Venus is Asking Pluto to Spill His Secrets

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Bianca Selene
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So today we'll break down, we'll be breaking down the Venus opposite Pluto transit going on in the sky right now. We've got some horoscopes to go through with you, and I know you'll find it interesting, but before we get into it, please like and subscribe if you haven't done so already, and share your comments and reflections below. We love hearing from you, and so we have a couple of promotions today.

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it. I am pulling it up as we speak. Bianca Selene
Okay, cool. All right, I'm so excited to talk about Venus. Courtney Chandrea
Yeah, yeah, it's a lot of fun, and we're probably, honestly, we're probably already feeling it right now.

I've got the chart set back to june 15, so two days before. You'll be seeing this this episode if you're watching it in current time, but so this is when we start to feel that engagement between Venus and Pluto. They're just a couple of degrees apart from their exact opposition. We've got some other transits in the air taking place to in a couple of days time we'll see a Venus trying to Neptune preceding this Venus Pluto conjunction and then we're also still in the wake of a new moon in Gemini and the interesting thing about this new moon in Gemini is that the Venus is in the place of the sun and by the time we see the exact opposition, so fast forwarding to today, here the moon is coming in to conjoin Venus. We're not going to go into that symbology too much here, but it's some interesting back background material, sort of setting the stage for Bianca Selene
us.

I love that, and so even as a basic like breaking down the the planets, the symbols, so we got Venus and her, her significations of like attraction, desire, pleasure, relationships, and and reciprocity, and the things that help us relate and connect, you know, that's that harmonizing quality to Venus, and also how we make meaning through the senses can also be considered very Venusian, and then I was thinking of Pluto as like the significations of like intensification or like compulsion, volcanic eruption, eruption type cathartic release, or the emergence of what's what's been hidden, but I know we talk a little bit more about that as, as we get on in the episode, which I'm excited to get into, for Courtney Chandrea
sure, yeah, one of the things I'm really interested about with this transit is, is just how hot the Leo Aquarius axis is this year.

We've got solar solar eclipses taking place in these signs. The nodes will shift into these signs by the end of the year. We also have a really significant Jupiter opposition to Pluto coming up in the next month, so Venus seems to be priming us for some big shifts taking place across the Leo Aquarius line here in the chart. I had already talked a little bit about this transit in the monthly overview, and in that overview, I related Venus, Pluto to the Hades Persephone myth, but Pluto and Aquarius brings a really unique flavor to this transit.

If we're thinking about Pluto and Capricorn, where Pluto had spent the prior 20 years or so, Pluto and Capricorn feels classically Hades, but Pluto in Aquarius is otherworldly, and it's around these qualities that we're going to be experiencing Venus's push and pull through their opposition. A better analogy might be Katy Perry's Extraterrestrial. Do you know this song? Yeah, I love that song. Yeah, Pluto in Capricorn is in the place of the moon's exile, it uncovers darkness and digs up history that exists in our memory, all the classic ills of mankind, like good old boring human scandal, as it pertains to Capricorn, but Pluto in Aquarius is upending our very concept of reality.

Pluto in the Saturnian place is pulling forth things from beyond the known world. The darkness of Aquarius isn't only mysterious, but it draws a conceptual blank when you're experiencing something entirely new, like you know how you know something you've never, like, you don't have any sort of experiential basis, you're experiencing it for the first time, there's a way in which you have to learn how to see what's happening before you can make sense of it, and you might come away from that initial encounter like absolutely reeling. You're not really sure you understood what happened. You certainly don't have words for what took place, and maybe your memory of the encounter even feels unreliable because you didn't understand what was happening as it was happening in the first place, you just don't have any sort of framework to ground it, and with ground it within, so whole chunks of that experience seem to live in darkness.

Right, this is the Aquarius. This is the darkness that Pluto in Aquarius seems to be bringing, and this, I think, is what Venus and Leo is encountering as she's coming up against Pluto. Bianca Selene
I was just thinking, sorry to cut you off there. No, you're good. Like, so excited talking about this, but no. But I really love what you're, how you're describing the differences between a Pluto in Capricorn versus a Pluto and a queer. Aquarius, because first we've got Capricorn, a feminine earth domicile of Saturn, and then we've got Aquarius, which is the masculine air domicile of Saturn, and like I was thinking of this metaphor that came to my head, and it was, I think, of Pluto and Capricorn as, as you're describing, of kind of like this as archeological, we dig through the layers of sediment, right, Courtney Chandrea
uncovering artifacts from the past, but Pluto in Aquarius is astronomical.

We lift our eyes to the night sky and we encounter something that we have no context for, so we aren't encountering what was lost per se. We're encountering something that has not yet been understood, and both, both Saturnian, both Saturnian, but one looks downward and back, and the other one looks outward and forward, so yeah, yeah, that's a beautiful analogy. I think that sums up this difference perfectly. If we turn over to Venus here, too, her natural instinct in relation to this dynamic is to map it via the senses. You kind of talked about this already, Bianca, in talking about Venus's significations, you know, Venus is trying to give this dynamic intermediary form, so that we can begin to relate to it before we can even give names and categories to all these things Pluto is bringing forward.

Venus wants to know, what does it taste like, what does it smell like, what sounds bubble from our chests as we encounter it, and there's a really natural tension here too, with Venus standing in the place of Leo, she carries with her a tried and true relational matrix. Leo, as the fixed home of the sun, evokes those things that last through time, but because what Pluto is introducing here is totally new, the tools that Venus brings for mapping Pluto may not be enough, Pluto may be pushing Venus to her edge here, and this can certainly be an erotic experience, but it can also be a hazardous one, depending on the container that we're operating within. Either way, this sense mapping that Venus is performing is crucial to our survival as we continue to work with this Pluto and Aquarius over time, Bianca Selene
yeah, some some thoughts came to my mind.

Here we have two planets occupying opposite ends of the zodiac, and that each highly visible to each other. It's almost like a full moon moment, right? And so there's so oppositions tend to have this this externalized experience, and we often counter symbolism through the other, so we've got the self, and then we've got the other, and whatever house topic that looks like, or planetary symbolism will, will describe that that polarity, but there is an inherent tension with the nature of the opposition, and what I hear you say, Courtney, is it's is maybe the goal isn't necessarily to find resolution, but maybe more awareness, because Venus is here to help make sense of what we are experiencing and feeling you say, Courtney Chandrea
yeah, for sure. I mean, if you think about it, that that sort of sense mapping, like that, can be a path towards resolution too.

And because we're going to be having all these other dynamics, you know, like Jupiter will be coming into this place, Mercury is going to be coming into this place, I think, as we have these later transits that that sense of resolution will develop, but right now Venus is like that brave first, like she's she's the first one stepping into this dynamic at this exact moment in time, so yeah, I think just forming the foundation of that relationship is enough for Venus here. Bianca Selene
I love that. So, shall we get into the, the transits? Yeah, the horoscopes, horoscopes, my bad. Yeah, did we tell you? I mean, Courtney Chandrea
did we tell them that we have horoscopes? I mean, it's gonna say, you know, but I'm excited that we get to do horoscopes after. Bianca Selene
Yeah, I'm excited too. I love that we can do this. So, yeah, let's do it.

Yeah, so should I take it away with.. oh, so I have a sign to, like, I took.. I'm taking the air signs and the fire signs, so.. and then Courtney is taking the earth signs and the water signs, so yeah, but if we're ready to go with the Aries rising, I'm ready to go. Courtney Chandrea
Let's do it. Bianca Selene
So, Aries risings, this this opposition is happening across your fifth and 11th house axis, and I think this Pluto-Venus opposition highlights the tension. Between this passionate truth of the heart and the complicated realities of social belonging, so Venus and Leo in the fifth house wants pleasure and creativity and desire, erotic vitality, and most of all authentic self-expression, but Pluto in Aquarius in the 11th house complicates things through friendships, through communities, through social networks, through the collective spaces, and the shifting of group dynamics, so this can show up as emotionally charged and an emotionally charged social experience, or a growing awareness of how strongly the need for belonging shapes personal desire, with Aries ruled by Mars, there's usually a direct impulse to follow what feels alive and true, but Pluto in Aquarius may reveal shifting of unfamiliar dynamics within social spaces where old forms of belonging may no longer fully fit who you are becoming, and so Venus responds by trying to stay connected to what feels meaningful and pleasurable and creatively honest within these changing collective environments, so at its best, this transit can open new forms of connection that support authenticity and creative freedom, and more emotionally real form of belonging.

That's how I'm taking this for you. Aries risings, Courtney Chandrea
yeah, I really love that, that shifting Pluto in the 11th has to be really interesting for Aries rising people too, I think. Think thinking about the 11th house as also being the place of our dreams, right? I think most Aries people are pretty used to knowing what they want, but Pluto may be introducing something totally different in that place of dreams, and maybe Venus is like fueling it there from the fifth house in terms of like creative expression, and yeah, it sounds like a really exciting time for Aries risings.

Bianca Selene
Yeah, very all Courtney Chandrea
right, skipping forward to Taurus risings with Pluto in your 10th house, we're talking about transformation around your job, your career, and the greater role that you play on the world stage. It's pretty self-evident how these shifts might be impacting the fourth house as the place of home and family roots. Change is an emotionally and physically demanding process, especially when it's taking place in a high-stakes area, such as your 10th house, as Pluto is transiting your 10th, you may be needing to draw more deeply from those fourth house roots, and this could be posing some challenges to the leonine stability of home and family.

Maybe you're drawing too much too fast from these roots, and it's putting strain on the basic integrity of your most important relationships and foundations, or maybe you're realizing that these supports of home and family aren't meeting your needs any longer as a result of these things that are shifting in your 10th house. In either case, Venus moving through your fourth place seems to be saying something has to give, something has to shift. There has to be some sort of reconciliation taking place between the 10th and fourth houses.

Sometimes the most stabilizing thing to do during major changes in our lives is to figure out how to change along with them, and with Venus passing through Pluto's rays in your fourth, pay attention to sensing bodies as they pertain to this place of home, your body, the people you live with, the body of your home itself. These things might be showing you where these changes are bringing enlivenment and where they're bringing over stimulation, so that you can make shifts from a place of wisdom in order to just to sustain that life-giving sunshine that a stable home place provides.

Bianca Selene
Yeah, I really love that, Courtney. I had thoughts about this, about Taurus risings, as you know, we have have Adam, who is, who's a Taurus rising, and when I thought about him when I was thinking of this transit, my daughter is also Taurus rising, but I thought of Venus helping by humanizing ambition, and what I mean by that is one shadow or side, this one shadow side of Pluto in the 10th is becoming consumed by achievement, and Venus in the fourth house reminds Taurus risings, like, what is all of the success for? Like, Courtney Chandrea
yeah, Bianca Selene
what do you want to come home to, and what kind of life are you building, and so I think Venus keeps the transformation connected to the heart and home, and the reason why I brought up Adam in this is because his chart ruler, Venus, is in Leo, so he's having a Venus return right now, right? So, so I'm like, this is, and so having a natal Venus in the fourth house. Else, and then having a transiting Pluto going over the 10th is like, I noticed Adam really like talks a lot about, yes, he's very driven, and he's got this Nightlight school, and he's got his channel, and he's he's a workhorse in that sense with what he's built from the ground up, but at the end of the day, it's his, it's his wife, it's his family, it's his children that he's doing all of this for, and, and I, and I just really love that he brings it back to, like, he keeps his life in perspective as to why is he doing this, rather than can, rather than getting consumed by, by it all, so that's what I was, what I was thinking for the Taurus risings, Courtney Chandrea
yeah, Bianca Selene
and if, if we're ready to move on, I've got Gemini waiting to go, Bill.

So, Gemini risings, this is happening in your third and ninth house axis, and I see this this opposition feeling like a deep confrontation between familiar ways of thinking that's at third house and emerging transformation of worldview and meaning and identity, the ninth house, so Venus and Leo in the third wants communication to feel warm and alive, creative, heartfelt, and meaningful, but Pluto in the ninth house intensifies the beliefs, the ideologies, the philosophies, so so this opposition can create tension between what feels personally true and the larger systems of belief or collective ideologies shaping perception, so this is not merely a differences of opinion transit. I see that this can expose how deeply desire and fascination and fear and emotional intensity are entangled with ideas and world views in Gemini Risings, you, you guys are acutely aware of that, aware that communication is never entirely neutral, right? There's speech can create intimacy, it can shape reality, it can manipulate perception or expose hidden truths, and with Uranus moving through your first house for the next coming years suggests that you are already in a prolonged process of identity disruption and reinvention, so the old personality structures, the social masks, the self definitions may be breaking apart, so you're not meant to remain who you used to be in a Uranus transiting through your first house, this transit you might experience sudden changes in self-image, a desire to radically liberate yourself from old identities and expectations, and these experiences may be pushing you towards a deeper, to a deeper authenticity in communication and more freer self expression, that's what I have for you, Geminis.

Courtney Chandrea
Yeah, I love how you oven that, that Gemini piece, or, sorry, the Uranus piece in the first house, that feels really significant for Geminis, and you know, Uranus is loosely engaged in this aspect too, like Uranus is sextile, Venus trine Pluto, like that. That dynamic has to be feeling really acute, especially in the first house. Yeah, that was a really great point. Moving on to Cancer risings, Pluto is transiting your eighth house, and Cancers, I feel for you.

Pluto has a reputation for being out of control, and the eighth house, as the place of other people's stuff, can sometimes feel totally beyond our jurisdiction. And I can only imagine this feeling is heightened by the qualities that Pluto is expressing through Aquarius right now, as Pluto moves through your eighth, you may be experiencing radical lessons around surrender. Cancers love to pour into a situation, but sometimes we're locked out of that role because we can't get close enough to the action to nourish it effectively. Sometimes nourishment isn't the thing needed at all, and given the fact that Cancer can't see Aquarius, they're in aversion to each other.

There's a way in which the motivations of one doesn't always click with the other. The work of Aquarius is to probe and broaden horizons, and that's a very difficult thing to accomplish it when we're too deeply rooted in the Cancerian orientation of emotional and bodily comfort and care, but the eighth house isn't totally beyond your control. After all, it is a place of contracts and agreements. The eighth house is the place where you meet the other, and with Venus transiting your second, you may be gaining a radical sense of what is yours, what is in your purview of control within this dynamic. Like Venus is highlighting your relational agency. What resources do you possess that last through time that can't be taken away? Working from this foundation, it becomes easier to take on our eighth house contracts from a place of grounded generosity that is so natural to our Leonine Venus.

Bianca Selene
Yeah, I love what you're saying about about the eighth house entanglements that are outside our control, and the thing that came to me was that as Pluto is moving through your eighth house cancer risings, this can bring situations, yeah, involving other people's choices, and, and these, the emotional processing is just simply not yours to control, and I think Venus, in your second house, you know, reminding you to reconnect with your, with your own self sense of worth, and and trying to kind of get you more grounded in in who you are, what belongs to you. I think it's easier to become, I think it's easier to be to stay grounded in this transit and to navigate this with if you have, like, a more grounded sense of what do I have, and so I think there can be a growing realization that, yeah, true security may come less from controlling external conditions and maybe more from cultivating inner trust, emotional maturity, and self belief, because remember we've got Jupiter going through the exalted in in your first house, so Cancer risings, you might be approaching these deep emotional transformations around compassion for the self and faith in life's larger processes, so I think, while Venus opposing Pluto may expose emotional complexity around attachment and value, I think Jupiter in the first reminds will remind you, you Cancer Isings, that you are larger than your fear of of loss, is what I'm going with that Courtney Chandrea
one. Bianca Selene
Yes, yeah, Courtney Chandrea
that was beautiful. Bianca Selene
Thank you.

Move on to Leo Risings. I've, I see this across the first and seventh house axis, so this is fundamentally going to be an opposition about the self and other, or the opposition between, I should say, the self and other, so Pluto in Aquarius in the seventh might be introducing relationship experiences that exceed your familiar expectations, and Venus in the first house wants experience, wants to experience life like, like wants to experience life directly and personally, and Leo Risings, you might be feeling, you might be finding yourselves thinking, well, I've never felt this way before, or this relationship is an is awakening parts of me I didn't know existed, and relationships may feel unusually consequential because they are functioning almost like as a mirror, and in this mirror is reflecting back possibilities that that have not yet maybe fully emerged, so this is the Aquery Aquarian Plutonian dimension, and so the other person may carry a new relationship paradigm or a perspective that destabilizes your existing self concept, and Venus in the first is trying to embody and feel and creatively engage with whatever is emerging, so an important, an important relationship or encounter may introduce some something unfamiliar into your worldview, Leo risings.

So, rather than rushing to define it, notice how your body, or your heart, or your sense, sense, sense of self respond. You may not yet fully understand what this experience means, but it could be revealing dimensions of yourself that are only now coming into interview. Courtney Chandrea
Yeah, I love that. That was really good. That sort of like the permutation of self and other, and how this big change taking place in the seventh house can reflect back on the first house, think is a really important thing for Leos to be thinking about, especially this year, moving forward to Virgo risings with Pluto in your sixth.

We're looking at shifts and transformation around your work day and quotidian routines and responsibilities. The sixth house. Is the place for chopping wood and carrying water all of that ordinary labor that keeps the wheel turning, as well as those things that get in the way of your ability to perform those everyday tasks. Pluto, in the sixth, may be depriving you of the sense that any of this is every day. Pluto may be asking you to stay flexible to re-evaluate what it really means to support and labor for yourself and your loved ones.

Pluto might be breaking down your sense of consistency around these themes. What if consistency isn't doing the same thing day after day, but a quality of energy or attention that you regularly bring to your life? As Venus slides into this dynamic through your 12th house, she may be illuminating something about the situation that you couldn't see previously, whether it's something in your environment or your own psyche that's been hamstringing you around these themes, or a hidden desire or need that you couldn't see previously that isn't being met and is creating difficulty and resistance in your everyday life. Venus is giving new sensation to this hidden place, asking that you give it some attention in order to reconcile it with those changing dynamics taking place in your sixth.

Bianca Selene
I love that. I love how you mentioned the 12th house. Venus might be illuminating hidden or unmet needs, you know, and I think of Virgo risings as you're a double-bodied sign. So, generally speaking, Virgo risings are often quite adaptable and capable of, like, adjusting to systems or refining processes. So, I think, for me, when I was thinking of Virgo risings in this opposition to be with Venus and Pluto, was more the growth edge might be more flexibility, might not be flexibility, is but maybe more a curiosity, so Venus in your 12th house encourages you to pay attention to what's happening beneath the surface, and sometimes you know a change in routine reveals a hidden desire, or an unmet need, or a new possibility that has been waiting for your attention.

So, yeah, rather than rushing to restore order and things like that, just stay curious about what your inner life is showing you. Yes, I really love what you're saying there, Courtney. And now moving on to Libra Risings. Libra risings, this is happening across your 11th house and fifth house axis. So, for for you, this transit may feel especially significant because Venus is your chart ruler, and the transit's not just describing events in your life, it's asking deeper questions about desire and belonging, creative creativity, friendship, and the kinds of relationships that shape who you are evolving into or becoming, and Venus and Leo in the 11th wants to create meaningful bonds and find places where the heart can be witnessed and appreciated, so Libra risings, you may find yourselves processing these emerging desires through friendships, through community and social circles, and creative collaborations, you, your, you have a gift for creating harmony and maintaining relationships, but Pluto in the fifth house can introduce desires that not necessarily convenient, or may not even be socially acceptable, or easy to integrate.

So pay attention to who you've been drawn to, or what excites you, what feels creatively alive, and where your attention keeps returning to the challenge is finding ways to remain connected to your communities and friendships without abandoning the desires that are trying to come forth, so that's what I got for you guys. Courtney Chandrea
Yeah, this is a really beautiful transit for Libra risings, I think. I mean, Pluto in the fifth house probably brings, you know, Pluto everywhere. It's rough, right? Pluto, Pluto can be really rough, but to have this Venus opposition taking place in the 11th house, which is this place of social support, and the ways in which Libras are so naturally inclined towards processing things through social settings just sounds really supportive for engaging with this Pluto dynamic.

I love Bianca Selene
that. Yeah, Courtney Chandrea
moving on to Scorpio risings, as Pluto moves through your fourth place of home, land, family, and ancestral roots, we're looking at shifting power dynamics and hidden riches. In the most foundational areas of your life, there may be long-held secrets bubbling up out of this place, or perhaps somehow your experience of things like home and family are changing shape entirely. If home and family have been difficult topics for you in the past, Pluto might be uncovering all of the reasons and factors that have contributed to this difficulty, helping you to ultimately orient towards a home base that is both expansive enough to hold you and all of your complexities and stable enough to support you, just like that Aquarian home place should be in its like most beautiful integrated form.

Now that Venus is moving through your 10th, she's drawing attention to the ways your home foundations filter into how you show up in public facing settings, whether that's your workplace or the world at large. Visibility is a really interesting question for Scorpios, because of Scorpio's natural ability to guard and protect their emotional life and their inner world. Maybe you've been pretty good at keeping your work life and home life separate, but perhaps with the kinds of things Pluto is churning up now in the fourth, your ability to hold these things separate is really being tested. Venus passing through your 10th now might be the first indication of how this reckoning between your private life and your public life is taking place. So notice the sort of things that she's bringing to your attention now, because this will prepare you for the continual dynamics taking place across this axis later on this year.

Bianca Selene
Thanks, Courtney. I really like that. When I think of Scorpio risings and Pluto going through the fourth house, I just think, of course, transformations, but I think school paraisings, you may also be discovering, yeah, like entirely new ideas about belonging and home and family and emotional security. I think the challenge here may be about developing a relationship with a future that doesn't yet have a familiar shape. Think in Venus in the 10th, so visible up there in your chart asks, How do I begin to give expression and visibility to what is emerging privately? So that's what I, what I was thinking of for you, Scorpio risings.

Yeah, yeah. Moving on to Sagittarius risings, we've got Sagittarius risings. Think this, this is going across your third and ninth house axis, and I think this might be one of the most intellectually and philosophically charged expressions, not because it's sad rising, but given the house placements, and if we think of the ninth house as a place where we seek the bigger picture, and if we think about the sun receiving its joy in the ninth house, that undying illumination of and then we've got the third house, which is where the moon receives its joy, dealing with the immediate facts and experiences of life, and so Pluto and Aquarius in in the third house might bring information conversations and ideas or encounters that don't neatly fit into your existing worldview and Sad Risings, I think this might be a controversial take here, but you love certainty in the form of guided principles, and Pluto in the third may introduce ambiguity or contradictions or perspectives that resist easy synthesis, so Venus in the ninth then becomes a bridge between experience and belief, or information and wisdom, or curiosity and meaning, so your understanding of what is real may be expanding beyond your current beliefs, and this transit asks you to stay curious as, as a new window begins to emerge.

Courtney Chandrea
Yeah, that was really beautiful. I love that you brought in the planetary joys, too. Yeah, it's really interesting that Sag Risings, they have Leo in the ninth house, which is the sun's, you know, that's the place of the sun's domicile, and the ninth house is the joy of the sun as well. And to have this like fixed fire sign in the ninth house, you know, it really does speak to like a really firm belief system, and with Pluto in the third, we're going to be experiencing lots of challenges across that axis, and it's nice that our first planet to pass through here in this opposition is Venus, as if she's like she's pulling Sagittarius.

Risings into that ninth place, but from a soft place that that sounds like a really, a really productive way to begin initiating a conversation between, like, a roughed-up third house and maybe sometimes too rigid ninth house with that, you know, across that fixed energy of Aquarius and Leo, yeah, moving on to Capricorn risings, Pluto in your, yeah, Pluto in your second is working through your house of resource, so this can refer to money and assets, but also skills you've developed that play a supportive role in your life, as well as the people who actively support your being, as Pluto moves through this place, you may be experiencing some disruption around these, around how these supports show up. Pluto is both our planet of transformation and hidden riches, so this process will likely involve both losing and gaining resources along the way.

This opposition takes place across your second and eighth houses, and the eighth house is the place of other people's resources, other people's esteem for you, and the contracts and agreements that allow for flow between your resources and others to take place. So, with Pluto marking some sort of greater change occurring through your second house, Venus's opposition in your eighth might be flushing out a new piece of the story. Perhaps this speaks to a new flow of support coming in from the people in your life through that eighth house, a new agreement or contract that will help balance the difference, or else it speaks to a reckoning or a clearing that needs to take place around old contracts before your second house can experience the refresh that Pluto is attempting to bring there.

Bianca Selene
Yeah, I love that, Courtney. I also think when I think of Pluto in the second house is a little bit scary, but as a cat rising myself, I've been thinking about this transit once when Pluto entered my, my second house, and I think I think part of it, not, not so much the scary side, but more like it's transforming possibly the relationship to resources, so I think discovering an old measure of success, no, an old measure of what I thought was successful is losing meaning or value, or even, or maybe a talent of mine, or a skill becomes more valuable than than I realize. So, I think that's what Capricorn risings might be trying to grapple with, being Saturnian ruled can be really hard on themselves and quite be very critical of themselves. I'm my own, my worth, my own worst critic.

And I think the challenge that Capricorn Risings also present is that they often prefer to know exactly what something is worth before investing in it, and like, do not waste my time, you know, and so Pluto and Aquarius introduces something whose value isn't immediately obvious. It's like we're planting seeds using new skills to cultivate and nurture these seeds into something that might hopefully be of value one day, and the Plutonian transformation is the way we relate to that cultivation process, and Venus in the eighth house could be the process of allowing other people to recognize that value in us before sometimes we even recognize it in ourselves, and I know in Adams' classes, like he's given examples of the benefics in the eighth house as bringing in resources and money and scholarships and grants, but not just money, it can describe the way other people contribute to our lives. I feel like I could, like, go on and on about this, but I do, I do feel like this is a big one for for cap risings with, with the second house transforming, in the eighth house, Venus benefic going through there can just kind of make it feel a little bit more optimistic around their, their monetary, like what they value and money, what they have, but yeah, so Courtney Chandrea
I love that relational piece that you bring in too, because you know, with Capricorn being an earth sign, there can be sometimes an over emphasis on on the physical side of things, but with Pluto and Aquarius in your second house, that seems like a subversion of what value even is, maybe it's not something you can measure at all, you know, maybe it doesn't have physical substance, but it's about what passes between people. Yeah, I love that you brought that up.

Bianca Selene
Thanks. Well, Aquarius Risings, we're almost to the end that Aquarius Risings, I got you. This is the first house, seventh house axis, so another biggie, I. Um, so I think Venus, Pluto opposition across the first house, seventh house axis is one of the most personal experiences, expressions of this transit, because Pluto in your first house is directly reshaping your identity, while Venus and Leo in the seventh house is, is has everything to do with relationships, so this places the tension between who you're becoming, the first house connection versus how others are relating to you, that seventh house experience.

So, Aquarius risings, you may find that you are no longer able to inhabit old identities, old roles, or ways of being, there can be a sense that your priorities are changing, your desires are shifting, and we, we don't become ourselves in isolation. Sometimes we become ourselves through encounters with others, and Venus and Leo in the seventh house tries to make sense of these changes through love and connection and relationship partnerships, so partners and lovers, significant others may look like rhyming some lines, jokes, so partners, lovers, significant others may mirror back aspects of yourself that are still emerging, and this can create experiences such as feeling seen in a new way or discovering new desires through partnership, and so relationships may become the catalyst for transformation. Yeah, at the highest expression, this transit can be profound self-discovery relationships that support authentic growth or greater honesty about your desires, and maybe a deeper integration of individuality and partnership.

That's what I'm going for with Aquarius risings. Courtney Chandrea
Yeah, I love that. I don't have anything to add, like being an Aquarius rising myself. I'm just over here taking notes. I can't see, I can't see what's happening with Pluto and Aquarius at all. I mean, I do, but also it's like, I mean, talk about a mind trip. Yeah, yeah, Bianca Selene
sometimes we're too close to the transit when it's heading in our personal, it's too close to fully understand, and that's a benefit of going to an astrologer, someone who can read your chart and give you like ideas as to maybe what's going on, is that so on the nose for Aquarius Pluto right now, where you're saying I don't know, Courtney Chandrea
yeah, absolutely. Pluto's been trining my son by degree, and I think that's where it's more loud for me too. Once Pluto, like in the 20s, where my ascendant is, and where my ascendant ruler is, I think it'll be really loud then, but we've still got a little bit of time for that, yeah, yeah.

Moving forward to Pisces risings, I went a little playful with Pisces, so let's set the scene like this. Pluto is banging around in your closet, making a hell of a lot of noise, and as Venus passes through the study, she notices the noise and looks across the hallway to see that Pluto is cross-dressing. Pluto is just having a grand old time making all of your everyday clothing look like costume wear. Queenly Venus raises her eyebrows and goes back to work with a smirk on her face.

With Pluto in your 12th house, Pisces, there might be a lot of rearranging taking place in your closets. There are transformations happening in places you can't see, in the social undercurrents at work, in your life, and in the deep recesses of your psyche. You won't be able to see any of this clearly until Pluto shifts into your first house. So, for now, the best you can do is enjoy the ride, but Venus opposing Pluto through your sixth can see exactly what's taking place, and whatever she's noticing here is filtering through your everyday, all of your routines, all the chop wood, carry water activities you engage with on the daily.

This week is a really great time for engaging with dream work, for meditating, for making intentional space for the subconscious shifting to speak through your waking life, whether you do or not. You might be noticing some extra spice present itself in the normal activity, normal everyday activities, as Venus makes contact with whatever it is that Pluto is doing in your 12th house right now. Bianca Selene
Oh my gosh, that's so funny. Pluto in the closet descriptions, but I agree, you know. While Pluto continues to work in the hidden places of your chart, Venus may offer some tangible clues as to what's changing, you know, beneath.

Beneath the surface, and you know, pay attention to activities and routines and people or practices that seem to capture your attention right now. Small shifts in everyday life may be reflecting much larger transformation that is still unfolding behind the scenes, and you may not yet have words for what's changing, but your daily experiences, Pisces rising, may already be helping you develop a relationship with it. So that's what I have. That's what we have. We're done through it all.

Well, I I'm so we're so grateful that you, you're here till the end, and and so we're going to call it a day. And let's, Courtney, where can we, where can we find you if somebody is interested in following your work. Where are you at these days? Courtney Chandrea
Yeah, so first place to check me out: Dream the wilderness.substack.com I have weekly postings on general astrology content. I'm doing a series right now exploring the ecological functions of the signs, which has been really fun way to deep dive into each zodiacal signs. Yeah, and on on Substack, you can book with me as well. At the top of the page, there's a little, you know, a book a reading with me button. Just click that, and you can, you can sign up to read with me. And you can also find me on Instagram at Dream the Wilderness. And then I've also started playing with YouTube a little bit, starting a like a bookish astrology niche channel, so if you like, if you like literature, you like astrology, that's a good place for you. Also, dream the wilderness over there.

Bianca Selene
Awesome, great stuff. So good to see you branching out and doing new things. I, for me, you can find me on Bianca Celine, Instagram, Bianca Saline astrology or could book a reading with me, Bianca saline.com is my website, and I'm still doing the Faith Meets Fate on YouTube with some fellow Nightlight students, Ryan Hunt and Mindy De Graham Reed, where we talk about all things relating to astrology and navigating change through leaving a strict structure, like a religion, or, but any kind of crises, and in change in identity shifts, we, yeah, we, we talk about those things. It's very casual. So, check us out on YouTube, Faith meets fate, and we're on Substack too, Faith Meets Fate com, but yeah, that's what I've got going on for me.

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