Don’t Tell Me What To Love: Venus Square Uranus and Mars Square the Sun

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Hey everyone, this is Acyuta-bhava from Nightlight Astrology, and today we are going to look at two transits that are happening back to back and try to understand the meaning of this archetypal combination of aspects. So we're going to be looking at Venus is square to Uranus from the sign of Leo to the sign of Taurus, as well as the Mars square to the Sun that is happening from Gemini to Virgo. We're going to look at five themes that can maybe embody or describe this combination of two aspects happening simultaneously and then three lessons or insights that may or may serve us in the process.

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Now, today, before we start talking about these transits, let's pull up the real-time clock and take a look at them with the good old astrology software. Alright, so we are looking at two different transits this week. One of them is Venus square to Uranus, and the other is going to be the square of Mars to the Sun, the square of Mars, the Sun at a 90-degree angle between the Sun and Mars happens before retrograde. So we know that Mars is going to go retrograde in Gemini in late October. And in a sense, this is preparing us for that. Although it's still a ways off, this transit is sort of like the herald the upcoming retrograde. So from a faisel point of view, let's take a look at the transits on the screen. So they're coming through back to back on August 26. And 27. So you can see the two transits perfecting on the 26th and then into the 27th. That'd be Friday into Saturday. So here is Venus, and Venus is squaring.
For some reason, my pen is not working at the moment, and I don't know why it's really random that it just wouldn't be working. So you can see here, Venus, I'll just kind of highlight it with my highlighter. Here's Venus in Leo. And over here is Uranus in Taurus, and the two are making a square to one another. And then we also you can see here around the new moon Is also coming through in the sign of Virgo, you can see the Mars square to the Sun. Now the Mars square to the Sun is a superior square, which means that it is a Mars-toned New Moon.

This new moon cycle is therefore toned by the connection between Mars and the new moon, with Mars in the superior position. It's kind of asserting its agenda over them. And the meantime, Venus is squaring Uranus, so very powerful combination. And you're really going to be feeling this over the weekend. It's the new moon cycle tones it, but you'll feel it over the entire weekend; I want to talk about several different themes. So, let us talk about five themes that I think adequately capture this combination.

One of them is loving defiance. Mars, in the superior square to the new moon in the Sun, says let us be bold about something, let us be mentally verbally sharp, or let us be very assertive with our mind with communication with speech and ideas. And also, the Mars Sun dynamic is just generally sort of muscular and has much more; it places emphasis on being strong and even dominant. When you pair that with the quality of Venus and Uranus, you get this idea of loving defiance, I am going to love what I love, dammit, you know, that's the mood that you can pick up on behind this combination. I love what I love. I'm going to say things that are provocative. You can't, you know, blah, you know, you can't prevent me from saying what I love or what I want to say. So it's, it's a very bold, assertive muscular kind of quality, but it's related back to something that may be sort of revolutionary and defiant, especially around Venusian things, which means things that we love or find attractive or beautiful or enjoyable or pleasurable. So it's a weird combination because you have, you could also call it, you know, almost like theres a few others, we'll get to that, get to what I'm thinking about right now. Loving defiance to me would mean that there's something that I find beautiful or attractive or lovely. And I'm gonna say it, think it, speak about it, communicate about it, and I don't care what you think, or I might even assert it in a way that's like, too aggressive, you might have to be careful of that. But that would be one theme that could come up around this new moon cycle considering this combination.

Number two would be loving anxiety. Look, we've got Mars squaring the Sun and the new moon, both in Mercury-ruled signs. There's the potential for a little bit of anxiety, right a tense, energizing, and maybe overstimulating quality from the Mars Sun square both and Mercury-ruled signs, whereas we have, you know, Venus and Uranus squaring one another. And I think about when you love something so much that it makes you anxious, or when you're falling in love, and you're going out on a date, and it makes you super anxious, and you get nervous, and you slip on your words, and you don't know how you appeared, and you obsess over yourself in the mirror before you go out. And so I could see there being the theme of I will love what I love. And I don't care what anyone thinks for being very forceful or assertive, but we love or what we think and not caring if people may, you know, be upset by what we say.

Or there's loving anxiety, which could be about the restlessness, the nervous anxiousness that we feel because we love what we love. For example, I can only imagine that people who at some point have to become open about their sexuality, and it's not a heterosexual, you know, sort of dynamic that they will say, it causes a lot of anxiety to be to come out or to be open about what I love and who I am and what I'm attracted to. So that loving defiance like this is me, this is what I love, or also just the sacred anxiety connected with the things that we're attracted to that give us pleasure, people who might be nervous that it's evil or bad to enjoy sex, for example, a lot of people do, you'd be surprised. You might listen to this and go; People think that; yes, they do. So loving defiance, loving anxiety.

Three would be aesthetics and criticism. There is nothing, you know, worse than loving something you love but then having someone criticize you or pick it apart. This is definitely a transit that could result in a kind of intellectual elitism around things that are supposedly beautiful or more valuable or more attractive, or, you know, that so, for example, when I was in graduate school, I did an MFA in creative writing, and there was a whole, you know, genre of literary criticism had to read lots of the history of literary criticism. There's also just garden variety that's very philosophical, sometimes sociological, and stuff like that. There's also a whole genre of people. And I remember this, or, a genre of literature that, you know, consists of critiquing or criticizing art. And that's, it's always been that way. It's art criticism, right? So that pairing strikes me as potential. You, it doesn't take long when you're in an art school. Some of you may know this, but it doesn't take long before you realize that some people are there to just criticize other people's work. Because having a refined sense of what's working or not, or what's beautiful or not, gives people some, some sense of pleasure, let's be honest, they, they do it because they like it, they take pleasure that makes them feel good or something like that.

So I couldn't see this as you know, kind of like, provocative, critical, especially about things that we love, maybe you're getting some feedback from the universe that something you love or are attracted to is not very good for you, or it tends to torture you or give you anxiety or something like that. Maybe, on the other hand, you're running into someone who's just trying to pick you apart and pick apart what you love and what you think and, or what you find attractive, what you naturally are drawn to. And they think, Oh, I've got something better I know better than you; I know better than everyone. Right? So that that sense of like intellectual superiority matched with some, I have the refined sense of what is beautiful, be careful of that kind of mood.

Number four would be an attraction to something that we despise. And I don't want to take this too far. And I'm not trying to make a blanket statement that you always love whatever you despise. Didn't you know you actually love it? I'm not; that's not what I'm saying. What I am saying is that isn't it funny how sometimes things or even people that you are deeply attracted to you start off irritated by where you start off annoyed or frustrated with, like, I will tell you honestly, that there is a little element of that in, you know, a story of how my wife and I met each other. We had a back and forth over the course of a year, like, I asked her out, she said no, then she asked me out. And I said no. And you know, and it was in a sense, because we very quickly were like, you know, just kind of rubbing up against what was sort of challenging about the other person until finally there was kind of like this breakthrough where we realize that a lot of our frustration was actually this, like intense attraction, but there was a little bit of a competitive aura in it.

Well, Mars squares the Sun a little bit of a competitive aura, while Venus squares Uranus, sometimes the things that we, you know, the things that we are frustrated by or find irritating or challenging, or things that the soul might be like, Ooh, I like that. But it's spicy, you know. So watch for things that irritate or frustrate and why you might actually there might be some level at which you find it beautiful.

Finally, number five would be just a broad way of saying that the categories of intelligence and beauty, or the dichotomy between intelligence and beauty, may play a big role here at the end of the week. In ancient astrology, the dichotomy between Venus and Mercury was a strong one, Venus is exalted in the sign where Mercury is in its fall, and Venus is depressed in the sign when Mercury is exalted. That would be Venus in Pisces versus Venus in Virgo or Mercury in Pisces versus Mercury in Virgo. Intelligence and beauty don't have to be enemies, but sometimes they are. And this is, you know, to me, this has always been the archetypal tension within questions about what kind when people start talking about what kind of art constitutes something hateful. This has been, you know, in the air through some other transits this summer, for example, I'm forgetting the famous author. He wrote The Satanic Verses; I'm sorry, I'm just spacing on his name, but he was, I think he was like, stabbed. And I read about this or, you know, sort of trickled in through social media somehow. But a big thing that came up in the wake of that was about artistic censorship. Here's a literary master. He's saying some provocative things that some people don't like; he gets stabbed, you know, or I remember back in the day, you remember what the name of the French like, the magazine was and they someone came in and shot some people, and it was like a satirical not like Mad Magazine. But anyway, someone will know what I'm talking about. But you know, the question about art and art as a political statement or the freedom of art, censorship around art, and things like that. I think those conversations could be really interesting, especially with Venus and Leo, which often has a correlation to like celebrities and people who, you know, a celebrity that may have some way of presenting their art that is provocative. So, at any rate, I would see those pairing; that's just one example. But intelligence and beauty. Sometimes they're an awkward or tense pairing. And other times, there's no reason they shouldn't be. So let's see how they play out. Let's see how we hold and experience that tension three lessons or insights that I think go along with this pairing.

One is what we know is not as important as how we love. For example, one thing that I learn about astrology day in and day out, year in and year out, is that it is more important, the way that I present material on my YouTube channel to me is more important than what comes through is the love of astrology, astrology as a kind of devotion, astrology, as something that brings joy, astrology as something that I love, and that people can pick up on the fact that I love this. And somehow, whatever I talk about, I can imbue with that love of astrology. That, to me, is what is actually transmissible from one soul to another. It's not so much what you do or what you accomplish, but how you do it or how you love what you do that is most contagious and most effective at helping other people when it comes to this kind of stuff. So, to me, this transit embodied in this next moon cycle, one of the things that I'm going to remember is what we know, what we profess to know are the subjects that we're passionate about, are probably not as important as the way in which we love them. So that and I think that's something captured in this combination of planetary transits.

Two, it's important to allow space for what we despise or find ugly, but that I don't necessarily mean it's something extreme like, well, you should, you know, you should bend over backward to love an evil person or something. I'm not, we, and as soon as you say things like this, people just blow it out to the most extreme thing; I'm talking about something fairly simple things that irritate you, things that frustrate us, in the mundane sense, little things. Let's get curious about them. Right, let's find give space for them. I think that we're getting into a mode, and I don't mean this to be aimed at any group or any, you know, anybody, in particular, I just observe and feel over the last I don't know how long just some years or so that there is more and more of an inclination to want to silence that which we don't agree with. And I don't mean, you know, and sometimes it's okay, I think, to just not want to hear something that we find to be, I don't know what, like, like really hateful, and everyone has different lines, but I'm just talking about a general trend. Where there's a sense of like if I don't like that, you know, I just, you don't exist, or I don't want to hear from you, or even you shouldn't ever say something that I don't agree with. And to me, staying curious and allowing for things to be what they are, even if we end up disagreeing or not liking or how there's some dissonance, but allowing them to be what they are and staying curious. That will, at the very least, deepens even if we reject something that deepens the way in which we do it, or that deepens the way in which we come to understand how or why we don't like something.

It's important to stay curious, for example, you know, it's kind of like when you're eating a food, and that let's say you're, you're, you're like trying something new, well, you know, take a few bites and really let your palate experience it and then go, yeah, it didn't like that. But at least your whole palate can take it in, and you can, you know, it's I think we're a little bit closer sometimes to the thing touches our tongue, it's different. We can tell we don't really like it, but instead of really experiencing it and being like, yeah, I really don't like it. We just spit it out instantly with like total disgust. And I don't think this transit and this moon cycle ahead is going to serve us or be we're that we're going to align ourselves with it properly. If we were very quick to, you know, let our things like reactive discussed guide things. Give a little bit of space; be a little bit curious about things that you don't like.

Number three, stop and ask what is beautiful about this. So when things happen under Venus, Uranus, or a new moon cycle with Mars and the Sun in double-bodied signs, like things can happen that are sort of sudden or quick or unexpected or like wow, that was wacky and weird, and we got a Mercury Retrograde coming up not too long; within the moon cycle ahead. Stop and ask when something unexpected or different or strange or bizarre comes in; it's similar to the last point. You can rather than just staying curious and open and giving it some space to breathe and then forming a thoughtful response, a relational response; we can stop and ask, what is beautiful about this? As an exercise, if we stop and go, Well, what is beautiful about this?

We had earlier this summer; we had a difficult situation with some neighbors. And then was rooted in the fact that we are building this herbal garden, which most of you guys know about as one of our goals of our Kickstarter. And at any rate, I won't go into it. But one of the things that I did was I was sitting on my deck looking out at the space that we're going to be building the garden and, you know, the neighbors and stuff. And I sat, and I thought to myself, what is beautiful about this, this entire situation, and I was able to like sit back and almost appreciate the drama of my life. Of course, it was frustrating. And I wasn't like just dropping those feelings I wasn't able to. But I was able to take some time to sit back and reflect that almost like it was like a movie, and just find some artistic appreciation for the weirdness and craziness and absurdity of it. And I find that if I take a little bit of time to do that, it's not something that is, you know, a positive strategy for replacing the reality of the situation. It's not like an avoidant thing. It's a way of broadening and creating more room for the experience to be more things. And to me, the diversification of experience is always the thing that brings joy eventually, maybe not right away. But eventually, it brings joy, whether that joy is in the form of comedic relief, the absurdity of it all. It's a madhouse in here, right? Like where I think, I really think that astrology if nothing else, helps me to see that we're all utter lunatics, right? All of us in this sublunary sphere under the moon we're all nuts. So what is beautiful or interesting about this stay connected to that spirit. And when this is, you know, the zany Venus Uranus dynamic comes in, you're less likely to judge it too narrowly, which does not mean that you lack discernment or that you lack any opinion or something like that.

So I hope that these insights are useful, that you have a great new moon cycle ahead, and yeah, and that you find that you have that you're able to experience the rush of these energies over the weekend, especially in memorable ways. I wish you good memories. So if you have stories to tell, please use the hashtag grabbed or email us grabbed@nightlight astrology.com. I really want to hear your stories about Venus square Uranus, Mars square the Sun, or this combination. Use the hashtag grab Sterrett share story in the comments section or email is grabbed at nightlight astrology.com Alright, that's what I've got for today. Hope you guys are having a good one. Take it easy.