By Len Wallick
It’s less than eight weeks since Venus entered Aries. Seems like a long time already. At the time of that ingress your faithful correspondent marked that planet as a trailblazer, a pace-setter, a pioneer. Preceding the Sun across the Aries Point, it started the new astrological year, keeping ahead of even speedy Mercury. First in transit, first in aspect. Leading the way as the sky gradually spreads itself out. Today’s astrology finds that trend in continuation, but the tone has changed.
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Speeding through Gemini with an apparent motion faster than the Sun, Venus is casting a jaundiced eye forward while also reminding us what did not quite play out. Leading the pack on a day of aversion.
The dictionary definitions of the word aversion are without comfort, pleasantry or relief. Alternatively expressed as dislike, repugnance, antipathy or distaste. Associated with the act of turning away, of avoidance, shunning or fending off. As far as the English language is concerned, there is no good to be found where that term is used. In astrology, when two or more planets or points are separated by either 30 degrees (called a semi-sextile) or 150 degrees (a quincunx) they are defined to be in aversion. For it is in such aspects that the signs they occupy have little or nothing in common, sharing neither element nor mode, nor gender nor rulership. This is not quite as severe as the where this epistemology takes us. It’s enough however, to suggest estrangement, alienation and separation at the very least.