I takes de gospel, whenever it’s pos’ble, but wid a grain of salt.
-George and Ira Gershwin
Venus plunges into watery Scorpio over the weekend. Astrology’s gospel considers that to be a letdown after a tenure of rulership in Libra. That’s because Scorpio opposes Taurus, the other sign Venus rules. Conventional wisdom says that when a planet is opposed to its domicile, it is in detriment. A planet in detriment is not its best likeness, similar to the photo on many a driver’s license. The traditional approach has sound rationale. For every up there must be a down. It’s just as important, however, to look at the whole picture. The holistic lesson for Venus in Scorpio this year is that it ain’t necessarily so. That will probably translate in your own experience as keeping the proverbial grain of salt handy when the gospel of an oppressive and besieged established order does not ring entirely true.
Paraphrasing astrologer Sheila Belanger, planets function as archetypes for events or circumstances in our lives. Furthermore, the movement of an object from one sign to another represents a change in attire. In Libra, the Venus epitome of attraction wore the fair costume of equity. According to convention, the Scorpio raiment will have a darker hue of vanity and intrigue. While clothing does give us valuable clues, it is a stereotypical and incomplete source of information. For the whole story of a countenance, we need to know the circumstances of its origin as well as its context as part of a greater whole.
It is said that any given course of events is substantially determined by how things begin. The story of Venus in Scorpio will start with a little object that has a powerful name. About 20 minutes before Venus moves into the fixed water sign, asteroid Eros enters cardinal Cancer. Within the same hour the two form a trine, which means they will be talking to each other. Shortly thereafter, Chiron will conference in from Pisces, making it a grand trine connecting all the water signs. A fluid and momentous conversation it is likely to be.