{"id":51853,"date":"2012-01-13T02:08:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T07:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=51853"},"modified":"2012-01-13T10:05:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T15:05:32","slug":"weekend-astrology-venus-enters-pisces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/weekend-astrology-venus-enters-pisces\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Astrology: Venus enters Pisces"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today is Friday, Jan. 13, 2012.<\/a><\/strong>. Today is a big day \u2013 which you can read about throughout this past week\u2019s installments of Daily Astrology: Mercury conjunct Pluto and Venus conjunct Neptune. We\u2019ve been tuning into these aspects all week. So now that they are upon us, let\u2019s look ahead just a bit to Venus ingressing Pisces tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday Len Wallick treated us to a lyrical consideration<\/a> of the buoyancy of fish and the gravity of land; the receptive listening and catch-and-release frame of mind we can use to chart a divine course over the next few weeks. The post was a demonstration in itself of the creative fertility this transit offers everyone. And the energy goes beyond artistic expression \u2013 though that s excellent use of this energy. Venus is exalted in Pisces, combining the personal affection of Venus with the divine compassion of Neptune, modern ruler of Pisces (which will join Venus Feb 3). Because of this combination \u2013 love and compassion \u2013 Isabel Hickey notes the willingness of this placement to sacrifice for love, to be wounded by love \u2013 because only in knowing love can the freedom of the spirit be known.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s something that sounds at once hopelessly romantic and yet unnecessarily painful. Mere mortals can be left wondering if it\u2019s possible to know love without pain, or to find that freedom of spirit with a bit more discrimination as to whom we entrust our hearts. Alan Oken, in his book Soul-Centered Astrology, offers some perspective: \u201cIn Pisces, Venus turns knowledge into wisdom, learning how to blend the discrimination of reason with the urge to love all people universally.\u201d Blending love with discrimination to form wisdom seems to translate to: stay grounded (or in this case, in contact with the water) as you learn to swim in deep waters; if you remember the vast power of the ocean, you can enjoy it by maintaining respect for it. <\/p>\n

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Or, it could be said this way: it could be easy to be swept away in the tides (or rip currents) of romance. What may take a little more conscious thought and action, yet ultimately be more fruitful in the long run, is to use this transit to attune yourself to the beauty in everything, including yourself; to seek \u2018right relationships\u2019 with everyone \u2013 beginning with yourself. <\/p>\n

Monday Venus makes a conjunction to Chiron, which is still in very early Pisces. Chiron is going to focus this sense of love and surrender and show you where and how you can use it to heal your relationships \u2013 again, beginning with your relationship to yourself. Specifically, with Venus involved, expect the focus of healing to be your feminine side. We are not, in Western culture, terribly well attuned to our receptive sides as being valuable, though that may be shifting. Receptivity has a special kind of power, shapes a clear container, in which truly transformational surrender can occur. Many of us have grown up cut off from that, instead seeing the 1970s model of Mars-feminisits held up as the ideal.<\/p>\n

But guess what Barbara Hand Clow has called Venus in aspect to Chiron? \u201cThe orgasmic fusion of the cosmos.\u201d <\/p>\n

Whoa. That is no small thing. And neither is surrendering to love \u2013 or erotic energy. But what is the key to surrendering to love in creative, holistic fusion rather than getting caught in a tsunami of delusion? Self-knowledge. <\/p>\n

Ana\u00efs Nin put it this way: \u201cEroticism is one of the basic means of self knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.\u201d And she should know: A Pisces by Sun, she also had her Venus in Pisces conjunct Eris \u2013 and sextile Chiron. There is not space here to go into Nin\u2019s full chart (which fits her to a T), but that article is in the works. Suffice to say, if you are familiar with her life and writing, you can see her absolute surrender to love and self-knowledge, creative expression, erotic daring and healing. Venus conjunct Eris would seem to demonstrate Nin\u2019s independence, and in particular, her sexual independence. But her struggle with that can be heard when she writes: <\/p>\n

My concept of love clashed with my desire to create. Everyone’s life and love were more important than my own. <\/p>\n

Creation I considered a danger to my loves, my human relationships. In creation I would reveal what I was, in opposition to the roles I played to be whatever anyone needed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Her Venus conjunct Eris practically leaps from that quote \u2013 the division within between herself as lover and herself as creator, one part seemingly banished as she embodies the Pisces trait of \u2018everyone\u2019s life\/love but mine\u2019. Nin surrendered and sacrificed, loved and tasted freedom, experienced pain and great passion. She was a woman and an artist who took chances, who went deep, whom no one was going to stop. Find your inner Nin. Catalyze the fusion of the cosmos this weekend. Know yourself — and know you can heal.<\/p>\n

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Today is Friday, Jan. 13, 2012.. Today is a big day \u2013 which you can read about throughout this past week\u2019s installments of Daily Astrology: Mercury conjunct Pluto and Venus conjunct Neptune. We\u2019ve been tuning into these aspects all week. So now that they are upon us, let\u2019s look ahead just a bit to Venus … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1734],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51853"}],"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=51853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}