This is part one of our coverage of Venus direct. Here is part two.
Venus stations direct in Gemini Wednesday at 11:07 am EDT. This has been an eventful six week phase, including a pair of eclipses, Jupiter’s ingress into Gemini, the first contact of Uranus square Pluto, and the Venus transit of the Sun. Children born this spring will have to live to 108 in order to see the next one, which will take place in Sagittarius in 2117. The next (ordinary) Venus retrograde in Gemini is in 2020.
Venus plus Gemini plus the retrograde feels like the place where emotions meet psychology. Our lives would be easier, if we had more familiarity and indeed ability to be in that space. Mixing our rational thoughts with some feelings and our emoting with some reasoning, it might feel like walking on water.
My take is that this is a deeply emotional time for many people, though it’s tempered by their desire for something else. Venus making these moves in Gemini is about deepening our relationships to ourselves, and calling back our projections onto others. Much of what we do when we have relationships is relate to ourselves, through the vehicle of the other. In a sense, we often use one another to self-actualize.
This works well as far as it goes; at a certain point we have to take over the process ourselves. That can be a vulnerable moment.
One friend recently wrote to me: “Though I am being in my tearfulness and terror and extreme emotional pain, I am being in it (for today) in a way that acknowledges that I am entering a time of giving up dependence, as per my/our agreement with our therapist. For the next month, at least, as a trial, giving up dependence. I’m scared. Scared of being alone, scared of facing myself, scared of my shadow. But I turn and embrace that fear, that loneliness, that shadow.”