How
To Deal With Venus In Retrograde
Venus Retrograde 2015- July 25 through September 6, 2015.
Sure...
everybody knows about good ole Mercury
in retrograde... now get ready to meet Venus in retrograde:
Love,
Relationships, and Values
The astrological planet Venus (planetary ruler of Taurus and Libra)
is named for the luscious and voluptuous Roman goddess of love,
lust, pleasure, the arts, harmony, beauty, and (don't forget)
fertility.
The
planet Venus only turns retrograde in the sky approximately once
every 18 months. For example, in 2009 she turned retrograde on
March 6 and remained retrograde for approximately 40 days until
April 17. In 2010 October 8, 2010 until November 18, 2010.
Retrograde
Planets in General
For the "uninitiated," a retrograde planet is a planet
that (when viewed from the perspective of the earth) appears to
have stopped and then temporarily reverses its regular movement
through the sky. The planet then goes "retrograde" (backwards).
After a certain length of time (depending upon the planet involved),
the planet then appears to once again stop and reverse its movement
through the sky. The planet then goes "direct" and is
back on it's normal cyclic path through the sky.
A
Look at the Deeper Side of Venus Retro
There
is an ancient Roman saying: “Vocatus atque non vocatus deus
aderit.” Called or not called, the god will be there.
According
to astrologer Richard Idemon, the ancient Greeks had a saying
that when passing by the temple of a god, you must honor the god
by quickly making the appropriate sacrifice at the appropriate
time. One should never offend the gods by ignoring them.
So
let's draw ever nearer to archetypal Venus (known to Greeks as
Aphrodite), so that we can learn how to offer up the appropriate
tribute when she looks our way.
From
Plato's The Phaedrus
“so
does the stream of beauty, passing through the eyes which are
the windows of the soul, come back to the beautiful one; there
[255d] arriving and quickening the passages of the wings, watering
them and inclining them to grow, and filling the soul of the
beloved also with love.
And
thus he loves, but he knows not what; he does not understand
and cannot explain his own state; he appears to have caught
the infection of blindness from another; the lover is his
mirror in whom he is beholding himself, but he is not aware
of this.
When
he is with the lover, both cease from their pain, but when he
is away then he longs as he is longed for, and has love's image,
love for love lodging in his breast…” Phaedrus – Plato,
translator – Benjamin Jowett 1871
Wow!
Did you catch that? Let it sink in for just a second or two...
"the
lover is his mirror in whom he is beholding himself..."
According
to astrologer Liz Greene, this particular passage from Plato's
Phaedrus contains: "the most profound meaning of Venus
– the beloved, be it person, object or intellectual idea, as the
mirror of one’s own soul.” Liz Greene from The Inner Planets
Venus
- The Beloved As Person, Object, or Intellectual Idea
So... symbolically speaking... in the case of the Venus retrograde,
what is the appropriate sacrifice that the goddess Venus requires
of us? How do we both as individuals and collectively as a society
begin to properly acknowledge and honor the unknown visitor of
Venus?
While
musing over what words of wisdom I might impart, I had a flashback
to something I'd written many years ago on the May
2000 Taurus alignment.
In
regard to the 2000 Taurus Alignment:
"One
thing, however, does appear certain. Individually and collectively,
during the next twenty years, the Zodiacal sign of Taurus [ruled
by Venus] will be asking us the hard question, "What do
you value most in your life?" Whether on a societal or
individual level - honoring the Taurean energies contained in
this great planetary alignment will involve:
* the offering up of our values
* the reevaluation of our values
* and then the fortitude and slow, steady, staying power required
to stand solidly behind what we have chosen to value."
As
I, 9 years later, wrote this article on how to honor Venus during
her times in retrograde... our planet was (and still is) obviously
still hip deep in the middle of this 20 year Jupiter/Saturn Taurus
cycle of reevaluating our societal values.
Whew!
Starting with the horror of 911, the Pearl Harbor of our generation,
we've all been through a lot during the past decade...
And
then prior to September 24, 2008 9:01 pm EDT, most of us were
totally clueless about what our world economies were about to
face.
Yep!
With Mercury (commerce) still stationary and located in the 6th
house (service industry) conjuncting the planet Mars (action)
and quincunx Uranus (surprise, shock) then US President George
W Bush managed to catch most of us with our pants down as he went
before the nation to announce the Economic Pearl Harbor of our
generation.
So...
how are we doing in the reassessment of our values? I'll leave
it up to you to decide (and reevaluate) for yourself...
Honoring
Retro Venus - A Time For Reassessing Our Personal Values
Anyway... Venus, and honoring Venus during her retrograde, holds
on to this same sort of archetypal energy, albeit, on a much smaller
scale.
-
How
clear is your mirror of the soul?
-
How
willing and open are you to reconsidering and reassessing
your values?
-
Are
you ready to stand fast for your values?
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