Venus Square Saturn – Part One

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology, and today we are going to take a look at another major transit of the week which is Venus's entrance into Gemini, where she immediately makes a square to Saturn in the sign of Pisces.

So we're going to take some time today to reflect on some of the most important lessons that the square has to teach us. Or any Venus-Saturn square to a certain extent, any Venus hard Saturn Venus aspect, and generally, you could also include the opposition in there. So, at any rate, that is our mission for the day.

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So we are looking at Venus in the sign of Gemini, just recently ingressed into the sign of Gemini. And we can see that ingress really around Tuesday of this week, April 11. Right about that. And then, by the latter part of the week here, by Friday, April 14, we see the square. And so that square will be in effect this week and into the weekend. For sure. Great. I feel I have to come up with a name for the pen. You guys, I'm gonna take suggestions in the comments section. What should the pen's name be? I feel like she's a Carol. Maybe a Carol? Yeah, that's that feels about, right. Like was one of the Golden Girls named Carol. I can't remember; she feels like one of the Golden Girls. Okay, anyway.

So the Venus Saturn square is there, and Venus square Saturn is a transit that gets a lot of bad press P O Venus square Saturn, you know, like, oh my god, it's gonna everyone's gonna break up all love, all love is going to fail us. We're gonna get into fights with our loved ones; it's Venus square Saturn. But I think that we need to go beyond that, although there definitely can be an element of, you know, a gravitas around love relationships, sexuality, harder conversations, and all of that that can happen in loving relationships with Saturn or even broken friendships and whatever it's like there's always you know, in the astrological textbooks, there's always like line 1A troubling love for you know, Venus, Saturn.

I think we have to get a little bit more; we get to get deeper into the archetypal combination to uncover some of its deeper teachings. And there are many, and it also depends on which signs they're in. So Venus in Gemini and squaring Saturn in Pisces, when Saturn in Pisces, by the way, has the superior position within the square mean Saturn is really impressing itself on Venus right now, a very playful Venus in the airy, double-bodied sign of Mercury. So what does that look like? It's a little bit different.

I haven't been doing this for a while. And I've realized all of a sudden that I miss doing it, which is, you know, just things come and go in your practice and in your content creation life. I haven't brought in an I-Ching reading for a long time. And so I was like, You know what, today we're going to bring in an I-Ching reading. Now I am by no means an I-Ching master or anything like that. But I've been using the I-Ching to help inform the way that I write and present my content for at least ten years. So you know, it's something that I like to throw in there as a way of getting into the archetypal combination a little bit more. So I'm going to bring that in at different points today.

But if you want to check out that if you want to pause and even just go and take a look at the reading for today. The reading for today that I did came back hexagram 21, with lines three and six changing specifically; line three is the focal point turning into hexagram 55. So I will be kind of covering that a little bit. For those of you who don't know anything about the I-Ching, don't worry about it; you'll hear it seamlessly incorporated into the way that I present. These most important lessons that Venus in Gemini square Saturn in Pisces teaches us.

So number one on my list is playfulness and consequences. By the way, someone was like you always make lists. I was like, Well, I'm a list guy. That's my thing. So some of you don't like it. I'm sure there are other channels that don't utilize lists. But then someone would inform me they were like, the Buddha uses lists. And I was like, see, there we go. That's all I'm trying to do here is be the Buddha. So anyway, playfulness and consequences.

Here's the thing that we have with Venus in Gemini; we have one of the most playful positions that Venus can be in. For example, when Venus was, you might remember if it was about the summer of 2020, maybe around June, that Venus went retrograde in Gemini. There was a lot of things that happened around that time, okay, but Venus retrograde can be involved in times of civil strife, right, and there was a lot of that in June of 2020. But one of the things that I thought was really interesting was that as Venus was in Gemini, and it was in Gemini for a long time because of the retrograde.

I got really interested in games for my kids, like board games, because they were getting to the age of they could start to play board games. And so I was like, Hey, let's start ordering, you know, board games online because we were stuck at home too from COVID or whatever. And so it's like, alright, let's so Hungry Hippos, Chutes and Ladders. Candyland, you know, like all the classics. Don't Break the Ice, Don't Wake the Dragon. I mean, all sorts of old games that I remember playing as a kid; I just ordered a bunch of them. They're all like fifteen bucks, ten bucks on Amazon, or something like that.

So anyway, Venus in Gemini, suffice to say, is a very, very playful Venus. It is a Venus placement that will often correlate with things like video games and hopscotch, playful, flirtatious kinds of qualities. And so here you have one of the ultimate playful, clever, charming Venus placements in Gemini. And you have Saturn in melancholic Pisces casting superior square over it. So the combination of playfulness and consequences or more consequential, heavy, weighty kinds of qualities is really in the air right now. And one of the greatest lessons we might face this week would be, and it could go in either direction. On the one hand, you might be like; you're being too serious. Have fun, you know? Stop thinking so much about all of the consequences, and be more spontaneous and free.

For example, you know, sometimes my kids before bed will be all wild and squirrely. And it's always right before bed, too, you know. And there are actually some studies that have been done that I've been checking out that I've been exposed to somehow through the online world that suggests that, actually, kids getting out a bunch of energy right before bed can be helpful. Right. So it's funny because I saw that study, and I started switching my mentality before bedtime, from no wrestling, you know, no jumping around on the beds, like all the stuff that I felt like was probably winding them up.

Now I've been trying to take the brake pedal off from that a little bit and let their nervous systems just regulate themselves if they want to have this crazy energy right before bed; I've been kind of trusting that it might be okay. I'm trying to convince my wife of that too. She's slowly letting us test it out. But it's actually been working; I kid you not just to let them play a little bit more right before bed, like, you know, with the 10-15 minutes, like right before bedtime. And me playing with them and wrestling with them and stuff like that. It's actually been, um, helpful. And so sometimes there's this way in which, you know, expectations that we have about things how or how things ought to be or how things ought to go, can come in and just and just kill the natural playfulness, that of a moment that really isn't doing any harm, and it's not a threat, and it's not going to mess anything up. But we worry, and we want to control things so much.

So I could see one of the lessons of the week going in that direction. It's like stop trying to control everything, just let the free-flowing fun, you know, Mercurial Venusian energies of the moment, just let them do their thing.

On the other hand, you could see it going in the opposite direction. There are times where we have to reel it in, you know, there is a point in the bedtime activities, so to speak, where you have to be like, okay, look, no more talking, you know, like for my kids, they love Calvin and Hobbes, I've been reading them Calvin and Hobbes, the comic strip, and they're like, you know, I'm like, Okay, it's time to put that you know, no more Calvin and Hobbes, you got to put it away. So, by the way, Venus in Gemini is; actually, it's a fantastic symbol for Calvin and Hobbes on its own for a lot of reasons.

But anyway, so it could be that there is something that's not being taken seriously enough, or that's being too intense, you know, it's like, it's, you're acting as though you're oblivious to the natural consequences of your behavior or activities, you know, which with Venus could range from, you know, having sex without thinking about what the emotional consequences might be later with the person who wants more than you do or something. Or it could be that, you know, you're going out on a date, and someone's hoping for date number two, and three, and four in a serious relationship, and you're just having fun, and you don't really care what they want, because you're just having fun, but then that leads you into all sorts of problems.

So it could go in the opposite direction, in other words, where there's some need to think more seriously about the consequences and reel things or pull things back a little bit. But Saturn things, pull it back, reel it in, you know, put some boundaries around the fun because you have to think about the consequences. And if that's the direction that things need to go in this week, you have to discern that, but you know, just because it's Venus square Saturn doesn't mean that Venus needs to be checked. It can also mean that Venus is going to get checked in a way that's not so healthy and needs to be free.

So you have to be able to look at the situation and really come in, you know, into just take some time to contemplate what's going on. And what's appropriate in this moment. The tendency right now is going to be for Saturn to be a little bit more heavy-handed. So you know, Venus, I wouldn't worry as much about Venus sort of overwhelming Saturn as in not respecting boundaries, but more like Saturn trying to assert control over Venus. That's what I'd be a little bit more concerned with right now.

All right, well, number two is the desire to restrain something but the inability to do so. Now, this is something that the I-Ching seems to point to, for example, hexagram number 21. We talk about it's sometimes called biting through, and it has the connotation of; it's about penalties. So that hexagram has to do with when penalties or consequences have to be delivered. It has to happen. Well, line three, which was the changing line of the hexagram, reads like this, and I thought this was interesting.

Bites on old dried meat and strikes on something poisonous. Slight humiliation, no blame. Punishment is to be; now, punishment can be penalty, is to be carried out by someone who lacks the power and authority to do so. Therefore the culprits do not submit. The matter at issue is an old one, as symbolized by salted game, so it's like a piece of dried aged meat that has some kind of mold in it or something. The matter at issue is an old one, as symbolized by salted game, and in dealing with it, difficulties arrived, they arise; the old meat is spoiled. By taking up the problem, the Punisher arouses poisonous hatred against himself and, in this way, is put in a somewhat humiliating position. But since penalty was required by the time, they remain free of blame.

That's an interesting statement, and it would seem in this case to be like, Now, let's just say that Saturn is the picture of something that is like a penalty, or a restraint, or a prohibition. And it's holding Venus back, so if Venus is being restrained by Saturn, this could also be because especially because they're both in double-bodied signs. And by the way, Venus is right; Saturn is in Venus's exultation. So it's actually being hosted by Venus on a certain level. And then Venus and Mercury have mutual reception.

This is not exactly a Venus that's just gonna, like, sit there and be totally overwhelmed by Saturn. So let's say that Venus represents something that's trying to be restrained or refined. But you're having trouble doing it; you lack the power or authority to do it. Sometimes doesn't that happen to us when we have a habit that we know we need to get under control or a behavior or a pattern that we know we need to like reel in somehow, but we just don't? We're not quite at the space where we have the mojo, you know, within us to do it. I think that happens to us often. And so that might be a problem this week; I'd like to reel something in and get a little bit better control of something, but I'm really lacking the inner fortitude, or it doesn't feel like it's quite the right time, or I have the sufficient power to do so.

It also suggests a kind of test of our power and ability to look at something and put the right parameters or the right boundaries around it. And once we do so, then I think the idea is that, like, for example, in the second hexagram, if we meet that challenge, the second hexagram number 55 is abundance. And so there's some like feeling of consequences, penalties, boundaries that need to be put around something, maybe so that something doesn't get out of control and we can experience things in a state of abundance, which would mean sort of like a combination of happy and wealthy isn't the right word, but the word abundance comes to mind. So things are happy, abundant, and sort of stable. How do we create that state? It has to do with how well we can sort of regulate something this week; that's what comes to my mind, and the in the challenger, the inability for some of us to be able to do that could be part of what we're looking at.

Anyway, number three are penalties or prohibitions that interfere with good fortune. So just generally speaking, Venus was the goddess of good fortune. And fortune was a broad term that just meant how things are going, like the fortune of the world, the fortune of your day, the fortune of the, you know, the evening. And that has to do with the mood, the vibes, you know, are you happy? Are things flowing along harmoniously? Are things pleasing? Are things even more than pleasing, they turn out unexpectedly good. And that's really subjective. But Venus is sort of the ruler of, like, sunny days and nice experiences with friends and happy news.

Generally speaking, if things are going well in a kind of everyday vibes way that's, that's Venus's territory. Well, with Saturn overwhelming Venus, you get the feeling that you know Saturn could play the role of administrating penalties or prohibitions or blockages that somehow, maybe just temporarily interfere with good fortune. And then the lesson of the week becomes how do we respond in a mature way, in a way that's not reactive, impatient, or flustered.

Speaking of kids, you know, my kids, I really am so proud of them when we're like, Okay, enough is enough. It's time to really go to bed now. You know, on those days where they kind of take it maturely, okay, okay, we're done. You know, I'm most proud of them, you know, I'm like, wow, they're accepting a limit, and they push the limit as far as it can go, and we had fun, and we let them you know, and then they accepted it. And that doesn't always happen, obviously. But you get the idea. Right now, this week, I wonder if our good fortune is not dependent upon our ability to accept some temporary limits that come up. So that's just something to consider for everyone right now.

One of the things that goes along with that is number four, which is the maturation of Venus. So this is a classic Venus-Saturn theme. You think of the fine wine that needs to mature; it takes a long time before it reaches its peak to be, you know, I think there's probably with wine, there's certain, I don't know, I'm pretty sure that there are some dates along the aging process where it's like, it's a really, really good to drink it here or don't drink it until it's there. But you know, a fine wine takes a long time to develop and mature.

That's this exact same lesson that comes up with Venus and Saturn in love and relationships and art in your creative process. Some things take a while to mature. So you think of anything Venusian and the ability for it to grow and become wiser, sturdier, more stable, more committed, you know, just, it's like Venus is becoming an adult. Not that Venus isn't, but you get what I'm saying. So Venus, Venus definitely needs to Venus needs to become an adult. Alright.

Number five would be angsty and romantic. You know, we have Venus in an Air sign, Saturn, and melancholic Pisces, which is the exultation of Venus. So I get this, like, a little bit of we have Romeo and Juliet, you know, happening over here. And we have a romantic comedy happening over here with Venus in Gemini, Romeo, and Juliet. You know, like the classic. When I was in, I think it was high school. There was the Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes version, and it was who's Baz Luhrmann who did it, and it was so angsty and just perfectly captured the moment. I think that movie was being made and developed, and so forth. While Saturn was in Pisces, by the way, it was filmed, I think, when Saturn was in Pisces, but regardless, angsty romantic qualities coming together.

Then you have the playful and more sort of airy social and, you know, sort of mental energies of Venus in Gemini. So, what's going to win out this week, are we going to have this week where we're being forced to get into the, to the mud, you know, there's that saying, you know, of course, the lotuses, they come out of the mud or whatever. And you can, you know, there's a bit of that in the air this week, like the Lotus comes out of the mud.

But then, I feel like Venus in Gemini with that Saturn in Pisces is a little bit more like, you know, let's make a mud pie and trick my brother into eating. It actually happened to my dad when he was a kid; his sister made a mud pie, told him it was a chocolate pie, and got him to eat some of it. I feel like Venus in Gemini is just so much more of a trickster, so much more playful, and not wanting to be weighed down by the melancholic watery, you know, heaviness of Saturn and Pisces so that those two qualities are really working this week, you might notice the angsty romantic themes, but they might, you might not love them this week, so much, because I'm not sure Venus is really wanting to be pulled down by them. Keep your eye on those themes in general.

So one of the things that I loved I'll just say this about the I-Ching hexagram to close, hexagram 21. When it comes up, it's always a little bit ominous. It talks a lot about having to deal with the consequence of a former action of an old pattern. Saturn and Venus will mature Venus, and sometimes there is a kind of reckoning that, in this case, Venus would probably the Venus Saturn square would be signifying.

I like that this hexagram transitions into 55, which is really a state of abundance and opulence and wealth and beauty. Venus Saturn also has these old delineations that are associated with opulence; you almost think of a Victorian, old beautiful mansion or an antique store filled with treasures that's a little bit Venus Saturn, too. So I wonder about the theme of maturation this week and also how it's related to things becoming the most beautiful that thing that they can become.

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