So expect in the weeks ahead to go through a review of these topics in the area (house) of your Birth Chart that she's currently loving (or trying to help you love more!).
Venus is retrograding in Gemini, so find where Gemini is in your Birth Chart. Or use this week's Scopes to discover where, what, why and how you can use this period to your advantage.
Reviews mean an inevitable trip back to past patterns:
Old relationships and their patterns may make a reappearance
Old anxieties surrounding money and earnings
Bridges burned or in need of repair between you and someone else
That's all great but why bother going back if you're not going to retrieve some useful piece of info to be used right here, right now, today?
Look at ANY issue you have with money and love/relationship/partnership as a sign you may be in the throes of a Venus Retrograde Review.
Watch the pattern. Accept the situation. Decide how you can better resolve it this time. Chances are, there simply needs to be more love and less judgment (whether with yourself with others).
It's like a second chance. Just like an apology after a hurt and the ultimate forgiveness, Venus Retrograde gives us a chance to Love Ourselves Better (thereby giving others more of a break), and to find a way to DOWNLOAD MORE VENUS onto the planet via your own life.
If Mars is the God of Warand Venus is the Goddess of Peace, you can see why this period is truly needed right now.
Where Beauty is found (Venus), there is no room or space for conflict and war (Mars).
Where are the planets in your Birth Chart right now (and which new areas are they activating? From financial shifts, to relationship developments, from career options to family and domestic matters, this Report shows you what's going on 9and when) and what you can do about it!
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Comfort zones can fast become ruts we furnish out of habit. You have a whole month now to reevaluate your "comfort" zones. A bit of furniture rearranging may help (but be aware of changing your mind on styles/purchases). Upping the beauty in your Home can only soothe you. Family relations may be good bad or ugly but Love should remain constant and unconditional. If you're not enjoying yourself, you're not on the right track so use each discomfort as an opportunity to bring more Balance, Beauty and Harmony into your daily existence instead of getting caught up in the many reasons you could have, to be 'uncomfortable'.
Insecurities always pop up when planets move through our 12th House. Venus is currently moving through yours, and she's about to go Retrograde. The bad news: you may be unconsciously looking for reasons to feel rejected, unloved and not beautiful. Your standards may be too high or you're dealing with insecurities and anxieties from past relationships. The good news: you have a chance to see your fears for what they are: just fears. Fantasies. Unreal. Love and Beauty can be found within now, so use this time to reconnect to something within you that needs no outer approval. Are you enjoying alone time? If not, find it or make it!
The dreaded point scoring system in love and relationships could be at play now. From how much others love you, to how much you're doing for others and the reciprocation you may or may not be getting. So this next month becomes about reevaluating the fairness in your unions, the compromises that are, aren't or should be taking place and also the areas you yourself are potentially being unfair: namely, expecting others to be like you and love like you. Ask yourself how much YOU are unconditionally loving and how much is selfish vanity and attention-seeking? Others are mirrors now to how you really feel about yourself.
Love never goes away or dies, but sometimes the human relationships that are channels for this divine energy, change form and move through transitions - some of them heavy, hard, stressful or sad. Money never goes away or dies either - it changes hands and sometimes gets stuck and needs freeing up. You'd do well in the next month to let go of judging yourself or others based on where the money/love is, what it's doing and who should or shouldn't have it or use it. Your concept of Love is going through a radical overhaul and along with it, your attachment to material security. You have the power to go through any darkness with the light of love if you can remember to turn it on and keep the flame burning brightly.
With Venus retrograde in your sign for the next month, you're likely to be seeing all the flaws in your physical self - this doesn't look right in the mirror, your hairstyle isn't flattering enough, your clothes are boring or you're just too damn heavy/skinny/lethargic/lazy (fill in the blank). Self Love is your mission and self loathing is sure to pop up in various forms along the way - judging yourself, putting yourself down, not valuing who you really are and calling yourself names. Quit it! It's time to firstly appreciate yourself regardless of where you think you should be, and secondly to try on new styles/colors for the sheer pleasure of changing your self-image.
Part of you is aching to love and be loved or to find more love and appreciation and enjoyment in your day to day life. The other part can't help but focus on the many areas of your life where you feel stifled, unfulfilled, unloved or simply not having as much fun as you'd like. The mission is simple - review your current boredom and use it as an opportunity to find new ways to play and new methods of self-expression. Sometimes you just need to shout from the rooftops, throw a coat of paint on the walls or some other act of pure pleasure to reconnect with the vital, alive youthful child still dwelling within you, otherwise you run the risk of becoming just another disgruntled adult.
Schedules can be fun or deadly boring. Getting up early for a vacation is decidedly different to getting up early to beat rush hour traffic. Either can be fun or boring depending on where your head is at. Can you inject love into whatever job or chore you're doing? Do what you love or love what you do are your only two options for the next month. Decorate the office. Dress up more at work. Make everything a labor of love and before long, you'll find the rich rewards of Love finding you in many weird and wonderful ways. Love needs no fixing but you may need to readjust your version from less criticism/judgement to more unconditional care. Health-wise, could you be using sweet rich food as a substitute for life's real sweetness?
Everything you do and say is noticed by everyone else these days in two areas: Love & Money. Especially for the next month when Venus retrogrades at the top of your chart and you become an example of the best and worst of this phase. The worst? Finding reasons to complain about how you're not being loved or appreciated enough. Complaining about your cashflow. Judging others on how well they follow the rules of love that you feel should be at play. The best? Spotting the moments when old emotional triggers go off and you're replaying the more wounded parts of your history and refusing to rehash them again. Appreciating what you have. Review your goals, ambitions and decide if you can enjoy each step along the way or if your destination has become just too important.
No doubt you'll be remembering the friends you used to have way back when. The better times when you had more (or better) buddies around and you were more plugged into society and your social circles. Perhaps you have plenty of love and friends surrounding you right now but Venus Retrograde suggests a weeding out process - do you enjoy the same company anymore? Are you goals still feeling good or just another reason to feel you're "not there yet"? Use this month to love everyone who comes your way - from friend to stranger, ally to annoyance. Could it be possible that others are sent your way because they lack the brand of love that you possess in abundance....?
Love needs space to grow so it's all about getting out of routine and either hitting the road, the books or anything else that keeps you learning and growing because you simply can't stay here forever. Whether you are working on loving yourself better or trying to love another, it's all the same theme now - find a philosophy that lets love continue to unfold in its own time, without any limits, structures or rules.More than anything you hunger to open your wings and fly. So why not do just that - plan an adventure, visit spiritual places (or those of simple beauty) and open your heart even wider. Where you may think you're overgiving, it may be time to refill from Cosmic Central yourself.
Practical Advice for you practical souls: beware of buying things you think you'll love and then having to return them because something's just not quite right. Money is a weird thing right now - Venus retrograde says enjoy enjoyment but don't go out of your way to seek it externally in material or physical gratification. Chances are high you'll end up not satisfied or 'full'. Look to how much you're ruled by material security or satiation. Is Beauty free? Look to Nature for that answer. Old ways of making money may return again or you're looking at new ways to bring in income. From lack to overspending, find a still place inside where you're untouched and unphased by love, money and the quest for satisfaction. That's where you'll feel full.
Sometimes you can be snippy, impatient with slower folk and even pushy and aggressive. Who me? Yes you! But yes, we do love that on days when we're too cowardly or passive to take action. However, with Venus retrograding in your Communication House you can already see the learning curve you're about to go on. Are you using nice words? kind words? Honest is fine but without the finesse of Venus, no one will hear you (or want to listen). Expect chats about past or present love, love lost and even conversations and messages about the whole 'money' thing. Just be aware of when and WHY you're going for a trip down Memory Lane and if you can use that knowledge to use your mind and mouth better this time around.
