Venus Direct: What did you learn?

Venus has gone direct after her 43 day retrograde journey. Take a look back at the last 6 weeks: what has life been wanting to tell you re how much you love and value yourself, how much you are loved and valued, who you love and value, (and why), and what you love and value.

If the retro period is a time when we realise the answers to these questions more clearly, the post-retro period is a time to ground, embody and take action around what we have learned.

Where do you need to step up, to match what your Soul truly wants, needs and deserves? 

How did you all go with the Venus retro period and how are you feeling now?

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(c) Dana Mrkich 2015

 

Lilith, Venus, Full Moon and more!

Lilith by Eisblume


Lots of planets and points are grouped together in the skies right now, so it's one of those special days when a lot of people at once will be going through their own unique healing/aha/breakthrough/shifting moments. When two or more planets are in the same degree in the sky, it intensifies the energy of that degree, and of those planets. You 'feel' the influence of them in a greater way than usual. This is especially true when the relevant degree is significant for you personally. That is, if you have a certain planet or point on any of the below degrees in your natal chart, you are more likely to be going through some significant inner and/or outer shifts right now.

6-8 degrees Pisces: Full Moon + Neptune. Neptune in Pisces is in his element here until 2026, inspiring surges of creativity, divine knowledge and imagination that might feel to come from other worlds. The Full Moon will have activated that in some of you by way of triggering emotions that made you feel strongly about what you are here to create or do, or you may have had an outburst related to the fact you aren't creating/doing what your Soul is calling you toward. Neptune/Pisces can also have a cloudy affect on us, making us very indecisive...do I want to do this or that? So many options in the field of unlimitless potential that is opened up by this influence - choose one at a time, and find a way to ground/anchor it.
 
This combo can also tempt a person to take the seemingly quicker/easier way into creativity and enlightenment ie drugs, which is not quicker or easier at all, rather a bypass of necessary terrain that you will have to go over eventually without external substances. This Full Moon can also trigger old depression energy or confusion, in which case do something to get out of 'your head' - get outside, go for a walk in the sunshine, lie on the grass, look at the beach, cook something, plant something, do something for someone else. Pisces thrives in Service.

14-15 degrees Leo - Oooh Mars and Venus are cosying up together, just as Venus is getting ready to go direct again after her 40 days of inward reflection/retrograde period. So, if you have been feeling a bit distant from a loved one, you might feel yourself (or them) coming out of a cave. If you have been feeling like hibernating and hiding from the world, you may want to be seen now, and be feeling new bursts of energy inspiring you to take action and get out there. Mars is all about get up and go, while Venus has been busy polishing our sense of self-value and self-worth, which can now be reflected more clearly and authentically via our self-image, and via what and who we attract romantically, emotionally and financially. In regal Leo, you might be feeling more and more like the King or Queen of your Kingdom or Queendom - as you should!

2-3 degrees Libra - What a trio: Lilith, the North Node and Mercury are having a round table meeting! Lilith and North Node are obviously not planets, but they are still significant points in our chart, two of my faves. The North Node likes to 'put a compass on it' and re-direct your course to the destination your Soul really wants to go in. Lilith does things her way, and bares all without apology. She has no problem with your shadow and too bad if you do because she will out anything you have tried to keep in (for your own good of course!) especially related to your feminine power and sexuality. She is like the dark-haired sister to I Dream of Jeannie's blonde Barbara Eden, or the blonde Sam in Bewitched. Lilith has always been cast as the bad girl, but she's just the one who doesn't take orders from anyone and won't squeeze herself into a mold just to please you. So you may be feeling a bit rebellious, and ready to step into more of your rebel angel Self, doing things a bit differently to how you have always done them but didn't for fear of judgement, criticism, upsetting the apple cart etc. Mercury is helping out with his communication skills, essentially handing out trumpets and encouraging you to say whatever you feel you want to say!

astro.com provides free natal charts if you want to check out where these points are located on your chart.

(c) Dana Mrkich 2015

Venus Direct, Farewell Snake and Welcome Horse!

Video Version with Commentary is here.

  

As Venus prepares to go direct and we say goodbye to the Year of the Snake, today is a great day to ask: What has the past couple of months (Venus) or past year (Snake) been trying to help me shed/let go of/see more clearly/step into without my old fears and beliefs?

You may have found yourself going over and over old ground again and again over this time period as Life has called you to strip yourself of anything that is not in alignment with the true, real, naked, transparent, authentic YOU.

When the same situation/pattern keeps repeating or the same name/person from the past keeps re-appearing it is Life's way of asking: Have you received the message of this Story yet? It doesn't always mean there is more digging and clearing to be done. Old patterns and beliefs or past relationships almost always surface as we make a quantum leap decision and inner commitment to enter a New Story. Their re-appearance is Life asking you one final time...are you done yet with this Story? Your response can be as easy as: I say Yes to a New Story by saying No to this Old Story.

Other times a repeating scenario means some unfinished business or unhealed energy within still needs to be looked at. You will know this is the case if it keeps recurring no matter what you say or do. I have long been a major advocate of journaling to get to the root of what any recurring issue is trying to tell you, although artwork and crayon drawing are just as powerful and super effective for getting you out of your Head. The latter tools are something I’ve been personally using more and more in conjunction with journaling.*  

You have a direct line to the content of your energy fields. You can ask your Self a question and expect to receive some form of insight as an answer. Answers don’t necessarily come in the neat package your Mind would prefer.  They come via analogies, images, feelings, and conversations with your inner aspects and archetypes who have so much to tell you about your Self. Your main job is to take the time to ask, to sit quietly and receive what comes, and to trust it without thinking “I am making this up.”

Sometimes we need help seeing our inner world clearly, and that’s when it is beneficial to have a session with some sort of Holistic Facilitator – not so they do the work for you, but they can hand you a torch so that you can do your inner and outer work in a more empowered way and find your own Light.

Which brings us to this New Year – the Year of using this Light we have found within us, with the help of the go-getter, strong, courageous, forward-moving without inner or outer clutter in the way – the Year of the Horse.   

Image by Zoran Covic

The Snake has stripped us as bare as we allowed, and helped us shed as many layers of our old skins as we could take. The Horse likes a light load. She likes to run free, without restriction. She could just as easily be a He of course, but as the Feminine Power energy roars to life within us, regardless of our gender, I think we’re going to get a taste this year of just what Grounded Divine Feminine Power really looks and feels like. Giddy up!

*For a very powerful journey through your subconscious using journaling and artwork/crayon drawing prompts, I highly recommend this 5 week online course A Return to Self.

(c) Dana Mrkich 2014

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Venus Direct: Time to Receive (or time to stop not receiving!)

As Venus turned direct this week she wooshed her tail around like a big Mama Dragon, giving us all that final kick up the pants on the topic of Receiving. Any issues you still have with Receiving what you are worth, receiving what you deserve and receiving what you truly need may have been highlighted this week by a big in your face confrontation with the opposite: Lack thinking, 'not enough' type thoughts, feeling pressured to give more energy/time/money than you feel you have, feeling there's a big hole where there should be a basket full of good stuff. 

Rather than sit in the hole feeling gloomy, confront it. Ask yourself: why would I create this hole, this lack, this feeling of 'not enough'? Are my thoughts of lack true or do I need to climb aboard the gratitude wagon for all I have? Does my reality tell me I haven't allowed myself to receive, and if so, what false beliefs do I need to ditch and what truth am I being called to uncover about who I really am? Have I settled for less when really I am here to experience more?

(c) Dana Mrkich 2012 
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