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<\/dt>\nTraditionally, a tenure of Venus through Aries is expected to be distinguished by self-involved predilections, prioritizing immediate gratification over what’s appropriate to the long run.<\/p>\n
Traditional interpretations just don’t feel suitable now, however. It’s as if you may have somehow outgrown defaults and fall-backs recently, except as refuge from an emergent imperative of responding to the demands of living with unaccustomed improvisation. It’s no wonder.<\/p>\n
It’s no wonder if you feel a difference now as compared to a few short weeks ago. In all probability you have recently experienced a period of rapid growth (with its attendant growing pains) after emerging from what can only be called a very special period.<\/p>\n
The period we have just emerged from started on April 15 with Earth moving precisely between the light of an Aries Sun and a Libra Full Moon so as to precipitate a dramatic total lunar eclipse. It was the first of four such total eclipses<\/a> in a row over the next two years, indicating a dramatic departure from customary patterns of the past.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The eclipse cycle begun on April 15 concluded just a few days ago (on April 29) when the Taurus New Moon moved precisely between Earth and Sun for a solar eclipse. The Taurus solar eclipse also appeared to be a point of departure by taking place in exactly the same degree of Taurus as another solar eclipse exactly 19 years before — an image of coming full circle if ever there was one.<\/p>\n Then, embedded in the eclipse cycle, was an exceptional combined aspect. Jupiter precisely (to the degree) opposed Pluto on the Cancer-to-Capricorn axis on the same day (April 23) Mars opposed Uranus to the degree on the Aries-to-Libra axis. Because Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn are cardinal signs, they are by definition at right angles to each other on the zodiac circle. That means the two concurrent oppositions also constituted four square aspects — all exact at the same time.<\/p>\n Oppositions and squares have a bad reputation of being associated with discomfort. The bad reputation is not deserved. After all, it is precisely such disquiet that compels you to act, and in doing so to grow — thereby adapting to the inevitability of change, which is the only constant in your life on Earth.<\/p>\n Now Venus, the most highly reflective planet in the solar system, is about to retrace all that, as if in reflection. So, by implication, should you.<\/p>\n With its ingress to Aries, Venus will embark upon a series of aspects to Mars (opposition), Pluto (square), Uranus (conjunction) and Jupiter (another square), as if to retrace and reflect upon the grand cardinal square of April. Then, shortly before leaving Aries for Taurus, Venus will cross the axis of the lunar eclipse that started it all.<\/p>\n Hence, this will not be your customary Venus in Aries unless you choose to perceive it through stale custom. By the same token, neither will you be the same person you were before the lengthy initiation you have just emerged from — unless you refuse to release attachment to what you no longer are.<\/p>\n Even if you are presently too exhausted by your recent endeavors to appreciate how you have grown, you would do well to take it on faith that you have. Even if you are reluctant to cease being what you no longer are, your evolution cannot and will not be denied except to diminish what you have become.<\/p>\n That’s how you should take this particular passage of Venus through the fires of Aries in a whole new way. That’s how you should take the next four weeks to reflect upon yourself and your relationships.<\/p>\n If you can’t see it now, give it time. Give it the time that Venus in Aries this year marks out as a period when you will be able to see through your reflections a whole new way to apprehend, appreciate and affirm what you now are, after having gone through so much. It was worth it, and so are you.<\/p>\n Offered In Service \u00a0<\/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":" Venus initiates four weeks favorable for reflection upon ingress to Aries at 9:21 pm EDT tomorrow. A period of reflection is not the customary way of anticipating a Venusian traversal of Aries. 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