One of the things Eric mentioned in his discussion of this week’s grand sextile was the idea of consciously re-patterning one’s life. In a world that often feels like it offers too many options one moment and yet seems to push conformity (such as in relationship models) the next, it’s easy to feel at a loss for which new pattern your life really needs. The sky is suggesting we get back to basics on this one, with love.
For starters, the Venus-Pluto trine (a leg of the grand sextile) is exact today at 8:52 am EDT. Yes, Pluto has a reputation as being difficult. But with a Venus-Pluto trine, chances are any love-life upheaval will have beneficial long-term effects.
More often, however, this aspect is associated with deep love unions, a deep desire to create, deep reservoirs of emotional strength and self-sufficiency in relationships, deep empathy for others’ struggles, and a tendency to see the beauty and good in others — no matter how deep it is buried.
Have you noticed a theme yet? A Venus-Pluto trine takes love deep, perhaps even to its creative source. Generative energy is powerful stuff. In earth signs (Venus is in Virgo, Pluto in Capricorn) think of the deep heat below the Earth’s crust, forming mountains through tectonic plate movement and volcanoes making new islands.
In the end, the result is fresh ground to stand on. And fresh earth tends to be fertile, abundant with its bounty, and attractive to everyone from earthworms and butterflies to farmers.
You could call Venus trine Pluto in earth signs ‘the Earthly expression of cosmic love’. Working in tandem with that aspect is another expression — one perhaps less obvious yet still influential. The asteroid Eros in Gemini is currently opposite the Galactic Center in late Sagittarius (exact late Tuesday night into Wednesday).