VENUS RETROGRADE
The sky is speaking of Venus, the goddess of love, beauty, and relating right now. Transiting through Scorpio she has just stationed retrograde, affording us the opportunity to review the state of our love lives. Time to turn within and reflect on whether our inner sense of self love, self worth and self value is in accord or discord with the state of our relationships in our outer lives. “Beauty is truth and truth is beauty / That is all you know on earth and all you need to know” - Keats “Life is relationship. To be is to be related, and without relationship there is no life” - Krishnamurti “Love brings up anything unlike itself for the purpose of healing” - Course in Miracles “To love when you are not loved - that is the heat of spiritual practice” - Adi da Samraj “Hate is not conquered by hate / Hate is conquered by love / This is the law eternal” - Buddha “The universe is neither punishing nor blessing us. It is simply responding to the vibrational frequency we are emitting.” #astrologywithvarij
Venus Speaks
I am true to love, not always to a lover
For love itself is my beloved
So, although I may marry my love always remains free
Ready to take flight if I am not honoured
I belong to no one, I am whole in myself .. My sexuality is precious to me
In ancient, more enlightened times
I was honoured as a sacred prostitute
Who initiated neophytes into the arts of love
Today, I’m profaned as merely promiscuous
But I don’t allow that to influence me
Because I know my own worth and power
Indeed, I am powerful beyond measure
Because my love, sexual love
Is the most powerful force on heaven or earth
Honour me if you are wise
For I can unite or break hearts
If I so choose .. (This is excerpted from a longer Venus prose poem in my book The Planets Speak: Wisdom of the Gods)
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The Sun is now in Libra!
Libra is the sign of the good the true and the beautiful; of balance, proportion, and equipoise; peace, love and harmony; fairness and justice; the golden rule, the golden mean; of Apollo, Aphrodite and Adonis .. Here are some favourite quotes to evoke the essence of Libra: “The way is perfect like vast space, where nothing is lacking and nothing is in excess” – The Book of Nothing “Life is relationship. To be is to be related, and without relationship there is no life” - J. Krishnamurti “Beauty is truth and truth is beauty. That is all you know on earth and all you need to know” - Jonathan Keats “The purpose of life is to be at peace, to love all beings, and to know who you are” - Papaji [Sun sign Libra]
Astro-Update: Mars in Aquarius square Uranus in Taurus
This is the major planetary alignment for the week, the third in a series of 3 that began with the entry of Uranus into Taurus in mid-May. It is guaranteed to shake up and destabilize the foundations of all who have planets in the early degrees of the fixed signs Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius. Here's a short overview of the powers of Mars and Uranus followed by a list of probable manifestations of their dynamic interaction.
Mars: to know what you want and how to get it, leadership, courage, drive, initiative, ‘juice’, daring, ability to live on the edge, to take risks, to live dangerously, to stand up for yourself, to tackle the hard stuff, heroism
Uranus: freedom from conditioning, individuality, insight, the clear light of truth, the ‘aha’ experience, sudden revelation, enlightenment, liberation, invention, genius, brilliance, spiritual rebellion, technology of the sacred - volatility, uncertainty, the ground shifting beneath our feet - a sustained build up of tension resulting in a sudden, explosive release of energy - breakdown or breakthrough; forcible cracking open of existing structures; fault-lines exposed - The Tower Tarot Card - “I’m just not going to take it or do it anymore” - defiance; rebellion; taking a stand; refusal to back down; furious resistance - radical dance moves; original, experimental movement - sexual freedom, experimentation - outliers; black swan events; tectonic shifts; earthquakes.
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