Venus enters the cardinal earth sign Capricorn this weekend, closely followed by the Moon. As weather permits, many of us will be able to see the two of them together in the western twilight. That tableau will serve to illustrate the astrology as Venus and Luna cross a threshold together, leaving Sun and Sagittarius behind. In your life, the corresponding events will be located on the horizon of your awareness, sparkling indications from intuition and attraction. Paying attention to those indications over the next several days could come in handy as you approach a threshold or two of your own next month and next year.
Luna does not linger more than a few days in any sign. The typical Venusian stay is over three weeks. That’s two very different paths diverging from a conjunction in the first degree of Capricorn. What Moon and Venus bring to the conjunction, however, is a similar pair of archetypes, each most easily known by its compliment.
The lunar archetype complements the solar. Most of us can relate to daytime, sunlight and consciousness because that’s the venue we commonly associate with the events of our lives. By the same token, Moon’s connection with nighttime, darkness and unconsciousness seems less familiar because we often sleep through it. Nearly half of our existence is spent under the Moon, but its insights seek us more often than they are sought.
The Venus archetype likewise complements that of Mars. Most of us are capable of expressing who we are and what we want, acting with Martian energy to make and take, go and get. It is less common to practice the Venusian art of attraction without action, receiving change rather than wreaking it, even if both strategies often lead to the same result.