There
is already a plethora of material available regarding the current Venus retrograde motion
that it’s pointless for me to rehash what has been written repeatedly. Instead,
I’ll bang on about the astrology book
to consult during this transit.
Venus’
retrograde motion takes place between 16 May and 28 June this year, moving from 23
degrees Gemini back to 7 degrees Gemini. Its movement within the parameters of
the third sign of the zodiac is significant in that it asks us to re-evaluate
our deepest values on an intellectual level. Our minds are likely to be
overactive during this transit, generating curiosity about relationships. As Venus
moves towards the Sun, overlapping on 6 June, we learn to relinquish outmoded
values of love and sex. I tend to review previous relationships under Venus retrograde in my sentimental Cancerian way.
Roaming around in the past is
something I do regularly, and this Venus cycle intensifies my past-fixation
further by urging me to revisit past soul mates spiritually. Sextrology: the Astrology of Sex and the
Sexes (2007) is the compendium to pocket during this phase of looking back
before moving forward.
Written
by New York based astrological consultants, Stella Starsky and Quinn Cox, Sextrology is one of those rare
astrology books that deal with the delicate subject of human astrology and sex in an intelligent, entertaining and slightly titillating fashion. The authors describe it as a zodiac mandala
of human sexuality. It sure is.
So, what makes Sextrology special? Most astrology books lump males and females together when men and women of the same Sun sign are energetically different. Sextrology factors in the divide between the sexes and fully explores the sexual distinctions between them. The authors combine the knowledge of classical archetypes with Jungian psychology, the ancient wisdoms, pop culture and splashes of light porn. It's an eclectic Gemini-flavoured education.
Sextrology was first published during the Venus occultation of 2004. The book has re-entered my consciousness during the current Venus transit as the go-to relationship guide, should I develop existential angst about this sort of thing.
Starsky & Cox website: www.starskyandcox.com
Aries (21 March to 20
April)
The Full Moon in Scorpio on 6
May has you probing the subconscious, where life is murky-yucky-scary. You are
out of your depth in this house, preferring the security of cage fighting or
nude skydiving. Mercury moves into your money sector mid-May. You bore the
peeps with talk of get-rich-quick schemes. Fortunately, the winged messenger
flies into your communication house on 25 May where he feels at home talking
prattle. The New Moon eclipse after the MCA Zine Fair on 21 May brings you
success in the zine world. Every New Moon represents the potential for the
birth of something new; it’s about time you re-discovered the joy of DIY.
Aries thespian: John
Gielgud
Taurus (21 April to 20 May)
Taurus, you’ll be glad to know
that this month is about review rather than initiation. Venus turns retrograde
from 14 May in your financial sector, forcing you to slow down and observe how
skint and desperate you are. Looking back at major events in May/June 2004
gives clues to how you became a loser and a disgrace to the human race.
Experience delays in Centrelink and zine distro payments. Just when you thought
you could burrow into that groaning tub of Baskin Robbins, the Full Moon in
your relationship sector on 6 May sends you an intense and confronting
super-sexy peep who will force you to face your hidden motives and desires.
Don’t you just hate that?
Taurus thespian: Al Pacino
Gemini
(21
May to 20 June)
Venus
retrogrades in your sign between 14 May and 26 June, retracing cosmic ground
she covered in May/June 2004. What have you learned since then? Nothing. How
have you grown? Flabby. This month, get introspective and prepare for the next
eight-year love cycle by enduring a back, sack, and crack wax. The New Moon
eclipse in your sign on 21 May triggers the birth of a DIY project with heart.
The appearance of Mercury in Gemini on 25 May consolidates its success. Jupiter
gets in on the act, allowing for the expansion of ideas and opportunities to go
further than your tiny mind can handle.
Gemini thespian: Ian McKellen
Cancer (21 June to 20 July)
Venus moves backwards in your
spirituality zone from 14 May, keeping you housebound in Lowes boxer shorts and
a threadbare Black Sabbath t-shirt. Your physical energy is low, your speech is
slurred, and your eyeliner is smeared. You are mistaken for Ozzy Osbourne on
day release. Your focus shifts inwards as you revisit esoteric rituals from
May/June 2004 that involved playing death metal records backwards. Spooky.
Mercury’s influence at the end of the month has you craving knowledge about the
ways in which you can express yourself spiritually without listening to crappy
music. Mastering the mind is the key to developing your understanding of
mysticism.
Cancer thespian:
Meryl Streep
Leo (21 July to 21
August)
Adventure
is the key to success this month, Leo. Your self-confidence soars after 14 May when
the Sun and Jupiter join, helping you gain momentum in the professional arena.
The peeps love your grandiloquent style as you expand beyond your comfort zone
and make a total tool of yourself. God knows how you will handle the Venus
retrograde transit through your party sector. This will be a quiet time socially,
so put away your star-spangled g-string and reassess your friendships.
Fortunately, the New Moon eclipse invigorates your social life from 21 May, so
you’ll be twirling those titty tassels in no time.
Leo thespian: Helen Mirren
Virgo (22 August to 22
September)
Venus’ retrograde motion shows
a link between work-life balance themes from May/June 2004 with mid-2012. Use
this period to review career experiences from the previous eight years. Have
you fulfilled your professional goals or has it been a decade of ‘same shit
different day’? What changes can you implement to achieve world domination over
the next eight years? You ponder these questions while waiting in the
Centrelink queue, listening to One Direction on your iWank. The War Against The
Poor continues when the New Moon eclipse on 21 May brings you a
work-for-the-dole project that gets Nick Minchin sniggering and snorting like
the smug Fascist pig that he is.
Virgo thespian: Jeremy Irons
Libra (23 September to 23
October)
Libra, this month
is about being a well dressed traveller. There’s nothing accidental about this
tourist, darling. The Venus retrograde slows down your trek through the Sistema
Penibetico mountain range, so that your almond coloured Chinos remain fresh and
crumple-free. The Universe is so thoughtful. You revisit favourite peeps and
places and savour the experience without documenting it on Facebook or Flickr.
The New Moon eclipse on 21 May coupled with Mercury’s entry into your travel
sector brings you high adventure with the shepherd in the Sherpa jacket you see
grazing beyond the camping grounds of the Pico de Aneto.
Stuff Chino
freshness.
Libra thespian:
Catherine Deneuve
Scorpio (24 October to 22
November)
A solar eclipse in your eighth
house on 21 May heralds the start of a new financial cycle. This will make many
Scorpions happy as money is up there with sex, vengeance, and perspiration.
Mercury stimulates your curiosity about fiscal information that even humdrum
tax accountants look sexually enticing without your beer goggles. This transit
connects you with the right peeps to help overhaul your dire debt position. The
intense Full Moon in your sign on 6 May encourages you to probe the surface of
life and wade through the sewer that is your subconscious. You just wouldn’t be
Scorpio without regular confrontations of absolute truths.
Scorpio thespian: Katherine Hepburn
Sagittarius (23 November to 22
December)
Sagittarius, sometimes love
means having to say you’re sorry. Venus’ extended visit in your relationship
sector coincides with one of her rare retrograde cycles between 14 May and 26
June. Expect misunderstandings with your partner to occur. They finally realise
that you’re a useless fat turkey who needs stuffing. A New Moon eclipse on 21
May heralds a new cycle where love themes from May/June 2004 resurface. Now is
the time to make peace with your past and move forward with your romantic
future by destroying those Polaroids of a nude you covered in fairy floss and
ostrich feathers. The barriers that have been blocking your amorous progress
will lift.
Sagittarius thespian: Judi Dench
Capricorn (23 December to 20
January)
Capricorn, you won’t be feeling
the love at work this month when Venus retrogrades in your house of routine
between 14 May and 26 June. Before flinging your Filofax Organiser out the
window, wait! The New Moon eclipse on 21 May brings a long awaited professional
breakthrough. The alignment with Jupiter shows you career possibilities beyond
the bored room. Mercury accelerates your chances for stimulating work at the
end of the month when you are blessed with the gift of the gab and swindle your
way into the corporate world with jargon such as ‘open the kimono’, ‘sweat the
assets’, and ‘bottom out’. Sounds kinda saucy, doesn’t it?
Capricorn
thespian:
Anthony Hopkins
Aquarius (21 January to 17
February)
You will be adopting a playful, child-like approach
to life this month, Aquarius. This meshes well with your puerile personality
and intolerable behaviour. The New Moon on 21 May triggers the start of a new
cycle in self-expression where you reconnect with forgotten creative passions. Mercury
trines your Sun from 25 May and you will be zine-ing from the right side of the
brain with ease. Expect primitive crayon drawings with gold stars and coloured
pipe cleaners to emerge from this fertile period.
Aquarius thespian: Vanessa Redgrave
Pisces (18 February to 20
March)
The
Full Moon in Scorpio on 6 May has you probing the deep questions of life whereby
you seek the advice of sages with names like Deepak, Tupak, and Multipak. Mercury
gives you plenty of ideas of how to spend your dosh in the first week of May,
but is rebuked by lesson master Saturn who constantly reminds you of
commitments to debt, taxes, HECS, Newstart, and other boring left brain stuff. Venus
retrogrades through your domestic sector from 14 May, politely asking you to
change the bed sheets and air the bedroom; chores that you haven’t tackled
since the May/June 2004 planetary cycle. Yuk!
Pisces thespian:
Michael Caine
