For Venus (and how Venus expresses in your life), what remains of the Aquarius road to its Pisces exaltation would best not be called rough. More properly, the path Venus will trace through latter Aquarius before entering Pisces Tuesday, just seconds before 10:00 am EST (15:00 UTC), looks to be passionate and worthy of walking mindfully in good company.
It helps that the Moon entered Pisces earlier today — preparing the ground, so to speak. Indeed, until the Moon moves on to Aries come Saturday morning (something Amanda has already prepared us for in her offering today), the passionate path of Venus will very possibly be previewed by how the lunar lives for you over the next few days.
Venus and the Moon have a lot in common. Both are nearly always silvery to the eye and often steadily bright when the Sun is below the horizon. Additionally, both Venus and the Moon go through phases, from a thin crescent to the fullest face.
Finally, both Venus and the Moon invoke a feminine warrior’s independent strength. That strength proceeds from the Western mythology behind their respective names to include part of how it feels when you simply look at them with your own eyes.
Yet, there are differences between how the Moon and Venus manifest. The Moon tends to correlate with what is so personal and immediate as to be unknowable to any but you and perhaps a select few others.
Venus, on the other hand, usually manifests as what each of us feel deeply in common with others. To cite just one example, the uncanny inseparability of timeless truth and ageless beauty is a Venus experience nearly always shared simultaneously and spontaneously — often reached in response to public performances or exhibitions of art.
When it reaches Pisces next week, Venus will also have attained what is called its exaltation. When a planet is exalted in a sign, it’s different from being in a sign it rules. It is something more, a liberation of sorts — like being temporarily relieved of a burden of responsibility while still in full flower of personal power.
Until then, however, Venus has a passionate path to walk, and you with it. Indeed, given the collective qualities Aquarius represents, it’s a path you will walk with others who share an uncanny inseparability with you.
Hence, you will almost certainly not be walking alone as you trace what promises be a passionate personal path on your way to Tuesday.
You could recognize others on your path by a common light. You may note how they are in phase with you somehow. You might even feel a warrior’s bond and a woman’s care connecting you.
Your commonly experienced passions will in all likelihood include tensions, both private and public. To balance the tensions, passionate support will probably be equally available.
Most of all, each trial will also provide what could be unprecedented proof of both your own validity and that of others. Along the way, what will ideally result for you and your partners in passion is both a mindful and mutual exaltation of your true selves.
To get there, all you have to do is live your life so as to take it over rather than be overtaken. For such is the path of passion.
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No sooner said than done! Wow, Len, this is something to look forward to, this Venus passionate path we are on. I can tell Pres. Obama was on that path Tuesday night, and maybe Venus’ exultation, or “liberation of sorts” might explain that.
However, the New Moon at 0+ Aquarius was conjunct his natal Jupiter, also at 0+ Aquarius, which would be the power behind the passion I suppose.
In fact, the New Moon (same day as the President’s State of the Union Speech) had Venus and Mercury straddling his ascendant of 18+ Aquarius opposite transiting Jupiter (19+ Leo retro) at his descendant. You could just feel the love (approval) when he remarked how he had no more campaigns left to which the Pubs applauded, and he followed with “I know; I won them both”! The Dems gave him a standing ovation for that gotcha.
The body of his speech however, was speaking to the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction in December 2020, also at 0+ Aquarius. My heart nearly exploded with joy with his list of initiatives; repairing infrastructures like bridges, free college for 2 years, equal pay for women, fair minimum wage, etc.. . . .all Aquarian idealism of course, but meant to plant seeds of positive course corrections for our country.
Walking the path mindfully and in good company. You know, we elect a new president in November, 2016, and then we will vote for a US President again in November, 2020, the month before the new Jupiter-Saturn 20 year cycle begins. It will be the first air sign Jupiter-Saturn cycle in a new series of cycles, indicating mental pursuits in societal and cultural endeavors, a change from the earth cycles coming to a close this time which are material based.
There is a lady greatly admired by many in government; Elizabeth Warren, and she also has Jupiter at 0+ Aquarius, but she says she’s not interested in being President . . . . .yet. Now there’s a feminine warrior with independent strength and doesn’t that just make my heart sing with joy! Bless you Len for this revelation about Venus in her sign of exultation, what would we do without YOU!
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Thanks Len, this is wonderful. I have a T-Square in my natal chart with Venus being the focal point, in my 6th house of service, with Venus directly opposite Nessus. Venus expresses itself in my life as a beacon of light for sure, so I love your comparison with the Moon, it’s great imagery, one of the reasons I love your posts. In the dark night of the soul, Venus is my Moon. She guides me just the same, and I’ve come to believe my natal chart demands it so.
Venus was right in the last degree of Capricorn when I was born. The Sabian Symbol; “The directors of a large firm meet in secret conference”. Marc Edmund Jones adds, “Activity of inner formative elements of real personality. Massing of soul-energies in an emergency. Spiritual leadership.” Now, I do not have a Messianic complex, but I do consider myself a leader of men. I’m with Eric on the idea that we actually need leaders. A lot of points in my chart spell out the need for a strong moral compass. To whom much is given, much is expected.
Barbara: Thank you for addressing the astrology of The President’s speech so adroitly. You are an inspiration to all astrologers. Interesting about how that first degree of Aquarius came to the fore with the New Moon conjunction of the luminaries (Sun and Moon) sharing the same degree. It’s amazing how astrology works with such timing and (often) such precision. Of course, not nearly as amazing as having you here to help us see what astrology is showing us.
Michael: Lead on. And thank you for doing so. More of a follower myself. We do indeed need gifted leaders like yourself. We also need you to help us challenge those whose pretense to leadership is a hollow promise clothed in an empty suit. That’s where your native Venus will come in handy, with its discerning quality (under Saturn’s rule) and balanced perspective (from the exaltation of Mars). Just be sure to take it easy on yourself when you don’t live up to your own expectations. That opposition to Nessus might indicate how you judge yourself too harshly (which sometimes leads to judging others too harshly). If you can’t give yourself a break upon occasion, who will?
Very soothing article, I must have read it under a Pisces Moon. I particularly appreciate how ahead of the moment the writings are here, meaning they are not generally describing what is going on right now as the central subject, although that is also mentioned and appreciated as to understand the scene, but what I’m going to is that they always prepare us and show the way, not jumping from one moment to another but in a path, giving us a few days advantage to make the best of these movements through the stars, somehow the articles are continous, as one chapter would follow another in an eternal book. Thank you Len, you somehow transmitted a very peaceful calm with your words.
Nicolas: Thank you for your affirmations. Our objective here at Planet Waves is to show how it is you do indeed belong here (hence how the Cosmophilia annual edition fits in holisitically) and what you can do so as to be in meaningfully connective harmony with the Cosmos. As part of that, we endeavor to interpret both the moment and immediately forthcoming astrological events so that you can reflect and respond in stride with your life. Always offered in service to you.
Len, every time I read your words I hear an orchestra. Today it is playing a wondrous, heavenly rendition of A Bridge Over Troubled Waters (take it over rather than be overtaken.)
Thank you.
Mandy: My thanks to you in turn for your kind words (which are welcome music for me)
What a beautiful, and oh so encouragiing piece. Thank you dear Len.
Lizzy: You are most welcome. My thanks to you in turn for your encouraging words.
This is beautiful. <3