Venus V Saturn
Art by Deborah Stevenson
A palpable heaviness hangs in the air and floods our days and dreams. The weight and its grave implications are impossible to ignore. In this year of transition we will keep finding ourselves caught between worlds real and imaginary as the old gives way. Its slippage uncertain and discombobulating as the devil we know falls into these broiling seas of stormy change.
Though we have felt it incoming like a smackdown for a day or more, Venus is now passing by Saturn in Aquaria. Striding ahead of her lover Mars as she stretches into her newly rewoven values, reworked under those retrograde skies in the furnace of Pluto's Capricornia. That wasn't the hard part, though it may have felt it at the time. The ongoing challenge is to lean into and live our learning curve, all of its peaks and steep valleys, without the praise nor paltry condemnation of the crowd. It pays to remember that transformation is only ever an inside job.
But we are caught, on repeat, between a rock and a hard place. Snagged by lesser gods and a world built on attention, opinion and judgement that jumps quickly to its own conclusions. Those assertions are borne only of personal experience, neatly refashioned into 200 characters and hurled like barbs. This is the smoke and mirrors of the shadow, muddying the waters between us and them, union and discord.
Saturn in Aquaria is here to ensure we set firm new foundations in the next age rather than the old world we were born and raised in. Fresh bedrock that moves us well beyond its tropes and tribulations, its hooded control as power, its domination and despair. Venus gracing these greater goals may feel hard and heavy but Lady Love, like Father Time, is future focused.
Witness how quickly the baying masses surge and shift. How what once was normcore gives way to something else. How all the shouting garners change and moves the goalposts. The same process is at play deep within you, boxing clever with our triggers and whispering sweet somethings from further down the track. Join the chorus and you'll drown your own wisdom out. Listen and you will learn.
We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.
~ Anais Nin
Words c. Kerrie Basha 2022