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Astro-LOA Flash: Venus at 16 Gemini preheats the degree of the upcoming ‘eclipse’ of Venus across the sun on June 6th. This is a rare event harking back to 2004. Take a moment to appreciate how far you have come and what you have learned. The constellation of Orion adds strength, fire and audacity. Think recognition long coming!
Today’s Astro-LOA Flash is the first in a series of posts about Venus – the planet, the goddess, the archetype. With the astronomical Venus in Gemini, we are in the slipstream of some rare and powerful ‘events’. Think: as above, so below . . . The synchronicity of the Venus eclipse of the sun and her lengthy stay in the sign of the Twins means there is energy at our fingertips to create inner changes towards greater awareness, authenticity and consciousness.
Note: A transit of Venus occurs when Venus passes directly between the sun and the Earth. The last time this happened was in 2004. After June 6, 2012, it wont’ happen again until 2117.
Dates to Note
Venus into @0 Gemini – April 4, 2012
Venus over the eclipse degree @16 Gemini – April 23, 2012
Venus retrograde @24 Gemini – May 15, 2012
Venus Occult the Sun (eclipse) @16 Gemini – June 6, 2012
Venus Direct @ 7 Gemini – June4 17, 2012
Venus leaves Gemini - Aug 7, 2012
Venus is a symbol of the powers of attraction. She rules love, affection and beauty, and also what we value aesthetically and artistically. Where Venus resides is where we can attract naturally, where we can win others over to our side. It also depicts a desire for relatedness, not so much for the sake of merging but for the determination of deeper values. Through one-to-one relationship, personal values are identified, refined and adopted.
The sign of Gemini is light, breezy, curious and open to learning. Also think airy, intellectual, loves space, freedom and variety. Knowledge is power so this is a time to KNOW what you desire, really. Get current with core values. Get conscious!
Over the next few months I’ll be bringing in guest experts on some of the core Venus related topics such as intimacy, desire, love, money, artistry and values. For today, if we tune into what we love and how we express our core values, we’ll be in great shape to utilize the magnificent energy of Venus for our personal evolution and the evolution of the planet! Check out where @16 Gemini is in your chart and put some love there! Comments welcome.
ah so curious to see how this plays out …
but another resolution of that separation feels nigh, always little by little. my ex and his partner are having their first baby later this year. my son becomes a brother! very exciting!
16 Gemini is my 7th house, in opposition to natal neptune in my 1st …
2004 was huge. my relationship w my son’s father underwent huge changes. we continued to live together, went travelling as a family, yet weren’t together … we eventually separated the following year and i have been doing saturn/pluto transformation ever since
Wow, that sounds powerful! New things on the 7th house horizon, that’s for sure. Keep us posted!
My solar return this year is exactly conjunct the Venus ‘eclipse’ @ 15 degrees 45 minutes! I will be on my favorite trail on my favorite local mountain looking toward the sea and soaking up the energy. Hope it’s not cloudy! : )
Beautiful. The energy of the solar return day carries over the whole year! I like the sound of you plan!
Awesome Kimmy! I have Gemini Moon at 18 degrees in the 3rd house – along with Gemini Sun at 21 degrees, IC at 22 degrees and Gemini Venus at 26 degrees.
2004 was a massive year for me as it symbolised freedom, which created this great love for life. I look back on that period with amazement because my life has been in a constant stream of transformation – lots of hard work – ever since…
That time in 2004 has been my picture on the fridge, when things got hard I just went back to 2004 – and powered on full steam ahead.
I hope all the hard work will pay off.
I can see it paying off! That’s the key. Spend some time in the build up to June 6th ‘seeing’ it as you want it to be. ‘Visualize the shot’ as they say in golf. I’ve got Mercury at 18 Gem in 10th so will be comparing notes!
That is such great advice Kimmy – Thanks so much!
Hi Kim. My natal Saturn at 15.50 Gemini is in my 7th house so don’t know whether what this portends? Have really had enough of my on/off again love interest (been dragging on since 2008) so hoping this might provide much need resolution.
I love Venus/Saturn contacts! The energy is clear, decisive and empowering. It’s a time when you cut dead wood! The beauty of Saturn is his undying accord with authenticity. Be yourself = feels good. Be what someone projects onto you = feel crap. This transit of Venus over that point and the sun (consciousness) is going to literally show you the light!
Thanks Kim. Very helpful. I keep getting asked to tone down my language. I have a stellium in Sagg with Merc right in there at 14 deg opposing Saturn. My response to the request to be more demeur: #$*@ off! LOL! Anyway, your comment re “be what someone projects onto you = feel like crap” rings very true . . I will not be changing for anyone.
Thanks again!
Tone down? Anyone saying that to you hasn’t seen your chart (ie your heart)!!!!
Kim! I have Venus conjuncting my north node in Gemini in my 1st house ( even my sec is at Taurus 27’35) which is also in conjunction to my vesta and opposite my 7th house uranus in sadge….
What should I expect fr this you think? Changes in my relationships, since its touching upon my 1-7 axis…? Individual ways of expressing myself?
Keeping my eyes and heart wide open for this one!
*sorry I meant to say “ascendant” at 27’35 Taurus..
The change is in you. It’s about becoming more authentic and living out your core values in everything you do. That’s bliss and you go for that! Of course, when we change, when we become more of who we are, all our relationships change as well as like attracts like. People in our life change up to match, or they just aren’t around so much anymore. It’s this constant shuffle of energy, like forever finding like, growing and finding like again
Exciting to be part of it!
Taurus may not be overly excited about ‘change’ in general so you talk this part of you along. You say, isn’t this beautiful? Look how authentic it feels? That’s more like it! And the bull decides, in time, yes, it does feel quite nice after all!
Wow, thanks for the really on point insights..I really am juststarting to come into my own…and start owning my values, ideas, and everything that makes me me.. externally I just moved away from my parents house and started working in a new fulfilling career. But internally I have come along way to get to this point of embracing myself….thru self acceptance. Thanks to Pluto transit to my eigth house, I’ve experienced a makeover in my values ..spirituality..morals…andthe way I express my sexuality
As for the relationships…constant shuffling… I feel like thays been a theme my whole life….now more than ever, since being a very open person has me.constantly evolving thru new experiences and relationships. Yea, and the hardresult of this which Taurus hates…is outgrowing relationships….with people that can’t keep up. But its hard when you care!
Thanks for the beautiful insights! And ill take your advice and sweet talk my Taurus along!
My lilith is at 15 Gemini, square my Virgo Sun and trine my Libra North Node. I got married the first time Venus crossed the Sun’s path – in fact, that was what inspired us to elope. Now I am filing for divorce.
I learned a lot in my marriage (he was my intellectual soul mate), but “lost” a lot. My family disowned me because they had a problem with my husband, I stopped talking to friends because they had issues with my husband, and I moved 5,000 miles away from everything I knew for my husband to attend grad school–hmm, I see a pattern here!
We separated two years ago, in the worst circumstances, but it was the best thing to happen to me, ever! I toughened up, got into grad school, reunited with family and friends, and met a great guy who enchants everyone he meets. I didn’t move back home, by the way, I really love it in here, it feels like my truest home. As the poet Rilke averred, “We are born provisionally, it doesn’t matter where. It is only gradually that we compose within ourselves our true place of origin, so that we may be born there retrospectively and each day more definitely.”
Anyways, that’s my Venus-Sun-personal point in Gemini story. Happiest, ever.
Like a phoenix from the ashes.
Isobel, Thank you!
Your story is inspiring and also very moving for me. I could be reading chapters from my own journals twenty years ago!
The Rilke quote is perfect.
Thank you Thank you Thank you!
whoa now… I’m a total astro novice, but a full-blown Kim Falconer addict (cap sun, leo rising – lots of shoulder pads in my life)! I always like to cross-reference blog topics with my natal chart, to get a very general feel for what I can look forward to/prepare for on a very basic level, but I am speaking axes/asteroids at about a 1st grade level. I just took a peek at my chart and my chiron is ON my @16 Gemini in the 11th house! Every time chiron comes into play, I feel like I need a powerpoint presentation… any pointers for a dilettante?
Kim writes lots about Chiron on her website, and Mystic Medusa did a post recently and there are some really good descriptions of Chiron in the comments.
Yes Mystic had some great comments on Chiron a few days ago. . . Thanks for that Shell. http://mysticmedusa.com/2012/04/ninja-chiron/ It’s a good read there including some fabulous comments.
I think anything that touches off Chiron, like this Venus/Sun eclipse for example, touches off our audacity, our daring to attempt. Chiron’s job was to train heroes, to prepare them to do the impossible and in our natal chart, Chiron can be seen as a kind of life coach/cheering section/goad/whip cracker. In Gemini and the 11th I immediately see you speaking/teaching being up in front of others and leading the way. It can be very confronting to be so visible and accountable, but also extremely rewarding.
So note what’s happening right now,. What’s pushing against your comfort zone. Where are you expanding? Where do you see yourself in five years? When it comes to groups of like-minded others, friends and your goals for the future, things could be lighting up!
2004 feels a bit like one of those in between years to me, post a big move and pre all the joys Saturn return brought.
It was around then however that I began the process of my masters which led on to the phd that I really need to get finished in the next month once I get over the drama of moving house.
Both eclipses occur in my 11th house. Which I often think is a non goer in my chart. It’s empty and my Gemini sun is in a loaded taurus ruled 10th. But my work/research is all about a very 11th type of community in a 3rd house context. So I guess the influence shows up. the eclipse is loosely opposite my 5th house Neptune, square my 8th house Pisces moon.
But what I really need right now is a 10th house renaissance. Jupiter has just crossed my mid heaven, mars is finally going forward again, but I’m still in this radio silence thing with my hopes for the grand things I was saying were floating in the ether and would manifest any second now fading as they continue to fail to manifest.
Venus rules my 10th, but trying to draw links feels a bit like grasping at straws that in the end deflate one further because you knew you were just grasping at straws.
I am pretty exhausted from moving though, so I guess my belief stocks are a bit depleted. Times like this are when I fall back to Saturn.
All that to say I really can’t think of what this transit might mean for me.
Post move can be exhausting, making it hard to see what’s right around the corner. A holiday would be nice!
It seems to me that the completion of your PhD is going to be a turning point and huge accomplishment/relief to have behind you! It’s really awesome what you’ve done, and have nearly achieved. Not long to go and yes, Saturn sleeve rolling up time.
Empty houses are my favourite because there’s not so much competition for fulfillment there. Packed houses with divergent planets mean complex adventures in that area of life; the ‘empty’ ones are simpler by contrast. 11th is our place of relating one-to-many as opposed to one-to-one. Gemini on the cusp, is that right? So Mercury rules? Study, learn, teach, gain knowledge in and around the concept of ‘community,’ Talk about it, write about it, take it places. This knowledge is power. It’s very social too, of course, and this eclipse can be a time when you really ‘click’ with a group, a new friend, a community goal, youth work . . . acquired persistence is about it pay off!
Thanks Kim, I often think of empty houses as nothing doing, and focus on all the busy ones tied together to each other. Because it seems thats where the emphasis is. But your “Study, learn, teach, gain knowledge in and around the concept of ‘community,’ ” is exactly what I have been doing all this time, one way or another. ( I do love that my research is actually a really great manifestation of the different aspects of my chart)
Yes my 11th ruled by Gemini. And i have Uranus in the 3rd.
It’s seeming more appealing than unpacking or cleaning at the moment, and I guess I’m kind of hoping that that’ll then lead back to all belief I had that it would all be worth it for the future it’d create. And I’m not really going to be getting out of the house much till its done so I guess I’d best get cracking to not waste the thing.
And I just remembered that Venus is my final depositor.
After some more sleep.
I’m still learning how to read my chart but I can see I have Venus in Gemini at 7º (3rd house but possibly 4th as time of birth a bit vague) not sure what to expect from transit of venus, but since the past few years have been ultra crap I hope it will mean good things. Although 2004 was a good year, everything seemed to be in going in the right direction; family, friends, career…end of 2005 marked the start of a downhill run till now where I am fighting the urge to turn my back on everyone and start afresh somewhere far away…Kim I love your writing and would really appreciate your thoughts..is there anything I should be doing to make the most of Venus in Gemini?
My chart is here http://www.astro.com/cgi/chart.cgi?clang=e&rs=0&adl=18%2C19%2C20%2C22&add=18&ast=399%2C+26%2C+1221&gm=a1&sday=24&btyp=24&syr=2012&zod=&lang=e&orbp=&mth=gw&cid=rdqfile3TkEng-u1328873880&hsy=-1&smon=4&nhor=1&go.x=12&go.y=5&go=Go
Hi Fiona, Thank you!
Your birth time would have to be off by a few hours to put Venus in the 4th, but it could be in the second if you were born 15 or 20 minutes earlier. It would be worth it to get your recorded birth time from the hospital. All Aus hospitals recorded times after 1959 so it’s in medical records.
You do get your Venus return three times this year (as opposed to the usual one) April 12 and twice in the end of June. It can be a turning point for you in terms of relationships, artistry and your core values.
Meanwhile, I get the feeling of a deep and powerful love of communication, writing, speaking, sharing ideas, teaching . . . and the Saturn/Mercury conjunction suggesting that love was not nurtured in the best possible way for you growing up. It can put you in ‘crowds’ that aren’t in true alignment with ‘you’. This transit of Venus might coincide with big changes around friends, groups, study, goals . . . all a reflection of you getting in synch with your true values. Think ‘nothing but blue sky from now on . . .’
Thank you Kim, your insights are wonderfully spot on and really help with a fresh perspective. I have just requested my records, as the more I learn the more I find how important knowing the exact time is, especially as someone told me that if I was born 5 min earlier I’d be an Aries!
Am loving the ‘blue sky’ that will keep me focused on the positive : )
Many thanks x
Kim, how do the Gem/Sagg eclipses feed into the Venus action?
I was looking cause the Gem new moon is just off my sun and thus yet another in the series that have been aspecting my sun/asc. But I saw that the Sagg full moon is just off the Venus eclipse point.
Good question, Shell. There is very little experience here on how the eclipse transit of Venus links to anything because it only happens one or two times per century. (in cycles of 243 years). But we can say that the point itself (around mid Gemini) is activated by the Venus transit, heated up, awakened and what you do to one sign you do to it’s polar opposite.
The Sagittarius lunar eclipse is partial and within 10 days of the Venus occult the sun. I would see it as adding focus to that area of life (where mid Gem and mid Sag reside). They are ‘in orb’ of each other. (eclipses can show up as external events 30 days before, at the time of or 30 days after the actual eclipse!)
We can take notes for a future generation – next Venus transit is 2117!
Hi Kim, this is really interesting. I’ve been curious about the transit of Venus for a while as my natal venus is 19 degrees Gemini in the 1st house, with Juno at 12 degrees. Taking stock of the last 8 years makes me realize how far I’ve come and how much has been VERY Venus related.. big money/legal issues after my husband’s death, left “sensible” job and returned to 1st love -music/writing which took off brilliantly in creative sense although not financially (yet!), very big challenges/endings with family relationships (including my Dad’s death) to do with boundaries – which I feel is clearing space and pushing me towards where I really need to be. . things seem to have been gathering speed from last June – my Dad’s funeral was the date of the eclipse (conjunct my Juno) .
The one big question that is still outstanding from 2004 is a potential romantic relationship, very karmic, deep feelings (interestingly, his Sun is within 1 degree of my Dad’s, conjunct my Saturn). There’s also Chiron/M.C double-whammy synastry conjunction amongst many others I’d describe us as very connected on an energy level but not, at present, a physically manifested “item”. Am wondering if the Venus transit could portend a big shift?
Would much appreciate your thoughts…..
Psyche, that is quite a journey these last eight years! Very interesting that your romantic interest has sun conjunct your dad’s sun and your Saturn. Saturn/sun in synastry is very powerful, enduring, not always romantic but often so and I do know what you mean when you say ‘Karmic’.
I think the Venus transit will coincide with a shift, beginning with your awareness of what you want in a romantic relationship. It may or may not be what this Sun/Saturn energy brings you, but I am guessing you will be a lot clearer. And, with that inner clarity always comes a shift in your outer events and connections. I would keep focusing on the things that you do love about this person in your life, not what’s ‘missing’. That’s the quickest way to create the change you are after!
Keep us posted!
Thanks Kim, that’s helpful. I totally agree about focuing on the things I love rather than what’s missing. For me that has been tied to learning about presence (thank you Eckhart Tolle!) and has kept me balanced. Looking forward to seeing what transpires now. After reading your article about Abundantia, by the way, I looked up it’s placement in both our charts – mine is conjunct his Mercury (yes, communication – or lack of – is key), and his is conjunct my Moon (nurturing issues definitely a deep wound, and what he knows he gets quite naturally from me). I wasn’t surprised!
Thanks again x
After posting the above, just discovered my natal Karma is 16 degrees Gemini and the transiting south/north node will be conjunct my Asc/Desc at the Transit of Venus. Now I’m REALLY curious!
Very interesting! Take notes!
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