On Sunday, both Venus and Mars will ingress into Aquarius. Then they meet on MONDAY.
After that meeting, Venus picks up her pace, starts pulling ahead of Mars.
(maybe next week is when peace talks/reconciliations can happen in Ukraine or if we get past this with no progress, maybe it will be after Venus gets past Uranus on the 22nd - we will likely have some kind of mid-month crisis before peace if that is the case - or when she meets Saturn at the end of March. There are multiple opportunities in March, some better than others. I am going to look at the charts this weekend for Russia/Ukraine, but benevolent Venus catching up with and then getting ahead of warrior Mars on Monday/Tuesday SHOULD HELP).
Venus has been in Capricorn, due to her long retrograde, since NOVEMBER, so we will surely personally feel this shift from earth into air. For some situations, things can lighten. A little more breathing room comes in. A higher perspective is available. Cappy is intense and goal-oriented and Aqua can toss some of this off.
For people with fixed planets/points, things can start to feel MORE intense/tighten up/the pressure building as Venus and Mars move into the sign that puts them on their direct path to their clashes with Uranus - ruler of Aquarius - and meetings with Saturn - ancient ruler of Aquarius.
Venus and Mars (like Mercury has done and is doing) pull the Saturn/Uranus square back into play through them. The old vs the new.
The squares with Uranus comes first - Venus on the 19th and Mars on the 22nd. Change can't be avoided, but impulsivity maybe should be.
Let's look at Venus.
As she moves through Aquarius she will make contact with not only any planets/points we have in Aquarius (here is where Saturn comes in at the end of March), but also the planets/points we have in Leo (by opposition), in Scorpio and Taurus (by square - here is where Uranus in Taurus comes in at the middle of March and here is where the Nodes of Fate come in around the time of Saturn) and other planets, too, through degree (by sextile, etc).
This is where knowing our natal chart can come in handy.
As a collective influence, for all of us, Venus moves out of Capricorn (the rules) and into Aquarius (the space we let go of the rules).
Beautiful Venus drops her briefcase full of "shoulds". She takes her hair out of its tightly constructed bun and shakes her head. She kicks off her too-tight, office-ready pumps. She wears whatever she wants to wear now. She can do whatever she wants to do now. There is no one to impress in this new space. There is no one to answer to (except there kind of is, and here is where astrology is helpful because we know she will meet up with daddy Saturn at the end of the month).
Now subconsciously we all feel this - a kind of relief as Venus disentangles us a bit from what is required of us to be 'acceptable'. Maybe we start to notice (attract) things we would have otherwise missed. The strange and unusual will catch our eye now. We will be attracted to things/situations/solutions/people that are different. Ruled by unpredictable Uranus, Aquarius is the space that is hard to forecast. When we step outside the rules (Uranus is outside Saturn's boundaries) our outcomes become less predictable, too.
And, this isn't just an average year with Venus leaving Capricorn after a few WEEKS for Aquarius. This year Venus has been in Capricorn for MONTHS.
She has been through Pluto (death/rebirth) THREE times. She brought us Omicron to take out Delta (omicron announced as Venus reached 22 degrees Cappy "time runs out" for the first time), she has calmed Mars down (he sneaked past her on the 24th as he, Mars himself, crossed "time runs out" and Russia moved into Ukraine).
I would suspect she, as 'we', is tired, not always a bad thing - a world-weariness born of both success and loss. She has been humbled, but has also proved herself. I doubt she is taking any sh*t.
Between now and until she gets past that tense/frustrating square to Uranus mid-month (change/the future) there will be this building PRESSURE TO CHANGE. The things that cannot stay as they were - Venus in Cappy has just died and been reborn three times people! - just CANNOT stay as they were.
And you will know if you are still carrying this 'dead' thing/situation.
You will feel the weight of its lifelessness.
This doesn't mean we have to make some impulsive break (sometimes it does), but something has to change. In Aquarius we can step back a little bit, SEE the situation more clearly. Apply logic/intelligence. With Mars, by Venus's side, it will be easier to take SMART/NEW ACTION. Also, to burn a bridge we might not want to burn, so be careful. But not so careful that dead thing/situation gets dragged into our meeting with Saturn at the end of March because by then things are getting shored up, better to make the change BEFORE that cement gets poured. You can see where I am going with this.
The square to Uranus mid-month is challenging.
Venus/Uranus detaches us from what we once thought was valuable/beautiful/what we once loved.
This might not sound like a good thing, but HERE is a good thing - Venus in Aquarius is answering to Uranus and Uranus is in Taurus answering to Venus. This mutual reception means both planets have access to their own energetic signature.
The change isn't as upsetting as a typical Venus/Uranus might be. Doesn't need to land us on our ass. The change - which Uranus MUST EVOKE in us - brings Venus back to HERSELF/Taurus where she is VERY STRONG. The change brings new value - new resources/money/relationships/love. The change brings new beauty. Now, in Taurus which is fixed earth, the good stuff grows over time, but we can KNOW the change is bringing us good stuff over time.
Sometimes we are standing at a portal with many available timelines and sometimes we have painted ourselves into a corner (or maybe fate is very insistent we get on with something) with only one way forward - and sometimes this way 'forward', is yes, side-ways or backwards. This one in Aqua is most assuredly forward/new, though.
Life knows what it's doing.
Anyway, I am going to get to the Russia/Putin/Ukraine charts this weekend, but wanted to toss this up.
Fixed people and placements - Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius placements - are back in the sauce. This isn't a bad thing. It's just different.
When the world needs change desperately the fixed folks are called into action because here is where change can create SEISMIC shifts (cardinal people are always starting which is a kind of change and mutable people are always changing, which is, well ...change). It's the fixed energies, the people and places and situations that hold everything together that are standing at that timeline that's been painted into a corner.
For example, hubs, an Aquarius fellow, started a new job this week. He had a business for 20 years and since the pandemic has now had a longish gap, so hasn't had a job in a very long time. It's been hard. The new job and giving up the life he made without it. Not bad, he says, but hard. These are the kinds of changes I would expect to see. Hard, but not bad. Themed around our Venusian and Mars situations and bringing gifts that are more visible as time goes on. We'll talk more about Mars in the weekly.
March is a BIG month. April is BIGGER.
Back with the charts for Russia/Putin/Ukraine this weekend and then the week ahead.
xo all
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