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Taurus Bulwark
What is it that happens when an immovable object meets an unstoppable force? An Escher print of mighty forces whose exertions are holding us all in their thrall. Fixed sign forces are not just ideas, they too are primal in combination. Standing your ground is the very least this mighty moon will ask of us.
Venus Combusta
Venus combust as she pinwheels across the face of the sun, marking her penultimate cazimi in Scorpio. Her zero turn the final star point after a century of phoenix stunting.
The Next Big Fling
Venus cazimi, Mercury retrograde and Scorpio season as prelude to a stubborn bulwark of a Taurus full moon.
Retroshade
In a season of retrograde shade, darkness becomes more pronounced. Its constant frame and equal music no longer hidden, denied or ignored. Our occult torrents like its mainstream and everything long buried suddenly unforgets itself all at once. Memories crowd the superhighway at night. No one can bear the future anymore. Nostalgia and the great undone mingle by the holes in the world.
When Hades Met Persephone
Venus combust, retrograde and blinded by the light reaches a hand out and it is all too easy to lurch or lunge from the shadows. Lady Love in her underworld glowering now at Pluto freshly emerged from his own seven hells, gleaming at his Persephone once more from an entirely different vantage.
The Venus Chronicles
As centuries of feminine rage is unleashed, Venus’ retreat and retrograde is the good dark medicine we all need in these modern burning times.
The Venusian Chronicles Salon doors have opened to those keen to do the real shadow work of this rich and rewarding transit.
Venus Roaring in Retrograde
Venus withdraws to contemplate, revise and thus reinvigorate all that tickles and tugs at our hearts this us about far more than avoiding the ex files or changing your lewk. Venus rules those areas of our life that bring us pleasure - or her counterbalance, pain - and which reflect our values, desires, taste and attractions. Her retrograde is part of a far larger revolutionary agenda marked by two lifeshifting eclipses, another retrograde as Merc shifts perception, and the move of our blue planet to this same fire sign.
Venus Flaming Cazimi In Aries
Today Venus passes through the sun in Aries, her cazimi a total eclipse of the heart. This is an initiation into a new relationship with your generative centrepoint and too an ignition point designed to set your heart aflame. Beyond who we love and why, Venus has much to do with what we love and how.
Venus Takes Her Leave
Venus cazimi dances behind the sun and out of sight until she rises again as the evening star in May. Her superior conjunction announces her departure and disappearing act from our skies into the dark beyond. Welcome repose in the heart's sacred underworld that holds all of our stories holy. Venus' seven week journey back into our night sight can initiate us into the next season of our lives.
Venus Through The Heart of The Sun
Venus in her twin skin arrives at a crucial juncture in her retrograde today. Our lady of love is reborn through the heart of the sun in Gemini as our collective shadows finally catch the light. So may we eclipse our old ways and means in tandem with our lady of love as she transitions from evening star to morning star, bringing her significant blessing to new dawns everywhere.
Venus At The Station
Venus at the station signals her impending re-emergence as she prepares to turn direct before the next night passes. She has arrived, in every sense. Of the whole rollercoaster Venusian retrograde, the stationing point is the giant corkscrew at the end of the ride. The one that lurches and rattles before you hurtle above ground, glittering eyes adjusting to the new platform.
Venus Retrograding Through Aries
Not attracting the hullabaloo of her mercurial neighbour, it is easier to overlook the obvious, significant effect of Venus Retrograde on our lives and loves. Our Lady Venus has been in retreat since early March - following a scented heads up late January - and mid April sees her official re-emergence.
Venus Retrograde in Aries
Our Lady of Love's annual retreat has begun as she withdraws to contemplate, revise and thus reinvigorate all that tickles and tugs at our hummingbird hearts. Venus rules those areas of our life that bring us pleasure - or her counterbalance, pain - and which reflect our values, desires, taste and attractions.