I previously shared with you what the Rose of Venus was, and the depth of insights that you may gain through understanding your natal Venus cycles in my article The Rose of Venus, and your Natal Venus Love Cycles. So if you haven’t read that please refer to it first to understand what it means; and essentially it shows the love evolution and growth your relationships may offer you in this life, as well as the greater themes that may be showing up in your love relationships.
The higher purpose of our relationships, as it connects to our soul’s purpose and evolution and dharmic path is seen through both the natal chart and mainly, the Navamsa chart, which is the 9th divisional chart; but nonetheless the Venus cycles offer much insight especially for people who have significant Venus in their natal chart such as Venus being their atmakaraka.
Today I’ll share with you two examples, so that you may understand how to interpret this a bit more deeply, and for those of you interested in booking a reading with me on that specific topic, you may consider the Celestial Natal Reading, the Astrology Soul Love Reading, or the Natal Starry Sky Story.
Example One:
From the Stream of the Fish to the Celestial Twins – Embodying Love for Humanity
In our first example I’ll share with you the Venus cycles of a a famous actress who is now no longer living, though per my ethics I keep the names private always. She was born on an evening Venus; and when Venus is in her evening star phase she is often called the Aphrodite Venus. Such a Venus is delicate, mystical, romantic, sensual, sensitive, artistic, magnetic, and very feminine in her expression of self. She has deep fires of desire within her, which she keeps private and within the comforts of her starry bed chambers, and can be very protective of her privacy. People may think they know her, as she may usually share a lot, but they don’t actually really know her. To get to her heart, one needs to approach her with a certain patience of rhythm and a lot of tenderness, proving they are trustworthy and worthy of her inner most private self.
For this actress all these applied as she was indeed very romantic, talented and artistic, and very passionate and sensitive – though because her natal Venus was in her natal fifth house in a masculine fire energy, she was quite attached to a lot of romance and was certainly more extroverted than a traditional evening star Venus.
Venus was her atmakaraka, or soul planet, so she came into this life with a lot of desires for relationships and intimacy and beauty that she had experienced in many past lives also; it was kind of like a natural continuation which had a certain sense of karmic impulses. This brought in a lot of karmic partners, and one of her greatest lessons, as a Venus atmakaraka, was to refine her approach in relationships, find a sense of balance and harmony, tame the lower urges and transform them into a more purified expression of Venus.
Venus is about having values and self value also, and it is all about how we feel about ourselves, which will thereby affect and reflect the choice of partners we have. As her darakaraka was her natal Saturn, we see that through her relationships she was actually seeking to understand the value of humility, hard work and feeling grounded in life, and to stay rooted in her faith and core values. Her partners usually had difficult lives, and through her relationship with them, she nourished them and gave them that sense of hope and beauty and harmony; so through her they felt more harmony and balance, and through them she realized the importance of dedication and commitment, or at least this is what she was seeking to learn.
Let’s now look at her natal Venus in her celestial sky, and then we’ll move into her Venus cycle and when Venus then first rose as a morning star.
We see her natal Venus in the part of the sky along the river stream of the fish constellation, conjunct her natal Uranus. This place of the sky is about faith and moving in the flow of life, following your natural flow, and essentiallu surrendering to that flow and the divine timing. As Uranus was there too she felt a lot of instant sparks which she followed blindly, and sometimes they led to great things but sometimes she was a bit too impulsive; she did however have strong intuition, and deep faith, and her desires guided her forward. She had many relationships in her life and married quite a few times, and with Uranus here it shows that her Venus needed a certain sense of freedom and respect for her free spirited nature; she needed someone who saw her as her, who accepted her in her true self and individuality and supported her unique expression of self and individuality.
Life took her in many directions which she never quite forsaw as clearly, but nonetheless it eventually led her where she needed to be, and through her surrender in faith and dedication to remain true to herself she trusted this flow. She gained a lot of courage along the way, as well as understanding what her true desires and needs were in relationships, and essentially this was all about learning self value and self love. We see this because within her Venus cycle, Venus rose as a morning star in her eight house; and here below is where she was at the rising.
As we can see Venus rose in the body of Castor from the celestial Gemini constellation, and this is a very curious part of the sky because we have one of the lunar mansions, or nakshatras, known as Ardra – symbolizing the thunders and rainstorms, the rains of which, or tears of which, soften us into compassion and humility. Castor was the mortal twin, and his twin brother Pollux, the immortal one, sacrificed his immortality, or in some other versions of the myth he shared his immortality, so that he saves his brother Castor and brings him to life. Because of this true love gesture, the gods made both brothers shine bright in the sky, thereby them becoming the brightest stars in our sky, to remind us all of the importance of helping each other. Pollux is the brightest for his love raised someone, and he shared of himself with another selflessly.
In her life she made sacrifices, and she faced loss of one of the first man she ever loved, who she spoke of as her biggest true love. And yet all along the way she was helped and supported tenderly by many people; she had so many people love her and adore her through her film work, and no matter where the river streams took her she had someone’s hands to hold her. She had many lovers also, she loved again and again after each fall, and she learned the hidden powers of vulnerability – that no matter what happens a hand may hold her, and she’ll be raised again. With this rising of Venus showing up in her eight house, it was all about facing her own inner self and transforming through it in the way her soul intended.
This constellation is a beautiful one because it actually reminds us of humanity and the compassion we must have for one another. And she embodied this compassion entirely because she supported so many different people and social causes along the way, making people feel seen and heard. While she faced disillusionments and hurts in her love life, it was precisely love that guided her forward, so that she doesn’t close her heart nor harden it, but to give it even more life and expression towards all people. She loved fearlessly and never let anything taint her heart, which we also see as her ascendant ruler Jupiter is at the mouth of the lion. She also learned that love isn’t just about relationships or rivers of passions, it is about us as humanity holding each other, lifting each other, raising each other up. She became a true star – shining bright for many people to look up to for years after, she left a legacy of a warm heart.
Example Two:
From the Nose of the Sea Goat to the Belly of the Lion – Materialization of Desires after Inner Work
In our second example I’ll take you to a dear client of mine, names and full stories private also. Let’s start with his natal Venus and her placement in his celestial chart at the time when he first opened his eyes on earth.
At the time of his birth Venus was invisible and had just become a morning star a few days prior, though she was still unseen in the morning sky, which shows that his cycle began with him needing to learn a lot about love through the lens of inner work and facing his shadows. He has a Scorpio ascendant in his natal chart, but then goes into a Capricorn ascendant in his Navamsa – from fixed water to cardinal earth – showing that the higher spiritual purpose of his relationships in this life, and his dharma, is to experience the stability of the emotional connection and face his lower urges and addictions.
We see that his Venus in a part of the sky where things are a bit dark; she is moving towards the lips of the sea goat, desiring to materialize what she desires in her heart, and yet she can’t quite reach it yet. It feels so close, it’s almost right there – and right in front of the nose, so you can smell it and almost taste, but it’s quite there. The sea goat also shows the blend of both water and earth, reflected in his transition from water to earth Navamsa.
So throughout his life he had almosts but not yet, almost the right one but not exactly; and he had very visceral feelings and desires pulling him forward – the smell of the thing he desired, as the Venus was in front of the nose of the goat, and yet he wasn’t quite able to touch it and have it.
His natal Venus is conjunct his South Node almost exact, and it’s at the Sabian symbol of “a woman reading tea leaves”. This is about the spiritual – not as much the physical. Venus and South Node conjunctions are about detaching from desires of love relationships, because the more they desire it the more farther away it’d be. As this is a very spiritual placement, the South Node needs us to let go to let in; so the focus for this native are about detaching for desires and looking within, and doing work serving other people or a lot of charity i.e. embodying the spiritual essences of Venus rather then the self serving ones. Unless the individual does inner work and spiritual development, they may not have the partner they seek in life.
Because his natal Venus is his atmakaraka also, and was invisible at his birth, and because it is with the South Node, this shows that within his relationships what matters most deeply is the spiritual and soul connection and emotional, because he may need many times in retreat or just some detachment and space, not because of lack of love but because in past lives there was a lot of attachment in relationships, and now he seeks to experience it more from a spiritual level.
Let’s move to his rising Venus.
As we see, his Venus rose as an evening star at the belly of the lion along with Uranus. Moreover, in his natal chart, this rising happened in conjunction with his natal Pluto. The rising of an evening star shows the purified state of Venus, her Aphrodite phase, with the promise he’ll find the one his soul seeks – someone romantic and true, after he goes through his inner work and balances the karmic relationships of his past.
What this shows is that of the birth of his courage and trust to try again and put his heart out there – in the belly of the lion – Venus blesses him with the birth of new love – so it essentially promised that he’ll have the love he wanted later in his life, which might have literally showed up after a phase of giving up on finding it (since it was conjunct Pluto in his chart), or after a transformation he went through, or it could have happened out of the blue and suddenly like fireworks (since it conjunct Uranus), or that the woman he’d fall in love with and choose as his one could have gone through a separation or divorce in her own life prior to meeting him, maybe shortly before.
And indeed this was the case for him, who is now in his later years; he went through quite a few ups and downs and intense experiences and relationships which weren’t fulfilling, until choosing to devote to his inner work and finally he met his soulmate, who is an incredibly deep and spiritual woman, who literally worked in a spiritually focused career at the time when he met her and had gone through a divorce. He also met her at the beginning of his Venus new phase – and these phases are seen through the transits.
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