North American observers can see it the afternoon of June 5, 2012
I’m writing to you well in advance about this event because I think it is important and it precedes the 2012 Mayan calendar event by only a few months. I am wanting you to hold it in your consciousness, every day be readying yourself for it, put it in your practice. Be thinking how you can get others ready. If I could, I would have you see it as sort of like a Soul bath. You would lay in your lawn chair, facing the Sun, and vision yourself soaking up everything there is to receive, being bathed in loving Light. You don’t even have to know what that is. I believe it will come. Clean your receptors, open your heart. Those of you who know astrology, study how it will be placed in your chart. I’m starting to talk about it with every client.
Venus Transits come in pairs spaced eight years apart, but the time between pairs is 122 years, then 105 years. Due to this pattern, only six Venus transits have been seen since the invention of the telescope. The 2004 Venus Transit was the first of our latest pair. Before that, the most recent transit had been in 1882—which means no living people on Earth had seen a Venus transit when the 2004 event occurred. Some speculate this rare Transit was one of the reasons the Mayans chose 2012 as their 26,000 year cycle end/start date.
—Image courtesy NASA
The Venus eclipses have been in the first 15 degrees of Gemini and Sagittarius since 60 AD! The previous June 8, 2004 Venus Transit was at 17 Gemini, square Jupiter, widely square Moon/Uranus, trine Neptune and opposite Pluto (a loose Mutable Grand Cross involving 7 planets). Mutable signs call for diversity, adaptability. The Gemini/Sagittarius axis is mind and meaning, communications near and far, from here to the University. The Virgo/Pisces axis is service and devotion, working hard and dreamtime magic, healers of body and Soul.
This Venus retrograde conjuncts/eclipses the Sun at 15 degrees airy space-in-the-mind Gemini, both of them square Mars at 16 degrees get-the-job-done Virgo. Venus in Gemini is loving communications, appreciations, expressing affection, valuing diversity of thinking. Square Mars in Virgo calls for that desire being thought about to be put into action, to break through from pleasure to leadership on a daily basis. Virgo tends the fort, wants all to be healthy, not too much sugar! Jupiter is at 28 degrees, finishing Taurus about to enter Gemini, just one degree from the Pleiades. Mercury is at 27 Gemini, in a one degree semi sextile with this Jupiter. There will be a lot to say, some of it profound, about the goings on, because this 27 Gemini position is powerfully positioned exactly opposite the GALACTIC CENTER, downloading the information to the people! This is important because the Mayan Calendar turnover at the Sacred Tree, Crossroads of Dec 21, 2012, occurs only 6 degrees from the Galactic Center! The Moon is conjunct Pluto, sextile Chiron, square Uranus. This Moon position highlights Pluto; Pluto at this degree becomes part of the Jupiter three planet 8 degree YOD in the Dec 21, 2012 Mayan Calendar turnover! All will not go as planned, surprises in the offing, some left behind, inevitable deep-rooted change due to fathers, sadly, something to ‘weep’ about, a longed for professional matter at stake. Some things, though much talked about, must be done alone, yet profoundly affect our mates, or we are affected by them….
Venus Transit chart, June 5, 2012, 5:09 PM Pacific, Santa Barbara CA
Due to the huge size difference, no way can Venus ‘eclipse’ the Sun – we call it a Venus Transit. In images it is a mere black dot in a sea of yellow fire as it crosses the face of the Sun! I think of it as a voyage, pilgrimage, a rite of passage, across this magnificent space being. It is a merger, an immersion, being imbued, saturated, infused, with the brightest Light our Solar System, our neighborhood in the galaxy, has to offer! And it is lined right up with US! Whew! This is the Kleig Light of Heaven, from our Heart of Light, transmitted, telegraphed, filtered, amped, a direct shot! Do you think flowers in bloom at that time will have more powerful pollen, seeds, essences?! Not one pore of Venus will be left untouched. If your love went cold, those with planets touched by this aspect, will be warmed right back up, solar charged! You may feel you have plenty to give, more than ever! Venus matters ‘enlightened’ will involve beauty, the arts, money, attractiveness, our values, love, kindness, graciousness, giving. Perhaps you will be ‘weeping’ for JOY!
In Gemini, the Word, all those matters will be spoken of, listened for, written up! Start your blog! Multifaceted ideas will spring forth, diversity rules! Marketing and advertising will be blessed with connecting people who love what is being sold. Contracts will be better for all involved. How we learn, pay attention, will improve, education be more cherished. Learning a second language will be more valuable not only to improve memory, but to make special connections with people that used to be out of reach. Touch healing, massage will flourish. Sports like tennis, running, may make new records! Very true, it’s not what you say, but how you say it. Words of praise and appreciation make all the difference. Love formula – 5 praise to 1 criticism. What we think – what we focus our attention on, how we think – half full/half empty, matters. Profoundly.
Venus rules first Taurus, Earth, then Libra, Air. Taurus has a sensual beauty, rules celebrities and common sense, the monies at hand, the sitting Buddha, Earth, our self esteem. Libra rules classic beauty, the fine arts, etiquette, Kwan Yin, balance, our adult peer relationships, marriage, how we see our value among our peers, legal proceedings. We all have both signs in our charts. Find out where they are in your chart, then read the Venus Transit into those houses, and which house the exact Transit is in, to see what and where you personally are activated.
Those of you with birthdates from the 2nd to the 8th of the month, and/or have planets from 12 to 19 degrees of any sign, will be the most affected by the Venus Transit. Most air and fire signs will be comfortable with it, may flourish. Other mutable signs, Virgo and Pisces at square, Sagittarius opposite, may be put off by all the ‘meaningless’ chit chat, may not even hear of it, or be surprised by, perhaps at first annoyed by, new ideas that seemed hidden! Earth signs want to keep their routine, but there will surely be disruptions. Water signs, though intrigued, may duck under to see what is happening below the surface and to rest their ears.
A client asked me …will all these changes be for the good? In some ways the World is already better as people seek new solutions (energy production, government). Any change proves there CAN be change. With a lot of old world regimes toppling, there will be chaos and clumsy reform that may take years to settle. That’s normal. Change of such magnitude takes time. Flooding with education and information (Gemini) are imperative. Giving alternate solutions gives choice (Gemini). Some of those people have been ‘asleep’ for a long time. Breaking with tradition and psychological habit is scary. So change itself, though a relief for some, is part of what can stall the very things it is looking toward. Encouragement and less poverty, the ability to provide for themselves, create a security base that allow the luxury of a more positive choice. One of the maxims of natural cycles is it is always darkest before the Light. Now is the time to stay steady – get us through and beyond the chrysalis of this stage. Though a chrysalis is a hardened shell, to protect the pupa of the butterfly, it is often seen twitching with life when touched….
This Venus Transit comes before the Dec 21, Winter Solstice, 2012 Mayan calendar end/turnover, giving us LOVE first to cap the final achievements. We finish the final days before the Calendar ends with more GRACE. This sets the foundation for a sweeter start of the next cycle, the BLESSINGS to come in the new times!
Let love light the dark way, return to the Light, see the Light. Merge with, emerge from, the Heart of Light, it’s a free ride! Reverence to all Beings. Namaste. Or as the Mayans say, “In Lak’ech” – I am Another Yourself [Gemini, the Twins].
Gemini, Sign of the Hands, the Honored Sign of Transference of the Venus Transit June 5, 2012
Please do see more, about the Jupiter Gemini Connection to the eclipse in the months that follow!
Cerena Childress, Astrologer! 