Venus Shaking Her Death Rattle as She Opposes Pluto — What to Watch For

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

Today we are going to take a look at Venus making an opposition to Pluto. This really is the transit that is at the heart of this week's astrology. Venus is going through a number of aspects this week, but this one's really at the center.

And we took a look at all of the Venus aspects yesterday. I'll be reviewing them briefly today, but if you want more coverage on the sort of total movement of Venus throughout the week, look at yesterday's episode that started the week off. We did a list of things to watch for, given all of the archetypal dynamics that Venus is encountering this week.

Today, we're going to focus on Venus Pluto. We're going to look at five things to watch for within those four Angular houses, internal, psychological, relational work, public career, private, home, family, and hopefully this will help us, really, help us see and sort of work with or have a more meaningful encounter with the Venus Pluto opposition this week. So anyway, that's our agenda for today.

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Now remember that the week yesterday, we started off by looking at everything that Venus is doing in totality, and giving a list of things to watch for. Given again, everything sort of happening like more holistically. So you can see Venus enters Leo trine Saturn, trines Neptune, sextiles Uranus and opposes Pluto.

So today we're seeing the sextile perfecting between Venus and Uranus, almost simultaneous to the opposition to Pluto. If you want coverage on all of those dynamics again, be sure to watch yesterday's video. I gave you five things to watch for in summary, today, I want to focus on Venus and Leo opposite Pluto in Aquarius.

As every Venus Pluto opposition that we ever encounter tends to be one of the bigger, more substantive transits of our years. We typically have, you know, one a year. So this is a very powerful transit and one that often will correspond to spikes in viewership of content for a lot of astrologers, not just myself, and I think that's because relationships, love, sex, desire, beauty, friendship, any kind of relationship for most of us, is an incredibly important part of our lives, and the contact with Pluto provides powerful transformation within that relational sphere of life.

And so naturally, if I had to say, you know, half of, at least half of the people who ever come to me for a reading wanted to talk about love or relationships or marriage, or the patterns they're in, or what's lacking, or whatever. It makes sense that people would naturally be really interested in Venus Pluto dynamics, the squares, the oppositions, the conjunctions, being the loudest dynamics, typically, and the loudest insofar as they provide stress tests for relationships, inflection points of growth, change, death and rebirth.

Two words I don't love, as you guys know, but they're, it's, they're good words to describe what happens with Venus and Pluto when they oppose. So what we're going to do today is look at this in terms of those four major areas of life that are derived from the birth chart, the first house, the place that has to do with the interior, the psychological, the physical, the maybe the level of health, vitality, appearance in the body, but also psychological and it's really the house of character, in a way, we're talking about that as the internal, psychological sphere that's correlated with the first house.

We're going to be five things to watch for with Venus Pluto there. We're going to talk about love and relationships, the natural opposite. Seventh house, place of desire, sex, intimacy, love. Want to talk about career and work, which is the 10th house sphere of life, the public. Your professional or vocational interests or pursuits, and then family dynamics or private internal home life and maybe a less visible sphere of life, more private in general, but also often connected to ancestors, family living environment.

So let's get right into it when Venus opposes Pluto, remember that Venus in an opposition, any kind of opposition in astrology, is thought to be of the nature of Saturn. What does that mean? It means we think frequently about Saturn as a planet of limits, but what a limit, often designated for ancient mystics was a barrier or boundary or a natural separation between two things, because Saturn sits at the edge of the visible cosmos.

Everything within its bounds and everything outside of its bounds have a tension that exists between each other, the archetypal, the ideal, the abstract and the material, the embodied, the real, the realm of the gods and the archetypes and the forms and the realm of their embodied, living beingness in the material matrix that we call life, that opposition was fundamental to the entire mystical framework of ancient astrology.

And so when we think of Saturn as Lord of opposition. What we're really talking about is that sacred sense of dyads and dualities, spirit and matter, body and soul, Heaven and Earth and Saturn will frequently bring up what feels like a split or a hard sense of opposition between two things that can't meet or they're irreconcilably different.

However, we know that, because Saturn is also thought of as a planet of mystics and mysticism, the reason for that being that all sacred dyads share a secret kind of sameness or oneness. And so everything that looks like it's opposed shares this kind of underlying unity. And so wherever there are oppositions, I mentioned a stress test in relationships, what we're really talking about are oppositional tensions that appear within certain spheres of life.

These four we're going to explore today, and through their appearance, they provide an opportunity to hold a kind of unity of consciousness at a deeper level because of the fundamental tension of opposites that present themselves. So that's our project, is to figure out what those oppositional tensions may look like between Venus and Pluto, and how those tensions can either pull things apart or create healing or change or opportunities for growth, or how they may just literally describe the unfolding of circumstances and events in our lives right now as a matter of fate or destiny, however you want to think about it.

So let's get into it. Let's talk about the internal psychological sphere, and what a Venus Pluto opposition may look like here. So I've got five things here, and then we'll move through every other sphere of life, the shadows of desire, let's call them. When our desires are unexplored, they often appear in ways that are problematic.

When we repress them, they come out like monsters. When we try to shove them away, they break the door down. At the same time, if we let them run rampant, and we don't provide any check for our desires, they can ruin our lives. So holding the tension between the creative, regenerative, deep, restorative power of our desires and allowing them to be what they are, but also not letting them take over somehow and ruin things.

That's a tension between Venus and Pluto that can show up in our lives on an internal psychological level, how am I dealing with my desires? The other one would be anything, anything that comes up with respect to power and control issues arising internally. How much power do I have? How much should I have? How much control do I have? Where do I lack control as a matter of self examination, self reflection, self development.

Venus Pluto can speak to reviewing or reflecting my sense of power or control, obviously, within a relational reality, but the exploration of whether I feel empowered or disempowered, in control or completely out of control can come up as a matter of personal I don't feel like I have as much authority power or control as I ought to, or maybe I'm getting some feedback that I need to tone things down and create more space for others, because I'm being overpowering or domineering or too controlling.

So there's a relational level that we can't deny, even on the internal side of this dynamic, because it's Venus. But there may be a pretty deep level of self reflection with respect to character development and issues of control or power. The other thing that can come up is a transformation of esthetic. There's soul esthetic, there's psychological esthetic, there's physical material esthetic, my body, my clothing, the shape and appearance of my soul through my personality.

Am I appearing in the world in a way that feels creatively authentic, from the clothes I wear to the physique that I have, or, you know, whatever, what can I do to transform my body, myself, my appearance, my my presence as an esthetic being, as a Being of beauty, as a being that reflects values, tastes, desires, longings, in the way that I present myself.

Now, translate that into for one person, this could mean, you know, the decision to get a facelift, I don't know. It doesn't have to be. It doesn't it's not always so psychological, it can be very physical. Is the point. I'm going to go to the gym. I'm going to get on a weight loss drug, whatever. I think another way that this can show up Number four would be through obsession, explorations of what we get obsessed with or possessed by, personally, things possess us, or we try to possess things, or we obsess over things.

I think, I don't think we're fully alive, unless we aren't, from time to time, captured by obsession, just complete fixation and attachment, because there's a passionate, romantic, like loving loss of identity that Venus and Pluto can suggest when you just fall madly in love with something or someone, it's not all bad.

It's not bad to lose yourself. Sometimes you have to lose yourself to find yourself. Sometimes getting lost in love is the best way to come back to something true about who you are, but contemplating possession and obsession. And then number five, to me, would be maybe heightened awareness of certain hidden or subtle social dynamics within yourself or others, just an ability to see more of the unconscious layers of things in and through social situations or relationships, looking for that hidden, secret, subtle, subconscious, unconscious subtext and being more aware of it.

Maybe something occurs because of that awareness. So to me, these are the internal psychological things to watch for. Let's move into love and relationships. Think about five things to watch for here, and they're not so totally different from the self and internal psychological sphere, because we are talking about Venus after all, I would say, surprisingly powerful explorations of what we like and don't like what we're attracted to or repulsed by.

That's number one, very simple, just what do I like, what don't I like, as heightened and very important for this period of time, last through the end of the week, really, I was talking about power and control issues internally, but they can also appear in relationships where entanglement, power issues, power struggles take place.

In relationships, revelation of unconscious, hidden material and the importance of having a so almost like. A secretive dimension that's going to be, actually, that's part of my fifth one. I'll come back to it. So I would just say revelation of hidden or unconscious material in relationships. Number four would be crises in relationship that provide for points of death or healing.

Death, meaning the relationship is over. Healing, meaning, hey, this crisis actually facilitates the deepening of our bond and maybe some level of healing, personally and relationally. And then finally, this is number five, and this is where the secret part comes in. I think there's a potential to project, project fears and desires that we ourselves haven't dealt with.

So that would be one thing to watch for. But the other side of this is having a space, having little spaces that nobody else sees, maybe not even other people. Maybe it's just for us that have to do with desires that our relationships can't hold space for. I don't know one relationship that can that exists ever speaking to so many people, reflecting on my own life, not every relationship can provide it.

Another person cannot provide us with every last thing we desire, every wish, every hope, every fantasy, every yearning and so that can either drive us mad, or we can find, I want to call them like secret, imaginative, private dimensions of our desires that are healthy, that aren't destructive, that can exist.

It's like everyone needs a little private room in in their house. You know, when I was growing up, my dad always had like, a private study, and it's just like his little room he would read in. And I think we all have this, you know, we all have to take time apart from our relationships, maybe coexisting in the same room, but I'm reading a book.

You're reading a book you know, or you know, you're making a piece of art. I'm playing my guitar. There has to be spaces that are created in relationships to facilitate those deeper, darker, more hidden parts of ourselves, that if we constantly suppress or repress, well, that's eventually going to be really problematic for our relationship, because we we think to ourselves, well, because the person I'm with can't provide this thing that I really want, then I'm going to suppress that part of myself, because I fear that it could destroy the relationship.

It's natural, it's understandable that people would do that, right? But I think this anything with Venus Pluto typically says, Be careful of doing that, because anything you repress or suppress out of fear that it will destroy something actually gets stronger and more destructive. Find a healthy outlet for things that exist that maybe there isn't room for in your relationship, but you can find a healthy way of accessing something psychologically valuable about that.

Um, hope that makes sense. It's there are ways of getting our needs met that don't have to destroy each other or a relationship, and sometimes we won't go for those things, because we're so sure that there's only one way that a desire could play out, and it's only way to play out will be to destroy a friendship, to destroy a marriage, To destroy a bond.

So getting creative about how we explore desires and unmet needs or desires. I think that's a great Venus Pluto dynamic. So okay, let's move on to career or work. Five things to watch for? Well, not surprisingly, I would look for power plays, power dynamics, power struggles in the workplace with co workers or bosses or employees.

That's number one. Two would be the potential for very powerful, interesting, mutually beneficial partnerships or creative collaborations. I love that. The shadow of which could be, I use you. You use me. It's maybe a little opportunistic. Be careful the shadows of social and professional opportunism. I would wonder about reputation and scandal.

This is the kind of thing where, you know sexual assault in the workplace is very Venus Pluto in terms of a workplace manifestation. Not that I'm saying that's going to happen, but you have to watch for things around sex, love, relationship dynamics, the shadows of those dynamics within the workplace, I feel like Venus Pluto must get HR departments busy.

But anyway, that's number three. Number four would be any kind of regenerative or transformative creative impulse that wants to find an outlet within the career. Hey, I'm feeling a little stagnant. Let's get creative again, just the release of pent up creative energy in a career or work related space. And then finally, would be ideological tensions that that would be one like Venus opposite Pluto.

Can pit personal things against collective things, like, well, an awareness of public image or public perception, versus a more personal, human level of things. And sometimes they get together, sometimes they they're not on the same page. Any also any kinds of conflicts between real substance and how things look or appear in some more superficial way, like, how will this be judged versus, how does this actually make me feel Pluto and Aquarius can have that kind of large, objective, rational, detached way of judging and evaluating, whereas Venus and Leo's very personal, very subjective.

So I would watch for clashes between those things showing up in the workplace somehow. And then finally, when it comes to family dynamics, this would be home, family living environment, anything surrounding, you know, if, if there are things hidden within the family, psyche or story or background that are being revealed, or emerging family secrets, family confessions, you know things like that number two would be anything involving major transformative events in family relationships, your sister's marriage, your parents divorce, your so when relational dynamics are somehow at the center of your larger, broader family constellation for a period of time, that would be fitting for this.

Obviously there can be some overlap between themes of home, family and marriage and the relationship sphere of life too. So keep that in mind. Um, the other one would be anything involving inheritance or the gifts and blessings and riches of family. Venus Pluto, in the home and family sphere can be about resources, abundance, wealth, transformations of power and wealth in the family, sometimes greed.

I would also wonder about how safe you're feeling based on the quality, depth reality of the relationships that surround you in the home space. And then I would think about the cyclical nature of building foundations, developing them. Sometimes they come apart, or there's a crack in a foundation, and there's a need to rebuild trust, depth, intimacy, connection, love, so the turning of the soil around home and family.

With respect to those themes, all of this comes to mind powerful transit this week, I hope that this gave you some good things to consider. Remember that the tensions that come up right now if we sit with them rather than react, if we stay curious rather than trying to solve, It's like that old thing in a relationship.

When I come to you with a problem, I want you to listen, not offer me a solution. Same thing is true for transits, if we think about them, not as things to decode, to solve, to fix, to immediately remediate, to use, to get something. But we just stay present and accepting and welcoming and curious. We talk to the experience.

So to speak, we reflect on it. We meditate on it. I'm always amazed by the creative directions that can open from taking that path, as opposed to a lot of quick fix reactivity that that just doesn't, just doesn't do it for me. Anyway, not that I have anything figured out all of you, dear people, I know you're like me.

You don't have anything figured out either. So we have I'm probably going to do, I think I'm going to do some horoscopes tomorrow on Venus, opposite Pluto, because it'll be sort of resonating throughout the week. And then Thursday and Friday, we have our overview of the astrology for September and our horoscopes for September with the teams.

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