This is the week both Saturn and Venus resume direct motion. Saturn was first, from Libra, at 4:00 am EDT this morning. Venus will follow suit from Gemini shortly after 11:00 am EDT on Wednesday. Both planets will regain forward speed gradually. Weeks will elapse before either Venus or Saturn clear the second shadow phase of their retrograde cycles by passing the point where apparent reverse motion began. The gradual resumption of progress, and the time Venus and Saturn will take to cover the same ground a third time, combine to imply that some events this week are likely to be revealed only in retrospect.
We can, however, get a sense of what’s developing and how you fit in by noting how Venus and Saturn fit into the big picture. The big picture is Uranus and Pluto consummating a cardinal square dance during the weekend just past, initiating an epoch during which that climax will be repeated periodically over three years. For Saturn and Venus to station direct precisely as Uranus and Pluto’s central epoch opens is a conjunction of events in time.
Astrology’s conventional conjunctions are in space. Two symbols in the same degree of the zodiac represent two objects close together in our sky. Spatial conjunctions connote the beginning of a new cycle, and a merger of energies as regards to the objects involved. It stands to reason that a temporal conjunction would have a similar set of meanings for the events involved. If you accept that reasoning, it would make sense to begin by defining the events that constitute the conjunction in time taking place now between Venus, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto.