Dear Friend and Reader,
TODAY, the Sun is in its final degrees of Capricorn, and the Moon is in Libra. The Sun will enter Aquarius on Monday, Jan. 19 and make its way towards an eclipse with the Moon on Monday, Jan. 26. The eclipse will be reminiscent of the powerful Aquarian eclipse of 1962.
We are two days away from the second Mercury-Jupiter conjunction in Aquarius and five days into the Mercury retrograde. Mercury has begun to pick up speed, leaving the “storm phase,” as we refer to it at Planet Waves. Venus in Pisces is opposite Ceres in Virgo and square the Great Attractor in Sagittarius. This spells a lot of activity in the mutable signs, or as Eric calls it, “the spirituality that lurks behind thought.”
Of note are the people with Venus opposite Ceres in their natal charts. We did some research and found three of note: Coretta Scott King, the window of Martin Luther King Jr., feminist, humanist, and equal rights advocate; Robert Rimmer, author of several books including The Harrad Experiment which explored polyamory and women’s sexual independence; and J. Paul Getty, the notoriously frugal multi-billionaire who founded Getty Oil.
Ceres, the first asteroid, later reclassified as a dwarf planet, is the Earth Mother. She is the goddess of grain, of motherhood and the griefs sometimes associated with being a mom; particularly the loss of children.
Venus is the goddess of love, beauty and pleasure and those things we place value upon. As ruler of the 2nd sign (Taurus) and the 7th sign (Libra) hers is also the domain of wealth both physical and mental, and relationships. Ceres seems to provide these three people with a certain amount of inner fortitude one could associate with the Earth itself, as it’s true that ultimately, all wealth comes from the Earth.
The way the energy manifests itself in the natal charts of the three celebrities I selected is very different. Though the themes each life encountered seems to be similar.