Venus Conjoining Saturn Sets the Stage for the Final Mars-Pluto Opposition

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [https://nightlightastrology.com/]. Today we are going to take a look at Venus conjoining Saturn as another major astrological event this week that is also closely tied to the upcoming opposition between Mars and Pluto.

I'm going to tell you what to watch for today, given the Venus Saturn conjunction in Pisces, but I'm also going to tell you how that may be connected to the upcoming Mars Pluto opposition.

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Okay. On that note, let's turn our attention to the real-time clock and let's take a look at the transit.

So yesterday, we took a look at the Sun and Pluto, and that is actually still perfecting today. So first thing to say is, if you missed yesterday's talk on Sun Pluto, because that is happening today, we got out in front of it by talking about it yesterday.

But that could still be very applicable. If you haven't seen that video, you might want to go back and take a look.

The other thing to mention is that we are once again getting out in front of it. We are going to see that Venus and Saturn conjoined for the final time, once through a retrograde, once through direct motion, once through retrograde, now again through direct motion.

Venus has been hovering around the North Node and Saturn for a long time. In fact, it was last week I did a video talking about the evolutionary opportunity of Venus spending so much time with the North Node and Saturn.

You could also go back and check that video out for an extra deep dive on where Venus has been over the past couple of weeks.

But with Venus conjoining Saturn, what we are noticing is the close proximity that this event—like the Sun square to Pluto—has to the upcoming Mars Pluto opposition.

Now, again tomorrow, I'm going to be going live to talk about that opposition and do horoscopes at 10am Central, so I hope to see you there.

But what I want to do today is talk about Venus and Saturn's contact with one another in light of the fact that right after they conjoin, we move this forward just a touch more, and we're going to see that on the 26th those two planets are opposing one another.

So there you have it. Now that opposition will be perfecting on Saturday, but the Venus Saturn conjunction and the Sun Pluto that we've been looking at this week, they come right before it.

So in a way, they're setting the stage for this Mars Pluto opposition. They are most likely going to be connected in terms of the internal experiences that you're having and in terms of external circumstances around you.

So it becomes important to take a look at this Venus Saturn conjunction (excuse me) from the standpoint of the upcoming Mars Pluto opposition. I hope that makes sense.

So what I want to do is give you five things to watch for with respect to Venus and Saturn, but to do so from the standpoint of what it might mean going into the Mars Pluto opposition.

So each of these are sort of like Venus Saturn in a vacuum, with some additional commentary on how this may dovetail smoothly into—well, I don't know how smoothly with Mars opposite Pluto—but how it may connect to Mars Pluto, anyway.

All right. Number one: When Venus and Saturn get together, what Venus represents—there's many different planets that can represent our values, so don't think Venus has the market cornered on values in astrology—but Venus does represent our preferences.

What do I find pleasurable, satisfying, enjoyable? What are my yeses? And quite honestly, just like there's some colors I love, like purple, and there's some I don't—what are your dislikes?

So our likes and our dislikes are so Venusian. This is intimately connected with our values in life, the sense of what pleases us versus what we find ugly, stuff like that, subjective on a certain level.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all of that. But when Venus meets with Saturn, there's an opportunity to do some very serious, very mature, very consequential reflecting on our values and to get clear about what our yeses and nos are, what attracts us or repels us.

So consider that now with that clarity comes the evolutionary dynamism of Mars Pluto. So this clarity about values may lead to a very charged level of conflict or of confrontation or of creative action that Mars Pluto signifies.

So think about it like that.

Number two: Relationship explorations. Now we've talked about this at length already in previous videos about Venus and Saturn over the past weeks, but Venus and Saturn can be just like Saturn is naturally associated with winter and the dark part of the cycle of life, where we go through the light, the summer, the life, the spring, go through the darkness of winter and death.

So Saturn is associated with death. But remember, in the animistic imagination of ancient astrologers, death and life are part of a continuous cycle, so it's no need to be super negative here.

But when you put Venus with Saturn, relationships—one of Venus's key significations—and relationships of any kind, romantic of course, but other kinds of relationships too, can go through meaningful expirations.

Meaning it's winter for Venus, or it's the death or autumn of Venus right now. There's a signature of endings or expirations around Venusian themes that could be a style that you take as an artist, or it could be a person you're in relationship with, or someone you hire, or someone you work for.

So there's so many different ways to imagine it, but just think this is a natural point of ending and departure for Venus.

Now, when we think about that—excuse me, before I jump on to number three—we think about that in relation to Mars Pluto. This is the kind of relationship ending or expiration, or some kind of Venusian ending point that could have immediate, very intense creative results or consequences or conflicts or tensions that come right around it.

So we add in Mars Pluto as context, it gets pretty dramatic.

Number three would be the deepening or maturing of Venusian topics. Look, Saturn can represent death, as in winter, but the winter of our years might make us a grandpa, a grandma, an elder, a crone.

It might make us someone who has a lot of veteran experience and insight. There's—you know, if you could think of the image of Yoda, or of a sage living in a cave, or a wise woman living in the woods—you often think of someone who has lived longer, 60s plus, to put an age on it.

I don't know, but the idea here is that Venus can reach points of greater depth and maturity and commitment.

And so Saturn, in addition to representing death, can represent things that are old. And one of the meanings of that which is old might mean that which is expired. We need something new, because this is old.

So Saturn, not surprisingly, is overthrown by Zeus in the ancient Greek mythology. Zeus overthrows Kronos, and there's a switching of the young and the old. And that's a perennial story.

But we also have the idea that Saturn can represent everything that is time-tested, mature, stable, reliable, veteran.

So how are Venusian things deepening or maybe improving because they're becoming more mature?

Now think about that, and whatever that's doing may be a part of what could be considered an empowerment on the side of Mars and Pluto. Or as something's becoming more mature, it necessitates another kind of creative struggle or conflict.

Number four: The fruits of Venusian karma. I just want to say this broadly—anything Venus represents: sex, love, relationships, art, women, sisters, friends, our values, our likes, our dislikes—that there has.

There is a past for all of us tied to relationships, to sexuality, to our likes and dislikes, to our taste, to our body, to the sensual and body life that we lead.

And insofar as there is a story that's being told with our relationship to pleasure or our relationship to relationships themselves, this is a moment of harvesting things from the past when we get to Saturn.

Remember, Saturn is exalted in the sign of Libra, the place of the balance, the place of the autumn equinox, the harvest. Saturn is a harvester.

This is why we associate Saturn with karma. It's not that all planets represent karma, but Saturn is associated with reaping what's been sown over the life of a cycle.

This is why sometimes we also compare Venus and Saturn to like aging wine. You've heard me do that one at least 100 times on my channel.

So the fruits of Venusian karma can just mean that there's Venusian karma that's ripe and blossoming. It has a history behind it, so this can be a feeling of great weight behind it.

Well, connect that to Mars Pluto coming up, and all of a sudden you have a karmic harvesting moment for Venus that leads to immediate, swift, dramatic, creative changes, tensions, or conflicts.

Finally, Venus and Saturn can offer a reality check. Let's use a simple example. Let's say Venus represents pleasure, and Saturn represents a reality check for your relationship with pleasure.

Let's say you've been drinking too much. Let's say you've been eating too much. Let's say you've been—something has been excessive with respect to how you seek pleasure or fulfillment materially.

Saturn comes along as the rock bottom that sends an alcoholic to rehab. Venus Saturn can come up as the reality check within a relationship where suddenly you go, "Yeah, things are bad."

Venus Saturn can come up as the reality check that says, "I'm really not liking this anymore. I'm, you know, just—I'm really clear about it. This isn't working."

Those all sound a little bit negative. A reality check can also be a relief. It's like, "Oh, I'm clear about this now."

But think about Venus and Saturn as providing some kind of reality check, especially Venus, who can be very idealistic and dreamy and sort of otherworldly in the sign of Pisces.

That reality check from Saturn might be a little melancholic or disappointing. There could be an angst that comes with it.

How do we deal with that, with Mars Pluto coming right on the heels of this? Do we explode? Do we lash out? Do we have other immediate Titanic clashes, or power struggles, or something like that?

Or do we know exactly what needs to be done, and we find ourselves at that moment of critical mass I was talking about yesterday, where the reality check pushes us into a form of action that is now necessary?

So these are just different ways to think about what Venus and Saturn are providing, given the close proximity to Mars opposite Pluto.

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