Needful things...
a novel by Steven King, which came to my mind a lot lately, while studying the current Astrology...
The novel plays in a small town in which a new “second hand store” is opened. People find all kinds of things they have already wished or dreamed of for a long time and they can get “the wish” cheaply with the additional promise of “owing a favor”…. Most other people, do not see any value in the things people got as the things look old, broken, stained etc., yet when they enter the shop they too find something “valuable” to them…. Almost the whole town, made a promise to the shop owner without knowing what they will be asked for as a price….
This is very matching with the Astrology - current and upcoming!
What we perceive as beautiful, artistic, and valuable is a Venus theme and of course, it does include non-material things… “heart desires” can at times go against our personal “core values or self”….
Before I go deeper into Venus themes - also related to an astronomical article I’ve read - I would like to introduce you to two outer planets and their current aspect:
Pluto - currently in heliocentric view in early sidereal Capricorn - Pluto themes are transformation, death and rebirth, power and manipulation also on an atomic level… read more about Pluto on my website….
Orcus - currently in heliocentric view at around 20 degrees sidereal Leo - Orcus themes are oath, promises, life path and similar… more about Orcus on my website
Both, Pluto and Orcus are planets of “higher or deeper octaves” (as all planets beyond Neptune - a different “realm”), often not directly visible/perceived, as they might be obscured etc. - we’re with them also talking about “universal laws” as like in “cause and effect”, resonance etc. …. Furthermore, those planets do often have a “cutting through” feel, may strike us as hard and difficult….
Since August this year, the Two are in a 135° angle and will remain in this angular ecliptical distance until ca. middle/end of March 2025.
The 135°aspect in astrology is called a “sesquiquadrate” and is about “action” or some kind of manifestation and its distribution, radiation etc. or “marketing”… At times we market ourselves just like birds would do their “mating dance” etc. or we “market” a service, object or product, a piece of art but ALWAYS our “state of vibration”.
“Presentation” in this sense, does include the theme of “need”, desire, wanting something or seeing a benefit, practicality or anything alike within something (we can also call it a purpose). We want to produce a “resonance”, presenting ourselves or our “goal” or what we want to “fulfill”….
Important - what someone “needs” is not necessarily what one wants or wishes for and that’s where things can become “tricky”…
As Pluto talks about power and the misuse of it (within and without), but also deep hidden or “secret” themes there might be some “inner need or goal” that needs to be concentrated onto…. Pluto has shifted from the constellation Sagittarius into Capricorn, which means, there’s no longer finding truth and creating ideals the task, but to actually focus on what we have identified them to be…
Yet, because we’re always “vibrating our current energy out”, we’re constantly producing that “resonance”…. therefore, what we get might not have been what we wanted but what we “needed” in order to get the hidden message / truth, that needs to be translated into a “lesson learned”, into power….
When we think of Orcus as the promises, the oaths and paths we took and take, we can see how these Two, especially with this aspect now, work wonderfully and beneficially for us….
Easier said than done, I know… because it’s sometimes difficult to convert a “lesson learned” or “Aha moment” from the theoretical understanding into practicality or action…. - it’s the thought and action, that will “ground” the power…
As in the above story - the shop owner was a “Pied Piper” and it was up to every single person individually, if they “buy or promise” into the offer or not….
Yet at times, we’re our own “Pied Piper” - especially when we’re trapped in fear based behaviors, programs, attachments, desires etc., we’re then prey to ourselves (excuses we make, being stagnant, unwilling to change etc.) as well as easy prey for people who can sense that…
Imagine you would have the task to rob someone’s bag/purse at a train station late at night… you would look for someone who looks weak, insecure, afraid etc. in order to avoid a fight… therefore, when we want to safely walk through the train station late at night, it’s the own vibration, radiation that will protect us….
Every cause has an effect and every effect has a cause …. very simple truth and can in both directions be a very important tool…. like for diagnostic, for direction etc. …
These are things, that have not started just yesterday - humanity has been developing such strategies of “relief patterns” in a bigger scale for quite some time….
Yet, now we’re in a state of “development”, within which we have the ability, power and strength to face them and to resolve them…
It’s not about blame, punishment nor anything alike but of understanding the patterns and principles at work and to start to try to apply them in a beneficial way….
“Inner fire”, passion and devotion, following a “calling”, commitment - well - that’s something we will be challenged with - “chart visible” the next 2 weeks, and invisible for a bit longer (as in “keep it in mind and heart)….
Asteroid Vesta - who does “include” those above mentioned key words, yet, is also a “liberated, sovereign energy” is in a position 90 degrees away before her conjunction with Orcus, therefore also in a 135° angle from Pluto…. in heliocentric view, she stands at around 19 degrees sidereal Taurus, over the shield of Orion…
We have two ways open - we can either devote ourselves in the “relief patterns” and in this sense commit to the “artificial fears and their artificial relief” or we devote ourselves to the “resolution”, the transformation that leads to change…
If pain, failure and all these emotions are “pushed away”, artificially blocked by whatever, we won’t learn the lesson and therefore we may repeat them….
“Real” worries and fears are great powers and not “bad” - imagine the stories we hear from people who could lift cars to rescue a child or loved one, which without the combination of the love and the fear, they would not have been able to do so…. When we experience sudden worries, fears, doubts etc., then these can be great tools, warning systems etc. …
As that Pluto and Orcus aspect will be active for quite some more months, the “triangle” now formed by Vesta will be dissolving, when she moves on but this 90 degree angle to Orcus and therefore 135 degrees angle with Pluto can be occupied by various faster moving planets until middle of March 2025 and give us specific “topics” within which the aspects will correlate…. Mercury, Venus and Earth, will form such angles more than once in this period…
Saying this - we have the connection to….
Venus…
Later this month of October 2023 Venus will conjoin Vesta and that “triangle” - therefore, her themes of love, beauty, art and values (and virtues maybe) will be in this challenge and “radiation”…
This conjunction will take place over the shield of Orion just within the band of the galactic equator….
Venus will "challenge” the “status quo” and as a result, maybe be “transformed” in her value system or better said in ours….
I think with this Venus - Vesta conjunction and that Pluto - Orcus angle we have an opportunity to actually create, that which we wish for, if we keep the “principles” or “laws” in mind… we can gain the clarity needed, we can “see through or behind” all that “clutter” we may have collected (individually and collectively)…
Venus has always been perceived as of the “matters of the heart” - yet, which “octave” of our feelings, emotions, perception of beauty etc.
Venus will very shortly after her conjunction with Vesta be at her own Southnode, meaning a challenge of “discernment and later seeding for her next cycle”… It’s an important point within her orbit and any conjunction of planets that take place at specific orbital points of either of the planet is of most significance.
Yet, our personality or trinity does not only contain the heart - so it might be of not big of a surprise that only a few days after, Mercury and Mars will conjoin near both their Southnodes in the constellation Libra the scales or the claws of the Scorpion… (Southnodes are the points of the ecliptic where a planet crosses the ecliptic from north to south)
Venus is “connected” to the heart, and it’s said, that this means of “magnetic energy”.
Magnetic fields are like “bubbles” that can have a “protective” energy to it - what comes in, what goes out…
I find this very matching with the position of her Southnode over the Orion’s shield and at the “entering” side of the galactic equator band….
I did read this little article on Space .com about Venus. (Article linked here)
For quite a while, some phenomena has been observed in the atmosphere of Venus and described as “lightning bolts”… whether or not these were really “lightning bolts” or not was discussed for quite some time and now a 2021 study shows some data, that does shed some light onto the lightning….
There are “whistler waves” (on Earth) - which are some kind of electromagnetic waves that on Earth are in direct relationship with lightning discharges. On Earth these whistler waves go from Earth up and out…
New data show, that on Venus they go the other way round - from outside down into direction of Venus’ surface….
A study in 2023 is talking about the idea, that the “lightning” observed on Venus, might actually be meteors that are burning up in the atmosphere…
Another theory says, that - I copy in - “the waves stem from disturbances in the planet's magnetic fields. Or, more specifically, the idea is that magnetic field lines surrounding Venus may break apart then snap back together, in turn producing bursts of energy exhibited as none other than whistler waves.”
Venus’ magnetosphere is “different”
It seems that Venus doesn’t produce her magnetic field the same way as Earth does. It’s not a result from core but rather an interaction or “absorption” from the solar magnetics brought by solar winds, that does “feed” the field…. interestingly her magnetosphere is also shaped like the heliosphere (the bubble around the whole solar system)…
These “outside in” parts of Venus, do have a very interesting “aspect” to the astrological meaning of Venus - the heart is filled from “the Sun - core self and expression” - so, it’s the “living from Self and the own expression, that makes us not only “beautiful” but the “heart singing” …
I leave it up to you, to further philosophize on the “current state of science” and its possible correlations….
If you would like to read on, about the specifics of the Pluto - Orcus aspect and this aspects history and relations as well as the “conclusions” (titled “the story”)…. you will need to become a paid subscriber…. - that paying thing failed for the moment, so please read on…..
Pluto and Orcus sesquiquadrate…. correlations to their last time being in this aspect.
Pluto and Orcus together form a kind of “over or under tone” - they don’t work as directly as the personal planets like Mercury, Venus or Mars…. this principle is the same with any planet beyond Neptune…. “other realms” in this sense…
We’re just in the beginning of this aspect - the exact degrees, minutes and seconds will be reached on 16th/17th of April 2024…
The last time, the Two were in this aspect was in October 1860….