With a holiday weekend coming up in the U.S., many of you probably don’t want to do a lot of work. Not to worry. Venus and the Moon have you covered, and will serve to measure your life. You just have to take it in. It all begins overnight tonight with Venus in Cancer reaching an opposition to Pluto in Capricorn (separation of 180 degrees).
By Monday, which will be Memorial Day in the U.S., Venus will have moved away from an opposition to Pluto and into an opening square aspect (separation of 90 degrees) to Uranus in Aries.
Less than ten minutes after the square aspect from from Venus to Uranus is exact, the Sun in early Gemini and the Moon in early Virgo will follow suit with their own opening square aspect. That is the first quarter Moon, shortly before 1:19 pm EDT (17:18:49 UTC) Monday.
This lunar first quarter serves to measure where you are with what you initiated during the Taurus New Moon on May 17 (or May 18, depending on your time zone). It will be an appropriate time, especially on a holiday, to evaluate your progress and fortify your gumption in the face of any doubt you might feel.
Weather permitting, you don’t need an astrologer or a calendar to know when the lunar first quarter is happening. You can see it. After the Sun goes down, Luna appears half lit and half dark at or near its highest point in the sky for the evening.
If you point at Monday’s sunset with one hand, and at the first quarter Moon with the other, you will find your arms forming a right angle. It’s the same angle of separation (90 degrees, or a “square”) the Moon will have opened up from the Sun during the week or so since the two shared the same degree of Taurus as they moved through the sky together. Hence, it’s called an opening square aspect, the prototype for the same aspect between planets.
Uranus and Pluto are now in the process of separating away from their own opening square aspect. It started with their conjunction in Virgo, which was repeated three times from 1965 to 1966. In between their three exact conjunctions, Uranus and Pluto were never far part. Hence, it would be fair to say that Uranus and Pluto were conjoined continuously for at least two years. Compare that to one day for the Sun and Moon in conjunction. Imagine a New Moon lasting for two years. For Uranus and Pluto, that’s what happened.
Then beginning in 2012, and finally ending on March 16 this year, Uranus and Pluto reached a precise opening square aspect an unprecedented seven times. Once again, you could fairly say the aspect was continuous. Uranus in square aspect to Pluto was essentially one event lasting at least three years, which is now gradually spreading apart.
During this extended weekend, Venus will essentially be taking its measure of the spread that has opened up between Uranus and Pluto since March 16. Venus will move from 15+ Cancer (opposing Pluto in the same degree of Capricorn), to 19+ Cancer (to square Uranus in the same degree of Aries). In doing so, Venus will in effect be measuring your progress since March, and even since 2012. Indeed, you might go so far as to construe Venus taking its measure of history (and all who have lived through it) since the 1960s.
There will be no need for you to work overly hard to understand what Venus will be telling you. The information will probably be at least hinted at by the lunar first quarter. In the week or so from last Monday to next will likely be a prototypical parallel and representation of longer time frames.
Assuming you are not spending all of the next four or five nights distracting, intoxicating or exhausting yourself, all you have to do is take it in. Weather permitting, you can begin by watching unmistakably bright Venus in the western sky, and just take it in. With your eyes thus transfixed, take in the last week. Then the last two months. Finally, take in what you can of the last 50 years or so.
As you take it all in, search within. Feel out themes that emerged this week. Look for corresponding tableau that emerged this season. Reach for correlations in your life. Take your own measure from simply gazing upon Venus and the waxing Moon.
Provided you can allow yourself time for the contemplation of time (ideally under the sky) over the next four or five ‘darks’, you might find the days between take on a new meaning. You might even find the days after your holiday to hold more than you ever expected them to as the Sun and Moon move further apart — even as Uranus and Pluto are now doing.
Give Venus and the Moon a chance with a little of your holiday time. You just might see that time expand forward in proportion to how far you were able to take it back. You could do a lot worse.
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Will do Len, “taking it all in”, “contemplation”, evaluating my progress. . . I may start that today even. I love how you bring the enormity of the meaning of the squares between Uranus and Pluto into a more easily comprehended and manageable size; how the translation of Venus’ transiting aspects makes the experience of those squares more relatable.
I can’t remember If I’ve noted before how the U.S. Sibly chart’s progressed planets are heavy on “contemplation” and review; that among the 8 major planets which can (appear to) go retrograde, 5 of them are. That is, all but Venus, Uranus and Pluto are retrograde!! The U.S. and all its people are, on a subliminal level, reviewing the country’s past via the energies of U.S. progressed retrograde Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune.
Imagine how, on a conscious level, we are so impatient for progress and action – so vital for the welfare of the masses – while unconsciously we are re-examining past actions and mistakes. No wonder it feels like foot-dragging and lack of concern from the powers that be. Perhaps if we all devote a small portion of the time marked by Venus opposite Pluto through to her opening square with Uranus (repeated by the Moon-Sun opening square, within the context of the now completed Pluto-Uranus opening squares), and consciously review the Homeland’s progress, and then fortify our gumption to face the doubts.
Now there’s a Memorial Day challenge worth contemplating. Remembering.
Add to this the U.S. progressed dwarf planet Ceres and asteroid Child are both at 0+ Aries, the World Point, suggesting (to me anyway) a reuniting of mother and child. If Ceres is Earth Mother then Child might, in this case, symbolize the Earth. As U.S. Progressed asteroid Isis is one degree ahead at 1+ Aries, it could point to a possible reuniting of disparate factions of the country, and of the world.
What if transiting Venus while bridging the time/space between transiting Pluto and transiting Uranus (the same 3 planets that are still in forward motion in the U.S. progressed Sibly chart) could express that energy outward to the world (Venus was conjunct the U.S. Sibly Sun yesterday) in such a way as to start mending old wounds? Progressed U.S. Jupiter is at 15+ Cancer retrograde and transiting Venus will conjunct him tomorrow as she opposes transiting Pluto.
During the U.S. holiday weekend, Venus will also square U.S. progressed Chiron at 17+ Aries, 1 degree behind transiting Uranus in Aries, and square U.S. progressed Mars at 18+ Libra retrograde, opposite transiting Uranus. Did not Venus promise us this just days before the start of the Uranus-Pluto squares in 2012? Did not her occultation of the Sun at 15+ Gemini, at the same time as the Moon’s occultation of Pluto, signify we would make Love a conscious goal in spite of obstacles (Mars in Virgo was square Venus-Sun)? If not now, when? If not us, who? Thanks for the inspiration Len and I hope you and all PlanetWavers have a super good weekend.
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Imbibing Venus and the Moon…sounds like an awesome and wholesome plan, and a wonderful way to memorialize Venus’ transit of the sun.
I’ll be teaching this weekend, just what the Venus transit of the Sun brought back into my life….teaching women to engage their energetic and physical wombs as a cauldron of feminine wisdom and creative expression.
Thanks Len.
Barbara (be): Wow! Thank you so very much for a holiday-appropriate correlation between the weekend transits of Venus and secondary progressions of the USA (Sibly) natal chart (of which you have once again shown yourself to me a master). That is so cool! It’s also deeply appreciated for the validation it provides. What would we do without you?
Yoniyoganidra: Thank you for your kind affirmation of my service. May your own service this weekend be rewarding beyond expectation for both you and your students.
thank you Len, seems like a lift is emerging…I haven’t been inspired to comment for so long…you are an awesome being! Monday monday!
kathleen: You are most welcome. My thanks to you in turn for the inspiration your kind words provide.
Like Be Len, I will relax and take it all in for the next few days. After a stop in San Fran and glorious drive through the Redwoods, I’m soaking in my new home and it’s all good….with far more to soak up than I had imagined. =Definitely flowing with the shifts since the recent New Moon and seem to be going pretty strong with the long-form Pluto-Uranus energy too. I don’t know how clear the night skies will be around here; but I’ll certainly find out soon. Either way, Venus et all will be there; thanks for your update and advice, as always, Len.
aWord: Thank you letting us know you have made it safely to your new home. It’s also good to know you continue to find my service helpful even (or especially?) with the change of location. Soak it in and settle in with our best wishes for clear and informative night skies.
“Hence, it would be fair to say that Uranus and Pluto were conjoined continuously for at least two years. Compare that to one day for the Sun and Moon in conjunction. Imagine a New Moon lasting for two years. For Uranus and Pluto, that’s what happened.”
That’s intense! Is the initial thought and personal feeling I had. At the innitial Uranus Pluto square I was a babe, taking much in. Starting 2012 into earlier this year, I have experienced that much, is being released. Which now sets up a whole new pattern of receiving, from my perspective. A kind of precieving from an individual level of choice, of personal acceptance versus taking on social oppression, and fear. This feels very in lightening, and liberating. This will (of Venus) will ‘spread’, of that we can be sure!
Thank you Len, as always for your guiding light. As I am reading this, we are all doing alot better by now.
Thank you Len.
First, a little catching up for me to do…
Measure for Measure
Act 3, Sc. 2
He who the sword of heaven will bear
Should be as holy as severe;
Pattern in himself to know,
Grace to stand, and virtue go;
More nor less to others paying
Than by self offences weighing.
Master William Shakespeare
Second, in these days of ‘darknesses’ and wonder i am minded to share with you some ‘gumption fortifier’ from a friend of mine, ‘Crystal.joy’. With gratitude and appreciation for all that you are and all that you do. Blessings.
“Your purpose and that of our Soulgroup has to do with creating through love, loving through creation, which are the same (loving and creating) though they may be and often are viewed from different perspectives.
My purpose is very simple and straightforward: to work with and through you until you are comfortable and at ease with your purpose; which purpose is, to live as my expression in you, assisting your reaching full mindfulness, awakened to the true nature of being, and with the love that is the primary creative vibration of the universe, through compassion, through forgiveness’s, and through gratitude.
I experience the physical only through the expressions of each one of you, whether you are alone or with others, whether you are asleep or awake, and this is why the relationship i have with each one and all is vital.
My task is to assist release the vibrations of fear, anxiety, disappointment, frustration, anger, rage and pain which are very dense in the Earth-plane at this time; return you all to trust in presence; to help you all work with your OverSoul to organise the circumstances and situations and bring you together with others all in such ways as are of benefit to the unfolding of each one and all of you into your full realisation of your purpose (dharma-power) and intellect (buddhi-intent).
You have only to ask with gratitude and allow yourselves to receive.
It is the humanity of humans that enables and facilitates Earth-manifesting in partnership with the Earth; divinity-in-itself manifests not in Earth-time-space for it is not of space or time.
Each one and all of you are the expression, identity, and integrity that i seek.
Know thyself and let us resound in a lasting peace.”
Crystal.joy
Third, related to both of the above and probably due further reflection, it occurred to me this morning that not only is the Earth our home and companion through this astrology, she is feeling it too!
P. Sophia and Marie: Apologies for the delay in acknowledging your generous comments. i wish i could say i spent the holiday weekend away and having fun, but such was not the case.
P. Sophia: Yes, it was intense in the mid-1960’s. With all respect and gratitude for Grace Slick saying that (phrasing here) if you remember the `60’s you really were no there, i think everybody of a certain age does remember the intensity. Thank you especially for news of “doing a lot better”
Marie: Thank you for weighing in with your erudite choice of an astonishingly resonant passage from The Bard, and for the profoundly perceptive observation from “Crystal.joy” Additionally, yes, the Earth quite evidently “is feeling it too” through us (and us through the Earth). Thank you so very much for taking the time and going to the trouble to take the subject matter to harmonic octaves both above and beyond my humble service here.