Cosmic Weather Forecast — February 11, 2010
Yesterday, the Messenger God Mercury moved out of the sign of Capricorn and into the sign of Aquarius, and today we have another planet that changes signs – the Goddess of Love Venus. Venus moves out of Aquarius and into the sign of her exaltations Pisces. Pisces is an interesting sign because of its collective representation and because of this it has developed a rather bad press in many pop astrology books. The best way to envision the sign is comparing it to gumbo. Gumbo is a mixture of a bunch of different products thrown together to create a soup, and in many ways Pisces is a collective soup which is the storehouse of all the experiences of humanity since the beginning of time. Tough order for one sign to burden isn’t it? No wonder it is the sign associated with psychological disorders, addictions, alcoholism, and a whole host of other traumas.
When the Goddess of Love gets involved with the sign of Pisces she seems to exhibit her more sensitive nature. After all, she is the Goddess that rules eroticism and the pleasures of the body, which is one of the tricky addictions that can easily erupt when Venus is in this sign. However, she also reflects our need to experience something magical and transcendent out of our emotional experiences. Venus in Pisces is not just happy with garden variety relationships of boy meets girl, she expects explosive emotional sacrificial passion the likes that only soap characters usually achieve. Sounds lovely doesn’t it? Venus moving into Pisces a few days before Valentine’s Day makes it all the more intense.
There is a dark side to this transit – as there is to every transit. Often when Venus is in Pisces our expectations of our relationships are so high and so otherworldly that we experience a sense of frustration and sorrow when we realize our loved ones are ordinary mortal individuals. There is a profound disappointment that occurs when this happens, and unfortunately this is a common experience for deeply romantic types. Why? Romantic types are not necessarily looking for a relationship with a human; they are seeking something mystical and something divine which can never be fulfilled by someone who exists within the flesh. In many ways, their desire for relationships is with someone who does not exist.
So how can we use this energy constructively? As Venus moves through Pisces, I think we can take up the challenge and be empathetic with those around us, and give to them on very deep emotional levels. However, we must be very aware of their humanness and examine our own expectations upon relationships. When we turn inward rather than project outwards, we realize something very profound. The God or Goddess that we are seeking does not exist outside of us it exists on the inside. We become our own magic, and as a result we then see the true magic within others.
