The sheer visual poetry of the Rosette pentagram of the five helical risings over the eight year Venus cycle (top) breaks down into the 263 day Morning Star and 263 day Evening Star appearances (right) with the eight day retrograde disappearance during the interior/exterior conjunctions with the Sun followed by helical rising, when Venus is the brightest light in the sky seen from Earth. The rise marks the beginning of seven or eight stations with the Crescent Moon crossing the sky as either Morning or Evening Star (left).
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CURRENT VENUS CYCLE.
Venus orbits the Sun in 224.701 Earth days ( ~.615 Earth years ), moving slightly faster than Earth. Because of the two different orbital rates of Venus and Earth, Venus must orbit the sun 2.6 times while Earth orbits 1.6 times before the two planets align. This period (583.92 Earth days) is called the Earth-Venus synodic cycle (synod means “place of meeting”).
An alignment of Earth, Venus and Sun when Venus lies between Earth and the Sun is called an inferior conjunction. Conversely, a superior conjunction occurs when the three align but with Venus lying on the far side of the Sun. A new Earth-Venus synodic cycle begins on an inferior conjunction, while the superior conjunction marks the mid-point in the synodic cycle.
For more info: https://www.lunarplanner.com/HCpages/Venus.html
VENUS CYCLE GEMINI: RECONCILING THE OPPOSITES
The 2020 Venus Journey of helical rise as Morning Star in Gemini was initiated with the helical rise of 10 June 2020. You can get a sense of what will come up in the cycle by referring back to the previous Venus cycle in Gemini (2011-2012), which has roughly the same dates.
The previous cycle was Scorpio (below).
The next cycle (2022-2023) is Capricorn, when Venus helical rise is 15 degrees of that sign, compared to 17 degrees in 2014. This will be a particularly powerful cycle for Venus because the retrograde begins conjunct Pluto at 26 degrees on 20 December, consolidating the power of the January 8 Interior Conjunction with the Sun, with the Phoenix rising to embrace the very first KUMARI KISS in the partnership sign of Libra on 22 October!
READ ABOUT THE VENUS INTERIOR CONJUNCTION WITH THE SUN IN CAPRICORN ON 8 JAN 2022.
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