A Deeper Look at Venus in Aquarius

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology Happy Friday everybody. Today we're going to take a look at Venus in the sign of Aquarius Venus is transiting through the sign of Aquarius right now and making a square to Uranus over the weekend. Of course, in modern astrology, Aquarius is a sign that is often associated with Uranus through a modern rulership scheme, although I don't use that rulership scheme in my practice. I think that taking a deeper look at Venus and Aquarius can be useful when considering the characteristics of Venus square Uranus because, in some ways, they do have some themes, but there are some themes that they share in common. In order to do that, we're going to rewind and take a look at an episode I did several years ago; I think it was back in like 2018 or 19 on Venus Aquarius through a planets and profiles series that I did, which I've been trying to make everybody a little bit more aware of. So you can go back and familiarize yourself with those episodes; we took Venus, Mercury, and Mars through all 12 signs.

Once I finish my Tao Te Ching for astrologers series, which we have maybe another month or so left of, I'm going to be re-launching that series and doing planets in profile for the moon through all 12 signs to start with. And then, depending on how far we get with that, we might end up launching into, say, Jupiter or something like that. So I hope that you will enjoy this rewind episode.

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Happy Friday, Everybody; this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology, and you're listening to another episode of planets in profile. In this particular episode, we're gonna be taking a look at Venus in the sign of Aquarius. So this is following a theme that I've been working on in 2019 and 2018 last year, which is to follow the movements of Venus and Mars through the 12 signs. And then, gradually, we'll work our way into looking at other planets through the 12 signs. Each of these is just a brief profile. Usually, it's a way of helping you understand both how to read or interpret the planet and a birth chart, as well as giving you some of the psychological characteristics of the planet in the sign and so forth.

So in today's episode, we're going to be again looking at Venus in the sign of Aquarius. Now Venus in Aquarius is not essentially dignified or debilitated. What do we mean by that? In all of the 12 signs of the Zodiac, planets are thought to have different kinds of strengths or weaknesses based on the sign that they're in, whether it's their home sign or it's a sign that they struggle in.

For example, every planet struggles in the sign that is opposite to its own home place. For example, the moon struggles in Capricorn, and the sun struggles and Aquarius, opposite signs of Cancer and Leo. And there's a kind of science behind all of this. Similarly, there are places where planets are exalted and places where planets are said to be in their fall. This is also there's the intricate rationale behind these things. And very interesting, and maybe in a future video series, we'll do just a bunch of talks on dignity. But when a planet is not in any major dignity, any major strength, or it's not, it's not debilitated either, then it's in the kind of neutral position. It's reliant upon the host of whatever sign it's in. Just like if I was in your house, I'd be reliant upon you; if it weren't my own home, you would be my host. I'd be sort of dependent upon you. If you were in a bad mood, if you were sick, it might be harder for me to, like, get a good meal or to have a good conversation with you or something like that. Right. So now I'm just inviting myself into all your homes.

So Venus in Aquarius not essentially dignified or debilitated. Venus is thus hosted by Saturn whenever she's traveling through Aquarius. So you could you can basically anytime that you're reading Venus in Aquarius in a birth chart to get more information about topics like love, friendship, beauty, grace, women, and sometimes sisters, as well as things like sensuality and art and friendship. I think I've already said that. You will look at the house position of Venus like Venus is in Aquarius, but what house might give you some more information? Then look at Saturn Where is Saturn, and does Venus have any aspectual connection with Saturn.

If Venus is in Aquarius in a trine with Saturn, it gives you different kinds of Venus. That Venus is in Aquarius and opposed to Saturn, which might be a little more difficult. So these kinds of things matter. We can't, of course, give some total breakdown of how to analyze Venus. But just so that you get started, know that when a planet is not in its own sign, you have to look at a toast. The position of Saturn in the chart will tell you a lot about the health and nature of Venus; if Venus is in Saturn's home, that's always the starting point for Venus in Aquarius. Not only that, but when a planet is not in its own home sign it will express itself in terms of the planet whose home it is in. And so Venus in Aquarius acts saturnine even though she's still Venus, on a certain level, she's still the goddess, still interested in beauty and women in friendship and harmony and all this kind of stuff. Don't forget the shadows of Venus, which sometimes are envy, covetousness, lust, and greed, but she will Venus in Aquarius will be herself, but she'll be filtering or expressing herself through the lens of Saturn. So that's the way that you kind of analyze this at the outset.

We also have to know some secondary factors about the sign of Aquarius, for example, Aquarius is a masculine sign, a solid sign, and an Air sign, and it's the domicile of Saturn again. What does it mean that it's a masculine solid and an air sign? This is very important. So this comes during the middle of winter. And so it has that kind of wintry saturnine feeling. But winter was thought to be a kind of wet time of year, which makes sense if you live in a wintry place that's not, you know, the tundra. Wintry places like Maryland, where I live, for example, and the kind of winter in the region of the world where astrology came about. Winter is kind of a wet time. So archetypally, the winter season and in the Zodiac is sort of associated with a certain kind of wetness.

And we're starting to see that moisture coming about even more in the sign of Aquarius because Capricorn is a bit more cold and dry. The previous Saturn-ruled sign in the winter series. So Aquarius comes next. And Aquarius is again going to be airier and lighter and is going to be more socially stimulating. Air signs start to lift things up and out and circulate them. So you're thinking of a more social, more movable, a more dispersive, and kind of outwardly expressive saturnine quality in Aquarius. So Saturn is not just one Saturn.

It's important sometimes we think of Saturn; we just think of cold, dry, rigid, harsh, severe, and limiting. But actually, Saturn is also related to the sign of Aquarius, which is much more social, much more; it's less dry; it's becoming more moist air is typically air is thought of as warm and moist. In the winter, you're getting a bit more of the moisture coming through, and Aquarius, of course, is the water pourer. And we're talking in many ways about the sign that was coming right on; it was looking forward towards spring.

You know, once you get into this Aquarian time of year, in many ways, you're anticipating you're starting to move out of the darkness of winter and closer and closer towards spring. So in ancient times water pourer, the mythology of the water pourer is complex, and I've covered in a previous video the meaning of the SunSun and Aquarius; one of the meanings of the water pour was about the coming floods of the Nile or the coming floods that would bring spring back again. And so there's this is a Saturn-ruled sign, but it's more movable, it's more social, and it's lighter than Capricorn; it's a good way of thinking about it. However, even though it's lighter and sort of more social, it's also more mental Air signs tend to be a little bit more communicative, intellectual thought and idea based, and so forth. And so, at any rate, I almost went off on a tangent that would have taken a long time, so I'll just pause that.

And let's just say that Aquarius is thus not only placed where Venus becomes saturnine, but it's a special kind of Saturn; it's a little bit more, it's more social, it's more airy, it's lighter, and it's more expressive masculine energy is more Uh, from the center moving outward, so it's centrifugal, it moves from the center outward. And so it's an expressive place for Saturn, which is interesting because a lot of times we think of Saturn we think of, a lot of times we typically think of Saturn, we're thinking of a Saturn and Capricorn type of energy, it's a little bit more inert and grounded and stuff like that. But Saturn is a diverse planet and has a range of different expressions.

So, at any rate, there's not a one-to-one correlation between planets, by the way, and like elements or modalities, and it's sometimes we get that confused; it actually hinders us an understanding the planet. So more on that some other time. One of the ways that you can see Saturn expressing itself in Aquarius is through, again, the seasonal symbolism. And we talked a lot when I talked about Venus and Capricorn; I talked about walls and barriers and what's outside the barrier versus what's inside. And in a kind of pagan, earthy sense, right? But the same kind of saturnine emphasis on boundaries and barriers, and what's inside of them or outside of them, is also very apparent in the sign of Aquarius.

So let me see if I can explain this briefly. In Aquarius, you're looking at a fixed time of the year; what fixed means comes during the middle of a season. And it's the most stable expression of seasonal energy within that season. So the middle of winter. However, the young part of the year also really matters.

For example, Aquarius is in the middle of winter, but it's aspiring toward the light, it's moving upward, the year, the ecliptic, and the path of the SunSun is lifting upward toward the north, and the days are getting longer. So you have fixed winter, which is, in a sense, deep begin entrenched, but it's gradually moving toward the light. So similarly, in Aquarius, you have a time of year that is related to entrenched material structures, right? In a sense, the dogmas of the world are those things that are fundamental and solid that are fixed, but you have the movement gradually toward a brighter future. And so very typical for Aquarians of any kind, but we'll talk about Venus and Aquarius in a second occur very typical for Aquarius is the interest in both fixed or entrenched idealism or fixed or intense structures as well as idealism. I'll explain this when we look at some of the people who have Venus in Aquarius, but you can think, for example, of someone who is, I'll give you an example of someone with a bunch of Aquarius energy, you know, be like, you know, Oprah Winfrey, she's one of the people on our list with Venus in Aquarius. Here you have someone whose entire life trajectory in their professional destiny has been defined by looking at the status quo, right? They are entrenched in the structures that are and trying to both sort of work within them. I mean, you kind of have to worship them in order to become a popular, you know, mega-millionaire, billionaire, whatever she is. But also, there's this desire to move beyond the status quo to be an innovator. And this is very typical for Aquarians. But it's coming from Saturn. Saturn is both the Golden Age looking backward like them to face Janus, the golden age that looks backward as well as the tendency to look forward toward a better time.

For example, the Make America Great Again slogan is so Saturn, right? Because you're looking back at a golden age, it was great. It was ideal. It was the perfect thing. You're looking at the fixed structure that is crumbling, as spring is coming. And as new life is coming, or you're looking at the fixed structure, and you're looking at it as dark, oh, what's happened to America? It's become so ungreat, you know, and that's the fixedness of the yen. It's either what used to be that was so good that's now crumbling, or what is that's the dark thing that is and the light thing that's coming. But either way, Saturn is drawing the boundary between the past and the future very strongly in the sign because you're, you're again, you're looking at the middle of winter where the Yin or materiality is really fixed. And that either represents something that you're holding on to, right?

Ideally, even though light and change is coming, or it represents some terrible thing that is some darkness that is some ignorance that is, and the desire to move beyond it as the light is coming, that kind of duality is like built into Aquarius, and that's a Saturnine reality in the classical language. So when Venus, goddess of love, harmony, beauty, friendship, etc., is in that sign, the reason I chose the picture for Burning Man right is because you have that same duality built into Burning Man you have I don't like the man burn the man as they said there was a movie when I was a kid named empire called Empire records.

And one of the classic sayings that my for I had a friend dear friend of mine and we would like to walk around, and you know, we would always be like walking around town being like Damn the man because that was a line from that movie that really stuck with us. This is the same idea, right? Burn the man, the structures of society, the dark and trenched plutocracy; you know what I mean? And that's a saturnine Aquarian reality.

The thing is that it's somehow necessary to burn the man and to walk through the rainbow gate, you know that the glorious artwork, the futuristic programming that what you know the ideal on the horizon, the utopia in the distance that's both Saturn and the past. Remember, at Burning Man, there are two things that also tend to be celebrated indigenous or archaic past as well as future bright global techno shaman future. Right? And so it's the disgust with the status quo. That's a saturnine reality even though Burning Man might seem like Neptune, or we all might ascribe Uranus to it or all these other things, but really, in the classical language, it is the reason that we would say it's an Aquarian kind of thing is that and I believe I could be wrong about this, but I believe Burning Man might have gotten started when Neptune was in Aquarius, but I don't, someone check that and let me know on my YouTube feed.

But at any rate, this is what it is, and I don't; it needs to be something more. It needs to be something better. But the two need each other. Do you see them saying that there is no Burning Man without the man? And that's a duality that we have to remember so that we don't, because otherwise, what happens is the new thing becomes the next tyranny. And I've already seen this, like, in my short lifetime of watching Burning Man stuff. I've been invited to Burning Man by people so many times. I'm always like, No, thank you. I'm just so much way too. I'm way too claustrophobic, and I don't like big groups of people. So I'm like, no thanks. But look it in even my lifetime of watching, Burning Man.

Every year now. I've watched it become more and more and more materialistic. And I've watched people writing people that I know that were big enthusiasts of Burning Man say, oh, it's really not what it used to be. It's so commercial now. Blah, blah, blah. See, that's what happens. That's an Aquarian sort of saturnine dynamic. Che Guevara is sexy and interesting. And then he's posting, and then he's a black light poster and a T-shirt that a billion people have, and you know what I mean?

So with Aquarius, the future is always an issue, as is the past. And this has to do with the thickness of winter, the thickness of winter representing the solidness of material forms that are currently on their way out as the lightest coming. So and we're either railing against that, protecting against that; I don't want the old thing to go like you'll find a lot of really dogmatic I like rigid Aquarian people; in fact, Ebenezer Scrooge in Christmas Carol was an Aquarius. But he becomes a futurist. He remembers in the beginning, and they're asking Ebenezer Scrooge about, you know, do you have any money to give to the poor?

And he says, aren't there enough prisons? Aren't there enough this aren't there enough? She's not charitable at all; he wants to hold on to the way things are; you find a lot of really conservative people are Aquarians. But on the other hand, you've seen a lot of very, in a lot of times, they're there. Interestingly, they're still interested. They're still progressive, though. So a lot of Aquarians are concerned, like really conservative, but their mood of conservative ism is how can I get passed back to the ideal past because things really aren't what they used to be, or conservative, but it could always be better in terms of getting back to the past. But on the other hand, you have the opposite. It's everything in the past is bad in the future, right?

So that that dichotomy, again, is just a really big part of Aquarius. And so Venus in Aquarius will attract social dynamics that illustrate this lover that illustrate. Sometimes there's a dichotomy between being alone and being with people being a maverick, being an individualist and being with a group, sometimes you'll see a dichotomy between a love of things that are progressive and a love of things that are classical, that sort of like a sci-fi, futuristic bar playing, you know, Bach or something. Do you know what I mean?

So it's a quirky blend of ancient and new and future and past. As part of the aesthetic of Venus, it's part of what Venus deals with in a general way. Now, there are a lot of saturnine challenges that I've just described that can come with this, right like, feeling like an outsider, trying to define oneself in terms of being a rebel in terms of being different in terms of being on the fringe on the edge, intolerance, ironic sense of love and peace and harmony, as long as it's future-oriented, ironic intolerance for anything that's more conservative, or in the past, which is somewhat unusual for Venus, who tends to want to harmonize things. Open-mindedness, broad, open-mindedness. And yet, it's some kind of simultaneous intolerance for anything that doesn't seem either progressive or anything that's not ideal. So these are things to think about with Venus in Aquarius; some people, Oprah Winfrey, who already mentioned Mozart, who was thought to be a little perverse and yet a complete innovator. He was sort of a womanizer. And he was, but he was, you know, incredibly innovative and sort of quirky. And an outsider, really, if you've ever seen the movie Amadeus get a good feel for it.

Isaac Newton, so there you have someone, sort of Stephen Hawking, is the same way to where there's an element of being popular scientific and popular scientific mind, and redefining principles and laws of the universe, you know, kind of physical physics, discovery and physics innovators and things like that. But a keen eye for the past and what's come before, and the dogmas of the past. And, you know, it's always a funny thing to see someone like Stephen Hawking who's sort of like, sort of like, the church of science, right, like he, he's sort of in his anti-religiosity, which sometimes will come up in him, he could almost be like the high Pope of science. And you see that sometimes where, you know, there's this kind of such innovative such innovation, such forward-thinking, and yet ironically, there can be this really entrenched sort of conservative fundamentalism that comes out. And that's part of the Saturn element, Ellen DeGeneres.

Another example is oftentimes; you'll see the Venus in Aquarius, being about progressive sexuality, people who are bringing forward new forms of sexual expression in the world. Muhammad Ali is another example. He's someone who's obviously a very popular activist and, during his time and a popular sort of celebrity figure, but of course, he had very complicated relationships with women because of his religious beliefs, which were thought to be both very progressive. For his time and defiant and original, he was an anti-war activist, but he was also incredibly conservative in his embrace of Islam, and it led to some very difficult, complicated situations, of course, in love and relationships, so progressive but very conservative, Janis Joplin you know, forward-thinking progressive, like like, sort of wild feminist rocker, but also very severe at times in her behavior, right and self-destructive and this kind of a loner, rebel thing that can be very difficult and isolating something that people have written about with Janis Joplin. Pope Francis, here's someone who's very forward-thinking, and yet he's the Pope, right? So Venus and Aquarius, Quentin Tarantino, right?

He has this weird way of wanting to honor things from the past like cowboys and Samurai's right and civil war and that he, you know, that World War Two, he says this nostalgia for the past, but the way he does it is very almost futuristic and sort of sci-fi and very innovative and forward-thinking as well. So the past, in the future, again, Elton John, another great example. Sexual, of course, homosexual and rocker who is defining boundaries in his day and age little, like more common now than it was when he was really getting going. But he's also, you know, he's such a, he's like honored, you know, he's sort of he's honored by the royal family, and he has this kind of nightly traditional feeling about him. And yeah, he's very progressive in other ways.

So if that duality as well, Yoko Ono is a similar classically trained artist becomes very progressive. Anyway, her story is very interesting as well; I had to throw in one sort of real shadowy example of our Kelly. Obviously, our Kelly has been in the news a lot lately. Venus in Aquarius, again, sometimes what you have are the outsider. And the way that Venus and Aquarius can express itself sometimes can be really severe to where the way like going back to Mozart, where there's a kind of an almost like a perversion quality of sexual expression. And with, you know, again, with our Kelly, you have someone who's a very popular figure and, again, thought to be a real musical innovator in many ways. But also there's this weird way in which there's this kind of like weird culty fundamentalist quality to him, and express itself really, you know, in these very, like abusive ways. So, you know, I don't mean to suggest that people who have Venus in Aquarius are, you know, perverted or culty or, or fundamentalists or things like that, but there is a shadow side, a severe, harsh, intense kind of outsider weirdo quality that can express itself sometimes in really damaging and complicated ways.

So, Venus in Aquarius, sometimes, you know, the Burning Man, progressive idealist, sometimes the more angry, hard, rigid expression, which is weird for Venus, right? Doesn't feel totally right. Remember, Saturn also has a lot to do with repression, where we get repressed, and so Venus in Aquarius sometimes has this feeling of like, repression, like everything is trying to repress me, which deals with this creative tension within, and then it expresses itself in all these wild forms. And sometimes that also is in terms of, you know, creativity, but also sexuality. And it has its like boundary-defying, and it has to go beyond the limitations of Saturn sort of sexually or in terms of how one expresses one's energy. So that's what I've got for Venus in Aquarius today. As usual, I hope you liked this, and we will be back soon for Venus and Aquarius Pisces, which is happening later this month. Alright, take care, everyone. Bye.