{"id":75486,"date":"2014-04-03T12:22:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T16:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=75486"},"modified":"2014-04-03T12:22:50","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T16:22:50","slug":"love-or-confusion-venus-enters-pisces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/love-or-confusion-venus-enters-pisces\/","title":{"rendered":"Love or Confusion? — Venus Enters Pisces"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is this love, baby, or is it just confusion?
\n— Jimi Hendrix<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Venus enters Pisces at 4:31 pm EDT Saturday to powerfully evoke where love meets confusion. Powerful because Venus is exalted in Pisces — another way of saying empowered to express itself freely. Love because, among other things, Venus correlates with emotional attractions. Then, there’s confusion.<\/p>\n

\n
\"Astrology<\/dt>\n
<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

The likely correspondence to confusion has to do with the first aspect Venus will make upon entrance to Pisces — a conjunction with the centaur object 7066 Nessus.<\/p>\n

Nessus entered Pisces only two days ago, its first foray outside of Aquarius in over eight years, and will remain in the first degree of Pisces for days on end because it moves slowly. Venus, on the other hand moves much faster.<\/p>\n

When fast and slow objects function to enter a new sign at essentially the same time and come together in the first degree, it’s astonishing timing.<\/p>\n

Astonishing timing indicates meaning, and gets the attention of astrologers. Centaur objects have meaning as well, the type that gets your attention, albeit in disquieting way.<\/p>\n

Nessus is among the centaur objects. Centaurs are defined by their unstable, elongated and steeply inclined orbits that typically cross paths with the the behemoths (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and\/or Neptune) of the outer solar system.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Because of their orbital characteristics, and probable origins at the shadowy edges of the solar system, astrologers frequently connect centaurs with the psychological concept of shadow material.<\/p>\n

Shadow material is complex and nuanced, just like the orbits of centaurs. Nevertheless, it is possible to say the concept is usually about traumatic or otherwise uncomfortable past experience that has not yet been resolved or integrated — persistently following you like a shadow. Eric, among astrology’s pioneers interpreting centaur objects, has demonstrated a strong connection between Nessus and the shadow of abuse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To our confusion, love and abuse often come together in reality. That’s how Venus and Nessus\u00a0coming together in the first degree of Pisces Saturday might well get your attention. It’s also how you might make some inroads this weekend towards integrating some persistent shadows of your own.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The common combination of love and abuse is confusing because love is so often idealized and abuse is so often disguised. It’s nothing new. Think about the legend of Abraham and his son Issac<\/a>, a complex and nuanced story that has been misused\u00a0to twist the concept of love and justify abuse for centuries.<\/p>\n

Then, in recent years, advertising took the twisting even further. By exploiting your need for love in an effort to sell stuff, advertising media became a form of abuse in itself, burdening nearly everybody now living with the same shadow material.<\/p>\n

Yet, somewhere inside, you know the difference between love and that with which love has long been confused. Perhaps it is because Venus is somewhere inside you.<\/p>\n

It’s a safe bet to say people have been looking up at Venus, the brightest planet, for as long as there have been people. Long before advertising. Long before Abraham and Issac. Perhaps long enough for Venus to have become integrated into the being of humans, providing you with a steady beacon of truth. Maybe some of the truth has to do with love.<\/p>\n

Maybe astrologer Robert Hand expressed the truth best when he wrote “In its highest manifestation Venus is love, the emotion that brings people together without force or compulsion.” Perhaps, upon entry to its Pisces exaltation, Venus will be free to express the truth powerfully. Perhaps it is a truth that will set you free of shadow material when Venus and Nessus come together against all odds and without any force or compulsion except synchronicity in the first degree of Pisces come Saturday.<\/p>\n

In their coming together, Venus and Nessus will demonstrate something. They will demonstrate how it is that, even though love and abuse often occur together, it is not necessarily so.<\/p>\n

It is not necessarily so because Venus, according to Robert Hand, correlates to that which brings people together effortlessly. Whereas, abuse can only happen after people come together, after love has done its work. In other words, abuse is not a part of Love’s work, but something that may follow; something people choose to pass on.<\/p>\n

In other words, love is a truth, and abuse is a choice. Only centuries of conditioning has confused the two. This weekend, as implied by the skies, you will have a truly historical choice to divest love of its confusion with abuse — or not. Just think about it.<\/p>\n

Just think about how, when a planet enters a new sign, it is a significant event — one of the foundations upon which astrology is made. Then, consider how a planet entering a sign of its exaltation, such as Venus in Pisces, adds power to the event, and the planet in question. Finally, contemplate how two objects with a vast differential of apparent speed conjoining in concurrent ingress constitute a truly exceptional event that may never be repeated again, with truly exceptional implications for you.<\/p>\n

You are the crucial factor. Astrology does not happen, it is made. The planets are not the agents of cause and effect, you are. The actual events that will take place when Venus conjoins Nessus in the first degree of Pisces will be determined by you.<\/p>\n

Melanie Reinhart has famously averred that Nessus represents an opportunity for you to say “the buck stops here.” If Eric has truly nailed Nessus’ connection to abuse, if Ms. Reinhart is right as well, and Mr. Hand is correct in his assessment of the highest manifestation of Venus, you are in a position to do your part to change the course of history.<\/p>\n

Should you find yourself effortlessly drawn together with others this weekend, look at your hands. Look at your hands and imagine a time-worn and unwanted shadow of a dollar bill (or \u2018buck\u2019) in your palm. Think of all the confusion which has combined with love all through your life, put it in that imagined bill from the past, and refuse to pass it on.<\/p>\n

Instead of passing the ancient bill on, pay it. Close the account, and make the closure your own. Then, return your attention to those with whom you have gathered and show them only the love which brought you together. You can do it. You can change history, and if you do, you will have become one with the skies. Wow, imagine that.<\/p>\n

Offered In Service<\/em><\/p>\n

Len is available for astrology readings. You can contact him at lenwallick [at] gmail [dot] com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Celebrate the new season with a Planet Waves premium membership!<\/span> Planet Waves was built on Eric’s horoscopes, and our members swear by them as an essential tool for co-creating their lives. Sign up for a six-month membership<\/a> and receive weekly and monthly horoscopes, plus more.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is this love, baby, or is it just confusion? — Jimi Hendrix Venus enters Pisces at 4:31 pm EDT Saturday to powerfully evoke where love meets confusion. Powerful because Venus is exalted in Pisces — another way of saying empowered to express itself freely. Love because, among other things, Venus correlates with emotional attractions. Then, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1714],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75486"}],"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\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}