Venus in Scorpio Opposes Uranus to Start the Week!

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Happy Monday, everybody. Today, we are going to be taking a look at Venus and Scorpio opposing Uranus in the sign of Taurus. Now, I am looking at this transit to start the week rather than doing a weekly overview because this week is loaded with transits that we are going to be exploring one by one in depth. And when that happens, and especially when there's a big transit to start the week, I don't like to do a weekly overview in those particular circumstances, so I was explaining this: maybe in the past couple of weeks, I would do a weekly overview if and when there weren't so many transits jammed together that really required that we focus in on them. So this is one of those weeks where we're going to start by looking at Venus Uranus because that's because that's what's happening today, and it's a major transit that we really need to focus on.

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All right, now that we are through our promotions for the day, let's get into our content, and I will put the real-time clock up on the screen. Here we go. And on Monday here, October 7. Let's take a look at the biggest transit of the day. Oops. October 7. I am backward. Here we go. October 14. Here we are. So, Venus is in Scorpio today. October 14 is opposing Uranus in the sign of Taurus. This is happening as Venus is also entering into a trine with Neptune and a sextile with Pluto. And remember, those outer planets are all configured to one another this autumn. So this is a really big and powerful series of events taking place for Venus. And so this is a pretty significant shift with respect to everything that Venus signifies. Venus can signify very specific things depending on the house that it lands in in your chart.

So, one place to anchor this interpretation for yourself, personally, would be in the whole sign house of Scorpio in your birth chart. Topics of that house Venus will be activating by her transiting presence in that house, but also Venus rules natural topics like sisters, women, lovers, friends, relationships of all kinds, social harmony, and the way in which we attempt to harmonize ourselves with social reality. You know, all of us have social feedback that shapes how we act and behave and whether or not we're able to harmonize or how we stand out versus how we fit in. These are all the concerns of Venus, you could say, on a social and psychological level; Venus also has to do with what we find valuable and attractive or beautiful art and beauty and esthetics.

So, some change and shift for Venus is implied by all of these transits this week. The big one is, of course, Venus's opposition to Uranus, which you will be feeling today, but you could have been feeling it over the weekend as well. So now that we have the real-time clock view of this transit, you could give this transit a couple of days, I'd say, until about Wednesday of this week. Around that time, Venus was also going to shift into Sagittarius, which really brought Venus into a different space. So I would say between now and Wednesday, you also could have been noticing this building over the weekend. That's the kind of range that I would give on the level of the timing.

Now, there are five Venus Uranus themes that I want to visit today. I always try to find ways of talking about the same themes that are sort of universal with this planetary combination. You guys have heard me talk about Venus Uranus many times if you've watched my channel before, but how can we talk about it in slightly different ways every time as well?

That's always the challenge. So I have some ways that I've been thinking about this transit recently, and we'll get into them one by one here. Number one is individuation within relationships. There are two ways that this generally occurs. Well, any relationship could be a friendship, a love relationship, a marriage, or just a dating partnership.

There are two ways that individuation typically happens within relationships, and by individuation, we mean the further developing, refining, and unfolding of ourselves as individuals. I don't believe that there is some end goal or state that we're trying to get to. I just believe that the process of self-discovery, self-exploration, and personal evolution is ongoing. It's just part of what it means to be alive, but we discover things about ourselves, and we become more in touch in different seasons and times of our lives with which, with what is authentic to ourselves, and that process we could call individuation.

Individuation within relationships typically happens in two main ways. There are other ways, but these are the two that I see over and over again within my counseling practice as an astrologer. One is that individuation happens by means of breakups. This is the classic Venus-Uranus, the signature of affairs or breakups or disturbances in relationships that lead to separation.

One way we individuate is to say it's not you, you know, it's not you, it's me, that classic line, why do people say that it's not you, it's me? Because, in a sense, there's, there's something true about that when people say that they're not always full of crap, what they often, what people often mean is, I'm realizing that for me to be authentically myself. I cannot be in this kind of relationship with you, whatever that means.

I can't date you, or I can't be friends, or I can't work with you, or whatever. And so that sense of being true to ourselves and extricating ourselves from relationships that do not serve in the refinement or furthering of our individual essence in nature. That is a common Venus Uranus expression.

It's something you see over and over again, and that's one way that individuation within relationships occurs. It happens when we recognize that something about a relationship has to change, or we have to be liberated from a certain way of doing the relationship, or even being in the relationship at all so that we can honor something about ourselves individually.

Okay, so that's part one. The other part is when a relationship simply needs to evolve to make room for new elements of self that are coming forth. I believe that a hallmark of successful relationships, whether they are friendships that last a very long time, or whether they are marriages that last a long time, working relationships, or creative partnerships, even if you think about some of the great musical acts that have somehow stayed together for a very long time.

I think, for example, because it's been a part of my life recently, of the Grateful Dead, who I mostly have stayed together, apart from some band members dying, but they have continued to stay together and allowed for individual growth and evolution within the framework of their music. And they talk about that very openly. I mean, Bob Weir talks about that very openly in interviews he's done.

And I have always found that to be very admirable since I started getting into them. One of the reasons that I find it admirable is because it's rare. It is rare there, and I think we all recognize this, that when it comes to radical moments of personal growth and transformation, where we have to break from established habits, norms, you know, rigid or set attitudes or behaviors within ourselves, and we have to open ourselves to something different or new, that it often means that certain relationships will not stand that test.

They will fall apart, or we will have to leave them, or separation will occur. And there's something disruptive about Uranus Venus when it comes to relationships. And so it is sort of rare for a relationship to be able to accommodate personal growth and evolution, and it usually does so because both partners are willing to remain curious and attracted and invested in the other person's freedom to explore who they are now granted for a lot of let's say you know monogamous, you know sort of standard monogamous couples.

That will probably not mean that the mean, most couples are probably not going to allow for experimentation or exploration of identity and self to involve exploration outside the sexual fidelity of the relationship, right? But sometimes it's, you know, people have open relationships, and people explore different modes of relationships, like polyamory, which is a very Venus Uranus kind of thing.

So it's not, there's no, there's no necessary. There's not a set way in which this happens, but often within the context of a relationship that is, on some level, committed and exclusive, whatever kind of relationship it is, there will be a way in which the relationship opens enough to remain committed to one another while allowing one another to become new and different people. And I think a lot of that happens because a hallmark of a great relationship, and this is just my opinion, is that people remain interested and attracted and invested in the other person's growth. We cheer each other on. We're not threatened by each other's growth and change and exciting new things that we're doing or becoming.

We say I like that. I'm interested in that because who we are goes through so many different seasons, colors, and costumes. It's just as changeable as the wardrobe lineups are in the fashion world every year, including the colors and the textures. So we're like that, too, as living beings, and our relationships can accommodate that. So Venus Uranus is not just about individuation within relationships that disturbs and breaks apart relationships, as though individuality or independence isn't possible within the context of a relationship.

Of course, it is a look at reality itself. It's a living matrix of relationships. Being is a being filled with beings, and they are all related to one another, and it is constantly facilitating the deepening and unfolding of individual essence and expression. But where's the meaning in any of that if the individual doesn't have relationships to go on exploring, refining, and developing themselves in relation to, right? And so there's a funny way in which individuation within relationships can't happen without an ongoing relationship.

But sometimes that means the relationships will need to change, and sometimes that means the relationships will need meaning they need to be eliminated. Sometimes, different relationships need to come in, whereas other times, the relationships need to grow, accommodate, and morph to allow for that change in individual souls to come forth. So, just watch for those possibilities as this is unfolding.

Number two is experimentation within relationships. Venus Uranus is not just about the way in which individuality needs to come forth or assert itself relative to the people that a soul is in relationships with. It can also be about relationships themselves as something of an entity unto itself and the need for that relationship to grow and morph and change in its essence because it is trying on new things.

I think it's really interesting to note, and I've just as just something that I've been interested in is I've recently, I've watched some videos about relationships and marriages, and from the standpoint of people who've been married for a very long time, I was watching some interviews that I ran across in just social media world.

And so anyway, these several different older couples were talking about how they've kept sexual intimacy alive for very long periods of time, like, you know, well into the 70s, even 80s. Like, what? What is that? How do you do that? It is kind of a question that the interviewer had, and these different couples were talking about, how, um.

So they've gone through different phases and periods, and there's always a way in which a new period, a new exploration, new ways of making love, new patterns, new habits, and to never get stuck in it, but to keep exploring and finding new ways of being sexual together. And this is, to me, really fascinating from the standpoint of, like, how do you make sure that you know relational intimacy, not just sexually, but on any level, continues to stay fresh and healthy and alive?

And one of the things that seemed to be reported by these couples, there were just a couple, a few of them that were older, and I want to say they're probably in their 70s, but anyway, they were saying, like, it's experimentation, it's playfulness, it's curiosity. It's never feeling trapped, entitled, stuck, or set in feeling like you know somebody or that you are completely satisfied just doing the same thing all the time.

Not that there aren't great ways of settling into patterns and established behaviors that are their own source of security and warmth as well. But I think the point they were making is that for intimacy to not grow stagnant, there has to be a quality of experimentation and playfulness that's ongoing in any relationship, and this could be friendships, too. So, Venus-Uranus also points to the need for constant playfulness and experimentation.

One of the things that's beautiful about play is that play is, you know, in human beings and even in animals, something that represents an activity that, in a way, is set. It's like, okay, we're playing. Now we've decided to play. It's weird in the way that the kids will be like, Okay, can we play? And then we enter into play, which is a kind of structure, but it's very open, and within that structure, all sorts of new and unexpected things happen, and there's a lot of laughter, and there's a lot of fun, and you play with emotions that are safe within a context.

For example, I play obstacle course with Nerf guns with my girls. It's so much fun. Like, we don't have rules, obviously, about shooting people and stuff, but Nerf guns, right? So, um, but within that world, there are parameters to the play and different kinds of emotions, like, you know, being like, being hunted, you know, by like someone with a Nerf gun in an obstacle course, you know, and being the hunter and being chased, and being the chaser, that these dynamics unfold and have space. The idea here with Venus Uranus is that we need deliberate spaces of play that are non-goal-oriented, open, spontaneous, and creative. This is Uranus.

So Venus says, bring this into your relationships. And the extent to which your relationships are too serious to include this is the extent to which the relationship will sort of slowly die. And I mean, isn't that profound if you don't play, if you don't have fun, if you don't laugh, if you don't have deliberate spaces that are sort of unstructured and non-goal-oriented, you're gonna get stuck. And Venus Uranus will highlight this often in oppositions through tension that arises until there's some need for a creative burst.

Well, do you know what that creative burst tends to take the shape of when we're not taking time out for playfulness chaos because chaos and play are very similar to one another? Chaos is the same kind of space that you know musicians are using in improvisation with each other. It's chaotic, but you bring something out of it right through cooperation.

The difference is that when we're not taking that space for cooperative, playful working of chaotic, random, moving energies, then what tends to happen is the same energies come forward, but they come forward in destructive ways because we have set up resistance to them, and then we have emotional blowouts and we have emotional drama. And oftentimes, like, I mean, if you want to keep a dog happy, right? If you want to hear it, see if I can, there's Hilda.

Someone recently said, more Hilda, there's Hilda. Okay, hold on. I gotta adjust myself. Now, there we go. So, if you want to take more time, or if you want to excuse me, I totally lost my train of thought. If you want a dog to not exhibit destructive behavior, you exhaust them through play or through exercise. What is an exercise for an animal like my dog?

Anyway, it's like the world is my sniffing oyster. I just, I just, I just, she just sniffs, and everything is open, and there's the way that information is coming in, which is no longer contained. She's not in confinement. She's in an open space where lots of information is coming and moving, and that makes her happy. And then she's relaxed, and then no destructive chewing happens. We're the same way. We will destructively chew on each other if you like that. But we will sort of just get in there, and we'll create chaos if we don't have enough experimentation and play.

You got to number three, to be loved or to be liked. So one of the things that Venus Uranus calls to mind is, do people love me for who I am, or am I constantly modulating my expression so that I'm liked? Liked would be, in this context, some kind of social approval or validation or the feeling that we're fitting in or that we're not disturbing anyone versus loved ones. Where we feel really seen, we feel seen, and when we feel seen, almost always, it is not seen. We don't feel seen for something that we are that's generic.

We feel seen for something that we are that is unique, sort of like saying people could look at a bunch of different cheetahs, you know, and they might see there's a cheetah, that's a cheetah, and that's also a cheetah. But to feel really seen for us, we need to be feeling like someone says, look at that cheetah's spots. That's a really unique way that looks at how to look at his spots, like right it's right above his back leg, or whatever, you know, whatever it is, it's like, there's something in us that needs to show itself or reveal itself or just be noticed.

And Venus Uranus will often create crisis or tension, where, if we are only being liked and only being looked at as one of many cheetahs, you know, versus the unique coat that we have, the unique spots, then we get really dissatisfied, and we will do things that are often provocative and sort of coercive or manipulative to be seen. But part of that's on us, a lot of the time. That's on us because we're not we're not regularly enough. We're not showing ourselves in our True Colors regularly enough.

We're constantly just going for the like, and then we feel the need to act out in really rebellious and provocative ways because, uh, we've, we've, we've not been authentic enough. Sometimes, we just need to put that back on ourselves and practice the art of showing more of who we are regularly so that we don't have to act out in big ways that are expressions of resentment and some immaturities of our own.

On the other hand, it's also natural for people to just, you know, it's like we were talking about with Venus-Pluto. Let me show you my dark cloak of horror. You know. Let me show you. Think you know who I am, you don't know me. So Venus Uranus is very similar in that it's like, yeah, you know, there's always like, there's always a funny scene in, like, a movie or a show where someone feels unseen, and they feel they're so fed up with playing the role, playing the part, and all of a sudden they just do something crazy.

You look over there, and you're like, look at Bobby. He is just he is peeing in the swimming pool. He's a grown man. This is a kid's seventh birthday party, and he's lost it. He's just standing over there, or, like, you know, I remember, um, there was a story I told one time about Venus. I think it was Venus and Uranus.

I'm pretty sure it was a transit to Uranus, Uranus, from Uranus to Venus in a birth chart where this woman just screamed because she was so pent up and frustrated from playing this maternal role within a somewhat repressive marriage and her family and blah, blah, blah, and she reached this point in a family gathering where, randomly, she just screamed incredibly loud, and it had this total earth-shattering effect on the entire family, and like all these things that came afterward, and I have to look back at my notes, but because that was A story I told in the previous episode, and I'm 99% sure that was a Uranus to Venus transit anyway, a new piece, a new stability. Look at Venus and Uranus in fixed signs. Venus likes peace. Venus likes tranquility. Venus likes to flow and have a feeling of pleasantness.

Well, sometimes, in order for us to establish that sense of peace on a deeper level, we have to be real, even when it comes to accepting difficult things. If we are not real about how hard things are or how dark things are, how bad something was, it's almost impossible to establish peace if we're not or to regain a lost sense of peace in trauma; for example, if we don't have some way of just honoring and acknowledging how effed up something was, you know, this is what a lot of trauma good trauma therapy is about.

It's allowing us to process and be real with what something felt like we can't get to peace or healing or resolution in some ways without acknowledging or honoring how disturbing or shocking or traumatic or difficult something was. Venus Uranus is sometimes about that weird space in which we can't just be told to move on from something. You can't just be told to get over something, or you can't just be told to accept that suffering is a part of life and sort of look for the best in everything. And, you know, move on with optimism and let go and all these things. You can't do any of those things prematurely.

Anyhow, what is the point if we don't take time to process shock and trauma and change and disruption, and we don't somehow acknowledge it on a psychosomatic level? Then it becomes really difficult to actually establish a new homeostasis, a new rhythm, a new piece, a new status quo, whatever we want to call it.

So there's some way in which this transit will try to help us establish that, but it may disrupt things to do so, or it may require that we look at and really acknowledge and honor certain kinds of trauma and not just explain it away or try to move past it too quickly. Venus and Scorpio especially say, no, no, we're not going to move past the dark, juicy stuff too quickly here. That wouldn't be real. There's nothing Venus and Scorpio can't stand more than people who want nice, nice little explanations for everything. All right.

Number five, shocking us out of complacent attitudes and addressing repression to whatever extent we are repressed or pent up when it comes to art, sex, know, music, intimacy, sensuality, the body, our love, and our relationships, any kind of repression, Venus Uranus will tend to pop like it just pops like a cork, you know. So, you know, there's a way in which Venus Uranus can address repression or suppression, especially around pleasure or intimacy or relationships.

The other thing that Venus Uranus can do is shock us out of complacent attitudes. To whatever extent we are stuck in something, Uranus is often the planet that comes around and shakes things up so that we can't remain in the same version of life or or we can't continue to call something normal any longer.

So often, what happens when Venus approaches Uranus is we will do everything we can to try to hold and clutch to things so that, because we can sense the disruption that's coming, we won't make room for it. We won't accommodate. And honestly, at the end of the day, that's usually, it doesn't end well when we don't allow for that disruption to come; if it's needed, we have to look at it. We can't be scared of it because the more scared of it we are, in a sense, the more power we give it to be a force of chaos rather than a force of evolution if we want to put it that way, not that any of that is easy either, right? But that's the idea. So we'll end it here for today.

I'm so glad to be able to share in the I've been going through some transits. Lately, I'll tell you big stuff in my life, extended family, and life just keeps coming at us, you know. And I'm so thankful that the language of astrology brings some meaning, insight, and reflectiveness to the experiences. And it's, yeah, it's it's a real honor to be able to do this for a living because, yeah, it really keeps me sane.

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