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VENUS

Currently: Venus is Direct.  She rises after the Sun, and is now visible as a beautiful Evening Star for 7 months, calming the skies from late October through May, 2012.  

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. 

Similar to Mercury, Venus lies within the orbit of the Earth and can not  oppose the Sun.  However, she forms two significant conjunctions with the Sun—Interior and Exterior (Inferior and Superior), which color her cycle and personality.  

Venus recalibrates her relation to the Sun when Rx at Interior Conjunction (perigee).  Empowered and energized, she turns aggressive as a Morning Star (Lucifer, the Light Bearer), and rushes forward, Direct.  Still Direct, she then retreats at Exterior Conjunction (apogee) for a rest, then emerges calmly as Hesperus, the Evening Star. 

The  Venus position in relation to the Sun gives clues about how the  personality emerges within us.  Does Venus rise before or after the Sun?  Is she an AM star or a PM Star?  Is she overshadowed or brilliant in her own right?  Is she overbearing or calm? 

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. 

 

Current Cycle  October 8, 2010 - May, 2012
Turns Rx:  October 8, 2010 at 13 + Scorpio, making a semi-sextile to the Sun.

Interior Conjunction:  Rx as Evening Star, Short Disappearance
October 29,  3 weeks later, still Rx, Interior Conjunction w/ Sun at 5 + Scorpio, an Evening Star making a short disappearance. Venus is at perigee,  and the line-up is Earth-Venus-Sun. 

Heliacal Rising:  Rx and shifts to a Brilliant Morning Star
November 3, after 3-5 days of invisibility, Venus, still Rx, has her Heliacal Rising.  Though Rx, she is the aggressive Warrior Goddess here, as she shifts from an Evening to a Morning Star.  Rising ahead of the Sun, she is called Lucifer, or the light bearer.  Her evident brilliance not obscured by the Sun. 

Direct: As Morning Star
Two weeks after Heliacal Rising, on November 18, she then turns Direct, and goes rushing into love and life for 9 months.

Exterior Conjunction: Direct, Morning Star, and Longer Disappearance

Nine months later, on August 14,  2011, 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 rest and darkness of approximately 60 days.

Direct: Shifts to Evening Star
When she reappears, in October, 2011,  it is as calm Hesperus, the Evening Star.  Still Direct, she rises after the Sun, a bit later each day.  Venus is visible now (Late December, 2011) in the evening sky.  Sun rises and sets, and Venus follows behind.  When the Sun sets, Venus becomes visible, brilliant in the night sky.

 
Rx: As Evening Star in  Interior Conjunction with the Sun
On May 15, 2012, 7 months after her appearance as a calm, beautiful Evening Star, she turns Rx for another 6 week period of recalibration, adjusting her relationship with the Sun.


The diagram below shows the flow of Venus:

Rx Interior Conjunction with Sun as Evening Star, recalibrating.
Rx Heliacal Rising, shifts to Morning Star, as aggressive Warrior Goddess.
D as Morning Star, gaining speed and rushing into life.
D moves into Exterior Conjunction with Sun, retreats for 2 months.
D reemerges, recuperated, as Hesperus, the calm Evening Star.
Rx again, as Evening Star, and moves towards Interior Conjunction.
      


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Diagram used with permission www.soulsign.com.

MARS

Current Status (December, 2011):

Mars travels through Virgo this month.  Perigrine, he functions through Mercury,  who in turns moves through Jupiter, who in turn works through Venus, and  Venus is functioning through the dignified Saturn.  Watch those relationships...

Mars is direct along the zodiacal path until January, 2012, when he turns Rx at 23 + Virgo.  Mars lies beyond Earth’s orbit.  The retrograde cycle of Mars occurs every two years for approximately 3 months.  There are two things to be aware of with the Mars cycle.   Because when retrograde the planet is closest to the Earth (perigee) as it orbits the Sun, its manifestations can be felt on a mundane level. Mars is a good planet to watch with this in mind.  Additionally, the aspect it forms with the Sun can be telling.