Venus Opposing Pluto: 5 Things to Watch For

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Today, we are going to take a look at Venus's upcoming opposition to Pluto. Yesterday, we took a look at Venus trying to Neptune, which is perfecting today. You'll still feel that today. So we're jumping forward a little bit in the week to start talking about the transit of Venus's opposition to Pluto, which will come at the end of the week.

So, I'll lay out the timeline just to make sure you're not confused. But we are trying to get out in front of some of these transits with coverage of the archetypal dynamics so that you can work with it and prep for it because they're very big transits. So that's what we've been doing this week. So far. We'll continue that today with Venus opposite Pluto.

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We're going to be looking at the transition of Uranus into Gemini next year and what kinds of archetypal signatures you can expect to experience with that transit. So, it's a good one to prep for. And we'll have three more talks up soon for the next three months of September. Or of August, September, and October. They will be coming up soon. So stay tuned for that. All right. If you register and can't attend the monthly webinar on Uranus in Gemini, we will send you the recording, so be sure to check that out. All right.

On that note, let's turn our attention to the real-time clock, which is where we can look at this transit. So, if I back it up, we are on Wednesday, and I want to point out today as you're if you're listening to this today, on July 10. The big news is Venus is moving through the trine to Neptune. We covered that yesterday. So go back and listen to that video for today's trine between Venus and Neptune. What I want to talk about today is the fact that Venus's next step involves the transition to morrow into the sign of Leo, so if we just speed this up a touch, we'll see that by tomorrow afternoon, Thursday, July 11. Venus enters the sign of Leo; if we go forward one more day, Venus will have opposed Pluto in Aquarius by Friday morning.

So, we are looking at the transit of Venus opposing Pluto between July 11 and the 12th. And it is coming right off from the trine in late cancer to Neptune in Pisces. So what do we make of it? I have five things to watch for today. Considering Venus's opposition to Pluto, what we're going to do tomorrow is put it in a vacuum today. I like to call it the archetypal vacuum where we just look at Venus opposite Pluto. Tomorrow, I'm going to try to take a look at what it might mean. How do we put the pieces together of Venus trine Neptune and then Venus opposite Pluto? The two are moving seamlessly. The transit of Venus is moving seamlessly between Neptune and the opposition to Pluto.

So what does that mean? We'll take a look at that tomorrow as Venus transitions, and then on Friday, we will be looking at the Mars-Uranus conjunction, which we'll also unpack next Monday when it's actually happening.

Okay, so here are five things to watch for, given this archetypal combination. I am recording this around. I always record things about a week in advance. So whenever I'm like, it's funny because some people will be like sending me messages like, I hope you're feeling better you were sick on today's video is like, Oh, I was sick last week because I recorded it a week ago. So I recorded things about a week in advance, but that means that right now, I'm on the Fourth of July holiday, so today's video is a little bit shorter because my family requested it.

So anyway, just so that makes sense. It's a little bit a little bit briefer. We're going to run through this list today of five things to watch for with Venus opposite Pluto. The first one is especially with Venus and Leo. I'm an eighth of Venus in Leo, so I can tell you how closely my ego is connected to, you know, love and relationships; it's like when you are Venus and Leo, your sense of self and self-respect and worthiness is so intimately tied up with how you love and how you receive love how you give and get it.

So when Venus opposes Pluto in, you know, Leo, the ego can get checked or wounded in love. You know, it's like There's nothing worse than feeling like I'm in a love relationship with Venus and Leo anyway, that someone doesn't really see you or appreciate you for who you are, or that someone discards or discounts something about you that is really special or overlooks you. There's also a lot of opportunity to transit like this for an inflated ego in the context of love to get deflated; maybe that's a good thing. If you are someone who tends to be, you know, has to be the center of attention all the time in your relationships.

If you're someone who, you know, has a hard time sharing the stage with a partner or lover, there is a way in which the ego can get checked in a transit like this. And ultimately, it's a very positive thing. It's a healing thing. It's a growing thing. There has to be more to love and relationships than just, you know, just us, just me. I know that sounds weird because it seems intuitive, like, well, of course, relationships are about two people. But you know, Venus and Leo, even when Venus and Leo give love, sometimes it's actually to look good, you know, to look at how great of a lover I am.

Look at how generous, big-hearted, and romantic Venus is, and there's a performative quality to Venus and Leo right with Venus, and Leo loves in the way that a performer does. You know, it's like there's a performative element, which is what I'm trying to say. And so there could be a way in which the ego is getting checked in love right now. Pluto and Aquarius can provide that kind of check. But also wounded in love. When someone betrays you, it is when someone thinks that ideas are more important than you as an individual. Those are very Pluto and Aquarius, like things that could wound Venus in Leo.

So anything that diminishes that heart-centered sense of specialness, Venus in Leo, opposite Pluto and Aquarius, can be. It can be a gut-wrenching, kind of a gut-wrenching moment in a relationship. Painful, but also maybe transformative for the ego. And it's entanglement. And it's the way in which an ego tries to build itself off of what other people give you or how other people validate you or not. Sometimes, you have to change relationships because you're not with people who really see you or celebrate you. That's a Venus and Leo thing, too.

Alright, number two are revelations in love and relationships. A revelation means something being uncovered. Venus opposes Pluto from some kind of subterranean place, from an unconscious space from an unseen, hidden, secretive place. Information will rise to the surface in love and relationships, which can mean that you're going to get to see something about someone that you love that you haven't seen before, or they will see something about you. Sometimes, that means that you're going to get a chance to deepen your connection with someone because you see things about them that are coming up from an unconscious or hidden place. So there's a real promise there. There's something that's kind of exciting.

On the other hand, when what comes up that was unseen is hurtful, painful when there's betrayal, when there's Yeah, when there is a sense of this isn't what I thought it was, was disappointment, really disillusionment, when material comes up that makes you go, Oh, this isn't the relationship I thought I was in. Right, I thought I was in a real aura. This isn't the person I thought I was with stuff like that. So revelations, uncovering secrets, and the release of unconscious material in love and relationships can be destructive, healing, and creative.

Number three is a clash of creative visions or values. Venus and Leo, opposite Pluto and Aquarius, pit up these planets against one another in signs that often represent the difference between personal creative expression and the sovereignty of the individual spirit.

On the other hand, the impetus or impulse of the collective and of ideas that are bigger somehow than any individual. And so there can be a clash of values or visions of what the brightest or most interesting path or future looks like. And there can be a clash between personal and collective forces. And so just know that if suddenly in relationships there are conflicts of value or vision, this is part of that signature number for a death and or rebirth in relationships.

Look, any Venus-Pluto contact, especially the opposition's, tends to result in the need for relationships to die and end or to go through a metaphorical death and to be creatively reconfigured. And that for many people is, although difficult, very good, very healthy, you feel better afterward, just in the same way that you know, there's this incredible feeling when you're rising out of bed in the morning after being sick for a few days, and you go, Oh, my energy is back. Ah, I feel reborn. That feeling is it. It's part of the natural arc of being sick.

Pluto is very much like that. There's a kind of sick Plutonian sickness that comes over us where we just feel like, oh, there's this kind of unstable, deep, transformative pulse. That feels like it's going to be destructive. Nothing's ever going to be good again, you know, you're just moments where it feels that way anyhow. And then, after it comes through, you actually feel better. You feel like, oh, okay, I've released something.

Then, number five, primal forces rising to the surface in love and relationships that can be sex energy, literally just creative energy, sexual energy, erotic energy. The primordial deep power of Pluto is such that when it contacts Venus, it can release an incredibly rich, fertile kind of energy into relationships as well. Intensifying, deepening, and making more erotic or creative, fertile and powerful.

Venus opposite Pluto can be very empowering. It can it can empower us in things like the arts. You know, you think of powerful women, you think of Venus-Pluto, if you think of deep erotic art or sexual creativity and sexual magic very Venus-Pluto when you think about Venus-Pluto, you might think about, you know, the kind of force that brings you together with someone that feels like cataclysmic but very chemical, you know, romantically.

Regardless of what it results in, your life has been altered in a kind of creative eruption of mag magnetic attraction. So that Venus-Pluto is very dynamic in that respect, which is why you also have to be careful of what it can do in relationships. And often, the kinds of betrayals that you see with Venus-Pluto are about, well, this person just, I wasn't planning on this, but they came into my life, and there it went. I couldn't resist this force. So, the primal creative force of Venus-Pluto is very strong. In the most constructive sense, it will bring new life into relationships or will bring depth and power that can be really creatively fulfilling.

So watch for those themes. I have a little bit of a short video today because I'm in the midst of the holiday week here. But we'll be back tomorrow to unpack a little bit more of the transition between Venus trine Neptune and Venus opposite Pluto. We're going to try to talk about what those two transits back-to-back might be pointing to and how they are connected. So we will do that tomorrow. In the meantime, I hope you're having a great day, and we will see you again soon.