Venus is About to Enter Scorpio — The Sexiest Secrets Nobody Talks About…

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [https://nightlightastrology.com/].

Today we're going to take a look at Venus entering the sign of Scorpio. Venus is entering the sign of Scorpio later today into tomorrow, and then immediately makes a square to Pluto. So the rest of our week content wise, is going to be dedicated to looking at Venus and Scorpio, Venus square Pluto. Some horoscopes today.

I want to take a look in particular at how Venus acts and behaves when she's in Scorpio, which is a sign where she's traditionally said to be in her detriment or her exile. But this is one of the most creative, sexual, erotic, interesting placements for Venus, and I want to explore why that is the case today, and hopefully that will give you some fun things to think about, kind of a new way of thinking about Venus and Scorpio is really the Hope Behind this episode. So anyway, that's what we'll do for today.

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In astrology, that's an intentional part of all of our programs. So on that note, I hope you'll come check it out. Now let's shift our attention over to the real time clock where we're going to take a look at Venus. So what you'll see here today, Wednesday, November 5, is that we have Venus on the edge of Libra, the very final degrees of Libra, and she moves very quickly.

And so we are going to see, oops, you know what? Let me just shift this. Sorry. I've got a little bit of an issue with my software program. It's not allowing me to move the clock, so give me just second. Let me set this back up, see if it works. Now. All right, so I'm going to advance this and get it up to Okay, so you can see that today, Wednesday, November 5, we have Venus at the very final space of Libra and my epic pan is just not working, so I apologize guys, we're going to see that tomorrow, Thursday, November 6, Venus is going to very gradually enter the sign of Scorpio.

Now she's going to enter Scorpio around 5pm Central Time, Thursday, November 6. That's my time zone. But adjust accordingly if you're on the west coast, the East Coast, another time zone. Venus enters Scorpio tomorrow. So we're sort of prepping for that today by this opening meditation. And then if we advance this to Friday, we're going to see that on Friday, at the first degree of Scorpio, venus moves into a square with Pluto, who's at the first degree of Aquarius.

And so as soon as Venus enters Scorpio, boom, we've got a square to Pluto in Aquarius, if we give that square about. Three degrees of separation that takes us through the weekend. So put it this way, from tomorrow, which is today's Wednesday, November 5. So we go tomorrow the sixth all the way through, let's say the ninth, as a time frame within which you may notice Venus, changing signs, changing dignities, hitting a square to Pluto, all at once, and that's why we're going to spend the next couple of days looking at this, including some horoscopes, eventually an examination of Venus square, Pluto.

Today, I just want to spend some time with Venus's dignity change in the sign of Scorpio. Venus was traditionally said to be in her exile or detriment in the sign. But we need to ask ourselves the question, why? What is an exile or a detriment, and why do these categories exist at all? This gets into ancient planetary philosophy, and the language of dignities comes from planetary philosophy in the scheme of the ancient astrological Zodiac with the planets all ruling two signs, one feminine, one masculine, except for the sun and the moon, which only rule one sign each we have effectively a Venus placement and a Mars placement, for example, that will be masculine and feminine.

Venus's masculine sign is Libra. It's feminine sign is Taurus. Mars's masculine sign is Aries. Its feminine sign is Scorpio. If you take Mars or Venus, which are philosophical opposites in ancient astrology, and place them in either of each other's signs, you get what's called an exile or detriment. And this is the case for any planetary ruler.

If you take the planetary ruler of any sign and put it into its opposite, the nature of that opposite planet in the opposite sign represents a kind of philosophical duality between what the planets represent, and therefore you're putting a planet in an environment that is sort of contrary to its own nature, and that creates a kind of archetypal tension.

Now that tension is really not good or bad in any absolute sense, as much as it is a tension that we humans tend to experience as difficult because of how we experience all polarities. The more intense a polaric opposition becomes, the more that our containers have to hold that tension, and that creates stress. Now that stress could be creative stress, which is awesome.

That's ideal, right? When you're holding attention and it yields something creative, you learn something, you make something, and it feels like that tension was therefore meaningful, as opposed to, for example, when that tension is so great and you can't hold it and it breaks something, it destroys something. It's like being in the gym. The tension is too great. You might strain a muscle, and then it doesn't feel meaningful, it feels destructive.

We throw our hands up and go, what's wrong with reality? You know? But the tension between planetary opposites is part of how the language of dignities works. So when it comes to Venus being in the sign of the Scorpion, what we're really saying is that we're taking Venus and we're putting her in a feminine sign, a sort of nocturnal, watery Yin sign, which is that's a little bit better for Venus.

For example, I would say that Venus and Scorpio sometimes can deal with that element of the sign in a little bit easier manner than, say, Venus and Aries different conversation. And maybe all of that is just speculative. But regardless, this is a sign of Mars. And so when you take Venus and put her in a Mars ruled sign, suddenly Venus has to be herself, act and behave like herself.

What does that mean? It means that she is the natural reality, principle of love, beauty, grace, harmony, agreement, that opposites should get along and cohere. If you think of the word cosmos and the word cosmetic, they share the same root, like a well arranged whole where things flow and find proportion and symmetry and it's pleasant and enjoyable.

Good music, good food, good sex, all have to do with complementary things working together cohesively in a way that's enjoyable or pleasant or desirable, etc. So Venus, broadly speaking, represents that facet of reality that allow that allows for flow and agreement and harmony between the various aspects of reality. Reality is one thing and it's many things at the exact same time, so the ability that the many things have to experience their simultaneous oneness and difference is a Venus kind of thing, because it allows for flow, which creates connectivity, and the feeling of unity or oneness starts to permeate when you're really connected with a lover, although you're different, you feel as though you are one.

And so that felt sense of oneness that exists between separate beings, paradoxically, is facilitated by Venus, especially when it feels good. When it feels somewhat satisfying, that's Venus. Now put her in a Mars ruled sign, and we have her now having to act and behave that way because that's natural to her, but she's doing so in an environment that's about things like cutting and severing rather than bringing things together.

Mars cuts things apart rather than harmony. Mars is individuality rather than peace. Mars is war rather than, let's say, the natural way in which we attract and find agreement because of fluid, sort of subtle, harmonious ways of being. Mars gets what it wants through aggression and competition and conflict and dominance and assertiveness and aggression.

So they're polar opposites. They both have a place in reality, just as surely as we need to cut the umbilical cord when we're born. It's a simple Mars example, timeless works. So place venus in scorpio. And now we have all of these tensions, but understanding those tensions and being a little bit creative with the way in which we experience them leads to this particular Venus placement, Venus in Scorpio, yielding some of the subtlest, sexiest, most erotic significations of any Venus placement.

In my humble opinion, I honestly say that I think that it's because this is also a deep, autumnal Yin, watery sign of Mars. This is a feminine sign of Mars that we get almost like layers of Venusian complexity that yield a more like tasty dish. I, let's just put it this way, and I maybe I'm maybe I'm not seeing things clearly here, but I would just say Venus in Aries, for example, another sign of Venus's detriment, where Venus is in, another Mars world sign you don't get nearly the the subtlety and complexity that you do with Venus and Scorpio.

And I think that's probably because, again, this is a watery Yin, feminine home of Mars. And so something about that femininity allows for Venus to just be a little bit more comfortable, and therefore you get these very layered, nuanced, rich levels of meaning that are that represent that tension between Venus and Mars in a slightly better way. Anyway.

That's just maybe my subjective opinion, as an astrologer, we all have opinions about these kinds of things for sure, all right. Well, anyway, I have five sexiest Venus and Scorpio secrets. I thought that was kind of a fun way of phrasing it. Now, remember any of these, you could push back on. Any of these could have a shadow. And I understand that talking about some of these things for some people, especially people who have been in terrible relationships, or abusive relationships, or any of these things on this list could be seen as like toxic which is specifically why they're on the list, because most medicines in the world have a very close relationship with poisons.

This is something my wife could tell you about as an herbalist, and I can tell you about having worked in the Amazon for a long time with ayahuasca and seeing how curanderos are both familiar with the most medicinal things and the combinations of things that can be the most toxic or that can potentially, like, peel you out, like add A little bit too much of this to an Ayahuasca mix, and you're screwed.

So anyway, the idea here, to me is that some of what's on this list could be seen as somewhat poisonous or somewhat toxic, but I think that's also the key to why some of these things are so beautiful and rich and sort of sexy and erotic, and the soul craves that level of complexity again, which is why I thought there's some value in a list like this.

But remember, you know what? As we go, I'll try to mention some of the shadows, you know, just so that, because I know sometimes you listen to this and you're like, This is triggering, you know? So anyway, let's get into it. Here's a venus in scorpio secret that has to do with the Venus Mars pairing intention that's present with Venus and Scorpio.

And it's true and like, Look, you don't have to have Venus and Scorpio to feel this. While Venus is in Scorpio, it's people who with Venus and Scorpio may know about this better than others, you know. But any kind of Pluto to Venus transit, or any major Scorpio transit that activates some other part of your chart. Sometimes these things will come up in general.

But here's the truth. With Venus and Scorpio, we actually need and love and want complicated you know that the relationship status that they used to have on Facebook, I don't know if they still have it or not. It's like we're in a relationship, or I'm dating, or it's complicated. And I always thought it was funny that they came up with a designation, it's complicated.

I think we like complicated. Now I'm not saying every phase of your life and every moment of your life you like complicated. Maybe there's a phase and there's a C. Reason for all things, right? And there's the shadow, because there's a there's a very real way in which you can be like, Yeah, you know what? Complicated is toxic. No more complicated.

For me, I went through the complicated phase. Okay, fine, but can we acknowledge that there is an archetypal reason that many of us go through a period of time in life, or come back to this experience of things being messy and where there's just like a tinge of pain or a lack of certainty or clarity, or am I going to be betrayed? Or can I trust this? Or am I trustworthy? And we have to, there's, there's something about walking on that razor's edge where things are not completely stable.

They're not completely clear. There's not complete certainty or confidence in the dynamic that makes it so tasty, even when you're married, I will say that like it, like microcosm. You know you're married for whatever, let's say 30 years in that, in those there's going to be periods of time where, let's say you make love, and you make love from a space of comfort and safety and like, it's it's regular in the sense that there's nothing like uncertain about it, haha.

But there are also phases that all relationships go through, as far as I can tell, talking to lots of people, you know, reflecting on my own marriage and stuff like that, where, like, let's say you're fighting about something over the course of a couple of days, but within that space where you're like, I'm not sure how I feel about you, and, you know, you're not sure how you feel about me.

And I think I'm the more mature one, and I think you have problems, you have shadows, you know, and the other person, like, No, you have shadows. Make love within that space. It's complicated, but there's a there's like, also no other space within which to taste that particular kind of tension that's actually very pleasurable. And another example of this would be makeup sex.

There's nothing like makeup sex. Everyone knows that, or the sex that comes on when you're at the beginning of getting to know someone. Call it like the honeymoon period. But a lot of that is built on uncertainty. There's so much tension because it's new, and is it safe, and I'm surrendering to it. I'm opening myself to something, and I'm doing so maybe too quickly, but that's part of what makes it so amazing.

You can take that word complicated in a lot of different directions, and I'm certainly not saying that there isn't a benefit to safety or trust or all of all of the less complicated things, right? As a Taurus rising, believe me, I I'm not someone who likes to revel in complicatedness all the time. But can't we be real about this? Like, isn't it interesting when something complicated comes into your life and you go, ah, what if I just messed the whole thing up? What? Like, you're in a stable place.

You've developed good, sensible boundaries and taste. You're dating, you're not married. Someone comes into your life. They just got out of a relationship. They're a mess. You know very well, this is not going anywhere good, but maybe you know. So there it is. We like complicated Venus and Scorpio is like the goddess coming in, waving a flag, saying, Don't tell me you don't like complicated you like a little bit of it.

And I'm here to bring something creative into your life, because you allow for the right appropriate degree of complicatedness to flavor, the pleasure to flavor, the connection to flavor, the art I know. I know. All right, two possession is erotic. Now, look, if you've been in I'm going to say this right away, because I got this, I talked about this with a Scorpio transit, I don't know, maybe over the summer, and someone said this, and I felt a little bad.

If you've been in a relationship where someone is a stalker or they're like, you know, the possessiveness is over the top. It's abusive. It's like, that's all. That's not what I'm referring to here, right? When I say possession is erotic, I'm talking a little bit more like, if you ever saw the movie, 50 Shades of Gray, I didn't read the book, but I did see the movie.

There is a way in which to feel owned, consumed, possessed. For many of us, is a particular kind of pleasure or erotic like think about it from the standpoint of reality itself. Take away lover dynamics, and think about this in terms of the moments where you feel completely consumed by a creative passion that's flowing through you, that it feels like it's possessing you more than you're possessing it.

That I can give you a few examples. There have been certain times where I give a talk on YouTube and I feel like I'm on a roll, and then it becomes more than on a roll. It feels like something has possessed me. Um. Um, they're rare. It's, you know, it's every 100th video or something, from my standpoint, anyway. But when you're in that space, it I feel like the gods, the archetypes, are grabbing me, which is why I use that hashtag grab for storytelling episodes.

We need to do one. We haven't done one in a while. But when that force comes through and it's like something's possessing me, man, there's few things that feel as good and powerful as that, playing a musical instrument, not that I'm some virtuoso or anything, but like when I get into jamming my uncle, my wife's uncle and cousins around Thanksgiving, Christmas, when we get together, we all bring our guitars and we jam.

And when we're like, really, an hour into it, and, you know, music is just flowing through, I feel possessed. So I'm coming at it from that standpoint. I'm not trying to say, like, yeah, get into a relationship with a creepy, possessive person. But, you know, there's also, like, there's something very erotic. When someone says You're mine, I am yours.

We say that I'm yours, you're mine. In a very, usually casual it's, it doesn't feel like, you know, someone's sitting on your head and like not letting you move or something it's like. But you know what I mean, where the feeling of being desired, held, consumed, owned, possessed, like a force greater than you has just taken you over.

We need to give ourselves to that, but to do that often involves power struggles within ourselves or with other people. I think this is why, honestly, that movie, that book, 50 Shades of Gray, was so wildly popular because it touches on a very complicated human dynamic in the human psyche that exists. It's not easy to access without it becoming potentially dangerous, you know.

But that's the danger. Is exactly where this very rare type of beauty or passion lives. I'm going to make love with this person I think then they're going to destroy my life. Yep, it's worth it anyway, all right. Number three, unfulfilled desires, longings, cravings are fuel venus in scorpio burns for things that it wants, that it desires.

But often, because of the Mars element of this sign, Venus will be frustrated in satisfying her wants and desires. So very basic meaning of Venus in the sign of Scorpio is, you know, not being able to have what you want, or there being a lot of challenges or conflicts surrounding the pursuit of pleasure, I want to have an easy, nice time, but you're being dramatic and making it difficult as a very Venus and Scorpio thing to experience.

We may or may not want to look at our own contribution to the situation too, right? But when there's unfulfilled desires, longings, cravings, and we allow them to exist, and we like sit with them and let them grow and move and speak, they are often the starting point of a creative process. I will say that when Uranus, for example, squared my natal Venus, commonly a Venus dynamic, and there's a feeling of like with Uranus.

It's not the same as Scorpio, but there's a feeling of needing to break free and creatively. I had to sit for two years slowly writing a book that that was not like in the moment of the instantaneous realization that I need to get back to my writing, my creative writing, the feeling was like I want to write a whole book all at once.

But, you know, writing a book is a process, so that breakthrough creatively took years, and anyone who's made something creative that's substantive, that takes a long time, knows exactly what I'm talking about. Venus and Scorpio says, play the long game. You're not going to get it right away, or it's going to be a little bit more complicated, or it's going to require a process or and so can you live with that burn that that becomes a creative fuel for a fire that's going to take a long see fixed signs, right? They take a long time.

They're slow and organic and process oriented in the way that things play out. So even though Venus will spend whatever three weeks in Scorpio, what's going to happen is it will activate the things that you desire that you want to act on, but can't immediately gratify. But that is what is so darn sexy and erotic and creative about this. Placement.

Number four secrets are life giving. Look. You've heard me say this before. I've been saying it for years, ever since I read James Hillman talking about this in a book that that he wrote on. Therapy, one of the reasons that people go to therapy, he said, was specifically so that they could reveal secrets. Revealing secrets and having secrets are some of the most Venus and Scorpio things that we all love, that we all do, that we all have now secrets shared with the wrong people that break the container.

That betrayal can be very Venus and Scorpio. Sharing your secret with the wrong person, sharing a secret rather than just holding it. These can also be Venus and Scorpio shadows, but the power of having things that are just your own feelings, thoughts, desires, experiences, insights, anything that's just your own. It's like your own little remember, Little Mermaid, she has like a little treasure trove filled with stuff.

It's just hers. It's just her little space with all the things she's collected. But we each need a room like that in the psyche that's filled with things we gather and collect that are just ours. Let me give you an example. I think it's really universal in, like many relationships, in our in our lives. Well, we're committed, right? We're like, I'm in it.

I'm not going anywhere. I'm not going to reach outside of this relationship. But let's say, for example, you're out grocery shopping and someone looks at you with genuine attraction, or like you're and you you see it, you go, Oh, wow, that person, they think I'm attractive. They think I'm beautiful or desirable. And you're not going to go reach out, you're not going to go talk to them, but you might take that moment because of how special it made you feel, and you might put it in your little cave filled with trinkets.

Do you know what I'm talking about? I don't think there's anything wrong with that, and I think we ought to celebrate the fact that we are like little gatherers of sacred psychic mementos and artifacts that we collect in human experience, and that, if you're intentional about saying that was a beautiful, sacred little moment that is just for me, I'm going to put it somewhere, and I'm going to keep it and I can draw on it creatively.

I think there's so much beauty in that. Let me give you a simple example from my life recently that like meant the world to me. I'm going to share a secret with you. This was a secret that I have not told anyone. So recently, I was at the gym, and this older gentleman came up to me and just started asking me how to do an exercise.

He was trying to work with the rowing machine, and he was asking me how to do it. And as he was talking, I realized, oh, he thinks I'm a trainer here on staff at the gym. And so I said, Oh, you know, I can tell you how to use that machine, but I think you're, you might be looking for a trainer. And he was like, Oh, I'm so sorry.

I thought you were a trainer. And he goes, You look so fit. This made my fucking day. It really just seriously made my day. I felt so special, because for many years of my life, I haven't felt good about my body, or I haven't felt good about the way I've looked, or haven't thought of myself as a strong person that someone might mistake for a personal trainer and so but I just that's the kind of moment that I might tuck away and never tell anybody about, because I find that when I have a drawer full of things like that, and believe me, I do, I have a drawer filled with shit.

It's not a junk drawer, it's a meaningful junk drawer, and I draw on it because the stuff I store in there is life giving, so Venus and Scorpio. You may have private, secret, wonderful little things that you know to share. It might be taboo, but to keep is somehow creative genius. Do you know what I mean? All right.

Number five, honesty is foreplay. Look, if you are honest and open about how you feel about what you think, without hostility resentment, without sticking it, you know, sticking barbs into the way you're talking it is in, at least in Venus and Scorpio season, it might actually be an attractive like step toward a lover, a friend, like the foreplay doesn't have to when I use the word for play, I don't necessarily mean that it has to lead to something sexual, but being honest in a way that's just plain and thoughtful, like emotionally in Te.

Intelligent, honesty, authentic, deep, true, real, maybe a little provocative, maybe a little taboo, but it's just honest. Venus in Scorpio has an amazing way of weaving a tapestry of beauty, depth, connection, pleasure, sensuality, that cannot be woven through anything other than gentle, honest, taboo, truth, getting in touch with that will Venus and Scorpio is powerful, life giving, so wonderful.

So anyway, these are some of the things that I, I believe we don't often talk about with Venus and Scorpio as these beautiful values that are there specifically because of the tension, so they don't eliminate the detriment because any of those qualities, hiding things, when secrets are destructive, when unfulfilled desires become destructive, when possession becomes stalkers, you know, when complicated becomes pathological, right? Of course, but can we stop to allow for some nuance? That's what I'm advocating here.

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