Venus has entered Pisces, the sign of its exaltation where it will stay for the next three weeks
Mashallah and Al Khayyat says Venus in Pisces is the mark of nobility, of makers of beauty, and those who are indecisive in love, but when they love they love as if in devotion.
Mashallah and Al Khayyat says Venus in Pisces is the mark of nobility, of makers of beauty, and those who are indecisive in love, but when they love they love as if in devotion.
The significations of Venus in Pisces here are so fascinating and they challenge our contemporary understanding of relationships which are often more Mercurial and Martial than Venusian—more transactional and shaped by consumption.
For you see there is another side to Venus than simply pleasure and sensuality.
Venus is devotion.
If Jupiter understood the divine through philosophy and law, Venus was ecstatic worship.
Venus is devotion.
If Jupiter understood the divine through philosophy and law, Venus was ecstatic worship.
A love grounded in devotion and worship is radical in a capitalist world which transforms us into consumers and our partners into products or brands to be consumed. A world where all pleasure is masturbatory and all indulgence “empowering.”
Venus in Pisces was most clearly linked to a concept in Sufism called Fana, or “annihilation,” love so powerful it dissolved the ego and drew the individual in unity with God.
Pisces was also one of the classical lusty or horny signs and so pleasure, sex, and love are not divorced from one another.
The devotional love of Venus in Pisces isn’t just abstract, it doesn’t see spirit and matter as separate, but as joined together.
The devotional love of Venus in Pisces isn’t just abstract, it doesn’t see spirit and matter as separate, but as joined together.
Sexual pleasure shaped by devotion and worship of not the self, but of the other.
The loss of the self in the other; reciprocated equally it joins the two into one.
Orgasm becomes a mystical experience, a "little death" in which the ego is lost and two souls joined together.
The loss of the self in the other; reciprocated equally it joins the two into one.
Orgasm becomes a mystical experience, a "little death" in which the ego is lost and two souls joined together.
This type of love may seems strange in our world of dating apps, but to the medieval Muslim love was understood in nearly mystical terms.
Love was divine.
That is Venus in Pisces
Love was divine.
That is Venus in Pisces
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