Venus Opposite Pluto: Navigating Eruptions in Our Relationships

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology, and today we are going to talk about Venus's opposition with Pluto. Now we are in a little bit of a traffic jam this week because we had a couple of transits come through on Sunday into Monday that we are catching up with on Monday into Tuesday. The reason for that is I didn't want to skip either of them because they're a big deal, and they're both in effect for more than just Sunday and Monday.

So we're getting to this one, technically a little bit late. But the reason that I think it's important to look at Venus as opposition to Pluto today's it's still in effect for most of this week. So even if we miss the exact day because yesterday we were looking at Mercury and Uranus. That transit is also in effect right now and for the opening few days of this week. So anyway, you'll have to forgive me this week if we're just a little bit behind in our schedule, and hopefully, this will still give you something to pay attention to as the week unfolds.

Because as I said, both of these transits are in effect for the early part of this week, all the way really through Thursday. So, at any rate, today we're going to be looking at Venus in Leo just entered yesterday and made the opposition to Pluto yesterday very much still in effect for the next couple of days. So that is our goal for today.

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Okay, well, let's take a look at the real-time clock. And I'll give you the picture of this Venus opposite Pluto transit. So here is yesterday's transit, and yesterday, we looked at Mercury and Uranus. So you can see that Mercury and Uranus were just barely separating yesterday. So we were talking about that transit, especially because as the week goes on, even all the way through Wednesday, that transit is really still in effect.

What we did, though, in doing that, of course, is we sort of neglected yesterday's transit of Venus, entering Leo and opposing Pluto, which happened yesterday morning. So here you can see that opposition right across the Leo-Aquarius axis, and that opposition is perfecting yesterday morning; this will be about noon my time in the Central Time Zone. Then that transit is still in effect today. So if we take this forward about three degrees, we're going to see that the opposition lasts really all the way until Friday, that it's still in effect. So that's why I sort of shuffled things around a little bit so that we could address both transits at the early part of this week.

You may have experienced the bulk of this transit Sunday into Monday. Other people are going to experience this Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week because, for ancient astrologers, there was a three-degree engagement range. Three degrees prior to and three degrees after the exact aspect was made, the planet was still said to be in a range in which the expressions of the transit could be made manifest. In the same way that some people, they'll experience the effects of a full moon exactly as they're happening, while other people will experience the effects of a full moon the morning after or the morning of. So, in the same way, Venus opposite Pluto is very much in effect for the remainder of this week, which is why I don't think it's too late to talk about it, even though it was exact yesterday.

So that is, that's the real-time picture of what we're dealing with. And what I'd like to do today is talk about five things to watch for, and I'm going to talk about these are like the quintessential Venus-Pluto dynamics. But even more importantly, I want to talk about these dynamics because there are tips or pieces of advice that go along with each of them. So here are five things to watch for, given the Venus-Pluto dynamic, that I think will help everybody. So the five things to watch for begin with there, and they're in no order like any of the not one of these is like greater or more important than the other.

Number one is the erotic and exotic Venus. Venus, in general, is about friendship, love, beauty, and the pleasing and satisfying elements of life, whether that's pleasant weather, a nice meal, or making love, or holding hands and going on a walk, or spending time with people laughing or watching a movie you like. Or it's the beautiful clothing that you're wearing, or the satisfaction that you feel walking around a well-designed, you know, a building or something. So Venus just has that aura of things that are harmonious and beautiful and pleasing to the senses and so forth.

Venus has this huge territory of human experience, often related to love and relationships and sexuality and things like that. The point is that when Venus comes in contact with Pluto, Venus is coming in contact with the ruler of the underworld. So we get an erotic exotic, and sort of subterranean Venus. On the light side of the spectrum, that can mean that Venus is going to express itself in terms of things that are more taboo, or things that are hidden or secretive, or things that are more complicated. The kinds of things that Venus finds attractive when Venus is in contact with Pluto may be more subversive or just be tinged with a little bit of darkness.

If you think, for example, of Venus and Pluto, you might think of the film, and I'm not saying this is a great movie, or anything like that, or the book, I guess it was based on the book, 50 Shades of Grey, where you have like a bondage vibe, and it's a little bit dark but sexy, that would be perfectly appropriate for Venus and Pluto. If you have questions about dominance and submission in love and relationships, that would be Venus opposite Pluto.

Now, the erotic and exotic Venus can touch into our preferences in relationships, our interests in art, music, culture, and film, the kinds of fantasies that we have, the kinds of people that we find interesting, and the kinds of social scenes that we are a part of. So you just think, on any level, Venus contacting Pluto makes things a little bit more erotic and exotic.

Now, in particular, because Venus is in the sign of Leo, and Pluto is in the sign of Aquarius, you may also notice that themes about the group versus the individual are important somehow; Venus in Leo is like that standout celebrity that, a rising star that somehow separates themselves from everyone else because of how special and unique they are. It's the Queen, not the people. It's the king, not the populace, right? Whereas Aquarius is very much like the city or the structures that support the people, the institutions that support, you know, a democratic view of life.

So when you put Venus and Leo opposite Pluto and Aquarius, one of the manifestations can be that there are tensions between the importance or
the fame even of the individual versus the needs or power of the group. Sometimes the need is to separate or individuate and define ourselves apart from the group to stand out as unique and talented, and different.

While at other times, there is a need for the ego to die or to be subdued in favor of something that is truly more collective, truly more about the we rather than the me. So you may find this week that tensions between me and we, the ego and its peacock tail, you know, its plumage and its unique colors, and the role that the ego plays subduing itself for the sake of something larger and socially collective.

So watch for those tensions this week to be a little bit more noticeable. But ultimately, I think opposition's are always reminding us that we have to learn how to hold the tensions between those two things. So if someone's telling you that you ought not to be an individual, that's probably not the message. But if someone is telling you or if your own ego is saying that I'm more important or more special than anyone or anything else, that's probably also a little bit extreme. So you just watch for the extreme voices, and we think to ourselves with oppositions, my job is to carry the tension of these opposites, not to collapse into one side or the other, not to perfectly balance them, but to learn how to hold and live with the tension, which is ultimately very creative when we learn how to hold it.

Number three, now, this is like textbook, this could have been number one in terms of the most cliched and obvious things we could say about Venus and Pluto, but it needs to be said because it's true, and it will happen to many, many people this week; you will find that there is metaphorical death and literal transformations and rebirthing experiences in relationships. Some people will break up, some people will have a big blowout, some people will do major healing work, and some people will find that their relationship is going undergoing a serious transformation for one reason or another. It could be as simple as, you know, a partner going through an individual transformation at their job or their health or in their family, but somehow, their personal transformation has a big effect on the relationship.

So you know, the kinds of transformations are really pretty wide open. They can be anything that has a deep and lasting impact on a relationship of friendship, relationships with women or sisters or lovers, in particular with Venus. But any kind of social relationship in a group as well, your relationship with a group of people could undergo some kind of powerful shift. The rebirthing part of Pluto is great because it often means that relationships will get the chance to clean something out, purge something out, and remove something toxic, and the transformation that comes, as a result, is pretty powerful.

Number four would be that there are major eruptions from the unconscious. Again, this is very textbook, but I think there's something really important to say about this one, which is that Pluto is a planet, and this is just my observation of Pluto over the years in my own transits of Pluto transits to my own natal chart, as well as seeing them in the lives of literally 1000s and 1000s of people that I've worked with in the consultation setting.

Pluto brings things to the surface; it brings about healing crises. It's like you have some things that will not transform until you get to the point of rock bottom or some kind of healing crisis that makes the pattern that amplifies and makes the pattern so big and so obvious. That it's, it's like you have no choice but to change. It sort of has the message of like change or die or change or lose the relationship or change or lose your job or change or get sick or you know, change or have no money.

It's like there's almost like this crazy bottom line that will come with a Pluto transit where it's like if you don't transform now because life and the unconscious have erupted in some way that makes some kind of toxic pattern so unbearable, so obvious that if you don't transform, there will be a consequence that is very powerful and this consequence is not coming out of nowhere. It usually comes out of something that's been sitting and festering for a long, long time and address it now or face a worst consequence if you leave it unaddressed, and those kinds of eruptions that come up with Venus-Pluto Usually, again, they have a history behind them, and it's you have to remember that it's as though life has is saying to us look, it just appears that there's no other way to get through to you except to bring you to this moment where something has erupted up from the unconscious.

It's interesting how many times that eruption from the unconscious will come along with some synchronicity. Right, the synchronicity will be that something comes up in your sewage pipes, right, or it comes up in terms of, you know, a leaky faucet or something; it's like, it's amazing how the eruption from the unconscious with Venus-Pluto will often literally come up in the body, somehow I'm constipated, I'm always constipated, and suddenly, I have diarrhea. It's really gross. But it's like, that's how it works, and then at the same time, suddenly, I'm finally addressing something in my relationship or at work, or I'm finally addressing something with my health because, you know, I have to, at the same time, some other space around me is literally erupting synchronistically.

So just watch for those kinds of parallels between things that are like, let's call them the psychic and karmic zits that are coming to a head. It's like, Oh, my God, there's a white head in my life. It's a, it's a clogged pore, you know? And you're like, Well, you know, it's gotta heal, it's got to come out. So, you know, I always think like, once in a while, my wife and I will go to this place, we have this friend who works at this place, and we get these things called Hydrafacials. I don't know if it gets ever heard of them, but they're like, it's amazing. It's like a water vacuum on your face. They're, I don't know, they're really refreshing. Anyway. But then, you know, the woman who does it? Well, she has this little thing, and she'll press it on your skin and, like, your little blackheads or whatever, like, they'll pop out, and on time I go, I was like, you know, that must be really satisfying to do. I mean, like, it's kind of gross, but like, is it kind of satisfying to, like, squeeze all that stuff out of people's faces? And she was like, Yes.

Then she was like, you know, the other thing is, you can see the water after it's like the water that's it goes into like a, I don't know, like a tank or something after it's, you know, she's using it on your face, and it's like, you can see the, the waters like discolored like you can see it's like literally pulling like dirt out of your pores, and it's like, this discolored water. She like showed it to me, and I was, like, it's so gross. That's been as Pluto behind the appearance of things that are beautiful, that are harmonious whether that's in our relationships or that's in your home, or you know, at work or your friendships or some group you belong to.

There's a bunch of blackheads; what do you call them? They are undergrounders, and they have to erupt, and that's what happens when Venus hits Pluto. And it's it makes you wonder is are things as beautiful as I think they are. You know, it's a little disturbing. It disturbs the peace. Yet there are dark spaces in every Venusian area of our life.

Venus has a dark side, and that is number five; the dark Venus and the dark Venus is a little heavy. I mean, we have things like rape, sexual violence, molestation, sexual trauma. The dark side of Venus can be very dark and heavy where we almost are looking at like the evil and the demons and the shadows and the violence and the really dark stuff surrounding relationships, love, topics like domestic violence or, you know, manipulation or coercion or sex trafficking like all of that really heavy dark stuff can be very Venus opposite Pluto.

Venus in Leo opposite Pluto can also be like the corruption of a Venusian figure or the dark, scandalous things coming up into the surface, like a sex scandal in the government or something. It can also be Venus and Leo, like a queen that's dying or passing away a pop star or something that passes. I mean, for example, this doesn't align, but recently Tina Turner passed. In a way, it's a little bit Venus-Pluto, and that's not the transit that was there for her, but something like that would also be appropriate for Venus and Leo opposite Pluto.

Anyway, the dark side of Venus is something that could come up this week. I always just tell people to put yourself in safe situations while Venus is opposite Pluto. It's not a great time to go to a space where it's possible that the crowd or the scene doesn't respect women or isn't safe or it has, you know, predatorial elements like just be careful of the darkness around Venus this week in terms of like who you surround yourself with. I think that's something to be a little cautious of.

But also, you don't want to live in fear or paranoia, which could also be a Venus opposite Pluto trait, nothing safe or beautiful. Everything's dangerous; you don't wanna go down that road either. So it's like you have to be a little bit careful. But yeah, at any rate, the dark Venus is a real thing to watch out for.

So those are my five things to watch for. Remember, it perfected yesterday is sort of in the psychic atmosphere the rest of this week and still could very much express itself in the next few days. So keep alert and awake to that possibility. I would love again to hear your stories if you have any of them. Use the hashtag grabbed or share your story with us by emailing us at grabbed@nightlightastrology.com. Tell us the transit in the story that matches up with it. We'd love to hear from you.

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