Morning Star Venus, November 1, 2018

Morning Star Venus, 2018

If you haven't noticed, this Venus retrograde has been intense. Looking at the news, it's hard to imagine that America is a land of peace and prosperity, rather than a land of hatred and poverty. Looking around the world, right-wing fascism is on the rise. And even our electronics are starting up.

The world is in chaos, because we need to change. And quickly.

Venus retrograde in Scorpio and Libra can bring about that change if we're open to it. The planets Venus, Mars, Pluto and Saturn are all moving at the same latitude, called declination in astronomy and astrology. That makes them work together. The divine Feminine and Masculine, the energy of transformation and of foundation can help build a new world.

That is, if people wake up and stand up for their beliefs.

As Venus ends her Evening Star cycle, she has great wisdom to bestow. Listen for the wisdom you’ve gained this past cycle that began with Venus retrograde in Aries in 2017 as a Morning Star and her union with the Sun in Capricorn in 2018 when she became an Evening Star. The value of the Aries Venus cycle is to find your own identity, to follow your own path and purpose. When Venus became in Evening Star in Capricorn, she gave us steadiness and practicality, the ability to navigate through these troubling times without losing ourselves.

Now as Venus retrogrades in Scorpio and Libra, we have to be that new identity and let others see our truth. We have to surrender and let go of our old story; we have to shed our old skin. And then we have to open ourselves to others, and our people will gather. Love attracts and what is Venus other than the Great Attractor. Venus is the arbiter of what values are important to our life, our growth, our soul and our spirit. She sets up an experience we have to surrender to. And her gift to us is Love.

 

Before she rises as a Morning Star, Venus retrograde at 0*15' Scorpio opposes Uranus retrograde at 0*15' Taurus on October 31, 2018 at 1:45am PDT/4:45am EDT/9:45am GMT.    Happy Halloween!   Venus, the goddess of Love and Wisdom is reborn again from the potency of Uranus, the Sky god. This is a new birth for the divine feminine. What new wisdom will she bestow upon us? On November 6^th , election day for the U.S., at the balsamic phase of the Moon, the Moon and Venus rise in the sky together before the Sun.

When the Goddesses unite, change happens.

Venus teaches us to surrender to life, because she attracts life from the soul level, no matter what we consciously think. She is deep wisdom, our soul’s connection to the truth of life. Have enough of us reconnected with our depths to bring about outer change? Time will tell.

Venus in Scorpio is all about valuing our soul life, the things that matter to our hearts. We can’t be whole if we don’t include our soul’s life in the equation. That’s what Carl Jung meant when he said our neurosis is our soul’s suffering. We've been watching our cultural neurosis tear the world apart. Can we heal it before it's too late?

If society is a reflection of who we are as a people, then the truth is we are severely out of balance. Instead of pulling together to meet the challenges of our times we are pulling apart because our old paradigm is crumbling under our feet. This has happened before, you know. Many times in many places. Like the heroines and heroes of old, we find ourselves faced with a choice. Do we stand up and become an active part of our collective story? Or do we hide away, concerned only for our own welfare?

No matter how or what we do, we are all called to service and to love. We’re being asked by the Universe to stand up and become adults. We can change our world and begin her healing. We just have to stand up to the old dragons of fear and denial.

In these chaotic times, our values and priorities are changing regarding sex, money, power and death - Scorpio's domain. Especially regarding women and the feminine. How do we women regain our own way of doing in the world, rather than doing things in the approved masculine way? How do we get society to recognize that our emotional intelligence and our intuition is just as real as our rationality and facts?

We do it by standing up for our truth. Now is the time. And Morning Star Venus will help us, because she is the Warrior Queen of Heaven.

Venus retrograde is moving away from the Sun and she will rise before the Sun on November 1st. This is called her heliacal rising - the first time she appears in the morning sky ahead of the Sun. Always a propitious moment. 

 

Venus rises before the Sun in the sign of Libra, the Balance. We've been cut off from our center for a long time. Now is our chance to rebalance and find it again. Our identity is shifting from our collective identity to our soul’s identity, values and purpose. Our work is to be authentic.  In this chart, the Leo Moon opposes Mars in Aquarius. It's time to look within to see what needs to be renewed. To channel all things through beauty and artistic endeavors. To live from Love.

Scorpio enhances our psychic and telepathic abilities. These abilities help Venus do what she's good at, for she is a unifying force. She uses our electro-magnetic fields to bring us back to our hearts desire. In Libra, we look for equality and justice, to protect each other and to protect the Earth. With Chiron at 29* Pisces quincunx Venus 29* Libra, we'll need to stretch if we want to unite and yet have our boundaries.

In the end, we have to bring a real sense of who we are to each of our encounters. We can no longer hide our light. We need to 'be here now' as Baba Ram Dass once said. We have to learn to listen at the deepest levels and be a channel of peace and harmony with all our relations.

As our wise Libran bard John Lennon sang, "All you need is Love'.