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I have not really perused in any great depth the correlations between Venus going retrogarde and farting. I have occasionally wondered what configurations 'Le Petomane' had in his chart - perhap he had a lot of gas and air in his nativity. He gave performances on stage where he was able to melodiously pipe the French National Anthem from his bottom. He could also do warplanes and bomb impressions.

Can someone tell me the date the Venus Retrograde started and ended?

... and I just found out the house the party was at burned down last night.


god.

My experience has been similar in the respect to "I got a fresh perspective on a broken relationship that was totally unexpected, and I'm finally able to move on... at least, I think I am. Somehow, all the strange things that have been going on seem much clearer for everyone. A drunken party ensued, and everyone had more fun than they've had in a long time." Of course my fun may have come out as my love being expressive rather than just repressed and i'm still making sense of everything. I don't know if i recommend alcohol on a day that venus goes direct.

you can call me :) chuckling. Not really, but sorta. Like I told her, I'm ripe for plucking. I hope she doesn't read this. I don't want to hurt her fealings. Truth is though, I do desire partnership. Wish it were her but it can't be.

a balsamic moon and saturn are just about exactly conjunct right at the moment (give em another 10 minutes) and just as exactly opposed my n.node (cnj s.node) by morning the moon will ill have opposed my sun, pallas and mercury . . . with saturn lumbering along in its wake for the next (??) days or weeks. I'm a big fan of reality, so what the heck, bring it on.

i think venus went retro 7/26

it stationed retro on 7/27 at about 3* virgo. this episode will conclude on 10/12 when it gets back to where it was (3*virgo) and moves on into fresh territory again.

Thanks Steve

I would say it's a rebound (for her), but Venus direct will tell the tale. Venus enters new territory Oct. 11, so wait and see.

Women are more than likely picking up on the "unfinished business" vibe about you related to this woman...that's more than likely why they're initially into you, and then later (once they've picked it up) back away. It's not responsible to enter into a new relationship with unfinished ties to the last one, in my opinion. :)

"Meanwhile I keep getting all these flaky women who act like they're really interested and then do a 180 all of a sudden without any apparent rhyme or reason. "

what degree is your venus? are there other aspects to it that may be causing this? (uranus comes to mind)

"...I've met some people who do especially well during retro periods while others get all
f**cked up. Why is that? "

sometimes people that have the natal planet retrograde in their chart feel the retrograde periods as more natural to their own state of being.

A couple nights after I came back from the Playa -where I had acquired much completion regarding my ex- I had a dream about her that seemed to bring more closure for me.

In this dream-reality, a friend of mine had a relationship with my ex sometime before I did. The dream acquires a kind of clarity as I'm getting ready to go somewhere & I'm musing about this connection between the 3 of us.

I'm thinking about how whimsical her relationships with each of us had seemed, how her new interest is just a rebound and how her heart seems to ridiculously go where the wind blows. I felt a sort of pity and exacerbation towards her.

As if on cue with this internal review, my friend and my ex come out of the blue as if heading off to some private and intimate affair. I say to them "Oh, this is *perfect*!" (as this seems to fall right into what I was just thinking to myself before they appeared).

Since she was always possessive and paranoid about my friendships with women, I say to her in a chastising manner that spoke into her hypocrisy, "Well what about (new guy)? What would *he* think (of these two going off together)? How would *he* feel about this?"

Surprisingly, yet perhaps to prove to me that there was nothing to hide, my friend tells me to come along with them. However, my surprise didn't quell my outrage. After entering his car, I start sharing my thoughts candidly and my ex surprises me by getting out of shotgun and joining me in the back seat with this look in her eye that strangely mixes sympathy, sadness, hurt and anger.

I stop for a moment to take in her gaze and suddenly feel a swell of compassion and love for her rise in my chest and throat. I put my arm around her and pulled her into an embrace. She then mounts me and starts dry-humping me and for a moment I give into it.

But I sense the wrongness of it, stop her, tell her I don't want to get intimately involved with her and that she needs some serious professional help (conveying silently that she's out of control).

As if to illustrate my point, I start reviewing to her the sequence of events that defined her relationship patterns -how she dealt with my friend in their earlier relationship, how she dealt with me and how her dynamics are now with her current interest.

This is where the dream ends and I awake with a strange new peace in my heart.

This dream felt like my intellect & heart coming into a concordance regarding my inner resolution of my relationship.

I've come to a relatively peaceful place concerning my process and am no longer pensive about how long it will take or what shape it will require to do so. I feel okay just letting it unfold as it must, feeling whatever I feel without judging myself, and breathing easy for the first time in a long while.

...Before, during and since Burning Man I've had a few distressing encounters as I mentioned earlier, but I've been having far more pleasant though fleeting experiences that I have found rather perfect for where I am at. It's like the Universe keeps sending me this sweet cosmic nymphs to gently kiss me, play and dance a while as they pass by -reminding me that I'm perfectly desirable yet still where I need to be at as I evolve through this stage of my Journey.

They remind me that my time for Deep and Lasting Love is coming :)

summer moon that sounds exactly like what i would imagine would happen during a venus retrograde!

very interesting...i wonder if your "revelation' came of the lunar eclipse in pisces on august 28? hmmm...glad it worked out in your favor!

venus will be visiting 26* Leo soon, for the 3rd time in recent months.
3rd time's a charm (?)