You cannot have failed to notice Venus shining like a headlight in the early evening sky – Goddess of beauty, love and attraction. Over the winter months (in the Northern Hemisphere) she has climbed higher and higher each night to reach her maximum elevation – and quite frankly she looks stunningly beautiful.
On Thursday 6th February, Venus at 2 degrees of Aries took a 90 degree backward glance at Pluto – there’s nothing particularly unusual about that because Venus moves so quickly around the Zodiac that she glances at everything during her orbit.
What does make it interesting is that this time Venus stands still on 6th March and begins to retrace her steps backwards to glance at Pluto again. She actually flirts with Mars as well, but that’s a different story…..
When a planet stops moving forward in its orbit and starts to move backwards, those of us who live in a Universe redolent with meaning have to ask why now? Why does Venus stop charging ahead as she usually does and what was it Pluto whispered to her that she needs to retrace her steps to make sure she heard him correctly? Especially as she does this twice more – 3/4 April and 3/4 May, to be exact. It is an intense relationship being played out in the sky, folks.
This celestial communication between the two planets has to be seen against the background of long Pluto’s sojourn in corporate, organised Capricorn.
Traditionally Venus is not comfortable in Aries, as the harsh get up and go of this Mars ruled, alpha male, fiery sign doesn’t allow her to take her time and schmooze as she is wont to do. It’s all too fast for Venus and it doesn’t allow her to negotiate as she’d prefer to do – decisions have to be made quickly.
So, during this period until May 09, could we see some government decisions being made, too hastily, that involves new roles for women? If we look back to the Fifties, when soldiers returned from the war, we see women having to give up work and get back into the kitchen so that their husbands could take over their jobs – something that did not necessarily sit well on some women – just see the effect of asinine domesticity on the female psyche in the TV series “Mad Men”.
Venus and Pluto are also about sexuality – maybe there will be nice juicy scandal to take our minds off the financial mess that’s going on right now?
Whatever comes to light over the next couple of months – lost things being found again – new truths emerging – big stories all – we can only wait and watch.
