A Major Blessing that Upends the Story — Venus in Scorpio Opposing Uranus

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

Happy Friday everyone. Today, we're going to take a look at Venus moving into that opposition with Uranus. We're going to take a look at it today from the perspective of the I Ching and some words of wisdom from one particular hexagram that came up in my morning meditation when I was prepping for today's talk.

I thought people have been enjoying my I Ching readings lately, so let's take an opportunity to dive into a very special hexagram that has some really nice insights for us that just pair wonderfully with the Venus Uranus opposition, which is our major astrological event of the weekend as we close up the week here. So that's what we're going to do today.

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Okay. On that note, let us turn our attention to the real time clock. And as we are looking at Friday, November 28 where we are looking at the Venus opposition to Uranus that is coming through. And you know, it's just the funniest thing. But for whatever reason I'm gonna see I'm having trouble with my my cursor. It's just not wanting to let me draw. Let me try one more thing here. I'll pause.

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Anyhow, Venus is opposite Uranus, coming to this weekend. Spent a little time with this yesterday, and we talked about, I think we talked about the good fortune of Venus, but we talked about, well, this week, we've been talking about Venus Jupiter, and we've been talking about some of the. Be wares of good fortune and blessings. And then we talked about some of the wild signatures of Venus opposite Uranus at anaretic at an anaretic degree today, what I did was I wanted to give more coverage of this transit because it's very significant. It's a big one.

And going into the weekend, I thought, well, what would be a new angle, and when I feel that way, sometimes I'll consult the I Ching. After consulting the I Ching, I think I have some really nice thoughts to add to this delineation. But first, the timing.

You can see that Venus is opposing Uranus today, Friday, within about two degrees. If we speed this up by tomorrow, it's within about half a degree. And then we're going to go by hour to sort of show how this heats up throughout the day on Saturday, where you're going to see the exact opposition coming between Venus and Uranus by about eight, 9pm this is central time Saturday night, so that's tomorrow, today, tomorrow.

And then Let's speed this up just a touch, and let's go forward to whoops, we'll go forward to Sunday. And by Sunday evening, Venus has ingressed into Sagittarius, and Sagittarius does not see Taurus. So the abrupt switch from anaretic degree to new territory happens between Saturday and Sunday.

So you're you've been feeling this as the week has progressed. You'll probably notice it today, tomorrow, early Sunday. And then things shift quite dramatically as Venus goes into the space of Sagittarius and is now in a Jupiter ruled sign, very different from being in that anaretic space of a Mars world sign, a place of her detriment and so forth.

But actually, all of that aside, what I want to do today is provide you with what I think is a really, kind of a really beautiful I Ching reading. So the the I Ching reading that I worked with was a single hexagram. And when I consult the I Ching, I'll use coins Yarrow stocks, typically, unless when it's something really significant, I'll take the long path with the Yarrow stock casting.

But when it's maybe something like I'm in the flow of trying to create my content, and I don't take a whole half an hour to just get the reading out, I'll use the coins. Now, if you've never used the I Ching before, this is my new favorite book. Sorry, I can't hold it there by benefel Wen I Ching the Oracle.

We've invited her to become part of the speaker series at Nightlight. I hope that she'll accept and come teach for us at some point, I think she is magnificent. I highly recommend her YouTube channel. I find her to be just the right blend of academic, but also practical and accessible in the way that she talks about the I Ching.

She has a deep, personal and sort of, I would say, ancestral relationship with this oracle that's also quite moving in the way she talks about it. So I think that this is probably my favorite I Ching disseminator that I found, and I've, I've worked with at least six or seven more seriously over 20 years now. Anyway.

So all of that is just the background, in case you want to get into the I Ching and it's brand new to you. Her book is a great place to start. Now, when I sat down this morning, here's what I did, a little prayer, a little ritual, little centering of the question, what is the question? What is one of what is a good archetypal way to understand Venus opposite Uranus from the I Ching perspective, I have my astrological perspective.

But how could the I Ching shed light on this Venus opposite Uranus moment and what it might mean archetypally? What I mean by that is not just, what does it mean for me, but you know, approaching the Oracle as someone who's preparing content and wants to talk more broadly about the symbolism of the transit and how it may be applicable for a kind of collective or an audience of people that are all coming from different perspectives.

What are some of the biggest things we could say? So that's the approach I take with I Ching whenever I ask for its by advice in shaping my content for the day. So what came back was hexagram, 42 unchanging I'm going to talk about that hexagram, which is called versioning, and give you five things to watch for given the meaning of this hexagram.

But first of all, in case you're not aware, the I Ching is a collection of 64 different hexagrams, which are six lined figures that are comprised of either Yin or Yang lines and combinations, the combinations of those lines, and what are called trigrams, collections of three lines that denote different elemental states, like fire, thunder, wind, and you get things like the.

Uh, you know, wind over thunder. In this case, in the hexgram 42 the language, when it comes together, depicts different archetypal stages of the unfolding or flowing of the Tao in creation. That's my simple explanation of it. Benefel, one does a much better job, of course.

But so when we're asking the I Ching for insight regarding something like Venus in Tao, venus in scorpio at the anaretic degree, opposite Uranus and Taurus at the anaretic degree, what we're asking for is what is a good correlate, mapping from the each Ching perspective, the interactions of yin and yang that reflect a particular unfolding of the Tao and creation that is itself, an archetypal stage that can be studied and that has wisdom associated with it.

The I Ching is that wisdom. It not only gives you the stage, but it describes what it means, what it typically indicates in the wisdom of aligning yourself with that stage in creation. I love the I Ching for this reason, it's so nice. So by the way, just as an like as a as an aside, people, whenever I bring up the I Ching asked me if I've studied the gene keys. I i

Okay. Sorry about that. I suddenly lost my internet connection at my house. So anyway, what I was saying is people will frequently ask me if I'm familiar with Gene keys or human design some of those newer, let's call them newer divinatory languages that have some inclusion of the I Ching. And yes, I'm aware of them and familiar with them.

For whatever reason, I've never really been as interested in them as I am in the I Ching itself. So just to answer that question, because I guarantee there'll be, like, four or five people that will ask me, you know, ask me in the comment section, but I'm fascinated by it. I've read some of the gene keys with great interest and found them to be very insightful, almost like modern elaborations on the I Ching with other systems involved.

But anyhow, there is some overlap with the IT Ching in those systems, which may be interesting to people as well. So there are a number of really interesting ways that the hexagram I drew this morning, called burgeoning hexagram 42 can be mapped onto this moment. So we're going to go into those now with a list of five things to watch for that are rooted in hexagram 42 but first I need to read you the Oracle reading of hexagram 42 I'm going to read the benefel Wen translation, a state of increase and expansion.

Now this is the trigrams of wind over thunder. So you can almost imagine, like wind over the top of thunder as a symbol for Venus opposite Uranus. It's pretty fascinating. Definitely feels Uranian and the wind over thunder, I think also points towards some of the scorpionic influence. More on that in a minute, a state of increase and expansion, opportunities come knocking as you gain. Ensure that others gain what you receive you must give.

That is the only way to ensure further increase and assent. Time is of the essence in the matter, your window of opportunity will not remain open for long the time for increase and ascent is now accept the challenge, rise to the occasion. Never lose your kindness. You know you are aligned with heaven's will when what you seek for yourself will in turn benefit the collective and achieve a greater good.

Thunder incites a new development, and wind disperses it, giving it momentum. So thunder in the hexagram can represent new development, and wind means distributing it, giving it and giving it some force and momentum, a state of increase and expansion. The image of burgeoning is a vessel with water overflowing, a sage learns honor from the honorable and honor from the corrupt. Learn beneficence from the beneficence and learn beneficence from the malicious.

Here's the translation of this oft quoted proverb, and that's in Chinese, but she translated it. Translates it. When sages see the good of others, they are inspired to be better. And when they see the fault of others, they correct that fault in themselves. It's auspicious to cross the great stream.

Now when this hexagram comes up, that line which is recurring throughout the E Ching. Often means that the big thing you're thinking of doing, or the big project or the big endeavor or the big change will find success if you go for it. Now, there's alignment issues here. It has to be about what's not just good for you, but that has a charitable benefic heart or quality behind it, and then the time for a great undertaking with those qualities in mind becomes successful.

Heed those words, and the gods will bless you with ever increasing overflowing prosperity. Ye is a symbol. That's the name of the hexagram for the prosperous and ever continuing flow of growth, gains, benefits, profit and affluence. I want you to notice how much of this hexagram also speaks to Venus opposing Uranus, just as she's flowing forth from the trine to benefic Jupiter.

We talked about good fortune this week a lot, and here she is coming into an opposition with Uranus, a revolutionary catalyzing moment for Venus, really, but she's still connected fluidly this week to the Grand Water Trine and to the benefic trine with Jupiter. And so this hexagram is really saying quite a quite a lot about all of that.

Now, as someone who knows this hexagram relatively well, I mean, not considered, not compared to the great masters of the I Ching, right? But as someone who's encountered it many times throughout the 20 years of my life that it's been a personal guide for me, I wrote down a list of things to watch for that I'm going to map now between Venus and Uranus and the hexagram.

So first of all, hexagram 42 you could say, broadly speaking, is about growth that disrupts the status quo. We have an image of wind and thunder, which means things are getting shaken up as they're expanding, increase or burgeoning describes a moment when something suddenly expands. This hexagram points to something suddenly expanding, accelerating or opening, and often more quickly than anticipated or expected.

But it's not just about gain in the I Ching. It's about how increase can, especially when it's sort of fast and unexpected, can create instability, because expansion can upset the structure that precedes it. This is exactly the kind of dynamic that Venus and Scorpio opposite Uranus and Taurus can depict. Taurus wants stability, continuity, what is known, safe, enjoyable, pleasant.

Uranus jolts and awakens, liberates surprises. Scorpio intensifies, penetrates, exposes what is hidden or tightly held. Venus receives bonds, attracts values, so increase in this sense, good fortune, which is a benefic Venus signature can be something that is a little bit more intense, jolting, awakening, challenging, stability and continuity and so that maps really closely to the meaning of hexagram 42 which is rapid expansion, growth, acceleration and opening, but sometimes of the kind that can throw you off your center or your equilibrium, morally and spiritually.

I think that's why this hexagram is so filled with advice, saying, Look, when success comes, make sure that you're you're generous with that success. Make sure that the success isn't just about you and your ego, but it's about something bigger, or it distributes freely to help other people notice. Listen to the Oracle text again. Opportunities come knocking as you gain, ensure others gain.

Opportunities come knocking is that fast, sudden, burgeoning, burgeoning. The etymology of the word means to bloom or blossom, as in something budding in the plant world, Venus, actually, like Jupiter, is associated with plants budding and growing. In nature, the Trine are associated with the same kind of quality of growth and expansion opportunities come knocking a state of increase and expansion as you gain, ensure that others gain what you receive you must give.

This is the secret to keeping good things flowing. So notice how when gain comes again, sometimes it can be very destabilizing, and we've talked about this in other ways throughout the week and recently with the Grand Water Trine. When resources gather together, it's tempting to go out when your business starts doing well overnight, and instead of getting a financial advisor and coming up with a smart plan for how to expand and how to root your expansion in wisdom.

Them and higher principles for longevity, for goodness to mirror spiritual values and the way your growth is occurring, you go out and buy an expensive car and you sort of blow your wad. So be careful not to blow your wad. That is the only way to ensure further increase and ascent. Time is of the essence. In the matter, your window of opportunity will not remain open for long. The time for increase in ascent is now.

But then it says, accept the challenge and rise to the occasion. Never lose your kindness. Know that when you're aligned with heaven's will and what you seek for yourself will in turn benefit the collective and achieve the greater good, then you receive that support. So growth that disrupts. Here is really one way of looking at the signature of Venus and Uranus. When opportunities come, when expansion comes. This is the goddess of good fortune, but

make sure that you're you're receiving whatever positive things are coming through in a way that doesn't disrupt you out of your center, stay in alignment. That's a really good message. Two blessings that up and the familiar hexgram 42 is often misunderstood, in my experience, as more good things are coming. But the text emphasizes, the greater the increase, the greater the responsibility gains must be used wisely to avoid imbalance.

Increase can become destabilizing if it's not integrated carefully. These are all warnings in a text that's all about positive expansion and growth. So like a sudden Venus Uranus opposition, sudden opportunities, surprising romances, unexpected financial shifts, revelations and desire or intimacy, all of which can upend the familiar. And so there comes this extra warning for responsibility, wisdom, avoid imbalance, integrate things carefully so that it's not about it's, it's not about avoiding or canceling out that sudden, fast, rapid development. It's about wisely integrating it.

See how it's it's the same message over and over here. Number three is generosity breaks a pattern with wind above and thunder below. Wind, Thunder initiates. It's associated with initiating things, and wind amplifies. So there's something being initiated that gets amplified and widely distributed. So Uranus, Uranus and Taurus and Venus is like thunder, shaking the earth and then distributing blessings or opportunities or positive gain.

And a lot of that is coming off from the Venus Jupiter Trine. So the rhythm is something deep that's stirring and initiating a rapid amplification, a breakthrough that forces quick adaptation, all of which, if we stay in our center, morally, spiritually, if we stay in integrity, can be a profound, quick opportunity that arises that have taken advantage of from our moral and spiritual center is huge.

It becomes an opportunity to succeed in a way that blesses others to succeed in a way that sets a good example, to succeed in a way that helps us not only succeed, but grow, grow spiritually, morally as in our character. In other words, some of the most important opportunities in our lives to grow spiritually come in the way that we handle. Positive breakthroughs, positive momentum, positive quick, sudden turning points, because it's so easy to come out of our center.

You know, there's a simple example it comes to my mind. You know, we celebrate Christmas in our house in a, I would say, kind of like cultural, pagan and Christian way, all in one weird lump. Probably a lot of people are similar to us in that, in that sense. But anyway, on Christmas morning, we emphasize to our our kids the importance of not completely tearing things apart with just this materialistic craziness.

And every parent knows what I'm talking about, and it barely works, you know, like the kids are so excited, they just rip open the gifts or whatever. But I have noticed, as my older daughter, who's a Virgo, rising with Jupiter and Virgo in her first house, she tries to be so good, she she is now getting to the stage where she realizes that like taking her time, she notices, oh, the adults are taking their time opening the gifts and receiving it at a deeper level.

Receiving the gift at a deeper level is correlated to taking your time opening the gift, to being present and grounded as you open the gift. Still happens pretty. Quick, you know, but you still slow that speed down. So my 10 year old is getting my seven year old, she's she's still lost, lost in the sauce of Christmas. And that's fine, you know. Like, who cares? But my older daughter is slowing down.

And I've just noticed it. And I've noticed, like, hey, we all learn that. We all learn that how you receive good things is important because it allows you to receive the good things in much deeper and more significant ways, when you take your time, when you slow down a little bit. Now Anyway, moving on to this third point, generosity breaks a pattern, hexagram, 42 over and over again, despite all of the auspicious omens for increase in success says you need to give, you need to offer, you need to expand, you need to support, you need to open, not just for yourself, but others.

It emphasizes that increase should be directed more holistically, that increase should be distributed more broadly, that it shouldn't be hoarded or held or attached to in possessive ways. If increase takes us into old patterns rather than new patterns, it won't have actually become a breakthrough. So the right kind of increase leads to liberation and new patterns.

The wrong kind of increase or the wrong way of receiving, a moment of increase will lead to destabilization and eventually going back into the same old patterns. So right now, the way we receive and the way that we share what's being received or distributed, let's say, for example, another super, super basic instance of this would be, let's say you receive an inheritance, and right away, again, there's the temptation to direct it very, you know, in a very singular way, towards something that's very greedy.

Well, the blessing of that inheritance will not have set you free. You'll have used the blessing of that inheritance to further your stuckness in the same old stuff, whereas someone who recognizes this is a blessing, this is a gift, this can change the script of my life. May invest some of that, and then before you know it, maybe that investment in 15 years is something that you have to help your kids through college.

You see how that breaks the generational pattern, because you wisely received a gift and you used it with a broader sense of what's possible and what's good. That's what we mean by generosity. It's not just whatever comes to you. Give it to other people, it's about whatever comes to you have a broader perspective of how it can be used.

Number four, desire accelerates change. The um the the Venus Uranus opposition, and hexagram 42 says that, like, what you desire right now is finding momentum, traction, breakthrough, acceleration, success, support. It's like a big boom. Of what I want is finding some some support. Venus Uranus is like that too. It creates momentum. It creates breakthroughs. It has anything where there's been effort related to a desire.

It'll compound the work and suddenly create success that feels like it has a lot of maybe a cumulative cumulation of energy behind it, but all of it is rooted in what we desire, what we want, and so this becomes this really important inflection point for understanding how our desires have been driving the plot Venus Uranus can be about accelerating change that's rooted in what we've wanted, that maybe we've suppressed or repressed now we can't avoid it, or the destabilizing part can be there because we haven't.

Our desires are not aligned with our higher good. So Venus Uranus can reach a point where, yeah, you know people who have been developing unhealthy desires, addictions, habits, will suddenly find that there are some pretty dramatic destabilizing consequences for not checking those things. So desire will accelerate change in ways that can create a breakthrough.

Sometimes that breakthrough is about healing and insight connected to the health or sort of unhealthiness of what we desire. So keep that in mind, because this hexagram also teaches us that what gets magnified and expanded right now, if it's unhealthy, can become that can lead to big drama. Finally, this hexagram, especially the kind of polarity of hexagram 41 to 42 which is decrease and increase, or contraction and expansion, another set of words that are sometimes used to describe hexagram 41 that precedes this hexagram and hexagram 42 The idea behind this.

Hexagram is that if you want to keep the stream of let's say it's a business, if you want to keep a revenue stream coming, you have to be careful that you're not becoming greedy. And now set aside the massive problems with greed in our world that seem to succeed despite this karmic wisdom we're talking now about the wisdom of living an aligned life right where we're growing spiritually because of how we're operating.

So if you want to find success spiritually and in let's say your your your the shop that you run, or the business that you own, or whatever the case might be, then the idea is that whatever comes in the way that you redistribute, what comes in intelligently, wisely, without a lot of ego and selfishness, is necessary for the blessings of revenue to continue flowing.

Otherwise what will happen is you might go through a period of time where maybe you even become a billionaire, but there will be this gravitational center of destruction that will eventually annihilate all of it, because, rather than wisely with Dharma, with actual wisdom of the Tao in mind and how you've allocated and used the good fortune or the the assets that you've come in to contact with, you've hoarded them, and so disaster will eventually follow you this lifetime or the next, but letting go paradoxically leads to increase.

It's the same idea of like, well, I could I receive an inheritance, I could hoard all of that and get myself that really nice car, you know. But if I put some away for savings, if I distribute some over here, if I invest some over there, if I give a little to charity, I'm being wise with these, and I'm not counting any of them for myself. I'm not trying to amplify my ego through how I'm using them.

That is actually necessary for blessings to keep flowing, for us to create like tributaries and flowing energies of expansion in our life. Many people have talked about this, and certainly none of this is meant to be some secretive way of getting stuff. Either you have to take these teachings in and carry them so lightly so that you're not aware of them with any Guile, with any with any hidden selfishness.

That's like, well, I'll get more and more if I just give and give like, it's a secret formula. It's, it's not, if you carry it that way, it's, it's actually the same old selfishness. So even the way we carry this has to be so light, so gentle, letting go leads to increase. That's a core value of hexagram 42 and not surprisingly, with the Venus Scorpio or the Venus Uranus opposition, the idea here is that what's most liberating is for good fortune to be a source of liberation when Venus is good fortune and Uranus is liberation, and the two come into contact.

The idea is that good fortune can be resistant to liberation. You get something good and you want to hoard it, hold it, stay attached to it, possess it. Resist distributing it, resist letting go. That's not going to create an opening. It's not going to create liberation. Is not going to create anything new. Whereas when good blessings and fortune and connection, even intimacy, happiness, love, good sex, when it comes in, it's like, don't try to hold it.

Don't try to possess it. And then what happens is, because you haven't tried to do that, good things can continue to flow and come in. And that's the real revolution. The real revolution is to create that opening so that more can flow in regularly, that we create, like a different kind of flowing relationship to good things overall, that can be in relationships, love, sex, marriage, but also just broadly speaking, with Venus, we're talking about anything good that appears suddenly, so some real wisdom from the I Ching.

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