Uranus-Venus

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I love the basic description of Saturn Girl as “a talented telepath from the 30th Century.”

I am so totally loving Saturn, even though the planet is opposing my Venus right now. As you can read in Saturn Crashes The Uranus-Venus Club and the Saturn-Venusian Transits Bad Boys Thingie if you are having a Uranus transit to any point in your chart in the next month, Saturn is along for the smackdown. But this is a GOOD thing.

It need not be Venus of course – whatever is betweeen 20 to 26 degrees of any sign but especially the Mutable signs (Virgo, Pisces, Gemini, Saggo) is being affected. In fact, more than that, it’s been caught between Saturn and Uranus.  My mind is on this at the moment partly because i am doing the Saturn-Uranus-Mercury Retro mini-astro-queries but also because i have this Saturn opposing my Venus thing going on & I have decided TWO MAJOR THINGS;

Thing One; Saturn is not boring. Yes i often link the planetary influence with mortality, taxes blah de blah. But the other night, when i turfed out the Uranian, it felt fabulous. Like having an inner suave life coach – setting boundaries seemed suddenly SO simple & easy. And just because he’d turned up out sans warning, i didn’t let my Venus-Neptunian goo-goo urges take over and render the whole thing “passionate” or (worse) fated. Quite frankly it is that sort of sentiment that leads to an awful lot of women snivelling into the cracked tea-mug they’re drinking warm gin out of as they gaze out of their rusty window frame at the railway tracks. Not that the U would have taken me there, but you get my point. Channel Saturn to prize your health, wealth & wisdom. Saturn is cool. And given that the pantheon is overwhelmingly male, i am visualising Saturn as Saturn-Girl for the moment. It works for me and it might work for you too.

Thing Two; Yes, Saturn and Uranus are moving into an opposition at the moment (and it’s back next April so how you do September’s one determines 2010 a LOT) but it need not be a battle between the two. What if they get along really well & help one another? The other night with the U is not just me being an indulgent confessional blogger – it works as an example because Venus was trining Uranus and sextiling Saturn. So it was an actual Saturn-Uranus opposition test/issue. Okay so Saturn works by setting boundaries & saying this isn’t good enough and so on – Uranus was simply bored by the whole thing. I seriously felt like it was a groundhog situation. Almost like we had been scripted and were just revving up for take 57 of the same stupid scene. Not good. Uranus on its own might grok the boredom and attempt to liven things up via a dash of chaos or acting out but Saturn kicks in and says ‘kill it’ – no dramas, no worries & now pixter your teeth, bung on some antioxidant serum & go happily to a rejuvenatory sleep.

So far as boundaries go, Saturn-Girl is set and forget. No agonising. No insomnia. No Neptunian musings re karma drama.

AND: One of my fave astro books – The Gods Of Change, by Howard Sasportas -  makes the point that Neptune always benefits from a little Saturn. So if you’re Venus in Pisces, Venus in 12th House or Venus aspecting Neptune (a la me) then you will love a good Saturn transit to your Venus, you truly will.

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Oh well, at least the planet LOOKS good…But guess what? If you are a member of the Uranus-Venus Club - that is, your Venus is between 22 and 29 degrees of ANYTHING but especially a Mutable Sign such as Virgo, Pisces, Gemini, Saggo – you are having a Saturn-Venus transit as WELL as Uranus Venus.

Uranus-Venus is weird yet emancipating & youthifying- see the above link for a rant re THAT. Saturn-Venus is a tad more sombre, obviously. I am having it at the moment and there is an infuriating nostalgia. Not the wisteria infused nostalgia of Neptune nor even the oh-my-godding of a Uranian flash. It’s just Saturn so more like a forensic analysis – totally unbidden – and recognition of long term patterns or themes in all relationships. Saturn telling Venus to shape up, be mature etc. Yick!

But Saturn is trundling along quite quickly now & so if Saturn has crashed your Uranus-Venus club, the ’stock-taking’ sober-socks phase of your love life is done by November & you are left with just Uranus zinging about.

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The 2nd house of your chart is known as the House of Earned Income – as opposed to the 8th house which can be money that just sorta comes to you…The 2nd House is your Money Box, your Wealth Sector and is symbolic  of your attitude toward toward lucre, material possessions and – deeper – your sense of self-adequacy.

Look first to the sign on the cusp of the House. And guys, the point of D.I.Y. Astro is that you glomp your chart off Astrodienst & have fun figuring it out here. There are always peeps to help or me, if you spring for an Astro-Query. Anyway, look to the sign on the cusp of the 2nd house. This is FUN. That sign is how you are with $$$.

So even though YOU may be a super-cautious & canny Capricorn, if you’ve got Leo lurking on the cusp of your 2nd – LOL. You will LIKE the sensation of having “proper” champagne in your fridge and you do not give a shit about what some wine wanker says about how some shit-house cheap sparkling wine is superior. No-no-no. You feel soothed by the registered orange hue of the Veuve label. Soothed.

Pisces on the cusp of the 2nd? You are so prone to giving stuff away. Things come to you when you need them as if by osmosis. Things go with ease. You’re like a walking installation of The Secret. Scorpio/Cancer on the cusp of the 2nd? You’re likely to be one of those peeps who just have the investment knack. You leapt in at the start of the tech boom and nipped out again quick smart. You can turn $5 into $500 and to you it’s as sensual and pleasurable as growing something in the garden.

But it’s not just the signs on the cusp of the 2nd. It’s also what’s in there! The classic challenged-by-money placement is our ye olde friend Saturn. Yet remember that your Saturn area gets buffed and buffed via loads of work and angsting till finally it becomes your shiniest area? Saturn in the 2nd house gets clobbered in early youth by seeming to lose money, be ripped off, just feeling always stuggling but by Jove, when this lot get self-reliant, they are a force. Healthy, wealthy & wise indeed.

Venus & Jupiter there – the benefics of trad astro – bless the person with the ability to sort of drum it up from nowhere, walk out the door and get offered the gig they need & even be fairly fortunate in just finding the stuff. Venus/Jupiter in the 2nd trots into garage sales & comes out clutching the actual valuable antique. Or gets a massive crush on some artist at uni who gives her his/her etchings & voila, they’re worth heaps at a later date.

Think also that you can make money via following the attributes of whatever sign/planet is plonked there. And don’t worry if no planet there – it just means it’s not that important to you. Uranus in 2nd; money off the net, via inventions & television. Neptune; film, acting, science fantasy. You could even have the gift of literally dreaming up profitable ideas. Pluto is like mogul-land. People who literally go from having zilch to being officially selfmade millionaires often have Pluto (or Scorp) in the 2nd.

Mercury & the Moon in the 2nd – you’re able to intuit so eerily well what peeps want that you do amazingly well in corporate world/sales & – obviously – writing/self-expression. Retail genius often goes with the Moon in the 2nd. Knowing what peeps want before they know it. Being able to divine trends.

So check out your 2nd house and try to go with it a bit. Oh and another one – Mars/Aries in 2nd house – they will go hard at it and take it as a personal assualt to their ego if you try to come between them and their earning power. They get off on earning & flashing it about a bit. It’s not vulgar – it’s just like someone with another kind of strong Mars doing chin-ups on the door to impress you.

Again, this is why i love astrology, it’s so helpful to get how peeps truly are different. So if one person feels  inclined to hoard & hoard whilst another is like carpe-diem,  it’s not that either of them are wrong! Go for it – check out your 2nd house, the sign on the cusp, anything in there (South NOde is like you’re over material security and feel stuck by it, North Node is like you GOTTA get it and have it to feel spiritually secure) whether or not you’re working it right AND any big transits through it…

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The Thoth Deck – The Magus/The Magician

Uranus is the Magician & the Trickster – the ‘higher Octave’ of Mercury & is more akin to the mythological Prometheus than his actual legendary namesake.

Uranus transits are amazing – super-synchronicity & a sped up pace of life with major inspiration & individuation. Hard on the status quo though. That’s why this year’s Saturn-Uranus opposition is so damned cathartic. We all get to take care of the deets like adults (Saturn) and balance it out with being utterly our true selves/own drum-beat etc.

The first Uranus Square happens at age 21-ish, ,when Uranus squares it’s natal position & challenges people to be whom they truly are. It’s a big time for moving beyond the peer group of our teens, coming out of closets and taking up a vocation. Often someone comes into our life at the age of 21 who is  like a Uranian mentor or muse figure – a totally individuated & iconoclasic character who models what’s possible. Think about it and see. An innate talent or ‘bent’ also often surfaces at this point.

Then there is the famous Uranus Opposition in one’s early 40’s. The classic Who Am I Really? crisis that sends many a comfortable but stagnant relationship into a death-spiral & spins out even the most staid. It’s youthifying & invigorating – I always say that it is not really a Uranus transit if nobody is tut-tutting. But it works best if you have already made your peace with Saturn.  ie; you pay your bills, your dues and you have some kind of grounding & life skills. Then there is another Uranus square and the Uranus Return at age 84. When you can REALLY let rip if you want to.

Uranus is – of course – doing loads of other things, depending on your unique chart. Right now, as some of you know, I have Uranus on my Venus & hence attract a flow of fascinating, charismatic and handsome but erratic Aquarian men; The Uranian, the Aqua-Barrister, The Leo Rising Aqua Rugger Stud. Totally illuminating and liberating in that one can’t even BEGIN to think about a “normal” relationship with such men or under a Uranus-Venus transit. It’s such a cool but weird transit that I have a club.

Uranus-Moon transits seem to send people merrily bats. This is the ultimate in “Oh, yah she sold up everything and is in Mongolia marrying her cousin whose just left the priesthood…” The W.T.F. transit. Definitely excellent for art, music & authentic living. V.oft linked with sudden switchings of sexuality as well. Uranus-Mars is like being tapped into an outer-space form of energy. It has to be chanelled or else you just go crazy with twitchings, clumsiness and temper.

Uranus-Sun is the only one i can really “predict” without seeing your chart. If you are born at 22 to 30 degrees of Pisces (March 14 to the end of Pisces) then Uranus is upon you! Individuate or go spectacularly bats. Same goes for Virgoans born September 16 and on, Geminis from June 14 onward and Saggos from Dec 15.  Of course Saturn is the complicating influence here. You have to create a strong foundation for your innovative new paradigm.

Uranus Ascendent is the sudden and awesome makeover & Uranus-Descendent is when someone just strolls into  your life and WHAM you’re instantaneously in love in an old-school, can’t sleep sort of a way. Uranus-Midheaven – sudden change in job/career/public image. A television show at short notice…Uranian astro-passages can wreak havoc on your nerves and you will definitely want to keep odd hours, reverse or alter the routine. THAT is normal for you when you are having a Uranus transit.

BTW, it is pronounced Ur-AHH-Nus. Not like anus.

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I don’t know who this designer is but he/she/it is totally grokking my Winter wardrobe “statement”. As an Aquarius Rising, i LOVE the classic gray trackpant. Informal. Egalitarian. Add my Venus in Pisces appreciation of deshabille & perfect; the ideal outfit for a premenstrual trot up to the local. Or straight from the gym to the pub. An update of ‘resort wear’ for the Pluto In Capricorn era.

ANYWAY, i was actually wanting to give an example of astrology in action. The day before yesterday I had transitting Mars on my Sun & Psyche. All the good-Mars stuff happened; heightened determination & strong ideas for moving forward etc. But there were two other things. And, btw, I had not even bothered to  notice Mars whizzing over my Sun/Psyche. I looked later. Mars AND Venus right there. The Venusification was prob my saviour. Mars can be a Malefic (ie; shitty) but Venus is always a Benefic. (ie; Fab)

You see, when you have Uranus conjunct Venus going on, you’re too busy with your whacko love life & Aquarian men to think about flitty little Mars transits. Thing One; Was late to get my daughter from sports camp so jumped in taxi even though it was only a short way away. Did not bother with seatbelt as traffic at crawl. Smelt weirdly strong alcohol smell. Assumed that was prob some synthetic crap the guy had cleaned his cab with. Thought surely would not be actual booze. Heard voice – literally – that said to put seatbelt on. Ignored. Was in back seat. Going one kilometre up road at nano-crawl. Heard it again. Put on stupid seat belt.

Soooo suddenly we’re going fast, making some illegal left turn and screeching down road as twerp taxi drive tries to run a red light OUTSIDE the hospital A & E department. We narrrowly miss colliding with the van turning left legally and there is huge screech of brakes and both cars spinning off, stunt-car style. The van is a police van driven by two enraged young female constables. I am fine. But would prob not have been sans seatbelt. The Venusian aspect of all this is that had something happened, i would have been v.close to medical help and the the cops were -obviously – right there on the scene.

So an hour later walking home and Thing Two;  I get into a fight with a guy on the street. He looks slimey, asks me something or rather and I decide to ignore  him with Anglican hauteur. So he starts hassling this girl behind me. Asks her three times to go to the  pub with  him and then kind of wheedling but threatening ‘oh why not?’ and all t his other stuff. So finally I wheel around and go him. Not hysterically and not unreasonably. But definitely with a sort of Martian white-hot fury. Totally told him off (leave her along,  no means no etc) and he arced up and argued back. Could tell he longing to hit me and i was absolutely ready for him to give it a go as would have used right elbow, left hook, right upper cut and a knee in his groin. But he took off.

And no i don’t normally get into fights with guys in streets or relish a punch up. It’s worth keeping an eye on where Mars is. It definitely energises. A Mars conjunction is the strongest. Mars on your Venus is always an excellent pulling transit. Mars-Moon means you’re SO tetchy but can be quite insightful. Mars-Saturn is ruthlessly sorting admin and structural details of your life and/or confronting power. Mars-Jupiter is usually at the races, lol.

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And here we go with more helpful research; Which Sun Sign Does IT for you? I don’t mean launch into a homage to your Official Sig-Other or reminisce re your most officially important relationship. This is actually a sleazoid question. Venus IS applying to a hard Pluto square, yes?  Soooo, out of ALL the signs and over ALL of your sexual history, which Sun Sign are you most likely to have a THING for?

Aries men are my TYPE & statistically i have racked up a disproportionate number of them + Leos.  Aquarius men are my thing ever since Uranus began to cross my Piscean Venus early last year. But the stupid sign that i have the THING for would have to be Gemini men. Oh Lord. I was discussing skiing – for some reason and i don’t actually really ski – the other day and had the most visceral flash of Adrianos, a Gemini Ski instructor i had a THING with yonks ago. It’s hard to define the THING. Instant lust, obviously, and also something weird that occurs in the first few moments of meeting that could be most easily classified as w.t.f. And I know it the moment i meet a Gemini man, his spacie little flaked out eyes & all.

Sun Sign THINGS amongst my friends: Not-The-Typical Virgo has a big THING for English Leos, especially bon vivants. It has got to the point that if we go to a party and there is a loud Pom type opening a bottle of champagne & laughing Leonically, I clutch her arm.  Saggo Fascinator goes ape for Saggo Yachties & outdoorsy types.  She especially likes them when they’re literally off to Patagonia the next week. All the yearning & none of what she calls “the nonsense.”  Libran Comedian (male) has an insane thing for coltish looking Virgoan fashionistas. Scorpio Sex Academic has a thing for Libran men who resemble the elves from Lord Of The Rings….I could crap on for yonks re this but will now….

Citing YOUR Sun Sign please, which Sign do you have a THING for?

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