{"id":56932,"date":"2012-05-14T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T04:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=56932"},"modified":"2012-05-13T22:39:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T02:39:40","slug":"let-venus-retrograde-and-the-eclipses-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/let-venus-retrograde-and-the-eclipses-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Venus Retrograde — and the Eclipses — Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we embark on a journey that is distinctly 2012. On Tuesday, Venus stations retrograde in Gemini. The retrograde lasts six weeks, at the peak of which is the transit of Venus on June 5. Venus retrograde means that Venus is passing between the Earth and the Sun. This is an eclipse-like event — one of many that happen during the next three weeks. Think of it as Venus penetrating the Sun and infusing it with its feminine power, helping balance out our chaotic world in which both male and female energy are out of balance and out of alignment.<\/p>\n

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Image of Venus using ultraviolet light, making it appear to be blue. It usually appears a hot, bright yellowish white. Ultraviolet light is the only way to capture the clouds -- otherwise the planet looks like a bland disk. Photo: European Space Agency.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So much of the personal drama we experience in life surrounds the themes of sex, gender and sex roles. Consider the alienation between men and women; the competition within each of the sexes, and between them; the anger and illusions that people project onto one another with a pretext of sex or gender. <\/p>\n

Consider all the issues so many people face that involve what you can think of as inner gender relations — homophobia, not knowing what to do about being bisexual, or not knowing how to handle yourself if you discover you belong to some unfamiliar sexual orientation that you’ve never heard of or that your parents or partner don’t approve of. I could keep going; the permutations on gender drama are as infinite as human diversity, but the topic is not so easy to talk about, mainly because it involves exposing things many still consider shameful.<\/p>\n

Gemini is the most basic sign of dualism. It’s the first sign where a human being appears, and we get not just one, but two of them. Venus making its penetrating transit across the Sun is visible, and it suggests something obvious. Gemini is all about polarities; a retrograde planet suggests a kind of experiment or play within those polarities. I think we will be learning a lot about ourselves and our relationships during the next six weeks. Not only that — this looks like some kinky astrology, if you’re the type to experiment with non-ordinary forms of sex (including gender reversal role-play).<\/p>\n

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Two other key dates are Venus stationing direct on June 27, and Venus entering new territory (or leaving shadow phase) on July 31. However, to investigate this personally for yourself, I suggest you go back to this time of year in 2004 and remember what was going on in your life. [Here is a Planet Waves article about the 2004 transit<\/a>.]<\/p>\n

This week is the last one that the Sun is in Taurus. The Sun ingresses Gemini at 11:15 am EDT on Sunday, May 20. About eight hours later this is followed by an annular eclipse of the Sun (here is the Wikipedia page for that event<\/a>). This event will be visible briefly in the Western United States. It’s related to a solar eclipse of May 10, 1994.<\/p>\n

When the Sun is eclipsed in the first degree of a sign, that has a dramatic feeling; it’s the sense of something unusual beginning, and that is true. Two weeks after Sunday’s eclipse, there is the cluster of events that includes an eclipse of the Moon, an eclipse of Pluto by the Moon, and the transit of Venus. These events will pick up the pace of events, both culturally and in your personal life, and come with many unusual developments. <\/p>\n

Yet no matter what those might be, I suggest you take the theme back to dualism, and in particular, of sexual polarity. If you use that as a kind of analytical platform, you will understand events much more clearly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Venus is retrograde the least of all the planets. That’s to say, it’s retrograde the fewest days by percentage than any of the other planets — less than 8% of the time. So Venus retrograde is somewhat unusual, though this one is particularly special due to the fact of the transit of Venus. Nothing like this will happen again until 2117, 105 years from now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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\/56932"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}