Yikes

A couple of months ago, I looked at Jennifer Aniston's chart, because looking at famous people's charts (assuming they're not lying about their ages) is an amazing way to learn astrology, since you can connect energy to life events, especially if said famous people have biographies or documentaries about their lives. Aniston had done an interview about the fact that she and Brad Pitt tried to have a baby and it didn't work out, and we all know the rest of that story because it was covered on every tabloid ever (Pluto in Sagittarius seems like a simpler era in hindsight). Here's what I discovered: by progression, Jennifer Aniston's Venus went retrograde in 2003 while tightly conjunct progressed Saturn, and since Venus was stopped in the progressed sky, it stayed that way for several years. So the irony (and the sky does irony *well*) that while everyone was looking at Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston as the golden couple, Aniston's reality was very likely NOT that. The progressed moon arrived in the 7th house, conjuncting progressed Saturn and progressed Venus retrograde, and that's when they split.

When Venus goes retrograde in the regular sky, it's a global experience of everyone rethinking the way they relate at the same time. When progressed Venus goes retrograde, it's a very personal experience of inverting the way you *do* relationships. Venus is retrograde for ~40 days and progressions are a day for a year, so it's a 40 year progression of re-thinking how you relate. It doesn't mean you can't be in a relationship anymore, but it does mean your experience is a more introverted one. The social butterfly becomes the homebody, in other words. I'd put money on the idea that the experience for a lot of people is something along the lines of that relating used to be easy and now it's a lot of energy and work. This actually goes double for Aniston because of the Saturn influence. Not only did relating become a lot of work, it was HARD work and uphill both ways...while the rest of the world looked on, jealously. IRONY. If you're someone who knows and understands astrology, you at least have an explanation for what's happening, whereas if you do not, you just wonder if there's an angry god out there somewhere who doesn't like you. I'm not saying this is Aniston's experience, but I am saying that's probably how I would feel if I had Venus retrograde by progression conjunct Saturn for years on end.