by Robert Wilkinson
Yesterday through Wednesday Venus is triggering the Grand Irrationality. It is biseptile Neptune and triseptile Pluto, showing we’re all at a fork in the road wherever we have Taurus, Gemini, Libra, Capricorn, and Pisces in our charts. It also gives us “Venusian hints” about late July through late August, a time that will bring us karmic comebacks, closures, and openings related to last Summer’s Solar Eclipse in Gemini.
I’ll be posting an update on the Grand Irrationality in the near future, since some new fans of the site may not be familiar with this pandemic global phenomenon in play for the past 17 years. Expect this time to bring important shifts, choices, and changes that will alter the course of destiny wherever Venus, Neptune, and Pluto are in your chart. The configuration is anchored by Neptune in Pisces septile Pluto in Capricorn, and is set into motion every time a planet makes a septile, biseptile, or triseptile to either of these outermost transpersonal planets.
Right now the hot zones are approximately 7-11 Capricorn, 29 Aquarius-3 Pisces, 20-24 Aries, 12-16 Gemini, 3-7 Leo, 25-29 Virgo, and 16-20 Scorpio. If you have a planet or sensitive point in any of these zones, you’re going through some important decisions and changes that will affect your future in powerful ways.
Venus originally triggered the Gemini zone, bringing echoes of last year’s Gemini Solar Eclipse, back in the third and fourth weeks of April. These were put into focus when Mercury moved through this zone in late May, and vitalized by the Sun’s return to its Gemini Eclipse point in late May and early June. These were all points when the endings of last Summer could be seen in a new light and perspective.
Venus retrograde went over this zone again in mid-June, giving us another “backward look” helping us understand that some things that have ended the past year were liberating us from old ghosts of the past in terms of values, resources, relationships, likes, and dislikes. This is now the final pass of Venus over this zone for this year, which should help us gather value from what’s been lost and what’s been gained since June 2011.
As noted, this will have major implications for when Jupiter moves across this zone in late July through August, and retrogrades back across this zone in November. Generally, this will bring blessings, truths, openings, and alternative futures that can fill the voids left in our Gemini affairs since last Summer. So by what we’ve released, what we’ve now seen in a new light, or found a new value or appreciation for, will be the source of new openings, new adventures, and new truths not that far down the road.
More on the Grand Irrationality and Mercury retrograde coming soon! And of course, please go to the May-June 2011 archives if you want to know more about the 2011 Gemini Solar Eclipse and its short and long term effects, which are still very powerful for us all. I wrote quite a few articles explaining what would happen as a result of that very powerful Solar Eclipse. For now,
21st Century Astrology – What is the Grand Irrationality and Why is Everything So Strange?
© Copyright 2012 Robert Wilkinson
So with 6 planets in Taurus, including Venus, I should expect fruit-basket-turnover?
Posted by: Anne | July 13, 2012 at 09:29 AM
Robert I have my Venus at 11 of Capricorn and my Saturn at 14 of Gemini. Do you have any thoughts on how this may affect me? My Sun is 1 of Aquarius and I don't know my ascendant.
Posted by: Olivia | July 13, 2012 at 12:31 PM
Important changes . . . while I don't know the future . . . I have to say yes to important change for me. There is catharsis and then there is catharsis. :)
Posted by: caliban | July 14, 2012 at 09:20 AM
These are indeed strange times with reasoning and logic ignored by some. Just heard my best friend's 91 year old Libra father (active & in good health) hung himself. Mars conjunct Sun in T-square for one, with the Grand Irrationality to the fore!
Posted by: Claudia | July 16, 2012 at 02:59 AM
Hi Anne - Depending, you may just figure out why you had to begin to make space in the Summer of 2011 so you can be at peace about the endings in the near future. This can help us find value or beauty in what has left our lives the past 13 months.
Hi Olivia - Pluto is putting pressure on your Venus. Purify your values and relationships, and beware of getting fascinated by people who are extreme, or too intense for what would be appropriate in that moment. Many things about your rules have been illuminated and released these past 13 months, and now you can find value and beauty in those Saturn functions and lessons that you still have. You're certainly at a huge fork in the road of your life relative to how you're living your Saturn energies as wisdom or chains.
This time is when you're individuating; just be aware that all of your relationships must be freeing rather than binding, and try not to make any huge purchases, since by the time Uranus finishes squaring your Venus you'll have a different sense of beauty and what you like. Concentrate, open to new interpretations of old experiences, and get ready for a new set of professional or personal responsibilities beginning October.
Hi caliban - Seems like you're riding the wave just fine, if your other comments are any indication!
Hi Claudia - I am truly sorry for your best friend's loss. It's always a drag when someone checks out, with some methods more painful for those left behind than others. And some ways to leave make no sense at all, given the nature of our subtle bodies (Astral, Manasic, Buddhic, Atmic, Monadic, and Adi). These are also very real and a part of our existence. And the lower realms are truly an illusion born of duality, since Atma-Buddhi is absolute Love-Wisdom-Spirit. Killing the lower is missing the mark since they end of their own vibrational impermanence.
Posted by: Robert | July 16, 2012 at 11:57 AM
Hi Robert. I had a busy weekend. Played at my favorite B & B. As this place is also a great event place in Yokosuka Shi Monday I hit the beach and needed to be by tge ocean. I know it is a bit rusky but I went in the Ocean. I had a crazy weekend. I had some problems with old friends which is sad and tgey have nit apologized or are aware if tgeir dysfunctional behaviour! They got promptly kicked out of tge B & B late Saturday night I have two planets being hit by the G.I. My neptune in scorpio at 18 d in the fourth house and my saturn in aquarius at 29 d in the 7tg house.
Posted by: Micheline | July 17, 2012 at 05:16 PM