Waking up with Venus in Aries

Welcome to the Essential Astrocast. I am your host, Veronica Peretti, and this is the podcast you listen to when you want to know what's going on up in the heavens so that you can dictate your fate down here on earth. So I am so happy to be with you. I am recording this on Thursday, February 6th. It has been a wild week. And while I generally try to get this out to you early in the week this week it wasn't happening. And thanks to my friend, Michelle Mazur.

She's a wonderful marketing and communication maven strategist in her group called Expert Up Club. Check it out if you are a business owner. She talks about having different energies with how you show up in your business and she uses the Muppets. And I am embracing my animal energy. I'm embracing that animal energy of showing up when I. Feel inspired and motivated and feel like I have something to share with you that will be useful.

And I think I mentioned this last week, but I will mention it again. With everything going on in the world, it's really, really hard to show up here, record and say something that I think will be inspiring, helpful, soothing, and, you know, Help you feel like you are in a position to dictate your feet. And so when I am feeling unsettled, it is really hard for me to show up here and give you what I want to give you and you deserve to get from this podcast.

So I am here now that I am feeling much more in alignment with my own energy, much more grounded, much more settled, and feel my nervous system is regulated.

So what's been happening this week? It's been wild. And one of the reasons it's been wild is that we had some really tough energy on Monday. So I'm going to back up even before Monday, just to remind you that on Sunday we had Imbolc or Groundhog's Day. So we are officially halfway to spring. So the rebirth is coming. It's figuratively, literally, metaphorically in all the ways. Jupiter also stationed to go direct on Tuesday, February 4th, which is delightful.

So everything feels bigger and amplified when Jupiter is stationing. So everything feels big. Everything feels over the top right now because Jupiter was stationing on Tuesday and we were feeling that energy about five days before and we are continuing to feel it for about five days. But the thing that was really tough was that on Monday, February 3rd, we had Mars Square Chiron. So Chiron is the wounded healer. It often points us toward our core wound.

It pokes, you know, when something touches Chiron, it pokes. And so Mars square Chiron was a poke at the wound. And you know, when someone pokes at your wound or put salt in your wounds, like it doesn't feel good. It makes it pretty unhappy. So that's what was happening energetically in the sky on Monday and Tuesday. And really over last weekend, because we were feeling it sometimes with Mars transits, we actually feel them before they happen.

So, you know, it was intense early in this week and over the weekends, we had this whole situation happening with this, what I will call a hostile takeover of the government by a private citizen, Elon Musk, who is basically given. The reigns of the government without any accountability or oversight. So, you know, it's one of those moments in our history where it's really hard to separate the politics from from the astrology, right?

Like, we're seeing the astrology play out in front of our eyes, so I can't ignore that. So I'm going to share that here when it is useful. And this is a moment where people are freaking out. You know, we had our cosmic conversation on Monday. So every other Monday now I'm hosting cosmic conversation, which is free. Feel free to sign up. I will link up. The link to save your seat in the show notes below. The next one will be February 17th, which is actually president's day.

And it's at 5 p. m. Eastern time. It's a great way to tune into the astrology and check in and then ground your energy as you move into the week. But this week it was a little wacky because we were all so. Spun out by what was going on in the news. So we were all going along for that ride. We were all feeling irritated and agitated and poked and prodded and provoked by what we were seeing in the news. So that was, you know, the energy of the early part of the week.

And then on Tuesday Not only did Jupiter station to go direct, but Venus entered Aries and you might have noticed All this week. Everybody's been saying where the Democrats what are they doing? They need to show up. They need to be more effective They need to be louder. They need to be angrier And then all of a sudden on Wednesday, February 5th, people started to wake up people. There was a big showing of protests around the country yesterday on Wednesday.

And I think that was because we felt that ingress of Venus enter Aries on Tuesday. And then on Wednesday, we had the moon join with Uranus and Uranus is currently in Taurus. And when the moon, the moon rules how we feel, it rules our mood. So the moon touches Uranus and that makes us wake up because Uranus is the planet of waking up. Uranus is the planet of shaking us awake, encouraging us to have the breakthrough. It's always going to be seeking out freedom and liberation at all costs.

So the moon joins Uranus and everybody starts to wake up yesterday and we saw those protests across the country. And we saw there was a 30 hour filibuster in the Senate. There were a lot of actions being taken yesterday. And we're going to see more action now from the opposition, the Democrats and people in this country that are not interested in having you know, this Grasp or grabbing or overreach of power from the executive branch.

We're going to see that opposition rise up because Venus has entered Aries and remember, or you may not remember, but I'm gonna share with you that in ancient times. Venus was not only looked at as love and beauty and relationships and rest and rejuvenation and enjoying a nice meal Venus was seen as all of those things in one capacity, but also she was considered a planet of war. So if you were going to war with another country you know. You would look to what's Venus doing?

Not only what's Mars doing, but what's Venus doing? So, Venus is our, how we relate to one another. So, of course, yes, she is all the beauty. All the love, but sometimes the way we relate to each other is really ugly and that's Venus too. So Venus is now in Aries welcome. And not only is she in Aries but she's in her pre retrograde shadow.

So she is going to retrograde in March, so she will come back and revisit these early degrees of Aries as well as go back into Pisces and revisit the late degrees of Pisces. But what's interesting about Venus in Aries is that she's a fighter. When she gets into Aries, you know what? She doesn't have all her tools. She is in what some call exile. Because she rules the opposite sign of Libra and in Libra, Venus wants fairness. She wants equality.

She wants everyone to get an equal slice of pie, but when she is in Aries, she does not have those tools. She is not mired in looking for justice. She is looking to get hers. She is looking for a fight. And she is looking to stand up for what's important to her. So what's important to you and what's important to someone else are going to be different. And that means there's going to be a lot of fighting going on with Venus and Aries. On the good side, guess what?

There is a fight to be had and we need people to show up with some fire. And Venus and Aries is going to give us that fire. So if you felt like a little rumbling in your belly, a little fire getting lit since Tuesday, well, that could be Venus and Aries. So that's what's been going on this week, just to clue you in and I'll talk to you about what's coming. So luckily the moon is now in Taurus. Or no, it was in Taurus. And now the moon is in Gemini.

And the moon in Gemini can make us feel a little bit scattered sometimes. But I like it because the moon in Gemini is tuning us into that Jupiter energy. And Jupiter has just stationed on Tuesday. So we're really feeling into that Jupiter energy. And Jupiter reminds us to It reminds us to have faith, it reminds us to learn, it reminds us to to amplify and expand.

And so while Jupiter in Gemini is not my favorite, and it's been really tough, and it has certainly proliferated misinformation and disinformation through the collective. I think that these, the communication that's going on now, we're going to get it out. It's a good time to get out communications. It's one of the reasons I'm recording the podcast today. It's like, okay, Jupiter, the moon is coming to Jupiter. We have an opportunity to express ourselves and get it out there.

And it's in a wide trine. To the sun and Mercury in Aquarius and the sun and Mercury are joining together their exact Kazemi, what we call a Kazemi, the conjunction when they come perfectly together is a Kazemi. It means that the planet enters the heart of the sun and is purified and there's a moment of absolute clarity. We are gearing up for that. That is coming on Sunday. So I really like the latter part of this week.

Because I think today, on Thursday, with the moon activating Jupiter and then having that same, also trining the sun, Mercury It is going to help us start to communicate, to express ourselves, to get the message out. So I think one of the things that people are really frustrated about is they don't feel like they have marching orders. They don't feel like they know what to do. And when we don't have action to take, we feel helpless and hopeless.

Luckily the moon coming to Jupiter and moon and Jupiter in a wide trine to Sun, Mercury, and Aquarius, all of that air working together Gives us an opportunity to lean into communicating those marching orders So two of the people that I recommend following for that Are AOC, you can find her on Instagram and YouTube You can sign up for her newsletter, which I do. I really appreciate her words Even if you're not necessarily Bought into her policies completely.

I think she's one of the few people out there that's really showing up as a leader and. Being really clear about the action items. What actions can you take in this moment? So I do recommend following her. And then I recommend following EmilyInYourPhone. She's on Instagram, at EmilyInYourPhone. She's also on Substack. And I love following her because she also gives you action items.

And I think one of the worst things that we all can be doing right now is staying plugged into the news all day long. Because that is completely frying our nervous systems and continuing to keep us in that state of helplessness and hopelessness. So step away, put on some music. Yesterday, I, my nervous system was fried on Tuesday. So I knew I had to shift.

And so, on Wednesday morning, Instead of turning on the headlines that I listen to while I'm making the coffee and feeding the cats, I put on music. So put on music. Music is so soothing. It is so helpful for allowing our brains to take a break. It's so helpful for cultivating creative ideas. It's so helpful for bringing us back to the present moment. I think music is probably the most powerful of all the arts, in my personal opinion. And it's one of the most Piscean of the arts.

And we're moving into Pisces season soon. So I'm not going to get too much into that. But I wanted to say, like, music is really useful. Particularly in Pisces season. Speaking of Pisces.

One of the reasons things feel So Foggy, and it's literally so foggy Around my house right now, and I always feel like when there's Neptune transits. I literally see fog We have the North Node conjunct Neptune today And the next day or so But we've been feeling that all week so the North Node Newly is in Pisces. It was in Aries, now it's in Pisces. The nodes travel backwards to the zodiac. So the south node is in Virgo, north node is in Pisces, north node is conjunct Neptune today.

Neptune creates fog. Neptune creates illusion, delusions. It is a source of fantasy. And it encourages us to escape reality. One of the things associated with Neptune is music. Because it helps us do those things. And that can be a really healthy thing. And there are going to be moments where you need that escape right now. And I encourage you to use those tools that help you escape in a healthy manner.

Because that escape from what's going on around us actually helps you go deeper within and connect to your truest, highest, deepest experience of yourself, your intuition. And when we tune into that place, which is never changing, always there, we experience calm. We experience ease, we experience peace, and that's the essence of yoga and meditation. And that's why those things are associated with the, with the subconscious and hence associated with Neptune, in my opinion.

So Neptune is in Pisces and has been for like 13 years or something. It's going to be moving soon. This is the year that Neptune will move into Aries, and that will be Very big and very intense, but a conversation for another day that is in my 2025 year ahead workshop. So if you haven't already purchased that on my website, you can go to my website and on the astrology page, you can purchase the 2025 year ahead workshop.

And I talk all about a lot about Saturn and Neptune being co present in Pisces and then moving together into Aries this year. And that's going to be a big, big shift that is coming. So just like Venus just went into Aries, those two planets will go into Aries, which is much more notable because they much, they move much slower around the Zodiac. And it is something that we'll dip into deeply throughout the year.

But just know that fire in your belly that you may have felt over the past day or so, we're going to have that fire. There's going to be a lot of fire coming. So I know it's frustrating when you feel like I'm stuck. I'm in the fog. I don't know what to do. I feel helpless. I need action. Aries. It's the king of action. We're going to have a lot of action to take this year.

So give yourself grace and do the things that you know you need to do like rest and repair so that you can be ready to take the action when it's your time to take action. Something else I wanted to mention this week is that We often feel so reactive because we live in a very instant gratification oriented culture. But there is a time for each of us to take action, right? So, there are going to be moments where you're resting, and I like the idea of a choir.

And this is not something I came up with myself. Michael Moore shared this back in 2017. In, you know, the first go round of this madness and Michael Moore in, on the time I was on Facebook, I'm not on their Facebook anymore, but he shared on Facebook that we're in a chorus and there are going to be days where you're singing really loud and there are going to be days where you're probably just mouthing the words and resting your voice.

So Rest your voice if this is your moment to rest so that you are prepared to sing really loud when someone else needs to rest. So just keep that in mind as we go through the next few weeks, few years, etc. Okay, there are going to be moments for rest and moments for action. And only you know when it's your moment for action and when it's your moment for rest.

Okay, so things feel really foggy and uncertain and unsettled because the North Node is conjunct Neptune, and for the past week we had Venus conjunct those planets too. So if you just felt like, I don't know what to do, and I don't know what's important to me anymore, and I'm just so overwhelmed, well, hello. That is Neptune to a T. So we experienced that and now we are still in that a little bit, but we thankfully have Venus and Aries and the Mercury Kazemi coming.

And those things are kind of waking us up and giving us a sense of direction again, which is helpful.

So the other thing that I really like coming this week is that on Friday the 7th we have. Venus, sextile, Pluto. So sextiles are collaborative aspects. That means the planets are working together and they know how to help each other. Venus is of course associated with all those things that I mentioned, you know, relationships, beauty. Art, et cetera, but also our values, what's important to us what we're willing to fight for, especially when she's an Aries.

So she's going to be in a sextile to Pluto and Aquarius, and I've been talking about Pluto and Aquarius for a long time, but just to remind you, we are in a new 20 year era of Pluto and Aquarius. We are in a new Aquarian era. None of us have been on this planet with Pluto and Aquarius before. Other than the past two years when it dipped in, dipped out, dipped in, dipped out. Okay, so now he's here.

So Pluto in Aquarius is destroying the, a lot of the infrastructure we know for the sake of rebirth. And we, in my opinion, are all here to be part of whatever that rebirth is, right? So we all have a part to play. We all have a Dharma. We all have a purpose being on the planet at this moment. And Venus working with Pluto helps us be strategic about playing our part and about being aware of the powers that be. How power might be controlled or utilized.

These are things that Pluto is associated with. So when Venus and Pluto work together, it helps us strategize. So you're strategizing for the sake of your values, whatever they are, and they can be different than someone else's. Remember, we're all experiencing this astrology, but because you're here listening to this podcast, it means that you're utilizing the energy. You're not just mindlessly and unconsciously moving through the world and throwing spaghetti at the wall.

You are mindfully and consciously choosing to utilize the energy in a particular way, directing it in a particular direction. So strategize on Friday. This is great for cultivating community. And one of the things that we keep coming back to. With all the smart people that I'm following, everyone is saying cultivating community. And cultivating community does not have to mean you are gathering together to get out the vote. You can cultivate community by having a girls night with your neighbors.

That's what I'm doing on Friday. Just really fortifying those bonds so that those people are there for you and you are there for them. Because we see what's happening. There is a, a desire to destroy the social safety net that we have. So we have to do the job of fortifying those, those bonds in our communities. Okay, so on Saturday, the sun will sextile. Chiron. So that is going to help us with fortifying those connections and experiencing some healing. And God knows we need some healing.

So if you have an opportunity on Saturday to do something healing, take a rest, put away the phone, go for a walk in nature, whatever it is that heals you, lean into that on Saturday. We will also have, because The Sun and Mercury are so close together, preparing for that conjunction, that Kazemi on Sunday. They're both going to sextile Chiron on Saturday. So really, really, really important this weekend to give yourself space and time to do the things that feel healing to you.

And then Sunday we'll have that Kazemi. We'll have that Clear, that clarity, that clarification, that purification of Mercury, our planet of how we understand things, how we see the world, how we express ourselves. So that is going to be powerful, especially because it's in Aquarius, Aquarius is an air sign. Aquarius is the sign of taking in the picture from Overhead. Seeing the whole thing. Seeing how all the parts are working together. So we are in Aquarius season. The sun is there.

Mercury is there. It is helping us gather all the information and see the big picture. It's not getting mired in the details. It's about taking the view from above. So let's all take the view from above and not necessarily get sucked down every single rabbit hole that someone else is trying to suck us down. Really being aware of how you are directing your attention. What's also exciting is that this sun Mercury conjunction means that both the sun and Mercury are squaring Uranus.

So that is something that is going to perfect next week. But we are being called to wake up. So my, my theme for this podcast basically today is that we are being called to wake up. This is a, this, I know it's felt really frustrating and we've all felt really bogged down, but we're waking up now. Okay. So be aware that you are waking up. How do you want to direct that energy? On Sunday, we also have Mars in cancer.

So remember we haven't even talked about it this podcast, but we've talked about it. It's on lately. Mars is retrograde. So Mars has been retrograde for like two months already. It's feels like the longest retrograde. Mars is retrograde in cancer right now. He will go direct, he'll station direct on February 23rd. So it is coming, thank God. And then it'll take quite some time for him to get back to his normal speed of forward motion.

And remember, we will have Venus going retrograde in March, but Venus retrograde is very different than Mars retrograde. I think Mars retrograde is much more frustrating in terms of our energy, our motivation, our drive, our sense of purpose. Venus retrograde is much more about really like having that internal experience of assessing what's important to us. And what do we really care about? What do we love? How do we love and how do we want to be loved?

Those are the things that Venus implores us to think about. So, it'll be a little bit of a different vibe. But all of that is to just give you a little inkling of what's coming up. So, Mars is still retrograde. He is in cancer. He's passive aggressive, you know? Although, frankly, with what's going on in the world, you would think he's aggressive aggressive. And that's because he's out of bounds. Actually, let me check. Is he still out of bounds? I believe he is.

I think he's going to be out of bounds till May. Indeed he is. So, Mars Out of Bounds is one of the reasons that all this stuff feels crazy right now. Because Mars Out of Bounds is like, completely unruly. And that is The experiencing we have, the experience we're having is that just everything feels unruly. There are no rules anymore, and thank you Mars outta bounds, retrograde, and cancer for that one.

Okay, so that is what's going on this week that Mars retrograde is going to trying SA on Sunday. My hope is that Saturn helps reel in some of that energy. I don't know if that's gonna happen. I think we're gonna have to lean into it, but I do think what you're working on, what you're waking up to, is going to have some stabilizing energy from Saturn, or at least that's my hope, because when Saturn and Mars get together, Saturn likes to pump the brakes. It is a trine, so we have to lean into it.

It's not gonna knock down our door. It's not going to make itself break. Really present we're gonna have to lean into it But we have the opportunity to lean into Saturn's stabilizing energy on Sunday Then on Monday, February 10th, we have Mercury square Uranus and then Tuesday, the 11th, the sun square Uranus, and really all of that is happening at the same time. You're not going to feel the difference between Monday and Tuesday.

You're going to feel them both pretty much through the weekend into early next week, but that sun Mercury Kazemi. That those two planets coming together and squaring Uranus early next week will feel like a wake up. It might feel like an electrification of new energy. I'm really hoping that that's what it feels like. We all need it. And that's it. That's what I got for you this week. Next week, we will have a full moon in Leo on Wednesday. I hope to be back here to talk about it before then.

That full moon will Have this square to Uranus in it. So that's part of the electrification energy that we're going to feel with that full moon. So early next week, know that people are going to be a little emotional. That full moon in Leo with that square to Uranus, people are going to be emotional. People might be a little over the top. Mars is out of bounds. So everything feels over the top, but guess what? What's going on in the world deserves an over the top reaction.

So. That seems normal to me.

For you, make sure that you are doing what you need to do to take care of yourself. I am going to say that every single week. You need to do that, what it is that you need to do to take care of yourself. Eating your meals, drinking your water, moving your body, making time for meditation, if that's part of your practice, sleeping enough at night. These are the basic things, but you need to really be focusing on the basic things right now.

The basic self care is imperative, so that we can all get through this and keep our heads about us. I have Cosmic yoga club is open right now. If you are interested in having my support and being in a community of like minded women practicing yoga tuning into the movement of the planets It's a great way to take care of yourself and to make sure that you're showing up and you're tending to your body and your breath and taking at least an hour three times a week to In the present moment.

So I would love to have you in cosmic yoga club. If you're not sure if it's right for you, you can go to my website. And go to veronicapredi. com slash yoga and learn a little bit more about it. And of course, you can always reach out to me if you have questions. I do have a few one on one reading spots available. So if you're interested in an astrology chart consultation, just make sure that you are on my email list. If you're not on my email list, you can go to my website.

And on the front page of my website, you can opt in to my email community and you will get the link for my one on one sessions, if that's something that you are interested in. And don't forget to sign up for the next Cosmic Conversation. That is It is an opportunity to come together to talk about astrology to talk about the energy, what's going on.

We do a little grounding meditation and a journal prompt at the end so that you can just go into your week feeling aligned with the energy that you want to be aligned with. So you can sign up for that on my website under the events page. And the next one will be February 17th, Monday the 17th at 5 p. m. Eastern Time. And

that's everything. I hope you have a wonderful week. Let's end with a deep breath because we all need it. So just take a moment. Either eyes open or closed. If you're driving, of course, keep them open. And just feel your breath as you inhale. Belly, ribs, and chest inflating. And as you exhale, let your chest, your ribs and your belly relax. And let's do it once more. As you inhale, feel your belly, your ribs and your chest inflate and expand.

And as you exhale, let your chest, your ribs, and your belly. Relax. Have a wonderful few days take care of yourself and I'll talk to you soon. Bye.