The
Cosmic Story: Venus Transit to the Sun, June 5, 2012
On June 5th, there will
be a cosmic event that you don’t want to miss.
The planet Venus travels across the face of the Sun. (See link for
viewing details)
The Cosmic Story
Astrology is an art as well as a
science, using metaphor as its language and cosmic law as its metaphysics. Our solar system spins, drawing us into the
center, together. Each planet and asteroid circling the Sun energizes a force at play in the
world. Along with the force of gravity,
all bodies in our solar system hold onto
each other energetically and so affect each other. That’s why the ancients named the planets
after their gods and goddesses – their experience of the world acknowledged and
accepted the connection between matter, the imagination and spirit. And the connective energy of the Universe is
symbolized by Venus, both the goddess and the planet. It seems Love is the irresistible force that
holds everything and everyone together.
Carl Jung thought that the ancient
god/desses had become psychological complexes in modern man. And he also believed that at the center of
these complexes were archetypes, human behaviors that are inborn and
instinctual. To dream, to conceive, to
engender, to birth, to protect, to love, to die. These archetypal energies also express themselves
on a cosmic level, joining our energies with the other inhabitants of Earth,
with our solar system and with galaxies.
It seems the Universe lays out the basic conditions for life and for
death, for stars and for humans, and gifts us with them, daring us to play
along.1
The planet Venus represents one of
the universal archetypes, the archetype of Connection. Under patriarchy, Venus energizes the realm
of sexual love, beauty and companionship, the acceptable (to men) aspect of her
energies. But her deepest nature
represents an essential archetype, the mystery of life expressed through Love
and Wisdom, Connection and Wholeness.
So when we have such a spectacular
celestial meeting of the Source of Life (Sun) and Love and Wisdom (Venus) occurring
in our skies, perhaps we need to allow this energy into our hearts and let it
inform how we live our lives. Otherwise,
we’ll get caught up in the chaos that is stirring in the world because our
financial system is broken. Since money seems to be the real god of patriarchy,
people will be caught up in confusion, anger and unfortunate violence. But we can help. Venus’s energy can connect us so we realize
we’re all in this together, help us work together to solve our problems, and
support us when we stand up for truth, justice and compassion. Venus is the planetary energy that rules the
heart chakra. The awakened heart leads
us to Wisdom.
Venus in the Sky – with diamonds
Venus has been a bright, beautiful
Evening Star for many months now, but because Earth’s orbit caught up with it
on May 15th, Venus now appears to be getting lower in the sky as our
Earth races ahead. Venus is retrograde
(going back or within) and will soon disappear back into the rays of the sun
for a fiery re-birth. After it visibly crosses
the Sun’s face on June 5th, it will disappear again until it appears
in the sky before sunrise on June 13th as the Morning Star.
Almost all ancient cultures
associated this planet with their goddess of Love. The Evening Star is known as Vesper, the
gentle wisdom star of evening. We know
the Evening Star as the star of wishes and hopes (Star light, Star bright,
first star I see tonight. . .). She was
called Stella Maris, Star of the Sea,
the light that guides us home. When
Venus rises before the Sun, she is known as the Morning Star, Lucifer the
Light-Bringer, who heralds the dawn of a new day. This Venus is a warrior goddess of Love,
loving herself as well as others, and forging a new path for the Sun
(consciousness). This is the aspect of
Venus that awaits us on the other side of this rare Venus conjunction. It is a call to defend what we love by
standing up for peace and compassion.
Because the planes of Earth, Venus
and the Sun are aligned, we get to see this rare transit of Venus, which
happens only four times every 243 years. The spacing between these planetary
meetings is very uneven: first it takes 121½ years to happen, then 8 years,
then 105½ years, then 8 years again. The last transit occurred in June 2004 and
after this June's planetary dance, there won't be another meeting for 105 ½
years, in December 2117. Venus
naturally has an eight year cycle, forming a pentagram during its cycle. This is the planet that ancient astronomers
used to measure our cosmos. So Venus is
the measure of our solar system.
I saw the last Venus’ transit on
June 8, 2004 from a beach in Rhode Island, watching as the Sun rose golden over
the water. I looked through binoculars
at that black dot on the face of the Sun and saw Venus as planet, not star or
dot. A whole world, a unique
energy. Making me aware that she is closer to the
creative fires, clothed with the Sun’s energy, visible to my eyes and soul in
the light of day. This cosmic magic
filled me with Venus’ very own gift – Love! You just get joyful and everything seems to go
right.
If we lived in a society that looked
to the heavens for meaning, June 5th’s second transit of Venus
across the face of the Sun would rock the world as a sign of hope for the future.
And there would be hope if enough people accept responsibility for
letting Love lead the way. Imagine a
world where Love was the basis for life’s decisions! Not an unconscious love, but Love as the
awareness of our connection with everyone and everything, coming through our
imagination and intuition. Love as a
foundation for life’s choices and decisions based on a belief that what I do to another I do to myself. Love places us back in the cycle of Life,
where we are one and whole.
That belief is the polar opposite of
patriarchal thinking, which configures us as separate and imperfect. Every
man for himself! Even though patriarchy has tried to suppress
the more feminine right brain holistic view of life, women are often quite
adept at operating out of both brains, basing their decisions on right brain
connective love and using the left brain to make
it so. It actually works quite well! This transit is attuned to our right brains,
so ask your analytical left brain to stand down, open to your imagination and
see what you discover.
Another meaning for this Venus
transit (and there are as many meanings as imaginations to spring from),
includes the fact that Venus is moving through the sign of Gemini, the
Mind. We are being called upon to create
a New Mind (Gemini Solar Eclipse), with new categories of belief (Sagittarius)
and perception (Gemini), including a renewed knowledge of dreams, of unseen
realities, and of out-of-the-box potentials of the human mind and heart. The Cosmos wants to make us aware that we
need to combine our feminine, holistic mind with the prevailing masculine,
analytical mind to create a New Mind to go with a new, global Heart, which is
Venus’s power center.
Venus/Aphrodite is the primordial
promise of Heaven to Earth, birthed in the sea of Earth’s oceanic collective
unconscious, engendered by the potency of Uranus’ heavenly phallus. Aphrodite is heaven’s gift to us, the promise
that Love will teach us Wisdom here on Earth. From Venus’ point of view, John Lennon was
right – all you do need is LOVE.
But our patriarchy has not been kind
to Venus/Aphrodite and love, just as it hasn’t accepted women’s crowning
achievement in life – to be a vessel of Wisdom.
That’s what needs to change. This daylight appearance of Venus will wake
women up to our unique power and purpose – to bring Wisdom (Venus/Sun) into the
collective discussion (Gemini/Sun).
The background energy framing this
last Venus transit is the upcoming square between the revolutionary and
evolutionary energies of the 60s. With
revolutionary Uranus challenging Pluto’s transformative energy, pushing for
more real societal change, we could fall into violence and mob psychology
(Neptune in Pisces is another energy framing this time) if we stay unconscious
and ignore Venus’s mythical and mystical powers of Love and Peace. But since Venus and the Sun in Gemini are in
a rare aspect with Neptune in Pisces which promotes self-knowledge, interior
analysis, and the search for wisdom, I think we’ll be inspired with new vision,
promoting peaceful revolution rather than violence. With Venus, we have to recognize that one of
the forms of peaceful revolution comes through the Arts, which can change
people’s minds quicker than arguments.
The Strength tarot card, which
combines solar imagery (Lion) with Venusian (woman), reveals that we have to
tame, not kill, our passions with Love and Courage. If we want to fulfill the promise of the
cosmic story of a renewed Earth, we have to live it now. We cannot attain transformation with violence
anymore. It won’t work. What we can do is let the Lady have her
say. This Lady is the Sophia, Wisdom,
the gift of feminine consciousness. She
is Venus/Aprhodite, traversing the face of the Sun, making us conscious of the fact that her energy
can stand before the light of consciousness.
Love is the only logic left to us.
On a
concrete level, this Venus transit can prompt us to really think about how we
feel about ourselves and others, entice us to love ourselves as we
unconsciously did as children, and re-categorize how we understand life’s
experiences. Venus/Aphrodite inspires us
to feel our love and joy of life rise up without restraint. Once you really see your original Self and
love her/him, hold that image in your consciousness so it becomes the new basis
of your self-worth, another Venus gift that needs re-defining. When we realize
that our real value lies in our strength of character and our connection with
Spirit, rather than with the external accumulation of power and wealth, we will
have peace (yet another gift of this goddess of Beauty, Love and Wisdom).
Venus retrograde (connecting within)
then visible by the Sun reminds us that Love and Peace start in our own hearts.
The Cosmic Story of the Venus transit would have us believe in the power of
Conscious Love, because Love will bring us Wisdom. And Wisdom can find her way through the
darkness ahead to a new Birth for our world.
