*woof*

Venus conjunct Uranus at 21+ degrees of Aries

Pluto stations retrograde in Capricorn during the earliest hours of Monday morning setting a transformational tone for our week. The rest of the planets concur.

Venus in Aries charges her way through some tough-love terrain. Her movements sandwich the full moon in Scorpio, which is not an uneventful occurrence. Both are connector planets. Both Venus and the moon are currently in signs that aren’t the easiest for them to operate within. Venus in Aries tends to burn bridges rather than build them. The moon in Scorpio can get lost in the deep reservoirs of emotional energy it creates. Both are in Mars-ruled signs. Mars separates. Mars severs. Mars defends. But these two need to connect. In these signs they tend to teach us a lot about how we tend to separate ourselves from what we most long to connect to. How we try to connect to those that are sure to separate from us. And how we try to connect to people, places and things that aren’t the best for our hearts. Mars, having just stationed retrograde, asks us to look within for the answer. We must know how we tend to interfere with our own happiness before we can magic that happiness into our lives.

Venus squares Pluto the day before the full moon in Scorpio. Venus speaks to what we value and how we might go about attracting it. The planet of love and relationships also speaks to how we feel about things. Since Venus’s main job is to facilitate connection between hearts, she also tends to tenderize us when involved in bigger astrological transits. Venus square Pluto brings us into contact with the drives, motives and urges that can get us into trouble. Obsessions, fixations and a need to demolish in order to transform can become this combination’s driving force. It’s a perfect illustration of what happens when we dig too deeply. Some problems can’t be fixed immediately. Some issues don’t need our helping hand. Some things need to be given a moment. Venus in the bold, daring, don’t-give-a-damn sign of Aries has a hard time being sensitive. When squaring Pluto, Venus in Aries might need to be tempered with a cooling, sobering and simple touch. Don’t wind yourself up too tightly.

Venus conjoined Uranus in Aries is an exciting, invigorating, but ultimately not a built-to-last, combination. Uranus breaks things up so that we can start from scratch. Uranus is unexpected, which can be fun and extremely helpful for chance meetings  but also can be completely destabilizing.

In the middle of these Venus ventures, we have the full moon in Scorpio. An intense trip into the emotional reservoirs that tend to take us under. It’s extremely important, given the astrological temperament of the moment (save the stabilizing force of the sun in Taurus), that we check our drives, our anger and our aggression and that we refuse to partake in any emotional grandstanding.