On Saturday, April 6th, we get the chance to unite
our heart’s desire with the power to manifest it. Venus and Mars, those two archetypal lovers,
are engaging in the sacred marriage
this night. Once every two years, Venus
and Mars join together in the sky in Libra to unite their energies of love and
desire. Their objective was to ‘make nice’ with each other. This year, their bridal chamber is within the
bright blaze of the Sun, which only happens every 32 years. It all happens when the Sun’s primal fires of
life return to shine upon the land. The
fact that Venus and Mars begin their new cycle of relationship in the Aries Sun’s
glow is another cosmic promise of a new beginning.
Venus is the power of attraction, connection, bonding, cohesion. Like attracts like! It is a blessed gift that here on Earth, we have
transformed this primal root energy of creation/destruction into the beauty,
power and comfort of Love. Venus leads
us to what we naturally connect to: beauty, art, sex, love, wisdom, Life. And because Venus/Aphrodite is a goddess, she
embodies Feminine Spirit and symbolizes women! Aphrodite is the
goddess of Spirit incarnated in the Body, making the body holy.
Our bodies tell the tale of who we are this
incarnation. When we reject our
differences, we stay stuck in patriarchal thinking. The old system has taken over. Our bodies are different: they look different,
they function differently. Instead of
ignoring the differences, perhaps we need to explore the knowledge and wisdom
they might contain. It doesn’t mean that
there is only one way for a woman or a man to live. It does mean that women and men have
different gifts to contribute to our world.
As Venus/Aphrodite is a female goddess, her blessed gift to women is
Wisdom.
Mars is the power of desire, of striving, of attaining, of
action and results. We have been blessed
with the power to grow, change, to achieve and to sacrifice. Mars is the warrior, the protector, the
individuality of the ego. Just what kind
of warrior are you? What is your Mars up
to? What do you desire?
I discovered as I got older that the baby
boomers—yes my generation—want to stay young forever and they think to do it by
holding on to the desires of their youth.
This is not the way to go, people.
As we get older, there are different joys and desires that are much more
satisfying. Each age of life has
different personal priorities and goals, as well as larger, social
concerns. Mars is the masculine power to
achieve those priorities and goals.
Since Mars is a masculine god, his great gift to men is Integrity. “Integrity is a concept of consistency of
actions, values, methods, measures, principles and outcomes.” (Wikipedia) When men
are empowered, they stand in their integrity, their honesty, their Truth, their
honor, their reliability.
When Venus and Mars unite in the fiery rays of the Sun, you
know that this new energy is important to bring into consciousness. The lovers declare, “Be who you are, love who
you are, act out of who you are.” While
common knowledge would say that Mars is more powerful then Venus here in his
own sign of Aries, our Mars is ‘clothed in the Sun’ and is consciously uniting with his Lady
Wisdom, his inner guidance and spiritual yearnings.
Remember, Venus and Mars know how to make love! Under the light
of the Pisces Balsamic Moon, their lovemaking will be filled with great
imagination and great compassion for each other. Their sacred sexuality grounds in these new
energies, nurtured by the Piscean moonlight.
Both these planetary energies have just been renewed through the Piscean
waters of loss and healing, the fiery transmutation of joining the Aries Sun,
and the cultural jolting and re-visioning of the Uranus/Pluto square. Their
lovemaking tonight could remake the world!
Let them renew your hope and love, so that at the Aries New Moon, you’ll
plant the heritage seeds of your own future, rather than the GMO seeds of patriarchal
compliance.
The Sabian symbol for the union of Venus and Mars at 20*
Aries is: Two beautiful white swans
feeding in a shimmering lake. The
archetypal image of romantic love and companionship, swans have ever been
symbols of sublime beauty, poetic inspiration and devoted love. An ancient totem of beauty, the Swan awakens
the power and beauty of the Self, our spiritual essence. A herald of new realms and new powers, Swan
teaches us how to see our own and others’ inner beauty. Swans are sacred to Aphrodite/Venus and have
ever been the totem of the poet, mystic and dreamer. Swans mate for life, and so they symbolize
the power to see with the eyes of Love.
First see and love yourself so you can see and love another. And then dream big!
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