Think about it, there must be higher love
Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above
Without it, life is wasted time
Look inside your heart, I’ll look inside mine– Steve Winwood and Will Jennings
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012.. Ever wonder about that maxim, “All’s fair in love and war?” If it’s about not taking personally the pain that can be inflicted in both situations, we might wonder: Why have we come to equate love with inflicting pain? Is it possible that saying is not, in fact, referring to love? Where, then, would we locate the concept of love, if we don’t insist that it fight in the trenches?
Venus, the inner planet represented by the goddess of love, makes a series of aspects this week on its way to ingressing Pisces over the weekend. Not least of these is its conjunction to outer planet Neptune in the last degree of Aquarius just before making the big move. Neptune in Pisces will color a distinct historical era for us, and Venus is about to give us a clue to what this next Neptunian phase is all about. Venus, which is exalted in Pisces, makes contact in the highly transformational last degree of Aquarius and then essentially escorts Neptune across the border, where it will stay for the next 14 years.
Inner planets conjoining outer planets help to make them tangible. They bring the energy into human terms so we can relate to it emotionally. Neptune can be especially hard to tune in to, but Venus will make its signal a bit more audible.
So what exactly is it that Venus and Neptune put us into contact with as they accompany each other into Pisces? How about the principle of higher love? Clearly we haven’t quite attained it yet – otherwise we wouldn’t still be fixated on jealousy and possessiveness and even polyamory; we wouldn’t be spiritually maiming and murdering each other in our capital ‘R’ relationships as though love is a battlefield (as Pat Benatar once sang). We haven’t yet embodied this thing we keep looking for outside of ourselves, and it’s time to start figuring that out in earnest.