Venus enters Libra on September 14th. She rules this sign which means Libran qualities will be magnified. Give and take, social graces, idealism, flirting and partnerships will be themes. So will co-dependency, shallowness, passive aggressiveness and p…
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Venus, Love and Money – What’s Your Currency?
I want to get into “energy exchange”. In my world, “energy” is “currency”. Venus in a natal chart, describes what a person loves or values. Each individual has their own taste. What you have to offer may not be som…
The Cardinal Path to Sexual Maturity: Mars/Saturn
A more theoretical article on the male/female psychic split as represented by the cardinal cross will appear in a future issue of The Widening Gyre. It goes further to explain the patterns behind the Mars/Saturn developmental phase in male sexual maturity and will continue next month to explore the Venus/Moon phase of female sexual maturity. […]
Lightweights Need Not Apply
It’s time to get serious about love. The trine between Pluto in Capricorn and Venus in Virgo will be exact today (7:12 PM EDT). We have depth (Pluto) in relationships (Venus) against a background of service (Virgo) and maturity (Capricorn). ̷…
Today’s Influences (Aug 24th): Ouch
It’s a double dose of discomfort for Venus in Virgo today. She’s confronting Chiron in Pisces with a painful opposition and being forced to adjust with an inconjunct to Uranus in Aries. Illusions (Pisces) will be painful (Chiron) as they &#…
White is the new black
White is the new black.
Five little words that will strike abject horror into the hearts of anyone who, like me, has a compromised Venus.
I don’t avoid white because I feel that it doesn’t suit me, but rather because it rarely stays white. I inevi…
The (Kind of Creepy) Birth of Venus
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| Alexandre Cabanel’s Birth of Venus (1875). You can see why Napoleon III wanted it for himself. |
In the second post of her three-part series on the myth of Saturn, guest blogger Isy, takes a look at what can happen to a flying penis when it hits the ocean waves.
In my first guest post, we saw Saturn, the youngest Titan, with extraordinary self-management and merciless timing, cut his criminal father away from his furious mother and win dominion over the gods. Let’s look a little more closely at what else happened, and how it relates to Saturn’s distinctive energy.
Saturn attacked his father Uranus for transgressing against nature on three counts.
- First, his father’s rape of his mother was an abuse of sexuality, a core part of being.
- Second, Uranus had trapped and imprisoned his youngest children, a negation of his own seed, his stake in the future.
- Third and most importantly, Uranus had taken Earth’s fecundity – in her children – and buried it away from any chance of growth, flourishing and further procreation.
The rape of Gaia was considered by the ancient Greeks to be a marital issue, hating one’s children to be a personal one, but contravening the fecundity of Earth was a transgression against the essential nature of things.
Uranus was doomed by his actions.
In my next and last in this series, I’ll look at the dark side of Saturn, and what happens when he, too, transgresses against himself and his family.
We left the story right after Saturn thought, planned, waited, then slashed open the gap between Earth and Sky, sending his father’s wedding tackle flying just at the critical moment. The blood that spattered onto the Earth became giants, furies, ash-tree nymphs, and other mythical beings.
When Uranus’s (let’s not beat about the bush) falling penis, anointed by Earth’s body and full of sperm, fell into the sea – realm of Saturn’s older siblings Oceanus and Tethys – it caused a great foaming, agitation, and froth. Aphrodite, later romanized to Venus Urania, was born from the froth and the waves, midwifed by fishes who swept her safely to shore. (This is one of the Pisces origin myths and Venus is exalted in Pisces.)
Thus, Venus Urania has roughly five parents, and was born as a result of punishment/sacrifice for multiple transgressions against love, duty and care. And she could have been born in no other way.
Venus’ very existence depended on Saturn doing everything exactly right, although that’s not why he did it.
The least deviation from his course would not only have meant disaster for himself, it would have meant that the Venus of heartfelt love, cherished children, and rational comfort could never have come into being… She was a natural outcome, as it were.So, on a personal level,
Saturn requires the correct course, regardless of whether you relish the task or fear failure. But, when you do exactly what he calls for, the doors that seem to bar your way simply disappear. Moreover, the fertile opportunities this creates can provide the most unexpected, but perfectly logical, additional benefits.In my next and last in this series, I’ll look at the dark side of Saturn, and what happens when he, too, transgresses against himself and his family.
For more of Isy’s writing on health, adaptation, science, and sailing…
* Health and Life with CRPS-1: http://livinganyway.blogspot.com
* Cauterizing the Bleeding Edge: http://biowizardry.blogspot.com
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Tomorrow transiting Venus squares off against Neptune in my chart.
It is possibly a good thing that this transit is occurring at a time when the Moon is in Pisces (and will be conjunct my Pisces Moon tomorrow) and when transiting Neptune is retrograde …
Goddess of the Harvest: Venus in Virgo
Venus will spin out of Leo on August 21st with a gorgeously romantic opposition to Neptune. Here we have Prince Charming with a magnum of the finest champagne. Or a divine story/song/painting that will knock everyone’s socks off. This aspect R…
Dreaming of the Queen
I posted this last year for Venus in Leo, but have updated it slightly for another turnabout…if it ain’t broke, I can’t be faffed fixing it!
There we were: 2 Aussies on our last night in London. Scorpio Hubby and I had been for dinner…