The degree of discord that arises within one’s life during Venus retrograde signals the distance one is from one’s core values and higher creative aspirations. The sudden imbalance can tilt one towards the opposing pole, creating tremendous upheavals in relationships and in all one’s personal experiences. All the turmoil may be a magnification of a single issue and can be blown out of proportion. Ideally, it is a time to contemplate what one’s deepest, most personal, creative needs are and from what wellspring those needs originate. It is a time to explore one’s own needs for love and nourishment and to examine one’s capacity to recieive both of those life sustaining forces.
The mysterious ‘ideal’ (so strongly associated with Venus and the sign Libra) can interrupt and tear apart what one has found to be loving and nurturing – flaws and faults in others can be come enhanced, and one might see all the dangers of intimacy, rather than the supportive aspects of it. The call to war after the inferior conjunction (when Venus meets the Sun at the same degree while moving ‘backward’ occurring during this retrograde cycle on 5-6 June at 14 – 15 degrees of Gemini) might bring forth the dead and one may be recalled to times past when rejections and emotional pain conspired to erect an emotional fortress which for current circumstances might be quite inappropriate. Ultimately, it will depend on the degree of responsibility that one assumes for one’s own lovingness and capacity for commitment that will correct the situation, allowing for necessary changes.
Taken from Erin Sullivan’s book Retrograde Planets – Traversing the Inner Landscape. p. 96
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