Dear Friend and Reader:
This week, Venus stations direct in Libra, ending a six week retrograde that has carried Venus back from mid-Scorpio, past conjunctions with many planets (including Mars and Vesta) and into late Libra. The station-direct happens Thursday, but a few days’ advanced notice is a good amount of time to consider the shift in energy and prepare to get your Venus momentum moving forward.
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Retrogrades of Venus and Mars are distinctly personal, but they also have an influence on the news. I’m not sure I can see direct correlations, except possibly for events that bring people together. Let’s see — there were the Chilean miners being rescued; that was just over a month ago, though it seems like years. Here in the States we went through the peak of a frantic election cycle, in which the Republicans and the Tea Party swiped back the majority of the House of Representatives and a bunch of Senate seats. Candidates seemed to be taking advice from The Onion’s analysis of “no values voters” who elect candidates based on how mean they are.
Stephen Colbert and/or Jon Stewart had their Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, elevating comedians from the stature of newscasters to that of civil rights leaders. There was that wacky situation where packages around the world were intercepted in the Fed Ex and UPS parcel streams, which were allegedly directed at addresses of synagogues in Chicago. There were some incredible labor demonstrations and riots in France, protesting the proposed raising of the retirement age in a country where many people live for retirement — if you can imagine such a thing. Consider: you’re sitting there working in La Poste, thinking: just 27 more years to go!
Then along the way, we had an election wherein the Republican Party and a newly repackaged form thereof took over the House of Representatives. Their goal was to shrink the debt and the deficit; they will vote to raise the debt ceiling in January, because they have to if they want to keep drawing paychecks.