On Venus retro

We are currently experiencing Venus retrograde. We've discussed retrogrades in detail in Asteria, including Venus. But that information is aimed more at allowing people to understand the phenomenon in relation to their magical work.

Here I want to speak more about mundane things, while reminding people retrograde planets are considered debilitated. That is to say, they manifest their inharmonious sides and thus it's best to abstain from magical works with the intent of using their beneficial nature.

The internet is full of articles addressing retrogrades and Venus is no exception. Such articles talk about reassessing one's relationship, esthetics, wants and tastes and so on during a Venus retrograde period. Some even talk about money issues and how to learn dealing with them during such times. 

Another theme presented is a past love coming back into one's life or an ex suddenly making contact after who knows how long. But there is yet another possibility. Venus retrograde is a time during which there's a probability you realize someone whom you've know for quite a while has amorous feelings for you or at least they're sexually attracted to you. It's also probable you realize you were attracted to someone and yet for some reason you couldn't realize it at the time. Moreover, it's possible you find out someone was into you and you were into them at the same time, but you shrugged it off because reasons. My research has lead me to find that the circumstances at the time prevented either or both parties from engaging into romance with one another.

I came across various such cases, including my own. Every time I could receive the people's birth data and ran the synastry between them it became obvious the two had at least a few connections that predisposed them to be mutually attracted. Upon further observations I realized the circumstances I mentioned before were likely triggered by stuff inside each person's natal chart. That's why I mentioned the need to study individual charts beforehand when it comes to romantic magical works in the appropriate article in Asteria 2. Correlating the people's accounts (whenever possible) with what I was able to observe inside their charts made things a lot clearer in regards to why they weren't able to engage in love and/or sex with the other party at the time.

Unfortunately, I noticed such revelations do not end up with the people being happily reunited. Instead, they bring up memories that would allow them to understand from those experiences and learn whatever lessons they need. Having learned those lessons, the people are better suited to deal with any future encounter of that kind, but then they'd be more able to deal with it in their favor.