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Venus in Leo – Ra Ra Ra Wonders, Miracles & Fallen Angels

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His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso has Venus in Leo
One of the readers of I Had A Dream Revisited 50th anniversary 28th August 1963
The current High Lama of the yellow hat school of Tibetan Buddism and Tibet’s spiritual leader in exile. Escaping to India in 1959, he denounced the People’s Republic of China and establishing a Tibetan government in exile. He travels the world for the welfare of the Tibetan nation, underlining the importance of compassion as the source of a happy life. However, world leaders and various institutions face pressure from a economically burgeoning China not to accept or recognise him as he continues to voice an opinion on contentious subjects for China and for repressive regimes in the World, including women’s rights, the environment, and sexuality. It has been reported on the 13th August 2013 that the Chinese language website of the Tibetan government in exile was hacked and infected and software used to spy on visitors.
Dalai Lama’s Chinese website hacked

From the 27th June 2013 until the 22nd July 2013 Venus was playing around to her hearts content in the sunny, vain-and-glorious Leo the Lion sign. This sign will want to
Ra and Roar itself around the cosmos at the drop of a hat. Ra being the Egyptian Sun god usually depicted with a massive solar disc atop his head mimicking a head-turning hairstyle in a most flamboyant display.

Artist Andy Warhol has Venus in Leo
Born Andrej Varchola into a family that practiced Byzantine Slavic Catholicism. He was deeply religious throughout his life apparently, lighting a candle, and praying for 15 minutes everyday. He also had an alter, crucifix and prayer book on his bedside table and used to volunteer at a shelter serving meals to the homeless.Warhol was also openly gay which is unacceptable to the church unless one is celibate, apparently.
Venus likes to indulge, feed the body, anoint it, make it look, smell and feel ‘ohh la la’ that is what she is about.Venus Come Out Of Your Shell  There are so many things Venus just loves, such as beauty in all it’s forms, an appreciation of the finer things in life, like art, culture and social bonds. Relationships are a Venus speciality but money and fairness also part of the desires of Venus. A run through your own list will give you a clue on just how fundamental and central Venus is in our daily life. Love and Money are the two things we all want sorted and in place in order to feel they have got a good handle on life. You can deny one but it is unusual to deny both, at least not intentionally. So what was has it been like with the Lion running the ‘Love ‘n Money Show’? Perhaps we all had to dip deep into our reserves of benevolence and patronage.

Abbé Pierre has Venus in Leo
Born Henri Marie Joseph Grouès he was a French Catholic priest who a member of the  French Resistance during World War 2 and praised as a living legend. He also founded the Emmaus movement that helps the poor, the homeless and refugees. 

We would have demonstrated affection and desires in a very open hearted way but really, as a rule of thumb or just take the whole issue of hairstyles very seriously indeed ha! Venus here in this flamboyant, irrepressible and emotionally buoyant sign will have relatively few issues with displaying itself in its own inimitable way, regardless of the audience response. Regardless only because actually it somehow knows there is a very high chance of the reception will be positive or then maybe not. 

Singer/Actress/Diva Madonna has Venus in Leo
Everything including her name has involved religious iconography, including a cross on stage.

Those who view Venus in Leo with a negative eye are, well frankly, wrong and can be easily dismissed with a flick of the fringe or a rear swaying sashay. Venus in Leo time was all about the warmth, affection, lavish demonstrations, generosity, well so those with Venus in Leo may have told you. Actually these traits will apply whether to those born with this natally, or at any time Venus in Leo sashays on through. 

Singer/Dancer/X Factor Judge Cheryl Cole has Venus in Leo
Her tattooist displayed his work on her bottom in Instagram 2013 in the tattoo parlour temple.

If you wanted to attract, it would have been in your best interest to have been aware that during this time flattery WILL get you everywhere, don’t hold back by the way. Personal charisma, our physical appearance and how we show ourselves will get a boost of juice during these few Venus in Leo weeks as these issues would have risen up the notches. Venus in Leo is excellent for cheerleaders.

Actress Pamela Anderson has Venus in Leo
Famously discovered at a football game, when her face showed up on big screen she is a vegetarian endorsing PETA who ask us to consider the impact our actions have on animals

We would all have had a month where our relationships may have got a bit more dramatic or melodramatic depending on your bias, and Venus in Leo comes from a very deep bias which basically is: This is beautiful world lets get out and play in it to our hearts content. Self-indulgent, big-hearted and eye-wateringly charismatic, Leo is not one of those signs which says ‘Moi, non!’, therefore when Venus the Goddess of gorgeousness comes to visit this is quite a combo and can be a tour de force!

Mother Theresa of Calcutta has Venus in Leo
Born Agnes Gonxha in Albania, she spent most of her life in the Indian city of Calcutta caring for the sick and poor, especially children and founding the Missionaries of Charity. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and beatified by the Vatican only just one miracle away from sainthood. In 2013 doctors Serge Larivie and Genevieve Chenard, in the journal Studies in Religion/Sciences have criticised her reputation finding her ways ‘rather dubious’ and that her ‘way of caring for the sick, her questionable political contacts, her suspicious management of the enormous sums of money she received, and her overly dogmatic views regarding, in particular, abortion, contraception, and divorce.’ Dr Larivie has gone so far as to say
 ‘Given the parsimonious management of Mother Teresa’s works, one may ask where the millions of dollars for the poorest of the poor have gone?’

Before we get too carried away with Venus in Leo it may also be the case that we all may have been much more pompous, vain and dominating and our egos hurt too easily if we did not receive our rightful worship. 
Key to understanding what is going on for us is to look at where in ourselves we are ‘Leo-attuned’, we all have degrees in our birth chart which looks out for any Leo vibration. Where is your personal Leo antenna? It will be good to look at how smoothly do the matters connected to your Leo house and/or planets run? Are they functioning as well as they could, or is there room for improvement?

Scientist Franz Halberg has Venus in Leo
He first used the term ‘cicadian’ describing the cicadian clock, a biochemical mechanism that drives adaptations to solar & lunar rhythms over 24 hour periods creating cicadian rhythms the optimum feel good. 

If you have Leo spanning the 5th zone of Romance & Creativity, you may find your ‘fun time’ gots a perk as what you do for the sheer love of it deepens and may go to another deeper level. The Guru Purnima गुरु पूर्णिमा is celebrated by both Hindus and Buddhists to give thanks to spiritual and academic teachers. This year it was the 22nd August 2013.
                 
Musician Andy Desmond known as Miten has Venus in Leo 
He performs with musical/ life partner singer Deva Premal after meeting at controversial guru, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh’s (known as Osho), ashram in Pune, India when he was 48 and she was 20. They have gone on to become the ‘Johnny & June Cash’ of sacred music and are highly respected in the spiritual and yoga world for Premal’s chantings of Indian Sanskrit mantras and Desmond’s musical arrangements. 21 day mantra meditation

French Diet Guru Dr Pierre Dukan has Venus in Leo
Accounting for the best-selling success of his diet book in the UK he acknowledges ‘It works and Carole Middleton‘ after she began the diet the engagement of her daughter Kate Middleton to Prince William was announced and her other daughter, Pippa Middleton also Venus in Leo, swayed her bottom into the press. Dukan was rich and famous.

Is your own Venus is in Leo, was this a time for you to welcome in new arrivals in the form of people or coins? Was this your time to have that ‘Wow factor’ and work it?
If you are a Sun sign Leo then this stuff was easy, right? Well to a point, even a bright shiny leader and ruler needs some down time to re-position the crown, work the hairspray and put in some curlers or gel for that extra bounce other Sun sign may just bounce at the wrong time.

Actor Tom Cruise has Venus in Leo

Looking back on the time that Venus was in Leo we may have had a glimpse of what life is like being so public, noticed and ‘on display’, we may have enjoyed much of it but then realized that actually there is a time and place for some hidden away, quiet me time, just to get things straight, which brings us right into Venus in Virgo which is where Venus has made her next move. With true Venus in Leo style demonstrated by actor Daniel Radcliffe, Venus in Leo as Harry Potter, when we are looking for the wonders we will often also have to battle our own Dementors.

UK Singer/Songwriter James Blake has Venus in Leo

credits : yoga international & dreamyoga & michaeljournal & the hollowverse & elhalo & actresswallpaper & showbiz411
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Leave me alone, I’m lonely….

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Tuesday 27 August Moon in Taurus A friend posted the picture above on her Facebook page yesterday morning. I suspect I could ask this question of 10 friends and get 10 different answers- and a number of extremely judgemental responses.…Read more …

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Transiting Venus in Libra Gets Real

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  I discussed transiting Venus in Libra here. Now, here’s some info on the doozy aspects that she’ll be hit with. From August 21st to August 24th, Venus will experience a rough square from Pluto (retrograde) at 9 degrees Capricorn. &#8…

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Sugared Steel: Transiting Venus in Libra

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  Venus (love, resources, self-esteem) moves into relationship-oriented Libra, the sign that she rules.  This is where she’s most competitive. Yes, you read that correctly. Venus in Libra is competitive. Even though she opposes aggressive A…

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Venus in Cancer – Big Old Family Line

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Former President of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed has Venus in Cancer

Rolling the words around our tongues, engaging in light hearted flirtations and spreading our wings were just some of the delights that Venus gifted to us during her stay in the sign of Gemini, The Twins. From the 3rd June 2013 until 26th June 2013 Venus immersed herself in the waters of Cancer The Crab. 
             

Former President of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed is famous in the West for his strident environmental stance on climate change and being the first democratically elected leader of a Muslim country, overthrowing a 30 year dictatorship in 2008. He has also presided over the first underwater cabinet meeting four years ago to draw attention to the environmental problems. He claims he had to relinquish democratic government at gunpoint in 2012 but is running for office again despite threats to his family. Speaking on the 27th July 2013 during the launch of the Maldivian Democractic Party’s (MDP) foreign policy for the upcoming presidential elections, Mohamed Nasheed stressed the importance of good relations and co-operation with other countries of the World for the future of the Maldives.
‘Other countries want human rights to be respected. Other countries want only an election to change a government. There are such principles held in high regard…’

Cancer delights in grabbing hold of things, hugging them close to the chest and sometimes transporting them away, off into infinity. For that short period of time when Venus was in that sloppy old sense of delight the cosmos will have urge us to surf the breaking waves for the ride. Venus’s visit here in Cancer with the crustacean would have wanted us to squeeze our loved ones tight and to shower them with oodles and oodles of sweetness and just generally make sure they are safe and this applies whether to those of you born with this natally, or  just at any time when Venus passes through the sign of Cancer or any Cancer activity. Sun in Cancer – Emotional Pitstop

41st President of the United States George H W Bush has Venus in Cancer
He shaved his head in support of the 2 year old son of one of his Secret Service detail, ‘Patrick’s Pals’,
who has Leukaemia, 26th July 2013.’ George 41′ & his wife Barbara lost their 2nd child Robin at 4 years old to Leukaemia 40 years ago. His son Jeb Bush was Governor of Florida and his other son George W Bush was Governor of Texas then the 43rd President of the United States of America.

A word about Venus, Venus Come Out Of Your Shell basically she likes to indulge. Feeding the body, anointing it, making it look, smell and fee lovely is what she is generally all about. There are other things she loves, such as beauty in all it’s forms, and an appreciation of the finer things in life, art, culture and social bonds. Relationships, money and fairness are part of the things Venus desires. A run through that list gives us a clue on just how fundamental and central she is to our lives. Love and Money, get those two things sorted and most people feel they have a good handle on life. You can deny one but it is unusual to deny both. Unless you just deny everything.

Victim of Domestic Abuse & Murder Nicole Brown has Venus in Cancer
Former wife of Professional Footballer O J Simpson, who was accused of viciously butchering her
and her friend Ronald Goldman to death with a knife and getting away with it in a media fuelled
 ‘Trial of the Century’ 19 years ago but was later found liable in a civil suit filed by the victims families.

Venus had been teasing, light and curious during her time in Gemini which got us all kind of used to that way of being, taking things on face value, using detachment but what happened when she moved to Cancer, how different was it with The Squeezy Squeezy Crab running the ‘Love ‘n Money Show’? As a word of advice, don’t stray too far, don’t push a joke, operate caution and stick around. Do this and you could have navigated your path through easier than had you played around, expected to be excused or tried to keep things on the low-low.

President Barack Obama has Venus in Cancer In the wake of his climate change speech, Obama has expressed reservations about the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline project in the New York Times on the 27th July 2013, stating that it would not create many jobs and could raise gasoline prices. He disputed the economic benefits justification for the pipeline and confirmed that he would reject the project if it were to ‘significantly exacerbate‘ carbon pollution. ‘Republicans have said that this would be a big jobs generator. There is no evidence that that’s true’

If you wanted to attract, it would have been in your best interest to have been aware that during this time, emotional intelligence, for everyone, would have been amped up to the max. From whatever base level we started from, during these few Venus in Cancer weeks it would have risen up quite a few notches. Hiding would have been pretty impossible although what we many of us may have secretly wanted to. There would have been very few emotional hiding places.

Accused Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has Venus in Cancer
His older brother Tamerlan died in a police shootout after the bombing, leaving an American widow, who is reported to have been completely subservient to him, leading others to believe his brother may have also felt equally intimidated. Dzhokhar’s old teacher exclaimed ‘I knew this kid. He could not have possibly have done this. He could not have been a sweeter more gracious young man. I cannot believe he was capable of such a heinous crime and of so many murders…..as the old Hebrew expression goes. You got to be f……me.’ Classmates also could not come to terms with his behaviour.‘I don’t believe I know that bomber…And I’ve known him for yeaaaarssss!!!! Dzho this is ridiculous man .. what happened bro, daaaamn I thought u loved us dude!!!!’

We would all have had a month where our relationships may have got a bit more ‘cozy’ or claustrophobic depending on your bias, and Venus in Cancer comes from a very deep bias which basically is, To Have And To Hold Is The Only Way. Gooey, sensual, slurpingly indulgent and wickedly physical Cancer is not one of the signs which says No! to self indulgence, so when Venus the Goddess of indulgence comes to stay this can be quite a combo.

Actress Angelina Jolie has Venus in Cancer
She has thre biological children and three adoptive children with actor Brad Pitt in a media spotlighted ‘rainbow family. Her mother Marcheline Betrand was co-founder of the All Tribes Foundation, culturally and economically benefiting Native Americans, and the Give Love Give Life organisation, which raises public awareness of women’s cancers. She died of at the age of 56 after an eight year battle with ovarian cancer, Angelina’s grandmother also died of ovarian cancer at 45 and her maternal aunt who died at 61 also had the same BRCA defective gene, causing Angelina to undergo a preventative double mastectomy after finding out that she had a 87% chance of developing breast cancer. Her positive influence is highlighted in the
 Time magazine article The Angelina Effect 

Before we get too carried away it may also be the case that we became much more insecure, clingy and hypersensitive as our feelers are on full alert for any sign of danger or threat whether to ourselves or our loved ones. This could have made us all too weepy or a bit childish, scary and scared. Or our instinct may have been on red alert.

‘Father of Fracking’ George Phydias Mitchell has Venus in Cancer
Born in Texas to Greek immigrants he started his working life as a ‘wildcatter’ drilling exploratory wells and became a billionaire. Mitchell also drilled for natural gas using hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking. Where sand, water and other liqiuids are blasted into rock formations at high pressures unlocking trapped oil and gas. Environmentalists fear chemicals used to crack the rock endanger the environment and threaten groundwater. Mitchell who died on the 26th July 2013 aged 94 also voiced concerns himself,
‘The administration is trying to tighten up controls. I think It’s a good idea. They should have very strict controls. The Department of Energy should do it…because if you don’t do it right there could be trouble’

Key to understanding what is going on for us is to look at where in ourselves we are ‘Cancer-attuned’, we all have degrees in our birth chart which looks out for any Cancer vibration. Where is your personal Cancer antenna? It will be good to look at how smoothly do the matters connected to your Cancer house and/or planets run? Are they functioning as well as they could, or is there room for improvement? What do you think?
Mercury in Cancer – Postcards From The Water’s Edge

Footballer Mario Balotelli has Venus in Cancer
Has suffered racial abuse from Italian football fans and Italian football clubs Roma and Inter Milan have both been fined for racists chanting and throwing bananas. On his debut for AC Milan, owned by ex Italian president Silvio Berlusconi his brother Paolo Berlusconi said in paraphrase ‘Right we are all off to see the family s little n***** he’s a madhead’ 

If you have Cancer spanning the 5th zone of Romance & Creativity, you may find your ‘fun time’ gots a perk as what you do for the sheer love of it deepens and may go to another deeper level. Who or what do you love the most?

If you are a Sun sign Cancer then hey this stuff is easy right? Well yes, but to a point, even a sensual, emotionally aware Crab needs to have a hug and have its own demons shooed away. If your own Venus is in Cancer, lovely, a time to welcome in new arrivals.

Italian Integration Minister Cecile Kyenge has Venus in CancerOriginally from Democratic Republic of Congo she had bananas thrown at her at a political rally on the
26th July 2013. She has faced racial slurs and threats on a regular basis since joining the Italian government.  Robert Canteroli a member of the Italian senate and a member of the anti-immigration Northern League party likened her to an orangutan. Another Northern Leaguer Doloros Valandro wrote on her Facebook page in response to an article about the alleged rape of two women by a Somali man.‘Why no one ever rapes her, so that she understands what the victims of this heinous crime go through! Shame!’. Kyenge who is Italian and Congolese replied ‘I don’t want to comment because everyone should feel offended, not just me. This language instigates violence and doesn’t belong to me.’

For the time of Venus in Cancer we may have had a cupboard stacked full of emotional pot-pouri, our senses may have been sharpend to a fine point and we could have dived deeply into the embraces and cooing sweet nothings from those close to us. When Venus moves in with the Lion in Leo we were ready to switch our desires towards a more outward focus but very much on ourselves contrasting very much with Venus in Cancer. As always its been emotional.

Singer/Songwriter Ben Howard has Venus in Cancer
Music from Jane Campions Top of the Lake with Actress Elizabeth Moss who has Venus in Cancer

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Venus in Cancer – Big Old Family Line

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Former President of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed has Venus in CancerRolling the words around our tongues, engaging in light hearted flirtations and spreading our wings were just some of the delights that Venus gifted to us during her stay in the …

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Astrology of Now: Beauty in the Mirror

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Venus at her Mirror, Velazquez.Today and this week, the planet of beauty, art and peace, Venus, looks into a mirror that magnifies her image: that is Neptune her big blue brother swirling through the outer solar system.Venus is activating the water gra…

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Venus Enters Virgo and the Sun Enters Leo

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  The Sun entered superstar Leo today, while Venus (love, money, values) entered humble Virgo. It’s a contrasting mix of energies. Leo is about being adored and basking in the spotlight. Virgo doubts whether it’s good enough. Leo deman…

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