Venus Leaves Gemini - Weak Until 11/30/07
Venus leaves Gemini tomorrow and enters Cancer. Have you felt more creative since Mercury entered Gemini last week? Have you felt full of ideas and filled with ingenuity as I had said last week? Well, I sure have. Let’s hope your creative spark already happened. Venus in Cancer is not nearly as imaginative or creative. When Venus is in cancer there’s a possibility for lot of devotion and love — but also a lot of attachment to the emotions, food and other sort of “comfort producing” activities.
Venus is the planet that leads us to worldly happiness. Venus shows what we are desiring. The signs she transits shows a certain level of desire awakening in us at a given time. These desires may be healthy or unhealthy depending on many factors. Venus is best in air signs or earth signs. Intelligence (air) and usefulness (earth) bring forth her highest qualities. Fire and water signs tend to bring about too much passion and sentiment. Our desires become aggressive and demanding (fire) or mixed with excessive emotion (water) - to our detriment. Yet, Venus is exalted in a water sign, Pisces and debilitated in an earth sign, Virgo. No one said astrology would be easy or always neat and clean. This is one example, and easily explainable. But in general after Venus makes the transition from Gemini, there is usually at least a three months of challenges with our desires that follow.
I say three months because typically Venus goes through Cancer where she is not strong, Leo where she is not strong, then Virgo where she is debilitated. This year however Venus will go retrograde — beginning in Leo, then back through Cancer. This means Venus will be in a difficult position, based on zodiac sign, until *gasp* November 30, 2007 when she enters the first degree of Libra - six months from now.
For the next six months, in varying degrees or another, we will be challenged to purify our desires. We will be challenged to look beyond sentiment and comfort producing activities for ourself and others (Cancer), the drama of self-importance and personal individuality (Leo), or in managing/micromanaging every routine ad infinitum (Virgo).
In many ways Venus has what we all want, happiness. It is really that simple isn’t it? We all want to be happy. Where will we find our happiness? For the next several months we will try to find it through love and caretaking, being praised and feeling powerful, and trying to tidy up all the little details in life — all to no avail.
There is only one source of happiness — God. (In whatever form it means to you) That which is bigger than our ability to control or manipulate through our actions or understand through our own mind is God. When we are aligned with God we are aligned with the true source of happiness. When we are aligned with our ego (our limited nature) we will seek the transcendent bliss of the soul through limited, worldly forms. This is ultimately why Venus is exalted in Pisces. Our desire to experience worldly pleasure is shown by Venus. Mistaking finite, pleasurable experiences to be the ultimate expression of our infinite, blissful self is a major cause of suffering. At some point we realize, no matter how much sex drugs and rock-and-roll we get, it is not the real thing. There is no food that tastes as good or music that sounds as good or sex that feels as good as the current of God consciousness that is flowing deep within us. Our pursuit of pleasure through the senses drains our energy — the pursuit of happiness as our truthful self, as God, rejuvenates us on every level. The exalted nature of Venus in Pisces orients our pleasure seeking and happiness with the ultimate goal: liberation and devotion to God - devotion to our highest self.
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planets transit these outer planets, especially by conjunction — things happen. Mars is always the planet that we look at for violence, explosions, arguing — et cetera. The North node, Rahu — is the planet of unpredictability. Mars/Rahu conjunctions are notorious for potentially violent people coming unhinged. Actually, Mars in conjunction with either of the Nodes shows that real possibility, especially in Rahu Nakshatras, as was the case on the day in question. Uranus is also planet of eccentricity in western astrology. Regardless of what Vedic purists would say, I have seen Uranus work too many times in conjunction, opposition or square a personal planet, to ignore it any longer — the same with Neptune and Pluto.