Venus Star Point - Phosphorus Birth - January 8, 2022

Phosphorus or the Purification 

& Integration of Venus

"Be the Love that You Are Looking For", on an Austin TX sidewalk

    Today, with Venus sextile Neptune, it easy to enjoy pleasures of all kinds, your senses are enhanced. Your refined sensitivity craves sensual beauty, flavors, caresses, fragrances, music, involving all your senses. Your feelings are exalted, and you may fall in love head over heels. But just be cautious, not only is Venus retrograde, but the Sun is coming towards her and she towards it. She is burned under the Sun rays, soon being purified and integrated in a new way into the core essence of your being. 

    On January 8, Venus is exactly between the Earth and the Sun at 18º♑️43'. This degree is within the Taurus Decan, the Venus Egyptian Term and the Virgo Dwad. It is recommendable to be doubly cautious, because there is too much Venus in the Virgo element that dwells in imbalances, discontent, criticism, and an almost unhealthy focus on what is wrong, could go wrong, and needs fixing or perfecting. This doesn't make it for a good love prospect. 

    In all cases, is good to remember all recommendations for a Venus retrograde period; in other words, avoid making definitive decisions about important life matters, such as large expenses, long term relationships, and contracts. For the time being, until January 29, take your time, study your figures, read the documents, learn more about the other person paying attention to any 'red flag' along the way. In Capricorn, you want durable love, lasting investments, and sound agreements, no nonsense. You value solid structures. And yet, during the Venus retrograde period, you may miscalculate values. So take your time, after all, Saturn rules Capricorn, right?

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December 29, 2021 - Mercury Conjunct Venus

Mercury Joins Venus in Capricorn

Mercury Venus & Cupid by Louis-Michel van Loo, France 1707-1771

    When Mercury visits Venus (24º♑️26'), there is much talk of love. Letters, emails, messages, and even contracts! But Venus retrograde may not be agreeable to any of it, because in Capricorn, she means 'business'. She is going down under the Sun rays already, and pretty soon, she'll disappear under the evening horizon on her spiritual retreat. It's good to hear the sweet voice of your lover, but often, their actions talk louder and not as pleasantly. This is the work of Pluto just one degree away from their conjunction. Pluto demands truthfulness, not superficial attraction, or simple desire, but authentic love. 

    Venus in Capricorn wants earnest, real, durable and committed love and values. Today, you could record those messages and check back on them when Venus comes back direct to join Mercury Rx on September 26, 2022, or November 21, 2022 when both are direct, or better yet December 29, 2022 when they will again conjoin at the same exact spot, 24º ♑️20'. Wow! They have some serious ongoing business in Capricorn.

Square to Eris in Aries

    Another important factor for this conjunction is the square to Eris in Aries, which, even though is not partile, is extremely close at all the instances noted above. Today, Eris is at 23º 43' Rx; September 26, 2022, she is at 24º40' Rx; November 21, she is at 24º 08' Rx; and December 29, she is at 23º 56' Rx.

    Eris also challenges Venus-Mercury to be honest and realistic. She introduces the discord when people are not genuine. Especially, regarding women, her ire came from being discarded, rejected from the God's Feast for being ugly. She despised the superficiality of all the Goddesses competing amongst themselves about being the most beautiful, attractive, desirable and worth of being adored. 

Eris, Goddess of Discord & Chaos

    In this square, she makes Venus stop to reflect on her banal values to help her realize and decide what kind of love she actually seeks. In your personal life, are you attracted to good looks? Do you care more about the clothes she/he wears than their moral principles? Or do you rather pay attention to their conversation subjects? Do you just want a one night stand or you care for a long lasting bond? Both and any option has its consequences, positive and negative. Your choice is a matter of value and goals. 

    With all the current transits, these days you need to pay close attention in every situation, be mindful of your thoughts, words and decisions, take time to reflect, because they may have long lasting effects for your life. 

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December 26, 2021 - Venus Sextile Neptune

 Feeling Inspired?

    The dynamic of this aspect is that Neptune increases the sensitivity of Venusian themes, raising them to a spiritual level. The sextile is always an open door, but it's up to you to enter. So, some people may or may not tap into the higher sensitivity of this day. 

    Loving relationships can become more compassionate, empathic, romantic, peaceful. You may feel more inclined to harmonious exchanges with your partner, and disgusted by raw and distasteful behavior. Meeting a potential lover may look like a dream come true and your imagination may add a bit of fantasy to it. If you are in love, your amorous fantasies may take fly. Be careful because Venus is retrograde and you may have unpleasant realizations once she comes back direct. 

    You feel very romantic and see charm in others. You intuit the feelings of others as well. If you have a partner and the relationship is satisfactory, then you are more loving and affectionate with each other. Venus Neptune activates your Muses and you could write inspired messages or romantic poetry to your lover. Here is an excerpt from a Romantic letter from the end of the 19th Century, in Edmond Rostand's play, Cyrano de Bergerac:

(Roxane is reading Cyrano's letter who wrote it on behalf of Christian, her lover, although pouring in it his own feelings for her)

"'My heart to yours sounds but one cry:

If kisses fast could flee

By letter, then with your sweet lips

My letters read should be!"

    This harmonious aspect of Venus to Neptune makes you more sensitive and you express a higher level of love, sometimes, it could take the form of a platonic love, or making love with your imagination.  

    Venus Neptune stimulates imagination and fantasy, great ingredients for a boost in creativity and art. It could be a great time to finish an art project or complete a new one.  You may notice that you are inclined to listening to pleasant music, and watching movies of love, compassion, goodwill, harmonious themes.  You like artistic expressions that show refinement and feed your spirituality. 

    And, of course, because of the Venus retrograde motion, these new tastes may not be your usual ones. It's just an opportunity to explore different and more peaceful values and desires. 

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Daily Transits - December 9-11, 2021

Venus in the 'Rapist' Alley 

The Venus Sun cycle forms a five-pointed Star in the Sky.
Nature reflects its beauty in many ways.

    During this Venus retrograde season that started at 11º♑️04' on November 18, 2021, is important to consider what she is doing in Capricorn. On the one hand, as she slows down (direct) she reviews security structures, fears, social conditionings and conventions, and all those social and political rules established to live harmoniously in society. Her nature is to find a good balance between what one desires and needs and the needs and desires of others. 

    Since Saturn (Lord of the Sign) is in Aquarius, there is an undercurrent of struggle for social freedom. People want to have their lifestyle preference respected, but because of the Saturn Uranus square, there is a strife between the need for constraint (pandemic times) and the need for independence. So, Venus has a tough task these days. 

    Considering that she's been out of bounds until just a couple of days ago (October 11 to December 7), matters related to her archetype have manifested wildly and intensely, in some instances, out of the norm. One example, is the women's rights now under legal scrutiny by the political powers. Issues that women had been taking for granted for so long are again disputed and fought for (Venus square Eris). 

    As I say, now Venus takes her time, she is down within the bounds, coming back to reason and taking stock of reality in a cold and austere Sign, where, in fact, she's not completely uncomfortable. For example, she likes her things to be stable. A good friend of Saturn, she likes serious committed love, stable finances, fair relationships (Libra), and durable values (Taurus). She likes the security (Capricorn) of having the things she needs to thrive (Taurus). 

    Today, though, she falls in the arms of the 'rapist' of the Zodiac, Pluto. However, this is not the first time, especially around the time of her Capricorn star point. On January 9, 2018, she had a similar embrace at the exact time of her cazimi at 18º (ungraceful if not disgraceful degree). Do you remember any event in your life related to Venus back then? 

    When Venus makes her first conjunction with Pluto, you may feel an obsessive desire to have something or someone. (I want a new laptop!) Someone else may try to manipulate or dominate you in some way, sexually, financially, emotionally. Be careful and pay attention. The perspective will certainly change when she comes back over Pluto and during the whole retrograde period (December 19 to January 29). And what you value now will have had a definite transformation once she exits the shadow zone in March. Make sure you don't get seduced by shiny promises and that you use discrimination when it's time to evaluate an offer or opportunity of any kind.

    Codependent, obsessive and possessive relationships reach now the climax of tension, despair and disgust. If the situation has been toxic for a long time, you now have the great opportunity to break the chains. Go for it! I already heard about a couple of such situations coming to a head in a traumatic and liberating way. You may need professional help or assistance from friends, family or the community, though. Make sure you seek protection if you are in danger. 

    In addition, Mercury sextile Jupiter, which makes you think with incredible optimism and be ultra enthusiastic about your ideas. However, the Sun square Neptune may make you even more vulnerable because it weakens your vitality. Not only could you be susceptible to the seasonal bugs (bacteria, virus, fungi, allergy), but to hypnotic suggestion, psychic disturbances that hinder your ability to make a good judgment. You may only see the good in people and get such wrong impression that you fall for something dangerous. You may also feel defeated, unable to enjoy yourself, doubting yourself. In a bad relationship, someone may try to make you believe you are wrong, mentally unstable or sick because you want to change things (deceptive manipulation).

Credit, Kat Ha, Helleborus

    The best way to use the Sun Neptune square is to dedicate time to express yourself with art, music, dance, render service to poor, sick, or vulnerable people, or go swimming. In fact, your creative expression could be your life saver these days. 

Have a great weekend! Sat Nam.

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Daily Transits - Venus Square Chiron & Moon

Venus Square Chiron

The Venus Chiron cycle started on March 28, 2021 with the Libra Full Moon. Chiron was sandwiched between Sun and Venus at 8º. They started a healing period through a painful event that took us to a higher level of consciousness. One has been able to start healing one's sense of self (Aries). This implied having to face your most intimate feelings of not being ‘enough’, of vulnerability, inadequacy, rejection, abandonment, dissatisfaction, unacceptability, etc. that you charge against yourself. Both the Sun and Moon highlighted the deepest wounds of your soul so you could acknowledge them, take responsibility for them and decide to heal. The light of the Sun, Venus and Chiron shining over the Moon’s surface at the time of the Full Moon reflected this loving self-healing, and injected compassion, harmony, goodwill, fairness and equanimity onto your psyche and emotional body. The whole process started through and ended affecting all relationships, but also taught you a new way to relate to yourself and others.

As Jeremy Neals, Astrologer, says "True love cannot be made without Chiron".

Love in human life is as necessary as food and water. Babies cannot survive without it. Adults only survive without it. Whether we have a partner or family to love, Love is an essential part of human life. If alone, you have to learn how to provide it for yourself. If in relationships, we have to learn have to give it and receive it.

The wound that Chiron represents in your Natal Chart shows you the place where we most need TLC. For example, if it falls in the first house, your challenge is to learn how to love yourself, imperfections, shortcomings and all. If it falls in the seventh, your challenge is to learn how to choose an appropriate partner, or relate to another human being in a balanced way. When we relate to others, all areas of life are involved, especially the ones that hurt. Soon enough, do you realize that they need to be included as well.

The vulnerable areas -Chiron transiting Aries, are the hardest to manage in a relationship. Because we don't know how to heal, at first, we project the wound onto the partner, and they do the same onto us. We try to heal or fix each other. Venus visiting your natal Chiron -or the transiting Chiron in this case, is a balsamic relief. It helps us sooth the rawness of the wound, care for it, treat it with compassion, understanding, patience. Even though, Venus is not the unconditional love Neptune can give us, we can get a glimpse of what true love may be.

Venus can show us, though, that we all hurt for a valid reason, consciously or unconsciously. We all are broken one way or another, and paradoxically, still whole. When we remember this with compassion, we can then establish a harmonious and balanced love exchange, where both parties receive what they need. However, the whole process only starts within ourselves, when we understand that we are lovable in spite of our faults, when we look in the mirror and say to ourselves 'I love you' sincerely, with all our own heart. Then, we are ready to love the 'other'.

Venus Last Quarter Square to Chiron represents the crisis in consciousness of the cycle, the time when you accept and assimilate the lessons learned. Venus in Capricorn could represent the realization that you prefer a more committed, mature, stable, secure relationship. It may also mean that you expect integrity in words and deeds. 

The first quarter square with Venus in Cancer happened early June 2021. That could have brought a very painful experience of loss, a traumatic separation, divorce, that has left you feeling abandoned, rejected, and 'not good enough'. Usually, this tense aspect hurts your self-esteem as well. 

However, both squares can bring unbearable pain for the loss of something or someone you hold dear. In the end, Venus transits demand that you change your values. Generally, through a heartbreak, you are more than ready to do that, because the pain is impossible to suffer. You are more than willing to let go of it.

May Venus bring also the balm of peace and harmony that comforts your heart. 

Blessings, Sat Nam.

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