Venus ingresses Cancer today at 9:43 am. As I mentioned yesterday, its extraordinary stay in Gemini extends back more than four months to April 3. Venus represents some of the most palpable feelings, yearnings and desires that humans are capable of. The Venus in Gemini experience has taken us many places, and through many different experiences.
Seen one way, we’ve gone through a review phase on every value we might have associated with love, attachment, attractiveness and desire. Surrounding the Venus retrograde were a Mars retrograde in Virgo, and two retrogrades of Mercury — and much else besides. It’s possible that you’re on entirely different ground than you were in January.
I suggest you tread that ground carefully over the next few days and indeed the next few weeks, as we’re currently transitioning into new and potentially unfamiliar territory.
When Venus shifts into Cancer, a new aspect pattern forms. In terms of the major planets, Venus will be approaching an opposition to Pluto, a square to Uranus and a trine to Chiron, three powerfully transformative aspects, though those don’t come up to full temperature until next week. That represents a new phase of the story; I won’t be covering that today, though it will be a key focus in Friday’s weekly horoscope for subscribers (interpreted for the Sun signs and the rising signs).
We can learn a lot from the aspect pattern that Venus makes when it arrives tomorrow. Above is a table with a partial list of the minor planets in the early degrees of the cardinal signs, and they tell a story about not getting caught in the web of your own emotional overreactions. Particularly with Mercury — the planet of mind — in transition to direct motion (that happens Wednesday), it’s essential that you stick to the facts of any situation, and that you make an effort to find out what those facts are.