For all you old Wings fans, here is Venus and Mars/Rockshow/Jet from the Wings Over America era. “Long hair at the Madison Square / Rock and roll at the Hollywood Bowl.” Here is the studio version of Venus and Mars/Rockshow.
Dear Friend and Reader:
Venus and Mars are conjunct in the last degree of Pisces. The last degree of Pisces is the last degree of the zodiac, which I love for a number of reasons: it’s the end of the great cycle, and a seed point in the beginning of the next story. Its theme involves visualization of our lives. Though we rarely do it, visualizing is a take-charge moment in our lives, where we engage the process of creating the future. It’s also one degree from the Aries Point, and I believe that it is a kind of mirror of the point; it’s the transpersonal side of the equation, where Aries is the personal side of the equation.
Because this conjunction involves Venus and Mars, gender and sexual relationships are implied. These could be between men and women, people of the same gender, or our complex internal orientations that help determine how we relate to others. Most people probably don’t think of it this way, but when you relate to another person you can imagine that your inner male (animus) and your inner female (anima) are each relating to the anima and animus of the person you’re communicating with. Because the ego is so involved in projection, we will tend to replicate our inner relationship in the outer world with others.
This is one of my rationales for suggesting that in order to have sane sexual relationships with those around us, we need to have them with ourselves, as consciously as possible embracing our inner diversity and giving all aspects of ourselves a voice. In fact for the sexes to get along at all we need to be in inner alignment with our sexual polarities and then extend that into the world as a conscious act.
In my own visualization of relationships, I do my best to live in a world where the women around me are in harmony; and where I am in harmony with the men who surround the women I love. I can give you an example of this. I’ve worked with Chelsea, our business manager, for about six years; most of you have talked to her or corresponded with her. We have never been ‘amorously’ involved — she’s Example One of monogamy that works well, with her husband T.J., whom she was with from before I met her. I met Chelsea and T.J. at the same time. I’m close to Chelsea and I adore her husband. I get along with him and we are two Fish who oddly enough have exactly the same taste in music. T.J. knows I love Chelsea like the ocean, and I feel nothing but his approval and respect for that.
This is possible because we all trust one another, and we’re committed to the same thing.