Indulge neither fantasy nor fear as Venus moves through Virgo to oppose Neptune in Pisces at 6:51 am EDT (10:51 UT) tomorrow, and you’ll be positioned to handle what relationship has brought you since Friday. Venus entered Virgo on Friday, probably followed soon thereafter by some relationship situation entering (or re-entering) your life.

The nature of the relationship situation that precipitated soon after Venus made ingress to Virgo at 1:07 pm EDT (17:07 UT) necessarily varies from one person to the next, yet with one probable common thread.

The common thread would have been yesterday’s Pisces Full Moon at 9:38 pm EDT (or 1:38 am UT this morning), possibly accompanied by a sense of exasperation.

Exasperation, perhaps, for what remains unresolved for you in relationship, either since Friday or since even further back in time. Fortunately, tomorrow’s opposition from Venus to Neptune is taking place along the same sign axis (Virgo to Pisces) as yesterday’s Full Moon.

Fortunate, but not because the Venus-Neptune opposition will necessarily bring the resolution you crave. Because instead, one way or another (but probably also through relationship), a deeper understanding of your emergent (or re-emerged) relationship situation will be accompanied by a broader range of options for you to address when Venus and Neptune follow the Full Moon’s act.

First, however, you must refrain from indulging both the downside of opposition aspects and the downside of what Venus and Neptune represent in common.

Oppositions have an undeserved reputation of signifying conflict, when really they are so much more. On the level of actual events, we perceive two planetary objects to be opposed as Earth moves between them. On the zodiac circle, the actual event translates as the respective symbols of those two objects occupying the same degree of opposite signs.

In astrology, opposite signs are almost never opponents. Rather, opposing signs reflect each other as if in a mirror. Specific to the Virgo-Pisces opposition, Eric likes to quote the late, great Patric Walker who cogently observed that if you scratch the surface of Pisces, you will likely find Virgo just beneath.

Hence, while the potential for conflict cannot be ruled out, oppositions go deeper for astrologers to represent the basis of all relationships — something in common.

Which is interesting, because Venus and Neptune have something in common. Some astrologers even go so far as to say that Venus and Neptune represent different octaves of the same archetype, one that manifests most often in your life as idealism.

Idealism is not bad. Without ideals, you would have even less to guide you through a confusing world. Ideals held in common form the bonds that hold all sorts of relationships together.

Yet ideals must be realized (made real) to have any meaning beyond fantasy, which is where your participation as a member of the solar system comes in about now.

That’s because you are now moving between Venus and Neptune, which puts you in the position of both mediating their differences and manifesting what they have in common.

The nature of your role as mediator and manifestant will be as unique and specific as your relationship situation. Yet there are some common guidelines suggested by the astrology.

First, eschew any fantasy about your newly emerged (or re-emerged) situation simply resolving itself. Sweeping things under the proverbial carpet now will not be helpful down the road. As an alternative, consider offering that long-withheld apology, paying the debt, or otherwise clearing the air in common between you and another so as to see your own reflection more clearly.

Next, and perhaps most difficult, neither fear nor foment conflict. Look for options. When it comes to real-life relationship situations that correlate with astrological oppositions, there are at least three alternatives to conflict.

The first alternative is to ground the energy of conflict in a mutually creative endeavor. In other words, focus on what’s in common. Act in unison rather than making differences (which are often superficial anyway) the defining means by which you relate.

Another alternative (especially if your relationship situation finds you moving uneasily between two opposing poles of conflict) is to shuttle between both the polar extremes, negotiating with both separately and simultaneously until your situation (at least) has been grounded.

As a third alternative to conflict, you may want to hold the tension you feel in your relationship situation until an opportunity for either creative or negotiated resolution presents itself.

Finally, and only as a last resort, sometimes it’s best to have it out. Should that be your election, please understand that it will be up to you to engage conflict in a conscientious manner so as to make sure the end result is in fact a resolution and not an exacerbated continuation of the same old stuff — only worse.

For the outcome (or lack thereof) of any relationship situation that represents your place in common with what started (or re-started) late last week will somehow contribute to more than the course of just your life.

Just as Venus will be opposing Neptune for all of us tomorrow, it’s important for you to know that you and your relationship situation do not exist in a vacuum. The astrology of our era, and of our moment in common, indicates above all that there is something more than just you going on, and you are part of how it all turns out.

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