Category Archives: Venus retrograde in Gemini

sew sowing balance

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 Brunella Ricci

I thought I would explain my absence of late.
Neptuner stationing Rx activating my Mars has brought movie nights.  I usually drop out and tune in when Moon enters Sag (sign on my 12th), but Neptune Rx has demanded action flicks.  Loved John Carter, btw. plenty of sci-fi scruff and sword to keep me satisfied.  Here’s the rest of the pressure cooker astro for me: Saturn on natal Mercury MC, Mars on natal Pluto Uranus Sun, Neptune Rx square natal Mars and opp Leo stuff, Uranus on Saturn Rx chart ruler with Pluto Rx in square moving to exact.  Pluto Rx re-applying to ASC.  The outers are kickin my ass this year !

Dwelling in the dark of late.  My Jupiter Juice has run dry.  Have been browsing the doom and gloom – with glee, I might add.  There are some pretty cool cemeteries in London, I gather.  Misery loves company type reading, plenty of Floyd – esp. Pompeii on the right in Neptunes if you want to wallow in the Saytrnpit. Feeling a bit buried with Jupiter at 29 Toro, feeling and thinking Cancer Mercury all over – the memories of men.  (Jupiter trines Virgo 9 Sun, Saturn on Merc) I am plenty fed up with the ‘men are making me mental merry-go-round’, let me tell you – and Merc just only got here (to my Cancer 7th).  Not a fan of touchy feely pass – agg Cancer Mercury at the mo. not at all.  Here’s hoping Jupes into Gemini on Monday greases my brain gears for fun, cause I am way t.f. ovah all this earth.  Way t.f ovah all this centaur concentration.
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What’s up for you…?

Anyone with late degrees 20+ Libra are getting the Saturn Rx drill down.  Late Capricorn and Cancer are working the square, Aries the opposition. Hang tough…
Saturn stations direct June 25th at 22 degrees Libra, hallelujah !

Neptune going retro is dissolving everything in early Pisces and late Aquarius. Early Sagittarius and late Scorpio / early Gemini late Taurus is dissolving by square; early Virgo late Leo feel the opposition.
Neptune stations direct November 11th at just over 0 degrees Pisces. 
I will be rejoicing this I am quite sure, Neptune Rx opposes the stuff Neptune squares in my natal.
May as well dig in for the Pluto Uranus square – it will be a long haul for a few years.

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The daily buzz  ~>

Moon leaves the square with Jupiter, enters Pisces at 2: 22pm CST, USA void for about an hour prior, conjunct Neptune Rx, then conjuncts Chiron all while in trine to Mercury.
Call your Mother or a galpal – do mooney type stuff, are you earth Moon – do earth then, if you are air, do air moon.  I am earth and will be mowing the grass, gardening, walking and talking to the earth, etc..   Gemini Sun and Venus Rx trine Saturn Rx in Libra.  Thoughts dwell on positive solutions to fixing Venus matters. Sun quintiles Uranus.  Our brains get some much needed positive genius- type radical infusions. 

Gemini Venus, Pisces Neptune, Libra Saturn, Capricorn Pluto are all retrograde.  All in renovation mode.

Re – working, re – thinking, re – envisioning, re – inventing  love, money, the way we think about what we value –  how we process everything we think and how we  ultimately build everything on the material earth plane is on the drafting table – soOo get your erasers out.

Thoughts become deeds.
How aware of this I am, being Saturnian Rx in Aries 3rd already then having Saturn Rx up my Merc MC craw.  Mars in persnickity guilt-ridden Virgo for like, evah, apparently.
Staying positive has taken a ton of effort, and obviously I am not quite there yet, lol.
Fair to say I am working on it – but let’s face it, life isn’t always sunshine and rainbows for all of us.  My next post will be positively weird and awesomely groovy, promise !

Uranus, the higher octave of Mercury knows what to do, it is supercharged with Mars at the mo.  Hot to trot and burn some fuel.  What house is Aries plowing through in your natal now ?
Mercury in Cancer feels .sheesh. feels AND thinks the tension and someone / thing is up your nostril from Capricorn house, forcing a compromise.
Your solution…?… Pluto Rx is trine Mars in Virgo, so re-assess, re-evaluate.
Then re-apply force where needed.

Feel free to vent your crap transits here.
 Fair game.
*grin*  xo

Peace out~
gneissmoonastrology.net

Field of Dreams

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Titania’s Fortune Cards

Playing around with the idea of 1 card reading.  Distilled, concise.
Card on left represents Gemini energies surrounding us, card on right is the message from spirit at the bottom of the deck.  The crux of the sitch.  Intention: to direct us all towards the most benevolent outcome.

Rider – Good news on the way, stagnant situations stirred up, a lucky card.
Fox – neutral card; a call for being enigmatic, sly and cunning

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Stone in carved wooden hand is Azurite.
Azurite is a copper carbonate mineral, monoclinic, often found in botryoidal forms.  It carries the frequency of the Ajna chakra (third eye).  Azurite increases intuition, insight, psychic awareness and dream visions.  It assists with the assimilation and retention of new information, deriving the truth behind hidden motives of ego – based actions.  Increases objectivity and integration of mental and spiritual energies
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Now for the astro…

Gemini Venus Rx trine Saturn Rx in (Venus -ruled) Libra both trine Neptune in Pisces….shhhh…it’s a secret….keep it close to the vest, whatever you are thinking, doing or thinking of doing.  Let it percolate, simmer and stew awhile.

This Venus retrograde harkens back to the year 2004 echoes of that time will resurface during this Venus retrograde period.  

It occurs to me ~ Mercury and Saturn (eardrum, bones) rule hearing.
Venus Rx in (Mercury ruled) Gem, trine Saturn Rx in (Mercury ruled) Virgo trine Neptune.

Echoes, or reverb (Mercury + Neptune) of Venusian sounds from 2004. 

Good thing we have solid earth coming up to bat – foggy, Neptunian woo woo is all over the playing field.  Anytime now I expect Shoeless Joe will be popping out of the cornfield of dreams, lol.  What up Joe ?  Up for some Pitch & catch ?

Chiron opposite Mars in Virgo…healing from the past – soOo Field of Dreams.

I used to live in Iowa, meditated with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogis, saw the American Gothic house, ate Rosanne Barr’s loose meat burgers, saw the big cornfield in the sky.  It’s near the Ertl factory where my Star Trek Enterprise model ship came from, and if you head west on I-80 you’ll see the Big Boy sculptures – the whole family – on the north side of the road somewhere around Des Moines.  Iowans are so practical, they all  seem earth sign to me.  Excessively normal.  Grounded.  No muss, no fuss.  Speaking of which….

Sweet sensate Taurus Moon is coming up to form a grand trine with Mars in Virgo and Pluto Rx in Capricorn at 9 degrees.  Can you feel the earth energy growing ?
I do.

Primal dark moon energy full of quiet thoughts and rest.

Prepare for the eclipse moon.
Feed the senses moon.
Blessed, bliss out zen Toro moon.
A soft place to fall…

blessed be~
   xo
gneissmoonastrology.com

savor sweet survivalists

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Check out the cool Venus Retrograde bag I found yesterday ! 
Groovy yeah…?   It spoke to me.
 
Tumbling out of bag are blue fluorite, fossilized sand dollar, rhodocrosite.
Blue fluorite is a mental stimulator
Fossilized 5 pt. sand dollar is an emotional / physical manifestor of long-term change   
Rhodocrosite is an emotional healer

Three card reading using The Enchanted Map and Fallen Angel Oracle decks.
Intention is clarity on Venus Rx for all my readers, highest good of all.
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 Left card is lessons to be learned in Venus Rx.
Stuck in the Mud – slow down and savor… observe

Right card how the lessons will be implemented when Venus goes direct in late June.
Dry Desert – be open to change, conserve energy, adapt to survive.  Dig deep.

Middle card represents the angelic energies surrounding us during Venus retrograde.
Zepar – Earth, Venus: beware the shape-shifting glamorous seduction.
Caution: make sure the walk matches the talk.
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Venus Retrograde in Gemini means internal review of thoughts – regarding love, money, peace of mind, worth and values – involving self and others.
Strive for balanced thinking and processing during this time.

namaste~
gneissmoonastrology.net

dexterity dance

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Venus stations retrograde (extensive post here)
24 degrees of Gemini on Tuesday May 15, 9:33am CST,USA

Venus stations direct
7 degrees of Gemini on Wednesday June 27 10:07am CST, USA

Occultation of Venus (extensive post here)
15 degrees of Gemini June 5, 2012 8:15pm CST, USA

Venus stations retrograde Tuesday bringing matters of the heart, creative and monetary pursuits into focus internally.  Retrogrades are passive, inward directed energy and while in Gemini : social aspirations, creative thinking, harmonious communications will be churning in our heads. 

We will likely see lots of people talking to themselves trying to figure out what directions to take to increase peace of mind and hone the mental operations as well as the messages given and received.

Venus is Cardinal (Libra) and fixed (Taurus); Gemini mutable, so Venus will likely take the lead to smooth things over while Gemini house does the dexterity dance.  Gemini is observant, so pay attention to what is NOT being said.

This is not a time to be taking Venus by the reins and spurring her into the fray, instead it is a time of reconsideration and diplomacy regarding visionary ideas involving compromise with others (Sagittarius opposite), as well as confronting personal obstacles involving work and service for both yourself and others on a cosmic scale.

That’s the quickie global  rundown….
Where Venus Rx will be manifesting in your chart  is near 23 degrees in the houses of Gemini, (conjunction or fusion) Sagittarius by opposition (compromise with others) and the houses of Virgo and Pisces by square (personal obstacles).

Late degree Leos and Aries are up for opportunities (sextile) via Venus Rx – check near 23 degrees and planets less than as the Rx cycle gets underway, planets here will need to actively creatively express  themselves in order to reap the benefits of the sextile.

Sun Jupiter conjunction offers the same sextile opportunities to late degree Cancers and Pisces – near 23-24 degrees.
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Here’s the brief rundown of houses:

1, 5, 9 are the personal houses
1 – physical body, style of competition 5 – love and expression 9 – spirit in human experience

2, 6, 10 are the material houses
2 – worldly possessions 6 – health, routine 10 – social status, prestige

3, 7, 11 are the social houses
3 – siblings 7 – partner of the heart 11 – friends

4, 8, 12 are the houses of emotions & endings
4 – womb and the tomb 8 – death & rebirth 12 – cosmic connections
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There are great energies in play, grand earth trine involving Mercury in Taurus, Mars in Virgo and Pluto in Capricorn.  Hands on material matters, achievement and hard work will be paying off for the earthy peeps – check near 8-10 degrees for any planets in earth they are getting recognition and the climb is easier.

Venus in Gemini, Saturn Rx in Libra (both air) and Neptune in Pisces (water) are also in a grand trine giving thoughts regarding relationships and dealings with partners a more inward spiritual seeking bent as Neptune is direct (3 degrees) while Venus prepares to station Rx at 23 degrees (Saturn Rx at 24).

I’ll be back with a homespun Venus Rx tarot spread / reading soon…

Sorry so late with this one…I worked my transit. Mars square Mars frustration out by digging up 4 waist high trash barrels full of garden weeds in prep for planting food. Plus, trying to sleep early (midnight is early for me) and I found Doom (Karl Urban) in my basement while I was doing laundry, and nothing like an action adventure flick to help me relax…

nite all, or good morning depending on where you are….

Since I mentioned it, A BIG THANK YOU to all my world-wide readers who faithfully show up to read, comment or otherwise support my astro endeavor.
Thank you kindly !
 I have a mega Sagittarian vibe, and love having readers from countries I have never had the pleasure of seeing or traveling to !  So please allow me to express my gratitude and welcome you ~ all my friends ~ from all parts of the globe !

…may blessings and happiness be with you, each and every one…

namaste~
gneissmoonastrology.net

funhouse of mirrors

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Chunli style by Artgerm

So here’s the deal, I have this  thing  about polarities.  I have always felt it, and life seems to toss odd situations at me right and left so I can learn the yin yang of life, the duality and the separateness that lies within the cosmic sea of All One.

My astro that supports this :
Mercury (dual in gender) at MC in Libra (balance between opposites)
Uranus (polarities) elevated, conjunct Sun
Chart ruler slow ass Saturn Rx in 3rd (Gemini rules) in gung ho to go Aries
Venus conjunct Jupiter in Look At Me Leo square (hides behind) giant Neptuner

You get the drift … an astrologer once told me I had an ‘easy’ chart.  Number one, that pissed me off, basically negated my entire life struggle in 5 words or less.
Number two, she didn’t look very closely in my opinion.
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I have one visible opposition, but many by nature, simply by placement of being.

Do you see them in your chart ?
The invisible difficulties.

Gemini is Mercury ruled.
Mercury rules sight.
Mercury is the trickster.
Dual.  Polarities.
Possibilities.

Mercury (along with Uranus) rules the vibrations that govern sight.
The optic lens reverses the image for our brain. (right side up, upside down)

I love the rad illustration at the top ~
look at her Gemini hands (left and right)
and all the air flowing around her.

Gemini is air or intellect.
Fast, flirty and fun.
Flighty and fickle.
Bores easily, likes to keep the energy moving around.
The idea swap meet.
Dexterity.
Juggling.
Switch hitting.

Getting the polarites here ?

Gemini rules breath.
Lungs.
(right and left)
Venus in Gemini needs some breathing exercises for vocalists, click !

Mercury rules the brain ~ are you left or right brain ?
(Mars rules left hemisphere , Mercury right hemisphere)

Venus is in Gemini at the moment.
Venus rules  Love.  Art.  Money.

Gemini is versatile, clever, curious and nervous (rules the nervous system).

My Venus is on fire in water, fixed.
Venus cruising through Gemini is a whole other ballgame.
Mutable air is the intellectual presto – change-o. flip-flop, kinda weird, but breezy and bubbly. I like.

How is your Venus reacting..?
What is her natural habitat in your chart ?
How does your Venus think  in Gemini ?

I am right brained by nature.
Mercury elevated in Venus ruled Libra.
Venus expanded by Jupiter in creative Leo.
Neptune most highly aspected.  Artistic.
I see pictures, learn by seeing.
(Plus Sun Virgo stellium on 9th Sag house I SEE the big picture, but Virgo ANALYZES details – polarities again, see ?)

So here at GMA, this time I switch hit & Venus gets the Virgo shake-down science style.
Practical.  Logical.  What’s love got to do with it ?

Venus in Gemini is an opportunity to hop the fence and live the other side awhile.
Ya know, try it out, bust outta the box a bit.

In my case do story problems or something rational.
Yea right 4 people get off 6 people get on 5 miles later and how far till Albuquerque  always wanted to say ‘why’d ya get off the damn bus to begin with / take a fuqin taxi already !  Love numerology – hate math.  ta da !  polarites !

You get where I am going with this polarities business right…?
Venus is going to flip – flop !

Venus stations retrograde
24 degrees of Gemini on Tuesday May 15, 9:33am CST,USA

Venus stations direct
7 degrees of Gemini on Wednesday June 27 10:07am CST, USA

Retrograde motion means Venusian energies get shifted inward.

We will reflect (again polarities !) revise, and revision how we create love art money.
How we attract (Venus attracts) these things and  what is  our law of attraction ?

Do we really even want what we think we want ?

Appearances can be deceiving.
Mercury ruled Gemini house is the fun house of mirrors  with Venus in residence.

Go to your Taurus house, Libra house, Gemini house.
This will tell you where your thoughts will be dwelling during Venus retrograde.
…more on this later…

Thought precedes action.
Going visual again…
Jedi hand wave, “you want to go home and re-think your life.”

When Venus retrogrades – brainstorm !
either
::: try drawing on the right side of the brain, use color.
or
::: strategize, list by numbers , pros / cons, be rational.

Blessed be ~
The Divenusian.
 xo
gneissmoonastrology.net