VENUS RETROGRADE - OPENING NOTES

In this week we catch up on the week that was; Mars moving direct and the intel that dropped in with all these direct planets through to the New Moon in Pisces and all things Venus who started her retrograde on Sunday 2nd March. Will your host have the courage to overcome her great distaste of online dating and put herself out there when Venus goes direct again through Aries? You'll just have to stay tuned to find out. Either way, this is a potent Venus Retrograde and I hope it serves you beautifully. 

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Hi. This week I really want to look at the venous retrograde that started today As well as reflect on this new moon in Pisces, which we're still in the new Moon phase, and to begin to look ahead and offer some. Practical suggestions or insights into how to, I guess, prep or, yeah, what to notice as we move further into this eclipse cycle and begin to approach this full moon and lunar eclipse in Virgo with the south node here right now, as I'm recording this on Sunday, the 2nd of March, the moon has. Shifted into Aries and it's at 11 degrees and it's conjunct, funnily enough. Venus, which has just turned retrograde here in Aries, so I wanna start there. So it's at 10 degrees. If you are aware of your needle chart, look to see where Aries falls, what house is it in or what part of 10 degrees of Aries, like where does that fall? For me, it's in my sixth house. something that I've been looking at in people's charts recently is noting where the Mars retrograde took place and. Correspondingly where the venous retrograde took place for me. It's happening in these kind of work zones or these areas of actualization. My 10th house with the Mars retrograde and the sixth house with this venous retrograde. I'm very excited about this venous retrograde. Right now it's on my descendant, which is the beginning of. Relationship houses. It's the beginning of us, amongst other people. And how I'm going to be using this next six week period, this venous retrograde starts today, 2nd of March, ends on the 18th of April at 24 degrees of Pisces. So it will move back very slowly over this six feet period. And for me, I'm really going to. Utilize this and focus on Yes, absolutely. But I'm I'm going to focus on love and money, both of which are absolutely venusian themes. For me, it's this, I desire this sense of, or more of this desire of feeling deeply resourced. One of my themes for the year is being so rooted and resourced within my own life, and I think both of those things are feelings and energies as much as the practical play outs of what that looks like. Weirdly enough, and this is so weird for me I've always had an adverse reaction to, dating and on any kind of app or online dating. To me, it just feels like, so not me. Anyway, in the last week when Mars. Moved forward on Monday the 24th. Really up until today, all of so many of the planets were in a forward motion. And I know for myself and a number of other people that I've spoken to or been in session with, there was so much that was dropping in. I had so many ideas drop in, even ideas for the middle of. 2026, it felt like out of nowhere direction, this Mars energy, this forward motion dropped in and I could see or sense or feel into, possibilities, different paths opening up. Whereas for all of this year, so far, it's felt a lot more internal and you know. Going about doing my business, having my roles in the world, doing the things, but there wasn't this sense of, I don't know, I just feel like it, it really opened things up in, opened up the territory. I would almost say like the life territory or the energetic territory of what is possible or what's, yeah, what, what I can create. Back to what I was saying, I am one for tangents. I had this idea. Or it just dropped in where it was like, okay, well as soon as Venus goes direct, or very, very specifically, as soon as Venus moves back into Aries, you know, after this retrograde, you should join a dating app. And I cannot tell you how far out of my field of comfortability and the landscape of myself that I know that is like, it's so wildly out of the norm for me. Whether I do or don't do it is another thing, but I just found that that was so interesting. And then as I was, as I've been reading for people this weekend and looking at their charts. I remembered. Oh, that's so funny because that is, that will be conjunct, my descendant, this relationship point. Anyway, this is just an example of how I will be utilizing this energy, not necessarily preparing to go onto an app and put my face there. I mean, I just feel that level of exposure is. Is foul. Um, and who's to say that serial killers won't see me? Um, I don't know. I just, I have so many, I have a lot of fears and concerns around these things, which are, which are likely, hyperbolic and not factual or not really steeped in a lot of reality. But there you go. That's that. That's some of the stuff that's been dropping in for me this week. Friday for me was, was a very beautiful tranquil day, which is when we had this very, powerful new moon in Pisces. After dropping my child off, I bought fresh flowers. I tidied two areas of the house that had been calling my name for a while, and in cleaning them, I just felt the space shift, put the flowers in multiple rooms, just brought more beauty into my environment. and then went to my favorite ocean pool and had an afternoon swim and then just sat, with my head back against the wall, with my eyes closed, just listening to the ocean and the main thing that I was feeling was like an incredible level of relaxation in my body, but also this sense of like, why don't I do this more as the curators of our own lives. What is the level of relaxation and pleasure and beauty, and whatever states you want, what is the level that you invite into your world, into your reality? I have a Virgo moon, and as I've been saying, this lunar eclipse and the south node will be on my moon. and. this has been a very potent time for me in realizing the levels of stress and body tension and, uh, busyness that I've been carrying with me that really can get in the way of actualizing the things that I want to actualize. And I do actualize a lot, but in in particular areas there's. I, I, I seem to hit these walls and that's really what I'm concentrating my energy on to utilize the nodes. For me personally, I'm saying this to give you an example of how you can, play with or utilize and work with the astrology. so for me, with this Virgo energy, while I've been aware of this level of busyness that I can hold, uh, and how quick I can be to stress, which can then kind of take me out of action, I, right now it feels almost cter in the sense of I can't look away from this. It, it's, it's in the forefront. It's in my field, and I must tend to this. I must unpick this and work, work with it, uh, and, and re-express it in a way that is more conducive to my goals and my desires and my values, which is to actualize a lot of things, I noticed last weekend for three days, I had so much tension in my body. Uh, it was to the point where it was very, very painful. And so I booked myself a massage and I hadn't had any body work since moving to where I am now. I've been here for a year by, by the ocean, and The masseuse is trained in this type of Hawaiian massage where it's very much, it's as much massage as it, it, it's very ritualized. In a way that it was a lot more than just physical movement on my body. And it was incredible. It was so, so needed. And one of the things that I said in the workshop for 2025 was if you hold a lot of Virgo placements, if you have energy here, body work may be something that's very, Potent during this time, and I've already booked myself in for the next one with her. The Monday after Astrology school opens because I wanna have these markers. I want to be affording myself and, curating my, for myself and allowing for myself beautiful deep states of relaxation and. Again, as an example, there's no reason why I can't take myself to this ocean pool. Several times a week and, you know, bring a book or bring my diary, bring a snack and hang there. But what I always find with my particular energy, it's like I have to go in, have the experience. It's, it's kind of more all or nothing. Uh, I have the experience, I soak it up, and then I go, I have to move to the next thing. And I guess what I'm inviting in and, and what I was really receiving during that experience was like I want to invite in whole new layers of deep, grounded comfortability and relaxation in my body to open myself to more of this spaciousness rather than in a very south node Virgo way, which is a less conscious expression of Virgo Way. Feel like I need to fill up all of my time, which really is the opposite of spaciousness, obviously. So with this Venus retrograde, she has so much to do with beauty, adornment, beauty in the sense of ideas, beauty in the sense of the tangible, the physical, the self, our environment. Beauty as a deep transcendent harmonizer of our beings, being in and creating for ourselves, tranquil, gorgeous sanctuaries. She's very much related to our relationship with our worth and with our value. Our self value and our self-worth. She has a lot to do with who we are in relationship and our relationship to abundance, and I love her here in Aries. When I see her in Aries, I think of both a queen. There's something regal about her and she's also warrior. There's force here. You know, you step over her boundaries, you'll know all about it. That's my feeling of her. And in Aries, excuse me. In Aries specifically, I was listening to, to Lauren's, uh, beautiful jeweler and legend. She has a new podcast called, I think, I think it's called The Embodied Vessel, and I listened to her first episode, over the last couple of days. And that was just so on point, uh, to the point where I really wanted to mention it to all of you. Yeah, it's called the Embodied Vessel Podcast. Lauren Lewis Cole, and the first episode is called Art, being Seen by Non-Human Eyes. And something that she talks about in this episode is being so hungry and then going to a restaurant. She's retelling a story of her own and devouring this food, like using her hands. It's so, uh, voracious and visceral and in the experience of eating. So in the body, so primal she u uses this as a metaphor basically to discuss like. What are you as an individual ravenous for? What are you hungry for? And I think Venus beginning her retrograde here in Aries is a lot to do with that. So many of my clients, uh, what I would consider to be highly sensitive people who have really learned how to, in many cases, read the room first. And so for many of us, the archetype of Aries is medicinal. Specifically, the higher qualities of this archetype are very medicinal. And here Venus in Aries, she knows exactly what she wants, what she needs, what she desires. She knows what she is voracious for, what she's hungry for. There's no disconnect. It's not something that she has to go away and reflect on and think about, and she'll get back to you about it tomorrow. It's instantaneous, it's primal. It's like her wants, needs and desires are coursing through her blood there. It's like palpable. And so for so many of us, I think the last couple of weeks while she's been moving direct here. we've got more of a sense of what do I desire and now as she retrogrades, we really get to reflect upon that. Something that I've been contemplating this weekend in my own self work in between seeing clients is riding out and really looking at and meditating on where do I need to put more energy? Where do I need to put more of my life force? what feels very potent right now or what needs more of my own potency to fuel it and to bring it to life. What I would suggest is that you really take notice of basically what comes up for you, what comes up for you, especially in this first week, I think. When she first moves, we really, we can really get that, initial download of Intel or the, that sense that pri primally, again, it's Aries, uh, of whatever the learning may or may not be for us as, as individuals and play with that, sit with that. I, I really think, especially while we're in Pisces season, and depending on how your life is structured, with the duties that I have during the week, I, I don't have eons of downtime time. I don't have much of it at all. And so I have to find, once my child is asleep, I have to get back up and go out into my lounge room and have that time to be by myself.'cause otherwise, I'm. Just a lunatic. what I'm saying is we need to, yeah, I guess really be conscious. Part of the, part of this nodal axis is about bringing consciousness to how we carve out and curate our experience as individuals. How do we carve out the time and create, uh, and carve up the time to actualize the things that we care about or to create a pocket of white space in our schedule so that we can just completely tap out? Of the program or the expectations of the weekly schedule and deeply, deeply, be in the very present moment. I think that parlays in too with Venus beginning her retrograde, what brings you delicious pleasure, and how can you. Put energy towards those things. Like tonight, for instance, when I finish my last session with a client from astrology school, I want to have a beautiful bath. I keep looking at the salts, I've been looking at them for days. I know what I wanna put in there. I have an amazing oil. I want to do a pre bath body oil massage, and it requires, for me personally. The, I would say discipline to make sure that I carve that time out for myself.'cause it's very, very easy for me to not do those things. It weirdly feels like, and I don't think I'm alone in this, it can feel like it's a lot of effort to take care of and actualize and initiate towards my own wants, needs and desires on a, on a personal level. And that's just really bizarre when you say it out loud or when you write it down or when you say it to friends, it's like, it's so bizarre. imagine the world where that is the foundation that we're all living from as individuals. How much more energy and more generosity and more overflow we have for. Our life and the people in our, in our lives, you know, the service that we're able to offer, the sun is now conjunct satin, and we'll feel that for the remaining period of Pisces season. We have about 19 days left of that and later this week we'll begin to be in conjunction with the north node. So that's gonna be gorgeous too. Mercury is still conjunct Neptune and the north node and satin. So this is a very, very, as I've been saying, tranquil, ephemeral, flowy kind of time. But flow doesn't mean no action.'cause as I've just said, like it's very easy for us. Again, depending on you as individuals, but I know for myself, it's very easy for me to fill up my time. and to erase the in-between moments. And I guess what I'm suggesting is it's a potent time to increase the in-between moments to increase, I guess, the white space. And it's certainly a wonderful time to increase pleasure and taking action to meet our own needs. They're so, they're becoming so much more obvious and present to us, especially while Venus retrogrades through Aries in Pisces. It, it, it kind of becomes different, and I'll certainly be speaking to that. This is, like I said, we're here until. The 18th of April, uh, March really holds so much interesting astrology, incredibly interesting astrology. So I look forward to really speaking into it more and more I've had a number of people join Astrology School this week. It starts in less than three weeks, so if you want to receive your manual. In time for the first class. I highly recommend that you join in the next week, week and a half, two weeks. As my friend Brit Wilde says, if you're a last minute legend and you need that, that time pressure, then you'll receive the manual after we start. It's. A resource that you'll always have. I'm picking it up from the printers this week, hopefully. and I'll certainly blast images of it everywhere because I'm just so excited to hold it in my hands. If you want to not only learn this language, but learn it apply it from week one to get the living, I would almost say transmission of what astrology is. And how you can apply it to your life from the beginning. Then Astrology School is the place. We've had unbelievably 120 people through levels one and two combined. That's so wild to me from all over the world. And already the group that is coming together is, is an excellently international one. I remember when I first signed up to learn histology, like the feeling that I had, the excitement that I had to be putting my energy towards learning this, almost like esoteric technology felt so unbelievably exciting. And it's just so nice to see that in the people who I've been, catching up with this weekend who've already signed up. So. Yeah, if that's you, come along, as we move towards this full moon I'll have a whole episode on that next week because it's in just under two weeks. Really, so much of how we're able to work with. The astrology that's happening at the moment is, is really genuinely to have a practice where you're able to process what's happening in your life, what is coming up, and then does this fall into the particular archetype of the unconscious expression of Virgo. You know, this busyness, this stressed ness, this body tension almost. It's al. It can almost be very neurotic. Uh, it is this perfectionism, it's, it's spending so much time in the thinking of the thing, whereas the medicine is taking action, doing the thing, and then refining and analyzing post action once it's out. Once it's done. Then Virgo can really work beautifully for you. If it's all internal and you are either ripping yourself to shreds or you're keeping these ideas and these visions in your inner world because you haven't met the absolutely perfect, um, coordinates, uh, or the perfect level of awareness or realization in your mind to actualize them, then. That, that really is a nightmare. So again, as I was saying with Pisces season and, and also this, this venous retrograde, the more that you're able to elongate these spaces of time that you have to yourself and then really amplifying the beauty of those experiences, whether it's just being in an incredibly stunning environment. Like where the ocean pool is or if the time that you have is a shower, it's dropping your favorite essential oils into that shower right at the beginning. So it's becomes more sensory. It, it envelops more of your sensors. It is taking that extra minute to moisturize or oil up before or after. and then by carving out or having more of this time, this is really how more of our intel drops in, more of these ideas drop in. The really potent ideas that I've had this week have all happened when I've been in spaciousness. in terms of my own patterning, they really don't drop in when I'm feeling stressed or when I have a lot of duties, um, and responsibilities at play in the moment. It's always when I'm in. Spaciousness with myself, and I'm able to breathe deeply with myself that the potency drops in, or the idea or the realization or just a, a, a beautiful feeling of deep, deep relaxation. Okay, that's me. Take care. See you next week. Bye.