I thought I'd bring this topic up for discussion as not much is ever mentioned about the retrogrades of planets other than Mercury.
Venus is in Aries at the moment and it goes retrograde every couple of years it turned retrograde on March 6th until April 17th. Like most other retrograde planets its not a good time to start off any new projects.
Venus rules creative projects, art, romance, luxury goods and sweet foods. As Venus is in Aries an impulsive sign, it may be an idea to think before you buy and try to avoid the chocolates.
Like any retrogrades its a good time to review things. I don't have any artistic projects on the go at the moment, but I do have some redecorations to finish off and a few other projects that have been on the back burner.
I do have a meeting to go to at the end of March to renegotiate terms of a contract and money will be on the agenda, an unfortunate time for this - i don't hold out much hope for any increase in prosperity at this time.
binah
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Interesting post Binah.....:)
As a Taurean with Venus as my ruling sign....shall have a ponder 😎
Hi Fleur
If you take a look at the attached link it may give you a few clues as to Venus retrograde for Taureans and Librans and explains this far more clearly than I could. The article gives the analogy of Sleeping Beauty. Another interesting point is made about this happening every 8 years - so what happened 8 years ago. (Ignore the bit about Venus in Virgo/Leo out of date info.)
http://www.astrologycom.com/sleepingbeauty.html
I think I've got a sleeping beauty syndrome (my venus is in Taurus) - I'll have to wake her up in April.
Binah
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Thanks Binah. Very interesting. Unfortunately we are in the middle of decorating our bedroom, at least I now have some idea why it's taken my husband a week and £350.00 to sort out the ceiling!!
My Venus is in Capricorn.
I do have a meeting to go to at the end of March to renegotiate terms of a contract and money will be on the agenda, an unfortunate time for this - i don't hold out much hope for any increase in prosperity at this time.
[Preparing for the flack, as this is after all on the astrology forum 😮 :]
But it depends on what you give strength to, or what you consider to be the more powerful, surely? The movement of stellar objects, or the simply illimitable, indomitable power of God-in-you, your Real Nature or Higher Self.
I'm just trying to imagine figures such as Jesus or the Buddha thinking, "Erp, not a good time to begin my teaching. Venus is in retrograde, so I'll put it off for two months". Or Buddha: "Hmm, I was going to sit under this tree and not budge until I'd achieved Enlightenment. But in this cycle, I'll fail anyway. So I'll come back and try it next year." Somehow, I don't think so. 🙂
I once knew a well-known author on the astrology related to feng shui. He told me that on certain days it was OK to travel in one direction (e.g. West), but foolish to travel in the opposite direction (e.g. East). I wondered - :p - how he got to work ... and back!?
IMHO astrological influences are there to be aware of (if we care to) and then, in that awareness, to assert dominion over them - not they over us - and to succeed all ways anyway. 😉
Power, IMHO, is always within, not without. And the former must win out utterly over the latter in the path toward self-mastery.
Edit to add: My core point is that we are a part of God (by whatever name). I know people find it hard to get their head around, but as such, we are the Being that created the Universe. We are not pawns of stellar objects, but ultimately, their Creator. Re-assert one's real nature within the Godhead, and astrology has no power - no more than it does over the One. For we are that One. We surely are not pawns to the very objects we Ourselves created? Otherwise, an alternative view is that we are not part of the All, the One, or that it's only a theoretical concept, not real or realised. IMHO it's real, here and now, if we make it so. 🙂
V