ASTROLOGICAL ARTICLES
Question: I have a real love/hate relationship with this aspect because I lay the blame at its feet for some of the highest highs and also the lowest lows of my life. In relationships, I’m constantly in a spiral of idealization, usually mutual. And invariably either I or the other party come crashing down from the clouds in a thud. Love on a Pedestal I always tell myself that next time, I will try to keep both feet on the...
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While some of us see only eyeballs when looking into a partner’s eyes, Venus-Neptune sees their soulmate. The world drops away and two souls blend into one. A transformation occurs – the perfect dress, the handsome prince, the fairy godmother, but their magical chariot, turns back into a pumpkin, and the original sublime feeling wanes. While those with Venus in aspect to Neptune are prone to falling under love spells, not all of their love affairs end in disillusionment, but...
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Question: Venus-Pluto wants something or someone so very badly, so intensely, so extremely and so completely that all rational thought can fly north for the winter. It doesn’t matter whether what you want is free to come to you or whether it belongs to someone else—you can’t help craving it? Yes, often with Venus-Pluto you can have feelings for someone that you shouldn’t. Human emotions in the Pluto realm are not always “clean” and logical. There is also often a...
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Is Venus-Jupiter in aspect too restless in love to settle down? Are these people cheaters in relationships? It comes from the fact that Venus and Jupiter are the most unfaithful gods in Greek mythology. Jupiter was often unfaithful, and many of the myths concerning Jupiter pertain to his extramarital adventures with goddesses and mortal women. In pursuing these women Zeus took on many shapes and forms. Aphrodite is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, beauty, pleasure, passion, and procreation....
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Those with Venus-Uranus aspects have rock and roll behavior in their love lives and are a little more sensation-seeking than the average individual. Uranus is the planet associated with thrills, excitement, suddenness, and out of the blue activity. So when this activity influences Venus, the planet of all things connected to love and erotism, well, it keeps things very interesting, and alive. Uranus is what I call being scared in a good way, and so Venus-Uranus needs the pounding heartbeat,...
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You may be feeling that the New Year is the time to quit whining about your bad karma in relationships. To know, that you are not “fated” to be alone, you are not “fated to have to settle for a series of failed relationships. To understand that your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Now, some people start this self-love with gazing in...
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Question: As someone with a Venus/Pluto aspect in my Natal Chart, the combination has always intrigued me. In my case, Venus is conjunct Pluto. As one might presume, my interpersonal relationships are very much infused with themes of possession, obsession, devotion, eroticism, and crises. The only relationships (platonic or romantic) that attract me are those of depth and promise. I am extremely private about the goings on within my relationships, and dually solicitous of those I love, or more accurately,...
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Question: I read an article recently describing Venus/Pluto women as having the potential to be a “black widow”; basically meaning they use men up and/or lead them to their demise. I have the Venus/Pluto opposition, and at first I took issue with this. I have NEVER intentionally hurt someone, but when I thought about it, I realized that there have been several guys I’ve been involved with who completely changed or even seemingly destroyed as a result of our relationship,...
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Liz Greene: Neptune, unlike Venus, tends towards chronic unhappiness, for nothing in this world, no matter how beautiful, can compensate for the lost waters of Paradise. Two characteristics of Venus-Neptune are “divine discontent” in matters of love, and interference with the capacity for personal happiness. If the lover is not perfect one feels betrayed: if the environment is not perfect, one becomes depressed; if society is not perfect, one despairs; if the body is not perfect, one longs to shrink...
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This astrological pairing has been associated with the relationship between Cathy and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, they are obsessively and practically engulfed with each other. It is requited love, a mutual obsession, and it’s not just one-way. With this contact on your birth map, a nonstop lover can be something that you either love or absolutely hate. Fernandal, a French actor, has Venus conjunct Pluto and he is so obsessively attentive to his wife that his mother-in-law refers to him as...
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