Awakening to love

All week Venus, the goddess of love, art, beauty and abundance, has been inching towards an opposition to Uranus, the Great Awakener. Venus is in Scorpio, sign of secrets, psychology and passion, and Uranus, planet of freedom, disruption, rebellion and revolution is in Taurus, ironically, the sign most resistant to change. 

The Venus-Uranus opposition is intensified by the Moon who joins Uranus tomorrow at 6:09am (November 28 AEST) when all three celestial bodies are exact at 7 degrees. With Monday’s Full Moon Eclipse in Gemini drawing close, this weekend’s opposition/conjunction becomes more powerful than it ordinarily would be. Venus-Uranus oppositions can bring about unexpected shifts that generate greater freedom in relationships. Although these can sometimes feel shocking, with Venus in Scorpio we can cultivate the desired shifts in gentler ways: by examining our psyches for unconscious motivations and transformative insights that deepen our understanding of love and engender emotional and material stability, which is the domain of Taurus. 

This conversation between the planet of interpersonal love (Venus) in the sign of transformation (Scorpio) and the planet of radical change (Uranus) in the sign nourishment and stability (Taurus) asks us to consider what we need to alter, innovate and transform in our lives in order to find more peace, beauty, abundance and security. Monday’s lunar eclipse brings about a culmination of some kind, and the radical shifts that could occur this weekend thanks to Uranus, offer us powerful opportunities to resolve outstanding issues and to reorient our vision towards what we love most deeply, what we value most profoundly and what we most desire to transform. The Moon not only heightens the rich emotional quality of this dynamic but encourages greater emotional risk taking as well as greater self care. 

What’s more, on Saturday, Mercury in Scorpio, ruler of Monday’s eclipse, sextiles the planet of power and transformation, Pluto. This is extremely powerful energy and in addition to the Venus-Uranus opposition, has the potential to radically reorient dynamics in relationships, facilitating opportunities to speak truth to power that level the playing field or to communicate deeply at the crystalline levels of the soul. Mercury will go on to sextile Jupiter on Sunday and then Saturn on the evening of the eclipse. In the final major aspect for tomorrow, the Sun in Sagittarius trines Chiron the healer, illuminating an old belief we’ve held about ourselves, which has robbed us of our power and caused us untold suffering. With Venus receiving power from Mercury’s conversation with Pluto, and Uranus so powerfully activated by both the Moon and Monday’s eclipse (eclipses are active for 10 days before and after), the potential for instantaneous liberation from this toxic idea once and for all is magnified tenfold.

This weekend’s astrology also generates fabulous opportunities for art, innovation, creative risk-taking and electrifying insights, and for magic, sensuality and self-love. Avoid any beauty decisions and expensive fashion purchases that radically alter your appearance under these celestial aspects as well as any risky financial investments but keep an eye out for welcome surprises that enhance abundance!


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