Venus Retrograde Conjoining Neptune Again — Entertaining Angels

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [https://nightlightastrology.com/]. Today we're going to take a look at Venus retrograding back into the sign of Pisces, where it will immediately conjoin Neptune, and then it's going to continue on in its retrograde into the conjunction with the North Node, and then Saturn, also, who is late in the sign of Pisces.

Right now I'm going to talk about this today from the standpoint of a really interesting dream I had, which came as a kind of response to a question that I was pondering about this transit. This has happened to me rarely over the years of doing this, where there will be a dream that comes up as a response to a question I have about something astrological. Anytime that's happened, I found that it makes really fun content.

So for your consideration today, we'll see what you guys think of this, but also some other insights that kind of dovetail off from the dream itself, that I hope you'll find interesting about Venus conjoining Neptune in Pisces.

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And on that note, let us go ahead and open up the real-time clock so we can take a look at this transit. As we are today, just to back this up, we are Wednesday, March 26, and what I want to point out to you is that Venus is going to be changing signs in the next 24 hours from Aries and moving back into Pisces.

So if I take this forward just one day, you're going to see that tomorrow, Thursday, March 27, at about 8 am Central time, the two planets can join in the late part of Pisces. Now, closely after this, Venus will retrograde into the conjunction with the North Node. You'll see that happening the middle of next week.

Following on that, you will see that Venus and Saturn come together in Venus's retrograde by Monday, April 7. After that, then Venus stations and turns direct by about April 14. And then we'll move back through the conjunction with the North Node and Saturn, and then into Aries, where she will conjoin Neptune again.

So this sequence is a really interesting sequence that has happened once in direct motion, now again through retrograde motion, and then once more through direct motion. So we get three contacts between Venus and Saturn, three contacts between Venus and Neptune, and of course, the North Node as well.

What I want to do today is focus on what is coming tomorrow, and that is going to be the conjunction that Venus has with Neptune in that last degree of Pisces. So this is for Thursday, March 27, but you will be feeling and noticing this quality really for a couple of days, all the way till about March 30, when Neptune changes signs.

So that's the part of the transit that I'm going to be focusing on today. And in order to focus on that transit of Venus and Neptune in Pisces, I'm going to tell you about a dream that I had. One of the themes of Venus and Neptune, and this is a highlighted theme for today, is compassion and empathy.

I have talked about Venus and Neptune at length in other videos, and I will probably revisit Venus and Neptune tomorrow. It's looking like my schedule, my production schedule, is a little bit fluid, but right now, I have planned to look at Venus and Neptune from a more mundane perspective, which is just sort of like, watch for these basic themes.

Today, I want to share with you a deeper, maybe set of spiritual insights or meditations on one aspect of the Venus-Neptune combination, which is the signature of compassion and empathy, of sympathy, empathy, compassion, universal love. These are themes that Venus, in her exaltation, conjoined with Neptune in Pisces, often evoke.

These are themes that, for most people, hold value within whatever spiritual paradigm you walk in. So whether you're a Taoist, a Buddhist, a yogi, or if you grew up in the Hindu traditions, or if you were raised Christian, a value that most people have is things like universal peace, compassion, harmony, and love in a sort of egalitarian, universal sense.

That value is not something that most of us believe can be embodied 24/7 perfectly. We realize that it's something we aim toward, not that we ever fully realize in this world. This world has an interplay of light and dark, of shadow, pain, and suffering. And yet, the thing that we return to as a way of enduring those difficult elements of life is the idea of love, grace, compassion, mercy, tolerance, peace—all of the different words we use for this virtue of some unifying, loving, graceful presence.

Some people call it God or Goddess. Some people call it the Tao. But Venus and Neptune can point toward this sort of universal feeling of bliss, love, oneness, peace, beauty, compassion. So we're going to visit that part of Venus and Neptune today, and I'm going to give you five insights to consider that came from the dream.

So, I was sitting up at night, which doesn't happen all that often, but I was like, "What am I going to say about Venus and Neptune conjoining?" And I want to think about something of spiritual value. I'm going to cover the mundane stuff for sure, and all of that's very easy for me to do, but when it comes to some deeper spiritual thoughts that I could offer through my channel, what would be something authentic?

When I don't know, most of the time, any of the videos I make that have some kind of spiritual insight around them are coming from things that I've been thinking about or learning about, or reminders that I've been getting from the universe, so to speak. So I draw on those, but sometimes I just draw a blank. It's like, I don't have any profound thoughts, you know? I don't have any spiritual insights about this right now.

Well, that's where I was at when I went to bed, and then I had this dream, which I thought was really profound. I mean, for me, it was profound. And let me just tell you everything that I'm about to share with you from this dream. I have no idea if it's true or real, or how real or how literal to take any of it. I just appreciate the wisdom that came through this dream, wherever it came from, or wherever it was there, and I thought it was worth sharing.

Just because we have dreams doesn't make us someone who is in receipt of the wisdom of a dream either. You know, it's like, I don't claim to be someone who resembles any of these insights perfectly in my life, okay? But I aspire to these insights for sure. And these are things that I've heard many times before, but there's something different about hearing something that you've heard before, and it clicks into place.

You know what I'm talking about. There's a teaching you've heard a million times, and intellectually, you go, "Yeah, I believe in that. I like that. That's a truth." But then something happens in your life, and it conveys the same message in a way that is deeply embodied. Well, that's sometimes what I feel like dreams can do for us.

So, what I experienced in this dream—the things I've heard before—but it just hit different. I can't explain it. It was like I woke up, and it was really alive in me. I was like, "Wow, that was really profound." So I share all of that just to say that, you know, this may also come across as preaching to the choir, because I, like you, maybe have heard these ideas before. So let's get into it.

**Number one:** In the dream, I experienced something like a bluish and white cloud of lightning. I don't know how else to describe it. It was like bluish-white lightning cloud. And it was just like, you know those orbs you put your hands on, and the lightning would extend to your fingers? It was kind of like that. But it was just this kind of thing that was shifting, and it was like blue lightning, blue with the white around it.

So anyway, in this dream, it was like just a presence that was there, and it looked like that. And I was very lucid, like a lucid dream. And the thing told me to pray for someone in my life. And it's hard to convey how voices work in dreams, right? Because it's not always even like a voice. It's like a knowing or something. So I won't even try to get into that level of it.

But it was just this instruction that came from this blue lightning thing, and it said to pray for someone in my life. This is someone who's been dealing with some health challenges. And in the dream, the "me" that was observing or watching said something like, "Well, if God is perfectly looking out for the welfare of all beings, and everything is like, nothing escapes God's eye or concern, and God is ultimately guiding and directing all souls and all of life everywhere, like, why would I need to pray for this person?"

It's really funny that I would even say that, because that's not something that I consciously have a question about. Like, I pray for people all the time. I don't think it's pointless. I don't have any intellectual reason to not believe in praying for people, that it's beautiful and somehow effective, even though I don't even know how. Right. So it was weird that I would ask this question, but anyway, I did.

And the angelic blue lightning angel cloud said, "Sympathy is the medium for mercy." And then I got hung up on the word "mercy," like I didn't like that word for one reason or another. And the cloud sort of laughed at me and said, "You could think of the word 'grace' if you prefer." I was like, "Okay, that's funny. I don't know."

Anyway, so then I understood it. It's like a kind of instantaneous understanding. Sympathy, not like, you know, the sympathy he was this, he, it, she—I don't know what this thing was, but it was not conveying sympathy like, "I feel sympathy for you." Cosmic sympathy is the implication of the word that was being used. I knew that.

And just, I'll just read something. So cosmic sympathy is an ancient idea that is astrological, that states that the entire universe is interconnected, and a change in one region may cause a change in another region, much like a living and breathing organism. And one of the things that ancient astrologers believed was that everything was connected, and so changes in one part of the cosmic animal created ripples and changes in the other parts of the cosmic animal.

And so I understood the angel to be saying something about sympathy in the cosmic, astrological sense, if that makes sense. And then, I thought about this in reflection after I had woken up and was deeply pondering this part of the dream. So there's a couple of other parts I'll tell you about in a minute, but I thought about the word "mercy," and one of the etymological meanings of the word "mercy" also references the word "grace."

And like "pity" can be there as well, but it also, "mercy" can mean reward, wages, pay, higher favor, pity, kindness, grace. I find that really, really interesting. And also, it can refer to something like a discretionary action, like something that you may or may not do or show. Well, that's really fascinating.

And then I looked up the etymology of the word "grace" in the morning as I was thinking about all of this. "God's unmerited favor, love, or help." Unmerited, which means that it goes beyond what is deserved. It goes beyond some kind of calculus of behaviors and deserved outcomes. It transcends that system of karmic checks and balances. It's a different kind of thing. It sort of transcends the law of karma. It goes beyond it somehow.

And so all of a sudden, as I was piecing all that together and really reflecting on what the blue lightning had said in this dream, I was like, "Oh, right, if and when I pray for the well-being of someone who is suffering, there's a change in the consciousness of me that has a ripple effect, and that kind of concern for another being, especially when I have zero evaluation in me of their deservingness of healing, right? If they're sick, and I don't sit there and go, 'Well, I'll let some impersonal system of law take care of itself.' If I say, 'I don't care if they're deserving of this sickness or not, I wish for them to experience healing and wellness.' You know, I just—that act is itself an act of grace, and it also has a cosmic sympathetic effect, and that in that way, we become like mediums or channels through which the entire cosmic body of the Divine, the entire cosmic animal, is administering grace, compassion, love, charitable outcomes that go beyond the laws of karma, the letters of the laws of karma."

I mean, again, are these things I've heard before? Yeah, but wow, it really helped to hear a blue lightning cloud conveying this to me. You know, I was like, "Okay, so sympathy is the medium for grace, even if you don't like the word 'mercy,' but mercy would be the same idea. It would be a discretionary act that has nothing to do with merit."

Like, if my daughter could deserve a timeout because of her actions, but I say, "Let's just let it go," that's a discretionary act of mercy. Now, the thing that most people don't like about that is it implies an overlord that has the power to judge. I think we can think about that power in terms of one operative law of the universe or the divine itself, which operates according to these kinds of impersonal checks and balances, karmically—action A leads to outcome B, and it's like a calculus.

But there's this other way in which things work that has to do with something free-flowing, and that has to do with meaningful ways of liberating or releasing or pardoning or forgiving or just letting go or surrendering. And when that happens, the sympathy shifts. And the sympathetic changes in a person praying for another person, or the person just seeking self-forgiveness, granting themselves self-forgiveness, asking for help beyond whatever they may or may not deserve—those actions are themselves already a demonstration of something that goes beyond the administration of merit in a sort of karmic checks and balances, like objective way of thinking. There is just a different way of engaging.

And when one part of the cosmic body, so to speak, engages in that sympathetically, it creates the possibility for grace to flow freely through the chain of being. So in that way, I understood it very much like the things I've heard the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh talk about—the bodhisattvas embodying Jesus Christ, saints, enlightened beings, yogis. There's a major message about grace that it's like, "Don't judge. Judge not lest you be judged."

And one of the ways that we help people free from the judgment-based system of karma is to forgive and accept and pray for people. By praying, we just mean sending good vibes, sending good thoughts, and letting go of judgments and just praying that people that we don't like, or that maybe even people that, you know, like the trolls that drive me nuts, or something like that—we pray for people that might deserve something else. And when we pray for them wholeheartedly in good nature and faith that some mercy, love, grace, goodness, healing, purity, peace, bliss may come into their lives, it has a real impact, because we're all part of the body of divinity, and so we are part of how that grace flows.

That was what I got from this blue angel, the lightning cloud, blue angel in the dream—sympathy, cosmic sympathy, the change in my consciousness of embodying grace and forgiveness. And how important is this right now, when so much of what we are concerned about is whether or not the people around us are in the right group. Your group is the one I don't like. Your group is the dangerous group. Your group is the one that's going to create, you know, the end of the world, or your group is the one that's going to ruin everything.

All of that divisiveness. I know that it might sound pie in the sky to pray for those you oppose, or pray for those you feel oppose you. Two things can be true. You can be active politically, ideologically, on behalf of what you believe is true or good for the direction of a business or an organization or a religion or a government or whatever the case might be. You could advocate for those things. You can also do so while actively praying for those that you perceive as bad or dangerous or criminal.

And doing both things at once is a radical act in our consciousness. I believe, actually doing it, not just saying, "Yeah, I wish well for all people," but actually taking time to meditate and send good thoughts and feelings toward those that you don't like or that are going through something really difficult, and even if you think they ought to be going through it. You know, we release ourselves when we release others in this way.

And so that was what I took from the dream. And it hit me very powerfully, because I hadn't been praying for someone, and one of the reasons that I hadn't, on an unconscious level, is because I thought, "Well, God's got them." Well, I'm a part of the way in which God has them, right? I am part of that flow. And that's if I don't believe that, what am I doing with astrology? It's cosmic sympathy 101. So I thought that was powerful.

Now, the reason that I think it conveys well with Venus conjunct Neptune is because Venus conjoining Neptune while Venus is retrograde can allow us to release and forgive and to experience the bliss and happiness that comes when we do that for other people. Because when we do that for other people, we do it for ourselves. Releasing other people is releasing a part of ourselves that we are holding in judgment, even if that's hard to explain.

It's like, you know, there's this—I learned about this at some point—there's like this part of our brain that, when you give a hug, the brain can't tell the difference between giving and receiving the hug. You know, when you give some love to another person, affection, your brain can't tell the difference between whether you're giving it or receiving it. I read about that at one point. I thought that was really interesting.

The reason that I think it's interesting is because it affirms that idea that when you forgive and pray for others, you inherently are letting go of the muscle of judgment. It's relaxing, and so we're releasing ourselves on some very mysterious level. All right, that was point number one to consider right now—letting go of judgments, letting grace and mercy flow, releasing where you're holding, especially thinking that your shift in consciousness has a sympathetic effect across the web of being.

**Number two:** Prayers of petition and peace. So the second thing that the blue lightning cloud said to me, which was fantastic—I love this so much, and it's again, something I've heard many times before. But you know, like I said, it hits different when life delivers the same message in a way that's really embodied. And for whatever reason, this dream really hit me hard with it.

So, in the dream, the blue lightning angel went on to say, "When you pray for yourself, here's how you should pray." Now, like again, maybe I've watched too many movies, I don't know, guys. So it said, "First, make known, in all honesty, with all of your emotion present, what you desire. When you're making a prayer of petition, it's like, 'This is what I want. Please give me this.' And it could be an outcome of health or healing or happiness or love, or it could be something really cheesy, like, 'I just, you know, I want to get a new car.' I don't know, like, I don't want to limit it."

Right, to me, the dream was just saying, "Whatever you go to in prayer, if it's anything you're asking for in prayer, first, be just completely honest. Don't mask it. Don't hide it. Don't try to make it into something it isn't. Just ask for what you want." And then, following that up, you acknowledge and admit, "I do not know what is best for me. I have these wants and desires that are living in me, but I don't necessarily know if having those things would be good for me. And so I pray that whatever the outcome may be with the things I desire, that you would grant me insight and peace and acceptance with the result, so that when the result comes, if it's not what I want, if it is what I want, that it's good for me, and if it isn't what I want, that I would be able to receive some insight and some peace and acceptance about why I didn't get what I wanted."

"If you pray in this way, you'll always be successful." That was basically the gist of what was communicated. I thought, "Wow, that is really profound." And here's the reason I say that, because when Venus conjoins Neptune, the desire body can be just so powerful. Venus and Neptune can come through as longings and wishes and hopes and fantasies and romantic idealizations.

It is not wrong or bad, as far as I understood, what was being conveyed in this dream anyway, to want or desire anything, right? I mean, okay, maybe there's some things that are, but even then, I just feel like whatever your darkest, most twisted desire is, at least be honest about it, because it can't be easier being dishonest or contorting it or twisting it further. So just be honest about it.

But the second thing was to pray that if it's good for me, great, if it's not good for me, then at least help me find peace, acceptance, and understanding of why this thing I want is not happening. And if you pray that way, you will generally find that you either have gotten what you want and feel good about getting what you want, or you will have not gotten what you want, but you will feel peace and understanding about why you didn't.

And I thought, "Maybe that's too simplistic, right?" But it also seems to me to be true, like if I think about that, the bhakti tradition that I was a part of teaches that. The Christian tradition I grew up in teaches that. And I don't know of one tradition that is not telling us to, you know, sort of live with desires, but also learn to accept when things don't go our way.

I say this again because I think that this approach to the transit that we're in right now is probably a helpful one.

**Number three:** There is a very simple way, when Venus retrograde comes into contact with Neptune, that we can look into the mirror of what we desire or what we are repulsed by and learn from it. The retrograde offers revision and insight and an opportunity to heal or change directions or chart a new course or revise something.

And what could that be? Well, with the conjunction to Neptune and the North Node, we can study what we desire or what we are strongly repulsed by—both things that Venus rules—and we can look at them in the kind of caricature of Neptune's impact, because it kind of romanticizes, inflates, and makes very grandiose those desires right now, and we can look at them as mirrors to study what's going on in our soul.

So a simple thing you can do this week is look at what you most long for, most desire, or are most repulsed by, and think to yourself that you're being given these feelings as a kind of mirror so that you can study and reflect upon what needs to change, what needs to shift, what needs to be allowed for, or what needs to be maybe sealed off and not permitted. But you can study those things right now, and they will offer a lot of insight if you do.

**Number four:** When we don't get what we want, when we long for something but we feel like it's impossible, which is a very real Venus-Neptune kind of quality—it's like, "I long for something impossible"—can we compromise a little bit and stay curious? When our desires and longings and romantic fantasies and idealizations are the strongest, a little bit of compromise and a little bit of curiosity go a long way.

Sometimes there's this very weird way in which Venus-Neptune can be incredibly intolerant, because Venus-Neptune is incredibly perfectionistic. It doesn't appear that way, because it's often very emotional and romantic and idealized and sensual, and it has all this longing built into it. But what we're really longing for is paradise or God or divine union or Eden, and we don't know it. It's masking itself in the desire for a different job or a different partner or different sex life or a different body, or whatever the case might be.

And when I've noticed that people suffer the most under these kinds of Neptune transits, when they cannot compromise and stay curious, and they can't just come down a little bit from the level of everything has to be Edenic to whatever the compromise of this world requires. A little bit of compromise and a little bit of curiosity go a long way with a transit like this.

And then, **number five:** And see, these—I'm coming. None of these came up in my dream, right? Just the first two on my list today. But I think these are also really important. The other thing is that one of Venus and Neptune, as intolerant as the two planets can be when they get together of anything less than sort of perfect and ideal and blissful, they can also be incredibly impulsive and impatient and sort of restless.

Double-bodied water sign can get very impatient. And the impatience, the intolerance—that's when we start making bad choices when we're impatient and we're intolerant and nothing less than ideal is good enough. People start drinking, they start doing drugs, they start trying to escape. They make choices not grounded in reality, but grounded in disappointment and frustration with this world not being ideal.

While this world is not the realm of the mind of God, it's an embodied world that reflects the forms. So we have to deal with that all the time. The number one tool that I believe is necessary, aside from, say, compromise and curiosity, would be patience. When we think of these energies as wanting to initiate a creative process within us that brings us more happiness, bliss, peace, love, connection, harmony, imagination, romance—all of those great qualities are still there. They still want to come through.

But it's our lack of ability to compromise, it's our lack of curiosity, and it is our lack of patience that hijacks the creative ability that these transits have to ally themselves with us and bring something a little bit more beautiful, although not perfect, into our lives. So a little bit more beautiful—most of us would take that any day. A little bit more satisfying—most of us would take that any day.

So if we can be patient, compromising, and curious when huge, strong waves of desire and longing come through, then we ally ourselves with their creative power. That's the idea, and this is why—I don't know any of the astrological schools that we know practiced astrology that were not simultaneously into a style or practice of meditation.

You can meditate in many ways. It can be movement-oriented. I even believe, I truly believe, as someone who's been really into physical exercise, that moving our bodies, breathing, doing cardio, lifting, yoga—I think physical activities can be that. Hiking, mountain climbing, whatever it is, but it is entering into a kind of flow, and we have to do that regularly in a way that's non-goal-oriented.

I'm flowing. I'm doing something to enter into that creative energy of the universe, you know? And when we do that, it's incredible how much easier it is to work with these things, these transits, and to recognize, "Oh, I'm being uncompromising. I'm lacking curiosity. I'm lacking patience. I'm pushing things."

Those practices that we have that are meant to—the food we eat, the hydration we take, the rest we take, the physical activity we give our bodies—our body is a temple. They become the most effective medium. It can become the most effective medium for these cosmic sympathetic patterns playing out, and we can bring them through in a creative way that allies with them if we're taking good care of ourselves.

And so I don't know how we're—how do you access patience or compromise or curiosity if your body can't hold those things? We can know that they're good intellectually, but unless we have things in our lives—if it's gardening, it's knitting, it's painting, you know? But there are things we do that allow the peace and the natural flow, like the Tao, to just move through us. We have to do that regularly, I think, in order for these things to not crash us, because they're very strong energies.

The planets signify, they mirror these kinds of energies that are taking place all around us. So I thought this would be a fun video today, just some deeper insights. We will return to looking at more of this in a mundane lens tomorrow, most likely. So that's it for today. I hope this was useful.

If you have had dreams, any kinds of thoughts you want to share, I'd love to hear from you guys. Put some comments in the comment section. We'll see you again tomorrow. Bye.