{"id":41754,"date":"2011-07-18T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=41754"},"modified":"2011-09-24T16:30:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T20:30:48","slug":"fire-and-the-mountain-venus-alchemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/fire-and-the-mountain-venus-alchemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire and the Mountain – Venus Alchemy"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Len Wallick<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Venus will form a conjunction with one of the newly-discovered planets, Varuna, on Friday. Varuna is a slow-mover, spending more than a decade in the sign Cancer, and is one of those behind the scenes influences. In fact, one of the key ideas of Varuna is that it’s behind everything, and since it’s in Cancer, it’s an emotional influence. Most likely you will feel this conjunction as a change of heart. This would be nothing sudden, but rather something that develops over time.<\/p>\n

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There are three things to remember about conjunctions. First, it is the beginning and the end of a cycle for the objects involved. It’s very much like a New Moon, when the luminaries come together to start a new month, familiar in its phases yet distinguished by a unique context.<\/p>\n

Conjunctions also merge the identity and expression of the aspect’s constituents. Sometimes it’s an easy blend of the archetypes. Other times it is a strange brew. Every time the location is a part of the mix, as is the residue that each participating planet carries to their merger from other, recent encounters.<\/p>\n

Finally, the close quarters of a conjunction imply the existence of a blind spot. Being deeply involved with a person, place or situation can obscure what is apparent to a detached observer. Perhaps this accounts for the term “love is blind.” The phenomenon may have positive results, facilitating growth and healing. Often it does not. It is always quite an awakening when time and\/or separation removes the blindfold.<\/p>\n

Venus splashed into Cancer on the Fourth of July, breaking the surface tension of a solar eclipse unseen by any human from the face of the Earth. It proceeded to gather cardinal elements of grace, embellishing its archetype of attraction. This began promptly with a baptismal water trine from retrograde Neptune in Pisces. What followed was the consummate, cumulative continuum of a grand cross as Venus squared Uranus and Saturn, interposed with an opposition to Pluto, all in the course of seven days. Then, last week, the brightest planet disappeared from our view, into the Sun’s golden shroud. Is that epic or what?<\/p>\n

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We ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Nor will we for quite a while, but we will feel it. Venus has left our sight until September, when it will re-appear in the western twilight as a changed planet. In the meantime, it is doing a little alchemy.<\/p>\n

For more than two seasons, since November of 2010, Venus has sailed the eastern sky on a voyage of surrender and discovery. Once a month it returned to lunar port, giving up a little of what it was to make room for what it will be, becoming a sleek and slender crescent planet in the process. Now, out of sight, Venus goes to work. Step by obscure and mysterious step it will combine the treasures it has collected, transmuting itself into something infinitely more precious. A crucial phase in that process is the conjunction with Varuna.<\/p>\n

When it comes to the archetypes we have in astrology, Varuna is about as far back in our history as it goes. When it comes to objects in the solar system, it’s nearly as far out as it gets. Astrologer Juan Revilla characterized its energy as that which is “behind everything,” holding cosmos separate from chaos, making all things possible. Incomprehensible as it may be, that’s enough to assign it an active role of distinction.<\/p>\n

The actual, astronomical object Varuna orbits the Sun outside the orbit of Neptune. It takes nearly 285 years to make the round trip. Accounting for retrogrades, the net result is that it moves through the zodiac at a rate of about one degree a year. Venus is currently covering that much ground in a day. That disparity makes this conjunction like a voyage to a mountain, floating on a island, slowly drifting. The periodic return renews the cycle when our pilgrim, Venus, relocates the place.<\/p>\n

As with each of their conjunctions, Venus brings an active-receptive archetype to merge with the passive-actuator of Varuna. Combined, they function like the little dots that give the yin-yang symbol its dynamic.\u00a0What makes this get-together different is where it takes place and what Venus is about.<\/p>\n

This conjunction’s blind spot is enhanced by the location of Varuna’s mountain in the Sun’s fire, providing both a secret place and sufficient energy for Venus to transmute the heart of its being and purpose. So may we expect this conjunction to play out in our lives. The gathered and nourished values that account for Venus’ archetype of attraction are being brought to the mountain and combined into something more. Something that infuses the spare and essential structure of an indifferent universe with that which is more rare than mind, more precious than life. It is for you to decide whether you will open your own living, mortal, human heart to know, receive and and share what the ultimate separation of this conjunction will will reveal. It is so simple. There is still time.<\/p>\n

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