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Venus Verticordia, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Astro Flash: Venus ‘occult’ or ‘transit’ the Sun @15 Gemini (see times below) brings together a rare and powerful image of the Sun (consciousness) and Aphrodite (the feminine and the power of love and attraction). Think allure, relating, consensus, diplomacy, art and creative expression. As these values are brought to light, ask where you can adjust, change and grow into more of who you are. Make a wish.
The ‘transit’ of Venus occurs once or twice a lifetime. This event today harks back to changes begun in June 2004. The next transit of Venus is in 2117. Check where is Venus transiting in your chart. What do you see coming to light?
Venus Rx ‘Transit or ‘Occult’ the Sun
@15 GEMINI Jun 5-6
LA. – Tuesday – 18:09
NY – Tuesday – 21:09
LON– Wednesday – 02:09
SYD – Wednesday – 11:09
We have another Venus Retrograde guest post today. It’s by my lovey and brilliant friend, Janette Dalgliesh. She’s a wonderful, insightful LOA coach with experience in astrology and Law of Attraction. Please welcome, Janette!
I LOVE the journey of Venus Retrograde! Not because it’s a gentle easy cruise, but because – for me – it’s a brilliant opportunity to get even closer to my true, powerful authentic Self.
Kim’s post on Venus Rx says “Take a moment to appreciate how far you have come and what you have learned”. She’s also said that this is a time when “things we thought were ‘fine’ are under review again”. And that can feel horrible!
In a former life I was a performer working in theatre and film.
At the start of my career, I hated the first night nerves which came with a brand new show. Will it work? Will they hate? Will it make sense? Will I screw up?
Soon I learned that stagefright was a powerful link to my passion. In the red hot moment, doing a good job mattered. That’s where the nerves came from; and they helped keep me sharp.
Stagefright became my friend – albeit one with teeth and claws – and I used her to inspire me to better and better work. I learned how to go on and do the show, even when my palms were sweaty and my knees a-tremble.
I nailed it!
So imagine my shock when I felt those old terrors rising again, at the prospect of teaching the first class of a new series to six people.
Surely I mastered this already? How can I be feeling this again? Six people are scary? I’ve played the main stage of Sydney Opera House!
Man, I struggled.
As a keen practitioner of deliberate creation, I know that my best shortcut to what I want is to find the better-feeling thought. My go-to technique is to ask “where is my relief?!”. I wondered if Venus Rx could be the clue.
So I went back and revisited my old friend, stagefright, to see what she could tell me. And here’s what she reminded me:
- things always worked out somehow, even if things went horrible pear-shaped during the show
- they (the audience) were on our side; they were there to have a good time even if things went wrong (in fact, theatre audiences often LOVE it when things go wrong!)
- even if I do screw up, I have the knack of making something good out of it
- you know how to go on despite the terrors
And best of all, I remembered that stagefright always – ALWAYS – disappears about two minutes into the show, to be replaced with wonder and thrill and satisfaction.
This time, I was upping the ante. Instead of a large, anonymous audience I was about to face up to a small, intimate group. And instead of a script written by someone else, I was presenting my own material. I was being way more vulnerable this time around.
What I learned in the past was exactly what I need for this new experience. Making friends with stagefright back then gave me enough comfort so she didn’t overwhelm me this time around.
There is huge relief in going back and remembering the big picture view of whatever’s echoing down through the years.
If you catch something during Venus Rx that feels less than wonderful, where in your past can you find the pathway to relief in the present?
Thank you, Janette! And everyone, take advantage of her Pay What You Want in June. I know I will!
Yay! Thank you so much for having me at the party, Kim – such an honour! I’m chuckling to myself because at 12.30pm Sydney time I’ll be in front of that formerly scary class again. They’re the sweetest bunch, they all love me to bits, and it’s hard to imagine I was EVER frightened of them! Isn’t life grand?
That’s wonderful, Janette! Thank you for your insightful post!
Some brilliant images of the transit here! http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/05/12072765-venus-makes-last-in-a-lifetime-transit-across-the-sun?lite
Yeah, great post. I really like the idea of Voice Dialogue and have used it on several occasions to help me understand aspects of myself that seemed to be thwarting me. “Shirley” the paranoic was dealt with and dispensed with in this way. That was a relief–for everyone I imagine.
I’d never thought about it in relation to stage fright, something I haven’t had cause to experience very much. Suffice to say it’s a tough one for singers–your voice gives away your nerves and it’s hard to mask the jitters in your voice. But you’re completely right, Mr Stagefright disappears rapidly once you’re under way.
It’s so useful to us to objectify parts of ourselves and observe them, it gives us a good understanding of these things in all of us when we dispassionately just watch them.
Oh, yes! I had forgotten that physical detail, but you’re so right. Stagefright = shallow breathing = no voice support = wobbly voice. Blerg!
I do like your comment about the value of stepping away from parts of ourselves so we can observe and understand them. That’s definitely how I approach things! I call it “inner critter” work because I figure these so-called gremlin thoughts aren’t really intending to sabotage us. They’re like little critters – looking scary but really wanting to protect us from something THEY think is dangerous. In the process they can be a bit rough, but if we can manage to compassionately observe them, we can begin to soothe them so they have less power.
I’m always reminded of Honey, the Labrador we had when I was a kid. She hated it when we went swimming in the local, very shallow bay. In a misguided attempt to shepherd us back to shore and ‘save us’ from the big bad ocean, she’d swim up close and scratch us to bits. In her doggie mind, she was protecting us any way she knew how – never mind the claw marks she left in the process LOL!
Poor old Honey desperately trying to save you while you swim frantically away to escape her claws. Dogs are so long suffering.
I first did a voice dialogue session at art school when I naively volunteered to be a guinea pig; the idea being to speak to our inner critic. Thanks be, the lecturer saw quickly that the ‘critic’ is there to protect the inner child and in my case the child was trying for some acknowledgement. He ended the session just before she burst through and I was surprised at the welling up of feelings. A week or so later I had cause to contact the inner child when doing some heart breaking horse type activities for someone rather callous. She emerged wailing, angry and upset by the ‘world’. As I walked home railing/crying. The world is completely unjust to the child, our critic (or one of them!) tries to protect her. But once she has been acknowledged by our adult selves, she integrates into us a little more comfortably.
Wow, you were very blessed to have a smart lecturer who could recognise and show compassion for your inner child. That’s a powerful story – as is your reflection on how important it is to acknowledge her.
I have natal Rx Gemini Venus @ 17 in the 11th, Libra IC at 14 /Aries MC, Sagittarius Vx @ 18 in the 5th, Libra Pluto@18. I am trying to remember 2004 (was 24y.o.)-was a hectic but nice year. Left abroad for a volunteer project and fall in love. Was the year I felt my life was totally changing and I was growing up in the same time. Im so curious about 2012!
Ooh – “hectic but nice” has an attractive ring to it
That sense of big life shift is great when you can embrace it with curiosity rather than fear – kudos to you for flowing that positive energy. The only constant in life is change, and it sounds like you mastered the best way to approach it back in 2004. That will be so helpful for anything coming up in 2012!
I’ll leave any commentary on your astro to wise Kim. This definitely falls into the category of me knowing enough to know how little I know LOL!
Thank you for commenting
Three Venus Returns this year, Laura! That’s fabulous. A fresh approach to relationships of all kind is in the works! I see this launching a whole new brilliance! Wow!
Nice post Janet! Thanks I had forgotten about the self-talk which I am going to do today. It’s so easy to let things quietly nag under the surface and not even recognize that ‘they’ have something to tell you if you give them a chance.
Thank you!
Yes indeed, I love that perspective – once we give that self-talk a chance to be heard, we get so much juice from it! We can make choices about whether to take its advice or not, we can learn from it, we can leverage it as I did with the stagefright.
The key is to listen with love and understanding, just as we would to a well-meaning but scratchy Labrador, or a frightened three-year-old. And of course, listening to it is NOT the same as taking its advice, or believing every word it says!
Letting it quietly (or, in some cases, not so quietly LOL) nag under the surface is a form of resistance and as we know, resistance is another word for STUCK.
Great reminder, thank you!!
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