Venus Enters Gemini

Venus has made its final pass over Uranus in Taurus for our lifetime. Did you suffer any romantic upsets? Have a financial epiphany? Discover that the safe thing you assumed you desired is different from what your body or mind truly craves?

We’re given mere hours to process these breakthroughs before Venus makes its ingress into Gemini, but that might be for the best. This is no time to get distracted by what has been given up or gained, as planets in Taurus are prone to do, plodding and re-plodding over a memory, digging themselves a hole as they go. This is a time for *experience*. For experimentation, trying new things, delighting in variety and diversity, and even making messes, if that’s your thing. Venus in Gemini is the sensory sampler of the zodiac. It loves life and finds splendor in transience. Under its influence, we don’t need perfection; we only need our curiosity to be captured and our attention to be held.

Gemini is Mercury-ruled. It’s an intellectual sign. But more than that, it’s a sign of socializing and sharing. So when Venus shows up here, we aim to reach out and touch others, in the mental or physical sense. Venus in Gemini knows that relationships, like ideas, are ever evolving, so there is less of a compulsion to define the terms of love or friendship or to claim ownership of people than to simply appreciate another’s individual quirks. What a delight that we get to connect with so many people in one lifespan! To trade stories and learn from each other! To make a person laugh! To cross paths and share a meaningful moment, even if, afterwards, we never see them again! This is the beauty of the next three and a half weeks, and it should be lived, not overthought.