Since the start of the year, well-coiffed Venus has been experiencing an extended bad-hair-day between hanging out with Saturn and then going retrograde in her sign of detriment (Aries). The Ram is downtown, to Venus’ uptown girl. Ruled by libidinal Mars, Aries is a young, fiery, impatient, impulsive place – boisterous and loud, bumping and grinding. Picture Little Italy in the 1950s.
Ritzy Venus doesn’t do well in this part of town. And while Planet Love has been trying its best of late to bring Venusian beauty, charm, and love to the Ram, Venus-in-Aries transits are ultimately shallow: romance tends to feel tawdry, emotional connections facile, talk cheap. In the end, Planet Love always emerges from these Aries jaunts with a high heel broken.
But now, Venus is coming home to Taurus, ready to take a nice, long, candle-lit bath, while listening to Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major and sipping champagne. See, Taurus is all the things Aries is not: steady, luxurious, sensual, secure, grounded. It’s like the interior of a lovely, calm brownstone somewhere on a tree-lined street in the West Village, safe from the acidic snake hiss of the city outside.
What activities should you do this transit?
To align with the earthiness of Venus in Taurus, then, we should think about engaging in the following kinds of activities over the next month: planting, gardening, savouring, Netflixing, napping, pampering, decadently disregarding diet; stretching out amid ultra high thread counts in lux boutique hotels with discrete patios, their tabletops italicised with the glint of wine glasses lightly poured.
In short, Taurus is all about enjoying the finer things. This makes sense, given its fixed earth nature. Here we have a worldly sign that takes its time as it dines. It never rushes. This tempo is perfect for Venus, which needs to feel secure and safe in order to work its magic, to spread its perfume through the universe, and to slowly kindle our love and desire. Where Aries is fast, Taurus is slow. And that’s key for Venus to flourish in our lives.
We should, of course, be a bit circumspect here and give you the caveats that come with a Venus in Taurus transit, such as: beware of too many lazy Sundays that stretch into Wednesdays, which stretch again to Sunday. The shadow side of this placement can be ignoble ease or sloth. Too much decadence.
Venus in Taurus can also shade toward neediness – always wanting assurances from a partner in the hope of thereby gaining an ever firmer sense of security. Try not to alienate a beloved by seeking claustrophobic comfort.
These little disclaimers aside, we should enjoy this halcyon transit. It only lasts four weeks, alas.
Video by Kieran Behan
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