Saturn squaring Uranus. Uranus humbling the shit out of Saturn. Saturn shaping the change Uranus brings. the Tried, True, and Tired one conversing with the Ultimate Trickster. air uprooting earth. earth shattering clarity. growth spurts. (out)growing pains. the tower. the fool. the beginning and the appearance of the end that is actually the beginning of a bright northern star becoming visible.
squares are creative tension. therefore squares are erotic. I believe everything has a relationship to the erotic because everything has a relationship, if not an origin, in creativity and tension. the erotic is life force, the erotic is primordial creative power, the erotic is in everything. the erotic is Lorde. see: The Uses of the Erotic. I feel that squares in particular speak to how the erotic treats tension like a plaything, interested only in the spark of life that friction can create. the eternal flame of the sacred power that is change, that is creating, that is the truth uncovering themselves with a seductive, uncontrollable beauty.
squares build up tension until there is enough force to cause a breakthrough. I think we can all admit these feel more like breakdowns sometimes, but that there is nothing more exhilarating than the release of tension in the freedom found on the other side of surrender and/or of choice. it’s orgasmic. and it is trustworthy.
we know Saturn in aquarius wants fresh structure, the freedom of trusting the inner authority, and protection from cognitive dissonance. I often refer to Saturn as engaging the process of clarifying your disciplines and deepening your devotions. Uranus in taurus wants many things, most of all to use change to create the conditions for new life to grow, which is usually the purpose of what we could call organic destruction. see: wildfires, floods, and hurricanes (not those caused by human fuckery). while Uranus is in taurus all of these changes are in service to Venus, the ruler of the sweet, sensory, earthy energetic texture we call taurus.
Saturn square Uranus is about creating the conditions for Venus to be free.
last night, Venus in leo opposed Saturn in aquarius, activating the Saturn-Uranus square in a different way than Mars in leo did last week and bringing the conversation to the Venusian forefront. it reminds me of a lyrics from the song Fairytale by Lianne La Havas that a new friend sweetly sent me. there’s a line that says, “she’ll set your beauty free and grant you your dignity”.
Venus wants to know how Saturn is going to protect their values, interests, and principles. Venus wants to know if after all the Saturnian boundaries, Uranian change, and Martian moves towards autonomy, if there’s room for the power of pleasure and beauty? is the sweetness of life, of our brightest, most radiant embodiments worth protecting in the new paradigm emerging? is reconciliation between Venus and the world a priority?
after all the devaluation, degradation, discard, defamation, disregard, humiliation, extraction, and dishonor…is the erotic, the priceless jewel everyone is actually fighting over, worth honoring? or would you like to continue taking and taking until the rage spills over and up from the oceans all over the world? would you like to continue perpetuating the damage of the sovereignty of innocence until the rage, withheld for so long for the sake of peace and understanding, destroys the resources that are actually valuable to our fragile incarnations?
there are things that instant gratification, exploitation, and extraction can not immediately replace. contrary to popular behavior, there are actually people/places/things that are priceless and irreplaceable.
the unthinkable violations that have been and are happening to Pachamama are the macrocosm of what so many of us, especially those who embody Venus, the Moon, or anything sweet, soft, and fucking fierce, endure on an interpersonal level. do not be mistaken: it is not something we “let” happen. it is an unfair consequence of the pervasive violent, colonial conditioning that we are all living within. yet, we are not all continuously impacted or perpetuating in the same ways. this distinction is not made with the intention of blame, but to redirect the oft default misdirect of response-ability.
in the spirit of reclamation and being the change, I have a recommendation for the Venus within you: vehemently protect your power, beauty, and pleasure like the unequivocal gift it is. let no one’s (in)actions be a factor in how you determine your value, importance, and preciousness. it is not up for question or debate. acknowledge the pain of your erotic, visionary, deeply loving power being diminished, maybe even decimated. compost and transmute the way we have carried, changed for the sake of, and been changed by being impacted by harm and exploitation without remorse. let us no longer take the blame for being mistreated. let us no longer take responsibility for what is not ours. let us no longer internalize guilt and shame that does not belong to us because someone else won’t feel it. let us no longer swallow our experiences so others don’t think we are hot ass messes of femme rage. we are that and so many other things. let them fucking deal with it. act as if you are irreplaceable, because you are. I believe you. you are trustworthy. free yourself. read this all out loud to yourself. feel your body change. listen to soft power anthems.
in this moment and perhaps always, Saturn is the discipline of protecting pleasure. see: Saturn’s exaltation in the Venus ruled sign of libra. Uranus is enlivening the erotic, with chaos if they must, lest we forget that everyone is inherently worthy of access to it. the Saturn-Uranus square is not just about thinking differently, sustainable strategies, and the restructuring of resource distribution. it’s not just about the pragmatism of change. it is about the embodied response to the necessary disruptions caused by what has been neglected, disregarded, and abused by power for far too long: Venus. also see: the tender, emotional, resourceful Moon’s exaltation in the Venus ruled sign of taurus.
as alice sparkly kat reminds us, Venus originally has associations with war. and we can not afford to pretend that is not what this is. so here are the weapons I advise you take up on your own behalf: pleasure as a discipline, being rooted in your own power as pleasure, and enlivening the erotic within yourself and therefore within the world.
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