By Len Wallick
Overnight this Wednesday, about 3:33 am EDT, the Gemini Moon will pass completely in front of Venus, blocking it from view. That is a special type of conjunction. It will not be readily visible except in western Africa, beginning just before dawn. Nevertheless, it comes at an auspicious time. Symbolically, it is a bridge that connects this month and next, consolidating and synthesizing recent events forward. If we consciously work with the energy we can do the same with our own experience.
A conjunction is two objects in the same degree in two dimensions on paper, be it an ephemeris or zodiac chart. Most of the time it does not mean that one of the objects will block the other from sight. When that does happen, we have the special case called an occultation. That is when the paths of two objects cross in our three-dimensional sky. It is, essentially, an eclipse.
Interestingly, this one comes on the last day of a month that included a partial eclipse of the Sun and total eclipse of the Moon. Thus the lunar occultation of Venus takes the same physical orientation and allows us to feel it in the context of planetary, rather than luminary, energy.
Eclipses are not the only thing that happened in June. It was a period crowded with astrological events. This month has seen a host of planets changing sign or direction, and Venus was among them. On top of all that, a new season started when the Sun changed both its sign and its direction, consolidating the planetary events into a solar transition.
This means the lunar occultation of Venus facilitates exchange both ways. Luminary events translate to personal understanding; planetary events are transmuted to collective enlightenment. The Sun’s proximity to this special-case conjunction will function to carry that mutual synthesis forward and integrate it into new beginnings.