Venus enters the cardinal earth sign Capricorn this weekend, closely followed by the Moon. As weather permits, many of us will be able to see the two of them together in the western twilight. That tableau will serve to illustrate the astrology as Venus and Luna cross a threshold together, leaving Sun and Sagittarius behind. In your life, the corresponding events will be located on the horizon of your awareness, sparkling indications from intuition and attraction. Paying attention to those indications over the next several days could come in handy as you approach a threshold or two of your own next month and next year.
Luna does not linger more than a few days in any sign. The typical Venusian stay is over three weeks. That’s two very different paths diverging from a conjunction in the first degree of Capricorn. What Moon and Venus bring to the conjunction, however, is a similar pair of archetypes, each most easily known by its compliment.
The lunar archetype complements the solar. Most of us can relate to daytime, sunlight and consciousness because that’s the venue we commonly associate with the events of our lives. By the same token, Moon’s connection with nighttime, darkness and unconsciousness seems less familiar because we often sleep through it. Nearly half of our existence is spent under the Moon, but its insights seek us more often than they are sought.
The Venus archetype likewise complements that of Mars. Most of us are capable of expressing who we are and what we want, acting with Martian energy to make and take, go and get. It is less common to practice the Venusian art of attraction without action, receiving change rather than wreaking it, even if both strategies often lead to the same result.
In other words, the role that Moon and Venus have in our lives is often in what comes to us, either through attraction or intuition, receptiveness or emotion. They are archetypes that many of us seldom cultivate or think about even though we are continually subject to them. This weekend will be an opportunity to learn of and distinguish those energies more clearly than most times because of where they will conjoin. The place of conjunction will be Capricorn and right now, that’s the horizon.
The preponderance of our present experience is still invoked by or through Sagittarius. Tomorrow there will be a solar eclipse there. The Sun, representative of our ego and consciousness will be there for weeks. Mercury, suggestive of mind and thought will be in there until next year, thanks to its retrograde. Together they will encounter the myriad of powerful conjunctions and aspects that a tour of Sagittarius signifies, and those encounters will have powerful parallels in our lives.
Sooner or later, however, both Sun and Mercury will reach the Capricorn horizon where Venus and Moon will appear together this weekend. When Sun gets there it will be a new season. When Mercury gets there it will be a new year. In both cases we may well receive the intuition that we have been there before. Pay attention to what you sense on the Venusian and lunar channels this weekend and you will know where the deja vu comes from.
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Palpable shift for me as of late last night early this morning. Thank you for the look ahead to solar and mars shift – as a cap with all this Pluto happening it helps to have any small guide. Bless, Len.
Thanks dear Len. Absolutely beautiful. xx
Thanks Len, this is almost worth staying up to enjoy, but I think I’d rather have a sweet dream and therefore, intend to get to sleep early Saturday night. Hope you and all PW’ers had a lovely Thanksgiving.
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Most evocative post ever. Must be a combination of extra-beautiful writing/insight and my cap moon. Which needed exactly this today. Thank you, Len.
aword: many thanks to you and to all of the readers at Planet Waves who are kind enough to accept my service.
Len, as usual you have given me precisely the lesson (about astro) that I needed in the moment. My focus word for personal study today is “desire” and you have highlighted Venus/Moon (and the rather Piscean) trait of attraction (desire) as differring from our more common Mars/Sun go’n’get it tactic.
And so as always, your article has helped me focus on what I DESIREd to learn this moment. Thank you. Thank you.
Blessing to you on this day of Giving Thanks.
xo