Lorna Bevan – This month, we’ve already experienced our collective destiny shift towards the future as the Nodes of Fate changed signs on a Plutonic New Moon – now we now cross the border into the shadowlands.
As the Sun enters Leo on July 23rd, Venus conjunct Black Moon Lilith stations retrograde at 28° Leo turning direct on September 3rd and Chiron stations retrograde at 19 Aries until December 27th.With Pluto, Neptune, Saturn and Eris already retrograde, this is a season to turn inwards, to become an intronaut, deep diving behind surface appearances to defrag, to review your process and habitual patterns, so you can emerge renewed in September with updated inner/outer maps. Continue reading
Leslie Benson – Summer is about to take a fascinating turn as Venus, the planet of love and beauty takes a retrograde journey through the luminous, fiery realms of Leo!
Simon Vorster & Jennifer Langstone – As Venus turns retrograde on October 6th, 2018, she will retract her energy from the outer projection of relationships and take us into the deep inner realm of our relationship to ourselves – She will ask us to penetrate to the core of our unconscious attachments, needs and desires, to carefully examine our emotional ties with others and process through the layers of our externalised dependencies and projected needs. This is a time of total inner re-evaluation.
M. Kelley Hunter – The orbit of Venus has a highly aesthetic cycle. Every eight years, “she” goes retrograde five times, describing a pentagonal star around the zodiac. During these repeating cycles, the goddess descends below the horizon to commune with the Sun, pulling us deep into a personal process of emotional alchemy. This periodic exercise in heart intelligence works individually and in relationships, developing throughout our lifetimes.
Henry Seltzer & Leslie Benson – For as long as humans have walked the earth we have looked fondly toward the heavens to gaze upon one of the brightest points in our sky— the lovely lady Venus. Astrologically she represents love, beauty, connection, values, and the material earthly realm. Venus will station retrograde on March 4th, 2017 in Aries, appearing to travel backwards in the sky through Aries and into the last degrees of Pisces, dipping under the horizon as she makes her journey from her current place as the evening star to rising once again as the morning star.