Venus is the brilliant bright star after sundown in the West, and has been at her brightest. As May proceeds, Venus sinks lower each night until she is lost in the Sun's glare. On May 13 Venus will be stationary retrograde at 21 degrees of Gemini and 50 minutes. The first reminder from Venus is to watch your money, it is changing, flickering, and is in mild chaos. All our Values are Venus determined. Are you one who values freedom? or safety? Money? or Beauty? Art? or Oil? They all demand a price, and many of these valuables keep their price when others fail.
June marks a huge reckoning with the United States and coincidentally, its leader, whose importance is his solar degree at 22 Gemini. The United States has the planet Mars at 21 Gemini. We have gone to war with two of our Gemini presidents, JFK, and Bush I. Will we go to war again with a president born in Gemini, significantly interacting with Mars? Is Venus a war planet? Not to the Greeks, who invented our version of western astrology that we use today, but Venus was the War planet of the Aztecs. Most visible and brightest object in the sky, after the sun and moon, Venus' complicated cycles were utilized by ancient observers all over the world.
Gemini rules trade, commerce, communication, community, tribes, relatives, siblings, cousins, and the networks of work and home. Our cyber world is vulnerable during this Venus cycle. Check your connectors your chargers, and everything that keeps your electronics clean and working. Venus will retrograde from May 13 to June 25. Chains of supply could face delays, accidents, odd breakdowns, added to the already vast networks of supply and demand dealing with the interruptions of the pandemic. This Venus cycle will slow us down yet again, yes, again. This is excellent for contemplation, meditation, living slowly and with deep focus. Many relationships are saved and/or damaged under these cycles of Venus. The reverse motion is a different point of view of familiar and close objects. Insights not possible at normal Venus reveal themselves now. We will be forced to look closely at what we value, and how we would change, if faced with change.
The USA has Gemini rising. Our identity has forever been based on our quickness, our mobility, our youthful, optimistic, restless curiosity and love of communication. We are seeing ourselves now from outside in, and inside out. What are we really saying, hearing? If communication breaks, who will you listen to, and who will have the truth or even its imitations? Gemini is dualistic, multiple, and unconcerned with process and order. An already damaged nation will be assessing a new series of damages and revelations for the next two months.
