Venus opposite Pluto

 

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As planets weave patterns  in the sky they create challenges for individuals and collectives on earth. Success or failure to meet the challenge depends  on our level of consciousness.  The more deeply we understand the  forces that affect our lives, the more free we can be in our dealings with them. If we are altogether unconscious of these potent forces, we are like puppets of the archetypes and likely to meet with failures.

Presented here is the chart for the Venus-Pluto opposition of June 24 that aligned very significantly with the meridian at Istanbul.

Venus represents our basic needs and desires while  Pluto  can be interpreted as the sum total of all we have successfully repressed or all that has triggered pain or shame in us and has thus been duly dismissed from our consciousness. The opposition brings confrontation between  Venusian themes  of love and relationship  with Plutonic themes of taboos.

In order to live fully and passionately, one has to let life take its course and surprise one with the equally-unpredictable blessings coming from all human encounters.  Even if at times, these encounters may seem frowned upon by society and  trigger nothing but pain, one cannot stop loving in fear of getting hurt. Our indiscretions in love relationships could cause problems later on. But the willingness to  become conscious of one’s psychological complexes has to be present in order for the individual to start recognizing his own emotional patterns and thus modifying them and being enriched in the process.

The combining of Venusian themes of love with Plutonic themes of taboos, drama, and transformation is witnessed in the chart and career of actress Julia Roberts, whose movies include titles such as Sleeping With the Enemy, I Love Trouble, Runaway Bride. In the film Pretty Woman Roberts reflects this combination by portraying a prostitute who falls in love. Perhaps the most salient example lies in the movie Eat, Pray, Love in which Roberts plays an author who finds personal transformation (Pluto) through a path of pleasure and love (Venus).

The Sabian symbol of Venus [27cn] in the opposition with Pluto [27cp] shows “A VIOLENT STORM IN A CANYON FILLED WITH EXPENSIVE HOMES” .KEYNOTE: A confrontation with a social upheaval demanding the reconsideration of static values.

Venus on this degree opposite Pluto in Capricorn is asking us to confront static values of love and relationships. Pluto’s  transit through Capricorn (Saturn ruled) is serving to break outmoded and artificial standards, to decimate the hypocrisies of social convention, and of social extremes. It also brings emphasis to address patterns of avoidance or repression of authentic human needs.