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发帖数: 13789 | 1 Venus is the second sphere through which solar power passes on its way
outward through the solar system. Yet from our point of view on earth, Venus
is the first planet on the inside of our orbit going towards the sun. As
such Venus represents the drive inward toward center, which meets the out-
surging solar flow.
While Mercury represents meeting experience at the level of the mind, Venus
refers to the inner value we give experience at the feeling-level. It is
often said that Venus is the planet of love and attraction, but it can just
as well be the planet of hate and repulsion, according to the inner value we
give to certain experiences. Venus' loves and aversions draw us into some
experiences, and pull us away from others. Those we enter into provide the
substance for our inner growth and fulfillment.
Ideally, Venus represents harmony, for if we are attuned with our inner
being, we naturally attract what will help develop and fulfill us. This
meshing of a need with what will answer it is the true harmony Venus
symbolizes. Venus can thus be a symbol of all harmonious relationships, of
beauty, and of our need to give and receive appreciation.
But when the Venus function becomes deviated by insecurity, it can
negatively refer to self-indulgence, narcissism, inappropriate emotional
frivolity and unrealistic demands for love or luxury. | j**n
发帖数: 13789 | 2 金鱼
Pisces brings out the best in Venus. It elevates and refines the sentiments
and gives a capacity for humble, self-abnegating cooperation. People born
with this combination are endowed with a profound appreciation of beauty,
but the art most valued is the art of loving.
Less voluptuous than the earthy Venusians of Taurus and less contriving than
the socially ambitious Venusians of Libra, their emotions are tender and
solicitous. They are more vulnerable to hurt, but the suffering they endure
is often a purifying force in their lives and may be transmuted into
sympathetic understanding of the woes of others. Their willingness to be
helpful is seldom confined to family and friends but diffuses into a general
compassion for all who are in distress.
Venusian Pisceans are particularly fond of music. Even when they do not
produce it themselves they are strongly affected by the moods music creates.
They also have a fondness for art, poetry, and dancing, especially the
ballet.
If a capacity for discipline is not shown elsewhere in the chart, this
proclivity to be emotionally swayed may give way to maudlin sentimentality,
as though the Piscean waters were melting the practicality of Venus into a
shapeless slush.
In matters of love such individuals may be too easygoing and submissive,
yielding to inveiglement when a firm stand would be better for all concerned
. Venus in Neptune's sign would never be deliberately hurtful, but it can be
muddlesome owing to deviousness and an inability to face facts.
People with Venus in Pisces believe that marriages are made in heaven, and
idealize their partners. They cannot live for themselves alone but want to
share their pleasures with an appreciative companion from whose reactions
they derive a vicarious satisfaction. Their eagerness to merge their
personality with that of their loved one in a romanticized relationship may
induce them to sacrifice their own best interests for an insubstantial dream.
There may be times when these tenderhearted people should be prodded into
standing up for their rights, even if it involves saying "no" to a friend,
relative, or spouse. Otherwise, an unconscious resentment against those who
draw unduly upon their time and resources may build up beneath a facade of
charity or devotion and lead to a vicious circle of guilt and atonement.
Although there is always a possibility of neurotic self-denial, Venus is
sufficiently well-placed in Pisces to confer a genuine desire to be of
assistance.
From a metaphysical viewpoint, the exaltation of Venus in Pisces shows that
love is the final goal of the evolutionary process. The journey of Venus
through the zodiac gives a marvelous symbolic picture of the soul's
circuitous passage through the signs, as it endeavors first to engross
itself in the material world and then to extricate itself.
Venus starts out in detriment in Aries, where Saturn in its fall represents
the original fall of man as related in myth and legend. Then, in Taurus,
Venus appears as the alluring earth-goddess of love whose arousal of
instinctive desires provides the incentive for further progress. In the
positive, Venus-ruled sign Libra, love becomes more intellectualized and
socially oriented. The exaltation of Saturn in Libra renders the process
lawful, as desire based on the fluctuating rhythms of nature is bonded into
the enduring structure of the marriage relationship. Here, the exalted
Saturn limits and disciplines the passions in order that their autochthonous
forces may be channeled into conventionally acceptable alliances. Finally,
in Pisces, Venus is exalted. The work of Saturn has ended, and there
supervenes the sacrificial (or sacred) love of Neptune, planet of
transcendence.
The Venusian Piscean is completing one stage of their earthly journey. They
may have other rounds to travel, but at this point they should be capable of
experiencing some measure of the reverence for life which is the seed of
the divine compassion by whose grace Matter is redeemed and made to shine
from within. |
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