Grabbed Episode 8: Stories from the Venus/Pluto Conjunction

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Hey everyone this is Acyuta-bhava from Nightlight Astrology and today we are going to share some of your stories from Venus's recent conjunction with Pluto and Capricorn. Now Venus has just passed over the conjunction with Pluto and Capricorn but very slowly approach that conjunction. So we were experienced it for a long time. And now we're still experiencing it, it's just a degree off about to station turn retrograde and go back through the conjunction. So I thought today would make a good day to just catch up on what you guys have been experiencing with this transit out there, and maybe share a few insights that might be helpful for all of us that come from your stories, as well as just reflecting on what it means to live with the planets in our lives day after day, week in week out year round, especially if you're someone who is student of astrology or who follows this astrology channel regularly. 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So at any rate, that being said, let's take a look at the real time clock and just refresh on this Venus retrograde situation coming up. So here's Venus and Pluto, you can see that they are conjoined with one another within less than a degree. Now we just look at how long Venus and Pluto have been together, we're just going to kind of back this up. And you can see that Venus has been within a couple of degrees of Pluto going back to the beginning of December. And then we're going to see Venus, pass over Pluto station and turn retrograde by the 19th into the 20th of this month, then it is going to go back through the conjunction with Pluto by Christmas day. Right and then it Retrogrades beyond that, the 28th, 29th still two degrees off, Mercury is going to go through the conjunction with Pluto by the end of the month. Now remember, that's happening also as Saturn is squaring Uranus. So you guys have written with a lot of great stories. Use the hashtag grabbed. Remember, the name for the planets in ancient Indian astrology was grace which means to grab. So we get grabbed by the planets every day, hopefully as we do so we become more conscious and participatory, which means are more awake to the influence in reality of the gods and planetary energies in our life. And life becomes more interesting when we can see them. And if not see them, then learn from them in hindsight. And so these are stories that come from you guys. Some are hilarious, some are heartbreaking. I love to share these stories and then reflect on you know, what is it like living with the planets every day.

Sometimes we just need a reminder of why we're doing all of this. We're doing all of this because by living with the planets, we remember that we live in an enchanted divine Cosmos, that each of us are in sold divine beings in an in sold world. And by doing this, we remember that every experience whether it's hilarious and silly or funny and basic, everyday experience or heartbreaking, crushing, most pivotal event of your life, whatever it may be, that the gods are there, that divinity is there walking this home. And that when we take time to recognise that this practice becomes sanctified in our hearts and souls, it becomes something that contributes to our spiritual life. It makes astrology into more than just, you know, planetary gossip column, just a way of flirting with energies all the time. Instead, what we're trying to do is really learn to see the divine in our lives and appreciate it and develop a relationship with it.

So these come from you guys. I'm going to share them. Some are long, some are short, again, they're all they span all across the board. If you ever want to share a story, use the hashtag grabbed and then put the name of the transit and then leave a brief story. I like stories not long lengthy chart descriptions, concise meaning a couple of sentences of short paragraph something like that and illustrate the story as best you can. The more it's like a story, the easier it is to share with other people. If you don't feel like sharing it in the comment section of a post, you can always email it to us grabbed@nightlightastrology.com. We don't respond to your emails, we just aggregate them so don't share anything you don't want being shared in the public. Okay, here are some Venus Pluto stories from the first pass and hopefully these prepare us for the second because we've got another one to come later this month. Venus Pluto, my husband and I both got blackout drunk at his company Christmas party and barely make it back to our hotel room. The company rented an entire floor for the party. I wake up to use the bathroom still drunk and take myself right out into the hallway instead of the bathroom. I realised what I've done is I hear the hotel door closed behind me. I now find myself entirely naked, literally naked, and locked out of the room at approximately 3am. A nightmare. Some time passes honestly not sure how long and I'm huddled in the tiny alcove by our door pounding as loud as I can, but my husband sleeps like a rock and snores like a bear. So I'm not hopeful that will wake up I'm building up the courage to take myself down the elevator, fully naked, remember, and ask front desk for a key when one of his co workers also drunk finds me and asks, what is happening. I choke out, I got locked out, and my husband won't wake up. The man - I was too drunk to remember who exactly it was - starts pounding on his door with both fists yelling, my husband's name, wake up mother effer which does wake my husband up and he comes to the door also still drunk and also naked. I practically fall into the door and we both stumbled back to bed. Then she mentions that he finds out his coworker teases him about it later on at work, but that was her Venus Pluto story. So moral of the story. Don't drink too much. And don't mistake the hotel room door for the bathroom door, I guess. But that is a really funny and very embarrassing Venus Pluto story. Yeah. I hope you guys got some takeaways from it, whatever they may have been. Thank you for sharing that one. Sort of breaks the ice.

A few weeks ago another story comes in a few weeks ago I met someone and exchanged numbers with them. They finally messaged me and the first thing they asked me was if I have a fetish, they then proceeded to tell me their fetish and solicit me with photos of it. I'm pretty familiar with the world of fetishes. But this one really blew me away. This person likes to wear adult diapers. I would have preferred to actually get to know them as a person before being assaulted with information like this. Anyway, all I could really think about was so perfectly aligned with the Venus Pluto conjunction Ah yeah. Scatological. Oh, my God, that' apocalyptic right there. Thank you for sharing that. I don't even know what to say.

Okay. All right, a little bit more serious now. My still husband and I had our third appointment at the notary to find a mutual divorce agreement. The first two had already been cancelled for last minute disagreements after going through the whole text that we had agreed upon beforehand with the notary, my ex suddenly brought up additional and substantial financial claims. I was utterly shocked by the malicious intent in the manipulation, it became clear that he had thought it all out beforehand and intentionally only brought up the claims in the very last minute. After two hours of insults, accusations and rants of paranoia from my ex and desperate intents by the notary to find an agreement in order to avoid a legal battle that would take years and cost a fortune. I was ready to chop off one of my arms to finally get this divorce and be free from this toxic person. So I agreed to most of his claims, and we signed. It was the ugly culmination of a year long power battle. I'm so sorry to hear that. It's weird how Venus Pluto sometimes brings up the need to just get rid like just purge, get rid of something. And you don't care if you like, you know, lose a finger in the process. I hear that, that's really rough. I hope that it granted you some peace to be moving on now even though it sounds terrible.

Here's another one. I live with my mother and about a week ago she was told by her landlord that we must leave the house we've lived in for the past two years by the 15th of this month in four days from now leaving us basically homeless. My mom has also been working down the coast for the past two months and we're already spending most of the week at a family friend's house and they're there and not being at our house. Back in the city, I own an apartment in which I used to live during most of my childhood that I hate due to painful memories. My father has been living in that apartment for free for the last seven years without even paying for electricity, water or any taxes. He deals with mental health issues and opioid issues. Last week, I visited him after not seeing each other for three plus years and without stepping into that house for 11 years. I asked him to leave which I'm worried that he won't do in order to sell that house and get us my mom my younger sister and me out of this problem. This breaks my heart to admit but I think I will have to take him out of the house and lock him out behind his back. I feel hopeless and as though I'm committing a sin. I'm hoping for the best before these next Venus Pluto conjunctions grasping the wisdom from these cosmic teachings remembering in my heart that I'm being guided. That's really tough. I'm really sorry to hear that. Sometimes moving on means letting go of things and letting go of the dependencies that have been created. Cutting people off Venus, Pluto sometimes means I can't give you something I can't be the thing that fulfils you any longer, as in, I can't support you or I can't offer a form of support any longer. That can certainly be a Venus Pluto dynamic. And also the trauma of getting kicked out and being homeless and having to sell something and you're it sounds like you're in a position of tremendous responsibility. I can only say make sure you're taking care of yourself in the midst of all that.

Here's another one Venus conjunct Pluto getting into some of the deep stuff. My boyfriend and I had a sudden breakup that left me in a lot of pain and absolute confusion. My instincts are telling me all the right things and I'm keeping hope. Recently he sent a genuine apology message and said he's made a mistake, it didn't surprise me. But now I'm going through a lot of inner turmoil trying to figure out what needs to be spoken about and renewed. I want to call soon, but he's not available until by mid next week. I have this strange unusual feeling in my stomach about it. Well, friend, so do I given that Venus is going back into the conjunction with Pluto. Just be careful. You know, sometimes the break is the right thing. Sometimes the breakup is the right thing sometimes you know, maybe it's done impulsively need to get back together but give yourself a lot of time and space to explore what's right in this situation Venus and Pluto is probably bringing some things up and that need to come to the surface before just you know letting bygones be bygones really make sure you work it out. Work into the issue.

Venus and Pluto conjunction I found out today that my sister's ex husband was convicted of rape on a female child recently. He's been recently also been released from prison he is now a level three offender, he reached out to ask to see his daughters and son when she found out he'd been put in jail and discovered why. He also sent a friend request to my 15 year old daughter last month which she accepted today. He was blocked and reported. There's the that just that heavy stuff that can come to the surface in love and relationships. Remember Venus Pluto to a lot of the times the Venus Pluto signatures that have you know, violence done towards women or assault or rape or things like that that can come up that are probably the worst of Venus, Pluto. Thank you for sharing that and I hope everyone will be safe. And that maybe there will also be healing that will come in for the victims. And maybe for him too. We always I always in the practice of praying for people who are messed up enough to do stuff like you know.

So on December 12, this is just a few days ago, I'm starting treatment for six days for codependency I've always focused so much on my partner's drinking issues that I never realised how my codependency issues will affect all of my relations unless I work through them. Good for you. Not an easy thing to do see how there's that theme of purging co dependencies that can be a big issue. Addiction, rehab these things come up under Venus Pluto very regularly in my experience with clients over the years. Venus Pluto currently undergoing the process of a rough criminal trial against my daughter's father some days I want to give in and just drop the charges so that all of this will be overdue that I understand except there's justice that needs to be served in the process. I'm teaching my young daughter not to let anyone take your power away even if you love or have loved that person. Thank you Pluto. Those are deep important lessons and Venus Pluto can also have something to do with the empowerment of women, of girls of the feminine energy. Thanks for sharing that I hope that justice is is done and that there's also healing that's brought in.

Next one Venus Pluto finally descended, decided to end a hurtful partnership that was draining me. I was reading something of a newly formed relationship with someone that my partner had I was writing my feelings off due to jealousy. It was obvious that the desire was there between these two they continually denied what I was calling out while he was neglecting our relations. It was ultimately so hurtful and how our relationship was put to the wayside. The day after we broke up, I found out they ended up being intimate together. My intuition was right. Yeah, that's a just classic Venus Pluto, where there's betrayal, lies, adultery. Just terrible sorry that you had to go through with that. I'm glad that you listen to your intuition.

I just moved in with my boyfriend last week, am in the process of changing health insurance over to one in my new state, I have a health condition I need expensive surgery for lately, everyone has been suggesting that we just get married so I can get better coverage to his works insurance. He has great job, I'm low income. He cares about me deeply and wants to help. Definitely marriage material, but it feels humiliating for there to be pressure like this. For this kind of reason. Instead of it being motivated by the natural progression or a relationship. Things are going well. But there is an element of drama with this. Isn't that hard. Venus, Pluto, the the weight of necessity, what you have to do in love or what sacrifices lovers will make for each other? You know, and the feeling of being put into this kind of cosmically unfair situation, I have to make a choice about something between my health and the natural progression of a relationship. Just intense, deep things for exploration. And all I can tell you is that, you know, if you make this choice with a clear head and a clear conscience, and the two of you are adults, and really sit down and talk it through, I think you can make the right decision and feel good about either result, either choice. Sometimes I think it helps to not think there's a wrong choice, when there's two tough choices, but rather that there's a right way to make one of these choices. And it's just as long as I can make the choice in the right way, do the right process. Maybe thinking about it like that will help.

Venus Pluto, one of my best friends dumped another one of our good female friends out of the blue since this behaviour is very out of character, the two of us, me and the dumpee piece together some other odd things happening around this time impulsive spending and travel and things she might be going through a breakthrough episode of mania. From her long well controlled bipolar. A side note as the dumpees husband just slapped her and has already moved in with another woman. That that could be I mean, I worked in, I was a social worker in Manhattan. And I worked with adults who suffered from schizophrenia, as well as like, as I think they're called schizo affective, like the comp combinations. And one of the things that I learned, I'm not like a mental health expert, so and this was, I don't know, 12 years ago now, I guess, 13 years ago. But any rate, one of the things that I learned is how major life events can, you know, trigger a decompensation. I remember, that was what we called, it was just like, kind of the underlying health issues, whether it's the command voices that someone might hear whatever this is, those things can come back through traumas. And I remember, just one of the things that I did every day was to try to create, just like soothing therapeutic art things, I mean, we would go and take pictures with disposable cameras. And sometimes we'd go see movies that were pretty gentle, like mostly kids movies and stuff like that at the movie theatre, or we would always just trying to do things that create a created a smooth ride. And so I can only imagine, that right now, I just pray that she finds her smooth ride again, and that hopefully your friend that got dumped can also just have a lot of compassion. And you know, maybe things will pull together and there can be a reunion of friendships, especially if she's just been left and in such a terrible way. So Blessings to you guys. It's really hard stuff.

I have Venus Pluto conjunct. This one's hard. I have Venus Pluto conjunct being activated by this. And we're just right now as a couple were discovering death is now in the end stages of hospice care at home. We're both Libra rising and the critical degree is being activated. A critical degree is being activated in both of our charts. I fully expect to be widowed at some point during this process. So I can't even imagine that, just thinking of my wife and having to say goodbye. And any of you guys are out there who are fortunate enough to have even a somewhat healthy relationship. You know, can you imagine saying goodbye to your special person? I can't. So anyway, my blessings to you I just found out yesterday actually, my Venus Pluto conjunction is happening in my mom's chart in relation to the house of siblings and my uncle has just been put into hospice care after having a stroke. He had a stroke when we thought, you know, he was kind of on the road to recovery, but apparently not and he's being moved into hospice. So it's funny how that just same theme of being moved into hospice showed up in my family in my mom, my mom's brothers, my mom's house of siblings. So anyway, my prayers to you and your husband.

Here's another one. My eight year old son, this one's sweet. My eight year old son came home from school yesterday and wanted me to follow him into his closet in his room as he had a secret to tell me. As we were on the floor in the closet, he whispered, he now has a girlfriend, Hannah. He said he asked to be a secret. Don't tell anyone. And then for the rest of the evening, he was writing secret love notes to her. He showed me this morning, he even made a map over the schoolyard so that they could walk together to some bushes where he would give her the love notes. I feel so blessed to know this precious secret. That's sweet. That is sweet. This next one's great. I'm practically imagining having sex with every single person I come into contact with. It's pretty intense. And I think it's part of my personality that I'm usually suppressing. Well, isn't it good to know that at the bottom of your heart is just the desire to connect so intensely with every being that you meet? Sometimes maybe sex addiction too, I don't know. But hopefully, there's some wisdom in being exposed to that instinct to that impulse. First, we're sexual beings who need love and connection with other people. But also that people are beautiful. You know, there's a difference between objectifying people and look at them and being honest about sometimes just the, the, the imagination and the connection that we really desire for every soul. If we're honest with each other, there's a weird way in which we walk around the world being like, you see someone who's attractive, it's not just like, oh, I want to get off. Sometimes it's like, I want to know what really, really deep, profound, utterly personal intimacy looks like in this situation with this human being right. And, that's not something that we should suppress. We should be careful with that energy. But we should also acknowledge that that's a real part of the heart and souls desire to connect with other living beings.

My twin boys are currently in the fifth grade. And I've just learned from their teacher that some of the kids were exposed to a video with some pornographic content they received from their classmates via WhatsApp. Well, it is fifth grade, man, that's when it starts happening. Remember, it was in the fifth grade, and it was maybe it was like six or seven. I don't know, somewhere around there. We were I was a preacher's kid. And we would go over to parishioners houses, you know, for dinner, we were always getting invited over to dinner in people's houses. And, you know, a lot of the times the kids were off to college and I'd be like, left alone, the parents would be talking I'd be left alone to kind of like hang out in the basement and watch a movie or something. And remember, one such occasion I was exploring this young man's bedroom who is away at college and I found he had a stack of playboys. I went home with a short stack of Playboy results. And I'll never forget ending up being so scared that they would be found that I went and threw them in a swamp behind my house. Anyway, okay, that's my confessional.

Today I learned that a staff member has a crush on me he's nine years younger than me and I'm the female manager the sexual tension has been heating up but I'm in a monogamous and relate monogamous relationship so nothing will be happening. Well, better hopes you better hope so with Venus, Venus retrograding back towards Pluto. Don't take a trip to the coffee machine. A couple of days ago I was cooking and had a small grease fire from a spill I neglected to clean properly though it seemed like I was able to get it under control before any damage was done. I noticed that chunk of my hair was burnt. Oh man, Venus, Pluto turning you turning you into a grease, a grease fire and immediately looking like Bride of Frankenstein. I'm kidding. Well, I hope that you hope that you get those loose ends taken care of. And this I will end with the funniest one of the day. I just got a call from my dad from a dad from my son's school my 15 year old has been sending dick pics to his daughter and she puts - oh my god first of all it was my own daughter I'd probably do the Kurt you know, I'd be like alright, look we're talking to that kids, parents but 15 year olds Wow. Gotta love it. So moral of the story Venus Pluto, don't send dick pics, don't send dick pics. Yes to secret love letters. Yes to love yes to the pain and hurt that love comes with can't have the love without the possibility of that pain and hurt that seems like a lesson. I want to imagine that God or divinity or source whatever you want to call it is talking to us through these kinds of experiences.

And I wrote down four things that God might be saying to us through stories like these, and then a few mantras. Your secret is safe with me. This secret is exactly where and how I am making my way into your heart. To me that feels true. Feels true and all the secrets I've read here all the secrets that people tell me in my sessions over the years when I've heard about Venus Pluto God says Your secret is safe with me. Source says it's through these experiences that the divine energy makes its way into your heart and transforms you to your secret is sometimes best shared find someone to share the load with and sometimes it is best kept know the difference. When you keep a secret it can be used as the secret blue flame of a hidden alchemy transforming your heart and soul. Some secrets are meant to be shared share the load, some are meant to be kept as the secret blue flame of alchemy. Your desires, all of them without condition at the root are actually for joy, for love, for ecstasy, for beauty, for connection for bliss, sometimes, sometimes they get perverted. They get twisted. But in time, I promise you will see that I have never judged you because I have always only seen what was at the bottom. The desire to be loved and to love to experience the bliss and ecstasy of divine love. For love here on Earth is a chance to imitate divine love, but it will sometimes hurt. It will sometimes harm there will be sometimes failures, disappointments, betrayals. Sometimes love here will hurt but every step is a step homeward. When you learn to love. Here are a few mantras that I think we can say to our divine source right now to the rest of the month as Venus comes back with Pluto in conjunction one, clean my heart. Give me the deepest, best Most Beautiful desires. Next mantra, I wrote down: into this satisfy my deepest desire for joy, bliss, ecstasy. The next mantra I wrote down is this, please be my most intimate lover, my most intense, erotic beloved secret. And finally, please forgive me and help me to forgive others for the hurt that I've caused, or for the hurt that others have caused me.

So thank you guys for sharing your stories. I hope to hearing these stories, some laughter, some tears, some thoughts about the planets lift you up and help you on your way. Let's share more stories as Venus is coming back through a conjunction with Pluto. Let's do another one. Maybe next week or the week after coming through the holidays. You know, it's nice to share stories like this. So use the hashtag grabbed talk about tell me how the planets are showing up in your life or email us grabbed at nightlight astrology calm. Always appreciate hearing from you guys. Thanks so much for sharing. We'll see you again tomorrow. Bye everyone.