Every couple years Venus zips around and catches Mars from behind, in what we call a Mars-Venus Initiation, the beginning of a new Venus-Mars Cycle. It introduces a new Time Province in the Relationship between our Inner Female (Values, Guidance) and Inner Male (Action, Effort), which of course is the template that all of our external Relationships Mirror.
Our new Shift in Gender Balance occurs 5 October (9:30 am PDT), at 20 Virgo, “A caravan of cars headed to the West Coast: The need of cooperative effort in reaching any ‘New World’ of experience.” The way we usually draw our maps, the West Coast is on the Left, in a general way the Receptive or Feminine side.
The Cycle that we’re finishing began February 2015 at 2 Aries, “A comedian reveals human nature” – has that ever been true! We’ve just been forgetting to Laugh. Maybe this West-Coast Change of Water will help matters become a little less hilarious.
The new Cycle begins Conjunct Eurydike (Trust). It’s the focus of a T-Square (Challenge to Mastery) across the Opposition between Asbolus (Intuition) and Saturn-Ixion (The Most Important Thing Is to Recover Our Forbidden Genius). In this Configuration Asbolus represents the Feminine, and Saturn-Ixion the Masculine.
The Message is that we need to Embrace whatever remaining Guilt or Shame we have about the Forbidden part of our Genius-in-Hiding, and Trust our Intuition about how to Be in ways we haven’t Been since we were Punished for Being that way as a Child. We need to get Conscious of our Fear that we’ll be Punished again (the Universe is likely to help by bringing it up), Poor-Sweetheart it, Tap it Out, and Trust its Urges.
Yes, they’ll be juvenile. If we Repressed our Genius at age 4, when They start to emerge again They’ll behave like a 4- or 5-year-old. Go ahead and let Them Act Out – it’s the only way They’ll Grow. And Grow They will, very quickly. Even though They’ve been in Hiding, They’ve been watching. Their first words and Actions will be young, but then They’ll remember what They’ve seen while Hiding, and Grow Up fast. Trust them, says the chart…
There are three Trine Bridges (Easy Alternative Paths) across the T-Square, two of which form a Air Grand Trine (Great Grace) with Asbolus. This is fortuitous, since the two Graced Bridges are asteroid Karma (Archetypal Habits) and the South Node (Held Emotions). Add the North Node Bridge, and we have five points of a Grand Sextile (Effortlessness – once we take the first step). That makes the sixth point – Energy we have to add Consciously – the most Powerful in the chart.
That Vacant sixth point is 21 Aries, “A pugilist enters the ring.” Which makes sense. Our Genius-In-Hiding has little practice at Social Intercourse, and will be easily Intimidated. Their residual Guilt will attract Bullying. So we need to Defend Them. As long as you aren’t in a bar, most Bullies will back down if you Stand Up to them. Not to Challenge them or “return fire,” but to keep your chin horizontal and respectfully Assert your Right to Exist. Let them have the last word. Look them in the eye and Mirror them, borrowing their Bravado and trying it on as your own, without being bigger than your britches.
If we allow four Degrees of Sensitivity instead of three, which we can very legitimately do when looking at any Birth or Initiation, Eris (Opening to Important New Information that you sort of knew all along but never admitted to yourself) fills the Vacancy. This suggests that the Bully will probably be the Messenger. If a Bully insults you and rather then getting Angry, you think about it a minute and then say, “Wow, I never thought of it that way! That makes sense! Thanks, you’ve just helped me solve a Big Problem!” your Bully will probably be caught off guard.
There are two other Initiations falling a few hours prior to the Mars-Venus Initiation, which Time-Coincidence will make them part of the Relationship Reset and color the next two years…
- Varuna Initiating Aletheia in 2 Leo on 5 October (3am PDT).
- Haumea Initiating Hopi in 24 Libra on 5 October (7am PDT).
These are six and five-year Cycles, respectively…
- The Aletheia-Varuna Cycle is literally about “The Truth shall set you Free” – it’s about the way Truth amps up your Energy level and your Effectiveness at meeting the World (and of course Collaborating with it).
- Leo 2 is about “An epidemic of mumps,” suggesting that Truth will spread through the population like a Virus, accompanied by Ego Deaths as it goes. Most folks don’t do Ego Death as Gracefully as we’ve Learned to, so we can expect some grinding of teeth as we move through this.
- The Hopi-Haumea Cycle is about Epiphanies of Respect for Entities whom you’ve never considered Respecting as Equals. These sound like very positive Energies to paint onto the 3D World we’re Enduring.
- Libra 24 is “A butterfly with a third wing on its left side,” or a Strengthening of our Intuitive Nature. As we come to Respect Entities we’ve never considered Worthy, the impetus is likely to be sudden, possibly saving us from the embarrassment of having to explain why we haven’t been there before. This will further the downfall of the now-so-obviously-Hollow Patriarchy.
These Cycles carry us across a major Threshold that would be useful to review. From 1800 to 1980, the Saturn-Jupiter Initiations were in Earth Signs. The Jupiter-Saturn Cycle governs the political economy of your Culture, and 1840-1980 approximates the Industrial Age. From 2021 till 2160, Saturn-Jupiter Initiations will be in Air Signs – the Digital Age.
Between 1980 and 2020, the Saturn-Jupiter Initiations stuttered…
- 1980-2000 was the first of the Air-Sign Jupiter-Saturn Cycles and a preview of the Digital Age – 1980 when Bill Gates contracted with IBM to begin mass-producing the Personal Computer, and 2000 (almost to the day) of “Dot-Com Crash” fame.
- 2000-2020, home of the last Earth-Sign Cycle, has been the Debriefing for the Industrial Age. Knowingly or not we’ve been Deciding which elements of the Industrial Era we want to carry with us into the Digital Age. Patriarchy? Nah. Wage Slavery? No thanks. Competition? Ummm, Collaboration is better.
Before 2021 and the full-blown Digital Age, we’ll have another Venus-Mars Cycle following the one we’re now beginning, when our Gender Balance and all it implies will Shift again. The August 2019 Mars-Venus Initiation will be in 5 Virgo, “The opening of new levels of Consciousness.”
Back to the current Time Province, the Full Moon follows the current Mars-Venus Initiation by only a few hours, giving a big kick-start to this Community movement to the Left Coast.
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