Venus Occulted For Now

Photograhy @natasha.yankelevic

Something missing from your night sky, love?

That would be Venus, taking her leave from the world and the chaotic revelation her retrograde is delivering. In cahoots with eclipse season, in conjunction with Merc's batshit rx, as a cauterising force for irreversible no going back change. Every stretch of it an ordeal as part of the quest, building sinew in Aries that will bear weight until she passes this way again. And so, much like anyone you've come across lately, she could do with some worldwide peace and quiet.

Last weekend was a different story altogether. Lady Love whirling across the face of a blazing sun just tipped out of equinox. Coming between us all, her cazimi a cardiac flutter with the resonance of a deep sub thud. A star point of power and realisation that redirects the motion of heart spaces. You may not have seen its rip roaring ripples settle yet.

Venus is a giant of a sky goddess, radiating divine faculty weaving a pentagram that loops us all in synodic cycles of 5 and 8 and 13 years, a sequence and spell all of her own. Her inferior conjunction is part of her celestial dance conferring strange blessings of invisibility. A hidden pause, a secluded reconsideration, a hatching plan to flip the table 'ron.

Except this year she's had to book herself into a turret room above the bar at the far end of the zodiac for the eclipse. Its only furnished with a microscope, a 'still and a series of ornate pins and plates. Neptune lurching heavily towards her heaving heart craving one last liquid embrace. There will be no slipping quietly back into Pisces with the commotion of eclipsia marring her dark moon plans.

Venus checks the locks and the peephole. Six days until she has to show her face again, reborn as the mermaid morning star. Six days to shift from past to prophecy, from spent to rested, by way of another eclipse of hard drumming hearts. Six days to rewrite the wrongs and alchemise them into dawning glory.

Your time started the moment you chose a different future.

It's cooler to be strong. I've been trained to love my darkness.
~ @ladygaga her Venus in Aries

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Words c. Kerrie Basha 2025