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Die Jungfrau – 1913 The Virgin; Narodni Galerie, Prague
Astro-LOA Flash: Venus, the goddess of love, turns retrograde today. Think ‘pausing to add new colours to your inner palette’. This is preparation for a renaissance of values, attractions and desires.The feeling is to turn inward and admire what’s working, change what isn’t.
There is plenty of time. No rush. For now, appreciate who you are and what you love. If you can stay in your feelings, sensuality and heart about it, all the better. But remember Venus is Rx in Gemini, so no worries if you do have a few things on your mind from time to time. Quite a few. This is part of the process. Just mix in the quiet time of meditation or whatever practice gets you into a calm state of ‘lightness of being’.
Notes: 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, 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.
Gemini is light, breezy, curious and willing to learn. An air sign and intellectual, Gemini needs a lot of space and variety. Knowledge is power so this is a time to KNOW what you desire, really. Get current. Get conscious!
Venus is a representation of love, what we love to love and in Gemini it’s what we think we love. The focus is on our thoughts of love, beauty, what we value. That means it’s what we attract, right here, right now. Our life is a representation of what we love. If we aren’t happy in it, it’s not that the powers of attraction have gone wrong. It’s because we are not completely self aware of our true loves. Now’s the time to set that straight.
Dates
4 Apr 2012 Venus enters Gemini at 0 Gemini
15 May 2012 Venus turns Retrograde at 24 Gemini
6 June 2012 Venus occult the sun (eclipse) at 16 Gemini
27 Jun 2012 Venus turns Direct at 7 Gemini
7 August 2012 Venus leaves Gemini at 0 Cancer
I’ll be posting more on Venus over the next few months and have some fabulous guest posts lined up as well. Meanwhile, look to where Venus is at a standstill in your chart (which house) and meditate on your values there. There is a key word rundown of the houses below and you can create your chart and find the degrees of Gemini in this tutorial.
Namaste, everyone and happy re-valuing!
Quick list of the 12 houses:
1st house – Appearance, personality traits, outlook on life
2nd house - $$$, resources, talents, peace of mind
3rd house – Teaching, learning, writing, talking, connecting
4th house – Home, family, ancestors, emotional ground
5th house – Creative expression, offspring (books/kids etc), romance
6th house – Health, pets, daily routine, magic
7th house – Socially significant relationships, contracts
8th house – sex, death, taxes, shared resources, trust
9th house – New horizons, travel, beliefs, WWW
10th house – Career, mission, profession, public relations
11th house – Friends, goals for the future, groups
12th house – unconscious, dreams, giving and receiving, meditative states
Sorry if this is a multi-post…
I’m expecting my client to sign a contract tonight or tomorrow, and I’m the service provider. He’s reliable as far as payment is concerned, but what other setbacks can I expect? Should I aim to finish the project before Venus turns direct?
Natal Gem points, all 8th house: Moon 7 Gem, Vertex 8 Gem, Venus 13 Gem
Thank you!
It’s not really about setbacks or techno-signing-purchase as in Mercury Rx. This is different. Venus doesn’t care about contracts. What you might be doing is reevaluating your intimate relationships, your shared resources, your connection to your passion. Probably not playing out in the career arena.
I would expects deep, fulfilling, insightful revelations about what you love.
This point has been one of debate internally lately. It’s looking as though an intimate relationship that exploded into life by surprise mid-late last year is about to be healed and reignited more or less by/on the Gemini Eclipse. I take commitment in these areas very seriously so I’m a bit unsure about how to take the retrograde in regards to allowing it to restart.
I do recognise that it’s time for some great learning in this area of life though.. So I’m not fearful about letting it happen. Just don’t want to do something potentially unwise that goes against my personal beliefs and morals on a very sensitive part of life..
I think that’s just it. We get really clear on what our true beliefs are, as opposed to outside influences like cultural paradigms. It’s a time to become more authentic. Empowered. Venus didn’t do anything that wasn’t true to herself. There’s a potent lessen there with this goddess!
Thank you for your feedback!
The reason I thought it might affect the contract, because of the Venus/money relationship. Also, Rx is in Gem that’s Mercury-ruled. Nevermind then
Awesome, thanks Kimmy!
I am a natal venus retro and have been feeling super creative lately with Venus hanging out at home.
Beautiful. The retro period is like coming home for you, creatively. Good for finances too!
I’m a bit excited/relieved to have magic as a 6th house expression…I’m grateful to you Kim for expanding my preconceptions on retro Venus receptivity…I was worried there for a mo it was gonna be all about my dog! I can say that her stationing trine my Aqua moon is tres lovely for the heart centre & my dog is in sleeping on the couch mode!
Lisa, if anything it’s awesome for your dog! lol With Venus in your sixth house, sixth house ‘things’ come to the foreground and in lovely ways. They show us our own hearts!
Venus stationing in the 11th, semi sextile my Taurus Venus, which has Jupiter parked on it. The trine to retro saturn in libra must be adding a bit of refined weighing up of situations to the process right?
This post made me look back to your original Venus in Gemini post, where you suggested to me,
“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!”
Not much socialising going on unfortunately, as venus’ other tool, money, is pretty tight still, and so I’m kind of either holed up at home trying to get this thing finished, or out selling myself in job interviews.
But the thing I’m finishing is all about community, and in many ways the job interviews are all about finding a new one, and in between there is much reflection on the nature of this thing.
Being a Gemini I guess its also relevant to think about this in terms of first house – because reassessing what I value and where I want to go is very current right now. However also being a gemini, I’d like stuff to get on and happen now please.
And goals for the future LOTS of thinking/talking about that.
I think this Rx Venus period will see the completion of your major community project and indeed you to get on with new goals for the future. Perhaps they will even surprise you!!!!
Oh yes it’ll definitely be done. I was aiming for the 21st. But even symbolic fake deadlines are still fake, but have now been given the 7th June. Which I think by coincidence is Jupiter conj my mercury. If I’m super lucky something else is going to come through around the new moon to add a little push along to that. A job as a birthday present would be a great thing
Ps, I was pondering on the current analogy last night. visualising a couple of orange life buoys drifting toward me, and this image flashed into my head of thousands of buoys all heading my way
Love that image, Shell!
Hi Kim
Gem on my 6th, Virgo Sun. Have been feeling a bit of magic in 2nd job…may I ask why 6th is magic ? Or are we going with ‘practcal’ magick ala Virgo + daily intentions ? Curious, thanks …!
Hope you don’t mind me stepping in here Gneiss. I often see the 6th as the house of ritual (which can be read as routine) which for me also relates to magick. It’s all in the details being the house of Virgo. Hope this makes sense.
Ritual routine, yes, but it’s deeper than that. All the things of the 6th house are ‘ways and means’ of accomplishing our will. The health of the body allows us to get around. Employees and servants, PA’s (if we have them!) function as extensions of our will (or if we are employees etc, we carry out the boss’s will). Cats keep down the rats (and the blood pressure), dogs guard, protect and hunt with us. Gadgets, well, try opening a corked wine bottle without one. They accomplish our will.
The purpose if magic (deliberate creation with props) is also to accomplish our will. Grow crops, pray rain, love spells, bring affluence, hex the whatever . . . all an extension of ways and means to ‘get the job done’.
Make sense?
WOW Kim! I think this is the best explanation of the 6th house I’ve read. You have explained what I feel and do instinctively so eloquently.To me ritual has always been easier for me to understand as a concept in relation to the 6th (I had trouble for ages understanding what I needed to do there). As I have Saturn in the 6th as well I’ve often found it a challenge to figure out how to work with it.
Glad that helps you understand the 6th house. It might give you ideas of where you can put your Saturn to work for you!
Thank you everyone ! Lots to wake up to in the US.
Hope you don’t mind if I Virgo out a bit ? It’s the nuts and bolts I am picking apart.
(my natal stuff: 9th Virgo Sun/Ura/Plu conjunct (Pluto in 8); Venus conj Jup 8; Neptune most aspected Scorp 11. Gem on 6, Merc MC)
My thoughts when commenting above was re: looking at correspondence to the rulerships – (is why I asked).
I was / am thinking magick is Pluto, Neptune, (Uranus also according to old skool book I just cracked open) moreso / in addition to Mercury. I agree with 6th house ‘props’ and expressing the ‘will’ as practical magick.
House of 6 daily routines / housewitchery has roots in energy awareness for use in practical magicks. I see this also involves Pisces / Neptune as tapping the cosmos, ‘the force’, for inspirational work in same.
Specifically the Gemini / Virgo thought process, invoking by specific name / words as Mercurial. The polarities of both Mercury and higher octave Uranus are trickster ‘Magician’ energy. Mastery of special knowledge, shaping the energies;
Mercury verbal, Uranus non-verbal.
If going with Chiron as Virgo 6 ruler, I sense by seeking the transformation of wound by learning and teaching (spiritual ritual, charity of knowledge) is a Jupiter / Pluto fusion. (Book reads Jupiter precides over [ spiritual ] ritual, as well as 6th house.)
Energy of 8th house Scorp / Pluto inner divine ‘will’ power and the ‘will’ of Sun / Leo are both in play for magicks. Sun is exalted in the house of Plutos lower octave, Mars house of personal ‘will.
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So after all that separating of nuts & bolts, I am taking away energy manipulation using gadjets, props and house-witchery for specific 6th house magicks. Of course I feel we employ magicks of some form in every house, but that was my question – what is primarily 6th house.
Of course , I will fixate on this topic all day now.. : )
thanks all,
Any thoughts….?
Traditionally, the act of magic, seting intentions to alter curent reality, belongs to the 6th house (acomplishing our will) and the 12th house (connecting to the will of the collective unconscious). Planets connected are Mercury (thoughts become things) and the ceremony of magic is Jupiter’s domain (as you say!). Modern rulerships for magic are, as you say, Neptune and Pluto though each is a very different approach (just as there are Uranus and Neptune type astrologers!). In Rex Bill’s book of rulership (a ‘bible’ for astrologers) he lists magic done by oneself as 6th house and by another as 12th.
I think any time we activate the 6th house we get more in touch with the means that we accomplish our will (more than the will itself).
By now I’ve forgotten the question! lol Indeed lots to ponder.
Thank you Kim ! I missed that in Rex Bill’s book, I was reading a medical astrology text. I will look again…
I am solitary for the most part, so I will ponder that 6th / 12th energy further, thank you kindly ! x
I would add to, rituals, whether for high purposes or more as daily habits, have all sorts of symbolic meanings that have implications way beyond whatever you may have intended in your habitual behaviour. We construct and make our way through ‘society’ by means of our daily rituals, many of which are so embedded we don’t even realise we’re doing them. The point being little rituals and habits can construct very big things.
Thanks Shell, personal experience in my life of late re: daily health routines. Presently working shifts of balance between -Gem on 6- maintaining mental, physical and spiritual health while juggling 2 jobs, multi-tasking out the whazoo.
Intuit from the ground, juggle and / or morph everything into a harmonious blend.
Go Venus Rx !
Whilst holding on to the memory/thought of what you really value about all that stuff?
Yes. Took time to garden last eve, (phys), writing every spare minute (mental), about the metaphysical (true personal spiritual calling, not what I do at day job, which is menial with spurts of the artistic popped in). Also culling the herd of past situations, (Saturn Rx in 3) separating the wheat / chaff, working towards a much more mentally streamlined future. Money tight here too, but peace of mind is preferred in a pinch. Good Luck with your searching, Shell, I know you have been working really hard too.
thanks Roxie xxo
Venus is conjuncting my Moon (7th house) as I type and will conjunct my Sun (6th house) when it goes direct again in June.
I see that this relates to passion both in one-on-one relationships and work for me. I was wondering though; I was planning on putting a passion project that I’ve been working on into place on the new moon/eclipse next week. Would this still be a good time and then use the retro period to refine and go full steam ahead in Aug? This is how I’m reading the retro period as best for me but I may be reading it wrong. 
Empress, I think you’re spot on. Sounds like the right approach to me. And, you’ll have Jupiter following after with the major shower of gold. All good!
Exciting stuff! Thanks for your quick reply Kim. I panicked yesterday when I found out that retro Venus might throw a spanner into the works of what I was planning. Instead it’s given me more focus and a better structure regarding my plans.
Thanks again.
This is somewhat random, but by Friday I would have had 3 job interviews in the previous week and a half, all at 2pm, with that time choosen by the employer.
So I ran event charts, just to see. That time is Virgo rising, for all, with Mars in orb of Asc and Venus in orb of MC. The one with mars right on the asc is very administrative, and the one with Venus right on the MC is community and communicative. The latter hasn’t happened yet.
I’m not sure what else to think about the similarities but it’s kinda odd.
Very cool, and definitely a theme going on, It’ll be interesting to see which job you get!!!! (from which interview chart)
Yes, I shall suss in a later moment of procrastination. What should I look at beyond the slight movements in the angles? The moon? It’s the only big mover really – and Mercury a little I guess.
The moon and the angles (the decans may change and the dwads so you have different sub rulers). You read the charts as if they were a horary, In a nut shell, check the last aspect the moon makes in each chart – it’s like a final outcome energy . . .
Hi! Cancer Sun 7°31′ /Leo asc 1°52′ with Rx Venus 17°14′ Gemini, (11th house), Vertex 18°52′ in Sag, Capri Moon 17°49′, Libra Pluto 18°58. Just hope nothing bad is about to happen!
Hi Laura, I think if you re-read Kim’s description of Venus above, you’ll see there’s no predictions of ‘bad’. Venus is a benefic, she’s good at heart. You’ll get 3 Venus returns, plus the eclipse of Venus is almost conjunct your venus, which is exciting. Kim made this comment on an earlier post regarding Venus in the 11th.
“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”
So look to those area’s in your life and think about how they may be revalued etc.
Thank you Shell. Exactly.
Note: the more we let go of value judgment words like ‘good’ and ‘bad’ and get to the core of the energy (expansive, condensing, exciting, production, experimental, whatever) the more we really understand the language. So it’s not even about what’s about to ‘happen’ but what is waking up inside us. Energy of a certain colour with an aim in mind! Venus usually coincides with some pretty awesome happy moments and if there is contrast to that, it helps us know what we really want!
Make sense?
As Abe-Hicks would say, all is well!
Yes, I guess it makes sense. It’s just that lately things have been quite disturbing for me and I was just afraid not to get any worse with the eclipse and everything going on.
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