrait of Alice Guerin' by Helleu 1900 {{PD-Art}}

From the Protected Page:

In the sign of Aries, the sign of ‘I am’, of the Warrior, of the Self-conscious and the Leader, Venus feels out of place; it’s her detriment, and where Venus is enveloping and receptive, sojourners through Aries are asked to aggress, assert, and generally go after what they want, the very opposite of Venus’ natural mode of getting, attraction. This is the main problem that Venus faces as she travels through Aries: her innate way of doing and being is at odds with what the environment requires–and that means she is always at a disadvantage.

Our Lady of Love enters Aries in semi-sextile to Neptune, and this may set the tone, and give us a clue as to the way Venus will handle her experience here. She may resort to illusion, delusion, subterfuge, fantasy, deception, or be very creative in her coping attempts, and she could pretend to be other than she is, or could align herself with a Collective goal or aesthetic, in order to deal with the assertive demands of the sign.

We shouldn’t make the mistake of thinking Venus doesn’t have the ability or inclination to fight, because she really does, it’s just that her methods are not those of the Warrior, but of the Seductress, and her anger shows as jealousy or envy, with Venus appealing to others (such as her son, Eros, in her campaign to subdue her rival-in-beauty, Psyche) to do her dirty work. Remember, she rules Libra, of partnership, passive-aggression, and the iron fist in the velvet glove, and Taurus, an Earth sign–and Venus loves her comforts and material possessions–and so in Aries she is more likely to muster her energies in these directions, as well as in diplomacy and artisanal pursuits, in order to fulfill the Arian mandate to do do do.

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