VENUS
A planet moves in
direct or retrograde motion, according to a specific cycle.
The retrograde period provides information about the relationship between the planet, the Earth, and the Sun, and therefore
about creative potential and consciousness. One key to understanding the significance
of the cycle is to look at the aspect the planet makes the Sun when it goes retrograde.
Similar to Mercury, Venus
lies within the orbit of the Earth and can not oppose the Sun. However, it forms two significant conjunctions with the Sun—interior and exterior (inferior and superior)
which color the Venus cycleand the Venus personality.
It takes Venus 225 days
to orbit the Sun, and 584 days or 1.6 years for it to complete its synodic phase cycle, from interior conjunction to interior
conjunction. The Venus cycle has some unique characteristics:
1. Each new phase cycle, from interior conjunction,
begins 144 zodiacal degrees earlier than the previous one (forming a biquintile relationship).
2. When the zodiacal point of the interior conjunctions of five successive phase cycles are joined, covering
a period of 8 years, a pentagram is formed.
3. Each new series of five phase cycles begins with an interior conjunction 2 degrees earlier.
4. Every 4 years, the exterior conjunction takes place at the same zodiacal degree, and
the same day of the year, as the preceding interior conjunction.
Interior Conjunction: Rx as Evening Star, Short Disappearance
The
Venus cycle begins at the Interior Conjunction. Venus is 3 weeks into the Rx
period, and is in a short period of darkness as an Evening Star. She is at perigee
and in interior conjunction with the Sun. The line-up is Earth-Venus-Sun.
Heliacal Rising Rx as Brilliant Morning
Star
After 3-5 days of invisibility, still Rx, she emerges in Heliacal Rising,
rising ahead of the Sun as a Morning Star. In this phase, she is called
Lucifer, or the light bearer. She
is an aggressive Warrior Goddess, with evident brilliance not obscured by the Sun.
Direct: As Morning Star
Two weeks
after Heliacal Rising, she then turns direct, and goes rushing into love and life.
Exterior Conjunction: Direct, Morning Star, and Longer Disappearance
for 2 months
Nine months later, she moves into the exterior
(superior) conjunction, farthest from the Earth, with the line up as Earth-Sun-Venus, and disappears behind the Sun. She is out of sight for a longer period of darkness of approximately 60 days.
Direct: As Evening Star
When
she reappears, it is as Hesperus, the Evening Star.
Still Direct, she rises after the Sun, and becomes more visible as she rises a bit later each day.
Rx: As Evening Star to move into Interior Conjunction with
the Sun
7 months after her appearance as an Evening Star, she turns Rx for a 6 week period of recalibration, adjusting her relationship with the Sun.
CURRENT CYCLE:
March 6, 2009-October 9, 2010
March
6, 2009
Rx at 15 + Aries; makes semi-sextile aspect to Sun in Pisces.
March 28, 2009, 3 weeks later
Still Rx, Interior Conjunction
w/ Sun at 7 + Aries, Evening Star, Short Disappearance. Venus is at perigee, and the
line-up is Earth-Venus-Sun.
April 4, 2009, after 3-5 days of invisibility
Venus, still Rx, has her Heliacal Rising. She is the aggressive Warrior Goddess, the brilliant Morning Star.
Rising
ahead of the Sun, she is called Lucifer,
or the light bearer. Her evident brilliance not obscured by the Sun.
April 18, 2009, two weeks after Heliacal Rising, Venus turns Direct as Morning Star and goes
rushing into love and life.
January, 2010, nine months
later, (around the zodiac to 19 + Capricorn), she disappears for two months behind the Sun. She is at Exterior
Conjunction, Direct, Morning Star. At apogee,
farthest from the Earth, the line up is Earth-Sun-Venus.
March, 2010, she reeappears, Direct,
as Hesperus, the Evening Star. She
rises after the Sun, and becomes more visible as she rises a bit later each day.
October, 2010, she turns Rx again (around the zodiac again
to 13 Scorpio 13 ). Still an Evening Star, she remains
Rx for a 6 week period of recalibration, adjusting her relationship with the Sun once again, in semi-sextile.
Venus
is empowered by the Sun at Interior Conjunction (perigee), turns aggressive as a Morning Star (Lucifer, the Light Bearer),
and rushes forward. Then she retreats at Exterior Conjunction (apogee), and emerges calm as Hesperus, the Evening Star.
The diagram below shows the flow of Venus:
Rx Interior Conjunction with Sun as Evening Star, perigee, empowered
Rx heliacal rising, Morning Star, aggressive Warrior Goddess
D as Morning
Star, gaining speed and rushing into life
D moves into Exterior Conjunction with Sun, apogee, retreats for
2 months
D reemerges, recuperated as Hesperus, the calm Evening Star.
Rx again,
as Evening Star, and moves towards Interior Conjunction.
