Venus enters Cancer tomorrow at 9:43 am EDT. Venusian energy has expressed through Gemini for a long time, since April 3. Through its long tenure in the realm of duality, the brightest planet has, appropriately, served a dual role. For over four months, the archetype of values and attraction has been both the background and foreground of events, in the sky and in your life. After today, Venus will move on for a change. If Mercury is any indication, the change of sign will be followed with a change of mind.
The day after Venus’ April entry to Gemini, Mercury resumed direct motion in Pisces. On Wednesday, Mercury stations direct in Leo. The correspondence is striking. The implication is that a change in how you feel will be followed by a change in how you think.
Venus is concerned with feelings and a big part of its ingress to Cancer will be about getting the feel back. During the last four months traipsing back and forth through Gemini, the domicile of Mercury and the airy, mutable intellect, the planet concerned with feelings has been re-tasked. As Venus transited the Gemini Sun, its task was to fuel conscious vision from the foreground. During the eclipses of May and June, Venus was the sensitive background, enhancing communication. The receptive nature of Venus is suggestible, and a good deal of time in Mercury’s realm has left a deep impression about how it expresses in your life. It’s an impression overdue for a change.
Venus is the root of values and attraction. You don’t think your values, you feel them. Any attempt to intellectualize values ultimately leads to empty feelings. Neither do attractions originate in the rational mind. Thinking too much leaves attractions unfulfilled. An ingress to the domicile of the Moon is just what the doctor ordered to restore Venus to its roots.