“Immaculate Heart of Mary with Doves and Lace” found via Pinterest

December 15, 2020 - January 8, 2021

Today, Our Lady Venus begins her pilgrim’s progress, rushing headlong into Sagittarius with stars in her eyes and her heart on her sleeve. After all, why should you hide your feelings? Why deny your affection, when it is born out of truth and beauty? When she encounters connection, the heady combination of passion and fate opens up a world of possibility to the goddess of desire, and she is ready to run off into the sunset, hand in hand. She is searching for love through experience, and experience through love. 

In this place, love is an act of devotion. It seeks, like Romeo appealing to Juliet, to “let lips do what hands do.” Pulsing with the mutable fire of Sagittarius, the heart can get carried away by passion (and then carried away again, when the wind changes direction). It lives by the arrow and, at times, bleeds by the arrow, and yet the beat goes on. But though it may wander, the heart is not fickle; it is just open, and needs plenty of freedom to pursue its desires. To live, love, and learn.

Venus’s transit through Sagittarius offers us the opportunity to see ourselves in the mirror of those who are different than ourselves; to find value in diversity; to see the appeal of the exotic; and to appreciate the viewpoints of those who appear older and wiser. In partnership, it encourages us to find the space to learn and grow together. Where Sagittarius falls in the  chart is an area of life where we seek meaning and inspiration, and any planets that find themselves born there or passing through are blessed with abundance and optimism. So open your heart—there is plenty of love to go around in Jupiter’s sign.