The Sto­ry of Love

Your Avatar of Val­ue is turn­ing around; your plan­et of love is going ret­ro­grade once again.

Of course, what is real­ly hap­pen­ing is that, like on a cir­cu­lar race track, Venus is pass­ing Earth on its “inside track”. Where­as Mer­cury will turn ret­ro­grade every 3.8 months for about 21 days, Venus turns ret­ro­grade every 19.2 months for about 40 days. (The last two times it turned were July 2015 and Decem­ber 2013, and the next time will be in Octo­ber 2018).

The gift of Venus ret­ro­grade is to take you on a jour­ney with­in your­self so that you may recon­sid­er your expe­ri­ence of val­ue. You are offered a won­der­ful oppor­tu­ni­ty to refresh-renew-restore your rela­tion­ship to beau­ty in the world, and to lov­ing­ly reaf­firm your affec­tions for one anoth­er. But this is all because the prin­ci­ple gift of Venus ret­ro­grade is to bring you back to the fun­da­men­tal truth that that the true foun­da­tion-source of val­ue is to be found in Spir­it, in that spark of the divine shin­ing there in all that sur­rounds you and equal­ly with­in you. It is this, this divine love, that is source of the immea­sur­able val­ue with­in your­self and your world too.

Venus retrograde’s gift will be mod­u­lat­ed by what­ev­er Sign Venus is mov­ing through. In this turn­ing, Venus moves from Aries back into Pisces, and so there will real­ly be two dis­tinct offer­ings of Venus for you this time.

While Venus loops back through Aries you are offered an oppor­tu­ni­ty to re-con­sid­er how well you have formed your nature or val­ue into your “per­sona”, into your “pres­ence”. Aries rules the way in which you meet and greet your world, it is your bear­ing, your demeanor and your atti­tude. All these ways you are you, all of it is ulti­mate­ly formed by what lies beneath, there in your heart of hearts, all made by your love. How you love (and what you love) flows out­ward to be revealed in the ways in which you move through time and space.

The fun­da­men­tal ques­tion of Venus in Aries is this: Do you under­stand that first you must love your­self. Or more exact­ly, do you under­stand that you are loved, and that you are always loved by your own high­er self, who is your ever-present beloved in life after life?

If you can move a lit­tle clos­er to this, then this will be reflect­ed in how you hold and con­duct your­self as you move through your world and how you treat one anoth­er. And how will you know?

Do you move with grace and ease? Do you encounter oth­ers with a lov­ing warmth and gra­cious­ness? Do you shine with what is with­in you, a lov­ing char­ac­ter and kind­ly pres­ence? Or, does your coun­te­nance reveal a soul that is more trou­bled, more inse­cure, in lack­ing true healthy self-love?

For you should know this by now, it is how you meet the world, and how you treat one anoth­er, it is by this that you sow the seeds of kar­ma, and of what will come back to you one day. The real­i­ty you encounter tomor­row you made today, by how you held your­self and by how you treat­ed one anoth­er. You and only you can make a bet­ter you.

Then on April 2^nd, Venus will ret­ro­grade back into Pisces for her sec­ond gift of spir­it. Here again the par­tic­u­lar expe­ri­ence of Venus-val­ue will be focused through the prin­ci­pal sen­si­bil­i­ty that Pisces encom­pass­es. As much as the expe­ri­ence of Aries is about your­self, about know­ing that the source of love must first to be found and held with­in your­self, and that it comes from your High­er Self lov­ing you…the expe­ri­ence of Pisces is the per­fect com­ple­ment to this.

For it is here in Pisces that you under­stand that the entire­ty of Cre­ation, from the small­est forms up to the grand­est stel­lar expans­es, you expe­ri­ence the feel­ing-know­ing that all of this is because of Love. You see that this Cre­ation is Love, and that it is resplen­dent with the Light of Love.

You feel exalt­ed and hum­bled by a Liv­ing Faith, know­ing that in the end there is but One Spir­it hold­ing one and all togeth­er, and that behind and through­out every part of Cre­ation, there is the One from whom all came, and whose true Nature is Pure Love.

And from this you under­stand that as much as you are here to love your­self, you are here to love one anoth­er too…for there is no dif­fer­ence. If you tru­ly under­stand, and know why and how you love your­self, then you will inevitably turn around and feel and live this uncon­di­tion­al love towards one anoth­er, and for all of Cre­ation too.

True Self-Love begets Self­less Love; the many return to the One.

The First Sign and the Last Sign of the Zodi­ac are tru­ly the Alpha and Omega of Life. You begin your jour­ney of self-dis­cov­ery, of being a one among many oth­er ones.

And you end your jour­ney being one of many who are held togeth­er by the One.

But through it all, from Sign to Sign and from Life to Life, you are a pre­cious spark in this Lumi­nous Jour­ney of Spirit.

You are in this great­est sto­ry ever told, the sto­ry of Love.