28.07.2020
Venus' emergence from her underworld and retrograde last Friday was yet another strange chime in the shadow song of this year. A veritable orchestra of discordant notes and distant drumming designed to get us singing from a new hymn sheet, the WIP being written in our own hand this mad season.
Venus' revision test in Gemini plunged us into our values system. Here she spent the weeks since mid May showing us where we are yet willing to compromise those same ardent principles for love, acceptance, security or belonging. This is why Venus rx dangles the carrot of ex everything, precisely to see if we have integrated the sharp learning curve offered by rejection, betrayal and exile.
We recover the same ground as Venus travels forwards through the shadow of her rx, giving us until the end of July to make necessary and long overdue adjustments. Now must we reseed our own golden mean and begin to view the pretty patterns of our lives and loves through a longer lens.
Venus rx in her Gemini twinskin dances with trickster energy. It brings up themes of duplicity, the many versions of the truth - yours, ours, theirs - and the fancy silver tongueing that twists the facts in order to protect what is actually valued the most. This can be very hard to see and feel, within ourselves and from others. But it too sets fresh seeds of new communication in this compost, marrying heart to head and vulnerability to courage.
The true love and belonging we have always sought from others can be found within, as foundation stone and temple spire. And until we unearth its dazzling equal music, we will abandon ourselves to what we hear outside our aching hearts that sounds like love. Once set fair and firm within we can indeed rise rather than fall in love, over and over again.
We are well beyond lip service, smokescreens and bullshit. The only true apology is changed behaviour. The rest of eclipse season will show you the how and where and why of this Venusian shadow dive, especially now illusions are flimsy. Look to echoes from mid 2012, when Venus was last retrograde in Gemini and from November 2018, which was Venus rx before this in Scorp. There lie the clues and keys to your heart.
I will not stay, not ever again - in a room or conversation or relationship or institution that requires me to abandon myself.
~ Glennon Doyle, Untamed / Venus right after 40 days in her underworld
Art by Daria Hlazatova
Words c. Kerrie Basha 2020