Venus Squaring Pluto and Mercury Conjunct Jupiter This Weekend!

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

Today we are going to take a look at a couple of transits that are coming through this weekend. It's been a quiet week. We spent a lot of time looking at Jupiter's upcoming entrance into cancer, which is taking place on Monday, alongside a series of transits that are all coming through at the same time.

So the beginning of next week is really busy. We're going to prep for that by looking at a few transits that are coming in over the weekend. Mercury is conjoining Jupiter in the final degree of Gemini, just before Mercury enters cancer, and then Jupiter enters cancer.

And then we're also going to look at Venus moving into a square with Pluto, which technically doesn't perfect until Monday, but I think it's good to take a look at these transits, since they're coming in over the weekend and near perfect before the start of next week. So that is our agenda for today.

Because we have two different transits, I have three things to watch for for each. So that's six. Technically, you're getting more than you deserve. I'm just kidding. So that's what we're going to do for today.

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I like to think optimistically about it that way anyway. So let's turn our attention now to the real-time clock. Take a look at these transits coming in over the weekend, and then I've got some things for you to watch for.

So I've got this geared up to Monday right now, June 9, but I'm going to be backtracking a little. I just want to show you everything that's going on on Monday of next week. We have Mars entering into the three-degree range—the engagement range—of a square to Uranus.

So very dynamic Uranian week next week. Then we also see, at the beginning of the week, Mercury square Saturn and Neptune. At the beginning of the week, we see Venus squaring Pluto. We've got a moon that's almost full in Scorpio coming through squares and oppositions to Mars and Uranus, sort of activating that Mars-Uranus square.

And we also have Jupiter entering the sign of Cancer. It really doesn't get more dynamic than that. You know, it's a very, very busy week astrologically next week. It was pretty quiet this week, which is why we spent some time reflecting on Jupiter's entrance into Cancer.

Because I want to be sure that at the beginning of next week, I have time to give coverage to all these major transits unfolding simultaneously. Over the weekend, we have a couple of these transits that are perfecting.

So if we back this up to Saturday, what I want to draw your attention to is Mercury and Jupiter getting together in a conjunction that is taking place over the weekend that will perfect Sunday, June 8.

So as we are sitting here today, Friday, June 6, we're within the range of their conjunction already. So you could be feeling or noticing the significations of this transit already, but certainly, it all intensifies on Sunday, June 8, when the two are exactly conjoined.

At the same time that those two planets are conjoining, you're going to see that Venus, at the second degree of Taurus, is just a degree and a half off from a square to Pluto that will also be intensifying over the course of the day on Sunday, June 8.

I take this forward and bring it into, say, late afternoon or evening. By that time, Venus is what—just about half a degree off from a square to Pluto. So Sunday, although technically they don't perfect until Monday morning, many of us will actually see and notice this coming through on Sunday, maybe even Saturday.

So it's worth talking about now, as opposed to waiting until Monday. I think. Alright, on that note, the major conjunction of Mercury and Jupiter at that anaretic final 29th degree of Gemini, plus Venus square Pluto, are going to be what we watch for over the weekend.

So what I have for you are three things to watch for for Mercury and Jupiter, and then I've got three things to watch for for Venus and Pluto. Rather than doing five each, which I think would have taken a little bit too long, we're going to do it this way.

So for Mercury-Jupiter in an air sign, that final anaretic degree of Gemini, both moving into Cancer right away afterwards—what can we watch for? Number one: When Mercury and Jupiter come together, especially where Mercury has its domicile, its rulership, but there's also this kind of culmination of Jupiter at the end of the sign, bringing something full circle.

Where we started a year ago with Jupiter in Gemini, now things are kind of consolidating, and we're maybe gathering some final insights. I mentioned this as one of my things to watch for: comprehension, understanding, learning, or innovating.

It's almost like taking a bunch of puzzle pieces together, spreading them out on the table. You start with Jupiter in Gemini by finding the edge pieces—you know, you start filling in the frame, and then gradually start putting the middle pieces together.

I see this as a moment that could offer us a sense of, "Ah, I've understood something. Oh, I've comprehended something. Oh, a full picture is coming together." Somehow, this could be subtle, as it is an air sign. Air is invisible.

Well, some things that come together conceptually, intellectually, or paradigmatically may not be so obvious, but watch for almost like a shift in your understanding of something, or your comprehension of something, or maybe a moment that feels like a real step forward in a learning process, or even a moment of innovation.

A Mercury-Jupiter can be very innovative and creative in ideas and thinking. So I would watch for that as one very basic set of themes over the weekend with Mercury and Jupiter.

The second one: These two planets, when they come together—double-bodied air sign, very Mercurial, and Jupiter maybe enlarging or amplifying that Mercurial quality. You may notice a kind of surge of mental nervous energy.

It could be a feeling of being overly stimulated. I like to think of Mercury-Jupiter contacts sometimes like I had one too many cups of coffee. And if you know that that's in the air, you can be a little bit guarded with your energy, just safeguard your mental nervous system so that you know that stimulating quality doesn't sort of deregulate you or whatever.

Maybe that's not the right word, but you get what I'm saying. Stimulating, enlivening, though. I like this for mental excitement. Whenever I get really excited about a new book, I will often notice that Mercury or Jupiter are contacting very briefly and like, "Oh, I'm really excited to read this thing that's in front of me."

Also, cross-pollinating. I'm always amazed by how Mercury is such a mover, such a messenger, such a go-between and a mover between worlds. When it hits Jupiter, to me, it is as though the potential to connect various places into a greater whole takes place—almost like, "Oh, I met this person who knows this person who knows you, and now we're connecting in different ways that we yesterday wouldn't have ever dreamed would be connected."

I find that that happens a lot to me. I'm just coming a couple of weeks ago from NORWAC. At NORWAC, I made all these connections to people, and the six degrees of separation is just like so obvious. You know? It's like we're all connected.

But that sense of interconnectivity, or the kind of cross-pollinating—the bees moving around the field of flowers and bringing life-giving substance from one place to another. And in that way, there's a kind of magic—maybe a little bit chaotic, but a kind of cross-pollinating, multiplicious magic that you may notice.

Number three would be: This is the culmination of a whole year's worth of reflection and direction and refining of purpose and understanding and wisdom that Jupiter brings into our lives in a whole-sign house.

We've looked at that already through horoscopes and so forth. What are the culminating lessons and insights, or culminating moments and experiences, of that Jupiter-in-Gemini process? It's as though the two planets conjoining at this final degree bring some closure or resolution to a year's worth of growing in this particular area of our life.

Alright. Well, the second transit that we have—technically doesn't perfect until Monday the ninth, but is going to be very, very close on Sunday the eighth—is the Venus-Pluto square. So three things to watch for, given Venus's connection with Pluto—let's visit those.

Number one: Anytime that Venus and Pluto get together in a hard aspect—conjunction, squares, oppositions in particular—you look at the intensification, the deepening, or the enlivening of Venusian things. That could be art, it could be pleasure, it could be sexuality, it could be intimacy, friendships, women and sisters—Venusian-ruled things.

When Venus hits Pluto, I feel like questions about what constitutes the right kind of pleasure or happiness, or what needs to shift so that different people in relationships are getting their needs met—and the need of Venus is the need for happiness.

Like, what makes me happy? What makes you happy? How do we meet those needs in a way that is reciprocal and caring? Venus-Pluto contacts will often intensify the differences that we have in our needs for pleasure or happiness in our relationships, but then kind of force a change or a shift so that maybe both people can be better accommodated.

Or if it's grossly out of balance, things need to change so that more of a balance is present. Also, just the intensification of things like sexuality and pleasure in our relationship with the body and with happiness on the sensual plane itself—they can just be really deepened and intensified when Venus contacts Pluto.

Anything that touches Pluto also gets animated. So if there's something that's been, I don't know, just a little dead or lifeless that needs a kind of invigoration of energy, you may find that that is also emphasized when Venus and Pluto get together.

So the next piece is purgation, healing, and catharsis. Well, we all know that Venus-Pluto contacts—I mean, most of you probably know that those contacts can bring about that death motif, that sense of endings and finality.

It's like pulling a splinter out and removing, you know, things that are toxic or sick or that need to be purged somehow. So within relationships, within love, within our relationship to pleasure—whether that's food or spending, anything that has to do with how we seek to enjoy ourselves as living beings—if there is some need for purging or removing toxic elements, Venus-Pluto will do that.

If there is a need for a relationship to die and maybe be reborn, or for new relationships to come in because old ones have to go—just like Venus-Saturn—Venus-Pluto can create that death scenario in a relationship, usually followed by a feeling of renewal and healing and return to something healthier.

But sometimes, things have to go. I always like to think of Pluto like—you open your fridge, and overnight, like, something spoiled. You're like, "Oh, something's expiration date has passed. I need to take it out because the fridge smells bad."

Catharsis, though—if you just reach a moment where things that have been building up under the surface cannot be ignored or denied any longer, and they sort of spill over or show themselves—very Venus-Pluto.

And then finally, I like this combination with Pluto in Aquarius and Venus in Taurus as anything that is ideological, technological, conceptual with respect to Venus. So Pluto in Aquarius can bring Venus something like the healing and health technologies of a med spa.

You guys have heard me say that one before on the channel with this combination. And the healing, helpful technologies of, you know, something like—for example, I would say very Uranus in Taurus—Ozempic as a very... whether it's healthy for people or not.

Anyway, that's like the light and dark side of Venus and Pluto, though, right? It's like these technologies that maybe help you lose weight, or that if you're needing some help on the beginning of a weight-loss journey or adjustment with your relationship to food.

I know there are probably millions of people in our country who have used Ozempic and found it really helpful or whatever. There's also, like—I don't know, there's a kind of dark side to it too. Like, I've had clients and people that say, "Oh, you know, like, I took this and it was really helpful, but then when I came off from it, like, my appetite came raging back."

You know, and so it was this like temporary help, but then it didn't really address the underlying issue. So that's the thing with Venus and Pluto. It's like, "Oh, here's a healing or health technology that may do something very positive, but maybe there's a trade-off of some kind, or even some possible dark side to it."

Now, again, I don't mean to put any judgment on people who use Ozempic. My experience with it was like cosmic absurd humor. It was like—I could—yeah, so anyway, that is my Ozempic story.

Anyway. So the final piece here that I would watch for would just be to consider any level at which there are Venusian ways of improving health, beauty, pleasure, love—these technologies or new ideas or concepts that are informing the body or the biological plane or the physical, sensual plane—can be highlighted somehow.

So I'd watch for that. Just watch for the ideas and conversations and concepts and almost like debates that are taking place relative to things like sex, health, the body, pleasure, aging, beauty, health—all again, all of those kinds of things.

So okay, that is it for today. We've gone through a number of—so, a number of things to watch for given both Mercury's conjunction to Jupiter and Venus's square to Pluto.

We will be back on Monday to take a look at all of the major transits happening at the start of the week. There's quite a few. So Monday is going to be a very dynamic day, for sure. I'll be looking forward to breaking that down with you.

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Alright, that's it for now. Take it easy, everyone. Bye.