{"id":51692,"date":"2012-01-10T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T05:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=51692"},"modified":"2012-01-09T23:35:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T04:35:32","slug":"down-in-the-heart-or-hidden-in-the-stars-venus-neptune-pisces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/down-in-the-heart-or-hidden-in-the-stars-venus-neptune-pisces\/","title":{"rendered":"Down in the heart, or hidden in the stars: Venus, Neptune, Pisces"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Think about it, there must be higher love
\nDown in the heart or hidden in the stars above
\nWithout it, life is wasted time
\nLook inside your heart, I’ll look inside mine<\/em> <\/p>\n

– Steve Winwood and Will Jennings<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012.<\/a><\/strong>. Ever wonder about that maxim, \u201cAll\u2019s fair in love and war?\u201d If it\u2019s about not taking personally the pain that can be inflicted in both situations, we might wonder: Why have we come to equate love with inflicting pain? Is it possible that saying is not, in fact, referring to love? Where, then, would we locate the concept of love, if we don\u2019t insist that it fight in the trenches?<\/p>\n

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Venus, the inner planet represented by the goddess of love, makes a series of aspects this week on its way to ingressing Pisces over the weekend. Not least of these is its conjunction to outer planet Neptune in the last degree of Aquarius just before making the big move. Neptune in Pisces will color a distinct historical era for us, and Venus is about to give us a clue to what this next Neptunian phase is all about. Venus, which is exalted in Pisces, makes contact in the highly transformational last degree of Aquarius and then essentially escorts Neptune across the border, where it will stay for the next 14 years. <\/p>\n

Inner planets conjoining outer planets help to make them tangible. They bring the energy into human terms so we can relate to it emotionally. Neptune can be especially hard to tune in to, but Venus will make its signal a bit more audible.<\/p>\n

So what exactly is it that Venus and Neptune put us into contact with as they accompany each other into Pisces? How about the principle of higher love? Clearly we haven\u2019t quite attained it yet \u2013 otherwise we wouldn\u2019t still be fixated on jealousy and possessiveness and even polyamory; we wouldn\u2019t be spiritually maiming and murdering each other in our capital \u2018R\u2019 relationships as though love is a battlefield (as Pat Benatar once sang). We haven\u2019t yet embodied this thing we keep looking for outside of ourselves, and it\u2019s time to start figuring that out in earnest.<\/p>\n

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Venus is giving us a map in miniature this week, but it\u2019s up to us to explore the actual territory. Overnight last night, Venus \u2013 which has its own possessive, materialistic side — made a brief square to Juno in Scorpio. It was a reminder how thin the line is between embodying the principle of connectivity to harness deep transformation, versus turning against our own best interests if we allow jealousy and obsession to consume us. We do have a choice, much as it can feel like we do not. <\/p>\n

As if to draw our focus away from the dark side lest we begin fixating, Venus immediately moves into a sextile with the Galactic Center, exact tomorrow. This is not just \u2018higher love\u2019, but deeper, wider, unifying all-one-love. But it\u2019s a subtle and fleeting prelude to the rest of the song.<\/p>\n

When Venus conjoins Neptune, it joins the trine to Saturn. Venus and Saturn have been in mutual reception since the former entered Aquarius on December 20th, and this week\u2019s trine opens to Venus\u2019s entrance into Pisces the next day. Saturn in Libra has been calling our attention to outmoded relationship models for a while now. As you\u2019ve been taking a new look at these structures, have you felt at a loss as to what to do with them \u2013 or without them? Venus making this angle from Aquarius \u2013 where Neptune has been influencing the mind-blowing technological innovations of the last 14 years or so \u2013 suggests the doorway is open to the relational inventor\u2019s workshop.<\/p>\n

No sooner do we walk across that threshold, but the room \u2013 as if in a dream \u2013 morphs into an artist\u2019s studio. Whatever shortcomings you may be noticing in how you work your love relationships, it seems creative solutions are just around the corner. The thing is, to get there \u2013 and make the most of it \u2013 we have to surrender to whatever transformational processes are at work in this last degree of Aquarius. If we keep doing what we\u2019ve been doing, as we are, that higher love will stay out of reach.<\/p>\n

The Sabian symbol for this degree is, \u201cDeeply rooted in the past of a very ancient culture, a spiritual brotherhood in which many individual minds are merged into the glowing light of a unanimous consciousness is revealed to one who has emerged successfully from his metamorphosis.\u201d It\u2019s a mouthful. But whether your metamorphosis is spurred by your heart or the stars or the two together, know Chiron is in early Pisces just waiting for Venus to show up. Because if love is not about healing, how can we call it love?<\/p>\n

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Think about it, there must be higher love Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above Without it, life is wasted time Look inside your heart, I’ll look inside mine – Steve Winwood and Will Jennings Today is Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012.. Ever wonder about that maxim, \u201cAll\u2019s fair in love and war?\u201d …