Dear friends,
Some weeks the sky opens a door. This week it opens a vault.
Venus, the planet of love, has turned around and started walking backwards through Scorpio, the sign of sex, power and secrets. She does this once every eight years, always around the time America votes in its midterms. The last time was October 2018, the week a woman’s testimony and a man’s furious denial split a country in two, and Brett Kavanaugh took his seat on the Supreme Court.
Eight years on, she’s back in the same stretch of sky, and the same file is open on the table. A lawsuit against seven men from a Cornell fraternity has gone round the world in a fortnight, and the Governor of New York has just taken the case out of the local prosecutor’s hands.
This week is where it starts to move. On Wednesday, Mercury, the planet of words and testimony, meets Venus on almost the exact spot she held the day Christine Blasey Ford spoke. On Saturday, under a New Moon, Venus clashes with Mars. We’ll be riding this wave right through the election and beyond - nothing settles until Venus turns forward again mid-November.
Under this sky, what was buried comes up, and the people who buried it get asked why. Tempers run high, the crowd moves faster than the courts, and people on every side can get hurt. But we’ve seen this sky before. We know its timetable, and we know what it’s for.
There’s more in the vault than one case. This is the week of the Nobel Peace Prize and a president who badly wants it, an anniversary a nation still hasn’t answered for, and a count coming in from the biggest country in South America. What 2018 tells us happens next, and on which days….that’s as much as can be said out here. The deeper detail is kept for the Inner Circle, where there's room to hold it properly.
This week’s sky comes for each of us too. An old love, an old debt, a truth we’ve kept quiet about. If your birthday falls in the first two weeks of October, April, January or July, Saturday’s New Moon lands on you. If it falls in the last week of those months, or the first days of November or August, the clash between Venus and Mars does. I’ll unpack this more below.
Below, I’ve mapped the week day by day, then gone deeper into what Venus is reopening: how 2018 unfolded under this same sky, what’s different this time, the dates to watch between now and mid-November, and how to find where it lands in your own chart.
The map for the week ahead is inside.
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