Fran Arnet
Jan 1512 min
Updated: Apr 2
The novel plays in a small town in which a new “second hand store” is opened. People find all kinds of things they have already wished or dreamed of for a long time and they can get “the wish” cheaply with the additional promise of “owing a favor”…. Most other people, do not see any value in the things people got as the things look old, broken, stained etc., yet when they enter the shop they too find something “valuable” to them…. Almost the whole town, made a promise to the shop owner without knowing what they will be asked for as a price….
This is very matching with the Astrology - current and upcoming!
What we perceive as beautiful, artistic, and valuable is a Venus theme and of course, it does include non-material things… “heart desires” can at times go against our personal “core values or self”, depending the own "basis of operation"….
Before I go deeper into Venus themes - also related to an astronomical article I’ve read - I would like to introduce you to two outer planets and their current aspect:
Pluto - currently in heliocentric view in early sidereal Capricorn - Pluto themes are transformation, death and rebirth, power and manipulation also on an atomic level… read more about Pluto on my website….
Orcus - currently in heliocentric view at around 20 degrees sidereal Leo - Orcus themes are oath, promises, life path and similar…
Both, Pluto and Orcus are planets of “higher or deeper octaves” (as all planets beyond Neptune - a different “realm”), often not directly visible/perceived, as they might be obscured etc. - we’re with them also talking about “universal laws” as like in “cause and effect”, resonance etc. …. Furthermore, those planets do often have a “cutting through” feel, may strike us as hard and difficult….
Since August 2023, the Two are in a 135° angle and will remain in this angular ecliptical distance until ca. middle/end of March 2025.
The 135°aspect in astrology is called a “sesquiquadrate” and is about “action” or some kind of manifestation and its distribution, radiation etc. or “marketing”… At times we market ourselves just like birds would do their “mating dance” etc. or we “market” a service, object or product, a piece of art but ALWAYS our “state of vibration”.
“Presentation” in this sense, does include the theme of “need”, desire, wanting something or seeing a benefit, practicality or anything alike within something (we can also call it a purpose). We want to produce a “resonance”, presenting ourselves or our “goal” or what we want to “fulfill”….
Important - what someone “needs” is not necessarily what one wants or wishes for and that’s where things can become “tricky”…
As Pluto talks about power and the misuse of it (within and without), but also deep hidden or “secret” themes there might be some “inner need or goal” that needs to be concentrated onto….
Pluto has shifted from the constellation Sagittarius into the "outskirts" of the constellation Capricorn, which means, there’s no longer finding truth and creating ideals the task, but to actually focus on what we have identified that to be…
Yet, because we’re always “vibrating our current energy out”, we’re constantly producing that “resonance”…. therefore, what we get might not have been what we wanted but what we “needed” in order to get the hidden message / truth, that needs to be translated into a “lesson learned”, into power….
When we think of Orcus as the promises, the oaths and paths we took and take, we can see how these Two, especially with this aspect now, work wonderfully and beneficially for us….
Easier said than done, I know… because it’s sometimes difficult to convert a “lesson learned” or “Aha moment” from the theoretical understanding into practicality or action…. - it’s the thought and action, that will “ground” the power…
As in the above story - the shop owner was a “Pied Piper” and it was up to every single person individually, if they “buy or promise” into the offer or not….
Yet at times, we’re our own “Pied Piper” - especially when we’re trapped in fear based behaviors, programs, attachments, desires etc., we’re then prey to ourselves (excuses we make, being stagnant, unwilling to change etc.) as well as easy prey for people who can sense that…
Imagine you would have the task to rob someone’s bag/purse at a train station late at night… you would look for someone who looks weak, insecure, afraid etc. in order to avoid a fight… therefore, when we want to safely walk through the train station late at night, it’s the own vibration, radiation that will protect us….
Every cause has an effect and every effect has a cause …. very simple truth and can in both directions be a very important tool…. like for diagnostic, for direction etc. …
These are things, that have not started just yesterday - humanity has been developing such strategies of “relief patterns” in a bigger scale for quite some time….
Yet, now we’re in a state of “development”, within which we have the ability, power and strength to face them and to resolve them…
It’s not about blame, punishment nor anything alike but of understanding the patterns and principles at work and to start to try to apply them in a beneficial way….
“Inner fire”, passion and devotion, following a “calling”, commitment - well - that’s something we will be challenged with ….
We have two ways open - we can either devote ourselves in the “relief patterns” and in this sense commit to the “artificial fears and their artificial relief” or we devote ourselves to the “resolution”, the transformation that leads to change…
If pain, failure and all these emotions are “pushed away”, artificially blocked by whatever, we won’t learn the lesson and therefore we may repeat them….
“Real” worries and fears are great powers and not “bad” - imagine the stories we hear from people who could lift cars to rescue a child or loved one, which without the combination of the love and the fear, they would not have been able to do so…. When we experience sudden worries, fears, doubts etc., then these can be great tools, warning systems etc. …
As that Pluto and Orcus aspect will be active for quite some more months, a “triangle” will form with any planet in a 90 degree angle to Orcus (when a planet stands in later sidereal Taurus) and therefore 135 degrees angle with Pluto can be occupied by various faster moving planets until middle of March 2025 and give us specific “topics” within which the aspects will correlate…. (it will be similar with planets in 90 degree angle from Pluto in earlier sidereal Aries and still constellation Pisces).
Mercury, Venus and Earth, will form such angles more than once in this period…
Saying this - we have the connection to….
Venus will "challenge” the “status quo” and as a result, maybe be “transformed” in her value system or better said in ours….
Venus is “connected” to the heart, and it’s said, that this means of “magnetic energy”.
Magnetic fields are like “bubbles” that can have a “protective” energy to it - what comes in, what goes out…
I find this very matching with the position of her Southnode over the Orion’s shield and at the “entering” side of the galactic equator band….
I did read this little article on Space .com about Venus. (Article linked here)
For quite a while, some phenomena have been observed in the atmosphere of Venus and described as “lightning bolts”… whether or not these were really “lightning bolts” or not was discussed for quite some time and now a 2021 study shows some data, that does shed some light onto the lightning….
There are “whistler waves” (on Earth) - which are some kind of electromagnetic waves that on Earth are in direct relationship with lightning discharges. On Earth these whistler waves go from Earth up and out…
New data show, that on Venus they go the other way round - from outside down into direction of Venus’ surface….
A study in 2023 is talking about the idea, that the “lightning” observed on Venus, might actually be meteors that are burning up in the atmosphere…
Another theory says, that - I copy in - “the waves stem from disturbances in the planet's magnetic fields. Or, more specifically, the idea is that magnetic field lines surrounding Venus may break apart then snap back together, in turn producing bursts of energy exhibited as none other than whistler waves.”
Venus’ magnetosphere is “different”
It seems that Venus doesn’t produce her magnetic field the same way as Earth does. It’s not a result from core but rather an interaction or “absorption” from the solar magnetics brought by solar winds, that does “feed” the field…. interestingly her magnetosphere is also shaped like the heliosphere (the bubble around the whole solar system)…
These “outside in” parts of Venus, do have a very interesting “aspect” to the astrological meaning of Venus - the heart is filled from “the Sun - core self and expression” - so, it’s the “living from Self and the own expression, that makes us not only “beautiful” but the “heart singing” …
I leave it up to you, to further philosophize on the “current state of science” and its possible correlations….
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Pluto and Orcus together form a kind of “over or under tone” - they don’t work as directly as the personal planets like Mercury, Venus or Mars…. this principle is the same with any planet beyond Neptune…. “other realms” in this sense…
We’re just in the beginning of this aspect - the exact degrees, minutes and seconds will be reached on 16th/17th of April 2024…
The last time, the Two were in this aspect was in October 1860….
They are in an almost 1:1 orbital resonance, meaning their orbit-time in Earth years is very similar and therefore they hardly ever conjoin and when they’re in any specific angular distance to each other, it remains for a while…
I have in the 1300 years I examined, not been able to find any conjunctions - the Two come as close as 60 degrees to each other and then an “interchange of speed” (perihelion - aphelion or whatever) happens and they drift apart again…. (same phenomena is observable with many of the main Asteroids in the main-belt)…
In the 1860 chart, Orcus was “faster” than Pluto…. (circled greed)
In the 2024 chart, Pluto is faster than Orcus…. (circled red)
What I really find very interesting between the 2024 and the 1860 angles, is the fact, that Neptune is in both charts at about the same position in sidereal Pisces under the Circlet and above the South Galactic Pole…
In the 2024 chart, Neptune (dreams, illusion and disillusion, escapism and gaining clarity) will be conjoined by Venus (beauty, art, value system) and Hygiea (purity, hygiene and maintenance)…
In the 1860 chart, Neptune was conjoined by Mars (action, vitality, leadership, and the will) and Sedna…
Sedna is the farthest out planet used by Astrologers at the moment (and by far not all of us) - she’s of an even outer realm than Eris, kind of “re-emerging” but also about very creative energies, the ability to leave everything behind and start anew or building an “own kingdom”…. When I think of her, I get this picture of the “neverending story” - imagination or phantasy of something new, totally unknown as like from another world, which is then created (mostly still like in literature and film)…
There’s also the Orcus - Varuna conjunction which became exact in 1868 - Varuna is also one of those “planets beyond Neptune”, discovered not long ago, and I see in this energy a correlation to the principles of rhythm and waves, up and down, in and out as like in breathing etc., and that all also links to music and colors and vibration …
As this aspect is one of “radiation, dissemination and marketing”, we need to look “back” from the actual date of exact and ahead of it… just like in cause and effect….
Something that stroke me, while reading about those times was the discovery of petroleum oil, kerosene and similar.
In 1847 a Scottish chemist named James Young, distilled natural petroleum into a light thin oil (used in lamps) and a thicker oil (lubricants).
In 1850 he patented not only those oils but an oil distilled from coal which is called paraffin wax (Vaseline) and formed a partnership and commercial business….
In 1846 a Canadian geologist named Abraham Pinero Gesner also experimented with coal, oil and more and discovered a liquid called “kerosene”….
In 1859 the first modern oil well in America was drilled in Pennsylvania.
In 1865 John D. Rockefeller founded the company Standard Oil. (changed names later)
Around 1840 the “industrial revolution” ended…
Another rather important “manifestation” of the time, with vast impact was the book “on the origin of species” by Charles Darwin, published in 1859.
I think, this did open doors for many happenings - including the research on “natural abilities” or practices previously called “evil or witchcraft”… but maybe also to the researches on genetics etc.
Florence Nightingale was a very active and well known person of those times.
I find it very interesting, that she did especially work on increasing cleanliness or hygiene in the field she worked… (also battle fields) … and that does so wonderfully fit into Hygiea opposing Pluto in that 1860 chart…
Yes, there are more things we could add to this list - yet, we understand the principle now and I think, we all get the idea of “technologies” being involved and as I said further up, it’s about the differences between “relief and resolution” as well as the creation of “needs”….
It seems also pretty obvious, that there’s the theme of “technological advancement” that was involved then and IS today…. (explanation further down)
I know, it may sound a little complicated, when trying to show “correlations”… I try to make it simple:
I looked up the chart, roughly corresponding to October 2023 - that was in early April 1860 - then Orcus and Varuna were conjoined by Juno and the 3 stood “around” the longitude of the Galactic Center.
In October 2023 Varuna stood at the longitude of Praesepe M44 Beehive cluster in the middle of the constellation Cancer (for a while already and quite a while longer).. giggles, guess where Juno is now?? - yep, conjoining Varuna at the Beehive Cluster… In the 2024 chart, Juno will stand just 7 degrees ahead of Orcus in sidereal Leo (Juno at her own Northnode and orbital points of Uranus are involved there with Orcus and Juno’s placements)…
Juno is of “one to one relationships” of all kinds, also the one with Self, if she’s “imbalanced” it can bring behaviors like “superior or inferior complexes”.
Yes, the correlations with Uranus in the 1860 charts is there, but it’s a complicated or not as “direct” one and so I hope, you excuse, that I won’t go into detail but leaving a (Hint: Eris and Makemake in Aquarius in square to Uranus in Taurus)… If you would like to know more, please leave a message in the comment section…
Uranus is a liberator and rebellion, a “scientist”, of creation and progress or “future oriented” and is thus also associated with technology and I go as far as adding the term “bio - technology”….
Imagine a person from 1860 suddenly waking up one morning to a digital display saying “Friday October 13 2023”…. hmmm…. this person would probably not even recognize the coffee machine as such, nor anything that is “touch pad”, remote controlled or similar…
They would feel as being on a different planet…
The novel 1983 was considered a “horrible outlook” and as something that wouldn’t happen and yet, we have even surpassed it….
Then came the movies “matrix” and also this was thought maybe as a “possibility” but nothing “real”… yet, nowadays we live in such a digital world, within which anything can be manipulated and nobody knows anymore what is “reality”…
Somebody has a “vision”, an idea, a discovery etc. - out of that, further ideas are created - naturally, because we want to give “purpose” to what we have… because anything that we don’t “use” or give any “purpose” to, will kind of “degenerate”, be assimilated, etc.
A very good tool of “marketing”, of keeping something “alive” is to have a story or movie about - something that seems to be “just a story” can’t be “threatening” but same time it’s disseminated… an idea reaches many, many people….
Suddenly, without anybody really knowing how, that “story” becomes “alive” in our lives, outside a book or movie….
WOW…
The ideals we follow nowadays, the values we hold high - where are they coming from and whom are they serving???
Pluto is now faster than Orcus - transformational when we look at the path of the Human collective so far and what it “reveals”… how the “creative powers” work, how they always work, if we are now consciously aware of or not…
There are two very important words
no
yes
For “creation” only “yes” counts, as it’s a choice, a decision… The “no” does put a process “back” or onto “halt” because we have to find the one we can say “yes” to….
Therefore, if we say “no” and then are doing nothing further, we’re in a “halt”, we may after a while even feel “stuck” ….
I said above, we create if “consciously aware or not” - yes, yet, those who do apply the principles consciously are having more “affect or impact” as they put a different “focus” and “emotion” to it….
Just like if one is focused on work and someone comes in and asks, if we want a coffee and we may say “yes” and are then astonished when we get a coffee because we can’t really remember and may realize we would have preferred an orange juice, then shrug and take the coffee…
The correlation of our thoughts and emotions onto our physical wellbeing has been studied for quite a while now and is applied in various forms and techniques all over the world….
Now we’re in a time, we experience clearly how much that also influences our surrounding, our experience on this world…
With this experience, we also realize how much impact and power we hold ….
Much Love to you All,
Fran