Closing 2021 & Ushering 2022 | Part 2 of 3 : Venus Retrograde till 29 January 2022

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Speaking of growing up, we would have Venus going retrograde in Capricorn and it would be sitting with Pluto for most of December with its intensity in personal relationship and in heart in stark contrast with this full moon. That’s why they are inconjunct during the full moon — meaning these two transits have nothing in common yet they are being forced into the same room to work together somehow. One is about the messy play of colors and other wants us to color code our lovers. Practical long term maturity of our choices conflicts with the fact that we are still experimenting. Venus retrograde in Capricorn will ask us to clearly define value of the “art” we are creating, make sure respect & longevity is part of our selection process when it comes to playing with “loves” of our life, commercials are met with title, loyalty is balanced with fun, business isn’t forgotten in play. There will be pressure to get our shit together without being oh so glib and scattered especially on money, career, lovers, creative output.

Venus retrograde in Capricorn as much as it may not feel much valued by others, is a process that helps us arrive at next level of ambition and growth in long term relationships, creativity and money or stability. Pride in what we do with practical output of all this reskilling and change of mindset. Yes learning to open ourselves to opportunities which are untraditional but not being light weight about it. Finding beauty and creativity in structure versus pure chaos. Finding comfort in loyalty and stability. Finding love in work or renewing our love for what we do or finding a partner who respects the work side of us. But Gemini side of equation also demands we do not get oh so lost in negative scenarios of future — while objectively acknowledging the fears that so lurk within which Venus Pluto is bringing out all of December. Not getting weighed down by need for “titles”, need for ego and pride gratification so much that we miss out on learning opportunities to new possibilities that are untraditional or in need for long term stability miss out on having fun in the variety of the moment. Asking us to open ourself to receive new inspiration which comes in play time versus pushing ourself to ground to make it all happen in one specific way that we have decided. That specific way is bound to change anyways. Nothing works out as planned when two retrogrades are back to back and we are being asked by this full moon to go with a bit of flow which might take us to better place versus our “plan”. One side of this equation knows value of money, benefit of structure, value of stability, titles and concrete output of both passionate work and passionate love while other side knows the value of play, flirting with ideas & people, value of trying new age methods, connections, selling, speaking, interacting, playing, colouring outside the boundaries. We are being asked to marry or balance the two in our choices — we are bound to swing from one extreme to another till we find a road thats not too glib and frivolous as well as not oh so tense and serious.

It can also be two separate parts of your life going through changes simultaneously — e.g. you might be changing your mindset / skills / learning to commercialise your skills, looking for a bit of fun or lighter side of life trying to be in the moment while also trying to find structure and stability in your emotional / personal life and we might need to balance these two. Venus Pluto process might be creating a death rebirth in a specific relationship or pattern of how we connect with another. It can completely consume us with relationship drama as we redefine what we love and find our power in relationship. But we can get a bit compulsive here in ambition, need for stability, need to be the boss, trying to control the outcome too much as we won’t be willing to accept a specific personal situation as it is. It all started around 11 Dec when Venus met Pluto first at 25º19’ Capricorn and you can expect an honest as well as intense discussion around 30 Dec when Mercury at 25º53’ Capricorn verbalises the intense thought process or desire or even fear that you were feeling within all December. We feel we can see through things but they do need more reconsideration before so much conviction is added in.

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Remember Pluto went retrograde over these degrees in 2021 so we have had a period of death rebirth process in Capricorn part of our chart on these very degrees post a long period of eclipses since mid 2018 to early 20202. The magical degree of around 26–27º Capricorn (natal Pluto of USA).

Capricorn part of our chart has gone through a lot of releases, losses even and deep cleanse through many structurally stable parts of our life removed as they weren’t part of our next chapter. Both Venus retrograde and part of Mercury retrograde focuses on now making new choices there — wouldn’t call it a reward but yeah new comfort possibly where we lost something or someone key in 2018 and we tried to regain our power in 2021 through our own initiative starting with Venus & Mercury Pluto conjunction in Jan 2021. But then post Jan 2021 Pluto retrograde from April again helped us sift and throw out some of those choices as well as we weren’t being true to ourself just trying to quickly replace what we lost. This cycle is like — lets not plaster over things, lets truly understand what did you want to now create post loosing the feeling of helplessness and weakness in Capricorn part of our chart which we picked up through 2018 loss. Choosing from a place of power and strength within ourself versus external through the resources we found within ourself from April to Oct 2021 process of Pluto.

I spoke of Pluto transit by sign in below readings by sign if you would like to review — timestamp is in comments — click on “Pluto Direct”

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv3tUTLu8-MQql-CB34c0lucWaTfqj2E7

Per Aztec mythology during this period of Venus retrograde, she assumed form of a man and walked earth making this a period of debauchery that we are about to embark upon. Venus gets drunk, couples up and sky monster is born etc etc — we do not make so much wise choices essentially and shadow side is more at play which is reckoned with Venus sacrificed to Sun on 8/9 Jan when the two meet and Venus our choices are reborn in light of this reckoning and some choices do die. The inferior conjunction of Sun and Venus of 8th Jan this year would be at 18º43’ Capricorn. This is normally an important junction as our choices and desires are reborn but with that something physically ends. Something that was part of structural prosperity, comfort and even stability of a country like a monarchy or a leader or a queen or a king or a structure thats no more part of the future is normally released or changed. The conjunction of Sun and Venus used to be described as the point of insemination in mythological comparisons — the point when a new seed which would give us prosperity, growth, comfort is seeded. If that point of conjunction aka 18º43’ Capricorn falls on any of our personal planets like in case of Kate Middleton it falls on her Sun (stature, title, career) or Ascendant of Queen (physical body, public title) — that new seed would have a long term impact on us.

Debauchery aside we are most in touch with creative process of life in this period as Venus retrograde intensity of rebirth helps us return to natural order of life but we are looking at that to emerge only in March. Venus is both — God of war and God of love. As much we become one with source of life around 8/9 Jan period leading up to it would evoke shadow side of us and the period right after it would come with surprising information as stationary Mercury meets stationary Uranus all through 9–18 Jan. So 8/9th Jan would be like switching from Pluto(intensity, depth, analysis, undercurrents) to Uranus(surprises, shifts, new, volatility, freedom, protests). After 29 December itself Mercury would be in shadow period which means the words that would be said after 29 Dec would need to be either taken back or revised in light of fresh information during 14 Jan to 3 Feb when Mercury is retrograde. The turning retrograde timing of Mercury is other key point 14/15 Jan cause Venus would be 14/15 Jan is also the period of rising of Venus — leaders resign or fail during time by doing something rash. We would see many surprising held up events emerge as Uranus goes direct on 18 Jan.

This cycle of Venus retrograde also has Uranus (in trine) guiding us to a different choice which was possibly shown first to us around 19 Nov. Disruptive yet stimulatingly difference choice, a love affair or choice which is electric, exciting, may be unstable and short but unconventional which makes us go through all stages of change in a very short period of time. Amidst all the volatility between 21 Jan and 6 Feb as Venus turns direct on 29th Jan reborn as a Lucifer morning star who goes after what he wants versus waiting for things to be given to him as Venus was doing most of last few months — we would find ourself proactively choosing the change between 21 Jan and 6 Feb. But not in the shape or form where it started around 19 Nov. Our choices would evolve with the two retrogrades and why we choose something or someone will evolve during that period.

Coming back to the current full moon and Venus Pluto. Gemini part of you may be just wants to be out there and party — the play time that creates ideas for the tomorrow and Capricorn Venus retrograde which is very intense in December considering its with Pluto would want you to go beyond the merriment and make some tough choices. It might feel like everything else is escape. But you see sometimes the intensity we seek in relationships or even work itself is an escape — escape from truly trying to change what needs to change in our mindset and approach, escape from trying someone or something new versus trying to stick to what we know by getting oh all so intense about the one trying to stress test an option before its even had a chance to bloom — the Capricorn side of us has a hard time trusting the new possibilities, lot of sensitivity to rejection and a lot of pride tied up due to which it almost demands everything to be final before any kind of commitment. Gemini side of us would want to find a balance to this intensity that Venus Pluto is creating — love affairs that are oh so intense, fights that are oh so manipulative, jealousy beyond bounds, emotions on steroid and Gemini would be helpful to put a lighter spin to it, reminding us to have a bit of fun in the moment while may be even find artful words, finding a good regenerative output which can bring our subconscious purification to awareness — someone or . The shift that north node in Gemini has tried to help you achieve over past two years in your mind set could be so helpful in making the new choices you are about to make in love, creativity, money and relationships especially linked to work or formal connections. At the same time I have observed with Venus retrograde in Capricorn somehow becoming more organised releases our spontaneity. Focusing on necessities of life, decluttering our life, attending to flesh helps our mind focus on the variety we are meant to let in. I wrote this after vacuuming, you get the picture.

While Venus retrograde could ask you to not get lost in choices — the many many choices you and me have created in past two years through the volatility but rather give up the attention span of goldfish thought process and pin down chose long term changes which are not just purely stimulating but also get you where you need to go in basic needs — earth matters. In earth element Venus retrograde has a lot to do with organising practical facets of life as well like worth, money, self esteem, health, especially life path — its longevity, our ambition, choices we are making in relationships and life which are either keeping us safe, secure and meeting our basic needs. In Capricorn I have normally observed there is stark focus of Venus on our career choices, places we have outlived, statures that we don’t fit in anymore, changes of authority figures that prompt need to make a change in our own position, issues on salary or value given to us by our bosses or seniors or authorities or senior clients, self worth attached to the actual work we do, question of how we value ourselves in work, how to stand for ourself in situations where in some ways our honor is questioned. Ego, pride, respect and titles are involved and questioned.

We must remember during this phase no matter now much external circumstances point to otherwise, this would be a phase which would bring to a more valuable phase of your career or external life. But with retrograde Venus it always comes through a period of not feeling of value or us questioning value of ourself or our skills. There is always an element of dissatisfaction in relationship with authority figures which comes into question. It could be an existing or new authority figure or organisational structure or in some cases its the dominant parent. But our equation with them is normally in flux at the time and this specific cycle is different from previous we had back in Dec 2013-Jan 2014 as Pluto is the dominant aspect being repeated adding a lot of intensity especially in dealing with authority figures or dealing with a dominant parent figure or an authority approval going through a lot of back and worth with some intensity and ego struggle. Pluto adds intensity but it comes with true rebirth which didn’t exist in the last cycle in Dec 2013/ Jan 2014 so if something was set loose in that period for a change, you can be assured it would go through a total rebirth in this cycle.

Venus in Capricorn and its once in 8 years’ four month journey from 5th Nov to 6th March 2022 is the process of maturity of our choices in relationships, money, creativity, love, matters of heart — what and who we love. It does take a creative hand over from Venus retrograde in Gemini which happened in May-Jun 2020 where we learned how to speak up about our desires in relationships. Though the digging up of this sort in Capricorn part of our chart hasn’t happened since Dec 2013-Jan 2014.

In our own personal capacity Venus Pluto brings intensity in personal life bringing excessive possessiveness, jealousy and control issues. Manipulation of emotions would be rampant this holiday season. Guilt inducing, jealousy evoking, power plays gestures to keep things on the edge or “interesting” are common with this aspect. Santa this year will come with a real naughty or nice list with your mother telling you everything you did wrong all year long. Ah the holiday drama!

11 and 25 Dec followed by conjunction when Venus is direct on 3rd March 2022 are key dates. Hades Venus which continues rest of this year — is where we explore our own subconscious desire through another whether it’s through crazy love or crazy hate — either would be intense. It has very little to do with attractiveness or abhorrence of another. It’s you exploring you and what you desire through another, higher the gap between what you desire and what you are choosing right now, higher the conflict.

But its all not for nothing, all this drama is cause we want more — deeper relationships, attract people who we connect at subconscious level and not just at the surface, intense intimacy and more satisfaction not just creatively but also financially from what we are creating. That’s the net aim of this cycle and our full moon conclusions completions reskilling change of mind would need to work through some relationship, financial and managerial turbulence. You would see a lot of reality of existing partnerships and bosses through these intense encounters. Its very raw. When people show you who they are … well believe them and from that place make some honest decisions. Everyone has a very different way of expressing love — its like creativity — everyone has their own signatures. In Venus in Capricorn focus on the actions versus the words being said and enjoy the material perks that come with it. This is a very no frills attached Venus cycle where its ok if a love opportunity becomes a lucrative work opportunity or where love forms through respecting someone’s work. Old fashioned becomes popular again.

Venus retrograde period is great to realise things about existing choices we have made like existing partnership, financial investment, salary, bosses, position in career but not for making new choices. Its a place to set our own heart right before we can go out there and do things. Considering its at the start of the year expect a slow start of this year unlike 2021 cause we would have both the personal planets retrograde. Inner considerations first before external changes.