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Tuesday, August 25, 2020

An afflicted Venus - Gate into September


An afflicted Venus

Statue of Aphrodite

Jupiter and Neptune

This last week of August, Venus indulges herself as she opposes Jupiter and trine Neptune. 

Desires are expanded without limits, and overindulgence in love, expenses, or social life may backfire. 
You feel that no pleasure is enough; you may ‘drown’ in food, drink, sex, beauty, music, art, anything that makes you relax, and even provides an escape. You may even ditch work, spiritual practice, and morality for a moment’s enjoyment, that will not really satisfy you in the end. 

Be careful spending more than you can afford because you may regret it later. Usually, what may happen is that another person encourages you to go overboard, so it’s important to exercise self-control and moderation if you want to come out of this one ‘uninjured’.

As August draws to a close, Venus is entering a very compromised position in the zodiac. She enters into a Grand Cardinal Square configuration. 

Pluto

Not only does Venus opposes Pluto, but they do it EXACTLY at 22º ♑️46’, the exact degree and minute of the Saturn Pluto conjunction of January 12, 2020. Simply put, Venus and Pluto reactivate the issues that trigger the catastrophic developments of 2020.

Venus in Cancer is ruled by the Moon in Aquarius. This means that the values to hold are the people’s interest in the safety, protection, and security of families. Venus also represents resources, supplies, money, that we need and desire to sustain life (Taurus). She is also the love, self-esteem, and attraction we need to establish and maintain relationships (Libra), personal and social.

Changes issued of powerful forces of transmutation in society, government, institutions, and from those who own the world resources, operate a profound demolition and restructure of the social paradigm. Let’s not forget that Uranus in Taurus (ruled by Venus) is changing values regarding Nature, ecology, the environment, resources, food supply at the same time that changes personal and relationship values.

In opposition to Pluto, Venus is subject to power struggles from the powers that be, from another powerful person, entity or establishment that forces a profound transformation.

This may mean that food supply chains are disrupted due to the structural dismantling. It could mean that natural or human made atomic, radiation, chemical pollution damages the resources we need to survive.
In our present context, it could mean that the virus, since it was, after all, THE main issue related to the Saturn Pluto Conjunction of January 12, 2020, threatens to contaminate people massively, affecting the very fabric of society (Moon in Aquarius).

It could also represent a threat to the real estate value or the ability of the common folks to have a roof over their head.

They will certainly trigger financial upheavals related to taxes, insurance, stock market, and to the money available to the common people.

At a personal level, couples may suffer sexual difficulties, due to manipulation, jealousy, overpowering, submission by force, and violence.

There could be a tendency to trying to change others by relentless force, lack of kindness and consideration for their desires.

Saturn and Mars

TimePassages Chart by Astrograph


September 2, 2020, Venus opposite Saturn, applying to the waxing square to Mars.

This square is the crisis in action point, where action is unavoidable. Certain situation or event requires you to do something related to your desires, finances, resources, love, values.

The opposition to Saturn, indicates restructuring of finances, probable limited access to money, frustration in social life because of isolation, profound depression, delays in business, trade, work, economy. Time to tighten the belt. Resources may be scarce.

In relationships, you may feel unlovable, or unloved, rejected. You may experience separation from the object of your love or have a hard time satisfying your desires. Oppositions in general, are notices when other people, another person, or outside circumstances are against you. Someone may not give you what you want, or may ask you to fulfill your responsibility before giving you what you want. You may have low confidence in relationships and in social life, and feel isolated, lonely.

Juno & Haumea in Libra

Haumea is a newly discovered (Dec. 2004) dwarf planet in the farthest side of the Solar System after Neptune. About the size of Pluto, it's not less significant. It was name out of Haumea is the Hawaiian goddess of fertility and childbirth. 

Haumea


“She gave birth to many children, and to all the island chiefs. She is a great creation Goddess and the ancestor of all indigenous Hawaiians who are descendants of the ancient civilization of Mu. Haumea is a crone archetype and is the elder in a trinity of Hawaiian Goddesses that includes Hina and Pele. Haumea had the power to change her form as her nature was constantly renewing; although she grew old, she was continually transformed into a young woman, representing the cycles of women’s lives.

Each of her children emerged from a different part of her body, symbolizing a profoundly nourishing source of life. Haumea also acts as a divine midwife to human mothers and taught women the mysteries of childbirth. Author Martha Beckworth, whose collection resides in a Hawaiian museum, suggests that the name Haumea actually comes from Hanaumea, which means ‘sacred birth’.

Haumea is thought to inhabit the Makalei tree, a Tree of Life on the island of Oahu, whose mystical branches and deep roots yield infinite amounts of food. Like a Cornucopia, the tree symbolically provides many staples to the Hawaiian people, such as coconut, bamboo, taro root, breadfruit and sugar cane. When the Goddess shakes a sacred branch of the miraculous Makalei tree over water, she attracts abundant fish.”

Venus square Haumea and the asteroid Juno indicate that the nature of our unbridled desires, our dealing with and wasting of the Earth resources are not respecting the capacity of Nature to regenerate, and perpetuate life on Earth. Our extreme consumerist attitude does not even consider the human ability to survive.

The Mars opposition to Juno and Haumea in Libra relates to conflicts in relationships, especially love relationships, but also conflict is social life, meaning relationships of any kind. The energy of Mars is lack of kindness, even gruesome aggressiveness, inconsideration, selfishness. May also indicate financial problems (Libra). In addition, it relates to lack of consideration and reverence for Nature, childbirth, the fertility and the bounty of the Earth, aggressive attitude against any kind of fairness, justice, logic, and measure in the use of Mother Earth’s resources.

Juno, Jupiter's Wife


Mars energy reflects a strong will in the search for independence, at ALL costs, without any sensitivity for others. His assertive actions are against all attempts of cooperation. Partnerships may suffer a power struggle for domination, and subjugation.

Mars is now so strong and close to Earth that his energy is incendiary. Difficult to contain raging fires exacerbate the violence against Mother Earth. Please be careful and conscious of your actions.

On their Capricorn side, the triple conjunction pushes for strong repressive measures, that block and controls any intention of soothing the situation with commitment, alliances, equanimity or fairness (Juno). The Establishment, the Old Patriarchal Paradigm grasps as much power and resources as possible in great detriment of the Earth ability to recover and regenerate (Haumea). For more on this, I refer you to my Mars in Aries Catalyst of Change article.
 
References
Nasa, The Dwarf Planet Haumea
Astrograph, TimePassages chart

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Venus in Libra opposite Uranus in Aries at 29º November 29, 2018

Towards the North Node in Cancer
Uranus 29 Aries opposite Venus 29 Libra, Nodes 28 Cancer/Capricorn

If  the Grand Cross in Fixed Signs did not do it, this one in Cardinal Signs will.





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Venus, the lady of Love, Money and Beauty has now found her way forward since November 15, in her own home of Libra where she’s ready to make changes and start a new 8-year journey.

But today she’s face-to-face with the Lord of the Heavens, who gives her a new, and much unexpected insight about her identity in matters of love, money, value and beauty. She now will suddenly see a different perspective, a new situation, a new decision to make, a new freedom to walk in an unconventional journey. While retrograde, she’s had time and space to reflect in deep (in Scorpio) introspection and found a way to rebalance (in Libra) her issues. 
Across from Uranus in Taurus now, she remembers the past 8 years when, while she was making her tour around the Sun, Uranus was traveling Aries, the part of the sky inhospitable to her. She now remembers his eager look for freedom to be authentic, different from the norm, and her desire to find an interesting new way of being. In fact, she can’t forget the few times she had bumped into him, when she got electrified and triggered to give in to his maverick ways, and she was left with her hair undone. Yes, in those occasions, her values were tweaked, her likes and dislikes twisted and turned, because Uranus strikes with electrical might and can change Venus’s sweets into psychedelically wiggly neon gum worms. Uranus, the bohemian scientist is, at the same time, the electrical shock of spiritual insights that can fracture Venus kindness in the blink of an eye.  
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Today Uranus and Venus have an issue to rebalance. It has to do with who we think we are, what we love, who we love, what we value, and the value of our finances.

Uranus transiting Aries is closing a 7-year chapter of identity fracture, transformation and remake in the area of our personal chart where it falls. He’s giving us the final exam about it. What have we learned? How have we changed? what is our new style, our new look? How have we integrated this new identity into our environment? Do we still fit in the same tribe?
Venus, across the Zodiac is now ready for a new Love and Value journey. She has reflected and reviewed, reconsidered, redefined and has made up her mind about what she wants and doesn’t want. In Libra, not only is she cozy and comfy, but she has made the decision, has changed and closed the previous chapter.

The Bowl configuration, where all the planets are still pointing their energy to the Cancer Lunar North Node.


Today, as if he hasn’t triggered enough upheaval, Uranus the Lord of the Heavens, shakes Venus yet into another change! As usual for him, it’s about freedom from the norm, about independence and sudden irreversible change. He strikes our values, our relationships, our financial resources once more with his lightening rod. What he has in store for Venus is unpredictable, but certainly something we haven’t seen before. Would it be a new way of making love or have relationships with greater allowance? Would it be free resources for all? The only thing we can say is that our Values will certainly change dramatically if not  shockingly.

Uranus opposing Venus are triggering and supporting another major shift we’ve had in November when the Lunar Nodal Axis has progressed into Cancer/Capricorn. This new axis has changed the game in important ways that helps us build upon what we started 18.5 years ago, last time the Lunar Nodes were in these signs. Now that the collective consciousness has found balance between social groups (Aquarius) and self (Leo), between the masses and the leadership, we are challenged to rebalance the masculine (yang) or Capricorn and the feminine (yin) or Cancer energies of our life. Capricorn represents our going out into the world to achieve goals, seeking some kind of place in it. Cancer represents our inner world, our emotional body needing safety and comfort.  We now experience a tension between the power of the social and institutional structures (Capricorn) and the basic social unit of home and family (Cancer), with an emphasis on nurturing and caring for the people close to us.

Remember that the Nodal Axis defines a subtle energy considered to be imposed onto us from the Moon cycles and eclipses that brings a general emotional undercurrent making us crave certain things, and letting go of others. With the North Node in Cancer we crave home made life, food, comfort, feelings, care, safety, grounding and coziness.

In fact, the clash between Uranus and Venus, is the final push we needed to realize the importance of family life and emotional security, and to be able to take the necessary actions, especially if we had neglected or sacrificed this aspect of our life in order to achieve a certain social status. We have now a clear insight into how much we have neglected those issues in the hands of the outside world, and that we should focus on rebuilding there if we hope for our own safety and survival. We’ve come to a point where we have realized that Government Institutions don’t really care nor work for our families, that we will need to do it ourselves if we want to have a fulfilling life.  

For each Rising Sign, this Venus opposition to Uranus, marks a different kind of challenge depending on where it falls in the Natal Chart. I next generally describe the 6 axes of houses and the North Node focus. House placements vary for particular Zodiac signs depending on the time and place of birth. The reader will have to look on his or her own chart what exact houses Venus, Uranus and the Nodes are transiting. 

ARIES  ♈
Aries needs to find a balance between the value of long term personal or business relationships (7th) and the freedom of self (1st) in order to find comfort at home (4th).

LIBRA ♎
Libra needs to find a balance between the value of self (1st) and freedom in long term relationships (7th) in order to find comfort in the career or public reputation (10th).

TAURUS  ♉
Taurus needs to find a balance between the freedom of resting, sleeping, self sabotage, hidden life  (12th) and value of health or work and daily schedules (6th) in order to find comfort in their neighborhood, communications or with their siblings (3d). 

SCORPIO ♏
Scorpio needs to find a balance between the freedom of being healthy, at work and ing daily schedules (6th) and the value of rest, sleep, self sabotage, hidden life and hidden enemies (12th) in order to find comfort in higher education, travel, higher knowledge or spiritual faith (9th).

GEMINI  ♊
Gemini needs to find a balance between the freedom of social groups and friends, hopes and dreams (11th) and  the value of their creativity and joy, children, romantic life (5th) in order to find comfort in their own finances, values and self worth (2d).

SAGITTARIUS  ♐
Sagittarius needs to find a balance between the freedom of their creativity and joy, children, romantic life (5th) and the value of social groups and friends, hopes and dreams (11th) in order to find comfort in their sexual life, shared resources with partners, and transformational experiences (8th).

CANCER ♋
Cancer needs to find balance between the freedom in their career, public pursuits (10th) and the value of their home life (4th) in order to feel emotionally fulfilled in themselves (1st).

CAPRICORN ♑
Capricorn needs to find balance between the freedom of their home life (4th) and the value of their career, public pursuits (10th) in order to feel emotionally fulfilled with their long term personal or business partners (7th). 

LEO ♌
Leo needs to find balance between the value of their communication, siblings relationships, in neighborhood, the freedom their skills provide in business (3d) and the freedom of long distance travels, higher knowledge, faith, cultural and spiritual interests (9th) in order to feel emotionally fulfilled in their most private hidden space, spiritual and psychological development, rest, sleep, and all hidden activities (12th).

AQUARIUS ♒
Aquarius needs to find balance between the value of higher knowledge, spiritual and cultural quests, travels and belief systems (9th) and the freedom in their neighborhood, in the siblings' relationships, communication, skills (3d) in order to feel emotionally fulfilled in regards to place of work, daily routines and health (6th). 

VIRGO ♍
Virgo needs to find balance between the value of their own finances, their self worth, (2d) and the freedom given by their shared resources with partners, deeply transformational experiences and in sexual life (8th) in order to feel emotionally fulfilled in social life, big groups activities, hopes and dreams and earnings from career (11th).

PISCES ♓
Pisces needs to find balance between the value of shared resources with partner, deeply transformational experiences and sexual life (8th) and the freedom found in their own finances and resources, and self worth (2d) in order to feel emotionally fulfilled in regards to the search of joy in creative life, children and romantic life (5th).

Remember that this may not exactly correspond to your Natal Chart because of the time and place of birth. If you need a personalized analysis of transits like this, please email your request to satsangatyoga@gmail.com. Reading prices vary depending on your questions and the length of the report. 




Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Grand Cross in Fixed Signs - October 2018

This month, the Moon, Mercury, Venus and the Sun are parading across Uranus retrograde in Taurus, through the first degrees of Scorpio, squaring simultaneously the Lunar Nodal Axis.

The four signs involved in the Grand Cross are the Zodiac Stubborn. The hold the highest of each season, the hottest of the Summer, the coldest of the Winter, the most beautiful of the Spring, the sharpest of the Fall. They're famous for not giving in.

Here comes Uranus, the electric Lord of Lightening, striking the massive Earth in Taurus, sending its burning beams of power across the Zodiac into the house of the Stinger.

Emotions were stirred up a couple of days right after the New Moon in 15º Libra on October 8th, when She had to face the unexpected wrath coming from Uranus. Then came Mercury running fast to bring the resulting message from a deep research down in a the dungeons of Hades. He's followed by the most beautiful lady of the Zodiac, who's coming back slowly and nonchalantly to her house of Libra where she apparently forgot something. Only that before getting there, she has to walk under the unforgiving rays of the Supreme Captain of our Ship, the Sun, who may singe her a bit, but most of all, will recharge her batteries, make her stronger and more daring on the way. When Venus then arrives home, she'll show her power to convince!
Venus de Milo

Meanwhile, the Rahu and Ketu receive the strokes as well, or send their fated demands to the houses where the challenge is striking. Rahu, the North Node of the Moon, is pulling us to become more generous, to reorient our hearts in the direction of our true identity, to follow our feelings in making decisions, and encouraging us develop leadership qualities. Ketu, the South Node of the Moon, is asking us to let go of the mooring line, to drop the hindrance of our unhealthy attachments, not to trust so much in our rational mind, but consult our heart more often.  (For more on this, read my previous article on the Leo/Aquarius Nodal Axis.) This tension is triggered by the opposing planets. Something's got to give...
Rahu Ketu
We've been pressured to change directions. For each of us, the tension and pressure is about a different issue, depending where those planets and points fall in our Natal Chart, and what Natal planets or points they activate. For example, Leo Rising Sign will be challenged to change something to balance private and public life in order to affirm their own regal identity. For all signs, the themes of Love, Relationships, Finances, assets and Values are at stake.

You can find out how this astral configuration, and other powerful cosmic interconnections, are affecting your own life by having your own Chart analyzed compared to the Transits Chart. Becoming aware of the energies at play, is the first step to make assertive and sound decisions that will certainly have long term implications. Order your Chart analysis now! Email me at satsangatyoga@gmail.com to find out more information about it.


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