One more chance

Venus retrograde ends Saturday. I think we can all breathe a sigh of relief once that's done. It might as well have been called Venus Omicron. We got mad at corporations for treating employees poorly during the surge, we got pissed off at the people we've been trapped in enclosed spaces with for a long-ass time, and a lot of people revisited past relationships (please note: relationships can be how you relate to anyone, not just a significant other). Venus is damn near stopped in the sky, so this means the discontent is loud right now for some of you. I tend to go insane during Venus retrogrades, and I know this about myself: I'll register something as undesirable or unacceptable and decide I can't stand it for one more minute--action must be taken! Knowing this, I have literally sent myself to bed a couple of times recently to prevent myself from saying or doing something really stupid.

So that's thing one. Thing two is that Jupiter and Neptune are both in Pisces right now, but not conjunct (together) in the same place in Pisces. They will be conjunct in spring and I'll have more to say about that when we're closer to it, but for those of you who have important planets or points in degrees of mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces) BEFORE 20 degrees, Jupiter's offering you a chance to find meaning again, because in the last few years, you had a Neptune transit that may have stripped you of the feeling of meaning in your life, and now Jupiter's position in the sky is helping you add it back if you want to. So if you've felt a sense of reconnection with things you thought were lost, that's where it's probably coming from.

So the reason that I'm mentioning these together is that some of you may be revisiting lost causes with the combination of this energy (and as I mentioned a while ago, Mercury's heading for Pluto, which may add to this--it's the "emotional depth" thing I said). Jupiter in Pisces wants to give second chances (or fiftieth chances, as the case may be). Venus retrograde is revisiting old relationships. Venus is in nice aspect to Uranus, so can detach from old anger/hurts/bullshit and it can also see what might be possible in the future. If this is you, you may want to either give it a couple of days to see if the urge to give someone another chance settles, or, if you can't wait, ask your most trusted confidant if THEY think it's a good idea and then actually listen to what they say.

And just a friendly reminder: don't waste your energy helping people who won't help themselves.

XO,J