On Venus Affairs

It is significant that we talk about Venus as she made her rare retrograde station in Gemini yesterday. As seen from the earth, Venus is in the western sky, brilliantly bright these evenings, but will now quickly disappear, move into the setting Sun, chasing him down into the underworld, catching up to the Sun in a rare transit across the surface on June 5th-6th and then will become visible again rising ahead of the Sun in the morning mid June.  Venus does this apparent backward movement only every 19 months, the last time being October 8th-November 18th 2010 in Scorpio to late Libra.  This time she stays exclusively in Gemini from April 3rd to August 7th, when her average stay in one sign is 4 weeks.

So what does this mean??? Firstly, those persons with Taurus or Libra rising, or Sun or Moon there, be on notice (we all have those 2 signs someplace in our charts); your ruler is taking a trip backwards to pick up money, values, friendships,self esteem, relationships, valuables, or possessions that you might have forgotten you had and need to be reminded of. Venus rules what we WANT, not with our heads, but what our hearts are telling us. We learn how to attract to us and receive everything we need with a well functioning Venus. When Venus connects with the Sun on June 5th at 9:10 PM EDT a new heartfelt desire begins to stir for each of us. This time of Venus' sacred journey to reconnect to the Sun gives us the opportunity to go inside to feel what that is.The connection between Venus and our physical bodies is strong and those who are in tune viscerally will have an easier time because our bodies know the truth that our hearts are trying to tell us.

Because it is happening in the sign Gemini, all Geminis will be affected too. Gemini is the sign of information gathering and communication. This signals that we have permission to take in information more selectively, with a care as to whether what we are choosing to think about is positive, to speak to each other in more warm and loving ways and to share with others only what feels right. We might find ourselves renegotiating a contract, running into an old love, reconnecting with a sibling, writing about values, justice issues or what it feels like to value certain possessions, one another and ourselves.

So much has been happening lately to highlight Venus' issues. Each of these events pinpoints a Venus theme in one way or another, what we value, are valuing, negotiate for, love to look at;  the crisis in the USA's foreign policy toward China with the dissident Chan escaping to the American Embassy, potentially embarassing China. We had to stick by our valued Freedom, without having the Chinese lose face and not harm Chan;  the painting "The Scream" sold for more money than any other painting before it, 120 million dollars;  JPMorgan Chase Bank revealed they'd lost 2 billion dollars on a risky bet, which could have been prevented by stricter regulations that the bank has vehemently opposed; the upcoming FB stock option opening which will net the 28 year old (birthday May 14th, with planet Jupiter (lots of, success) conjunct his Sun in Taurus) 18 billion dollars; the Edwards campaign financing lawsuit involving a 90 year old society matron; 2 European elections lost by the prevailing austerity minded governments; the defeat of the legalization of same sex marriages in North Carolina;  but the announcement that President Obama is supporting it, saying "treat others the way you want to be treated". Let us all raise a glass to Venus in her journey underground as she reconnects to the Sun and we all have the chance to acknowledge what our hearts tell us.

A Personal Taurean Story

In case any one missed the blog I wrote for The Mountain Astrologer Magazine last week about what having Taurus rising means to me currently I am putting the link here.  My sister Mary writes, edits and monitors their weekly blog posts which are terrific.  http://mountainastrologer.com/tma/a-personal-taurus-report