This is a weekly reading, but it is not a reading just for a week. At the time of posting this, I have already sat for next week’s reading for the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Virgo. You know I say it often, but with that one, you really can’t make that shit up!
For now though, it’s a moment to pause at the start of this Venus retrograde - coming a week after Mars stationed direct, and just two weeks before Mercury does its own retrograde thing, 24hrs after the eclipse. (I did say you can’t make this shit up, right?!)
In this reading, I go into some detail about these retrogrades of the personal planets. Mars, Mercury, and Venus - the most personal of the planets, aside from the Sun and Moon - have all been retrograding from fire back into water. Fire is outward, action-driven, instinctual. Water is internal, reflective, and at times, deeply uncomfortable. This shift is pushing us to sit with what’s surfacing rather than just pushing forward on autopilot.
And yeah, I totally get it, that’s not easy. But why would it be? When our instincts, motivations, and desires are being reworked, reassessed, revisited - and every other re-word you can think of - it can feel deeply unsettling. But I see this as a recalibration - not just of what we do, but why we do it. There’s a deep reframing happening around how we show up, what drives us, why we love the way we do, and what truly matters to us. And with everything sitting in Pisces later this month - Mercury and Venus retrograde, the North Node, Saturn, and Neptune right before it moves into Aries - there’s a strong theme of blind spots being illuminated.
As a tarot reader, I could have chosen to sit this out, to wait until the energy felt more ‘flowy’ or ‘certain’ or easier to bloody talk about. But that would be the wrong approach. Life isn’t just about showing up when things feel good - it’s about being present even when things are uncomfortable. I also think we are being shown through this period what we treat as ‘soma’ - the places we get that little hit of reassurance, telling us we’re on the right path and feeling OK. This includes tarot readings, relationships, work, dreams, fantasies, fears, doubts, stories etc. But right now, many of the messages coming through aren’t giving us that fix in the usual way. And that’s important. Not everything is meant to be easy. Some truths ask us to sit with them, to engage rather than escape.
Venus retrograde will highlight this in our relationships. When things get difficult, do we face them, or do we just walk away? Are we truly engaging, or are we just looking for comfort? This period is asking us to look at those patterns - not to fix them, not to rush into ‘doing the work,’ but to simply sit with what’s coming up. Because that’s where the real answers are.
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