Venus has an interesting cycle, which forms a pentacle (5 pointed star) in the sky in its 8 year cycle. As you’ve all noticed, Venus has been shining very brightly as an evening star until recently. Now she is disappearing in the Sun’s rays for the next few weeks, and when she re-appears again around April 3rd, she will be the Morning Star. As Mary Plumb says in her article in The Mountain Astrologer:
Specific to the Venus cycle, this retrograde is number 3 of 5 in the run up to the Venus transit across the Sun in June 2012. Each retrograde adds to the previous’ themes building more energy with each pass. The 2012 represents the end of a 243 year Venus cycle begun around the outset of the Industrial Revolution. Could the corporate model of profit and competition, as we know it, fall apart? By all early indications, this is well underway. Amazing time in which we live.
None of us want to deal with the truth that our lives will never be the same. Our culture is undergoing a tremendous transformation. We have to learn to live and think in a different way. Life goes in cycles, and not in a straight line of progress. Our institutions are in for a big fall. All the astrological indicators say that this ‘crisis’ is just starting. How we live our lives will become even more important as the old order breaks up. It is up to us to stay centered so that the chaos doesn’t swamp us. We already have a sense of the new growth that wants to be born and we’ll lead the way for others if we do the work now.
With new life waiting in the wings, get a head start on your projects with an astrological checkup. Or if you’ve been dreaming a lot, it makes sense to pay attention to your inner world. In a time when we want to succeed in expressing ourselves in two worlds simultaneously, it pays to pay attention to what your soul’s needs are.
To make an appointment, write me at cathy@imaginecoachingservices.com or Sophia@wisdom-of-astrology.com
Cathy Pagano
I think many of us recognize that the people in charge need to think differently and act quickly in response to what is unraveling. I found it disheartening that the same Wall Street minds who, in part, are responsible for the financial mess were chosen by the Obama administration to fix it. (Geithner was former head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Lawrence Summers and Robert Rubin, currently working in the Treasury Department, were secretaries of the Treasury under Bill Clinton.)
A quick sketch of the U.S. chart reminds us of some of the rough roads ahead: The first exact transit of Pluto opposite the U.S. Venus at 3° Cancer is not until May 2, to be followed by partile aspects again on December 26 and August 9, 2010. To say that actual loss of assets - as well as a pervasive fear of even greater loss - is a nationwide concern might be an understatement.
Saturn rules the U.S. second house, which symbolizes the banks and financial institutions of the nation. In August 2009, when transiting Saturn gets to 22°25’ Virgo it will conjunct the U.S. natal Neptune. Looking back for a moment, on December 31, 2008 transiting Saturn stationed retrograde at 21°46’ Virgo, within a degree of the U.S. Neptune. But it doesn’t cross exactly until August. This certainly gives credence to the widespread suggestion that many more U.S. banks will fail before we are out of the woods.
The U.S. progressed Moon (how the people feel now) is square both natal and progressed Uranus. Next week, on March 19, the progressed Moon (6°59’ Virgo) is square progressed Uranus (6°59’ Gemini). On May 16, the Moon’s square to natal Uranus is exact (8°55’ Virgo to 8°55’ Gemini). We all know that Virgo has a tendency to worry, and squares in mutable signs can increase nervous energy and heighten anxiety. The national psyche has the jitters; we can’t find anything to settle in to. CNBC commentators notwithstanding, maybe the whole country should switch to decaf for these next few months.
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