Comments on: Venus Making Its Appearance

By: Jim Sher

Jim Sher — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:25:36 +0000

To Jennifer:
The fire sounds like a Mars retrograde matter, though I can’t be sure since I don’t know your natal chart. Mars is slowing down now, in advance of its turning direct on March 10, 2010.
Thanks for writing about what happened and good luck in getting your home back in shape.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:32:05 +0000

Well, trials and tribulations! Friday at just after midnight (CST) came home to find the house on fire. I decided almost immediately to *not* feel sorry for myself or feel un-lucky. Had I followed my original plan I’d have gone home and gone to bed early sleeping right through the house filling with smoke. I am lucky to be alive. Everything else can be replaced.
Absolute trial by fire. I think I’m at least ahead of the curve! But the compassion was very much there. Family, friends and even strangers reaching out – The American Red Cross do a wonderful job.

By: Lynett Durgin

Lynett Durgin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:25:00 +0000

Hi there:

The energy has been off the hook for me this week. I slept all day on Sunday, on Monday I walked outside and I could this big square of dense white, almost energy of the void, and then again I could see it clearly last night at Star Magic.

This is some very intense cosmic alignments; thanks for explaining them so eloquently. I’m more of a Tarot type than actually studying astrology but I’m starting to think I need to get on board.

By: dawna

dawna — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:32:30 +0000

Good Morning Jim!

Poignant article and the effects of this bottoming out, though always a gift, are yet to be fully realized. As 12 steppers wisely come to believe, “my own best thinking got me here and now I’ll turn my WILL and my life over to a power greater than myself” …

I can feel the opportunity even as I weep like a child who is not getting things the way she wants them just now. Here is a quote by Suzuki Roshi that to me sums up this conjuct of Venus and Jupiter:

“Because we put emphasis on some particular point, we always have trouble. We should accept things just as they are. This is how we understand everything, and how we live in this world. This kind of experience is something beyond our thinking. In the thinking realm there is a difference between oneness and variety; but in actual experience, variety and unity are the same. Because you create some idea of unity or variety, you are caught by the idea. And you have to continue the endless thinking, although actually there is no need to think.

Emotionally we have many problems; they are something created; they are problems pointed out by our self-centered ideas or views. Because we point out something, there are problems. But actually it is not possible to point out anything in particular. Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different, they are not really different; in essence they are the same. This is the true understanding; transmitted from Buddha to us.”

Wishing you and all of your readers true ease of being!
dawna Foreman
Petaluma, CA

By: Susan Hale

Susan Hale — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:53:30 +0000

Thank you! I have both Jupiter and Venus in Pisces and though I’m also an astrologer who has lived with these planets. Your description of Pisces brought new understanding to these slippery fish. I also have a yod with my Venus which is also opposed to my Saturn so I’ve had an interesting dance with the themes that you mention. I sometimes feel like a lake looking for shore.