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by Lynn Hayes<\/a>. \u00a0This is written for Eastern time zone – please adjust accordingly for your own part of the world. \u00a0You can see the positions of today’s\u00a0planets here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sorry not to have posted the Weekend Skywatch – I was out of town at a Dulcimer Festival sharpening my hammered dulcimer skills and didn’t have as much time to write as I thought I would! \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The Moon entered Virgo early this morning, turning our attention to matters of personal ecology, health and organization. \u00a0The Moon is fairly peaceful today now that last night’s square to Mercury is over, and Monday’s planetary aspects offer a nice trine from the Moon to the Sun at around 1 am EDT. \u00a0This gives us a pleasant sense of peace and balance, and a conjunction of the Virgo Moon to Saturn at around 3 am EDT will provide additional structure and stability. \u00a0The Virgo Moon gets along very well with Saturn and is better able to take advantage of Saturn’s lessons to be thrifty and work hard.<\/div>\n
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The Venus retrograde period (March 5 to April 17)\u00a0was greeted with great trepidation by some astrologers and the readers who follow them. Venus is generally known as a beneficial planet, but when retrograde she can challenge our relationships and force us to look below the surface at what motivates us in our interactions with others. \u00a0<\/div>\n
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There was a large number of mass murders (eight?) during the Venus Rx period, and most of those were connected to disappointment and resentment of family members and spouses. \u00a0Fortunately, it’s a very small number of people who experienced the self-examination of the Venus Rx period in this manner, but many people wrote to me of their experiences dealing with friends and loved ones.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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I was not exempt from this process, and much of my Venus Rx experience was facilitated by Facebook which I joined after much resistance (I already spend way too much time online!!). \u00a0But through Facebook I found a couple of old friends who I had just lost touch with because we never found each other and as it happened, both of them made visits to where I live during the Venus Rx period so we were able to reconnect.<\/div>\n
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There were some challenging moments, such as the time I asked one friend why she had broken up with me 15 years ago (we had since made up, but never addressed the cause of the breakup). \u00a0I wasn’t very happy with the answer (Chiron was also squaring my Venus at the time) and it caused me some distress as I vacillated between anger (how could she misread me so badly?) and shame (how could I have hurt her feelings so carelessly?). \u00a0But in the end a resolution occurred that has already improved our connection.<\/div>\n
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I found another old friend on the Facebook page of a good friend of mine. \u00a0I have known this friend for a shocking length of time (let’s just say that it’s longer than many of my readers have been on the planet) and we have had some serious ups and downs. It seemed we would never be able to reconcile the differences in our personalities. \u00a0 As it happens, she moved back to Chapel Hill during the Venus Rx period and we have reconnected with a new wisdom in how to dig beneath the crap to find the jewel of the love that lies beneath.<\/div>\n
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We would like to think relationships are meant to be easy, but the relationships with people that are truly our soulmates are designed to aid us in our personal growth. \u00a0Sometimes this is fabulous and thrilling, and sometimes it’s painful and exposes parts of our selves we would just as soon ignore. \u00a0This, to me, is what the Venus retrograde period is all about.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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