Today we embark on a journey that is distinctly 2012. On Tuesday, Venus stations retrograde in Gemini. The retrograde lasts six weeks, at the peak of which is the transit of Venus on June 5. Venus retrograde means that Venus is passing between the Earth and the Sun. This is an eclipse-like event — one of many that happen during the next three weeks. Think of it as Venus penetrating the Sun and infusing it with its feminine power, helping balance out our chaotic world in which both male and female energy are out of balance and out of alignment.
So much of the personal drama we experience in life surrounds the themes of sex, gender and sex roles. Consider the alienation between men and women; the competition within each of the sexes, and between them; the anger and illusions that people project onto one another with a pretext of sex or gender.
Consider all the issues so many people face that involve what you can think of as inner gender relations — homophobia, not knowing what to do about being bisexual, or not knowing how to handle yourself if you discover you belong to some unfamiliar sexual orientation that you’ve never heard of or that your parents or partner don’t approve of. I could keep going; the permutations on gender drama are as infinite as human diversity, but the topic is not so easy to talk about, mainly because it involves exposing things many still consider shameful.
Gemini is the most basic sign of dualism. It’s the first sign where a human being appears, and we get not just one, but two of them. Venus making its penetrating transit across the Sun is visible, and it suggests something obvious. Gemini is all about polarities; a retrograde planet suggests a kind of experiment or play within those polarities. I think we will be learning a lot about ourselves and our relationships during the next six weeks. Not only that — this looks like some kinky astrology, if you’re the type to experiment with non-ordinary forms of sex (including gender reversal role-play).