Ask An Astrologer: The Moon In the House of Venus
THE MOON IN THE HOUSE OF VENUS
Time is different now, right? whatever was tethering us to our previous reality has loosed itself and, at least for me, cast a certain kind of spell wherein my relationship to ART (Venus) and the natural world (also Venus) — is changed — though i’m not sure if i can here explain how. seems our current quandary is doing some alchemical thing —
THE MOON, which tonight at 10:35 pm is full in Libra, one of Venus’ houses — is, among other things, earth’s satellite — ever-reflective of what we’re up to, what’s afflicting and sweetening us, and what afflictions seem to be making us sweeter. if the moon is the city — the changing and wildly populated streets of our lives, the sun is primary time which hovers above our earthen experiences, which still yellows the streets even as we are indoors. the sky moves on, it reminds us. and it moves in a circle. gold. as the alchemist’s called it, prima materia. first matter. whatever invisibly holds us together — gives us the feeling of an original force above and beyond our freaky human stuff. beyond Venus, our birth charts. a “core realization” at which we arrive after the alchemical process. reckoning? which feels like…..?
ZODIACAL AIR
SOCIAL STUFF, this Libran moon does. our sky is getting airier — more theoretical — a little ZOOM(ier), techy mobility. you can feel that, right? Saturn is now in an air sign (Aquarius), Venus just moved into Gemini, where she’ll be in residence through August 7th — and she’s also the caretaker of this full moon in Libra. a triangulation of the mental element:
“air, i’ve got more air on the other line. can you please hold?”
“no.”
“k. i’ll merge the calls.”
the sun is still in Aries, of course — a fiery pheromone. so the Libra-Aries (VENUS-MARS) axis is always and especially today, about questions of the SELF & the OTHER(S). how we maneuver the joysticks of our lives vs. how we dissolve. how we do social justice. how we are sunsets. how social justice IS harmony, is beauty. how we filter our sensorium of experiences through the arena of the mind, another kind of alchemy. this newsletter. etc.
I THINK OF LIBRA as the people-watching kind of socializing. whereas Gemini likes to do zoomed-in conversation with expressive gesticulations of hand and face and Aquarius likes the idea of interacting, Libra is fascinated less by HUMANITY and more by PEOPLE — our juiciness and oddities, our shared pain. Libra loves to watch us realize the truth of what this archetype knows in its bones — there are no “higher level souls” and there can be “no king (or queen) where everyone is king-queen by divine right.” (Rudhyar). we are not allowed to close-talk at the moment, but we can watch people from 6+ feet away — the Libra moon reminds.
HOW TO SEE not in black and white but in prismatic grey? to know in the body-mind that we are all capable of greatness, meh-ness, and horror? Libra teaches us about leveling the playing field. we are all particles on Libra’s scales of justice. no soapboxes, no kings, just scales. and this is Venus’s sign, so the scales are baroque, kind of sexy…
VENUS VENUS EVERYWHERE & A FAREWELL QUESTION
2 VENUS-RULED LUNATIONS THIS MONTH:
FULL MOON IN LIBRA: TONIGHT, APRIL 7TH (TONIGHT)
NEW MOON IN TAURUS: APRIL 22ND (WE COMMENCE VENUS EXPERIMENT)
Emmalea Russo is a writer, astrologer, and creative. Her writing on astrology, culture, art, and literature appears in Cosmopolitan, Poetry Foundation, The Thirlby, Los Angeles Review of Books, Fanzine, BOMB Magazine, and elsewhere and her published books are G (2018) and Wave Archive (2019). She has been a writer-in-residence at 18th Street Arts Center (LA) and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (NY). Emmalea writes and podcasts on astrology and culture at The Avant-Galaxy. In her practice, she combines ancient and modern astrology, tarot, and creative praxis, helping her clients connect with their stars for a more cosmically nuanced life experience. She uses astrology as a language, art, and tool for connection.
In this bi-monthly column, Emmalea will tackle real-life situations from an astro perspective. Think: A punk-rock Dear Prudence, with a natal chart for good measure.