Venus is back and beautiful. Readers in the Southern Hemisphere can see it now by looking due West shortly after sunset. Soon it will be the proverbial evening star for all of us. The timing is auspicious. Venus returns to visibility in Libra, the cardinal sign it rules, and Libra is a very big deal right now. A week ago, Sun’s ingress precipitated an equinox. A few days later it was a New Moon. Mercury combined with the luminaries to resonate with the entire zodiac and all of it was deposed by Venus, which is in conjunction with Saturn today for good measure. It is likely that there is also a substantial confluence of events in your own life and the reappearance of Venus is a message about that. Venus is telling you that there is a common factor that ties it all together, a factor in plain sight.
Each planet is an archetype for a facet of your psyche. Planets wear the symbolic expression of whatever sign they are in like an energy mantle. When there is a whole heaping handful of planets in one sign at the same time, it’s like a masked ball where everyone is wearing the a similar costume. It becomes a challenge to distinguish the ACs from the DCs. Such is the case with Libra right now. There is a method to sort things out, starting with what planet rules which sign.
To paraphrase the late Robert Blaschke, astrology at its most basic is observation and correspondence. Ancient sky watchers observed the visible planets in their motions and somehow distinguished which sign or signs each is most compatible with. Since then, some have seen fit to be skeptical about the methods employed by antiquity, but most modern astrologers have found the madness of classical consensus to be useful. We don’t know the details, but long ago the correlation for Venus was Libra, and it makes sense in a cultural context.