Why Venus Entering Cancer is a Big Deal

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology, and today we are going to talk about why Venus entering Cancer is a sneaky powerful transit. You know Venus changes signs pretty frequently. So Venus changing signs alone is not the hugest deal in the world, especially when it's not entering, say, Taurus or Pisces or Libra, where it's in its rulership, or its exalted, and everyone sort of knows okay, Venus is picking up dignity.

This is a sneaky powerful transit of Venus for a variety of reasons that I think could easily fly under the radar. So that's what we're going to talk about today and give you some reasons to be excited for this transit of Venus through Cancer. So that is our agenda for the day.

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All right, let's get into it. I'm really excited to talk about why this transit is. I have five reasons that this is a big deal. You guys know that I like to make lists. I'm a list guy. I think it's really helpful because there are a lot of people out there who really like having some organization to help them follow and keep track of what we're saying. I know that some people hate lists, but I like them a lot. And so if you, if you watch my channel, you know that I like to use them to organize my thoughts. It's easier for me when I'm creating my talks every day to have some organized points to talk about. But at any rate,

today, I have five reasons that this is a big deal. Venus entering Cancer is a big deal. Now here is the date it entered on Sunday. So we're a little ways into this already. But this is why it's a big deal. Here's Venus entering Cancer Sunday, May 7, so over this last weekend, I want to tell you why this is a big deal.

Now, first of all, let's see how long it stays. So Venus doesn't usually go through a sign. You know, it takes maybe about four weeks, something like that. So by the time we hit June 4 so When we hit June 5, Venus will have moved in. So that's just a little less than a month on the calendar that Venus will spend in the sign of Cancer. Now, here is why that is such a big deal.

We have five different reasons that, and again, like the reason that I say that this is worth talking about for a whole video, is because people would not suspect that Venus simply changing signs, especially into one that she doesn't rule or is not exalted in would be like the world's biggest change maker. In ancient astrology, you know, planets, having dignity is an important part of how we, you know, perceive or delineate their effectiveness in bringing about their significations. So, this is a big deal, and here's why.

Alright, number one is that Venus will be bonafide; both malefics bonafide means making better. So here is how that will be happening once. Venus is now configured to Saturn as the exultation ruler of Pisces in a trine which is of the nature of Jupiter and as a benefic aspect. So we have Venus now configured by whole sign and by a degree-based aspect, in a trine with Saturn as one of its rulers.

So that effectively makes Saturn a little bit easier to deal with, and anytime we have Saturn, you know, configured positively to have benefic, who is also its host, that's a good thing. The other thing that's going to be happening is that Venus will also be bona fining Mars. As soon as Venus enters the house of Mars, you can imagine it like this. If there has been conflict in the home, a mediator has arrived. A social worker that's going to sit down and help the family figure out their issues.

Now I'm joking, but whatever challenge or intensity that Mars has been bringing in the sign of Cancer, Venus entering Cancer is like a balm or a salve or the medicine or the soothing, gentle healing energy that comes in and starts going over all those degrees that Mars has gone over hitting all the same points in our charts. That should bring healing.

We've been going through some really intense transits eclipse season ruled by a fallen Mars; we had, you know, we had both the anaretic last degree of Aries activated and ruled by the fallen Mars, the eclipse in Scorpio ruled by the fallen Mars. So Mars has been, you know, really whipping up a doozy of an eclipse season recently and from a difficult place, not one that isn't meaningful or beautiful and important and relevant and healthy in so many ways.

But also, there's a reason that Mars in Cancer is said to be in its fall or depression. It is a challenging place, and it often brings up things that are more intense emotionally for us to deal with. Well, now Venus entering the sign of Cancer, starts soothing, healing, and mending things that have been hurt or frustrated or broken, severed or cut. So we have the healing energy for Venus with both Saturn and Mars.

So the reason that this entrance of Venus into Cancer is nice is a lot of people are going to start feeling some relief where those more challenging planets that bring about some of the harder stuff have been active. So that's one sneaky reason why this Venus entrance into cancer is a big deal.

Number two is that Venus and Jupiter will shortly be in each other's exultations, and Venus has multiple rulerships in Cancer that people don't always remember. So, for example, once we get to May 16, we're going to see a shift, and that shift comes when Jupiter enters Taurus. Now as soon as Jupiter enters Taurus, we have this beautiful connection between the two benefics. Jupiter is in Venus's domicile, while Venus is in cancer, which is Jupiter's exultation. Oh, I think I said they'd be in each other's exultations. I should have said that. They'll be in each other's they will, be there will be a form of mutual reception there. The moon is the exultation ruler of Taurus. So I goofed up the wording of that a little bit; I apologize.

Venus and Jupiter will be in each other's signs, Venus in the exultation of Jupiter, and Jupiter in the domicile of Venus. So that's a form of mutual reception that the benefics will suddenly have for one another. Add to that that Venus is the triplicity ruler of the water signs in by day, and also has the, I think it's the second decan, and according to a decan and sheets that I use, it is the notes the first decan and the first 10 degrees of Cancer belong to Venus by decan or face, rulership. And then Venus also has a nice allotment of degrees from about 13 to 19 degrees through bound rulership.

So the first 10 degrees, Venus rules by triplicity by day, Venus rules the sign, and then 13 through 19. Venus also rules that, and then Venus is positively configured to its exultation ruler, who is also in Venus's sign, so Venus time, in Cancer, is lovely. I really feel this very strongly about Venus in Cancer. This is a really nice placement for a benefit. And there are some other reasons too that I think you guys will enjoy.

This is not to give you any very super specific idea of what's gonna happen. For example, if you just look at the Cancer and Taurus placements in your chart by house and topic, those topics should be very powerfully and positively connected in the next, you know, between this portion of May into June.

All right, well, number three is that Mars is shortly going to leave Cancer and then is overcome by Jupiter. Now I say this because not only is Venus bona fining Mars, but it's doing so right as Mars is getting ready to leave its fall. I take that as a little sign. Whatever Venus is doing, Venus comes into the sign of Mars and says let's just smooth things out a bit. And then, very shortly after Mars's situation improves, Mars leaves Cancer and goes into Leo, where it's a little bit more solid.

Suddenly, as it enters Leo, the first thing that happens now it does have it has a very intense T square that's going to be made with Pluto and Jupiter. So it's like fireworks right away. You know, there's a really big transit that we have to talk about almost separately. But what I like from this moment forward, just in a general sense, is that Jupiter is in the superior or overcoming position to Mars, which means that Mars is out of a difficult placement in terms of its dignity, and Mars is now being overcome and bonafide by Jupiter.

So it's just like Venus has a very positive effect on Mars, who almost instantly gets a lot better save the very powerful configuration. That's very short but powerful with Mars, Jupiter, and Pluto, which we'll be talking about in a separate video. But the general gist of what I'm saying is that Mars, generally speaking, improves significantly once Venus enters Cancer. You can see that playing out contextually with what Mars does shortly after being co-present with Venus and me; again, I think context is everything for understanding what planets are doing.

Venus will then sextile Mercury as Mercury turns direct; this is also really, really significant. So look at this, May 12, and then May 13. So between the 12th and the 13th. Venus will sextile Mercury. Now, again, why is that a big deal? Well, Mercury is stationing to turn direct, which means Mercury's situation is improving. Mercury is the morning star. Mercury has just finished a round of work and is ready to integrate and move forward sort of healthy and bright and strong as the Morning Star, and it is in Venus's domicile and is connecting through a sextile to Venus, its host right as it's turning direct.

So Venus is just having this very positive effect on Cancer on a lot of different levels. So they come through comes through the sextile and then Wallah by May 14. So the sextile occurs again; let's just walk back to this a little on May 12 is the sextile on May 13, the sextile was just fading on the 14th and into the 15th Mercury stationing and turning direct. Right, so, and then as soon as that happens, then Jupiter enters Taurus as well. So it's pretty amazing how many positive things are happening right around Venus's entrance into Cancer this month.

Finally, last but not least, as Venus is in her maximum elongation phase as an evening star right now, she's going to turn retrograde later in July in the sign of Leo, which, again, we'll spend more time on that transit as well later down the road.

Let's just take this forward. So you can see like when Venus is in Cancer, so here is the sun having set below the western horizon, right, that's the western horizon line right there, the sun is below it, and look at how high up in the evening sky, the sort of Eastern elongation of Venus as the Evening Star. So this is a very mature in a sense Evening Star Venus who's very bright and luminous and slower moving because she's getting further along in that maximum elongation, and this phase is getting closer to stationing and turning retrograde, so she is still moving along but like bright and sort of heavy. It says it has the presence of a queen.

I remember one time, and I don't know if you guys know who this is or not, but there was a woman named Amma the hugging saint, and I went and saw her in DC with my wife, and we got hugs from her, and it was She had some real shock to you. It was pretty cool. Anyway, whether you drink the Kool-Aid, you know, on that kind of stuff or not, doesn't matter to me personally, but it was just she had a shock detour very, I felt like I was like hugging a queen. She had a kind of otherworldly Queen vibe, a little bit like a goddess. And what I just thought was so interesting, I'll never forget because I'm obviously I'm an astrologer; I pay attention to that.

When I saw her, Venus was in the Eveningstar position in maximum elongation. And I just remember, like, literally walking through the parking lot in the evening, you know, kind of right around, I guess, would be just kind of right around dinnertime and just seeing Venus up in the sky after seeing Amma late that afternoon or whatever and being like, oh my god, like, that's such a perfect omen such a perfect symbol in the sky for you know, having had this Darshan with, you know, kind of an Indian saint or whatever.

So one of the things to remember about Venus in this position is that Venus has clout there; it's a very queenly, regal, powerful, feminine Venus right now. And she has a lot of positive things going on. She's bona fining both malefics. She has this nice mutual reception with Jupiter in Taurus that's about to happen. After she enters Cancer, she starts bona fining Mars, and then Mars leaves. And generally, the situation improves for Mars quite a bit. Venus sextiles Mercury is Mercury turns direct, and Venus's sign.

It's like Venus is all over the map in terms of things starting to turn after the intensity of eclipse season toward healing and integration. So I thought you guys might I just was noticing all of this and jotting it down and being like, I think people might just be encouraged, especially if you have had some difficult times, connect with that Cancerian part of your chart right now, honestly, the Cancer space of your chart in May, in June, as well as the Taurus space, have some really beautiful energy that I think could be uplifting and a source of comfort and healing and almost like a feeling of redemption.

Like, let's just go back and realize that we're okay. You know, like we've gotten through some difficult things in the past couple of months, and here are some transits that encourage us to be kind to ourselves, you know, to do those nurturing healing things for ourselves and others.

One of the things that comes to my mind with this, Venus is really interesting. I wrote this down, and it's just, it's just a simple little note; in relation, I talk to people all the time who have relationship problems. I mean, you can imagine people come to astrologers all the time to talk about relationship problems. I am not a relationship guru or a love guru, you know; I feel I'm just as much, you know, in the soup as anyone else when it comes to, you know, being married and learning how to be a better spouse, and learning how to show up and learning how to work through challenges and learning how staying consistent in love, and it's really hard.

So if there's anything, I've learned that it really, you know, has stuck with me. It's this; there will be a time in a relationship, and it's like, across the board, I've heard it probably 1000s of times, at this point, in my practice, this person says, I'm not getting what I need from my spouse, and they feel like they're not getting what they need from me. It could be anything. You're not affectionate enough. Oh, you don't; you're not attentive enough; you're not present enough. As a parent, you're not present enough, as you know, in intimacy or as a lover, whatever people have these differing needs, right?

Here's what I've noticed. Someone will feel like, well, I'm not going to change because the problem isn't me. Right? The problem right here is you, you know, and you, if you fix your problem, you know, then, you know, everything will be fine. You know what I mean? And so people will feel like my need isn't being met, whatever it is, and I'm entitled to that need. Right? I'm entitled to having that need met. It's my expectation that needs to be met because it's not being met. And because I feel entitled or expected that it ought to be. I'm in the right; they're in the wrong. And that's it.

Even if the partner says, Yeah, but some of my needs aren't being met, either. It's like, Nope, I'm not listening to that because, you know, it's sort of like, there's a sense of, like, the problem isn't me. It's you, right? What I've noticed time and time again is that, like, let me give you an example. It'll be easier that way.

I see people all the time that have this problem. I need more affection from my spouse, a lot of women come in and tell me this; I need more affection and attention and like attentiveness from my spouse. You know, in the meantime, my spouse is like, well, you know, I need more space, or I need more autonomy, or I need you to nag or control less, or something like that, you know, this is like a classic dynamic. Both people will feel entitled and expect that it was really my need that's not being met, and you're the problem; you just need to change and meet my need, and then everything else will be good.

At some point, all I'm saying is that at some point where relationships end up healing and moving forward, it is always for the same reason because one person just set aside the petty sense of entitlement to their need being met and just decided, I'm just going to take a step toward the other person, I'm just going to put down, I have some needs that aren't being met, it's true, I'm going to put those things down, then I'm just going to try to love this person that I really love a little bit better.

I am not kidding you how many times I hear that. Because one partner said, I'm going to come toward you and lay down my petty grievances, and, you know, entitlement and feeling that my needs aren't being met, I'm just going to try to do a little bit better to meet yours, because I love you And I'm just I'm willing to sacrifice something of my own self-interest in this case, just to, you know, take that step.

If the relationship, in my opinion, is at the core, if both people are just feeling wounded and really, really love each other, it's amazing how it doesn't matter who takes that first step; the other person almost always takes a step toward their partner in return because someone has to take a first step and just set down the grievances and go toward the person, you know, and this is Venus in Cancer.

Venus in Cancer, just it's like one of the biggest blessings of Venus in cancer, that Venus in Cancer can just go, I don't care if you're not meeting my needs; I don't care if I have grievances, even if they're real and totally true. I'm just going to love you more. I'm just going to take a step toward you. I'm going to make myself a little bit more vulnerable and take a risk because it's scary.

What if you don't reciprocate? You know, what if, what if, you know, I bend over backward and nothing changes, then I'll have lost self-respect, you know, then I'll have become a doormat. At some point in a relationship where two people really love each other, but they're both stuck on feeling like you should move toward me first, someone has to just put down their sense that it ought to be my needs fulfilled first and just say, I love you. And I'm going to do what I can to really help address those needs that you feel like you're not having met.

If the person really does that, with love in their heart, I am not kidding you. If the relationship is worth its salt, the other person reciprocates. Someone has to be the first person to just say it's I'm going to set my ego aside. It's really painful and dangerous to do so because, not in every relationship, the partner will step in, you know, and reciprocate in return. That's not a guarantee. But that is the risk of love that the love is worth nurturing and healing, and setting my own self-interests aside for that is one of the sweetest and most tender gifts that Venus in Cancer has to give. Let me nurture you; let me care for you, and let me build a sense of positivity through what I can give to you, as a lover and as a friend and as someone who is more concerned about this bond be safe and secure, that we keep it going, that we keep the love light burning.

I'm more interested in that than I am in my own needs and then being met and so forth. Just for now, when someone has that realization, and they set the selfishness aside, again, I've seen it a million times the other person almost always reciprocates if there's real love at the heart of the relationship; when they see that sacrifice, it's like it's such an emptying for the ego. You know.

So I also just wanted to add this at the end, I made this little note about people having to set selfishness aside, even if they have valid needs that aren't being met; when both people have dug in their heels, feeling like you're not meeting my needs no, I'm not meeting you're not meeting my needs.

Someone has to be the first one to move toward the other. It just always has to happen that way, and when you do, it's very important that you not keep track or record of the fact that you stepped forward first. It's important to understand that wounds in relationships. They constellate archetypically, and it doesn't really matter who started it or who initiates the healing; it always takes two, it takes two to create the problems, and it takes two to solve them. And that's a Venus in Cancer perspective.

It's about the healing and tending and caring for the bond more than the self. And I'm not saying that's an easy proposition, or one that's not filled with risks can be dangerous, even depending on the person you're with. That's the beauty and selflessness of Venus in Cancer. So I think that's why in other words, on an archetypal level, we see Venus in Cancer coming through, and all of a sudden, it's like, there's a lot of different spaces in the sky right now that are receiving blessings and benefits from Venus in Cancer, and I wonder if that's not part of it. If Venus in Cancer isn't some sort of cosmic herald that it's time to set self-interest aside and just love, just love more and more deeply and more freely and more openly, give a little bit more, set our own thing aside, and be surprised by the way that grace works things together and ends up helping us get our needs met as well.

We'll see. It's not the message for every day, but maybe it's a message for right now. So I hope this was useful and that you find some benefit and blessings from talking about Venus in cancer. Before you go, if you have any stories to share as Venus enters Cancer, don't forget to use the hashtag grabbed or email us your story grabbed@nightlightastrology.com. We'd love to hear from you guys about this one. And we will see you again tomorrow. Take it easy, everyone. Bye.