You notice a trend? We are moving through the different cycles of Venus, starting with the outer planets and moving out...although we seemed to skip Uranus, but I did that on purpose since Uranus exists much on its own. Jupiter and Saturn are somewhat of a pair, and Neptune and Pluto are as well. We will finish the discussion of these first after I finish this two day old organic chicken breast and get some fucking clothes on...I'm freezing, plus the helicopters have been circling around this field so we may need to walk and find a new place to set up camp....we will discuss some astrology along the way....
When we die, where do we go? Energy never dies, it only changes form, and so prior to changing form, do we go back to a collective pool of undifferentiated energy? If we reincarnate into another form, what comes of our work in previous lives? What becomes of our value system that our soul has built, and does this effect the choices our soul makes as to the parents we choose in the next life? or the set of circumstances that we are born into? Are these a reflection of our values? of the very relationships that we need to continue to learn and grow from as a continuum from the previous life?
The answer to this is yes, and because of this, there always seems to be something "otherworldly" about the relationships and circumstances in the Venus/ Neptune person.
However, there is something quite "otherworldly" about the native of intensive Venus/ Neptune aspects....
Seemingly having a foot in both worlds, Venus/ Neptune natives are extremely creative and gifted souls. They are perhaps brilliant musicians, writers, or artists. They are extremely sensitive souls, and because of their connection to this other plane, see "God" in practically everyone. If they themselves fully embody the archetype, they may be talented people filled with love but channeling that love to humanity rather than one person through their work (music, art, writing, etc)...thus not truly ever entering into any intensive one on one relationships. If they do, their great sensitivity can make it challenging, as they may project onto others archetypes or their pure selves rather than the reality that they truly exist in. Because of this, Venus/ Neptune people can be seemingly in some kind of fantasy world, and lack touch with reality.
On the other end of the spectrum, they themselves can be victims of projection of these archetypes from other people. We see this all the time as people tend to project onto artists and movie stars. They place them on pedestals and live vicariously through them...projecting sometimes a different set of standards..of VALUES that although they may be incapable of living by, the object of their projections or affections should be able to live by them.
The cycle of Venus and Neptune provides an opportunity to work out karma through a renewed sense of idealism and attunement to the creative plane. Along the cycles path, it holds checks and balances for the conflict between idealism or fantasy and reality. Through heightened sensitivity, the native can provide a universal medium of communication that brings compassion and understanding to all matters of relationship, or they can attune themselves to these communications and through this, realize that no matter where they are in their own cycle of relationship or values, that within the collective consciousness lies the vibration of their highest aspirations, of their highest romantic idealism....and because it always exists there as a flash or tone from the akashic records....they are never alone for everything within them that they love exists everywhere.
Given this, the true purpose of this cycle is to embody the highest ideal within ourselves...to find the ideal self...to appreciate the self for what it is worth on higher, metaphysical levels.....as a great healer, a great lover, a channel for Universal Light that we all are.
At the conjunction of these planets at the highest level, natives begin to see that the patterns of circumstances in relationship that they find themselves has a mirror in archetypes; in the stories of mythology and fairytales, they find played out the dramas of their own lives. They may recognize that there are 1000 songs that sing about precisely the patterns of their own relationship...they find authors from psychology to fantasy that write in such a way where they feel understood only through these mediums. They themselves have the ability to express themselves through music, art, or writing. They are sensitive and have a much easier time expressing in this way then in face to face confrontations, which they avoid. The cycle begins with the recognition that we are truly not alone in our karma, for our pattern of karma is universal.
At the collective level, the native can feel somewhat like a stranger in a strange land of deceptive souls that just don't live up to their high level of romantic idealism. Others see a somewhat innocent, pure and spiritual soul that can be swooned and even taken advantage of, however depending on the other aspects, this "charm" can be turned on purposefully in order to manipulate. If this is the case, the natives will forever be disappointed in the nature of "earthly" relationships. They have an opportunity to realize they have a gift of sensitivity, perhaps some psychic ability, and they can use this to inject hope into the world and be the person that they value in the realm of fantasy, and not use these talents to deceive.
At the square, the native reaches a crisis point in which he/she needs to be held in check as to not become possessed by the idealism or archetypes, and by this becoming disillusioned within the self. For example, a native can feel that their other worldliness and values sets them apart from others...like a lonely spiritual hermit, but this is only a defense mechanism to protect themselves from seeing themselves reflected in others...this is a truth this native does not want to see. They cannot take the fact that perhaps they are just like everybody else and have alot of work to do to reach idealism. SELF HONESTY is the keyword here. The native has perhaps manipulated themselves into thinking that they are the men and women of their fairytales.
This can also go completely the other way, as others are seen to embody this, and thus the native draws relationships that are not what they seem. In this way, they have the ability to be taken by scams that promise them something grand, especially if it is for a "good" or "humane" cause. In time, the native is to learn something about karma...about the fact that their own disillusionment within draws it to themselves without. This is not an easy path to self enlightenment.
When the two planets reach opposition, the height of achievement is to create an expression, perhaps through music, writing or the arts, that allows a free flow of your otherworldly insights and values to come into form. The native can learn much about him/herself by how others are made to feel and are transformed by their work. Eventually it is the native themselves that needs to meditate on the symbols and messages in their own work. This allows them to more deeply understand the type of person they want to embody, and they can work towards their truths rather than being possessed by an extreme example of their truth in archetype form that is impossible to live up to. Incredibly talented and sensitive, Venus/ Neptune opposition natives have the ability to channel an archetype through themselves, using this as a teaching tool for others.
The worst of the opposition is when the native has not assimilated one of the planetary influences, either Venus or Neptune, and embodies one or the other, drawing relationships that may embody the other planet. In this, they perhaps become the kept woman who marries a man in which they fall for all of his idealism, when in reality he is married to multiple women and she becomes a mere pawn in this man's play. This is an embodiment of the Venetian archetype in OPPOSITION to the Neptune archetype. The opposite of this would be the deceptive one of the two. A person possessed by many desires and does not have any idea who they really are. They may be the one that marries multiple partners and sells each of his/her "pawns" on idealistic fantasies that he of course could never deliver on.
Overall, the opposition of these planets is a setup to learn the TRUTH about the SELF by seeing what can happen when one is not fully grounded in themselves and their own sense of values. In this plane of reality, we often either walk with self deception or allow deception to enter our lives because we want so very much to believe in the VALUES that some of our heroic archetypes embody. As humans, we have to embrace fully where we may fall short of these, own up to this and do our best to walk with these values by grounding into our own honesty and integrity.
The strain free aspects such as the sextile and trine of these two planets bring about great creative inspiration and the ability to use this to solve problems, for both the self and humanity at large. The natives are comfortable with being projected upon, for they understand how to take that projection as an opportunity to inspire and encourage higher forms of idealism and expression in others.
The inconjunction must make adjustments between these insights and reality to avoid going to far off the deep end and losing touch with reality, thus drawing deception and or heavy expectations by allowing projection from others to go on too long.
Through the cycle of Venus and Neptune, we maintain a foot inside the living library of all that is was and will be....the records where the archetypes of all of our values and expressions lie. By tapping into these, we are able to understand on a deeper level the patterns that possess us, and through our love and creativity, continue to draw our own image upon the akashic records from which we draw inspiration. What is it that we wish to draw? What we draw will be the values and relationships that our children will draw from in their dreams...finding its way into their writings...their artwork....their fairytales.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Venus/ Saturn revisited and Gran Torino
While laying here naked in the backwoods of Oregon trying to find the stars through the thick fucking trees while eating a bowl of cherrios with chocolate hemp milk, I began to think back on yesterdays blog on Venus and Saturn, and realized I may have been a bit extreme in my interpretation, and wanted to add a bit to it.
The beautiful thing about the Venus and Saturn relationship, and those that are natives of the intensive aspects of this, is their capacity to love and endure in loving relationships through all. I stated in the article that due to early childhood development, a feeling of being unloved and under appreciated can develop. The native feels he/she must EARN love through following through with what can be perceived to be EXPECTATIONS.
The process of dealing with the above can go one of two directions. Either the person can withdraw into a feeling of being unloved, or they can give love unconditionally to those that they do care about..usually a select few, and often in doing so put themselves in a position of being taken advantage of.
Both of these expressions seem to be opposing dramas, but seek to have the same effect...and that is to somehow ultimately draw that loving relationship to the self. The psychological profile of the latter example holds on ultimately to the value that they know how to love and endure anything through their capacity of love. They are ultimately learning how recapture the self worth through these efforts...by ultimately learning do drop their fear and choose those that are truly worthy of their love. They are PROVING to themselves THROUGH others that they have great VALUE.
The former, or aloof withdrawal, has grown exhausted of the perception of ephemeral love and may even believe that it doesn't exist. They seek to have others PROVE TO THEM that they are worth valuing by finding value in them.
I wrote in the former article of the feeling that love comes and goes, that the purpose of relationships outlive their course and this can be frightening to the native of Venus and Saturn. The truth is that their are alot of relationships that do come and go, and where are the Venus/ Jupiter native gets great pleasure out of this, Venus/ Saturn natives are more concerned with those that have longevity, that can endure the tests of hardships and time. There is trial and error through the lifetime in lessons of relationship, and in the way of the above example, they are often one sided with one person on either side doing all of the loving or receiving all of the love....embodying the Venus and Saturn archetype respectively. It is from here that the concept of paying for love gets tied in, whether this be the extreme of prostitution or doing great work in order to please the boss, or doing the chores in order to please the father....in all of these cases the value is defined in the short term on both sides of the equation.
In the end, through great endurance and in TIME, Venus/ Saturn will draw and find the souls that they feel match them in integrity, endurance and value...where energy exchanges more evenly without the feeling of being taken or having to take in fear. These relationships will have been truly earned, and better yet, they will be greatly worth it.
Yesterday I went to see the new Clint Eastwood movie "Gran Torino". I found Clint's character to be a great example of the Venus/ Saturn in strenuous aspects. His character in the movie is an old school war vet who has withdrawn into his own world, clearly demonstrating that he feels that the worlds value system is changing for the worst, leaving him as an island unto himself. As the movie progresses, we see a softer Venetian side to his character through pictures of his deceased wife and his stories of things that were worth fighting for....we see that capacity to love...it may not be easy or very many that he expressed this love to, but when he found someone who he could share his values with and who could appreciate them, the love was a solid one. In the movie, along came a young troubled boy who although tried to steal from Clint, was a "tabula rosa" that ultimately Clint saw needed help, and circumstance led to him helping him. He took on the role of the strict Saturnine father, giving him discipline as his way of expressing friendship, yet the relationship took on a whole new level when the young boy looked him in the eye and told him how much he APPRECIATED what Clint was doing. The irony in the movie was that even relationships that had lasted a long time such as Clint's family, didn't hold this place in his heart because of the separation of the value system. Clint himself instilled in the boy a value system that he could appreciate, and in the end, ultimately sacrificed his very life for his new friend.
The beautiful thing about the Venus and Saturn relationship, and those that are natives of the intensive aspects of this, is their capacity to love and endure in loving relationships through all. I stated in the article that due to early childhood development, a feeling of being unloved and under appreciated can develop. The native feels he/she must EARN love through following through with what can be perceived to be EXPECTATIONS.
The process of dealing with the above can go one of two directions. Either the person can withdraw into a feeling of being unloved, or they can give love unconditionally to those that they do care about..usually a select few, and often in doing so put themselves in a position of being taken advantage of.
Both of these expressions seem to be opposing dramas, but seek to have the same effect...and that is to somehow ultimately draw that loving relationship to the self. The psychological profile of the latter example holds on ultimately to the value that they know how to love and endure anything through their capacity of love. They are ultimately learning how recapture the self worth through these efforts...by ultimately learning do drop their fear and choose those that are truly worthy of their love. They are PROVING to themselves THROUGH others that they have great VALUE.
The former, or aloof withdrawal, has grown exhausted of the perception of ephemeral love and may even believe that it doesn't exist. They seek to have others PROVE TO THEM that they are worth valuing by finding value in them.
I wrote in the former article of the feeling that love comes and goes, that the purpose of relationships outlive their course and this can be frightening to the native of Venus and Saturn. The truth is that their are alot of relationships that do come and go, and where are the Venus/ Jupiter native gets great pleasure out of this, Venus/ Saturn natives are more concerned with those that have longevity, that can endure the tests of hardships and time. There is trial and error through the lifetime in lessons of relationship, and in the way of the above example, they are often one sided with one person on either side doing all of the loving or receiving all of the love....embodying the Venus and Saturn archetype respectively. It is from here that the concept of paying for love gets tied in, whether this be the extreme of prostitution or doing great work in order to please the boss, or doing the chores in order to please the father....in all of these cases the value is defined in the short term on both sides of the equation.
In the end, through great endurance and in TIME, Venus/ Saturn will draw and find the souls that they feel match them in integrity, endurance and value...where energy exchanges more evenly without the feeling of being taken or having to take in fear. These relationships will have been truly earned, and better yet, they will be greatly worth it.
Yesterday I went to see the new Clint Eastwood movie "Gran Torino". I found Clint's character to be a great example of the Venus/ Saturn in strenuous aspects. His character in the movie is an old school war vet who has withdrawn into his own world, clearly demonstrating that he feels that the worlds value system is changing for the worst, leaving him as an island unto himself. As the movie progresses, we see a softer Venetian side to his character through pictures of his deceased wife and his stories of things that were worth fighting for....we see that capacity to love...it may not be easy or very many that he expressed this love to, but when he found someone who he could share his values with and who could appreciate them, the love was a solid one. In the movie, along came a young troubled boy who although tried to steal from Clint, was a "tabula rosa" that ultimately Clint saw needed help, and circumstance led to him helping him. He took on the role of the strict Saturnine father, giving him discipline as his way of expressing friendship, yet the relationship took on a whole new level when the young boy looked him in the eye and told him how much he APPRECIATED what Clint was doing. The irony in the movie was that even relationships that had lasted a long time such as Clint's family, didn't hold this place in his heart because of the separation of the value system. Clint himself instilled in the boy a value system that he could appreciate, and in the end, ultimately sacrificed his very life for his new friend.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
The cycle of Venus and Saturn
As I lay here in this Oregon field naked (and freezing my ass off, but at least not getting rained on), I look up at the stars and contemplate the nature of the cycle of Venus with the next planet in line...Saturn. Come lay with me naked, share some stale cinnamon Life cereal with me, and let's talk for a bit on the nature of these two planets and their cycle.
Once again we are dealing with the planet Venus, which represents that which makes our lives
more valuable and pleasurable, including material possessions as well as relationships and the
expression of love and appreciation. Today we are coupling this planet with Saturn, which
represents the principle of contraction. Saturn grounds us into reality and forces us to face the truth as well as our fears. Unlike Jupiter, which allows for expansion and abundance of intention, Saturn forces us to be aware of our intention, to be responsible for it, and if it is truly our desire, to earn it.
Through the nature of the cycle of Venus and Saturn, we must face issues of self worth. We must face necessary controls and adjustments on how we spend our TIME, this being a measuring tool for what we value. We must continually make adjustments and come to a point of a balanced sense of values, and ultimately a healthy and well grounded self worth. This is primarily done through lessons in relationships.
Venus/Saturn tends to place a defined and exact value upon each relationship, unlike the Jupiter combination where value was extracted for the pure pleasure of it, and ultimately scattered out out of addiction to this pleasure. The saying "You cant buy love" may not sit well with the native of this planetary karma. They would ask "Why not? All love is really just grounded into a practical exchange of resource....a you scratch my back, Ill scratch yours type of exchange".
It is interesting that this aspect is often found in men that frequent prostitutes, as well as many prostitutes themselves. It is logical however, given the fact that there is a defined exchange of goods and resources for exchange of affection or the perception of love. This is especially true with the world of BDSM and domination, as the natives have found a way to equate pleasure with restriction and discipline.
So what is really at play with this above exchange? What leads a soul to feel that he/she must pay, or trade a good or service for love and affection. Certainly the example of prostitution is extreme, but it is appropriate and a most pure expression of this dilemma. Venus/ Saturn natives have issues with understanding that they are valuable; that they are loved.
This always goes back to the experiences of early childhood, and usually always involves the father. The father in key points in the cycle of these planets was often seen as cold, distant, unloving, or at the very least, himself struggling with self worth enough to damage the child's receipt of this. The father also could have placed unbelievable demands on the child. Either way, the child is put in a position of having to PROVE his/her value in order to acquire affection. Perhaps in most cases, some sort of reward/ discipline system of punishment was set up, and usually as is the case with this native, the expectations were high. The child learned that he/she must do X before positive reinforcement is given. This is similar to a monetary exchange for goods. What must truly be understood is that usually, the father or parent in question is at a crisis point in his own values. He may be struggling to express his values into the world at large in order to produce money for his family, and in doing so is not appropriately balancing the distribution of his attention and affections towards his family. Often the case in this aspect is that the native is truly loved, but he/ she does not feel fully loved and appreciated. Even if there was a good degree of love, the value system in the home may be dominated by troubled parents trying to balance and create their own values, leaving the new values that the child came into this world with unnurtured.
Because of this lack of balance, there comes a belief in the observation that love and affection is ephemeral; that it comes and goes in cycles. There is anticipation in it coming but fear of the period when it wanes and is not there in abundance. Not only is this true for relationships, but also spills over into the realm of resources. Venus/Saturn natives must work extremely hard for material comforts, and there is a fear that there will not be enough at times. Resources often become substitutes for relationships, and when they become substitutes, the loss of resource once again forces the native to adjust its value system and learn that you cannot put too much value into material things. The problem with Venus/ Saturn natives is they can carry the belief that you cannot put too much value into ANYthing or ANYone (they never felt that they were valued for who they are enough).
With these the two planets in conjunction, there comes the opportunity or TIME to demonstrate VALUE.... to show others and the collective at large what you as a soul have come to express. The "packaging" of this expression becomes a factor of importance, for others may not be open to what makes you "valuable" as a person if the package doesn't sit well with them. Commonly we may think of how someone dresses, but it also can deal with prejudice such as not being fully heard because of race or sex. Imagine a homeless man that hasn't showered for weeks trying hard to demonstrate his value (Venus) to the world by trying to get work (Saturn), and ultimately once again establish some sort of social status (again Venus).
The issue here is, unlike the Venus/Jupiter conjunction, where appreciation was shown and drawn easily, value must be PROVED...and with this a real feeling that love and affection are truly conditional in this world rather than a birthright. Natives of this aspect may find that they are under appreciated in the work place, and may draw bosses that reflect that father as they spend their career trying to impress him and get noticed. There is a tendency as well to be attracted to older men in the case of women. Security is extremely important, and finding an older man who represents this security also provides an opportunity to regain the self worth that may have been damaged early from a cold or detached father.
Although there is a fear regarding security (manifestation of not having enough in the way of material is a reflection of not having enough in the way of love and affection...and the former can also compensate for the other in this aspect), there is a great opportunity to learn on a deeper level what it is that makes each of us valuable. As we learn what we value, what others value, and what makes us valuable, we can ground into a cooperative focus in order to build towards our dreams and visions through serious partnerships. In the meantime, more often than not, the native of the conjunction either contracts within the self and builds a protective wall to protect themselves from relationship, or they tend to give everything in order to please the other's values while seemingly having no value system of their own, as if they have learned that they are not as important.
At the square of these two planets, we come to a crisis point where becoming an "island amongst yourself" will no longer suffice. The energy of relating to others and being related to reaches a point of tension of much so that the native can put a wall up shutting people out..because they also feel that others have shut themselves out from relating to them...again a byproduct of not feeling appreciated for VALUE at a young age. Sexually, natives of the square tension of these planets often experience impotency, or the inability to let go and have an orgasm. They may fully shower a partner with affection and give love but shut themselves off from receiving it
Understanding that a relationship takes time to fully develop...these aspects are about moving slowly through the process of building and forming a successful relationship by allowing others to know us..allowing them in.
The tension of this square thus causes experiences in which the native puts all his energy into the security of his work, feeling like he is doing all he can to please a hard to please boss, and in the end is fired...losing everything he feels he has. This experience can happen in relationships as well as material possessions we value. Loss teaches us to adjust our values. Think of the people that lost their homes in the hurricanes in the gulf..everything they owned gone. We can just hear about it and realize how they would look at each other differently, showing appreciation and value for the simplest things in life that they took for granted. It took this kind of CRISIS to being them back to balance. The square of Venus and Saturn can create this kind of balance.
Venus/ Saturn people can be extremely loyal with a great deal of integrity. The value system of our world can undergo a great deal of scrutiny by the natives of these aspects. They have a great disdain for people who don't value what they perceive as important, loving family values. Can you see as well that some of this is a projection of pain in which they themselves experienced as a child?
At the opposition, we face the father head on in the world at large. At the square, we either have fully grounded into our self value and found a practical application for this value in a relationship and career where others can appreciate it and see it applied, or the native truly feels ignored and practically useless...everywhere a projection of the cold and unloving father. Ultimately, the father needs to be understood as a person that was trying to build up his own sense of lost values. It is difficult for a child to be in a position to have to build up the father's self image with unconditional love, but the Venus/ Saturn child, or even father himself, has the opportunity for this experience. Competition for parental affection at an early age can lead to external compensation for value in adulthood....a person perpetually projecting value into another or avoiding relationships all together and instead finding value in something material...building a business and becoming successful but shutting out love all together (in this way either embodying the Venus archetype or the Saturn archetype)
Through the energies of Venus and Saturn, we have the opportunity to break down the walls of protection from relationship by finding and demonstrating our value. It is through great trial and often pain that we finally come to terms with this value and fully love the self. Remember that we have no value without others that are valuable, for none of us live in a vacuum. As the father is generally regarded as the first person to provide us with a set of values in the world, to guide us and help give us an integrity and work ethic, thus learning how the world will respond to our value. If he is absent emotionally or even physically, then we must find that archetype by holding true to who and what we are...by maintaining a high degree of self integrity.
The Venus/ Saturn natives are strong souls with a great deal of integrity and love inside of them. They are strong enough to take the hard lessons of criticism, and the perspectives of a often cold, unloving world and transform it in such a way as to eventually love the self more, and in turn love and forgive others. Being "devalued" is a way to put the back against the wall and force the soul to have a voice, to compete for value in order to value and be valued. Perceiving that one does not have enough air will only force them to breathe more deeply. The same goes for those that feel unloved. Ultimately they will dig deeper and deeper, and realize that it was all around them, and within them all along.
Once again we are dealing with the planet Venus, which represents that which makes our lives
more valuable and pleasurable, including material possessions as well as relationships and the
expression of love and appreciation. Today we are coupling this planet with Saturn, which
represents the principle of contraction. Saturn grounds us into reality and forces us to face the truth as well as our fears. Unlike Jupiter, which allows for expansion and abundance of intention, Saturn forces us to be aware of our intention, to be responsible for it, and if it is truly our desire, to earn it.
Through the nature of the cycle of Venus and Saturn, we must face issues of self worth. We must face necessary controls and adjustments on how we spend our TIME, this being a measuring tool for what we value. We must continually make adjustments and come to a point of a balanced sense of values, and ultimately a healthy and well grounded self worth. This is primarily done through lessons in relationships.
Venus/Saturn tends to place a defined and exact value upon each relationship, unlike the Jupiter combination where value was extracted for the pure pleasure of it, and ultimately scattered out out of addiction to this pleasure. The saying "You cant buy love" may not sit well with the native of this planetary karma. They would ask "Why not? All love is really just grounded into a practical exchange of resource....a you scratch my back, Ill scratch yours type of exchange".
It is interesting that this aspect is often found in men that frequent prostitutes, as well as many prostitutes themselves. It is logical however, given the fact that there is a defined exchange of goods and resources for exchange of affection or the perception of love. This is especially true with the world of BDSM and domination, as the natives have found a way to equate pleasure with restriction and discipline.
So what is really at play with this above exchange? What leads a soul to feel that he/she must pay, or trade a good or service for love and affection. Certainly the example of prostitution is extreme, but it is appropriate and a most pure expression of this dilemma. Venus/ Saturn natives have issues with understanding that they are valuable; that they are loved.
This always goes back to the experiences of early childhood, and usually always involves the father. The father in key points in the cycle of these planets was often seen as cold, distant, unloving, or at the very least, himself struggling with self worth enough to damage the child's receipt of this. The father also could have placed unbelievable demands on the child. Either way, the child is put in a position of having to PROVE his/her value in order to acquire affection. Perhaps in most cases, some sort of reward/ discipline system of punishment was set up, and usually as is the case with this native, the expectations were high. The child learned that he/she must do X before positive reinforcement is given. This is similar to a monetary exchange for goods. What must truly be understood is that usually, the father or parent in question is at a crisis point in his own values. He may be struggling to express his values into the world at large in order to produce money for his family, and in doing so is not appropriately balancing the distribution of his attention and affections towards his family. Often the case in this aspect is that the native is truly loved, but he/ she does not feel fully loved and appreciated. Even if there was a good degree of love, the value system in the home may be dominated by troubled parents trying to balance and create their own values, leaving the new values that the child came into this world with unnurtured.
Because of this lack of balance, there comes a belief in the observation that love and affection is ephemeral; that it comes and goes in cycles. There is anticipation in it coming but fear of the period when it wanes and is not there in abundance. Not only is this true for relationships, but also spills over into the realm of resources. Venus/Saturn natives must work extremely hard for material comforts, and there is a fear that there will not be enough at times. Resources often become substitutes for relationships, and when they become substitutes, the loss of resource once again forces the native to adjust its value system and learn that you cannot put too much value into material things. The problem with Venus/ Saturn natives is they can carry the belief that you cannot put too much value into ANYthing or ANYone (they never felt that they were valued for who they are enough).
With these the two planets in conjunction, there comes the opportunity or TIME to demonstrate VALUE.... to show others and the collective at large what you as a soul have come to express. The "packaging" of this expression becomes a factor of importance, for others may not be open to what makes you "valuable" as a person if the package doesn't sit well with them. Commonly we may think of how someone dresses, but it also can deal with prejudice such as not being fully heard because of race or sex. Imagine a homeless man that hasn't showered for weeks trying hard to demonstrate his value (Venus) to the world by trying to get work (Saturn), and ultimately once again establish some sort of social status (again Venus).
The issue here is, unlike the Venus/Jupiter conjunction, where appreciation was shown and drawn easily, value must be PROVED...and with this a real feeling that love and affection are truly conditional in this world rather than a birthright. Natives of this aspect may find that they are under appreciated in the work place, and may draw bosses that reflect that father as they spend their career trying to impress him and get noticed. There is a tendency as well to be attracted to older men in the case of women. Security is extremely important, and finding an older man who represents this security also provides an opportunity to regain the self worth that may have been damaged early from a cold or detached father.
Although there is a fear regarding security (manifestation of not having enough in the way of material is a reflection of not having enough in the way of love and affection...and the former can also compensate for the other in this aspect), there is a great opportunity to learn on a deeper level what it is that makes each of us valuable. As we learn what we value, what others value, and what makes us valuable, we can ground into a cooperative focus in order to build towards our dreams and visions through serious partnerships. In the meantime, more often than not, the native of the conjunction either contracts within the self and builds a protective wall to protect themselves from relationship, or they tend to give everything in order to please the other's values while seemingly having no value system of their own, as if they have learned that they are not as important.
At the square of these two planets, we come to a crisis point where becoming an "island amongst yourself" will no longer suffice. The energy of relating to others and being related to reaches a point of tension of much so that the native can put a wall up shutting people out..because they also feel that others have shut themselves out from relating to them...again a byproduct of not feeling appreciated for VALUE at a young age. Sexually, natives of the square tension of these planets often experience impotency, or the inability to let go and have an orgasm. They may fully shower a partner with affection and give love but shut themselves off from receiving it
Understanding that a relationship takes time to fully develop...these aspects are about moving slowly through the process of building and forming a successful relationship by allowing others to know us..allowing them in.
The tension of this square thus causes experiences in which the native puts all his energy into the security of his work, feeling like he is doing all he can to please a hard to please boss, and in the end is fired...losing everything he feels he has. This experience can happen in relationships as well as material possessions we value. Loss teaches us to adjust our values. Think of the people that lost their homes in the hurricanes in the gulf..everything they owned gone. We can just hear about it and realize how they would look at each other differently, showing appreciation and value for the simplest things in life that they took for granted. It took this kind of CRISIS to being them back to balance. The square of Venus and Saturn can create this kind of balance.
Venus/ Saturn people can be extremely loyal with a great deal of integrity. The value system of our world can undergo a great deal of scrutiny by the natives of these aspects. They have a great disdain for people who don't value what they perceive as important, loving family values. Can you see as well that some of this is a projection of pain in which they themselves experienced as a child?
At the opposition, we face the father head on in the world at large. At the square, we either have fully grounded into our self value and found a practical application for this value in a relationship and career where others can appreciate it and see it applied, or the native truly feels ignored and practically useless...everywhere a projection of the cold and unloving father. Ultimately, the father needs to be understood as a person that was trying to build up his own sense of lost values. It is difficult for a child to be in a position to have to build up the father's self image with unconditional love, but the Venus/ Saturn child, or even father himself, has the opportunity for this experience. Competition for parental affection at an early age can lead to external compensation for value in adulthood....a person perpetually projecting value into another or avoiding relationships all together and instead finding value in something material...building a business and becoming successful but shutting out love all together (in this way either embodying the Venus archetype or the Saturn archetype)
Through the energies of Venus and Saturn, we have the opportunity to break down the walls of protection from relationship by finding and demonstrating our value. It is through great trial and often pain that we finally come to terms with this value and fully love the self. Remember that we have no value without others that are valuable, for none of us live in a vacuum. As the father is generally regarded as the first person to provide us with a set of values in the world, to guide us and help give us an integrity and work ethic, thus learning how the world will respond to our value. If he is absent emotionally or even physically, then we must find that archetype by holding true to who and what we are...by maintaining a high degree of self integrity.
The Venus/ Saturn natives are strong souls with a great deal of integrity and love inside of them. They are strong enough to take the hard lessons of criticism, and the perspectives of a often cold, unloving world and transform it in such a way as to eventually love the self more, and in turn love and forgive others. Being "devalued" is a way to put the back against the wall and force the soul to have a voice, to compete for value in order to value and be valued. Perceiving that one does not have enough air will only force them to breathe more deeply. The same goes for those that feel unloved. Ultimately they will dig deeper and deeper, and realize that it was all around them, and within them all along.
Friday, January 16, 2009
The cycle of Venus and Jupiter
The planet Venus represents that which we draw in order to make our lives easier and more pleasurable. This includes both material possessions that help automate our lives, as well as relationships with people that reflect a joy of living and give physical reality true meaning. We chose to incarnate on earth for a reason. Venus represents that reason as pleasure and enjoyment.
Jupiter represents the principle of expansion. It is motivation to grow and prosper. It represents the capacity for whatever reality it touches to expand into truth or law as the natives "truth" ripples throughout humanity. All spirits live in their own reality, and often there are others that share this reality. The relationship between Venus and Jupiter dictates the cycles of one's truth and its relationship with others that either share this truth or are in some form of polarity to it. The nature of these planets is usually very positive, and when Venus and Jupiter come together, the chances of an idea or thought taking hold and expanding into a reality of a more stable truth is greater.
The cycle of the above two planets then, at the highest form of expression, would make for great teachers and communicators that are capable of sharing what it is that they value, drawing relationships that share the joy and appreciation for this value, and through "spreading" the seeds of this joy, eventually hope and maintain motivation that this value will become a forever part of the value system within the universal whole....that it will become a part of truth. Jupiter deals with universal law, philosophy and the realms of higher learning. The Venetian principle adds a love for this and a value, as well as a charm and gift for sharing it.
However, in our day and age, the purity of planetary expression is rarely the collective consensus. As we begin the cycle of Venus and Jupiter with a conjunction, we find most natives of this aspect to be quite self indulgent and their values driven to acquiring material comforts. These material comforts allow them to "automate" their mundane lives so that they never have to miss out on the abundance of social and pleasurable opportunities. There is a great charm and social grace as well as an outstanding ability to communicate. Natives of this aspect or most aspects of these planets make great teachers, directors of social causes, or in the field of travel. They are easily taken advantage of because of their generous and giving nature. However, they are this way partially because they have a great need to feel valued and appreciated as much as they seem to value and appreciate others...however scattered this energy may be. Most all relationships that this native enters begins with the "sky's the limit"feeling, all part of usually an unconscious desire to procreate the value system, religious belief, and ultimately the self. These natives make great "Witness bearers" to any religious institution they value, however they will do so with grace and tact and show appreciation for what it is that you value if your differ from theirs...but this is much of the trait that enables them to draw so many that will love and appreciate what they have to offer. Ultimately they love the love, in mass quantities and large doses from each that they touch...the logical nature of adjoining Venus and Jupiter.
As the cycle continues, these two planets will ultimately come to what we call the square aspect. For natives, what started out as a grandiose beginning....be it a personal or material value, or a relationship with that"sky's the limit" potential....now sits in the position of "To Be or Not to Be". The square indicates the natives "responsibility" to follow through with the grandiose plan..to "practice what he preaches" or to ultimately realize that roots cannot grow long and the tree cannot grow high under the shade of so many other plants that represent scattered promises, distractions and desires. This is a good analogy for this aspect, as it reminds me of the potential one has in growing a garden in a greenhouse. The house is large representing a large capacity to love, and for natives of these planets, anything they plant bears fruit easily and flourishes with little to no struggle. However, they must choose whether to grow 100 plants (each plant yielding only a little fruit which is frustrating to the large scale way of the Jupiter aspect that wants everything he touches to be GODLIKE) or grow 6 plants by supercropping methods and have each one truly grow large. Both ways are a large scale value and process, but distinctly different approaches, as the small number of plants also may not sit well with the Jupiter native. There is conflict here.
Before we truly reach the point in which this choice is made, it must be understood that the affection, generosity and passions are scattered. Self indulgence and carelessness yield a complete lack of true responsibility. This is especially the danger in any material possession or even religious belief or value that automates something that originally we took responsibility for. Our lives in this day and age are so automated sometimes that we often forget the value that our products provide for us, taking them for granted. In religion for example, the belief in an all loving God that dies for our sins or that takes our confession can become a way to avoid the responsibility of what was the original truth. The conflict goes both ways as the native, in having such a people pleasing and giving nature carrying over from the conjunction, has alot of people that now project grandiose expectations upon him and he is unable to be "responsible" for all that he set out to do. Often this results in being generous on the surface or only when it satisfies an ulterior motive, the generosity being withdrawn at a later time. This is not because the native doesn't want to help everyone and give love to all. It is simply facing a crisis in body that they cannot please everyone, but they still show people this high level of pleasing charm because they do not know how to do otherwise. Under the surface they may withhold generosity only as a way to try and reign in a scattered sense of values. The native of this aspect must first discipline himself in the values he chooses before seeking indulgences. Ultimately, the native..much like the conjunction, is in love with love and appreciation and is desperate for the attention of others and will do just about anything to receive it. Because they not only are able to truly nurture all that they want to put out, as well as truly receive what they expect from relationships, they have a tendency to overly indulge themselves in order to compensate, and thus have problems with obesity.
On the closing square (Venus waning back towards Jupiter), values seeking to launch into the collective often meets another culture. Depending on some other aspects (Neptune especially), the expansion of values here must be resolved within relationship with another culture or religious group...with the native often expanding the family seed into an eastern or western culture as the case may be....upsetting the family paradigm in the process. This is the way the universe diversifies further, by becoming one..marriage must occur between east and west...between Christian and Muslim or Buddhist. In this way we have new systems of beliefs that begin as the values of today, and become the paradigms and belief structures of tomorrow. This all goes back to the original and pure nature of the two planets. In the mundane world, this translates into "love being the universal language" and feeding off the appreciation of diversity. It is the responsibility of the native with the strenuous aspects between the planets to cultivate the grand potential of the new creation that can come about these marriages rather than projecting or scattering seeds of love and generosity into a situation which it views as impossible to truly bear fruit due to an uncooperative environment or family structure.
So what happens now? What becomes of the native if they continue to scatter their love and affection with desperation to receive it without cultivating anything by choice that can truly grow large and ripple throughout humanity? When the two planets make opposition, fulfillment in relationship ultimately remains in "polarity". Because of the nature of these planets, generosity and grandiose idealism still exists, but one may draw relationships in which the archetype of Jupiter is embodied in the other person but is not received or that they remain at odds with. Examples of this would be a woman who marries into money, but marries a man incapable of seeing her through all that money..incapable of giving her true love. Another is of a man that marries a gold digger with a great hole in her pocket and a heart for charities galore. She will spend and give of his resources in his place, scattering them into a number of values that may not be fully known to him..himself not the recipient of the generosity or love that he values. The drama behind all of this can be exaggerated greatly by the native. What the native must learn is to fully and truly love and value the SELF. Again here, we may find overweight bleeding hearts that overindulge themselves as compensation for that desire to have appreciation and love shown in so many ways. If they ever truly learn to value and love themselves for the true VALUES that they have, remembering that which sought to automate itself in the beginning of the cycles (often past lives in the case of the native with the opposition), then they will draw a relationship that can truly give them everything their heart desires because it is a refection of their own heart truly loving the self. In the case that, at the square, full responsibility was taken, then the aspect of the opposition can indicate a great leader or teacher. Priests, leaders of great social or religious reform and movements are included in this, great teachers of young people..planting the seeds of value and knowledge to many with EACH the ability to grow endlessly (a true resolve to the above dilemma in the greenhouse example)! The native of the opposition can manipulate others easily and win their hearts and minds in order to further his objectives. In the world of business and philosophy, the native greets the reality that other choices and values exist in the world that are not their own. They seem to enjoy the competition with others in what essentially amounts to a "paradigm war". Warriors and leaders of men who seek to spread their belief and values and can easily manipulate others easily and win their hearts and minds in order to further his objectives.
The native who did not take responsibility in past lives at the square of planets does not have the grounded value and objective at hand, and so they either carry a bitterness towards opposing views that may be winning the war of paradigm, or they isolate themselves through feeling unloved and appreciated, overindulging the self and seeking love and affection wherever they can find it, being taken advantage of continuously as the generous martyr in the process.
The other strain free aspects in this cycle such as the sextile and trine bring about easy going, affectionate and generous natives that have the ability to draw people out and make people feel good about themselves. The trine is a bit more grounded in the choice of values that he seeks to give appreciation to.
The inconjunction of these planets brings about the need of adjustment in giving too much or expecting too much from one source of relationship. Remember that we get what we give, but we cannot expect others, no matter how much we may give of ourselves, to respond by healing a wounded need to receive love or appreciation that has been previously automated or not fully given to the self.
Through the energy of the planets Venus and Jupiter is reflected our capacity to appreciate and love our diversity as Gods/Goddesses incarnate. Through this appreciation, we feel a great love for everyone and feel that love returned on a grand scale. This is not possible to feel unless we fully love ourselves, and fully value the unique perspective that we have come to share with the world. We are all great teachers, all communicating our truth through simply being true to ourselves. We have molded the matter of this plane in order to help us facilitate the expression of these truths...to allow us to love more deeply and fully...not meant to be a replacement for it.
To Be Thyself is to Love Thyself, and to Love Thyself is to Be Loved a Thousand Fold
Jupiter represents the principle of expansion. It is motivation to grow and prosper. It represents the capacity for whatever reality it touches to expand into truth or law as the natives "truth" ripples throughout humanity. All spirits live in their own reality, and often there are others that share this reality. The relationship between Venus and Jupiter dictates the cycles of one's truth and its relationship with others that either share this truth or are in some form of polarity to it. The nature of these planets is usually very positive, and when Venus and Jupiter come together, the chances of an idea or thought taking hold and expanding into a reality of a more stable truth is greater.
The cycle of the above two planets then, at the highest form of expression, would make for great teachers and communicators that are capable of sharing what it is that they value, drawing relationships that share the joy and appreciation for this value, and through "spreading" the seeds of this joy, eventually hope and maintain motivation that this value will become a forever part of the value system within the universal whole....that it will become a part of truth. Jupiter deals with universal law, philosophy and the realms of higher learning. The Venetian principle adds a love for this and a value, as well as a charm and gift for sharing it.
However, in our day and age, the purity of planetary expression is rarely the collective consensus. As we begin the cycle of Venus and Jupiter with a conjunction, we find most natives of this aspect to be quite self indulgent and their values driven to acquiring material comforts. These material comforts allow them to "automate" their mundane lives so that they never have to miss out on the abundance of social and pleasurable opportunities. There is a great charm and social grace as well as an outstanding ability to communicate. Natives of this aspect or most aspects of these planets make great teachers, directors of social causes, or in the field of travel. They are easily taken advantage of because of their generous and giving nature. However, they are this way partially because they have a great need to feel valued and appreciated as much as they seem to value and appreciate others...however scattered this energy may be. Most all relationships that this native enters begins with the "sky's the limit"feeling, all part of usually an unconscious desire to procreate the value system, religious belief, and ultimately the self. These natives make great "Witness bearers" to any religious institution they value, however they will do so with grace and tact and show appreciation for what it is that you value if your differ from theirs...but this is much of the trait that enables them to draw so many that will love and appreciate what they have to offer. Ultimately they love the love, in mass quantities and large doses from each that they touch...the logical nature of adjoining Venus and Jupiter.
As the cycle continues, these two planets will ultimately come to what we call the square aspect. For natives, what started out as a grandiose beginning....be it a personal or material value, or a relationship with that"sky's the limit" potential....now sits in the position of "To Be or Not to Be". The square indicates the natives "responsibility" to follow through with the grandiose plan..to "practice what he preaches" or to ultimately realize that roots cannot grow long and the tree cannot grow high under the shade of so many other plants that represent scattered promises, distractions and desires. This is a good analogy for this aspect, as it reminds me of the potential one has in growing a garden in a greenhouse. The house is large representing a large capacity to love, and for natives of these planets, anything they plant bears fruit easily and flourishes with little to no struggle. However, they must choose whether to grow 100 plants (each plant yielding only a little fruit which is frustrating to the large scale way of the Jupiter aspect that wants everything he touches to be GODLIKE) or grow 6 plants by supercropping methods and have each one truly grow large. Both ways are a large scale value and process, but distinctly different approaches, as the small number of plants also may not sit well with the Jupiter native. There is conflict here.
Before we truly reach the point in which this choice is made, it must be understood that the affection, generosity and passions are scattered. Self indulgence and carelessness yield a complete lack of true responsibility. This is especially the danger in any material possession or even religious belief or value that automates something that originally we took responsibility for. Our lives in this day and age are so automated sometimes that we often forget the value that our products provide for us, taking them for granted. In religion for example, the belief in an all loving God that dies for our sins or that takes our confession can become a way to avoid the responsibility of what was the original truth. The conflict goes both ways as the native, in having such a people pleasing and giving nature carrying over from the conjunction, has alot of people that now project grandiose expectations upon him and he is unable to be "responsible" for all that he set out to do. Often this results in being generous on the surface or only when it satisfies an ulterior motive, the generosity being withdrawn at a later time. This is not because the native doesn't want to help everyone and give love to all. It is simply facing a crisis in body that they cannot please everyone, but they still show people this high level of pleasing charm because they do not know how to do otherwise. Under the surface they may withhold generosity only as a way to try and reign in a scattered sense of values. The native of this aspect must first discipline himself in the values he chooses before seeking indulgences. Ultimately, the native..much like the conjunction, is in love with love and appreciation and is desperate for the attention of others and will do just about anything to receive it. Because they not only are able to truly nurture all that they want to put out, as well as truly receive what they expect from relationships, they have a tendency to overly indulge themselves in order to compensate, and thus have problems with obesity.
On the closing square (Venus waning back towards Jupiter), values seeking to launch into the collective often meets another culture. Depending on some other aspects (Neptune especially), the expansion of values here must be resolved within relationship with another culture or religious group...with the native often expanding the family seed into an eastern or western culture as the case may be....upsetting the family paradigm in the process. This is the way the universe diversifies further, by becoming one..marriage must occur between east and west...between Christian and Muslim or Buddhist. In this way we have new systems of beliefs that begin as the values of today, and become the paradigms and belief structures of tomorrow. This all goes back to the original and pure nature of the two planets. In the mundane world, this translates into "love being the universal language" and feeding off the appreciation of diversity. It is the responsibility of the native with the strenuous aspects between the planets to cultivate the grand potential of the new creation that can come about these marriages rather than projecting or scattering seeds of love and generosity into a situation which it views as impossible to truly bear fruit due to an uncooperative environment or family structure.
So what happens now? What becomes of the native if they continue to scatter their love and affection with desperation to receive it without cultivating anything by choice that can truly grow large and ripple throughout humanity? When the two planets make opposition, fulfillment in relationship ultimately remains in "polarity". Because of the nature of these planets, generosity and grandiose idealism still exists, but one may draw relationships in which the archetype of Jupiter is embodied in the other person but is not received or that they remain at odds with. Examples of this would be a woman who marries into money, but marries a man incapable of seeing her through all that money..incapable of giving her true love. Another is of a man that marries a gold digger with a great hole in her pocket and a heart for charities galore. She will spend and give of his resources in his place, scattering them into a number of values that may not be fully known to him..himself not the recipient of the generosity or love that he values. The drama behind all of this can be exaggerated greatly by the native. What the native must learn is to fully and truly love and value the SELF. Again here, we may find overweight bleeding hearts that overindulge themselves as compensation for that desire to have appreciation and love shown in so many ways. If they ever truly learn to value and love themselves for the true VALUES that they have, remembering that which sought to automate itself in the beginning of the cycles (often past lives in the case of the native with the opposition), then they will draw a relationship that can truly give them everything their heart desires because it is a refection of their own heart truly loving the self. In the case that, at the square, full responsibility was taken, then the aspect of the opposition can indicate a great leader or teacher. Priests, leaders of great social or religious reform and movements are included in this, great teachers of young people..planting the seeds of value and knowledge to many with EACH the ability to grow endlessly (a true resolve to the above dilemma in the greenhouse example)! The native of the opposition can manipulate others easily and win their hearts and minds in order to further his objectives. In the world of business and philosophy, the native greets the reality that other choices and values exist in the world that are not their own. They seem to enjoy the competition with others in what essentially amounts to a "paradigm war". Warriors and leaders of men who seek to spread their belief and values and can easily manipulate others easily and win their hearts and minds in order to further his objectives.
The native who did not take responsibility in past lives at the square of planets does not have the grounded value and objective at hand, and so they either carry a bitterness towards opposing views that may be winning the war of paradigm, or they isolate themselves through feeling unloved and appreciated, overindulging the self and seeking love and affection wherever they can find it, being taken advantage of continuously as the generous martyr in the process.
The other strain free aspects in this cycle such as the sextile and trine bring about easy going, affectionate and generous natives that have the ability to draw people out and make people feel good about themselves. The trine is a bit more grounded in the choice of values that he seeks to give appreciation to.
The inconjunction of these planets brings about the need of adjustment in giving too much or expecting too much from one source of relationship. Remember that we get what we give, but we cannot expect others, no matter how much we may give of ourselves, to respond by healing a wounded need to receive love or appreciation that has been previously automated or not fully given to the self.
Through the energy of the planets Venus and Jupiter is reflected our capacity to appreciate and love our diversity as Gods/Goddesses incarnate. Through this appreciation, we feel a great love for everyone and feel that love returned on a grand scale. This is not possible to feel unless we fully love ourselves, and fully value the unique perspective that we have come to share with the world. We are all great teachers, all communicating our truth through simply being true to ourselves. We have molded the matter of this plane in order to help us facilitate the expression of these truths...to allow us to love more deeply and fully...not meant to be a replacement for it.
To Be Thyself is to Love Thyself, and to Love Thyself is to Be Loved a Thousand Fold
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