Venus Trines Jupiter: Why this Transit Can be So Offensive

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Today, we are going to take a look at Venus's entrance into the sign of Capricorn because as soon as Venus enters the sign of Capricorn, she immediately moves into a trine with Jupiter. Now Jupiter is in Taurus, which happens to be the home sign of Venus.

Jupiter is also hanging out in the bounds of Venus, which means that there is a ton of reception between Venus and Jupiter as they trine. Trines are of the nature of Jupiter. So, there's just a very smooth connection between these two planets right now. I'm going to talk today about five things that people probably never think about with respect to Venus-Jupiter connections; they are subtle parts of what often present themselves in our experience when Venus and Jupiter get together. We will see these themes, but you may not even recognize them as being stupid or themes. Anyway, that's our goal for today.

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Alright, let's take a look at the real-time clock so we can get that little analytical piece of our day checked. Here we go. So Venus entering Capricorn. Here's Tuesday, January 23. Moving into the trine with Jupiter. So let's advance our clock one day at a time. You'll see that this application really gets started by Friday of this week, as does everything. It's like everything's happening over the weekend, and then we see the two of them actually coming together Sunday, January 28, into Monday, January 29.

So this is something you'll really experience as the week we get close to the weekend and then over the weekend, especially on Sunday. So, a powerful sequence from Venus and Jupiter will notice that as Venus is moving into that seventh degree, crossing over into the bounds of Jupiter, well, Jupiter will be in the bounds of Venus. That's mutual reception by bound rulership, which is significant. That's not nothing, and Jupiter, of course, is also in Venus's domicile.

So we have a nice reception in a flowing, harmonious trine. trines are the nature of Jupiter. So you tend to see those two planets working together very constructively in Earth signs. The key word is construction, in fact, where the planets connecting on Earth tend to move physical things around and move ideas into form, so don't be surprised if this plays out in ways that are more accurate, like tangible. I think it's interesting, and I think I've mentioned this to you guys.

Right now, we're in the process of taking, like, a room in the basement that was just kind of a playroom for our kids. But it's that they have a main place they plan to never play in this room. So we turned it into a room for making music and maybe doing some yoga and stuff like that. So we've been building this room out very slowly like you guys know how it goes. If you have an idea of something you want to build, but you have two kids, give yourself a year.

So anyway, it's been slowly building. We're kind of finishing it right now, and I thought that was really interesting. You guys might remember I use the image of building a porch for people to hang out, a bonfire pit for people to gather around a garden for growing, you know, beautiful things, or fruit and vegetables or whatever. There's something very Venusian about things that are being built right now, and I talked about that at length over the past couple of weeks.

Anyway, when Venus and Jupiter get together, there are five things I have on a list today that I want to share with you guys, which are not things that most people would like to look for. Or you, if they are happening, you wouldn't necessarily go, oh yeah, that's been stupid. But let's take a look at them.

Five interesting things to note about Venus and Jupiter's contacts, and this would be sort of regardless of what type of contact they have, although, I would say probably it was some of these you'd see squares and oppositions is more appropriate. But for the most part, it's really any archetypal combination of these two planets.

Here's number one. Offensiveness is what we are offended by taste. What what is our individual personal tastes? What are we like? What don't we like and beauty all go together? One of the things that we don't forget is that Aphrodite, Venus in ancient mythology and philosophy, was a goddess that was associated with justice and fairness, and when you think of the word, this is something I've said a bunch of you guys have listened to my channel have heard me say this many times before. When you think of the word cosmos, the root word for cosmos and cosmetic is the same. It means a well-arranged whole.

So, not one thing, but many things put together nicely in relation to one another, which is closer to the Greek. Imagine the Greek-speaking world, the Hellenistic world, not just ethnically Greek, but the kind of ancient Hellenistic worldview of the cosmos. It's not a universe; it's not one, one thing. It's many different things arranged beautifully, and there's a kind of there's an inherent sense of truth, beauty, and justice that are all woven together in the arrangement of the cosmos, which is an aesthetic display.

It's pleasing, it's beautiful, which is why, for example, when the Renaissance time comes around, you have this awakening reawakening. One of the words, Renaissance, means something like awakening. But one of the things that comes with the Renaissance is this reawakening of that ancient view of the cosmos, where math, music, art, painting, and science are all; they're all interconnected much more closely than they are today, we tend to divide things even in a university, you know, you don't necessarily have the like,

I'm just thinking about, like, the science department versus the art department and the kinds of people that hang out; sometimes you have some really meaningful crossover, and you have lots of people, I'm sure, that are interested in both. But today, we're not as interested in the way that we understand science in relation to art, math, or music. My favorite people are the ones who are doing that kind of work.

Obviously, there are people not to be like to black and white about it. But the point is that our view of the cosmos, at the time that astrology is coming about, is one where beauty, truth, fairness, and we're where there's a kind of logical and aesthetic quality that go together. This is why, by the way, Venus is ruler, not just Taurus, which is very much the sensual side of Venus. But Venus also rules Libra, which is where Saturn is exalted and is much more like the interior designer, the architect, you know, it's like, it's like the high-minded, symmetrical, aesthetic arrangement plans, you know, like the blueprints of beauty, very Libran.

So anyway, the point of all of this is just to say that we forget that Venus has a very long history of being associated with questions of fairness and balance in the sort of ideal realm of the archetypes, which moves into things like the scales of music, and the blueprints of a cathedral and so on and so forth. The reason I say this is because Jupiter was associated with law.

Now, there are always corrupt versions of law and authoritarianism, and the law can be an instrument of suppression. But the ideal Jupiter in the ancient world, the ideal Zeus is the lawgiver and the provider of unity, and that's reflected in human society in terms of things like the ideal way in which, you know, religion should function or government or education, and so on the courts and so on.

So, when Venus and Jupiter come together, you almost always get some level of conversation about what is offensive or what is considered to be virtuous, and that is because offensiveness, what we find offensive morally, actually goes hand in hand with what we find beautiful or disgusting.

Now, what's interesting about this is that on just speaking to the shadow of Venus and Jupiter, it can amplify our sense that good behavior is beautiful, which is, you know, if you're getting the little feedback that, like, Hey, your best behaviors, you know, like your compassion, your patience, your self-care, all of the best virtuous behaviors are actually beautiful, and they make you shine them Make you they really give a kind of they make you feel beautiful inside and out. So it's nice when we can feel like virtue and beauty go together.

However, there is also a very clear way in which we have there. There is a level of subjectivity to Venus, and it's a very important level we should never think about doing away with. My taste is not your taste, is not Jane's taste, is not Jack's taste. Those are like the classic Jean and Jack there. Somewhere, there's an Iowa skills test where Jane and Jack are doing every last thing in the quiz.

Anyway, so your taste is not my taste is not so and so's taste, and that is one of the things that variety is the spice of life. It's nice to have diverse people. There are lots of different foods that we can like. Colors that we may prefer, sounds of music we may prefer, and preferences are part of the enjoyment and part of life.

However, what's interesting is that we frequently and very unconsciously associate what we don't like, our dislikes, with moral like moral offensiveness, and that's not because we're jerks. It's because it's very, very natural for Venus and Jupiter to go together insofar as what we find beautiful is connected very closely to how we realize or connect with virtue in our life.

Now, that's not true for all people. But for many people it is, for many people, beauty and goodness are very close together, and so, for example, if I want to be at my best, it's important that I be in contact with things that my soul finds beautiful because it draws forth from within me, not only it's not just aesthetic and sensual, the aesthetic and sensual things that bring me happiness, connect very innocently and naturally to all of those happiest, virtuous character qualities compassion, peace, patience, forgiveness, harmony with my fellow people.

But what we don't understand is that there can be a way in which an individual's choice and taste and preferences that connect to them personally to the feeling of virtue to the sum of their best qualities, is still the best qualities may be universal, but the pathway to get there through what we find pleasurable or beautiful is sometimes highly subjective and relative, and that's weird, because on the one hand, compassion, forgiveness, harmonization, consideration, respectfulness, I mean, just think of all the best virtues all the, you know, the best character qualities we sort of universally agree upon as like, yeah, if we all acted this way, we might have a better world or something.

Those qualities are sort of universal; they feel relatively more absolute to us, and yet, the way in which we connect to them in the world is so often through individual subjective connections with what we find beautiful, and what we find beautiful is highly subjective, and more, much more relative and so there's this weird way in which we can equate our taste with virtue when they're not identical. In a sense, it's as though our tastes lead us to virtue or connect us to the currents of virtue. But what does that mean? It means that when I am offended, sometimes what I'm offended by is that someone doesn't have the same subjective taste or aesthetics or they don't like the same color.

In other words that I do, or they don't like, the same music, or they, you know, what I mean, and their sensibilities, aesthetically, essentially, are sort of offended by choices that don't resemble their own or my own and but then what we do is we connect that we take a step further, and we accuse people of lacking virtue because they don't have the same taste as us.

This is a Venus-Jupiter dynamic. It's a very subtle but very powerful thing that comes up even when they're in a trine to one another because the triune can actually amplify the feeling that my tastes are connected to the highest virtues, even though it's actually something more like my taste connects me to the highest virtues. Do you see what I mean? And this happens a lot like there's so many times where I see when you know, people have Venus, Venus, Jupiter is in the air. Let me tell you an example of this, actually.

So I have a friend, a longtime friend of mine, who I've known since high school, and initially actually started off as like an AOL Instant Messenger friend, like a pen pal that I talked with on AOL Instant Messenger back in the day, and then we just stayed in touch over the years, you know, and we're just connected as friends and have always been, I don't know, you know, once or twice a year maybe we say hello, how are you doing? Whatever.

But this person absolutely loves Disney World, like they're just like a Disney World person, and they have actually gotten involved in some really interesting charitable causes through their love of Disney World. I find Disney World sort of offensive. I mean, let me tell you, when we took our kids there, you guys may have heard me telling you guys about this. I had a good time at Disney World; I thought it was pretty fun.

Because I got to live through the eyes of my children, basically, but otherwise, I was sort of offended, and I did not feel particularly connected to the most virtuous parts of myself. It would; it was easy for me to look at all of the people who were there taking tremendous aesthetic pleasure as being lacking in what I would see as morality, or, you know, sort of spiritual virtue. Because it is there, there, we all have different, and we connect to beauty differently. It is very tempting for Venus and Jupiter to get together and to be proud of one's aesthetic tastes, likes, and dislikes and to assume that if one does not have the same taste, that means they're actually lacking in virtue or morality, or they're not right, somehow in the sense of good and bad or good and evil and so the connection between the two and Venus and Jupiter together is very powerful and often very subtle and that's the point. All right, so I hope that was interesting.

Number two, sometimes beauty topples virtue. Okay, let's just be real. Have you ever? I'm not calling out anyone in particular because you could call me out just as well. I'm sure. Beauty sometimes needs to topple virtue. Have you ever been with someone whose sense of goodness is so strong and overriding that they're unpleasant to be around? And I'm not talking about, you know, someone who's clearly like a puritanical.

Okay, for, for example, you know, I imagine like a Southern Baptist preacher or something like, you know, quite clearly, for many of us, being around such a person, it would be like, Okay, you're puritanical and I just, like, can't handle being around you. But think of someone more complex than that. Think of a friend, someone you really like. But they're, I don't know whether maybe they're vegan. I have. I would say the closest thing I can think about in my life would be not all of my vegan friends. I've been vegan at times in my life, but some of my vegan friends were, and I don't mean to pick on vegans. Oh, God. Shit. Oh, okay. Whatever. Think of anyone who has some moral standard that is admirable and that you can actually appreciate, right? You can be like that moral standard, which is a good one. But somehow, they, the way they carry it, are like they're not able to enjoy themselves because the mantle of their goodness is too heavy to do so.

So I'm not saying that that's I'm not trying to generalize and say that that's what vegans are. I was just thinking of a few of my friends historically. That was the first thing that popped into my mind, so please forgive me. But what I am talking about is, you know, anyone that has, maybe it's political, right? It's like political goodness, and you're like that, which is admirable, but my God, you can enjoy dinner. Do you know what I mean? And this is me too, like, I can identify this in myself.

That's why I said I don't mean to call out anyone in particular because you could call out me. There are things like if you get me riled up about, you know, good astrology versus crap, pop astrology, or something like that. It's like, if I get going about that, you'll be like, Are you do you feel okay in your body right now? You know what I mean? There are times when beauty needs to topple virtue.

It is fascinating to me that Venus is in a superior trine to Jupiter, and Jupiter is being hosted by Venus; there's a mutual reception by a term that they have. So they're working together. But Venus is in the overcoming or superior position, which is a way that ancient astrologers had of looking at which planet has more influence over the other when Venus tends to influence Jupiter. Sometimes, it'll say, tone down your morality for the sake of beauty or sensuality. Sometimes, it'll actually topple virtue for the sake of pleasure, which isn't always a good thing either. But the point is that sometimes beauty needs to push goodness down a bit and say, Look, if you're not enjoying yourself. If you're not in some connection with the pleasure body, then your morality is probably suppressive, you know, or repressive.

So just remember, one of the things that sometimes come up when being essentially connected in any aspect is that beauty will need to topple virtue. On the other hand, the opposite can be true. Sometimes, virtue needs to speak up, and Venusian desires and sensual pleasure need to make sure they're in the right relationship with virtue, like hedonism, materialism, and sort of morality; there's a dance between the two. But in this case, I would say, don't be surprised if beauty is saying, Hey, I'm as important. I'm an equal player. Just because beauty is enjoyable. You know, it's sort of like the idea that Venus wouldn't be an equal player with Jupiter, which is sort of like saying that goodness is more important than pleasure. I think that's risky. Personally, I think that the universe is meant to be enjoyed and that thinking that pleasure is a bad thing is maybe worse than the pleasure itself. But I don't know this; it's just my thoughts.

Three, effort and desire go together. When we have two planets connecting like this, Earth sign Venus and Jupiter, especially in the sign of Mars is exultation Venus in Capricorn, Saturn ruled sign in Capricorn and connecting with Jupiter in Taurus, who likes to build things that are stable and enjoyable. Right now, you can think about whatever we think is worth our effort; our work is usually connected to something we desire, and so even work discipline, focus, concentration, effort, practical building, and development of things are usually going to be related to things that we see as beautiful and worth the effort. You don't cook a meal, purely most of us don't cook a meal purely to fuel our body, we cook a meal to fuel our body, which is maybe a sort of utilitarian or, you know, it's a sort of practical end.

But we also tried to create fuel that was enjoyable, and we were looking for a balance of enjoyment and healthy fuel. So effort and desire always go together, and Venus and Jupiter will often show us where what we want, what we're building, and what we desire are together; they have to work together, or we need to get them to work together if they're not.

Number four, environmental beauty is crucial. There's nothing more offensive than being in a work environment in a building where there's no light, there's no plants, there's no color, and there's no green. I think that one of Hillman mentioned this a lot. I think that one of the things that is making us sick, mentally and emotionally, and there are many things you know, but one of them is probably a lot of the design of our cities, common spaces. Office buildings are just depressing.

There's not enough green, you know, there's we don't bring it's like city and then outside of city nature, and I'm always I'm interested in I've always it always catches my eye when I see, you know, one of those, what do you call them? The overpass on a highway has just greened out; you've seen people do this. So one of the things that we may also notice when Venus and Jupiter get together is that Jupiter is ideally about social cohesion, and Venus is about beauty and social cohesion without the incorporation of what is aesthetic. That's, that's going to kill the soul.

So there's a soul-sucking quality to the way in which, you know, whether it's architecture or city planning, it's something you may notice, even if it's not on the level of a city, but it's your office or your home or a room. If it's not beautiful, it doesn't like the functionality without the beauty. It's a big deal that those two things get together. That's all I'm trying to say. So you might notice that number five, good people, are particularized people. When we think about you, I was just having this conversation with Ashley.

We were talking about who our own models of good people are, and by good, I mean, no, like we're talking about people that are older than us by maybe 1020 years and throughout our lives, people that have been older than us and what are the qualities that we look at and we say that's a person that I want to be like. I'm not just like because of what they have or what they've achieved. Because of some kind of soul quality. They strike us as a good person, in addition to maybe being talented or, I don't know, beautiful or whatever. It's just like there's a they were their own little halo. You know what I mean? You probably know people like that, that you go, Yeah, I like that person. I like that person.

There's something about them that makes me feel like there's a best part of me, too. Anyway, good people are particularized people; how do we become? I use the word particular rather than individual. Because there's something about an individual that's just offensively monotheistic at times, and I'm not anti-monotheism, but just like God, you know, sometimes we're just like, everything. We're just everything has to be about oneness. I am one whole individual, you know, I've individuated I'm a hole. Do you know what I mean? Do you ever get that way?

I just sometimes get tired of it. So particularized, what does particularized mean? It means that there are, like, Ashley calls it her itty bitty shitty committee, and I don't know, she I think she heard that somewhere, too. But it's like a little if your internal family systems, you know, there's like a host of different voices and aspects and parts of yourself, and if you spend time getting to know all the different facets of yourself, you recognize that there's like an author's a mother, right? And then there's a raging, frustrated woman who doesn't identify with being a mother, even though there's another mother on the committee, you know what I mean?

So anyway, the point is that what we finally identified, as you know, is unique to the people that we really admire and that they're particularized. They know all the different parts of themselves, they all have voice and room, and there might be something like a wise leader who helps organize and facilitates and doesn't let anyone's voice dominate too much. But no one's left out, no one's pushed out, no one's kicked out, and from such people, you just get this feeling like, that's so and so. You know, there, I was talking, in particular, about an herbalist friend named Jesse that we have, and I was like, you know, whenever I'm around Jesse, it's just like, Jesse. I don't; there's no one trying to be present.

There's no one trying to be mindful. There's no one trying to be an herbalist. You know, there's no one trying to be anything when I'm around this person.

It's just, hey, there's Jessie, I, that is just so this is So Jesse and doesn't mean that we don't have hidden parts of ourselves are unconscious, we always have things that are emerging, and, you know, but what I'm saying is that the people that really that, that really stand out to me, like when I in this case of this herbalist friend, it's just this person has done a lot of has spent a lot of time getting to know and treasure and appreciate and laugh at and be, you know, experience probably get befuddled and frustrated with all of these different elements of their psychic life and they've developed a taste for the different parts of themselves. You know what I mean? And that's so much better than being like, well, there's this one part that he's really problematic, and I've got to solve him morally; I've got to upgrade this other part of me spiritually. But instead, it's just like I've spent time getting to know whoever you are. When I was a kid, I would go to summer camps. There was always like a stinky kid. There was like a kid who talked all the time, there was a kid who was like, the most popular, and there was just, but by the end, what I always loved about summer campers, by the end, we were just one big collection of fools, you know, with like wet towels and swimsuits that stunk you know what I mean? So, one of the things that I like about Venus Jupiter is that when Jupiter thinks that when you think about goodness, Jupiter, it's it tends to be very cohesive. It's like the pillars that prop up the Supreme Court. There, Jupiter has that sense of cleanliness and wholesomeness to it, and it's associated with things like Emperor and empresses, and that's lofty. But when you think about Venus, Venus is really like, you know, you've got you've got like, what's his name? Jackson Pollock, was that his name? I want to call it splatter painting. I know that's really offensive, but like, and then you've got like Picasso, and then you've got like, think about all the different artists and think about all the different people and their quirks and traits and dark, the dark humor that you need to somehow embrace them all. You know what I mean?

Good people are particularized people; they're people who have developed a taste for the many different facets of themselves, not monotheistic, monads walking around being individualized, you know, or present or whatever. Either that's important. It's important that we maybe have access to those to be present or mindful of what we have to do to have a sense of being a whole self.

But there's also something about someone who's just sort of thrown together all of the parts and pieces, and they have some sense of aesthetic appreciation and laughter and humor and frustration with all of them, and you get the feeling with when you're in the presence of such a person that they're good, not because they have some kind of cohesive moral or spiritual presentation of consciousness, but because they're sort of managing the ship of fools well enough and it's beautiful. It's beautiful to behold and there's some sense about such a person that they're, they're good. Do you know what I mean?

Anyway, I say that because Venus Jupiter is a combination of the kind of cohesive monotheistic goodness of Jupiter along with the diverse, you know, palette of different colors and mixtures that Venus always points us to. So anyway, it was a fun exercise today thinking about Venus and Jupiter. I hope that it gets you in the mood to notice their combination in the sky and the week to come. That is it for today, and we will see you again tomorrow. Take it easy, everyone. Bye