Just when we thought we had some stability…
Venus entered Pisces at 6:03p PST this evening, adding a sixth planetary influence (yes, 6!) in the dreamy water sign of Pisces. Get ready for some idealistic romanticism in your relationships and partnerships of all kinds.
Don’t get me wrong – I’m not saying that all of a sudden you’re going to start trying to make lifelong plans with that guy from the accounting department who’s your partner on that work project. But it can mean that you may be rather oblivious to how he’s trying to take credit for the whole project and get you fired for “not doing your part”.
Then again, maybe he does end up being the guy you’ve been dreaming of, and it just may end up being happily ever after.
Under Venus in Pisces, it really could go either way.
Venus is most often associated with the traditional female archetype. It can represent positive energy, fairness, balance, and aesthetic beauty. However, it is also popularly associated with partnerships. One-on-one relationships of all kinds are represented by Venus, though despite its feminine association it is a rather detached and objective relationship energy. What makes this particular version of Venus decidedly emotional is its blending with the emotional and selfless Pisces energy.
Pisces is dreamy, imaginative, idealistic, and fantastic. It is often associated with artists, visionaries, and other highly creative types. Pisces usually has a strong aversion to tangible reality, so it often tries to escape it through imagination, delusion, or sometimes even addiction to substances that help numb out the pain of reality. Pisces can also martyr itself due to its inclination to selflessly serve others in the name of Universal and unconditional love.
Together in Venus in Pisces, these energies can idealize partnerships like no other. There is a tendency to only want to see the best in your partners, and to only see the good parts of your one-on-one relationships. There is very little inclination to look at the practical realities of your partnerships.
In fact, Venus in Pisces is inclined to focus only on the emotional-spiritual part of the deal, which is where the romanticism and idealism come into play. Venus in Pisces can be so emotionally and spiritually focused, it can lose itself in its romantic ideals. It is often deluding itself that a relationship may be better than it actually is just because it holds the dream that it should be better. After all, the person is your “perfect partner” or “soulmate” or the “person of your dreams”. The thing is…they’re often everything to you except who they really are as their true selves and who they really and truly are for you. It’s hard to see people for who they really are when you are so determined to see them as what you want them to be.
However, “should” isn’t always enough. This is why so many relationships end up in disappointment under the influence of Venus in Pisces. This energy can bring these unworkable partnerships to the surface. In many partnerships, a partner is often so idealized that they either
1) feel pressured to meet the ideal of the other,
2) feel they must escape the idealistic demands of the other,
3) try to live up to the other’s ideal by sacrificing their true self for the vision their partner holds of them, or…
4) …feel trapped in expectations, so they do everything they can to prove their partner wrong about who they are so the partner will let them go and set them free.
Yet for all of the warnings, there is a beautiful side of Venus in Pisces – the side on which dreams really do come true.
This is because sometimes, the fantasy really becomes the reality. Sometimes, the dreams really do come true. Under Venus in Pisces, sometimes we meet partners that can help make our visions our reality.
In business partnerships, this can be the appearance of or connection with a person who ends up being a great person for you to pair up with to manifest an idea you’ve held for a long time. Or it could be a person who manages the financial side of matters while you focus on the creative side…or vice-versa. It could be someone with the technical knowledge to bring your artistic idea into tangible reality. Or maybe, it’s just the emergence of your artistic or creative muse – the inspiration for your visionary contribution.
Or on a personal level, the relationship that we take for granted in its practical everyday function gets the emotional-spiritual boost it needs to move from a platonic relationship into a romantic one. Sometimes, that person you never really considered more than a friend suddenly looks like a viable “more-than”. Sometimes, that person you thought was kind of crazy to be so into you ends up being someone you go crazy being without.
That said, this is a very intense Venus in Pisces as it enters the sign while the Sun, Mercury Retrograde, Mars, Chiron, and Neptune are all in the sign. This only strengthens the dreamy and idealistic qualities as the general energy at hand, our thoughts and ideas and communications, our actions, our emotional-spiritual wounds, and our social ideals are all under the influence of Pisces’ emotional-spiritual ebb-and-flow. And now that we’ve gotten one-on-one relationships involved in this crazy river rapids ride of emotional-spiritual energy, there is even more reason to be conscious and cautious of the dynamics that are in play. Take time to do your best to be sure that whatever you pursue in your partnerships and relationships during these next few weeks is the real deal and not wishful thinking.
Allow yourself to be inspired…but not to be fooled. Under this 2013 Venus in Pisces, open yourself to Universal Love, and let it flow freely within yourself and others with out attachment or expectation. Your heart and soul will thank you for it in the end, no matter the outcome.
Thank you for reading and sharing. Until next post…
~ Light, Love, and Blessings,
Grace
