Come on Barbie, lets go blow up patriarchal beauty & relationship standards 💣💁🏼♀️
Venus Retrograde conjunct Mars: how it's showing up in the collective as Barbenheimer.
Venus Retrograde
23rd of July - 4th of September
Venus retrograde has been working it’s magic on me, I’ve been moving through some patterns of “unworthiness” and you’ll be very unsurprised when I tell you now that Venus is retrograde we will be refiguring and clearing our how to showing up and interact with all things feminine, women, love, money and business..
Retrogrades are not to be feared instead to be embraced and leant into to learn the cosmic themes that are being amplified in a big way. In this period we are collectively reframing feminine archetypes and all of the venusian things in life..
Venus represents:
Love, relationships, interactions, sex, money, worldly desires/things, business and personal values..
Venusian things are better shared 😉
Venus is currently in Leo and will be retrograding back into Cancer..
Leo🦁
is bright, powerful and confidence. It is the stage of life.. where if we aren’t true to our self we will always be trying to keep up with the proverbial Jones. This is actually a pure, masculine, provider energy.. New Age like to call this is the “healthy masculine” aka Big Daddy / Big King energy 👑 but no matter what everyone (yes including you) has Leo energy and a part of life where Leo reigns supreme.. this is the place where you want to be the Leader or Girlboss, but it’s important to lead from the heart and by example (taking action not just shouting orders) and that’s what this Venus Retrograde is about.. getting back into your heart / the root of desires, especially if your motivations have changed and your truth has got a little lost.
Cancer🌝
is the deep feminine centre: the heart and soul that connect you to every other being on the planet. This is the remembering that you are the Earth and also experience her cycles. It’s all about selflessly LOVING (which is hard for Venus as Venusian love is more transactional) and nurturing other, tapping into your feelings and emotions and Deeping your intuition. This is changeable, painful, messy, creative and raw.. this is your messy house that you feel so vulnerable about if someone came over before you made it presentable yet we all do the exact same thing?? We hide our realness, our pain, struggles, tuck away birth, get over death, don’t talk about sex because that’s not very “lady like.”
It’s time for a rebrand!!
Source: Sunroom on IG
“The hardest thing you'll ever learn,
is just to love & be loved in return”
This is DEEP feminine work, breaking patterns, shedding skin and starting new cycles and is also very tied to the current and next cosmic (lunar) cycles and their lessons.. [read about this cosmic cycles lesson here]
Collectively we’re seeing the intensity of how the feminine archetype, role and energy (and what that has come to include or be expected of) and how it is currently showing up in the collective, in facades, how are we valued (or not) in agreements and how they are up held and responded to, matters of respect and disrespect and ultimately how are things evened up and worked out in communion.
Interesting the timing and release date of Barbie and Oppenheimer (Barbenheimer) which have collectively grossed 235 mil on their opening weekend, together they are the polarity of the energetic spectrum: feminine/Venus and masculine/Mars, but why are these two planets are so very important right now.. they are the rulers of the signs the lunar nodes are currently in.. Aries and Libra which create karmic lessons for the collective (more on that soon)
Barbie is the idealistic women (Venus) she’s a sex symbol but she’s never had sex, she has a million talents and jobs but never had to work hard a day in her life, she’s perfect in every way.. but ironically she’s not actually real. She’s never had a baby, she doesn’t ever age.. it’s the plastic fantastic standard to which little girls see and learn (which is changing as Barbie now has many different inclusive looks as painted in the movie) but how? Idk! My daughter (5) tells me this week she doesn’t want a big tummy.. and seems I am plus size (and have been considered that my whole life) my heart breaks to where and how she’s already decide fat equals bad.
Women are fed up especially if the agreement they have entered were started on uneven foundations, we’re seeing a rise in divorce, dare I say a trend.. particularly with high profile females but I’ve also seen this in my local community, women are done and are leaving partnerships, something I predicted would be a results of this nodal transit.
SOURCES: WARNER BROS
What you can do:
Understand what you value so you can create clear boundaries
Don’t cross your own boundaries (important)
Prioritise creation & self expression
Understand the intention & energy of your relationships/interactions & purchases
Connect with your heart and personal desire by disconnecting from external
Disappear and rebrand / start over
And side of the energetic spectrum is the explosive masculine, Oppenheimer (seen by Mars which is currently conjunct Venus in Leo) which is the story of the creation of the nuclear bomb that went on to kill hundreds of thousands of people and ultimately changed the world, but what took me with Oppenheimer was a quote that was in the trailers and when I went to research the history also the original clip of J. Robert Oppenheimer (below) saying “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” which I had to know more about.. so I rabbit holed this is from the Vedic text Bhagavad Gita as Oppenheimer watched the test bomb that he worked so hard to create, as explode successfully this quote came to mind, knowing his actions would be the demise of many people, “the destroyer of worlds” and the reason this is so important is because the Gita is a story of dharma (even when that thing is deemed “wrong” but he’s dharma was to create that bomb, we wouldn’t be talking about it 80 years later) It’s the ability to do something and detach feeling from what’s in front of you that makes Mars, well Mars.. alone is it a good thing, no. In excess does it cause suffering and in this case death, yes. But energy is energy is energy. We need to understand is to work with it.
Both Venus (Barbie) and Mars (Oppenheimer) are currently together in Sidereal Leo (Spotlight & centre stage 📽 playing out in the collective view) Venus is now retracing its path and we will see a lot of criticism of feminism and the Venus parts of life. I won’t go see Oppenheimer only because my nervous system can’t handle it (a doco is more my level) but I’ll be going to see Barbie this week.
Did you see Barbenheimer? Or just one? What did you think?
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