The Ex Files

If there is one thing you can bet the gingerbread house on during a Venus retrograde, it is a return of your exes.

I have to admit that I thought I'd get more than two days in before the past life lightning struck. Then I found myself today going through a box I had literally unearthed in the back of an unopened cupboard. Et voila! Like Venusian magic, here they all be, in vivid heart turning colour. Photos. Letters. Keepsakes. That box. The one that if I had been looking for it, to drown my nostalgia in, I would never have been able to lay my longing hands on.

When our Lady of Love retreats to her boudoir - as she does annually - it is for serious she-time. The kind that makes sense of our loves and losses, that weaves their pain into gold we can wear proudly. Venus rules relationship: who and how we are within it, what we are attracted to (and oh my how that shifts / stays the same) and how we navigate its changing waters. It is well worth acquainting your sweet self with where Venus lies in your chart for an overwhelming insight into how you do who you do and why. Expect the aha on a richter scale.

For the next months our heads are sweetly tipped backwards. If there are skeletons or secrets in the ex-closet, Pluto's reinvigorating could well see them unearthed. If there is peace to be made or forgiveness to be gifted, this is the big cosmically aligned window with the neon flashing arrow above it. And if you'd rather stick a fork in your eye than see them again, then anticipate them around every corner because there is work to be done to remove that niggle, for want of (your own) better term.

And all for none other sake but your own, coming to you with the sweetest kisses from our lady Venus.

Words C. Kerrie Basha, 2017