Bound by a wild desire, i fell into a ring of fire.”–June Carter (with Merle Kilgore)
Venus entered Aries overnight. If there is anything to synchronicity, our times and our lives are about to get even more interesting. If you don’t think that’s possible, here’s another one. The train of events will likely lead back to you.
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What you learn about yourself over the next several days and weeks will probably proceed directly from whether and how you act on your attractions and what is attracted to you. Even with the Sun’s defection to Taurus yesterday, Aries remains a very crowded and complex thirty degree slice of the circle. It is occupied by its traditional ruling planet, Mars. It is also host to the current retrograde of its esoteric ruler, Mercury. Uranus is there and it’s a big deal, a fact that Jupiter is amongst them all to remind us of. Now add Venus and that’s five of the major planets, more than half of the solar system you learned about in school.
If things seem a little lopsided or out of balance right now, that might have something to do with it. Other than adding to the sheer amount of mass in that small part of the sky, the Venus ingress to Aries might be downplayed by a cook book astrologer. Unlike Mars, Mercury and Uranus, which share various levels of rulership, the Venusian situation is quite the opposite, literally so. That’s because the sign opposing Aries, 180 degrees away, is Libra.
Libra, along with Taurus, is one of the two signs ruled by Venus. Formulaic astrology says that when a planet is in a sign opposite to the one it rules, it is in detriment (or fall). This could be taken to mean that the object is out of its element or perhaps outside of its jurisdiction. In such cases the influence would be discounted, marginalized or subordinated. There might even some who might say that Venus is being more powerfully expressed through the Sun in Taurus than it is as the odd fish in the dry and crowded kettle of Aries. Maybe sometimes, but not this time.