Venus arrives in Scorpio. Although not traditionally at home in the sign of power and transformation, death and rebirth, it’s a time to connect to life in its many stages, finding value in emotional honesty and intensity.
At its core, Scorpio is a sign about the duality of life — night and day, shadows and light. True, we can easily see the shadow side of Venus in Scorpio with its classic femme fatale energies, dark obsessions, and manipulations, there is another side.
If Venus reveals what we value, then in Scorpio trust is something we value above all. Venus in Scorpio needs to feel like it can unequivocally trust someone — trust someone to share its most intimate self, to reveal its secrets. If that trust is betrayed ….
Life isn’t always sunny days. Sometimes it’s a razors edge, that feeling of a phone call in the middle of the night that turns life upside down, or those very real moments when a loved one needs us the most. Venus in Scorpio teaches us that the people you want in your life are the people that will be by your side in those very moments, no matter what.
That said, Venus in Scorpio is a four week period to reevaluate our relationships, to observe and transform where we’re caught or participating in abusive relationships, but to also make sure that the people in our lives are the ones we can trust the most.