Here’s what to watch for:
* Speaking up or speaking out about something in order to remove blocks in relationships or tricky situations (Venus/Pluto)
* Forcibly removing obstacles to union (Venus/Pluto)
* Clarifying roles and boundaries (Venus/Pluto with Mars/Saturn)
* The truth is more important than wishes (Venus/Pluto with Mars/Saturn)
* Judgment, feeling judged, feeling thwarted or opposed (Venus/Pluto with Mars/Saturn)
* Attempts to manipulate or block someone or something (Venus/Pluto with Mars/Saturn)
* Understanding ours and others’ intentions (Venus/Pluto with Mars/Saturn)
* Removing or purging ourselves of impure desires or unhealthy needs (Venus/Pluto with Mars/Saturn)
* Until we see the truth of a situation our progress will be blocked (Venus/Pluto with Mars/Saturn)
* Something is balancing out and will do so regardless of what we think or feel about what it entails (Venus/Pluto with Mars/Saturn)
* Harmony sometimes comes without an obvious sense of justice or morality (Venus/Pluto and Mars/Saturn)
* There isn’t only one way forward or around something (Venus/Pluto and Mars/Saturn)
* Growth happens in ways that are often painful and do not appear fair (Venus/Pluto and Mars/Saturn)
* Nature has a way of removing obstacles and we can get in the way of that if we don’t trust the process of letting an obstacle remove itself through the natural pressures of time and space (Venus/Pluto and Mars/Saturn)
* Judge each thing on its own merit, rather than trying to apply one understanding of justice or fairness to everything (Venus/Pluto and Mars/Saturn)
* The slow process of working through obstacles, trusting the obstacle (Mars/Saturn)
Venus and Pluto coming into a square, alongside of Mars opposing Saturn, gives us the picture of working through opposition, of obstacles to union and the natural process of removing obstacles to union. It doesn’t always need our pressing or pushing, and it doesn’t always look or feel fair, but nature has a way of removing obstacles to union, or synthesizing oppositions in ways that are true and real, so long as we open our hearts and allow for truth to light the way.
Prayer: May all obstacles to union present us with the truth and also recommit us to speaking and living in the truth every day.