A Venus-Mars Almost Connection and What It Might Mean

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology, and today we are going to take a look at what it means that Venus and Mars are just about to conjoin with each other in the sign of Leo. But they don't because Venus slows down and turns retrograde. This is sometimes referred to as a refranation or a time when two planets are about to connect in an aspect, but they don't because one of the two planets turns retrograde prior to their making that perfect aspect, and this has a variety of different symbolic divinatory meanings depending on context.

So we're going to talk about three possible ways of interpreting this refranation of Venus about to connect and optimize but stopping turning around and going backward before it can; what might that mean for you based on your birth chart, or what might it mean broadly speaking on a symbolic level, that is our agenda for today.

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So let's take a look now at the real time clock so that we can take a look at this refranation and what it might mean. All right, let's go ahead. I'm gonna put this up. Alright, so what we're looking at is what I want you guys to notice is this.

Right now, what we're seeing in the sky is from Mars and Venus; we are seeing the two within about three degrees of one another, which is called an engagement in ancient astrology. That means that it's like, you know, the wedding ceremony has begun, and this is a really brutal picture I'm about to paint, but they're about to get together at the altar, and then all of a sudden what happens, and this would only be one possible symbolic meeting guys so don't freak out. But what happens is Venus leaves Mars at the altar because what happens is before they can meet, Venus is slowing down tremendously so that within three degrees out there about to meet, Mars changes signs, and Venus keeping moving toward Mars slows down, and we're going to see it turn retrograde.

So their connection almost happens but doesn't because Venus turns retrograde. Now the question for us is, what does that mean? And how do you interpret that symbolically? How do you interpret Venus's refranation? Well, one possible explanation would be just like the analogy that I just used. It's like Venus leaving Mars at the altar. A woman who says, I'm going to marry you to Mars, but then, at the last second, says that I've changed my mind.

Now, of course, like, probably point .0001% of people out there will experience that manifestation, exactly know what I mean. But, like, it wouldn't be; actually, it would be a very fitting picture of Venus and Mars about to get married. But then Venus isn't. For one reason or another, I've changed my mind.

It reminds me of Oh, Sex in the City, wasn't there at the very well; I shouldn't give it away. But I think that there was an altar scene where someone got left, and then it's a big back and forth around marriage anyway; sorry for just, it's shitty of me. I probably just ruined it for some people. But anyway, well, if you haven't seen Sex in the City by now, like, what rock are you living under? So? Okay, anyway, so there are three possible reformation meanings that I want to talk about.

The number one is very, very basic, and it follows the pattern that I just laid out, and that is that something is almost coming together but doesn't, and a lot of this will depend on looking at the whole sign house location of Leo in your birth chart. So just for fun, let's throw the chart back up, and I'll just work through and give you stupid keywords, you know, for everyone. So let's just go.

I'm just going to put this on Aries. So if you look at the location of Venus and Mars in the fifth house, okay, it's like it's a pregnancy that almost happens, or you're like, we're gonna get to try to get pregnant that you know, now's not the right time, we'll try some other time.

The simple fifth house example, or a creative project that you're going to start but doesn't come through, you turn it to Taurus, and you get it in the fourth house; maybe you're about to do something around home and family, or property, and you've got the plans in place, you're about to do it, and then for some reason, and other the financing falls through, you just decide not to do it. Right.

So I'm just making things up. But in the third house, it might be something you're changing in your environment, you're getting close to finalizing something, or maybe you think you're going back to school, something very third house, see, and then you decide not to do it.

Same thing around money with Cancer rising, right? So you're looking; I'm just following it around. If you're Leo rising something about yourself or your body that you're thinking of doing, but then you don't. It could be that for Virgo rising, there's something in the unconscious that almost comes up and presents a problem. But maybe, thankfully, in the 12th house, it doesn't.

For Libra in the 11th house, something to do with friends or colleagues or groups, and something's about to manifest. But for one reason or another, it doesn't. Right. So just play that game. Scorpio rising in the career house, something almost comes to fruition but somehow doesn't at the last minute, and then Sagittarius, something around higher education, religion, travel, something coming together, but then it stops for some reason.

Capricorn, in the eighth, something you're working out with another person, some kind of asset or benefit or resource, you share it with someone else, and it's coming to fruition something they're going to give to you, or you're going to inherit from someone, but it doesn't happen. Something you're afraid of that you think is going to manifest but doesn't eat house stuff.

Seventh house stuff relationships, something that's about to manifest but doesn't, in that's Aquarius, and then Pisces in the sixth house, maybe something that could be like a challenge or a fight or an or maybe even a reconciliation, sixth house a place of conflict and hard work, something that's coming together but doesn't.

So play that game in the same way with all of the other examples of possible refranation meanings, and you'll get close to an eye, and you'll get an idea of what topics are likely to be active through the refranation.

So let me just repeat, number one would be anything that is about to happen but somehow pauses at the last second and turns around and doesn't happen now that could be for the good or for the bad. It's pretty subjective, and there's a lot of different people out there with lives that are, you know, looking very different, and the subject matters of the whole sign houses are really different, and the individual natures of the birth charts are of course very different as well.

So when we think about just anything that's almost coming together, but doesn't that doesn't always mean a bad thing. You know, for example, it could be that there's, you know, Mars-Venus getting together could be in the sign of Leo, could be that there's, you know, well, let's go on to number two because number two actually outlines this more specifically.

The worst is avoided because Mars is a malefic, and Venus is going to conjoin Mars; some ancient astrologers would say that Venus is about to run into something problematic or troublesome, some kind of conflict, or injury or sickness, or some kind of challenge or frustration or obstacle or hardship.

Something Mars-like right Mars being the God of challenges and frustration, things that we have to persevere and overcome. Which isn't always a bad thing; most of our life is made so meaningful because of those kinds of challenges. But imagine that Venus is heading towards something that's like danger, danger, but then right before it can literally bump into the danger, it stops and turns around, in which case, the refranation, similar to something almost coming together, but not coming together like an agreement that falls apart of the last second, you can turn that same meaning to say that the worst is avoided because Venus isn't running into a malefic and is turning backward.

Now a malefic, we mean that when we say malefic, in ancient astrology, we mean that functionally, Mars is a god and was thought of as divine, and all of the planetary meetings were thought of as perfect and divine. But in the way we experience them here on Earth, Mars is often a divine energy that we experience as frustration. Well. It's frustrating as we grow. I remember looking at my little my kids when they were learning to walk; it was frustrating for them at times, but also joyful to persevere and overcome and learn how to walk. It's like, that's life. So Mars is, we should take that meaning malefic functionally, and not absolutely.

But the point is that when Venus is about to hit Mars but refrains and turns around, that could very well mean that the worst or something challenging is avoided because of some insight or some hit that we ought to take a different approach or something like that. So this can be actually a very positive and helpful thing, and again, look at the whole sign house, where Leo lands in your birth chart, to get a feel for where something is trying to come together, but maybe it's not the right time, or it's maybe it's not going to quite work out.

Or something kind of challenging is coming up, but you're actually going to be able to sidestep it, take a different approach that avoids something more challenging. So different ways of looking at the same phenomenon symbolically.

Number three would be that something is proposed, and or but it requires a Venusian transformation first; for example, Venus and Mars coming together might be the plan to maybe like it's in your second or your 10th house, and it's a financial or business-related project or plan that you're thinking of, and you go, you know, what, before, we can be ready to implement that plan or take on that project at work, which can be very lucrative or positive, we have to kind of clean up this other area, or we have to, almost like we have to some preparation needs to occur before this other plan can happen.

So another way of thinking about it is that Venus and Mars coming together is like a proposition. It's like, hey, what about this, and Venus says yes, but before I can actually join with you, because eventually, they will join, right, eventually, a long time down the road, their synodic cycle will reset, and they will get together.

In fact, let me just show you how that happens, and it's a long way down the road. But it's interesting that they are so close to the reset of a synoptic cycle, and yet, it's going to take some time. So if we take this forward, actually, let me just, I'm going to eliminate everything from our view except for Venus and Mars. It's like, oh, we were just about to get together, but we can't. Well, look at Venus is going to catch up with Mars, and the two will conjoin in February.

So you're talking about, you know, like almost half a year between, they're almost conjoining, in Leo in their eventual conjoining in the opposite sign of Aquarius. So imagine that you're about to start a new cycle that right before you can start that new cycle, plant that new seed, he says, Well, pause, there's got to be this whole process of redoing something, and then we'll get back together in the opposite sign of Aquarius and we'll do so you know, in February, six months from now, right.

So that's what we're trying to get at here in this little demonstration. You could almost also look at the Leo-Aquarius axis of your chart and think about what's being proposed or what's being worked on here. In this area of the chart, the Leo area is leading to an eventual synthesis in the Aquarius era area of the chart in, say, the new year, in February of 24. That's, that's really profound. There's something really special that's taking place, and it's part of a longer-term plan.

So, in other words, something is being proposed a new cycle is being envisioned in Leo, but before it can happen, it's like a pause. Venus has to go through this whole transformation in that Leo area of life, and then it'll move forward, and eventually, we'll catch up with Mars and were in the polar opposite sign of Aquarius.

I wonder about those themes. Are we working on something; it is about heart-centeredness. It's about our individual sense of happiness and fulfillment and purpose only so that later, we can find fulfillment or manifestation in a place that's more about the collective that's more social or that is more about communities of people or collectives versus, you know, the individual, which is such a simple part of the Leo Aquarius dichotomy.

But it's interesting to consider that that could be a part of a broad way of understanding what is being proposed in Leo that will be fulfilled in Aquarius in February. So again, just to reiterate, we have three possible refranation meetings, and something is almost going to come together. But it doesn't, and it's like being left at the altar or something that can't quite work itself out.

Number two would be the worst is avoided. Something that's about to happen that maybe wasn't ideal is going to be paused, and you're going to take a step back, and maybe that's a great thing. Or on the other hand, something is being proposed, and the beginning of a new cycle is almost at hand. But first, Venus has to go through a transformation of the material in that sign of Leo before finally meeting with Mars in February and Aquarius; really interesting to look at the upcoming Venus Retrograde cycle in light of the refranation of Venus from Mars.

So I hope that you find this a useful exercise at least. Also, you can familiarize yourself with the concept of refranation so that if you ever see two planets that are about to come together, but Mercury Retrogrades before it can aspect, Saturn or Jupiter or something, you're like, Oh, that's interesting, these two planets are about to do something, but then one turns the other direction, the same meanings would apply, and you could look carefully depending on the context of who you're talking to, or what you're looking at in your own life. Refranation will almost always show up and give you it'll give one of these specific meanings because the context will sort of dictate the way that refranation is showing up and expressing itself.

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