Venus entered tropical Gemini yesterday for the first time this year. Mars opposes Uranus tomorrow for the third time since Christmas. Together, Venus and Mars are indicating a week of both new and old relationship experiences for you. Further implied is how the newer experiences may in fact seem more familiar and less surprising than the old ones.
Have you ever met somebody for the first time and felt like you have known that being all your life? If you have, Venus’ ingress to Gemini signifies something similar impending for you now.
Have you ever known somebody for a very long time, then suddenly saw a side of them you did not know was there? If so, Mars opposing Uranus for the third time in six months hints at more of the same in store for you (if it hasn’t happened already).
The astrological correlation between Venus entering Gemini and an experience at once new and familiar is not derived from rarity. Venus traversing mutable air is more or less an annual event. Rather, it has to do with two truly rare events in the recent past that may well resonate into the future for a very long time.
The rare occurrences were the two Venus transits across the face of the Sun — the first in 2004, and the second in 2012. In both cases, Venus was in Gemini and Earth was lined up just right to see Venus essentially eclipse the Sun. Inhabitants of Earth will not witness Venus cross the Sun again until the next century.
Eclipses of any kind tend to leave an unseen but perceptible mark on some level of your consciousness, as well as on the zodiac. When any object (but especially the object that precipitated the event) returns to where an eclipse took place, astrology tells you to expect an echo of sorts commensurate with the context of the return.
Signs provide context. Gemini is a relationship sign especially pertinent to relationship with self. Mercury currently retrograde in Gemini (a sign it rules) to host Venus’ return all but spells out a new relationship that feels like a return.
A similar but complementary situation is implied by Mars’ third of three rapidly successive oppositions to Uranus tomorrow.
Energetic Mars, which normally travels through a sign in two months, has been in airy, cardinal Libra (domain of Venus) since Dec. 7 of last year because of a long retrograde cycle that ended last month. Now in direct motion again, Mars is repeating some aspects for the third time in six months that would normally take a year or two to revisit.
Hence, we have come to know Mars in Libra and its aspects from there pretty well. Opposed to Libra is fiery, cardinal Aries (ruled by Mars) where galvanizing and disruptive Uranus has been continuously making its way since 2011 — another combination of planet and sign we have gotten to know well.
Aries and Libra are also relationship signs. Their opposition especially pertains to the relationship of self and other. The combination of fiery Mars opposing unpredictable Uranus along the the Aries-Libra axis has taken place twice before in the last six months: on Dec. 25 of last year and as part of a larger (grand cardinal cross) aspect on April 23 of this year.
Nevertheless, the lively combination of Uranus and Mars opposing along the relationship axis of the zodiac all but warns you to take nothing and nobody for granted. Better to be proactive, consciously refreshing and renewing what you’re accustomed to (date night, anyone?), than to find unsteady ground under your feet.
That’s how this week is shaping up with the dynamic duo of Venus and Mars. That’s how you should behave as Venus and Mars would implicitly have you do. Be dynamic yourself. Look for old connections in new meetings and new flavors in old tastes, and you’ll probably be able to make the most of whatever comes your way.
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Amanda: My thanks to you in turn, Glad that worked for you.
be: You got me with the “Power of Love” part. Part of the reason for my getting devoted to astrology in the first place was to explore manifestations of love in the Cosmos. Venus, as you imply is a reliable indicator. Gravity (still, to this day not resolved into other forces by the best efforts of science) is, as you indicated, undeniably a form of attraction that still holds a great deal of mystery thousands of years after the ancient Greeks contemplated what it meant. Thank you!
Good visual Len. . the word echo always conjures up a vision of a guy on a mountain top yodeling into the valley and the echo then returns the same greeting. I can see how the law of attraction, or the drawing-towards-you effect Venus represents could result in meeting someone new who is motivated along the same path as you. Do you know who else has that drawing-towards-them effect? Yeah, the Great Attractor, and it so happened that the last Venus occult the Sun event in June 2012 was opposite the GA. Suddenly, that monumental event has new significance. It provides new understanding to the term polarization.
If we were to look at the Sun as a symbol of consciousness facing a powerful magnetic entity, and this entity has a multitude of avenues by which it could attract the Sun, then wouldn’t the addition of, or perhaps even the antennae for the Sun be the Power of Love? Would that not then narrow down the choice among the avenues the GA energy could be received into the consciousness? If so, then could there be any doubt about the intent of such a special event? Wouldn’t that echo (Venus returns to Gemini) be a reminder of the purpose (Venus occult Sun) for renewing the effect (a single channel/focus of love)?
By the end of July, Neptune will – by retrograde motion – leave the degree of Pisces he is in, the one symbolized by the girl blowing a bugle. He will returned to the degree with the Sabian Symbol of a large cross lying on rocks, lit by a shaft of light and surrounded by sea mist. Dane Rudhyar says the symbol is saying be true to yourself and “in the midst [mist?] of the outer confusion displayed by those surrounding you, you will realize what you really are as an INDIVIDUAL [my caps] – a son of God.” So apparently, while Neptune has been in his present degree with the bugler symbol, he’s been recruiting.
Which brings us to Mars opposite Uranus, and Mars’ soldiering on with the north node, Ceres and Vesta for such a long time. Mars, still indebted to Venus for providing him an abode for so long, would seem to be getting a change in his marching orders from her. Any skirmish resulting from a face-off with Uranus (exact this AM) in the sign Mars rules must include issues related to the goddesses who accompany him. For Ceres, the matters of food, lost children, and the Earth itself, and for Vesta, commitments, social bonds and focus are the motivating factors with which Mars is to confront Uranus. It is Uranus’ job to awaken The Individual (Aries) – a son of God – to these matters as he prepares to station retrograde next month.
Well, okay, I’ve got my marching orders Len. Many thanks for the heads up.
be
thank you, Len — i find both of these ideas very easy to relate to:
“Have you ever met somebody for the first time and felt like you have known that being all your life? If you have, Venus’ ingress to Gemini signifies something similar impending for you now.
“Have you ever known somebody for a very long time, then suddenly saw a side of them you did not know was there? If so, Mars opposing Uranus for the third time in six months hints at more of the same in store for you (if it hasn’t happened already).”
and i think the old-in-the-new and surprising-in-the-familiar can occur in other situations in life, beyond just meeting someone or discovering something new about a person. in all cases, it’s worth a pause to consider its message.