Venus, who is your Avatar of Val­ue, Beau­ty and Love, is turn­ing around once again. She does this about every 19 months or so and remains ret­ro­grade for about 40-plus days. This time she will turn ret­ro­grade on Octo­ber 4^th, reach the mid­point of her dance “back­wards” as she aligns with the Sun on Octo­ber 26^th, (where you may be reward­ed with a new-found truth about love and beau­ty), and turn direct on Novem­ber 16^th. (That date is quite inter­est­ing, as it the same day that Mer­cury turns ret­ro­grade once again).

When­ev­er a plan­et is ret­ro­grade it affords an oppor­tu­ni­ty for you to re-exam­ine, to go on an inner jour­ney of explo­ration and dis­cov­ery; it her­alds a time to turn with­in and to more deeply under­stand the realm and func­tions for that planet.

Over the next 42 days, you will be well reward­ed if you take more time to re-con­sid­er, to pause and reflect upon your own life and recent events, to ques­tion the very nature of what is “val­ue” to you, to your loved ones and for one and all.

Spir­i­tu­al­ly, the ever­last­ing Foun­tain-Source of Val­ue comes from this one essen­tial truth. That all of Cre­ation is the Love of the One shin­ing through every speck and mote of Cre­ation, for every­thing in this Uni­verse is “alive”; The One is shin­ing through one and all with the ever­last­ing Light of Spirit-Life-Consciousness.

For this ret­ro­grade, Venus begins to move back­wards through the Sign of Scor­pio, the very sign that brings you to the Truth of your indis­putable con­nec­tion with one anoth­er, and so equal­ly with this won­drous, beau­ti­ful Cre­ation that is all around you (and, you must under­stand, is you too).

Yes, in Scor­pio you must con­front “The Great Illu­sion” which is your expe­ri­ence as being sep­a­rate from this Ocean of Life; we as “Human” fall into untold error and pain as we move in and out of these mor­tal frames, because they most def­i­nite­ly seem to cre­ate the irrefutable fact that every­thing is dis­tinct and sep­a­rate from every­thing else. And from this error we then cre­ate divi­sions between and among our­selves. We stum­ble and fall into count­less errors of expe­ri­enc­ing one anoth­er dif­fer­ent­ly, and from mis­un­der­stand­ing and fear we relate to some more as sub­jects, and oth­ers, those we feel are not as us, we may treat them more and more as objects. We divide our­selves from our high­er self and we “fall” into error, because we for­get who and what we tru­ly are.

But in Scor­pio, and with Venus in Scor­pio cer­tain­ly, we are moved by our need and desire to attempt to reach beyond our sep­a­rate self, to break the bonds of lone­li­ness and fear and con­nect to that one spe­cial oth­er (or attempt to join with sev­er­al oth­ers in some enter­prise or group effort)…And what we dis­cov­er every time, through this Alchem­i­cal blend­ing-com­bin­ing-trans­form­ing realm, we encounter in this sacred space the agony and ecsta­sy of Scor­pio, we expe­ri­ence the gift of self-tran­scen­dence and re-birth. That by sac­ri­fic­ing what is the less­er with­in us in order to form the union, and by equal­ly affirm­ing what is the greater and tru­ly shared between us, it is by this death and re-birth that we encounter the great­est Truth…That ever and always at the core of each of us, and equal­ly found in this new­ly cre­at­ed cen­ter that we share in our Union, we encounter that all of Life is One. And, we feel and know that the ener­gy-form that binds togeth­er one and all, well that is Love. It is the force that holds all of us and Cre­ation togeth­er as we were and are, and as we will ever be. We come back to where we start­ed, as one of the ones of the One, and so we know we are here to love and be loved.

Yes, in this time of soul-search­ing, where you may under­stand the pain of loss and the joy of union that the ret­ro­grade of Scor­pio in Venus holds for you, you will smile and be most grate­ful for these reminders of your divin­i­ty and true nature. You are here to be fear­less; you are here to love.

You are immor­tal, yet you are here in a very mor­tal realm that requires that you move from life to life, and you will expe­ri­ence the ecsta­sy of mov­ing beyond your sep­a­ra­tion from one anoth­er to the joy of being one with one another…and all of this, this great song and dance of spir­it, it is all for you in order to bring you back, with wis­dom and grace and love to the know­ing that you were and always will be loved…for you are.

Because that is what you are…

You are one of the ones of the One.

And you are here quite sim­ply to see the oth­er, any oth­er, as yourself…

Because this is truth and it shines through in the dark­est of hours.

It comes from your heart, it is in your soul.

You are a most pre­cious spark of the Divine; and so is the one before you too.

You are here to love and be loved.

There is but one truth; there is the one true way.

Just love one another.