Venus retrograde – Fiesta Estrellas

Hello Friends,

In my last post, I wrote about the New Moon in Virgo. I had already given you the theme, and that theme continues (Making good decisions about relationships). Click the link to re-reference. I really aimed to simplify that particular New Moon (September 10/11, 2026) and the Venus retrograde *together* so that you could SEE how it all came together under the ‘relationships’ and ‘communications in relationships’ “theme.”

Venus retrogrades approximately every 18-19 months and it lasts approximately 40-43 days. In the next couple of days I might reblog my previous Venus retrograde post. However this current Venus retrograde is very specific to our current time. My previous posts aren’t very relevant in this case.

And to rhyme with “theme,” here’s a meme (quote) that I think covers the THEME most simply:

I have not actually read the book from the text quoted above. Now I definitely want to read it! If you’ve read it, share it in the comments!

Below are the correspondences

Venus had already been in the pre-shadow phase of its retrograde journey, so I saw the connection to the Virgo New Moon as the “directive energy” for this Venus retrograde. There were many other relevant aspects at that time, for example: Uranus was stationing retrograde. A Uranus retrograde would have us considering our freedom and enlightening us in new ways where we can break chains and disrupt anything from abuse to bad habits from within our lineages.

Uranus is considered to be the higher octave of Mercury. Mercury is the ruler for that New Moon in Virgo, and Mercury transited into the beginning of Libra on the same day as this New Moon. Venus rules Libra. Libra asks us to find balance and mutuality in our relationships. Scorpio asks us for honesty and purging (territory that Venus will be moving through). Scorpio and Libra together can be asking for more accountability in relationships. Venus literally moved into Scorpio on the same day of the New Moon in Virgo, just like Mercury moved into Libra that SAME day. These are all the clues.

Virgo is also about service and applying functional methods for healing and wellbeing. So, building better working relationships, that are functional, mutually respectful and supportive, is the key to this Venus retrograde, while purging and freeing oneself from old relationship habits and no longer accepting mistreatment or unbalanced, non-reciprocal connections. This retrograde will have you getting very honest about your actual needs for your wellbeing and mental health. Special note: the reciprocity need not be literal, but each party ought to agree and consent with mutuality.

What’s more is that this Venus retrograde is heavily aspected with multiple “dance steps” and they all center around building and refining healthy and nourishing relationships–again, that directive from the Virgo New Moon–where the ruling planet for that new moon moved into Libra (relationships, balance). Here’s the data based from an ephemeris, based on astrology software, at astrotheoros.com.

Below are the steps/details/aspects

Oct 6- 7
☿ Mercury conjunct Venus Rx ~8° Scorpio
Revisiting conversations, feelings, relationship questions; thinking/talking about what has been unresolved

Oct 10
♀ Venus Rx square ♂ Mars 7° Scorpio/Leo
Desire vs. frustration; attraction, conflict, sexuality, assertion

Oct 16
♀ Venus Rx quincunx ♅ Uranus
5° Scorpio/Gemini; Restlessness, needing to adjust expectations or relationship patterns

Oct 17
♀ Venus Rx quintile ♃ Jupiter
5° Scorpio/Leo; A subtler creative/social opening

Oct 20
♀ Venus Rx square ♇ Pluto
3° Scorpio/Aquarius: The intense one: power, attachment, control, intimacy, values, deep relationship examination

Oct 21
♀ Venus Rx quincunx ♆ Neptune
2° Scorpio/Aries
Reality vs. idealization; adjusting expectations

Oct 23–24
☉ Sun conjunct Venus Rx
0°45′ Scorpio
Venus cazimi/inferior conjunction — central turning point of the retrograde

October 24 Mercury stations retrograde at ~21 degrees of Scorpio.

Oct 25
Venus Rx enters Libra
29° → Libra
The emphasis shifts from Scorpio/intimacy to partnership, fairness and relational balance

Oct 27
Venus Rx biquintile Uranus
~29° Libra
Unusual insights or changes in how you approach relationships

Oct 28
Venus Rx opposite Chiron
28° Libra/Aries
Relationship wounds, vulnerability, autonomy vs. partnership

Oct 30
Venus Rx trine North Node
27° Libra/Aquarius
A supportive-looking nodal contact; revisiting relationship/social patterns

Nov 4
Venus Rx sextile Jupiter
24° Libra/Leo
Expansion, warmth, generosity, social connection

Nov 13
Venus stations direct
22°52′ Libra
The review phase turns forward

November 13 Mercury also stations direct @ ~5 degrees Scorpio.

Venus leaves the post-shadow on December 15.

Hopefully this information is helpful for you. I may return with more narrative as the story continues in December, after that Venus leaves the shadow. I may return with poetry or art, or other writing. I really don’t know yet!

Please feel free to share your experiences in the comments section. The comments end up being more important than the article because the experiences of all the readers are what really shows how we are all navigating these transits and life experiences.

There’s a future for me writing more about remedies and ways to engage with the information, but I think we serve ourselves truly first with introspection.

We each experience all of these transits differently, based on our individual life trajectories, our learnings, early environments, and of course our own natal charts from which all other charts are developed and referenced from to interpret the on-going stellar environment that mirrors and corresponds to our growth and development while living.

Astrology is like this: correlation and not causation.

Have fun. Enjoy this next chapter of your development! By the end of it, things are going to be very different. Journaling is always helpful. Let’s aim for the highest and healthiest beauty unfolding.

“…How I longed to be over there with you…”

http://househistoryman.blogspot.com/2012/02/love-letter-mystery-from-capitol-hill.html

Dear Readers,

In lieu of Venus going retrograde, I thought I’d write you a letter and tell you about it. No matter what happens, I want you to know that the goddess of love is even closer to our hearts now than she is at any other time…

“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” ~Washington Irving

Venus turns and dances backwards on December 21, 2013—she’ll be doing a foxtrot for her winter solstice celebration. Retrograding just about every 20 months or 1.6777 years, this is not a terribly uncommon style for Venus. But just because the planet of love is reverting to her former astrological turf in the sign of Capricorn, does not mean that her love shall -in any way- wane.

During this period, she will re-cover her retrograde shadow – last visited on November 20, 2013—at 13 degrees of Capricorn. Check your charts. Check for other planets, midpoints, or other degrees of note at that point or by aspect to your natal chart. See if Venus left anything there for you to pick-up during her revisit from now until January 31, 2014 – for afterward, she will turn forward and proceed with dignified manner, lessons learned.

Like good jazz dances up and down the pentatonic scale, Venus was here and back, potentially making some swanky (or not so swanky) artistic moves along the way. After all, Venus rules everything sensual – music, art, and the fine things in life. It may not be just an old flame you revisit; it could be that you are given the opportunity to get in touch with your artistic muses.

Regardless, what makes this Venus retrograde period so tantalizingly interesting and profound is that her return period takes her right back into the thrall of her Pluto mate – perhaps for one last dance—one critical opportunity to choose transformation over stagnation.

The whole idea of the goddess of beauty, Venus, dancing next to the god of the underworld, Pluto, got me thinking about how Persephone was wooed into the underworld.

“Persephone was picking flowers … but these weren’t earthly flowers … these flowers were the work of Zeus and put there for “a girl with a flower’s beauty.” The flowers were there to ensnare Persephone in a trap, a beautiful, divine trap. The trigger for the trap was an irresistible flower with one hundred stems of fragrant blossoms. When Persephone reached out with both hands to pluck the flower, the earth opened at her feet and Hades roared forth in his golden chariot and seized her before an alarm could be raised.” http://mythagora.com/bios/persephone.html

So much for temptations.

You will be interested to know that Venus retrograde period lasts approximately 40 days and 40 nights. Does this sound familiar to you? Well, it’s very likely that it does, both Jesus and the Buddha were “tempted” and fasted during periods of 40 days and (40 nights) –and in some legends Quetzalcoatl, too!

Mara’s daughters

Temptation of Christ

http://ericarmusik.com/temptation_christ.html

Venus is also known as “morning star” and “evening star.” The morning star, or the light bearer, was named Lucifer. Originally, the two different appearances of Venus, one as morning star and one as evening star, were thought to have been two separate stars. This has to do with the perception of Venus based on its planetary orbit in relationship to the Sun. http://www.universetoday.com/22570/venus-the-morning-star/

It’s interesting to see how the period of temptation (40 days of Venus retrograde) aligns with a planetary body originally named Lucifer, only later to be associated with satan or the devil. More on that Lucifer name, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer

In classical literature, daemons (a term not always negative) were benign beings of inspirational nature. They could even be spirit guides. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(classical_mythology)

Venus retrograde may be a time for temptation and for old demons visiting, but it also just may be a time to explore what value we obtain from stories and myths, a time to consider what really inspires us and urges us to make music, write poetry, or make a painting. At best, these “temptations” that attempt to break us from our higher natures, also serve—once conquered—to strengthen our bond with those drives and motives that go beyond the senses. That is, it is actually by the hand of temptation that we come to seek spirituality, God, and the clarity of reason as a means for our redemption. Remember, in the words of Shakespeare,

“Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind. And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

Love always,

Ka Malana