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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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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An underlying cultural assumption for many influential ancient astrologers was that truth and beauty are one and the same. Libra’s unique symbol has long been a set of inanimate and indifferent balance beam scales. Those scales on Earth were a familiar, every day tool for determining truth of proportion. Imagined as a pattern in the sky, that tool represented truth as an ideal. Venus was an ideal as well.<\/p>\n
Long before we could account for what planets were and how they moved, it was understandable to think of them as ideal and immortal beings. Following the same reasoning, it made sense that the brightest of the bunch should be equated with the ideal of beauty, the source of all attraction. From there, it was only a few cultural constructs away from placing Libra, the astral realm of truth, under the rule of beauty’s epitome.<\/p>\n
Venus is thus considered to have an idealized connection with Libra no matter where it is. If you want a clue about what’s going on with Libra at any given time, one method is to figure out what’s going on with Venus and apply the planet’s situation back to the sign. When actually occupying its own sign, a planet takes on the additional role as a point of reference for its entire realm. That’s how the archetype of Venus can come in handy for you right now.<\/p>\n
Unless you are the exception to the rule, the mash up of energy signatures in Libra is reflective of how busy and complicated your life is in this moment. You can use Venus as an example to help you sort it out. Start with your relationship to events, people and things. Think of Venus conjunct Saturn and make a list of where the power and boundaries are in each of those relationships. Then trust your own sense of attraction and weigh it in the scales against your sense of repulsion when considering every connection. Remember that Venus is in the holistic role of ruler, see the big picture connected through its parts, and don’t get lost in the crowd. Rather, see yourself as Venus in Libra, the central denominator of the events in your life.<\/p>\n
Nearly all of us are wired in to how big, complicated and potentially dangerous the world is at this time. Not as many are sure of who and how we are in it. Indications are that the sense of everything happening at once will only continue and amplify for some time to come.\u00a0Being able to distinguish your own identity from the rest is the beginning of an order you can create. That’s how a visible Venus to can work for you. Weather permitting, you will soon be able to look towards the West, see the Sun go down and watch Venus appear with your own eyes. You will know what you see, and by that awareness know that you are a part of what you see. You will know you are as bright and beautiful as any object in the sky. Come out and shine.<\/p>\n
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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 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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