Venus Conjunct Pluto in Aquarius: Major Themes to Watch For

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology, and today, we are going to take another look at Venus's upcoming conjunction with Pluto. This is the second major conjunction of another planet with Pluto this week.

First, we had Mars, and just as Mars is separating, here comes Venus to conjoin Pluto; we started off by looking at the context that Venus finds herself in. Right now, in order to specify, you know, get more specific about what type of Venus-Pluto conjunction we've got going on right now given that Venus and Pluto are in Aquarius, that there's this strong Mercury-Saturn connection underneath that, Venus is still very prominent in a lot of the other dignities in the sky.

So after doing that, today, we're going to just put Venus and Pluto in a vacuum, and we're going to talk about them and their archetypal combination, apart from the greater context. So together, we should have a really full and well-rounded understanding of this conjunction that's coming through. So that's what we're doing today.

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These are meant for students of all levels; they are a little bit more beginner-friendly, but the topics are specific enough that they could really be accessible for beginners, as well as more advanced or intermediate students. Tonight is the first of three talks they'll be doing: one in February, one in March, and one in April, on the outer planets and the way that they show up in love and relationships.

So tonight, we're gonna be looking at Pluto in Love, and this is actually ideal for the day on which we're seeing Venus and Pluto come together in the sky. You know, that wasn't intentional. When I set it up, I looked at I went oh my god, look at that. All right. Well, you know, you just get a little wink sometimes from the stars, and you're like, Okay, well, I guess the timing is right.

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Okay, let's take a look. We've got Venus and Pluto in a bit of an archetypal vacuum. Today, we're sort of isolating them in order to expand upon the conversation that we started yesterday. So here I have it on February 15, and what I want you to notice is there's Venus at 28,41 here Thursday morning, February 15, and I'm going to just fast forward this by one day to show you what happens and actually, you know what, I'll put a circle around them so you can see.

You can see, Mars is just separating from Pluto. So we've gone sort of like out of the frying pan and into the fire. You can fast-forward this tomorrow, February 16. Friday, we're getting to the point where Venus is about to cross into Aquarius, and we'll start conjoining Pluto at zero degrees.

Then, flash forward to Saturday morning, February 17. The conjunction has completed itself, and it's now separating, and we get that three degrees of separation that were really important to consider all the way until Monday, February 19. So if you back that up, that's about Wednesday, February 14, Valentine's Day, spicy, and then all the way until February 19. So the 15th through the 19th is the transit zone that I would look at, but really, today, February 15. Today, the 16th, tomorrow, and 17 Saturday are the days that I'm really paying attention to as probably the most potent and expressive of the Venus-Pluto dynamics.

Alright, so we're going to talk about the five most basic ways that you can usually see Venus and Pluto when they come together and this will actually form some of these points will be expanding and elaborating upon greatly in great detail tonight if you can join us in the webinars. Because Venus-Pluto is going to be one of the ways we talk about Venus
and we talk about Pluto in the way that Pluto affects love and relationships.

So, what is number one on the list? These aren't necessarily in order. But if there was an order, this would be number one, and it is a boiling or eruption point in loving relationships. It could be a work relationship, often love and romance. It could be with women or sisters, Venus significations, but really any kind of relationship, and this is like it's an eruption or boiling point, which means that they're the heat has been moving toward this boiling point for a while, or the pressures have been mounting, and the eruption point has been in process for a while.

So it's something that has a history behind it, where tensions in relationships reached this point of critical mass where it's like, okay, now something has to happen, and that could be a very positive thing.

For example, let's just say that there's a lot of sexual tension in a relationship, but you're keeping it sort of platonic for whatever reason; maybe it's in the workplace, and it's inappropriate, you know what I mean? Something like very Plutonian, very taboo, there's a lot of taboo involved with when Pluto gets involved with Venus, ooh, this is forbidden and then all of a sudden, it just doesn't matter that sexual tension, it gets to the point where it cannot be held back anymore, and all of a sudden you're making out on top of the copy machine.

So, but it could be that it's tremendously stressful, as in, you're suddenly taking jabs at each other in a relationship, and then all of a sudden, it reaches a point where you know, someone slams their cell phone on the counter and says, That's it. I've had it. You could see a moment, and it often happens when Venus and Pluto get together in any kind of aspect, maybe the trines and sextiles, not quite as much.

But squares conjunctions and opposition's for sure. These two planets, when they get together, represent a moment where underlying tension that has not been made, conscious, or has not been consciously expressed or actively asserted suddenly is being actively asserted; it could be an attraction, a desire, or a conflict. I just think about that quality of something Venusian that's been trapped in the underground or underneath or unconscious or something like that, and it just goes doom. Well, you know, sometimes that's fun. Sometimes that's spicy and fun, and sometimes it's destructive, and even when it's fun, sometimes it's destructive. So that is the number one watch for Venus boiling, over exploding out of the underground, the underworld.

Now, number two is similar, but it's a little bit more specific. It's an exploration of the sexual unconscious. The sexual unconscious might be about your desires. It doesn't have to be when I say sexual unconscious, I almost wanted to say about the desire body or something like that. But what I mean is, what do we want? What do we desire for the sake of happiness or pleasure? That could be sexual and is often relational. But it could also be about something like food.

Let me give you an example. So you know, we've seen this a lot over the years as we owned a yoga studio for a long time. People go through, like I'm going to eat. I'm only gonna eat fruit for seven days. We're gonna go on a fruit cleanse or something like that. I'm going to shove coffee up my ass and only eat Kiwis.

Very Venus, Pluto. That is a very inappropriate thing to say. But that's, you know, they, they do something like that and then what happens the day after they're done. It's like Little Caesars. Not I mean, give me two full pies. Give me the wings and the cheesy bread. Two liters of Pepsi. Do you see people swing. This has happened to me. So I'm not sitting in judgment of people who have gone through this, by the way, because it's happened to me. You do some great elimination cleanse. You're like, Ah, I'm just floating with the bodhisattvas. I'm so clean, and then all of a sudden, your desire body is like fuck you. Give me some french fries. You sweat through this, and you swing to the opposite pole.

When the sexual or desire the desires or impulses or libido or the libidinal impulses or the creative impulses have been pent up or repressed or trapped, or you've been trying to nice, nice them away with your kiwis and Venus Pluto comes through and all of a sudden it's game over. You just have to let it rip and enjoy what you want to enjoy, and, you know, you can quote Mary Oliver's Wild Geese, let the soft animal of my body love what it loves as you are shoving Cajun fries on your face. Oh, God, I'm sorry, guys, I'm just having fun with this.

Look, it might be that in your relationship, you've been working through trauma, and you have had a resistance to going certain places and intimacy. In your intimacy or your love life, and all of a sudden, it's like, you know what, I'm gonna go there, I'm gonna take a risk, and I'm going to try to open myself to my partner in a new way. It can be very healing; it can be about just honoring and recognizing that you like something really simple. Do you know what I actually really liked for me? It's always something that my wife shows me that at first, I'm like, I'm not gonna like this, this is stupid, and then I find like, Oh, I like this. It's often like a TV show that she likes or something.

Well, sometimes it's nothing more than allowing yourself or recognizing that something in you loves something, enjoys something, you have a taste for something, and it's just about recognizing it. Sometimes, it's also about recognizing that there are unhealthy or uncontrollable impulses that you need to seriously look at; oh my god, I drink too much. Or, you know, oh my god, there's some impulse that I can't control. I feel a little possessed and crazy because there's this thing.

So any exploration of desires, and the creative or sexual or libidinal impulse in general and its relation to what is in the unconscious, suddenly becoming aware of it. That is a very Venus-Pluto kind of dynamic.

Alright, number three: power, wealth, greed, attraction, and desire. I remember the very first time I saw the movie Wall Street. Have you guys ever seen that Gordon Gekko and who's played by? What is his fucking name? I think Michael Douglas is his name. Anyway, he says something like greed is good or something like that. He's, you know, he's the ultimate sort of Playboy sleazebag archetype, but he's also very powerful and very wealthy, and let's be honest, there are a ton of people, and lest we forget ourselves and forget to be humble, any of us could find someone like Gordon Gekko at any point in time very attractive and enticing, especially if they're starting to offer us a share taste of wealth, power, success, fame.

It all seems like, you know, from our position of Tuesday or Thursday morning sweatpants. It's like I'm not I'm not immature. I'm not interested in greed and wealth, and yeah, but if something came by and was like, Hey, I could change your whole life, give you a lot of money, a lot of fame, a lot of success. I could completely change everything about your life. Well, you would just be like, Oh, no, thanks. I'm, I'm fine. Me and my sweatpants. We're, you know, we're good. I don't know.

But Venus-Pluto will bring up. It's like, let's just put it this way. You'll be tempted by the dark side. That is a very Venus-Pluto dynamic. Pluto means riches. Pluto is about darkness and depth, and Venus is about what shines and sparkles and creates a sense of beauty. Venus is famous. One of the ways that she has described an ancient mythology is that she is the embodiment of fame because of her beauty because of her, elegance, because of her radiance. Because of her also her intelligence, she's considered a very intelligent goddess.

So a combination of beauty and intelligence, especially in Aquarius, right? And then you hit Pluto, and you get those subterranean themes of, you know, tremendous Shakti and power, and look, none of those things are wrong or bad in and of themselves, especially when those powers are sort of used for good.

You know what I mean when there's virtue and humility and love and laughter connected to those themes and qualities. You know, being in touch with things that are beautiful and powerful are not inherently bad. But there is almost always a way in which as we get to know those qualities, and as we come in contact with them, just like I think as the Star Wars geek, I think of Luke Skywalker learn during the force, there's something wrong with the force, but he has to work with the temptations of the Dark Side of the Force as he learns to be a channel or medium for such powerful energies.

Venus-Pluto is a very same way you will find that a Venus-Pluto partner shows up and you know, the maybe that like level one of a Venus-Pluto transit is like, hey, look, I met someone who is very sexy, very well educated, very powerful. Um, but they beat animals. That's it. There's something really dark about I hope to God no one has ever met someone like that. It sounds awful.

But I mean, that's the kind of thing and Venus-Pluto. It's like, oh, geez, this person is like very shiny, very sparkly, very powerful, very seductive. There's something a little evil, something a little not right here. So that's the Venus-Pluto dynamic, and there's there's a there's a way we have to work with those energies. Because coming in contact with power, as people have said from so many different traditions over 1000s of years, working with power is it's tricky. You know, because there's there's temptation, there's hubris, there's, we're, especially in Aquarius, like we want to play God, you know, so gotta be very careful about that.

We want relationships with the gods, we get to be ourselves when we do that, and it turns out that that's actually the sweetest and best place to be. The gods want to be human; we want to be like the gods. Things seem to work better when there's not envy involved in wanting to be some other kind of being than the one we are, and Venus-Pluto can tempt us to want to be like other people, people who have wealth or people who have something that we don't that we look at, and we say, well, that's attractive.

Number four, erotism, depth, power, creativity, fertility, and fear. You know, one of the most amazing things; now let's flip it a little bit. You get in touch with Venus-Pluto, and you get in touch with an energy that is oh-so creative. It is the power of a great musician to just, you know, transmit, improvise; it is the power of someone with an amazing singing voice or someone who can get into character and play it so well on stage or in film. It is the power of romance when it's true and deep and profound, and it starts shifting the whole Earth around you.

Venus-Pluto is so powerful, and even though so many of the powers associated with Venus-Pluto are positive. You're having you're having a different kind of sex. You've never had this kind before, and oh my god, is it good? But guess what it makes you afraid makes you fear? Am I gonna lose this? Oh my gosh, Venus-Pluto puts you in touch with new people, new groups, and new situations, and it is powerful. But oh my god. Am I capable? Am I mature enough to handle it? Venus-Pluto gives you new responsibility, new power, new wealth. It puts you in touch with creative abilities that you didn't think they were for you. But here they are, and you're afraid.

Venus-Pluto is one of the things that's really amazing, and it's usually my least favorite thing. Because it's like such a new-age cliche. You know what you're afraid of your greatness. You're afraid of how magnificent you are. No, you're not. You're just a jerk. I'm just playing. I'm just playing.

But this is the way Venus and Pluto; Did you know that you have something to be really, really happy with this is an opportunity in business and opportunity and love a creative opportunity, a power or something about you that you're seeing or it's always been there. But now it's coming up, and it is truly magnificent, and it scares you because you don't know if you're capable of handling it.

So, there's a way in which courage is required, even when good things happen. Even when powerful, beautiful things are somehow just pouring forth from the Plutonian depths are just coming up, and though they're here, here's this amazing fountain of creative opportunity, and you're like, oh, that's the thing. That's a Venus-Pluto thing. So you got to step into it, you know?

Alright, number five, it has to hurt if it's to heal, and you know, I think this phrase comes from the Neverending Story. There's like this little cave that a tray you goes to get some healing after he comes out of the swamps of sadness if you guys know the story, and there's are two little elves, and the woman is she's like, it reminds me almost identically of the two characters and Princess Bride who live in the tree Billy Crystal and his wife Oh, I like similar archetypes.

Anyway. So they're arguing, you know, the husband and wife are arguing, and she's like the healer, and she's giving them all this stuff, and anyway, she says it has to, it has to hurt if it's to heal. So if you know the move, you know exactly what I'm talking about. This is a Venus-Pluto dynamic. Venus is the healer. We don't think of Venus that way. Because you typically think of Venus has everything to do with beauty and luxury and like, I don't know, enjoyment and pleasure and sensuality. But the other thing that Venus broadly represents is good fortune, and good fortune includes a wound being healed and going from sick to feeling better.

Those were all significations of Venus. The both benefics could broadly represent things going from worse to better, which includes healing. Venus, Pluto brings healing, especially after Mars, Pluto has just come through right Venus-Pluto comes through and says, All right, you know, you went through something turbulent this week, and now we're going to bring some kind of sound of a healing remedy. But Venus-Pluto's healing remedy is that I'm actually drinking right now. Some tea that is actually made for me tastes like sticks. Tastes like tastes like funky Earth. But I know it's good for me because my wife made it and she's a witch and I love her.

So, you get what I mean? It has to hurt if it's to heal, is the Venus-Pluto saying, This is good for you. This will feel good. But it might hurt a little bit. This might taste a little bit bitter. This comes from the underworld. It's full of sticks and mud. That's good. That's a good thing.

All right. Well, I've been having a lot of fun today, but I hope not at anybody's expense who's out there having a hard time. If anything, I hope that my inability to contain myself today, it may be if it's been a little bit inappropriate, has at least embody the archetype, and I look forward to visiting with all of you tonight at the webinar if you want to come out.

Don't forget to go over to the website and click on the Live Events tab. You can join the webinar this evening on the presence of Pluto in love and relationships. It was a really appropriate webinar, I think, for the transit of the week here, and I hope to see some of you there; in the meantime, we will continue our daily talks tomorrow. Alright, take it easy, everyone. Bye