Venus Squaring Neptune as Pluto Moves into Aquarius

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Happy Monday, everybody. Today, we're going to take a look at Venus's upcoming square to Neptune, which is taking place, by the way, as Mercury is moving into a trine with Jupiter and as the sun is conjoining Pluto, and both are moving into Aquarius.

That's all happening right around the same time at the end of this week. In many ways, this week is a story of building up to that, and so that's what we're going to do. We're going to start today by sort of looking at all of those things happening simultaneously around Friday of this week and prepare for it on an archetypal level.

We'll turn the jewel of these different planetary combinations and hopefully give you a sense of what to expect from them, and then as the week goes on, I think what we'll do is we'll continue looking at Pluto into Aquarius, the Sun and Pluto, Venus, Neptune, and even Mercury and Jupiter, all of which again, are coming at the end of this week.

So there's a lot of room for us to go pretty deeply into this moment, which is one of the bigger moments of 2024, Even though it's a very young New Year. This is one of the most important sequences that's happening with Pluto's ingress into Aquarius.

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All right, well, let's take a look now at the real-time clock, and let's gather our thoughts here. So, we're talking about the seeds of ingress. Just like a New Moon is an astrological event that requires us to look at the total context of not just the sign that the Moon is in, right but the total context of what's going on in the sky around the time of a new moon because the New Moon is like a seed and it bears the implant of everything happening in the sky at that moment, which then, generally speaking, ripples out like waves from like a gong, or throwing a rock in the water and seeing the ripples spread out across the water of a pond.

We want to understand what's happening at the time that really big events are happening in astrology around the big event. So, for example, this week, Pluto is entering Aquarius. Okay, great. That's a huge seeding moment when Pluto ingresses into Aquarius for 2024. This will set the tone. For many of us, this will be a significant time, not just because one event happens but because this is a seating point that carries with it a lot of different archetypal signatures that will start spreading out as the year goes on like the waves on the pond; on the surface of the pond.

So, what is happening around Pluto's entrance into Aquarius? Some really important details. Let's take a look at them. So, as the week goes on, the most important thing that we're paying attention to is right here. This is Friday, and this is when a bunch of things come together all at once.

All right here is probably one of the most important signatures, which is the conjunction of the sun and Pluto at the last degree of Capricorn as the two are both entering Aquarius, so this takes place between the 19th and the 20th. This is Friday into Saturday; if I advance this by just one day, you'll see the sun going in, and later on the 20th, Pluto goes in as well so that by the 21st, They're both squarely into Aquarius, but this actually takes place on the 20th so 19th into the 20th they are conjoining and both moving into Aquarius at the same time. It's interesting that a Sun-Pluto conjunction is happening right as the Pluto ingress into Aquarius takes place; that is worth noting that it is a seating that is a contributing factor to the seating moment that we're we're talking about here.

The other thing that's happening is Mercury in Capricorn is heading back right through the area where it station to turn retrograde in December, and then we saw the trine to Jupiter at that time, and now that trine is back as Mercury is coming back through the initial point where it's stationed and turned retrograde.

So we have a Mercury Jupiter trine, and then finally, we also can see that Venus in late Sagittarius is squaring Neptune, and there have been a number of squares to Neptune in the past month or so that have been a really important part of the astrology we've been breaking down.

Finally, it's worth noting that the Moon will be exalted in Taurus as this transition is taking place, connecting with Uranus but also going through a trine to the sun. This is a waxing, gibbous moon right now. It's heading toward full. It's a little ways away from full. But nonetheless, this is an important detail because it really emphasizes the earthiness of the moment. It's a lot of Earth and a kind of culminating earthy connection before the Sun and Pluto enter Capricorn.

So if we were to take this day out, you'll see that here we have you can see the Moon here. You'll see that the Moon in Taurus this is early Saturday morning, January 20. That Moon will go right through the Pluto Sun conjunction, as it is almost exact. Right, so that's again just emphasizing the Capricorn Taurus connection as a huge seeding portion of what the entrance of Pluto into Aquarius is doing, at least right now. Of course, we've got almost two decades of Pluto and Aquarius. So, it's not to say that the entire lives of Pluto and Aquarius are toned by this moment.

We're just talking about the power of the ingress at this time and the surrounding circumstances that are contributing to the meaning of the ingress here in 2024. Okay, so those are the big things to consider, and all take place between Friday and Saturday. It was such a huge, huge period of time there.

So what do I put together from all of that? There are some other details I left out; for example, it's interesting to note that Venus that Jupiter is in the domicile of Venus and the bound of Venus, a right that Venus and Neptune going through their square to one another are both in the sign of Jupiter in Taurus. Jupiter in Taurus is moving direct heading toward that April 20 conjunction with Uranus and Taurus. So there's a lot to be said about it. A lot of the undercurrent of this has to do with the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction that's coming up in just a couple of months, too. That's kind of underlying everything. There was such an emphasis on Venus and Jupiter and Jupiter's upcoming conjunction with Uranus.

So anyway, you don't have to remember all of that. This is stuff we'll be breaking down gradually over the months to come. But what are the seeds surrounding Pluto's entrance into Aquarius right now? Well, one of them again, again, because we're not just looking at Pluto into Aquarius, you don't put things; you can put things in a vacuum for the sake of learning, which is always a good idea, like what's Pluto and Aquarius on its own as if nothing else existed, because then you can get into sort of like the substrata of Aquarius and that's what Pluto wants to do is get down deep into a sign. So that's really effective.

But Pluto and Aquarius is never in a vacuum. It's always in a community of things happening at the same time. Right now. Pluto moving into Aquarius is supporting something like a Venusian daydream and I say daydream rather than dream. Because the nocturnal space of dreams is something that is often a little remote or dissociated from our everyday life, it's a little bit more cryptic; it happens when you're sleeping.

A daydream to me, the simple distinction I was trying to make by using the phrase daydream, is the idea that we are starting to envision and imagine things that have a clear path to manifesting in the earthly, worldly material circumstances of our lives. We're it's it's more of a vision of something that we find beautiful or desirable. Very Venusian, very earthy, very Taurean and the reason for that again is that Venus is squaring Neptune this coming Friday. Venus Neptune is very, very dreamy, right; however, we have to remember that the ruler of Venus and Sagittarius Neptune in Pisces is Jupiter in Taurus, turning direct in a solid earthy sign who's also in the domicile inbound of Venus right now. So this is about a new value, a new vision that's seeking that earthy, everyday, practical manifestation. It's looking for space to grow and take shape in our actual lives.

It's more like I'm starting to see the way I want to redo a bedroom in my house. Not I had a dream mean last night about living in Hawaii and I wonder what it meant. You see what I mean? Where dreams in the nocturnal space can often allude to things, they often require a kind of hermetic turning, like, let's turn that dream around and talk to it and see what it says, what it suggests and, sometimes daydreams do that, too, I suppose I don't want to be too, like, rigid in the way I'm describing the difference.

But a daydream here, as I'm describing it, like if you were to be, I don't know, you were out walking around, you know, in a little village or something, and you caught up a whiff of some kind of beautiful soup that someone was making, and you go, I'm gonna go home and make that it's something that's capturing us on the level of our senses, something that's capturing us on the level of our, our physical, embodied desires, and it's saying, oh, I want that. That's what I want to create. That's what I want to go home and cook up. So there's something coming through that's overwhelming us, what's inspiring us, but that is seeking earthy instantiation like let's take form, let's take shape, and this is the way I'm seeing it.

Again, Venus Neptune is very dreamy, very, it's so rooted in the romantic, the subtle, the imaginative, the desire body. You know, of course, we can get captured by that in ways that are deceptive; you know, illusion and delusion can be part of that. But broadly speaking, I trust this a little bit more because of the fact that you have solid, earthy Jupiter. You know, in Taurus, that's the underlying host of The Venus Jupiter, the Venus Neptune dynamic on Friday. So Venusian daydreams are something we desire, seeking, worldly embodiment.

Then we also have to consider that Mercury in Capricorn is trying Jupiter in Taurus this Friday and Saturday as well, a plan an incremental shift, a strategy, a strategy that is ultimately about what about that? New daydream and the reason for this is that Mercury's trine to Jupiter is remember trines are of the nature of Jupiter, and Mercury training Jupiter will be doing so as Mercury moves into the bound of Jupiter and it is in also the it's in the exultation of Mars heading into a conjunction with Mars and Capricorn. Mars is, of course, just finishing the trine with Jupiter.

So again, everything seems to relate back. I mean, Capricorn loves to build things, and it loves to do so incrementally with long-term vision, patience, methodical, disciplined, persistent efforts, and focus. You know, this is why Mars is exalted in the sign. It's like someone who's willing to put in the work and sacrifice to climb a mountain, you know, it's like you got to spend a lot of time training.

I was watching a documentary a couple of years ago about people who climb Mount Everest and all the training that goes into it, like marathon runners, who do all this training leading up to the marathon. Mars and Capricorn love to do that, you know, and that's where Mars is right now, and Mercury's heading toward the conjunction with Mars, who's just separated from Jupiter in Taurus, and now Mercury is going through that trine to Jupiter in Taurus, and then connecting with Mars. So again, there's a kind of a plan and incremental shift of strategy.

Let's move toward the goal. It's like, and you might remember me saying this somewhat recently, around the New Moon in Capricorn, where I said, we're trying to build something, but it's a Venusian daydream; I want to build a porch where people can gather. I want to build a bonfire pit where people can get together and sing around the campfire, want to build a garden where beautiful things can grow, and so the Mercury-Jupiter connection is suggesting that we're planning and we're creating incremental shifts and strategies and we're building toward a greater understanding of something maybe intellectually, or we are literally working methodically toward that kind of Jupiter in Taurus with the underlying emphasis on Venus, that daydream.

Alright, number three, we're casting the ring into the fire. We're laying down the cross. This is Pluto, culminating in Capricorn. You might remember back in November or December, I think, I did a talk about what the cross we've been carrying as Pluto culminates in Capricorn. I've compared Capricorn recently to the narrative arc of the Lord of the Rings if you know that story. The Ring of Power is something that has to be destroyed because it will corrupt anyone who tries to wield it and the powers of this world so frequently.

Will that be the shadow side of Capricorn? It will be the corruption that happens when the Capricornian individual or some Capricornian portion of your birth chart becomes enamored by the power because it's a trend. This power Mars is exalted in the sign, and those things that you work hard on develop a kind of Shakti.

Like if you sit and I don't know if you do anything day after day after day and you get really good at it, there's a kind of power that comes from it, and you have to be willing to look and say, Well, I'm not going to become enamored by that power. For example, you become really, really good at an instrument.

So you become a great, amazing jazz saxophone player. Well, there's going to be an aura, like a golden aura, when you play that thing. It's going to show because there's Shakti behind it that's been built up through determination and effort, and yet, if you become enamored with that, Shakti, that's what leads you to corruption, you have to be able to say, Well, I love the saxophone more than I love, the power that comes from becoming a great player. Right?

This is sort of the point of the Lord of the Rings is that the character has to avoid the trap of becoming enamored by the Ring of Power, which is gradually tempting it and pushing its heavy, it's weighty burden on it more and more and the Hobbit, who carries it has to stay simple and innocent in a sense, and can't give in to being enamored are tempted by the power of the ring and then has to cast it into the fire.

We've carried something for a long time with Pluto and Capricorn; all of us have, in different ways, different parts of our chart, and maybe we've been enamored at times by the power, maybe we've had to explore the shadows of power and, and so forth. But as Pluto culminates and the sun goes across Pluto to conjoin, at the very last degree in the very last minutes of Capricorn, it is time to let go of a process that we've been carrying. It's like the moment where you can cast the ring into the fire, and you can say, Okay, I've carried something for a while. It's been a duty; it's been a service, and I've learned a lot. I've climbed up some mountain or another and it is time to lay down that burden, that duty, that responsibility, it's time to lay down the approaches I've been taking it's time to, you know, set this burden down. Let it go.

Right, as we do so, there's something that could feel like a loss; it could feel like a moment of an era coming to a close. But there's something that is seeking resolution now, and that it's hard to let go up that there's a kind of a final test or something like that, we have to really let go of something, and that's coming through at the end of this week. But again, it's coming through in service of a new vision.

I think, for example, in number four, there is a new blueprint in the star card. If you think about the Tarot, the tower card comes first, and then the star card. This is a sequence that I thought a lot about this past fall as the cards were coming up in various ways in my own life; it's really interesting. The tower card implies, you know, destruction, the and that's what we're talking about as Pluto and the Sun get together in the last degree of Capricorn.

There's a sense of being at the very end of something, and it falls, something falls apart. You know, it's like, Okay, done, and then what comes next is the star card, and the star card in the Tarot is, in so many ways, a picture of a new vision, a hopeful, bright, progressive vision of what could be an excitement and an aura of rebirth around that card that's very sacred.

I think that's exactly what we're going through this week. As we see so many nice like the Venus square to Neptune the Mercury trine to Jupiter, are both just really moving things in service of something that we're very attracted to, something that we can see in the future on the horizon and although there is this kind of destructive, weighty moment of release; of transformation that comes at the end of this week with the sun conjoining Pluto in that last degree of Capricorn the immediate entrance of Pluto into Aquarius with the sun, to me is like the star card. It's like the death of a star and the birth of a new star.

So, what is the higher idea that's guiding us forward? That is as important as the tangible earthly desires that are taking shape. So, on the Venusian level, it really has to do with what we're attracted to, what we desire, what we find beautiful, what we find appealing, what gives pleasure or satisfaction to our lives, and the way that we go about building it.

On the other hand, there's something we're laying down, and we're also picking up a new vision, there's a new hire idea, or ideas or philosophies, or almost like an A new archetype that's trying to install itself. I know I don't love the computer language so much, but it is like a new program because Aquarius is so high-minded, right? It's words like blueprint, paradigm, ideas, and archetypes; these are properly Aquarian terms. They're also Saturnian, in the sense that Saturn sits at the gateway between what is known and what is conventional and what goes beyond it, and Saturn is so frequently associated with the conventional, you know, in the structure, that's not really appropriate for Saturn.

Saturn has to do with the juxtaposition and often the polarization between what is conventional and unconventional, what is known or unknown, what is standard versus the dogma versus the heretic and Saturn is the planet that represents the tension between the two, like a boundary that sits between the two and that there's always going to be tension when the two come up.

Well, there's a new blueprint coming in right now, and so there could be some tension that comes with it. As we sat down and old structure, we start considering something unconventional, a totally new vision, and then finally, just broadly speaking, we're really talking with this airy Pluto and sun in Aquarius signature, alongside of Venus and Neptune squaring and Mercury and Jupiter training and the earthy Moon in Taurus coming through at the last second and that gradual moving of Jupiter and Uranus into a conjunction in around April 20 and Taurus Venus's sign the Moon's exultation.

Right now, there are new, like the celestial archetypal mind of God type of ideas inspiring, paradigm-changing revolutionary taking us across the threshold from what we've done to something we haven't done, that kind of Aquarian shift. But it's in service of things that are very earthy, very sensual, very feminine; you could say in the world, in the garden here, you know, embodied, so Heaven is meeting Earth at this moment, and where it's not that it'll all happen right now.

It's that the seeds of this potential for the union of the higher-minded ideas of Aquarius and the very earthy sensual domain of Jupiter, Uranus, and Taurus, we're seeing a seating moment that's going to ripple out through the rest of this year and in so many ways, especially through the next six months as Jupiter and Uranus come together in Taurus and we have that kind of combination of Jupiter and Taurus in the spring.

So anyway, these are some good ways to start thinking about what's happening in three major transits all at once, Friday into Saturday. So anyway, I wanted to start today by just kind of giving us the big picture. As the week goes on, we'll start diving into each of these individual aspects and unpacking them in a bit more of a vacuum because it's good to look at them all, and then it's good to narrow in and work the archetypal combinations in a little bit more compartmentalized fashion, that way we can really start differentiating as we also build synthesis.

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