Venus Retrograde Hitting a HARD Square to Mars

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [https://nightlightastrology.com/].

Today we're going to take a look at Venus retrograde moving into a square with Mars over this coming weekend. Tomorrow we're going to be looking at the new moon, which is also coming in over the weekend. We're in sort of a balsamic phase right now, but today I think it'll make for some really good content to look at this Venus Mars square, especially because of the retrograde, Venus is retrograding in a Mars ruled sign. This makes this a very important meeting with Venus and her host Mars. So Venus in Scorpio, Mars in Leo. We'll look at that today, give you a sense of what's happening. I've got a list of five things to watch for that will hopefully prepare you for this transit, one of the more important inflection points in Venus's retrograde cycle.

All right. Well, before we get into it, remember to like and subscribe, share your comments and reflections, turn on notifications. It's free to subscribe. It really helps us when you do that. And any of these daily talks, you can find the transcripts on the website. That's nightlightastrology.com. First announcement for the day is go to the events page, click on annual retreat. The early bird rate for our retreat next August ends on Saturday night, so you have until the 10th of October to sign up for the retreat and receive that early bird sale. After October 10, the price will go to the normal rate, so the sale price ends Saturday. Check that out.

If you have any questions about the retreat, email us info@nightlightastrology.com. The other thing to note: go to the shop page, click on my books. Of course, my book, The Oracle Speaks, has been out for a little bit in paperback, but the audio book version is now available. Click on audio book. It'll take you over to Audible. You can pick that up. If you want a reading with me, book a reading tab. Go to readings with Adam. You can fill out the form. Tell me exactly what you want me to look at for you. I'll do that. Need-based astrology readings are there with staff if that is something that works for your budget a little bit better.

And then don't forget courses. First year course ancient astrology for the modern mystic begins November 14. Registration is open. Early birds open. Need based tuition is always available for all of our programs. So if you need a little help to make that program happen because you're in a tight spot or experiencing financial difficulty or you're single parent, you know only working part time, whatever the case is, if there's a sincere desire to study astrology, then you're welcome to take advantage of one of those need-based tuition contracts, which is something we're really proud to offer.

Now, at the end of today's content, there's an informational video about the Year One program. It's a fantastic program. We are now APAI certified, which means you can become a certified astrologer through one of the more reputable certifying bodies in the world, and that's if you take our first, second, and third year programs and test out of them. But this is the path to start that process, year one, and a lot of people take the program just for themselves. You don't necessarily have to aim to be a professional or anything like that.

So, other things to point out really briefly: speaker series is coming up here in October, the 17th, 18th, and 24th. We've got three amazing speakers. Check this out under the speaker tab. They're all free. You get the recording when you register if you can't make it live, and then finally go to monthly webinars, and you'll see that my talk is coming up. So that would be let's see here next Thursday night. You'll see that I'm giving a talk on the fifth house and its connection to Dharma. Well, some good stuff happening at Nightlight. Thanks for giving me a second to fill you in.

Let's turn over to Nachepso and take a look at this transit. Of course, the discount link to affiliate code for Nachepso is in the description of the video if you want to check out this amazing software. All right, let's have a. Okay, well here we can see on Thursday, October 8, that Venus is at seven degrees of Scorpio in retrograding, while Mars is moving direct toward the seventh degree of Leo from the sixth degree of Leo. That is called a mutual application. Those two planets are interested in getting together for some kind of conversation, a little bit of conflict in the square. The square is of the nature of Mars. It's a very Marsy dynamic between Venus and Mars. Venus retrograde in Mars ruled sign.

Square nature of Mars with Mars, the host of Venus in Scorpio. So that host dynamic is important because that provides what we call reception, which means that there is a more slightly more constructive version of this square happening, that can mean that people with slightly different agendas can come together with a little bit of work. Let's say, for example, just to give a simple example, if you were doing a negotiation, this isn't something that says, yeah, you're going to come to an impasse. It's something that says you're going to have to work around something, work around a difference of values or opinion or something like that, but compromise is possible for sure.

Now, the timeline. So the timeline for this transit is going to be October 10 and 11th. We're going to fast forward this just two days to Saturday, October 10, where you'll see that both planets. Now on the seventh degree, it is between Saturday and Sunday that the two planets pass through the exact square. So we're going to give it the 10th and 11th as the target timeline because of how quickly it moves. Now, what I want to talk about today are five things that you can watch for, given the combination of these two planets Getting together, so now the most basic one. Let's it's like don't bury the lead.

Relationships will be tested and challenged, and that could be working relationships, that could be business negotiations, could be friendships, family dynamics. But let's be real. Mars and Venus are the lovers, right? So, the potential for some conflict around emotionally, more emotionally bonded, vulnerable, romantic, sexual, marital kinds of dynamics is the top of the list. But from there, it could be any kind of relationship going through some kind of stress test, what it what might that stress test be about? I would say that where Venus is wanting to revisit something or take a deeper look at something, Venus is going through a process of editing, revision, some maybe some forms of delay or setback or renegotiation, reconsideration as Venus is going through all of that.

Meeting with Mars might mean a critical point where whatever Venus is trying to revise, in order for that revision to happen, she has to. There's some kind of meaningful conflict, a meaningful approach of her host Mars that has to occur. So let's just give a simple example. Let's say that you're someone who wants to redo your job. I want to work different hours. I want to work part time, or maybe I want to switch fields or search out for a new job or something like that. The meeting with Mars might be the moment where you have to tell your boss you can only work part time, and your boss says all I have available is three quarter time. You know, or it's the point where you say to your boss I can only work part time, and they say I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to replace you then, and suddenly you're looking for a new job.

Now, with this, because Mars is the host, I wouldn't think of this being disastrous. I would think of it as maybe the time crunch of having to look for a new job quicker than you imagined you would have to, but probably still finding one. And the reason I feel confident about that is because this Venus dynamic is happening as Venus is going back into a Pluto square. The feeling of getting something accomplished in the early part of this retrograde feels very real to me, because rarely do planets that are moving through a retrograde like this, at this phase of the retrograde, and they meet with big planets like this, not provide us with some really creative potential for transformation.

So I would be surprised if anything that came up that was difficult in a relationship being challenged or tested was not met with some pretty immediate dynamic possibility for something new or something different. So you know. Try to stay calm. In other words, if something, if one thing is sort of falling apart, I wouldn't be surprised if another option popped up quickly, or if there was a plan in place pretty quickly to move or adapt. Now, the other thing that can come up is just anything in relationships that have to do with deeper emotional territory that can injure or touch upon pride or hurt feelings, ego dynamics within relationships, and deep spaces of vulnerability and shadow work in relationships can come up.

And if you are able to kind of walk through the fire of those spaces, the relationship will probably be better for it. But some relationships may have to change or adapt or be let go of, and that's pretty common for Venus retrogrades in general. Want to speak of Venus retrograde that engages with Mars at the outset, just like this, and then Pluto, so forth. All right. Well, next on my list of things to watch for is jealousy, envy, and the theme of self-respect. When these two planets get together, it's very easy for things to become very passive-aggressive, coercive, manipulative, underhanded, backstabbing, and a lot of it may arise from jealousy or envy, wanting what someone else has, or resenting someone for being happy, or resenting someone for being successful or popular or strong or bright or sunny.

Venus retrograde at her darkest in Scorpio may create some real drama just because someone else. Looks strong and happy, and she feels threatened by it. On the other hand, where there is an unhealthy level of ego or arrogance, Venus retrograde may need to confront those things as a matter of self-respect. Hey, you're not the only important one. I can't be with someone who's so self-centered, if we're not going to have equal ground emotionally, if we're not going to have equal respect, equal say, an equal share of the spotlight, then I'm out of here. So self-respect is a huge part of the dynamic between these two planets. A healthy self-respect says there's room for both of us. An unhealthy level of self-respect either lets oneself be walked on, or is too dominant, or something like that. So, watching for issues around jealousy and envy, in particular, and then issues of self-respect and how that creates a nice balance or a matter of reciprocity in relationships.

Okay, number three on my list is lust, pride, and generosity. So Venus in Scorpio, in particular, because it's a Mars ruled sign, and this encounter with Mars being so acute can bring up our desires, which at its darkest might be lust. And the way I would define lust as opposed to just everyday desires, and would be that lust is usually something that is obsessive, sort of wild and uncontrollable, and often destructive. When there's something that can't be satiated, and no matter how much you give it, it just wants more, and it's it's hungry in a way that it demonstrates some lack of self control that's like healthy. That that kind of lust can come up, and some kind of confrontation with that lust might be appropriate right now for the sake of ongoing growth, healing, and wisdom.

Pride, on the other hand, is another big thing where Venus retrograde can come along, and circumstances can provide you with an opportunity to look in the mirror and say, "I'm proud. I'm self-centered. I think it's all about me. Mars and Leo might be getting some really good feedback from a Venus in Scorpio that's saying, "Look, you know, you you think you're so great, you think you're so special, but you have shadows just like everybody else, and it's time to look at them. So the ego death can be important. A lot of this is still going to be staged within the sphere of love, sex, relationships, emotional dynamics in relationships, power dynamics in relationships, and then themes of generosity. Themes of generosity can mean that there is some need to overcome pettiness by being generous, overcome pride by being humble and giving more than one needs to receive.

Also, when there's an opportunity for growth in a relationship, and both people just come toward one another. That generosity of spirit can heal places that maybe there's maybe two people have become sort of set in, you know, heals heels in the mud. Like no, I'm not moving. In both people coming to the middle in a spirit of generosity can be a great healing effect of a transit like this. Number four on my list is revenge and reconciliation. So these two planets in particular can get into who's more important, who wronged, who grudges betrayal. All these are real, intense, kind of potentially like emotionally charged and and very sensitive to our egos and our sense of pride and personal injury and so forth. So reconciliation is the real possibility here.

A meeting of Venus and Mars and this dynamic says, why don't we heal? Why don't we lay our weapons down and love and respect one another. On the other hand, Venus Venus's potential to feel injured and hold on to things, and then try to poke someone as a matter of sort of revenge, pettiness, vindictiveness. Leo, same way, can hold on to a grudge and then try to Leo's way of harming other people is often just kind of dominance. But the two planets together can be pretty petty if they have a grudge, and so people wanting to injure, take down someone else so that you can feel better, lift yourself up. That's a real shadow here as well. But the positive note is when these two planets get together, and people just set those things down. Some pretty deep levels of reconciliation can occur, and a much deeper level of mutual respect can emerge between. People, so watch for those things.

And then finally on my list is creative or sexual tension. Look, these two planets are like spicy. They're they're salsa dancing in the cosmos. You know, they're they're the two kinds of planets that could could easily like you know kind of get into a spat and then make love. There's a there's that that push and pull of the tango comes to my mind. It's very erotic. The charged energy of this is like brings to mind the difference between you know someone who's in a dominant versus submissive role in a you know in a sexual relationship, and maybe the roles being flipped or something, the other thing that could occur would be just noticing the difference between intense, infatuated chemical attraction and something that's long-lasting and substantive.

That division can become acute with these two planets, and the other one is like being drawn or attracted to things that you shouldn't, kind of like the attraction to a bad boy or a bad girl or something. Attraction to someone who's like the classic example of this would be someone who dates someone that they know is just a playboy, you know, like selfish, but they just somehow irresistible, and then you wonder. You're like, why? Why did I do this? I was setting myself up. I knew exactly what was going to happen, and it did happen. Now I'm sitting here wondering how it could have happened. So you have to be careful with what you allow yourself to be seduced by, because it's a very seductive combination of planets. But also, the creative sexual tension is pretty profound. So watch for those two planets to be stirring things up.

Now, that can also be kind of alchemical situation within ourselves, where the tension we're feeling creatively and sexually can be channeled into different creative projects, professional projects, and into the the playfulness of our relationships, every relationship has an opportunity to explore power dynamics and the giving and taking of power dynamics in ways that are healthy and life giving. And if we're not doing that work because we're too afraid, often what happens is that the quietness of those tensions builds up over time and then erupts into spaces that feel unmanageable and out of control and sort of wild? But when people are actively trying to work through those power dynamics with humor, with playfulness, with eroticism, with deep heartfelt conversations, then points like this can be points of of great flowering creatively, moments of of you know rekindling the spark if it's been quiet for a while sexually, there can be yeah just a a way of those underlying power dynamics, kind of reaching critical mass, and then if there's been healthy habits behind how you deal with those things in different relationship spheres of your life, there'll be an unusual release of very fertile creative energy.

So, anyhow, that's what I've got for you for today. A little shorter episode today because we've got house showings, and God, you gotta you gotta like gotta be out of the house quick, and it's you know so hopefully send us a prayer that we hopefully find someone to love this house and take care of it, and you know so so stressful moving is, but staying present day at a time, counting my blessings. And one of my blessings is that I get to do this with all of you every day. So I hope you're having a good one. And stay tuned. I'm going to tell you about the year one program next. Take it easy, everyone. Bye.