Venus Enters Leo
Venus Enters Leo
25th PDT 9:27 AM / 26th AEST 2:27 AM
Venus enters Leo a little late to the party, as the sun has already moved on into finicky Virgo. We might be in back-to-school mode in the Northern Hemisphere or conducting spring cleaning in the Southern Hemisphere. Routines and regimens are on the brain. Yet with Venus now in Leo, we’re not going to forsake fun for protocol, at least not entirely. This is a time of grand romantic gestures, themed parties, cinematic date nights and generous gift-giving. Love is a game, and we want others to play that game with us. Sometimes this means that our better judgment is hijacked by whimsy. Theatrics can keep the courtship phase of a relationship on track. Honeymoon phases fare equally well. However, more substance is required to solidify serious unions now. And we might just get that, in a backhanded way, because of a crisis.
As Venus enters Leo, it opposes Pluto, trines Saturn and Neptune and sextiles Uranus. Together, these unified aspects form a shape that resembles a trapezoid or a basket, if we’re getting fancy. This aspect pattern is called a Cradle, and the opposition between Venus and Pluto is its linchpin. On its own, the Venus-Pluto opposition (the only hard aspect within the configuration) forecasts romantic challenges, feuds among friends and obsessive attractions. The drama of Venus in Leo meets the cooly (and sometimes cruelly) restrained passion of Pluto in Aquarius. It’s fireworks for some and pyrotechnics that catch the lawn on fire for others. Yet as part of the cradle, Venus and Pluto hold the tension that creates a container for the other outer planets to have a more intelligible dialogue. The grand, paradigm-shifting designs of Saturn, Neptune and Uranus, which can get abstracted or lost in the shuffle of mundane goings-on, become evident.
What we get: a sense of inner harmony that can’t be derailed by conflict, no matter how incendiary. We can use this energy to navigate a relational crisis and even to exploit it for healing or self-improvement. Knowing what is and what is not worth the fight, or the investment, or even the great make-up sex, will keep us from caving to unfair power dynamics or giving people the benefit of the doubt when we know better. Instead, we hold our cards and let others show us theirs, finding composure without closing off, developing intimacy without self-diminishment, and bonding, *truly bonding*, without getting burned.
Written by Nyssa Grazda
