Astrology suggests that the next two weeks or so would be a good time for you take a bearing. The purpose would be to work with time (and timeframes) to evaluate where you are in your life. The process might be described as similar to finding your position in physical space with a map and compass.
Without getting too technical, orienting yourself with a map and compass often begins with locating two or more landmarks (such as mountain peaks) with your eyes. Than you find them on your map, and deduce your position relative to the known positions represented by the landmarks.
Of course, spotting landmarks requires you to be in a good position to do so, usually high ground. With Venus having entered Gemini shortly before 6 am EDT (09:44:28 UTC) this morning, you are about to get one of astrology’s temporal versions of spatial high ground.
That’s because Venus (now in the very first degree of Gemini) will oppose retrograde Mars (in the very first degree of Sagittarius) shortly before 11 pm EDT tonight (02:38:08 UTC tomorrow). That opposition on the zodiac (corresponding to an actual opposition of Venus and Mars in the sky) will represent a landmark in time. That’s because of how astrology interprets oppositions.
The phenomenon known as a Full Moon (the Sun and Moon opposing each other on the zodiac and in the sky) serves as the template for interpreting all other oppositions. Most fundamentally, the occasion of an opposition represents a halfway point between conjunctions. A conjunction is when two objects occupying the same degree of the same sign.
Hence, the Sagittarius Full Moon (opposing the Gemini Sun), which just took place on Saturday, represented the halfway point between the Taurus New Moon back on May 6 and the next New Moon. That next New Moon will see the Sun and Moon converge again in Gemini on June 4 (or June 5, depending on what time zone you are in).
That’s how any Full Moon gives you sufficient metaphorical high ground to get perspective on at least an entire month. Since Venus and Mars oppose roughly every other year, basically alternating years with their conjunctions, the perspective you are about to get with them is potentially much broader. Most fundamentally, the opposition that Venus and Mars will move through overnight will represent a culmination — very much like a Full Moon.
For astrologers, culminations are not endings; rather, they are peaks in time. They function like mountain peaks in physical space: as known positions from which you can deduce your position. As regards to this particular opposition of Venus and Mars, you may now deduce that whatever started for you when Venus and Mars conjoined three times last year (on Feb. 22, Sept. 1 and Nov. 2, 2015) is now somehow coming to a peak of its own. That would be especially true regarding subject matter that corresponds to what Venus and Mars together symbolize, which would certainly include personal relationships.
As an added bonus, with both Venus and the Sun now in Gemini, both are about to give you some orientation regarding a prominent feature on astrology’s map for this entire year: the mutable T-square that Eric has referred to so often lately (most recently in his Planet Waves TV telecast on Sunday).
This year’s mutable T-square is anchored by Neptune, which has been in the mutable water sign Pisces for five years or so. The configuration then formed up when Jupiter entered the mutable earth sign Virgo in August of last year, followed by Saturn returning to the mutable fire of Sagittarius for the long run about five weeks later.
Now, the Sun and Venus are beginning their mutual tour of Gemini’s mutable air. Your consciousness (as represented by the Sun) and your sense of values (correlating with Venus) will finally be attaining sufficiently high ground to help you orient yourself with regards to some of the slower-moving planets (Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune) and the very long periods of time they correspond to. Indeed, it is very possible that you might even locate your place in history, as well as where you are in your life, over the next few weeks.
To get your bearings accurately at this time, however, you must first do all you can to place yourself on high ground. At least in regards to personal relationships, that would mean taking taking what responsibilities are fairly yours to own instead of simply looking to blame other people for your problems with them. In addition, assuming the high ground would necessarily entail actually being how you would want others to see and remember you when both the long and short astrological cycles we are now in the midst of finally come to a close.
The ultimate potential of this period in your life (and history) is thus for you become something of a mountain peak yourself — somebody who other people will someday refer and aspire to as they orient themselves in lives yet to come. Obviously the first step in attaining such lofty aspirations is to at least behave as though you are already there.
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Of course this is helpful on a personal level Len, but it is also revealing of a pattern I would not have noticed had you not mentioned the 3 conjunctions between Venus and Mars at the start of their cycle last year. I believe this cycle between these two personal planets is tied to the larger cycle of Jupiter and Saturn in a time-lapse photo kind of way.
In August last year (2015) Venus and Mars were semi-sextile one another at the same time as Jupiter and Saturn were square each other. Venus in Leo was retrograde and conjunct Jupiter in Leo and Mars in Cancer was trine Saturn in Scorpio. Five months or so earlier in February, Venus and Mars had made their 1st conjunction at the Aries Point (1+ Aries – the personal is political) when retrograde Jupiter had been at 15 almost 14 Leo and quincunx Pluto at 14 + Capricorn, a seeming insistence from Pluto that Jupiter should make an effort to adjust (quincunx).
With Venus’ retrograde ending in September, shortly after she made her 2nd conjunction to Mars in Leo (in a degree 15-14 Leo, that had been warmed up by Jupiter at their 1st conjunction no less), she caught up with Mars a 3rd time, in November, this time both of them direct at 24+ Virgo. Ironically, Jupiter at the 2nd conjunction between Venus and Mars was at 4+ Virgo while at the 3rd conjunction of Venus and Mars, Saturn was at 4+ Sagittarius. A kind of time-lapse square facilitated by the personal planets Venus and Mars.
Now Venus and Mars are at their half way point in that cycle that started in February 2015, just as Jupiter and Saturn are in their final (set of) square(s) of the cycle they began in 2000.
And that’s not all. When Jupiter makes that final square with Saturn on Thursday the 26th, he will be at 13+ Virgo and on his way to perfecting his 3rd and final exact trine with Pluto. One can only hope that Jupiter made all his adjustments to the satisfaction of Pluto.
I’ve not yet looked ahead to see how Venus and Mars might be hooked up again with the Jupiter Saturn cycle, but I feel strongly that in the U.S., transiting Venus and Mars have played very active roles in the Jupiter-Saturn cycle, a cycle that reflects changes in society. This can be seen in the interaction of individuals as they participate in the Presidential election process. As Venus and Mars make their opposition and Saturn and Jupiter make their square, Phase I of the process, the selection of nominees of the two political parties comes to an end. Phase 2 doesn’t officially start until late July, but there is a strong (one might even call it Plutonian) drive to have it over with right now.
Which brings us to the transiting Jupiter trine the transiting Pluto aspect that perfects on June 26, revealing if whether or not Jupiter has “adjusted” enough to suit Pluto’s requirements as clarified back when Venus and Mars made their very 1st of 3 conjunctions at the Aries Point and Jupiter was quincunx Pluto.
One might surmise that because the north node during this Venus-Mars conjunction period of 2015 was always in Libra, and that the 1st conjunction between these planets was on the Aries Point, and their ending conjunction had the North Node at 0+ Libra (another Aries Point), the 2nd half of their cycle will continue to seek harmony and will remain personal as well as political.
Sure grateful to you for opening to door to this interesting (to me) pattern Len. I owe you one.
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I admire you B! Wowee is all i can say.
I ll certainly be paying attention to my space n time; although my comprehension fails my fascination of all your’s and Len’s info/data makes up for it
Awesome!
puma pink: based on your own observations and correlations you have shared here in the past, your comprehension is better than you give yourself credit for.
Barbara: Nothing less than ingenious – thank you! It makes sense that Venus and Mars must always be considered as a whole (and not separately), just as Yin (which according to none other than Mr. Robert Hand, correlates directly with Venus) and Yang (corresponding to Mars). As Eric has averred in the past, Jupiter and Saturn also complement each other enough to dictate that they should be considered holistically. Now, based on your astute observations, we may now have in our trembling hands some substantial evidence that the intuitive pairing of Venus and Mars can be unified with the somewhat more intellectual pairing of
Jupiter and Saturn to indicate at least the direction towards what might be plausibly referred to as a unified field theory of astrology. Unless i’m very wrong (and as long as you are properly credited by other astrologers who might well build on the foundation you have constructed in your awesome comment), you have just attained a form of immortality.
Oh go on, you’re just saying that!
Barbara: i’m not “just saying that” – i believe it.
Dam I love you guys <3
Tug: the feeling is mutual. Thank you!
Beautiful sharing folks