Venus in Cancer Opposing Pluto in Capricorn

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Hi everyone, this is Acyuta-bhava from Nightlight Astrology and today we are going to talk about Venus's upcoming opposition to Pluto. Venus is in the later degrees of Cancer right now. And it's about to oppose Pluto, who is also in the later degrees of Capricorn. So I'm going to put this up in the real time clock and then we're going to break this combination down from an archetypal standpoint, give you some sense of what to watch for in the days to come. So here's the real time clock, and I'm going to highlight Venus here at 24 Cancer. And here's Pluto at 26 Capricorn.

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If I animate this and move it forward a few days, what you're going to notice is that venus moves through the 26th degree, opposing Pluto between now and Thursday. So here's my Thursday, it's passed over completely. So between now and Thursday is really the target for this transit. That's June 24. So between now I'm recording this on June 22, and the 24th, this transit is already building, but it will perfect by Thursday. So you could even feel this transit probably all the way until the weekend, say Saturday, until Venus actually changes signs into Leo. So it is a pretty powerful transit because in the background of this transit, I want to remind everybody, that we also have a really potent t-square forming right now between Mars, Saturn and Uranus. And that t-square is going to because it's sort of energising everything that's going on, Mercury at the moment is stationed and turning direct. We're at a very important turning point in our yearly astrology right now that the astrology of 2021 This is a pretty big turning point because we've got the Uranus Saturn square going on. Because Mars is now in energising that Uranus, Saturn square and then right is that's peaking, we also have a Venus, Pluto opposition. So they're all connected. They don't exist in a vacuum, of course. So the themes that we're going to talk about today could be a little bit more intense, simply because of the amount of other intense transits that are also simultaneously perfecting, they tend to amplify each other's archetypal patterns in combination.

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So Venus, Pluto, now we have the goddess associated with love, beauty, friendship, harmony agreement, and we have Pluto, Hades, the word that means riches and can be indeed a very rich sign a sign that provides for a lot of empowerment, it's a very fertile sort of primordial sign, it's full of depth and intensity, and can actually empower whatever it touches. On the other hand, there is the underworld, sort of subterranean darkness, depth, intensity, transformative energies that come with Pluto that can sometimes be pretty dark, and intense in a not so easy way. So what do we get with this combination, which I've visited, you know, more times than I can count in my career at this point? What kind of things do we see what kinds of things should you watch for? So I've made a list as always, let's talk about the most obvious one, which would be that plutonian depth, intensity and transformative purgative cathartic force in love, sex, marriage and relationships. So in a relationship, this can be a time where people break up, it can be a time where people are, you know, essentially having that intense, you know, the intense kind of honeymoon phase of a relationship where everything's building with great depth and power. And you're getting like, kind of captured or seized by this force that's coming out of nowhere, I can't think about anything else. I want to eat, sleep, breathe this other person in this relationship. So the kind of obsessive force that compels us in relationships when it's new, it doesn't mean it'll last either. It can be a force that indicates some, you know, a very kind of hot, steamy, but very temporary and not long lasting love affair.

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On the other hand, it could be a sign that there is some kind of deep emotional and relational catharsis happening, that could be the indication of a new relationship starting, or a relationship that is facing its demons, a relationship that is rekindling or revitalising it's intimacy physically, sexually. It could be a sign of healing sexually. It can be also be a sign of violence sexually. Pluto, Venus is often associated with rape or like sort of like sex crimes, anything that perverse dark demonic, possessive around sex or love, stalkers, that kind of thing. Unfortunately, Venus Pluto. Anytime that someone will try to, you know, harm or disrupt a Venusian environment. So let's say a Venusian environment is a park where families are gathered. And this is the kind of energy where there's a there's a dog that bites a kid, I'm trying to be as light as I can with this. But, you know, there's a dog who bites a kid in the park, there's a woman who's mugged going jogging in the middle of the daylight in the park, something like just the feeling of something kind of dark and subterranean, coming up out of the underworld and suddenly seizing, grabbing violating something that's Venusian, this is Venus in Cancer, so it's a little bit more vulnerable. It hits, you know, home, family, marriage, you know, vulnerable places, children. So, I've said many times, the last one of the previous times that we had this energy in the air, the Venus Pluto, dynamic. Mars Pluto dynamic of several years ago, when Jeffrey Epstein was convicted, or I think it was when he was arrested.

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So anything that has to do with sex trafficking, objectification of women, as well as the themes of, say, women's empowerment, where the plutonian force that's kind of surging up from the underworld can be an empowering force, of course, it can be a violating one that sort of takes everyone by surprise, and maybe kind of dark and destructive like a volcano. But it can also signify, you know, elemental empowerment, themes that are that are coming up in relation to the feminine or to the Goddess. So there's a lot of things that come up more specifically that I wrote about today, in addition to these transformative underworld forces that are there to either regenerate and empower or compel or potentially destroy. So, for example, when you think about people who want relationships of any kind, whether it's work relationships, or friendships, or religious or spiritual community, or whatever the case might be, to be perfectly peaceful, everyone's on the same page, nobody disagrees. Everything is perfect to my liking. That when Pluto approaches, it will often be through what such a person believes to be a disagreeable person, you know, so there's going to be that person who comes along and they represent the threat somehow, to our preferences, to what we'd like. And it's really important because, when we're in such a space, we often think that it's, it's that person's problem, that person is the one disturbing the peace.

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But there's a way in which you know, we will also constantly throughout our lives, Venus Pluto, have a timeless archetypal relationship. And so, you know, the the thing that is beautiful, is abducted, and taken away and stripped down. So, for example our youth is stripped from us, our beauty is stripped from us, our bodies are eventually stripped from us, there's this inevitable way in which the darker forces of death and decay and transformation come up and steal our sense of serenity, that everything will be like this forever, everything should be perfectly peaceful. And if we haven't made peace with that. It's not that it's easy to deal with, or that we should, you know, somehow blame ourselves for the existence of such a force or reality. But if we haven't reconciled ourselves to that energy that comes out of nowhere and sort of destabilises the peace, then it's very easy to react and to blame and to judge and to other anyone or anything that you know, comes in and, and poses a threat to our sense of what's beautiful or peaceful or serene or likeable, or agreeable. So there's a lot of projecting that goes on with Venus Pluto, like, Oh, that's the ugly thing. That's the disruptive thing. That's the thing that I don't like. We do it to each other along different political and cultural lines, we do it to each other in terms of different aesthetic values. Well, I like this, and you don't like that. And that thing is dark. And my thing is light. And so when you notice those kinds of extremes coming up around beauty or peace or agreement, and whatever bothers that or whatever disturbs, or disrupts that there's always an opportunity for deeper reflection. And my advice, as always, is don't be careful not to react and get caught up in trying to other and exclude and sort of damn or judge anything that feels like a violation of our sense of what is beautiful, fair, just agreeable, and so forth. That's a Venus Pluto dynamic.

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Remember that, from at least from the standpoint of bhakti, yoga, but also from even in the myth of Psyche and Eros or Cupid and Psyche, or from the standpoint of Krishna bhakti, for sure, different Tantra practices. Love is not just this peaceful and serene experience in bhakti, we even say that in the enlightened state, that there still dynamism between lover and beloved, that there's a way in which the soul and God or the divine, continue in dynamic tension, even in the enlightened state, and that dynamic tension involves the union and separation, union and separation. So this world is in a sense of a shadow of the same kind of thing that's happening in an enlightened state, in terms of there being a constant separating and coming together separating and coming together. And that that dynamism is at the heart of what makes love so ecstatic. And so, Pluto, Venus is a reminder that sometimes there's a destructive principle at work within the fabric of love, beauty, fairness, truth, all things that Venus is also associated with, because you have to remember that ancient philosophers believed that beauty and truth were one in the same, they're looking at things like music and shapes in nature, and the ordering of the cosmos and art, all as compatible studies.

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So at any rate, the point is that, you know, love is dynamic, and beauty and terror and fear and harmony, that, that we will. It's not that we're trying to glorify dark things, but it is that it's that we're trying to understand that the more that we evolve and grow consciously and make space in the soul as the meeting ground for these archetypes, the playground for these archetypes that we start to understand that love is as much built on the scary experiences, as it is the, you know, those that we consider to be most beautiful or blissful. I was at a baseball game last night went for my best friend's birthday, we went and saw the Minnesota Twins play baseball, and I was talking about, you know, one of my fears of bringing my kids to the game someday is them getting hit by a ball. Because usually every major league baseball season, there'll be like replays, or, you know, some some story about some little kid getting, you know, hit by a foul ball or a bat or something like that. And I was saying, like, you know, there's a way in which, you know, it's like, I can't protect them from everything, and there's still certain risks that are going to take no matter where you go and whatever. And so I I walked out to go to the bathroom, and then I came back. And as I was walking back, I was waiting, I decided to wait, because I didn't want to walk down in front of people while the the next pitch was coming. So this is kind of a courtesy at a ballgame. So the next pitch comes and the batter swings and accidentally loses control of his bat. And it flew they have like the safety netting now at ballparks that because of the kind of like epidemic of people getting hit by foul balls. And it flew over the net. And it flew right over the heads of everyone in the section I was sitting including my best friend and it came it was in it flew directly at me and I literally had to side hop and duck It smashed into the wall right behind my head. And I was, I was in the I was on the, whatever the big screen, and not sure if it would have hit ended up hitting my legs or like where it would have struck me. But literally, I was like on the big screen and like everyone around me was looking at me, like the like the whole stadium really not that it was a full stadium, I think it was probably half full because of COVID. But everyone was looking at me. I was like, holy crap, you know. And I went and I sat back down, it was really surreal. Because right before I had gone to the bathroom, you know, we were talking about that. And I was thinking about Mars, Saturn, Uranus, and the potential for accidents. And my friend, he's fluent in astrology. And so he was like, you know, totally appreciating my comments about, you know, accidents that ballparks and stuff like that. So there's this near miss, like, near miss. And as I was sitting down, I was reflecting on it. I was like, isn't that what makes this game so compelling, and as an analogy, or a metaphor for life itself, like there are flying bats in this world, you know what I mean? And, and it's part of the price of admission, that there's this risk involved and it's compelling to the soul there be risk involved in love.

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So we can't ban or banish the potential risk of that is a part of love, or part of choosing love, the potential for pain or loss or suffering. So Pluto Venus says don't exclude it, because if you do, it'll come and hunt you it'll grow it'll become like a monster in the basement and then you'll have to face it and eventually come to this lesson that love includes darkness and suffering. It's there because love loves everything. The unconditional love that we're looking for is truly unconditional. It brings everything in to the fabric of love. It's an open centre, open doors. All are welcome. Anytime you can always walk right back in and bring whatever you have with you. It'll take it and love it. So love also moves things to get stuck with Venus, Pluto, you know, some people will say that Venus Pluto is going to purge detoxify. For example. You know, if you do an elimination diet or a purge or a cleanse, your skin looks better. I've been doing a cleanse for example, and just finished in fact. So the idea of the elimination of unwanted or toxic or kind of ugly or stained things like getting a stain out of your favourite shirt would be Venus, Pluto a transformation of aesthetics or appearance, dealing with also intense obsessed demonic or dark energies especially around love sex and relationships, stalkers, jealousy, obsession, betrayal, lust, things coming up, you know, for you to see, oh, I just found this email that you've been talking to someone else. I can't tell you how many times I've seen something like that happen with Venus Pluto, unfortunately.

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Some really like some of the more twisted dynamics around love, sex, beauty, vanity will come up around Venus, Pluto, for example. People who glorify dark or intense energies as though they're more real, right? I've done it before, too. But you get into this mood where you're like, Oh, you know, you're kind of simple and naive. I'm the deep dark complex one, and it's more real. And if you ever been in a relationship with someone like that, who insists that everything be real all the time, you know, dark, intense, sort of cathartic emotional intensity and, you know, it's like, fight hard, and have really intense makeup sex. It's like these cycles of like, hating each other and coming back together. And, and people are like, Yeah, well, if you don't like that you're not real. You know? And I'm like, well, you just take your realness and that's not true. It's not actually true. Sometimes it can be it can go either way. Sometimes people avoid deep dark, intense energies and Venus Pluto can address that other times people are obsessed with the kind of deeper erotic, dark qualities and it represents, you know, some kind of compulsion, some kind of way of having dealt with trauma, a way of propping up the ego. People will stay stuck in it and then insist that it's more real than other energies. You know, as a, you know, one of the things that really chilled me out was having kids and realising how important it is that I create safe, steady, smooth rhythms and environments for my little girls not too much crazy dark stuff right away as they're developing. Not that that we keep out darkness either fairytales, by the way, have a lot of darkness in them. That's a very Venus, Pluto, dynamic fairy tales with the kind of dark moral difficulties that come up. And you know, you know, the eating children, and it's Hansel and Gretel, or you know what I mean, like a fairy tale, some get dark, but the point is that it can be underrated, to learn how to control or harness darker energies. And in order to control or harness darker energies, you have to realise that they are real, but you also have to pass beyond the glorification of them as well, they're realer than other things. You know, maybe when you're 25, you know.

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So anyway, people who can't stop talking about themselves taking pictures of themselves who try to assert their specialness or their beauty, like a broken record, this is Venus, Pluto dynamic. You know, we all have vanity, not above it, and I'm not trying to, you know, be judgmental, but Venus Pluto can be that, that kind of compulsion to take selfies Am I beautiful, look at how beautiful I am, look at how sexy I am. Look at the nice clothes I wear, look at how good my hair is, or look at you know, look at the nice things that have you know, whatever, just constant assertion of my beauty. Whether the beauty comes in terms of how interesting I am or whatever. So, that just that kind of like when Venus becomes self obsessed, and almost compulsive, the compulsive need to assert specialness or beauty. People also who can't critically self reflect because they mean that they think that any criticism means that they're ugly. So you know, it was a struggle for us at a yoga studio for 10 years, this is a particular issue that I think probably a lot of people out there, I know, there's a lot of wellness, people in the wellness industry who watch astrology, and you can probably relate to this. People come to the yoga studio, and they would want to lose weight. And a lot of the times, we would, you know, in coaching people and working with people for a long time with their bodies, not that I have a perfect relationship with my own. But there would be kind of this back and forth that would always be taking place. On the one hand, people say, Oh, I want to do yoga, because I just need to lose weight and feel better about myself. And you kind of meet maybe help people move more into you know, it doesn't really matter what you look like, it's just self acceptance, we're not here to necessarily lose weight and get a perfect body. I mean, if it happens as a byproduct, great, but like, let's not make that the focus and you be kind of pushing people away from that. Then on the other hand, you'd have people come in, and let's say people who were maybe struggling with motivation in their practice, or off the mat in terms of the lifestyle of yoga, and they would use the mantra of self acceptance to avoid doing things that required harder work and the need to like purge themselves of, you know, unhealthy or unwanted behaviours. And so sometimes people would be like, well, I don't have to lose any weight. I don't need any of this to change anything about my life, because I'm perfect the way I am. And it's like what Yes, you are. And at the same time, you know, we can't use self acceptance as a way of avoiding changes that also need to happen for the sake of our health. So there's always this dance between those two and sometimes people would including myself at different times in my life kind of go back and forth between that.

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So there can be sometimes a fine line and Venus Pluto will bring up the difficulty of using of wanting to purge yourself, because you're trying to like it's like a hammer, you're trying to chisel into the most beautiful, perfect looking thing ever. And underneath that is really just a problem with self acceptance. Or on the other hand, you're preaching a gospel of self acceptance and sort of flaunting yourself as you are when sometimes maybe you need to step back and improve purge, cleanse, change things. Each. It's different for each person and it's different for each group. Then at different times and seasons of our lives, isn't it? So, but the extremes that come up around that self transformation versus self acceptance, I don't need to transform, I just need to accept myself the way I am. You know, like, I don't need to use the excuse that I'm perfect the way that I am I need to change. So where are those extremes in our heads or our lives right now a good thing to think about? People who can't critically self reflect because they think that any kind of criticism means Oh, I'm ugly. And so I won't self reflect, instead, I'll just preach this message of I'm fine. The way that I am. confusion between inner beauty and vanity confusion between self empowerment and narcissism. That's a big one, too. I can say, again, as a yoga studio owner for 10 years that we saw this a lot as well and in ourselves, to be honest, that there's some times where you mistake self care for self indulgence. You know, you'll say, like, I just, it's time for me, you know, I just need to do this, it's time for me, you know? Like, well are you sure you know? And then it's like, well, you know, maybe it's not time for me, maybe, or maybe there's a different way of taking care of myself. That doesn't involve, you know, like, whatever, all the meanest things coming into my mind. Okay, so, confusion between self empowerment and narcissism, inner beauty and vanity. There's sometimes a difference between beauty and toxicity. Like someone who, you know, what you get, you get kind of stuck on yourself. And it's in thinking, I'm, I'm just loving myself, you become a toxic person to be around. Everything relates back to, you know, if everything's relating back to us in our need to constantly feel good or beautiful, or whatever it's like, well, the secret shadow of that is, you know, probably an underlying insecurity. The degree to which we constantly need to assert that I'm secure, secure and secure is sort of the degree to which we aren't. So you know, you have to like, take these you can you can really feel these energies come up around Venus, Pluto, already mentioned, eliminate elimination diets per purgation and cleanses. Let's see, yeah, there's another one that's out there. And I found being in the New Age community in the psychedelic community for a long time that this one's another hard one. People who mistake lust that leads to pain, for empowerment or freedom. For example, you know, I can't tell you how many times you know, seeing 10,000 clients or whatever, over 10 years that I've seen people come in and mistake, well, I just need to be free. So I'm going to have a marital affair, that ends up totally demolishing my family, even if the relationship isn't viable anymore, even if the person really has good reasons for maybe not wanting to be in a relationship anymore, that there will be this like, well, I'm, it's my turn, you know, it's I'm owed something or I'm going to do whatever I want indulgent taste and pursue whatever desire that I have. And I don't care what kind of destruction it creates. And this is a really powerful Venus Pluto dynamic that can come up like there's this pent up energy, I'm so sick of this, you know, this abuse, not necessarily physical, I mean, just like, let's just say I feel tired of not being seen or loved, or, I feel tired of being in this situation, or some. So I'm going to, I'm going to do what I want, I'm going to do what I desire, I'm going to taste whatever I want to taste. And people will mistake this for kind of like empowerment and freedom. And then what they don't realise is that they're not indulging, they're not following that impulse in a constructive way. And so it ends up creating a tonne of pain and destruction. And maybe by the end, it will have been deeply transformative, because Pluto does have that effect, sort of ultimately, but you wish you could go back and kind of say, How can I honour this impulse in a way that is not going to end up creating more destruction, like a wake of destruction, so sometimes you'll also see people who are driven by their base instincts who think that they are free or empowered, for example, I guess just the you know, it's it's become really popular to glorify our, our base instincts, like we're all so stressed out and busy, which I can relate to, to you know, as a father and so forth and, but you get into this space where you're like, just give me the tub of ice cream I just don't care like and it's so funny and ironic and some so sarcastic and whatever and this kind of attitude I mean, it might be just kind of funny and stupid on the level of like, you know, a hug and does. But when it comes to a pattern in life that we're constantly indulging in things with this kind of sarcastic cynical, burnt out, you know, attitude that becomes problematic over time. Because it's a way that we end up thinking that that means freedom and empowerment, but really, we're being owned by our drive to consume by we're being driven by, you know, kind of passion and working too hard and then indulging ourselves in order to recover from working too hard. And just all of that stuff can be very Venus Pluto, it can come about in really, you know, dramatic ways during Venus Pluto dynamics, but at the same time, sexual healing catharsis and dark, darker or more erotic energies that are pent up and need to be expressed or released somehow authentically.

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To me, the one thing that's been a marker or indicator for me personally, and also my client practice or whether it's healthy or not, is how many other people is it harming? It's almost like, if these energies need to be released, then try to minimise the harm or damage that you do to yourself or others. And also, how much attention Are you trying to draw to yourself? Can we release these energies while still being you know, somewhat modest. And by modesty, I don't just mean some kind of, you know, cult being sort of culturally conservative, I mean, being humble, just just not basking in the glow of you know, our own awesomeness or something like that. Just being really careful of that. Because bad karma comes from a lack of humility. That's one of the main things that all you know, all religious and spiritual traditions tell us. So pride comes before a false just want to be really careful of that during Venus Pluto dynamics. And then with Venus in Cancer, you know, just the death, rebirth in marriage, family and home relationships as a major theme to watch for. So that's what I've got for today. I hope that this exploration of Venus Pluto gives you you know, layers upon layers of things to consider and think through. I would love to hear your stories, as always about Venus and Pluto. I really enjoy seeing what you guys have to share in the comment section. If you were born with this, what kinds of things have you experienced? What or I love hearing the extreme stories, but I also like hearing mundane stories to like really everyday stuff. So Venus, Pluto, I'm going to tell you guys how it showed up in my life. One little story, I guess, before we leave, I was gonna say this, and I forgot. So my wife and I, you know, it's like, sometimes very rarely. But once in a while we have like movie night or something. We watched Karate Kid for Father's Day, I told you guys about that. That was fun. But over the weekend, we also watched a movie, a friend had recommended it to me and I don't like horror, or gore or anything like that. I don't even like films that are very violent. I do like a good thriller. Like if it puts you on the edge of your seat almost like Alfred Hitchcock, it puts you on the edge of your seat. But it's not necessarily super gory, then I'm kind of game for that once in a while. So this movie was called A Quiet Place. And it was I want to say, Mary Poppins the new Mary Poppins, I forget her name. And I think her husband who was in the Office, and I'm forgetting his name, too. But any rate, it was a movie about a family, who they're in some kind of post apocalyptic world, and they can't make noises because the aliens that are there in the sort of post apocalyptic world. They show up and you know, they'll hunt you or whatever, if you make any noise. So the whole movie is about this family trying to survive. Without making noise. Any noise in a lot of the movies is totally quiet, but it puts you on the edge of your seat. But the kind of twist or wrinkle on the plot. Is that the main character? Who I just keep thinking of is Mary Poppins because I've watched that one of my girls is pregnant. So how are you going to have a baby that doesn't make any noise? Right? How are you going to give birth and not make any noise? And I was like, Oh, this is so Venus opposite Pluto that I would see this movie. It's like the most Venus opposite Pluto movie. So anyway, that's neither here nor there and could be a gigantic waste of your time. So I'm not necessarily recommending it. But that was that showed up. I thought that was really fascinating. So as Venus perfects in opposition to Pluto, what are your stories I'd love to hear from you guys. And we'll be probably a couple of q&a episodes this week that are still to come. So we will be back for more. We're gonna be talking about what happens if you flip the Zodiac should you flip the Zodiac or not if you're in the southern hemisphere. should be interesting. All right, well, that's what I've got for today. Take it easy, everyone. Bye.