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.
