Venus Retrograde Squares Pluto Again — A MAJOR Turning Point

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

Happy Monday, everybody! Today we're going to take a look at Venus's second square to Pluto. Venus is retrograde in the sign of Scorpio, which means that Venus passed through this square to Pluto once in direct motion, and now is passing through it again in retrograde motion. We'll look at the total timeline. Today is the exact square, so you're going to be noticing the effects of that square pretty acutely today. We sort of warmed ourselves up for this last week with a preview episode, but today we're going to do some horoscopes and just remind you of the two whole sign houses in your birth chart that are getting the square right now. What topics might be activated through that square?

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And some of the early breakdown or delays or stalling that you may have experienced at the onset of Venus's retrograde, say the very beginning of October, is starting. We're starting to see movement now, where the transformative ramifications of this Venus retrograde are really upon us, and then pair that with Pluto stationing direct, and you get you get a transformation from Venus and Pluto that for a lot of people could feel like the purgative transformative momentum is growing stronger. And for a lot of people, that'll be relieving if you've been sitting and waiting for something, or if something has been sort of stagnant or feeling stuck. But for people who have maybe been in the process of a very intense period of transformation, what I can say is that this is often the kind of birth canal moment where the transformation might ramp up a little bit in intensity, but also you're you're like you're home free now. You know what I mean?

Like you're you're you really are coming through one of the hardest parts of the cycle, and from this moment forward, by the end of the week, again comes the Cazimi, and then Venus is going to retrograde back into Libra, where she's in her own domicile, and she's going to start to emerge as a morning star in her own space. So, if you've been going through it, I really do feel like this is a critical turning point. And one that could really have you breathing a deep sigh of relief when it's all said and done. Now, what I want to do today, given this, is oh, and you know what? Let's let's just back this up really quick, and let's show you the last time that the two planets squared one another, so you have that as like okay, there's a part one and a part two. So Part one would have been the square taking place right around Monday, September 14, Tuesday, September 15, thereabouts.

So as that square took place, let's give it about three degrees of separation, and let's say that the two planets were completely separated by about Monday, September 21, so you have kind of middle September was the first time that they got together. So we take that forward and we think to ourselves, okay, whatever their first meeting meant, they're coming back for a second round. Of course, you think about Venus's process in that whole sign house of excuse me that whole sign house of Scorpio in your natal chart. What I want to do now is tell you about the nature of the square taking place in these horoscopes. So we're going to look Aries through Pisces today, and we're going to look at the two places that the planets are squaring one another. Nachepso, what I like to do, by the way, if you have Nachepso, and the discount code I should say is in the description of the video.

What I like to do is just remove everything from my perspective except for the planets that I'm looking at. Like when I'm studying something, I'll just take everything in my view and eliminate it so that I have just these two planets. I'll keep the well. Actually, you know what? I'll take the nodes out. Why don't we just we'll just do we'll we'll take the nodes out as well. So you can go to lunar objects. I just click none, and then we have those. You could put in Lilith. I mean, you can really you can you can put in the vertex, like all sorts of things. Million asteroids, lots. So here we have the two planets, and we're really looking at the two of them coming together by late this evening into early tomorrow. And if we give this a three-day kind of grace window, you can see that by or a three-degree.

Then by Friday, this Friday, at the same time that the sun is turning into its Cazimi Friday into Saturday, the separation from Pluto occurs, and that's really a pretty sweet signature, like death rebirth, a beautiful empowered reset and rebirth moment from Venus, right as she peels off the second square to Pluto. So, a Plutonian week, but one that I think is like again gonna help things move and help things transform that are really at this time meant to. So let's take a look at this 12 whole sign horoscopes. Here we go. This is for Aries Sun or rising. So I really think about what you know. I think about the cost emotionally, spiritually, financially, of belonging. The reason that questions of belonging come up is because the eighth house to the 11th house for Aries, which is going to be Venus in your eighth, Pluto in your 11th, has a lot to do with social goals, social belonging, friendships, communities, allies, and then the eighth house has to do with the bonds or commitments or entanglements that are entailed in such social spaces.

So who contributes, who benefits, who has the final say, group dynamics, right, and shared power or resources, expectations that people have of you, entanglements that people have of you, looking at your own ego and its investment in various social aspects of your life; these are the things that I could see being really important right now for Aries. And what I want to say is that intimacy is also at play here. Like, who who can you really trust and really connect with and share very deep bonded values with, where your loyalty doesn't indebt you in some way to something that's really not you or that doesn't feel authentic to who you are. So those are a few ideas about the eighth and the 11th. And let's go forward now. We're just going to take this through all 12 whole signs. We're going to rotate these right around the wheel. So we go to Taurus. I really think about agreements with people, relationships, and contracts with people, and it could be with clients, or it could be with a spouse or a lover.

Professional partnerships, but you're really looking at the social and professional dimensions of life, social and interpersonal in the seventh, professional and public in the 10th. And so, questions about where your relationship-what do I want to say? For for all of us, there's an overlap between what we and want and desire from personal contact with other people, and how that intersects with a social or public persona, and so love and ambition have a really interesting dialog with one another. A relationship may need to adjust in in some way to changes that are taking place for one or both people in a partnership, in in things like career or authority or public public visibility, and it could be that there's an old disagreement about whose work takes priority in a relationship that could come back up right now, or a partner their their support of you comes with some expectations about what you do, or how you work, or how you earn, and I would just say in general that there's a personal dimension to this that could also split the priority that you place on on love and personal intimacy and the pressure, or responsibilities, or obligations of work.

This is a classic kind of my partner works too much, and we're facing a crisis because of it, or you know we're we're facing an inflection point where it's like we we have to make a decision about how we're going to live, and are we going to work as much as we work, or do both people need to work, or something like that. Now, the other thing I would say is that the potential for just powerful agreements, or business relationships, or contract negotiations to take place is also here, just because of the nature of the seventh house and its relationship to things like contracts or negotiations. So, renegotiating something that's that's somewhat public or has to do with something a little bit more public facing, or dealing with institutions and authority and power and negotiations or something like that. All right, we go to Gemini next, which is going to place Venus retrograde in your sixth house and Pluto in the ninth. Excuse me. So what I want to say here are is that your your work routines, the things that you work for or toward regularly, like all of us are chopping wood and carrying water every day, you know, in some area of our life.

So the question becomes, what motivates the work that I do intellectually, philosophically, spiritually, maybe politically or ideologically, and is my work and my are my work and my beliefs transforming right now? There could be sometimes the things that we feel like our life is working toward are we we come to realize are rooted in values or ideas that no longer hold meaning or interest for us personally, and also we may find that we're learning or seeing the world differently, and it's causing us to reflect on the way we spend our time, our energy, and our effort. So this is a really good time for for aligning vision and purpose and belief with work and effort and sacrifice, it also might be a time where kind of like ideological conflicts are coming up and are having to be dealt with in in the workplace or with other people, and there could be some almost like an apprenticeship motif that's real strong right now. All right, let's move forward for Gemini's, and these are just kind of you know again just like quick takes that give you some sense of the houses, the topics, but you can probe and be like, okay, I'm in the realm of these houses that that Adam's mentioning.

But I can see it, you know, maybe affecting me slightly differently based on themes and topics that are more appropriate, so keep that in mind. You can play with these; these are just templates. That's all horoscopes are. In fact, let's go to Cancer Rising. Cancer rising, Venus retrograde is in your fifth house. That puts Pluto in your eighth house. So now we're talking about pleasure and romance and sexuality or creativity, and we're talking about things like shared emotional investments, or we're talking about things like financial dependencies. So you you may be looking really closely right now at things like the the exchange between yourself and other people emotionally, romantically, creatively, and how your your creative energy is wrapped up in the needs or desires or expectations of other people. So it's a really good time to become aware of, say, your your social and creative inhibitions or various social prohibitions that you sense or perceive in the world that somehow make you feel like you're being held back from something authentic creatively. This could also be a time to look very deeply at the. Relationship that the give and take of relationships.

What am I putting in from my heart and soul into relationships with other people, and what do I get back from it? Because Pluto in the eighth will have you reflecting on various social contracts in your life and various social constructs, and Venus in the fifth will be looking at those things through the lens of your personal creative selfhood. So you, you're, it's a, it's a pretty meaningful time to be reflecting on what is your creative, authentic essence or something like that, and where does that find meaningful social engagement, or where does it feel sort of stuck in expectations or unspoken forms of sort, sort of like censorship or something like that. I think there's the potential for attractions and creative projects to reach very important flashpoints or turning points. You know, my wife is a cancer rising, and she's completing a children's book right now. That our our press is going to be publishing the press we started with for my book that we created. She's publishing a children's book. I'm pretty sure under this transit they're going to be finalizing the last creative changes, right?

So you can you can think about just a kind of a transformative moment in a creative process for Cancerians as well, whatever that process might mean. Could also bring up things like children and pregnancy. Those topics tend to come up in the fifth. All right, let's go forward to Leo. So for Leo rising, Venus is retrograding in your fourth house. Pluto's in your seventh house. These are two very powerful angular places, and you might be asking questions about family patterns, family patterns, housing decisions, a more private emotional space, or your private, let's call it, emotional needs, and those things may be interacting very powerfully with specific partnerships or with social sort of a social dimension of your life. There could be recurring questions or even disagreements about where to live, or about your relatives, or caregiving, or household responsibilities. And maybe there's some overlap between those concerns in your family or a spouse's family and dynamics in the marriage itself. That's a pretty, you know, a pretty consistent theme that married couples or partners of any kind deal with, which is we each have families we come from with needs and backgrounds and histories.

How do those things overlap within us as a couple? Old family dynamics can shape current relationship dynamics. Is the point, and I think revisiting those things, disentangling, healing, purging-these are these are some of the things that come to mind. Also, just topics around family and marriage in in general, and questions about what creates a safe, enjoyable, warm kind of private retreat from the world, and how does a partnership contribute to the well-being of that that kind of inner fourth house space. So those are the things that come to my mind for Leo's. Let's go forward to Virgos. So for Virgo rising, we take Venus retrograde into the third house, and Pluto in Aquarius goes into the sixth house. So I would I would say that there's potential for conversations and maybe complaints, and the reason for that is that the sixth house is often about the hard work and the the kind of persevering, overcoming, enduring quality of labor and service and sacrifice that life is that that life includes every single day. Venus retrograde in the third is wanting to have a conversation about it, communication with anything like coworkers or siblings or people in your immediate environment that bring up different kinds of you know resentments or difficulties that you're being faced with having to work out and be honest about any kind of issues around scheduling or or paperwork or errands you have to run or divisions of of labor in various spaces could become flashpoints right now, and I would say smaller disagreements can carry a lot of weight or history.

So be care careful with them, and I would also say about this that difficult conversations are that that will bring more peace if you're willing to have them are probably good to have right now. I would also say that something around your own mind and just getting feedback about what makes you interesting or unique and what makes you maybe set apart or different from others, that feedback could be coming in right now, and could be very clarifying for you in terms of just understanding yourself better, knowing yourself better, and knowing what you want to maybe knowing what you want to focus on moving forward in your life. All right, let's go forward to Libra rising now. Venus ret. Rate is going to be in the second if you're a Libra rising, and Pluto is going to be in the fifth. So questions around things like income and assets and resources materially. The second house is considered an arta house in Indian astrology, which means it's about material support and material earning and material wealth, and to a certain degree, like abundance and material resources.

So, the Venus retrograde here, running into Pluto in the fifth, I would say is is all about the budget for things that you love, for things that are creatively rewarding, creative projects, and things like developing skills and assets and resources through through creative outlets. Like if you're if you're someone who has their own business, I could see this as a square indicating that there's some creative element of your business or your work or your offerings that are changing or becoming stronger or more important to you, a creative project could challenge how you price your work or how you spend keyword spend your time. Strong desires are motivating maybe investments or purchases or financial choices, but this is also the kind of square that could make some for some difficult negotiations. I would also say that you're looking very closely at thing, very practical things like time, money, energy, and resources, but asking about their benefit for you on the level of fifth house happiness, on the level of fifth house joy and creative fulfillment. So questions about values and resources, creative values, creative expression, creative fulfillment, and practical financial material concerns are dialoging quite strongly for Libras right now, and that can also be really questions also about desire and happiness, and what actually makes you feel satisfied creatively, or sensually, or romantically. All right.

So next, we move Scorpio rising onto the ascendant. We move Scorpio onto the ascendant. We get Scorpio, Venus in the first. Excuse me, Pluto in the fourth. So the the emphasis of this Venus retrograde for Scorpios is on the evolving self, the changes of identity and psychology that take place with powerful retrogrades in the first house, long-standing retrogrades, even Mercury retrogrades, honestly, but especially a Venus retrograde. What are my desires? What are my values? What is my esthetic? What is my identity? My appearance? What are the values I have around love, sex? How do I inhabit my body? These are deep questions for Scorpios right now. Scorpio in general can here can suggest that there's some revisions being made to things like identity, appearance, etc. but it it also has to do with some kind of transformational process happening around home and family or the domestic sphere of life. Relatives or maybe a partner that you live with can respond very strongly to who you're becoming or some shift that you're making in yourself, and there could be old struggles over autonomy or freedom or independence versus dependence.

That Venus retrograde in the second could have you looking at themes of attachment. You know the attachment patterns that we have. Am I avoidant or am I anxious or am I secure? So, but changes at home can prompt a deeper reconsideration of who you are and what you want, and so give yourself some room to distinguish who you're becoming, who you want, from different inherited expectations or patterns. This is a time to make some powerful adjustments personally and then domestically, maybe in the more private, internal, home-based sphere of life. Now, now that might naturally have some connection with intimate partners that you live with. So let's move on to Sagittarius. If you're a Sagittarius, then Venus is in the 12th, and Pluto's in the third. So we're looking now at you know what's been maybe unsaid, un unspoken. This is a place for hidden attractions, unresolved relationship patterns to surface for conversations to be had that reveal or expose hidden or unconscious dynamics. There could be sort of private conversations that get let out by mistake.

There could be some feedback that you're getting from other people about your behavior that helps you see things about yourself you've never been able to understand. Solitude can help you understand things before you know maybe you're willing to discuss it, or maybe you're just retreating a little bit or going inward in order to see something. But also like certain dynamics that have been hidden from. Within certain relationships or certain social settings, will have a way of coming out right now and giving you really valuable feedback. So keep that in mind if you're a sage. Let's go to Capricorn. Excuse me. So if you're a Capricorn rising, then Venus retrogrades in your 11th house, and that makes Pluto your second. So we're talking about things like friendship and money, social circles and influence, ambitions and financial or business concerns or priorities, and the sort of social sphere of the 11th house. I think about things like I don't know communities you belong to and membership costs, personally, emotionally, or financially, right? The cost of some kind of social group or setting, collaborative earnings, fundraising, yeah, group affiliations, future ambitions that are sort of social, public, and professional, and how that's aligning with things like you know questions about money or finances, sense of of of self worth is changing alongside of social or professional circles changing.

That that might be like this is what I need or want very practically and materially, and this is what this group or social or professional circle or setting can or cannot provide me with, and also just an evaluation of whether or not you personally and intellectually align with certain people in your life, so keep those kinds of concerns in mind if you're a Capricorn. For Aquarius, Venus is retrograding in your 10th house, the place of career, and Pluto's in the first house, which is the place of identity. So your public role is catching up with some kind of personal transformation that's been happening for you as Aquarius for a while now. Career and and professional expectations are they're they're being renegotiated, and it's calling into question who am I? Who do I want to be? Who am I becoming? So any kind of client, employee, collaborator, asking you to change or shift roles, and you having to sit there and go, "Is that really me? Do I really want to do it? Negotiations that are taking place within yourself or externally in the workplace about how visible you are, how much leadership you have, what kind of role you play, what your reputation is, what defines you publicly or professionally, and you also are thinking just in general about what kind of social, maybe political causes you feel personally identified with, and where you might feel like something about your sense of self and public participation is just changing in some strong way, and reconsidering to yourself right now what you want from your job and who you are-that's the-that's the key right here-is identity and public or professional spheres of activity.

So the transform the transformation, the feedback is coming from those two worlds, dialoging the 10th and the first. All right. Well, last but not least, of course, is Pisces. So we've got Venus retrograde in the ninth and Pluto in the 12th. I would say that there's questions about beliefs and understanding. There are moments where, for example, when you're growing up and you grow up in a religion, and let's say you know as an adult you go, well, I left. I let that go a long time ago, but how and why did it occur that you would leave? Well, it became social experimentation, or you know, I was a Christian and I started, I started having sex. You know, I I started getting out there and seeing the world, or I visited another country, or I started taking world religions classes. The idea, though, here between the ninth and the 12th, is that your beliefs are up for review. Your philosophical, spiritual orientation, or even your your political orientation-something is how you think or believe, and what you know to be true, or what you're exploring, or learning, or what what kind of education you're seeking is under the microscope, because the Venus retrogrades in your ninth.

But at contacting Pluto in the 12th, it's like your beliefs are you're understanding some of the unconscious dimensions of them, or some of the more unseen dimensions of certain beliefs or schools of thought, you know, politically, collectively, historically, whether it's education or spirituality or travel in the ninth house, or a relationship with a teacher or a place of learning in the ninth house, these things may be stirring up some pretty deep reflections and having you look at different kinds of attachments and unconscious material, it's also possible that you're revisiting or revising some kind of belief because of deeper spaces that you're under starting to understand. I would say any time that you go through a meaningful questioning or. Doubting or skepticism, or you know, and deeper examination of something, and then some kind of revision of paradigm or belief that would fall in line with a ninth to 12th house kind of dynamic, especially along retrograde like this. We could also be that there's returning to school right now, or that you're going back somehow historically or personally to revisit and understand something at a deeper level, you know, philosophically or or psychologically, spiritually. So that takes us through all 12 signs, and I hope at least puts you in the right vicinity.

Like these are the houses; these are their topics. Work with those topics. Work with the tension between Venus and Pluto in these two areas of your chart. See if you notice the dialog that they are bringing up within you right now, and externally in the world around you. And note again that this transit, although it's exact today, separating through the end of the week. Then we get the Venus Cazimi at the end of the week, so this and and this is their second meeting, and so this this the meeting today is not just a one-off where all of a sudden these topics pop for two seconds. You may have been noticing these over the past week. You may notice them over the rest of this week. Okay, keeping a kind of process orientation in mind. All right, that's all I've got for you today. Stick around. I'm going to tell you about the year one program next. It's an absolutely awesome program. I can't wait to study with you.

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