Orgasmic fusion with the cosmos is how Barbara Hand Clow describes Venus conjunct Chiron, which is exact at this moment and overnight. This is in Aquarius, the scene of many planets and developments in the immediate future. We are still in a potently Capricorn moment, but not at any loss to Aquarius, which is bursting with energy at the moment. Venus to Chiron in Aquarius feels like a lot of kundalini. It is an erotic avatar, a healer of some sort, an intellectual, erotic or aesthetic inventor or innovator of some kind.
With Aquarius, there is always a group context. The Internet comes to mind.
There is also the image of bravely reaching into one’s feminine side and exploring the sense of injury or lack of trust that may reside in anything essentially female about oneself, in particular at the level of mentality (an air sign).
In Aquarius, we have a theme of the group or cultural pressures on what it means to be female, and in particular, expressively sexual as female. Typically such is associated with vulgarity, a lack of intelligence or lack of respect for the perceived commodity value of femaleness. I would propose that it’s associated with an authentic quest for freedom and individuality that is specifically at odds with what we’re told we’re supposed to be. I don’t merely mean doing sex as much as I mean being in your sexuality as an experience of conscious acceptance of who you are.
This calls for an expanded view of one’s sexuality: not as an “attribute” of one’s nature but rather something inherently true about our core humanity. Properly understood, sex is the study of cosmology, since it is the means of our existence and thus related to every creative expression of which humans are capable. Many different agendas go into hiding this fact: from human insecurity to religion to economics, all of which are routinely masterminded and imposed on us. Consider how many of your supposed sexual values are designed to appease others, or exist in your consciousness because somebody told you that’s the way you’re allegedly supposed to be. Who are you really?
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Oh, my. I found this conjunction particularly penetrating:
“There is also the image of bravely reaching into one’s feminine side and exploring the sense of injury or lack of trust that may reside in anything essentially female about oneself, in particular at the level of mentality (an air sign).” (above)
and today’s oracle
“Your mother knows. If for some reason you can’t talk to her, talk to her relatives, peers or a spiritual mother. What does mother know? She knows why you feel the way you feel now. She knows why you seem to be desperate or holding grief when the world is offering you so much. She knows why you might be reluctant to engage with a person who seems totally safe and caring — because she knows what happened to you as a child. In particular, she knows about one betrayal that now needs your loving attention and forgiveness.”
So intricately rich. Thank you.
“Venus to Chiron in Aquarius feels like a lot of kundalini…and it’s also the image of reaching into one’s feminine side and exploring the sense of injury or lack of trust that may reside there.”
‘A lot of kundalini…’ hmmm… I suppose this makes sense if we watch for a looping (or spiralling) of energy between the Healer and the Lover. I tend to trope to Chiron’s wounded aspect more than his capacity for healing others, but maybe that’s just in keeping with the amount of damage I have witnessed on the m’animal side of things.
As for ‘vulgarity’ in relation to women’s sexuality, hmmmm… ~vulgar~ is a perfectly good word, but I tend to think of it in a relationship to money or interior decorating, not sex. While cash and bad design aren’t inherently concupiscent, they do tend to drift people in that direction. For me the word ‘vulvacity’ (coined by an old friend as my own personal noun) works as a locus of reclamation, and a way to hip-bump the idea of vulgarity. Yes, almost everybody gets here via the Vulva, and that process should be at least fun, if not Mindblowing.
But then *what else* does Pleasure create? If it was just bodies (as lovely as they can be), do you think there would be so much maccaca around that potential?
I’m betting this year’s pecan crop on le plaisir being the same thing as gnosis. Or too close to call.
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Oh, one more query: Is there any aspect from Neptune pertinent to this transit?