Today is Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011. The Moon is in Aries all day. The big news is Venus ingressing Libra at about 11:40 pm EDT. This puts one of our most influential personal planets back in a sign it rules. It also puts Venus into contact with the Aries Point, square Pluto and opposite Uranus.
Venus in its own sign brings power and importance to the concepts of beauty, taste, harmony, diplomacy and balance. Anything vulgar, unbalanced or out of place will stick out like a sore thumb. For the next month pay special attention to the way you are dressed and mind your manners and social graces.
This is not the same as being fake; this is a reminder to think about how you prefer to be treated, and then extend that to others. This is always good advice, as is remembering to extend a little loving kindness toward yourself as well. But neglecting to do so could have stronger consequences this month. So put people first. Make them feel comfortable, important and respected and you may find them more likely to respond in kind.
Venus is still invisible, but rapidly gathering steam toward her re-emergence later this month. For the Mesopotamians, this stage of Venus’ cycle was like the stage where Inanna had been stripped of her power, died and reborn, and was about to return to re-claim her throne. When she found her husband Dumuzi busy with the process of governing, rather than mourning her, she became enraged and sent him to take her place in the Underworld.