This past Monday Venus slipped into a sign that she rules, Libra. As she leads up to her retrogradation some fifty-eight days hence, she spends the next month in friendlier terrain. And while she will retrograde in Scorpio, she will spend the days between Halloween and December 2nd in Libra. Though in the complexities of a retrograde, it will be a somewhat more palatable retrograde... in theory.
Prior to retrograding several interesting astronomical circumstances appear regarding Venus and these hold symbolic import to Venus’ influence.
Before going forward, realize that dates given may vary off a day depending upon your precise geographic location.
First up, on 15 August Venus is at what is known as dichotomy. Essentially this is the 50% phase of Venus. Should you have a telescope for viewing and if you observed her in the evening on that date she would appear as a half Venus.
Then come 17 August she reaches her greatest eastern elongation which means she stretches to her greatest separation from the Sun across the ecliptic.
As 24 September rolls around, she will achieve her greatest brightness in her current role under the misnomer “evening star.” She is what most folks wish upon when selecting the first night time object to appear and she has been cleared to land a number of airports with east-west runways.
On 26 October she reaches inferior conjunction, a direct alignment with the Earth and Sun where she is tucked between us and our solar system’s center. This constitutes the technical midpoint of the Venus retrograde era. It is at this point that she transitions from evening luminary to morning light.
Now per this last point, should there be important economic or partnership alliances attempting to form, at this juncture, Venus aligns with the Sun, shedding conscious light on the matter. Further, she aligns with the Earth, who emphasizes the mundane influences in play. Effectively, while she is retrograde, this alignment can be fortuitous for consummating Venus-ruled agreements, contracts and relationships. Yes, a review of conditions and terms will be required in December as Venus retransits this degree, but this can be a fortunate time of engaging with opportunities.
Given we know that Venus fixes to retrograde, what can be done in advance to prepare?
First, consider that with the greatest distance of Venus from the Sun, it may be more difficult to precisely line up on needs, wants, desires and it may feel funkier when seeking to assess personal attributes, skills, talents and the perception of personal value. You know, getting a grasp on what you bring to the table. Or figuring how to get the funds to launch that next venture.
This distance between Venus and Sun requires a shift of attention from a short range focus to a medium to longer stretch of consideration. It’s like changing pairs of glasses when moving from the computer to driving on busy highways, or settling in with that visibility threshold between near and far with the “progressive” lenses of a new pair of corrective eye wear.
It’s like looking at pictures or film with a tight depth of field, where only select objects (the things the photographer/videographer intended you to focus upon, and making it easy) to a broad spectrum of visual input where everything can be seen clearly. In the time of Venus’ greatest elongation, she asks for giving everything out there a look see before setting focus on specifics and the finer points.
With Venus Dichotomy a week away and eastern elongation directly following, perhaps some pointers can be set in motion such that as Venus achieves maximum brightness on 24 September everyone is prepared to engage with assets assessed, confidence in talents, resources arranged and mundane ducks in a row, prior to her retrogradation that commences on 5 October.
Here are some bullet points recommendations:
> Take time for a personal inventory. Assess your talents, skills, attributes and absorb them into your consciousness. Build a portfolio of personal promise and potential. Know that in good fit circumstances you will brilliantly shine with the application of your assets.
> When feeling something that calls your attention, shouts at you to buy it, appeals to you to engage, take a moment to ask: Is this a want, a need or a desire? Get good emotionally which whatever it is and be clear that as you go forward, there is no contradiction in your psyche about going the pursuit or acquisition of that symbolic shiny object. Get reset so it will be good for you.
> Take time to sit with yourself and determine what is the attitude behind any action that you may take to fill your emotional sails, line your coffers, or better your social standing in life. If the attitude feels acceptable, advance. If the attitude is off, adjust, align and then advance.
> Given Venus at dichotomy, consider that there is no conflict between what you want and need and what makes you a valuable contributing person. It’s all part of the whole of you and there is a time for work, a time for play. There is a time to earn and a time to spend and a time to save. And those things saved for a rainy day can be used without regret, weather permitting.
Finally, though this is not a Venus matter per se, it fits within her agenda for self confidence. Recently a “rogue” planet-size object was reported on the astronomical news wires. This object (SIMP J01365663+0933473) possesses a magnetic field 200 times more powerful than that of Jupiter and is 12.7 more massive than our solar system’s largest planet. It possesses a penchant for generating fantastical auroras. Astronomers suspect the object is something between a brown dwarf and a failed star. It appears at 25 Aries 56, in the general neighborhood of Eris (today at 24 Aries 04 retrograde), who has yet to transit and reckon with this unique astronomical discovery.
First, this is not Nibiru coming to get us.
However, it is an object that inspires inner uniqueness and basking in a comfort zone within personal individuality. With the goings on with Venus there seems to be a sub theme involved here to: make sure that those fringe, outside theories you hold onto are grounded, and check to make sure that what you believe in holds space for your life to turn out in unimaginably outstanding ways.
More soon.