A Gentle Rain or a Flood of Feelings: Venus Trines Neptune

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Today, we are going to continue our exploration of some of the major transits of the week, which we started unpacking yesterday. We sort of took a look at all of the transits in total for the week, and now we're going to start looking at them one by one. One of the transits that are happening right now and will also be a part of another major transit in the week is Venus's trine with Neptune, which then leads seamlessly into Venus's opposition to Pluto. That sequence is something we're going to now unpack one step at a time. Today, looking at Venus trine with Neptune from Cancer to Pisces.

I have five things to watch for, given this combination, which you should notice, or it'll show up a little bit in the next day or two. So we'll look at the timeline, we'll unpack some of the details of this archetypal combination. Hopefully you find this useful.

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All right, so here we go. Let's get the arrow out. And you can see on Tuesday, July 9, we have Venus moving within that three-degree range of a trine to Neptune in Pisces. Neptune and Saturn are both retrograde now, by the way, and they will have a huge impact on how we discuss it today. But on Wednesday, July 10, we'll see Venus within one degree. And then we see the exact trine on Thursday, July 11. The exact trine between these two planets is taking place. This is about 9:30am Central Time, July 11. But you should be feeling this energy building today, tomorrow, and Thursday. And then, by Friday, Venus starts opposing Pluto, and instantly, we're into a totally different dynamic because Venus is shifting into a fixed fire sign. Everything changes.

So when Venus moves across the sign boundary, there's a disengagement with the trine to Neptune because all the signs are no longer configured. Then, we go right into opposition with Pluto. So we will be exploring Venus's opposition to Pluto. as the week goes on, just like we're going to take a look at Venus's trine to Neptune today. All right, so there are five things to watch for; in my opinion, these are some of the most interesting archetypal dynamics that I could think of. I spend a little time thinking about the fact that Venus is in Cancer and that Neptune is in Pisces with this list in particular, but these are also general Venus-Neptune combinations, especially when the two planets are trying to one another which means they have a very smooth and generally like harmonious way of relating.

Alright, so, five things to watch for. And I hope that these The thing is, one of these themes may become really important for you or several of them. Or it's possible that there's another way of conceptualizing the connection between Venus and Neptune. It's not even on our list because archetypes are like jewels, and when you combine them, there are so many different ways of turning the jewel, and the light bounces off and reflects different images; archetypally speaking, this is just something to whet your whistle number one, receiving what we need and giving freely what is needed. This is when you're in water signs. Water is naturally connected. Think about streams of water running down a hill and pooling together. So water has a natural way of wanting to connect, attach, bond, pool, and run together.

And so when you have Venus, the goddess of love and relationships, in Cancer, a water sign, and Neptune in Pisces, a water sign, and they're pooling together through the connection of a trine, which tends to be its of the nature of Jupiter trines are and they tend to bring a sense of collectivity unity and connection, then you have this great indication in the sky of relational connectivity, of things, of resources, of emotions, of thoughts of feelings of bodies of desires, pooling together or running together. And so there is a natural way in which a transit like this is able to be receptive to the needs of others and to give freely what is needed.

It's just easier when these two planets connect in a trine to say, I see you, I feel you, I reckon intuit your needs, you know, I feel or you or your needs are being very clearly articulated, and I can address them, and I can give to them. It also makes it much easier to be in a receptive position to receive what we need.

So this the give and take of two of Venus-Neptune in a trine in water is just wonderful when it comes to loving and being loved giving and receiving the pooling together of needs and feelings and desires. There's just such a nice fluid interaction right now that can build a sense of cohesiveness emotionally within our relationships. So watch for that smooth connectivity of giving and receiving.

Number two, there is a way in which this kind of connection can be a picture of healing. Where there are relational wounds, especially now Venus in Cancer, it could be family wounds, friendship wounds, or wounds that you have in love, marriage, and relationships. But it's also wounds that may have a collective dimension; your wound is part of the story of what women experience, as many women experience as a wound, or your experience is one of, let's say, you grew up in an alcoholic family.

One of the healing, when you go through layers, you're pulling back layers of the onion, and you're going through healing experiences throughout the course of your lifetime. And you grew up with, say, a beaut of substance abuse in your family. There's a way in which you have your healing; you feel that you're connected to a process of healing that many other people and families of similar backgrounds have gone through.

So, the ancestral dimension and the collective dimension are very much a part of what could be a healing moment when these two planets are trining one another. Cancer refers to the deep pool of ancestral racial, cultural, and historical memory. The moon's sign is a sign of reflections in the water, and reflections are memories. Reflections are not the original event but the stored trauma of the event or the stored joy or bliss of the event, the nostalgia for a time that you're no longer connected to but wish you were.

All of that is sort of pooled together in the watery lunar sign of Cancer. Venus in Cancer trining Neptune in Pisces can be healing insofar as it addresses the collective and familial ancestral historical dimensions of various hurts. The reason that it's able to address those things and provide healing is again because you have two planets, Venus and Neptune, that are compassionate, sensitive, kind, healing, and harmonious, coming together through this element of water to heal.

Water is one of the things that we give to people most quickly when they're suffering, right? It's like drinking water or washing a wound with water. Water heals, water purifies, water cleanses, water shifts your mood. I mean, I can't tell you how many times my kids are playing outside, and it's hot out, and things start melting down. It's like, let's take a break. Let's drink a little water, you know, simple.

Number three is the need for mothering in love. I think that we have some really backward ideas about nurturance. One of them that I see people in astrological counseling dealing with over and over again is this feeling that once you've become an adult, you're no longer in need of parenting. And it's Actually, there is no acceptable way in which your spouse or lover should play the role of parent. And on one level, that's intuitive, right? We go, yeah, like I'm married to someone, or I'm in love with someone, they're not my mom, they're not my dad.

However, all of us have an inner child, all of us have parents on the inner committees, you know, some of them are not very nice, you know, some of them need to adjust the way that they parent internally, you know, some of us need better internal parental figures in our psyches. Some of us have great inner mentors and parents, whatever. But the point is that part of how we always care for the inner child has to do with not only the quality of our own parental voices within the parental dimension but also whether we're literal parents or not; it is a part of life.

But part of how we develop that and actualize it is also to receive that voice and presence of parenting from other human beings, not just our literal parents. And so there are going to be times when, you know, my wife just needs to lay her head in my lap, and I play with her hair or give her a backrub she just needs a hug. And there's gonna be times when I need that. And it's a kind of soothing; it feels like there's a little mothering going on.

I'm guessing most of you have no issue with this, but you would not believe how many people are; they come into astrological counseling sessions thinking about meeting someone, and there's a lot of fear and anxiety like I should have all of my needs perfectly squared away, there should be no part of me, that is still a child in need of reassurance, or nurturance, or care or devotion or tenderness. Things that lovers should maybe shouldn't be primarily, but it is like, I always want to tell people like it is okay.

To not be fully actualized, you know, as an adult, there's the child who always remains a part of us. And any relationship that you have, whether it's a friend or a lover, or anything, should be able to tap into a parental dimension where you can care for nurture. We have to parent each other. Throughout life, we have to parent ourselves. But there's no hard boundary that says you have once you graduate from the karmic curriculum of your family and you've gone off to a liberal arts college.

From that moment on, you shall only ever be able to access the parental dimension of life through yourself. You know, it could be regressive or needy to require too much of someone. And there's the need to develop maybe secure attachment patterns and love as this is part of the pop. You know, this is a big theory right now, attachment theory. It's like, Yeah, but we don't develop a secure attachment unless we're also in relationships with people who contribute to the feeling of security; that's a parental mothering quality that, you know, again, we need in friendships we need in love relationships, we need to be able to give that to people at times we know how to tap into that. We also need to know, you know, when it's too much, or when someone else needs to parent themselves, or what have you. But there is a need for parenting or mothering and love. And the point is that this is a transit that can highlight or accent the need to connect with that energy.

Number four is romance, imagination, and memory. There's a great quote from James Hillman, and I'm going, I'm going to actually. Why don't I just pull it up? I was thinking I'd be able to remember it, but I'm guessing I can't. So, he says without imagination. Whereas love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, and boredom.

Relationships fail not because we've stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, and boredom. Relationships fail not because we've stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining. I love that quote. This is a great transit for us to kind of pause and connect with imagination, romance, and even memory. Memory is very romantic.

My girls one of the things they love to do. They love to pick up an album that we have. I have three years' worth of baby pictures, like little toddler pictures. Let's say we look at this with me. And I sit down, and I turn the page, and I look, and I go, Oh, look at how you were so cute. Are you still resting? I used to take naps with you right on my chest. Oh, I loved how it felt, you know, and they just fill their cups by looking backward in time and remembering, appreciating, and entering into the imagination of a previous time or a previous world. That is so romantic.

Have you ever just sat down with someone you loved and talked about the things you've done? The good times you've had, there is a need to appreciate where we've been and how we got to where we are. It's like a blues song or a poem, you know, or it's a movie that you love. We also need to project forward into the future with imagination. What could we become? What could we do? How could we do it together? We need to have imaginative ways of connecting with one another that enhance and deepen our emotional bonds backward and forward in time.

Venus-Neptune and water signs are so good at this right? This is such a sweet, romantic, imaginative, maybe nostalgic way of looking at things as long as we don't get caught up in that sense of something's not right. It wasn't good; it could be better. You know that kind of angst Enos can accompany a transit like this? Don't get caught in the angst so much as the appreciation of the sentimental qualities that are lighter and sweeter, you know?

Well, number five is a clearing of gentle rain. Venus Neptune in water signs can come like a sudden downpour of emotion. And that emotion may be very cleansing and very helpful. It may unify and heal and soothe, but it can come like a flood. There can be flooding or an overwhelming emotional quality in relationships. Constructive, but you know when it rains, it pours. So be ready for maybe a swift current of emotional energy to come through and be very overpowering. But in a trine, you're mostly thinking of this being pretty smooth.

So now sometimes water comes and grows. It's big, it does something. And this connection, I want to remind people of because, you know, it can be a little overwhelming on the level of the water. A gentle rain, though, on the other hand, Venus trine Neptune, is like a gentle rain that comes down and just washes the debris away, cleanses, clears, and heals. So think about that, with gentle rain coming down and maybe a little subtler than minutes.

When you're looking at things like this in an archetypal vacuum, it's easy to then go and feel like the transit underperforms compared to your expectations. The trick is to use these to amplify your ability to see something that still may be a little subtle; it may be a little bit more in the background; it depends on where it's hitting in your chart. But just watch for that gentle rain as a metaphor, a clearing, healing, purifying, a washing away, a surrendering, a dissolving. Dreaming, romance, imagination, the need for mothering and love, the healing of relational wounds with collective or family dimensions, receiving what we need, and giving freely what is needed.

Those were my thoughts for this transit. I hope that you have a nice, smooth, beautiful, watery couple of days. And then we're going to turn right into Venus in a fire sign opposing Pluto, just like, so we're also going to talk about how that connection works.

Why are the two so intimately so closely connected? What might the connection be about as much as what Venus opposing Pluto will be about? So we'll do that as the week goes on. Alright, that's it for today. Hope you're having a great day. We'll see you again soon. Bye.