Venus Saturn Pisces Imagine LOVES ESSENCE

Venus attracts myths around the world,

shining as the brightest, largest object in the sky – after the luminaires, the Sun and Moon. Aphrodite, Greek’s namesake for Rome’s Venus, connects life’s core attractions of that which holds the semblance of beauty. As it is said, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder“. Thank goodness for that – as we mortals possess the power of free choice ever and forever.

However, as mythology suggests, understanding to experience choosing true love’s path often holds both the thorns with the flower of a rose. Yet, the rose flower petals swirl into perfection, revered through the ages. The rose petal swirl represents the Golden Ratio, of divine proportions unanimously perceived as beauty, as nature also designed on the oldest sea shells.

Aphrodite’s consciousness energies

speak of the encompassing spectrum of love’s creative power to rebirth from painful trials, to understand the truth of life’s beauty.

Perhaps best told through the infamous myth, “The Judgment of Paris”

where Zeus, Greek for Roman Jupiter, King of the heavens, gods, and thunderbolts, declared a mortal to use their free will and choose the fairest goddess. It really was all that simple. Yet, the backdrop and the ultimate story transformed even Zeus’s understood power among mortals. A tale inscribing history’s shifting consciousness beginning with Eris, the goddess of chaos (or contention or discord), who was rejected from a wedding party for the marriage of the Greek king, Peleus, with the Goddess Thetis of the sea, and a Nereid, one of 50 sea nymphs.

Eris represents the polarity of exclusion and inclusion. 

Once excluded, she now included herself integral to the party, Eris threw a golden apple inscribed, “to the fairest” over to the three goddesses invited: Hera (Roman Juno) wife to Zeus/Jupiter, Pallas Athena (Roman Minerva), and Aphrodite (Roman Venus). Each claimed it theirs by the powers they held. Zeus in his wisdom chose Paris to answer who was the fairest; what the gods felt an impossible question. Paris rejected Juno’s promise of wealth and power. He rejected Athena’s promise of strategy’s wisdom.

He chose  Aphrodite’s promise of love from the most beautiful woman in the world. 

Paris may have inspired the phrase, “love makes the world go round”. In choosing Aphrodite’s gift, Paris received the love of and from Helen, who brought a lot of “baggage” we might say. She was married to a Greek king, Menelaus. But then Paris had his own “baggage”. Meaning, although he was a legitimate prince of Troy, his royal parents abandoned him at birth, fearful of a prophecy he’d cause their doom. You could say, that’s love gone astray with consequences as the story plays itself out.

But yes, Paris and Helen elope & incite the infamous 10-year Trojan War, 

believed to be in the 12th or 13th century.  Homer wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey enrapturing the warriors battle, perishing, or surviving with demons to tread throughout the second 10-year’s voyage home. Amazingly, the marriage  which refused Eris an invitation to attend, spawn Achilles, the greatest warrior and hero of the Trojan War. Achilles, whose immortal mother Thetis tried immortalizing him, but perhaps her loving act of care defied him a god’s eternal life. Thetis held him by the heel as she dunked Achilles into the river Styx. His body at the heel remained vulnerable where Paris killed him in a series of misaligned love’s revenge. However, the heel belongs to the foot. It is also the hoof part of an animal.  The story like Venus and Saturn in Pisces, might ask — when to follow man’s law or divine law.

I wonder, was the god’s intention …

originally for a harmonious wedding party? Similar to another ancient mythos that had ended? When once the Titan god Saturn ruled for eons through lawful order? When everyone knew their roles, keeping the social order harmonious for a legendary long time. Until Saturn’s son, Zeus, Jupiter freed Saturn’s immortal children. That was a story of what goes around, comes around, and Saturn knew it. He’d castrated his dad, Uranus. For irreverent births Uranus the god of heaven and sky mated with Gaia, mother earth. But he feared retribution — and it came. Because Saturn wanted control.

Zeus’ act of liberation instigated new terms involving human’s capacity for making choices exercising their free will.

Yes, when the Olympian gods overthrew Saturn, releasing their Titan father’s regimented rulership, in many ways, chaos ensued.  As compared to breaking a systemized order without deviation. Yet, as in this epic Trojan War, liberation begins with Paris, a mortal human, creating a series of discordant motives between the gods themselves, and between whole groups and between individuals of humans.

The spurned goddesses siding with the Greeks, Aphrodite with the Trojans.  Achilles consciously chose his purpose of why he would fight, based on his principal – contesting  the Greek king Agamemnon’s demands. Perhaps representing a further denial of autocratic rule.

But then, was this Achilles’ mortal or immortal choice? Personal love anchored Achilles choices making the terms for his demise. However, Achilles lived and died a heroes fame, in a celebrated glory during life, and honored in death from time immemorial. He too, touched by Zeus and the Olympians gods of divinity with humans measuring their free will. The story barely begun continues with the survivor Odysseus wending his way home across the seas of emotional turmoil. To find once again, what the heart sees and knows as home.

Troy spurs the future.

Zeus takes Ganymede, the most beautiful boy, to become Zeus’s ambrosias’ immortal cup bearer and lover.. Venus has a mortal son, Aeneas. His name means “terrible grief”. She grieves for the fact Aeneas has been born mortal, shall age and die, causing Venus/Aphrodite grief through love’s loss. Aeneas departs the ruin of Troy to become an ancestor of Romulus and Remus, and the first true hero of Rome. The new city with a new empire. The threads keep weaving through the course of time of Saturn and love of Venus rebuilding systems and relationships to continue developing frames from the unconsciousness of Piscean oneness.

Venus & Saturn have many complexities especially in their sojourn in Pisces. 

Venus and Saturn connect life’s core intentions. Their consciousness energies speak of an encompassing spectrum demonstrating love’s creative power. Love rebirths stronger and bigger through the trials of choices when prompting us to experience living fundamental heart-values.

Pisces brings imagination to rebirth. In Pisces, the mystic and magic of dreams and visions signified. The cosmic enters. The forces larger than ourselves. Perhaps that becomes the greatest – the compassion of unity to define love as both/and just as the myths have connections with all aspects of human life and experience.