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Always an important fact to consider within the year, the retrograde of this very fast planet has a very strong symbolism and I therefore encourage you to read my article “Dealing with the retrograde of Venus in your daily life” which will highlight some general points on how to survive any ensuing crisis… ?
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The Venusian retrograde occurs in mid-May 2020, on the 13th of the month, at 21° of Gemini, and while the planet has persisted in the medium term on a frank square with Neptune since late April…
In other words, these Neptunian influences are clearly going to mark this period of Venusian retrograde enormously, and for a large chunk of this cycle.
Several interpretations of this kind of aspect are possible :
- At the forefront in the backdrop, we can sense a confrontation between the Mercurian mental Air (Gemini) and the Neptunian receptive Water (Pisces), this can directly confront the intellect with the emotions, schematically one can think or say something but feel something else deep down…
- Venus directly represents our system of valuation, and Neptune symbolizes precisely the deep ideals, even in the metaphysical sense, so this can lead these elements to confrontation : either by creating for example an impossible attachment with someone, or someone who has to leave soon, or by having difficulties in matching current feelings with initial points “fantasized”…
Suffices to say that with this retrograde, there is an important notion of “confrontation with reality” that can take place, and which can -in the long run- bring the feelings down to more real and concrete basis, less subject to “idealizations” and to “what one would like to happen” and more in relation to what will be lived “in reality”.
That said, it’s clearly not an obvious evolutionary work to operate, from late April to even almost mid-June it can be very confusing (Neptunian energies being particularly heightened), and somehow “we won’t know where we are hurting” (identify what we really want), with perhaps also a feeling of latent spleen, notions of disillusion, with a significant emotional upheaval, receptivity will be exacerbated and this is also what will eventually lead to a global restructuring of the value system !
From late April to late May, a large part of these dualities can remain purely “internal” and hardly be externalized, which can be quite unusual for our Gemini friends, who may obviously will need a phase of internalization during this period, seeing as they are the most directly impacted…
Especially since we notice that on May 15, the 2 social planets Jupiter and Saturn start retrograde motion a few hours apart, thereby confirming a very important phase of internalization (it will be very important on the whole, particularly on the social front, to have settled as many things as possible before mid-May of this year, otherwise we may have to wait until the end of the year to resolve certain matters).
In late May and early June, energies clearly become more tense and gravitate towards a direct logic of confrontation, we can particularly notice this with the forming in the sky of a square between Venus and Mars, exactly in the first week of June and which can clearly be objectified in terms of crises in couples for example, if there are any problems in the links between partners, this period may translate into confrontations, revelations, renunciations, frustrations.
The complication is that Mars will be in contact with Neptune until mid-June, and these are planets that are very much antagonistic in terms of their intrinsic natural energies, we are thus in presence of a Fire / Water duality, in which the Martian energies are clearly at risk of being quite “overwhelmed” over the course of period, which this time is likely to translate into confusion in action.
It’s however necessary to be careful during this period of Venus retrograde that a “victim / nurse-saviour” relational pattern does not emerge, because this is a mix of several energies of sacrifice, devotion, abnegation, which may lead to wanting to help, to “heal” the other one, in order to prove our attachment to him / her, and this may ultimately lead to phagocytizing of emotional energies, and establishing of asymmetrical relationships that are equally complex to manage over time…
In some cases in mid-June this Mars will also be able to activate forces of “forgiveness” for example, we notice that that Venus will have recovered in Gemini 1st decan the sextile with the Chiron transit (notion of harmonization linked to “injury”, perhaps a request for “healing”), and it’s necessary to be more vigilant during this phase in order not to get “abused”, of your kindness, or naivety, gullibility, because in any case, what is at stake here could also have later repercussions, particularly with the Mars retrograde in september.
The Mutable signs are likely to be particularly sensitized globally throughout this period, we also notice that from early June, the axis of the lunar nodes pass towards them (Sagittarius / Gemini), which may underline a certain karmic shift taking place in the background, and where this retrogradation may ask a form of finality.
Venus will resume direct motion on June 25, but that said the sky remains complicated in terms of externalization, Mercury has just gone retrograde in its turn, with Jupiter and Saturn also retrograde, clearly the forces of socialization are not “optimal” to manage.
It will take until late July and early August for Venus to emerge more distincly from its retrograde loop, but this is likely to be accompanied by some degree of violence, we can notably see the Mercury Cancer / Mars Aries square taking shape in the sky and it consitutes a sign of nervousness, tension and confrontation forces, however, in this case, the “rose tinted glasses” that Neptune had imposed will no longer be as effective and this will enable us to turn a new leaf in our relations, with more consciousness, realism and firmness in our decision…