Venus Combust Horoscopes — What This Rare Purification Cycle Means for You

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Venus is currently combust under the beams of the sun and going through a purification process that will take place over the next couple of weeks, prior to her cazimi and then subsequent rebirth as an evening star. We're going to take a look at this today from the standpoint of your horoscopes. Before we do that, I'll also talk a little bit about the meaning of Venus in this part of her Synodic Cycle, and give you some sense of what to watch for in general before breaking your horoscopes down. That's our agenda for today.

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All right, let's turn our attention now to the real time clock, and what we're going to take a look at here is the process that Venus is undergoing. Let me where did my epic pen go? It's missing. Oh, here you are. Okay. So what I want you to notice here is the position of Venus and Mars. They're actually both combust right now. We'll be talking about Mars as combustion and rebirth in a separate video, but they actually happen close together. I'll show you how this works.

We're going to move this along by some days here, and as first of all, as as we are listening to this, you know, Friday, December 12, Venus is about six degrees away from the sun. As soon as Venus is within 15 degrees of the sun, she begins her process of transformation, purification, breakdown, just like mercury, when Mercury is combust, it typically coincides with some of the more difficult experiences for mercury, as Mercury is being reborn, kind of reborn in the furnace of the sun.

So this was, for traditional astrologers, a debilitating condition for the planet under the beams of the sun. But sometimes that word doesn't do justice to what's actually happening, which is quite beautiful. Alchemically, when Venus gets closer and closer to the sun, between now and the end of the year, you're going to see her degree proximity gets closer. So here she is in late Sagittarius, right around Christmas, moving into Capricorn on New Year's Eve, or New Year's Eve, Christmas Eve, and then she's within three degrees of the sun.

Well, the sun, who moves faster than Mars, is within three degrees of Mars. This is a very rare and interesting configuration for two planets to be resetting their synodic cycles at the same time with the sun. The Lovers Venus and Mars are being reborn in January through this moment. So here we are going to drag this forward just a little bit. We're going to see that Venus comes in. To the same degree as the sun on January 5.

So between now and early January, Venus's combustion is underway, and it has been for a couple weeks. But as this gets closer and closer, the intensity and the heat gets turned up, we'll talk more about that in a second. You can see Venus's cazimi here on January 5. If I keep going with this, you're going to notice that the cazimi with Mars then takes place around January 7 into the eighth, and then is complete. On the ninth, Sun starts separating fully within a degree by about the 12th so between now in December and about the same date in January, we have the combustion and reset of both Venus and Mars.

So December 12 to January 12, we just mapped out a full month where we're seeing this take place for both planets today. I want to focus on Venus and talk about what that close proximity means first and foremost. And I think it becomes really important to it becomes really important to mention this, that the this is a pattern that recurs with Venus. And so when Venus emerges from this combustion, it will happen through the cazimi, and then gradually she will rise and emerge as the Evening Star. That is a kind of rebirthing of Venus.

So what comes just before that this, that's the combustion where she moves closer and closer to the Sun prior to the cazimi is thought of as her purification or her death. There are different metaphors that can convey the same thing. Venus is going through a kind of crucible. I think it's a good time to sit down and track what that might be looking like as she's going through Sagittarius. Now it's going to carry over into Capricorn, and in early January, we'll be re looking at this from the standpoint of Capricorn, but for now, her combustion, her death, her transfiguration and some of the more difficult things that might mean, or some of the deeper work we might be doing will be taking place in Sagittarius.

So just first of all, when it comes to what to watch for. I don't have a formal list today, but anything Venusian can be going through a process of death and rebirth between now and about the middle of January, it'll be extended beyond that. If we take Venus all the way toward her morning or her Evening Star phase, but just broadly speaking, for the next month, you may be noticing that Venus is kind of slowly burning down and then rising back up gradually in the new year.

What that often means for relationships is that some feature of a relationship or certain area of our life, and the relationships in that area of life are undergoing great change. They may be under great stress. They may be ready to let go of or release old patterns. Those relationships can be marriage or they with lovers. They can be with friends, sisters or women are frequent for Venus, but any kind of friendship, colleagues in the workplace, social circles, social networks, friends, friends, really, any kind of relationship can be put to the test during such a period or go through healing or purification.

Venus has to do with sexuality, with style, with how we look for and experience pleasure, and so refinement or change of style. I thought it was so fascinating that as Venus started coming under the combustion very, very gradually, I noticed one of my daughters saying that she feels like she's wanting a different style of her clothing. This is the first time she's just about to turn 10 that I can ever remember her having such a distinct moment of wanting to change styles.

What's interesting is she has a bunch of planets in Sagittarius. So as soon as Venus entered Sagittarius and is already under the beams of the sun, but that proximity got closer and closer, she started really vocalizing that need for change that would be common. If you've got a bunch of planets in Sagittarius, you have a strong identification with that sign that there might be something a little bit different for your style, that you're something of the Sagittarius part of you that wants to express itself.

I thought it was interesting. I said, Well, what's your what's the new style? And one part of the new style that she's envisioning is a lot of her classmates, her good girlfriends, are wearing, starting to wear athleisure wear. So Sagittarius, you know, anyway, just, I don't want to be so restricted in movement. I you know, I need some, like, stretchy, stretchy pants that are like yoga pants, like mom wears sometimes.

Okay, so the idea, though, is a change of style for being. Us a change of taste, a change of what gives or provides pleasure, all Venusian refinements that can happen sometimes also because things lose their luster. It's like that's just not as attractive anymore. It doesn't taste as good anymore. It doesn't feel as good anymore. Even changes in you know, your intimacy and what you're doing or how you're how it's making you feel.

Relationships go through phases of, you know, patterns in love making that can change or shift. And not necessarily because anything's broken, but just because it's time for some something has just lost its appeal. Like, oh, we're in a pattern. Let's shift the pattern all Venusian. Now, the other thing that can be important is to simply look at the whole sign house. So what I want to do next is simply point out the whole sign configuration of Venus and the Sun.

And by doing this, what we're going to get to is I have a list of three things to watch for given every single rising sign combination. So we're going to go through these, and I want you to start thinking about what this purification, this part of Venus's cycle, the purification stage. Let's call it might look like for you, but if the word purification feels too heavy, or if it doesn't quite click, you could think of a refinement of Venus, a change or transformation or healing for Venus, a death and rebirth.

For Venus, a changing of appearance. For Venus. You know, play with it a little bit, but know that the combustion in a fire sign, getting closer and closer to the sun can have a very purifying effect. So I think that's a really apt metaphor for for this particular Venus retrograde, it'll look and feel a little bit different when it gets into Capricorn. But okay, let's put the chart on the screen. Alrighty.

So we're going to roll through these sign by sign, and I'm going to give you three things to watch for. Now, if you are an Aries Sun or rising. Venus is going through her transformation right now, her purification in the ninth house. So I'm going to give you some purifying, refining and cleansing ideas for that house. Number one would be, this is the ninth house, a Dharma house of belief, belief, faith and wisdom.

Are you purifying? Beliefs about love, removing dogma or fantasy in spiritual or romantic relationships, or the ideals that you have for them that would be very fitting for Venus in this house. Are you refining which teachers, teachings or traditions align with your heart, align with your creativity, align with what you love, or how you love, or what brings pleasure or joy? Are you cleansing some level of false optimism, choosing devotion over escapism? What does real optimism look like?

Venus is a planet of a benefic that often in a Jupiter ruled sign is going to be connected to optimism, and the kind of optimism that gives pleasure. So what is the real kind? So those are some ninth house things to think about. If you're an Aries. Let's go to Taurus, where we move into the eighth house. Let's talk about purifying, releasing, cleansing. Work with Venus in this house a moksha, House of shared resources, sometimes loss, deep work, things that we fear, that we're entangled with, that we have to let go of.

So purifying entanglements tied to things like money or debts or emotional obligations to other people, number two on my list would be releasing any kind of manipulative or seductive relational dynamics, so where they could be conscious, they could be unconscious. But are there exchanges in your life that are seductive or manipulative or not reciprocal in some way? Do they need to be cleansed, healed, released, cleansing intimacy wounds, wounds that keep you bonded through fear instead of trust, wounds that keep you indebted rather than free within any kind of shared emotional space with other people.

So for Tauruses, these are the things that I would watch for, as Venus is sort of cleansing herself right now in that house. For Geminis, we're looking at Venus purifying, going through the purification in the seventh so I've got some purifying, cleansing dynamics here, a house of comma, pleasure, bliss, marriage partners, agreements with other people. Purifying relational desires comes to mind, letting go of fantasies projected onto partners.

Cleansing imbalanced exchanges, creating equality and giving and receiving, or even trying to understand the motivations within a relationship, behind attraction, behind commitment, behind conflict patterns. What are you being asked to see and understand at a deeper level, to cleanse and purify? Remember that the conjunction with the sun ultimately. Is about greater wisdom emerging for the planet, in this case, Venus. So what does that greater Venusian wisdom look like in relationships right now?

All right, let's go to cancer, where we see Venus going through her purification phase in the sixth This is an arta house, a place of work, service and health. We're talking now about purifying your relationship to something like service, removing resentments or martyrdom. That could be a This could mean that there's a time where you have to look at the kind of work, sacrifice and daily grind that you actually like. It's not a sin to actually like something that's hard.

In fact, it's a lot easier if there's some little sense of value or like being derived from the hard things we do, the daily work grind and sacrifices. Does this need? Does this need purifying, cleansing of daily routines? What are the kinds of pleasure seeking habits that actually undermine your health or productivity, and then finally releasing perfectionism, whether it's around work or body image, anything that's rooted in comparison, jealousy, competition, envy, conflicts with co workers, conflicts with people that you, that you work with or for.

How is the transition taking place? If you have people you hire within how they work for you, or what kinds of jobs they do, that would also be something that could be going through a healing or transformation right now. Now for Leos, we're looking at the fifth house. This is a Dharma house, connected with creativity, children and joy. What does purification or cleansing look like in this house right now?

Well, thinking about purifying creative motives, maybe shifting from performance and validation to authenticity. There's nothing wrong with being a performer, but if you're performing, seeking validation because of a broken ego, then maybe the ways in which you're creating, creating or expressing, are not as authentic as they could be, because they're trying to overcompensate for something, purifying your creative motivations in life, cleansing romantic expectations, a very romantic placement Venus, in the fifth it was called The house was called The Joy of Venus.

What can you cleanse around romantic interactions, expectations, fantasies that maybe hinder true intimacy, as well as those fantasies that are somehow necessary for actual pleasure to exist, so refining the pleasure impulse and pleasure dimension of relationships, romance and romance, and then finally, I would say, refining the way that you express affection, so that joy comes authentically in the relationships you have with other people, even kids or children or parenting in this house, we're talking about real joy, real affection, real authentic connection with other people that is being looked at or explored or changed right now for Leos.

Now for Virgos, we're going into the fourth house, A Moksha house, associated with home roots, emotional ground. What for purifying and cleansing? What emotional attachments need? Purifying, especially those tied to family approval, inherited patterns of relating that come from the family, maybe cleansing the home environment of objects or relationships that no longer nurture the heart Marie Kondo saying, Does this spark joy. If not, I'll let it go that comes to mind, releasing of sentimental clinging to past loves or old versions of yourself that could also be appropriate for this very inner private space of the fourth house and Venus's transformation there.

So home, family, emotional ground, home environment, parental patterns, all related to pleasure or love. Going through a process of purification, we go on to Libras. For Libras, the Venus purification is taking place in your third house. Comma, a place of joy or bliss, communication, siblings. This is a place that a lot of effort to cultivate a self satisfied ego takes place, and I love that Vedic interpretation of this house, refining your communication habits, removing flattery avoidance, softening anything that's disingenuous you could be purifying motivations behind daily activities or efforts, choosing meaningful over merely pleasant tasks, releasing old relationship patterns with siblings or peers, maybe where harmony has been maintained, at the cost of honesty.

So relationships with siblings, joy and meaningfulness in your everyday work environment or everyday environment, refining communication habits, something about your mind, mental or emotional makeup that needs to be refined or changed so that your ego is more harmonious with other egos. That could be a thing for Libras right now, even though Libras don't tend to struggle with the you know, sharp egos, illegal rising. You know, of course, every child. It's unique, but this could be a time to refine that ego.

Let's go to Scorpio, where the purification of Venus is taking place in the second house, arta, resources, livelihood, values, security and wealth or assets in the material world. Well, could you be cleansing financial dependencies or unhealthy spending that's perhaps emoted, rooted in emotional needs. Or could there be some value system materially, what I spend? What is my time? Energy, money, effort going towards what do I want? What do I desire? Materially? Could there be some purification or transformation happening there, releasing attachments to comfort so that genuine stability can emerge from discipline choices.

I'm going to stop spending on the credit card because it's destabilizing me over and over again, and I'm in a bad pattern. And although you know retail therapy helps me feel better in the moment, it destabilizes me in the long run. So deeper changes with respect to pleasure and material things could be at play here. For Scorpios, you can see the way that we're working this tension. We're just asking the same question, how does purification or cleansing take place, given the topics of the house and the nature of Venus?

So for Sagittarians, you've got it in your first house. Dharma, identity, character, individual essence, purifying desires about who you're trying to please. Venus in the first house is likable, attractive to other people, but when it goes through a change, it's like get rid of people pleasing patterns, or get rid of a version of yourself that maybe has gotten positive feedback but doesn't really feel like you, or maybe it's about taking some feedback, because people think you're annoying.

People find you obnoxious. Why understand it and then refine yourself. And we all have to do that from time to time. Maybe that's what's happening. Refine not to be hard on my sagittarians out there, refine your esthetic or personal style to better reflect who you are. So I wrote all these down refining esthetic or personal style as a better reflection of your true nature. The esthetic, the adornment, the things we wear, match something about who we are, clarifying relational boundaries so your life path isn't dictated by others needs or projections.

So interestingly, identity and the conversation around identity in relationships comes up as a transformative potential of Venus, inner purification phase in this house. All right, let's go to Capricorn. So with Capricorn, we're looking at the 12th house, a Moksha house, a place of spiritual liberation, especially from things that undermine us or that are unconscious. This is a place of otherworldliness, solitude and spirit, the ego loses control frequently in this house.

Well, this could be about purifying hidden desires, like if you have a problem drinking or spending or with impulsive choices around pleasure. This could be a real time to look at that where has longing and pleasure seeking become escapism and self destruction, cleansing, old karmic attachments that are unhealthy around love, sex, marriage, relationships, secret relationships, also gossip, like quite frequently gossip with this Venus in the 12th will often show up when there's unhealthy gossip patterns releasing which entangle us with other people, and then when drama explodes around gossip, it often serves to liberate us from that pattern, so that we don't entangle ourselves in other people's karma.

Releasing unconscious patterns of avoidance is also a part of this. If we are someone who avoids intimacy. This could be a space where getting closer to someone by getting rid of the fears and stuck patterns that keep us from really deeply connecting. So you can go in different directions with this. All right, so those are some things to look at. For Capricorns, for Aquarians, we're talking about the 11th house, the place it's a comma house has to do with bliss, happiness, pleasure in community, friends, hope, social aspirations, purifying your social sphere.

If there are networks, socially, groups, socially, friendships, socially that are built on things like convenience, flattery, superficiality, wealth, vanity, it's time to let those go. If you have long term aspiration, goals or dreams that have been shaped by cultural desire rather than soul desire, it's time to let those go if you need to refine the role you play in the social position or world you inhabit, moving from popularity to alignment or moving from the right group the right role in the right group, something like that.

So social refinement in general, all right. Last but not least, Pisceans with the 10th house, your career house, the arta house, a worldly house, a material house, purifying your public image, shedding roles that you've worn for approval or popularity. Rather than actual calling. Maybe that's it not easy work, but you might be really feeling like that's what you have to do right now, refining professional relationships to align with integrity and mutual respect.

So if there are social slash professional workplace types of relationships that need to be better or healthier, somehow this might be the time to do that, and then cleansing your ambitions, shifting from desirability, status, popularity, anything that's been to something that has to do with right contribution. I'd rather be really good at something and really useful and helpful with the thing I'm really good at, than really popular and prestigious and powerful. Right? How can we shift that?

Ironically, often, when people shift that, they become very influential. Trying to be an influencer usually gets you looking like someone who's trying to be an influencer. Being someone who's really good at something and works from the heart at what they love often leads to being an influencer, but that refinement or reorientation of priorities is something that sometimes needs to take place. I find myself doing that. You know, even as an astrologer, it's like I have to constantly check in and go, Why am I doing this? What am I trying to achieve? You know, am I trying to be someone of influence, or am I just trying to do what I love? Every time I get back to doing what I love, I the work does better. And so I think that shift of orientation sometimes it's as simple as that with the Venus purification in the 10th.

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