{"id":70768,"date":"2013-10-07T00:01:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T04:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=70768"},"modified":"2013-10-06T23:16:33","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T03:16:33","slug":"venus-square-neptune-and-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/venus-square-neptune-and-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus square Neptune — and friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

What happens when sexual desire runs up against sexual baggage, or when sexual communication runs up against limits or stuffiness? How does one merge \u201cspiritual love\u201d with earthier ways of experiencing sex? <\/p>\n

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Simplified chart showing Venus in Sagittarius exactly square Neptune in Pisces. Also shown (clockwise from top): Mercury conjunct Saturn in Scorpio (with the North Node), Mars in Leo (opposite Nessus in Aquarius), South Node in Taurus, and Chiron in Pisces. View glyph key here<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Or, on the flip side of that coin, how can one avoid the \u2018false spiritualization\u2019 of desire, relationships and sex — that is, turning them into objects of worship, rather than of physical and emotional reality? <\/p>\n

These look like the main themes of this week\u2019s astrology, the highlight of which is a square between Venus and Neptune (exact Thursday at 5:05 am EDT, but in effect now).<\/p>\n

Venus enters Sagittarius today at 1:54 pm EDT. Venus in Sagittarius tends to take one of two forms: a \u2018good time Charlie\u2019 type of breeziness or a very philosophical form of idealism. Neptune in Pisces is very creative and spiritual in its own right but also prone to altered forms of consciousness, whether enlightened or simply drug- or delusion-induced.<\/p>\n

So there\u2019s a question about how to stay grounded in sexual situations or in the face of love and desire. Then again, if you don\u2019t want<\/em> to stay grounded, what are your motives for that? <\/p>\n

As we move toward the exact square between Venus and Neptune, there are some other players in this week\u2019s sex\/desire astro-drama. First up is today\u2019s opposition between Mars in Leo and the centaur planet Nessus in Aquarius. When you have the planet of action, drive and desire — astrology\u2019s embodiment of \u2018maleness\u2019 — in Leo, you get tremendous passion, courage and vitality. Nessus in Aquarius, on the other hand, seems to be associated with issues such as peer pressure, cultural sexual baggage (including the shadow of collective sexual trauma\/abuse) and (thankfully) the ways we can stand up to these things and stop the proverbial buck on these patterns. <\/p>\n

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Notice today any interplay between these two types of experience, both within yourself and between you and other people. Oppositions often manifest in relationship to others; do you find yourself desiring anything that is considered taboo by \u2018society\u2019? Do you feel like standing up in some way to a group whose sexual philosophy or pattern of behavior strikes you as being abusive or questionable? <\/p>\n

How fired up are you about it, and can you put that energy to creative use? <\/p>\n

Tomorrow, Mercury exacts its conjunction to Saturn in Scorpio. Eric recently described this in the Friday members\u2019 issue as \u201cthe inquisitive, astute child, coming up against Saturn, the emotionally frozen parent,\u201d adding that \u201cWhat is necessary in this situation is some form of actual communication and adult behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, \u201cadult\u201d can mean \u201cmature\u201d or \u201cnot playing games.\u201d It can also mean \u201cX-rated\u201d or otherwise not suitable for minors. In another section of the Friday members\u2019 issue, Eric wrote:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe conjunction to Saturn looks like the revelation of secrets, curiosity about taboo subject matter and hot talk. Try it and see. Find someone you trust, who likes to whisper wholly inappropriate things to you, and start talking. Say what you would never say. You may find yourself inspired to do what you never thought you would do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whichever way you experience Mercury-Saturn in Scorpio, there is access to a \u2018higher purpose\u2019 by way of a trine to Chiron in Pisces. Whatever comes through for you in this department, you can use it for healing purposes — whether than means standing in your power and communicating like an adult, or loosening any rigid sexual ideas by getting playful. Either may be perfectly valid depending on your particular situation.<\/p>\n

In any case, while you surf these waves of sexual desire, baggage, love, spiritual bliss, earthy relating, adult communication, hot talk and so on, keep an eye out this week for any unbidden, stealthy guilt reactions. It\u2019s easy to forget how deeply we can hold beliefs that are not ours, and they often rear their ugly heads with \u2018attack thoughts\u2019 and guilty second-guessing the moment we start to enjoy some real pleasure or stand up for ourselves. <\/p>\n

Often they pop up so quickly it can be hard to separate them from ourselves. Just remember that if you hear anything that sounds remotely like \u201cI\u2019ll never get this right,\u201d or \u201cNo one will ever want me until I\u2019m \u2018better\u2019\u201d (and so on): it\u2019s a lie<\/em>. Honest.<\/p>\n

Additional research: Eric Francis<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What happens when sexual desire runs up against sexual baggage, or when sexual communication runs up against limits or stuffiness? How does one merge \u201cspiritual love\u201d with earthier ways of experiencing sex? Or, on the flip side of that coin, how can one avoid the \u2018false spiritualization\u2019 of desire, relationships and sex — that is, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"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\/70768"}],"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\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}