Venus remains ruler of the Night Sky Realms,
stationing, beginning her slow descent,
that we may dedicate to the restoration
of intimacy-empathy to the world;
to re-animate the sacrament of Participatory Kinship!
Lewis Spence’s Myths and Legends of Babylonia and Assyria (1916)
For Venus is intimacy, money (quirkily?!), love,
cooperation…. aesthetics, patterned elegance,
intrinsic to Nature…
Grief, is one of her sacraments, as intrinsically love,
and when given artful expression,
becomes a powerful force for loving solace,
and re-weaving the fabric of connection…
Poignancy is kinship…
As Zen Master Seung Sang said
to a grumpy woman, who declared to him,
“either this woman leaves – or I do,”
“What?! you want to save all people – except for one?!”
(Followed by his hearty laughter)…
And as Venus semi-squares Uranus in Taurus,
Nature’s guiding genius, we are encouraged,
that our language and communications
have a fundamental desire to be liberating…
Saturn stationing trines Mercury –
beginning the conversation with ourselves –
for what are we willing to be messengers…
The sky pattern is shaped like a crescent basket,
with the rims being the Moon and Venus,
all contained within.
On the left is Moon 22+Capricorn,
(degree of honoring those worthy humans
who contribute brave dedication to kindness)
and Pluto, Jupiter and Saturn- stationing retrograde.
Venus stations tomorrow
Jupiter on Thursday…all to be honored,
as what each of these planets represents
is going backwards to retrieve its authentic
liberating true purpose….
and we inhale these parts of ourselves
back into our body, and the body politic…
We are in good hands in the embrace
of the Moon (on left)
and Venus, setting in the West,
on the right……
Venus rules the Sun,
whose image is “A White Dove
flying over troubled water…
getting past emotional obstacles.
Crossing the great waters;
assurance that what one seeks
is near at hand.”
All earth and air,
but for Neptune in Pisces, Big Water,
whereby to irrigate the parched
parts of ourselves, and world…
Again, that we be cultivating,
deep-delving investigative perspicacity
with vast imaginative compassion…
We are all in this dream together,
inextricably inter-woven.
And into the cauldron –
non useful parts of our emotional repertoire,
(aka baggage- like regret, regretful panic,
self-disparagement etc..)
and ladle out – think of what they might be,
when liberated… – deliberate dedication,
dedication to being deliberate, calm confidence,
and a kind of emotional freedom technique
“even though I have been a ding-bat – I still like myself.”
And, especially now, we can re-define “forgiveness,”
as to mean – “to give energy for change.”
For then, whom could we not forgive?
And here be a witty expression
of Venus in Gemini to Moon in Capricorn,
playing with serious stuff
From fellow Trickster ~ M: May we grow good vegetables from all that we are composting… and toss those veggies into the big soup pot – the cauldron of contemplation devoted to ingenuity.