Love Through the Fog — Venus trine Neptune

This is a short transit — Venus moves fast and the two planets will be out of close aspect by tomorrow. You may still feel some effects until the 10th, but they are waning each day.

If you have been feeling foggy or uncertain about a love affair, this is why! Neptune, the planet of mystery and illusion, is currently at home in his own sign, Pisces (solitude, difficulties, and inner self). Venus, the lovely lady who rules partnerships, love affairs, and pleasure, is moving through intense Scorpio (transformation, hidden things).

Scorpio Venus is a searchlight blazing through the night. She fixes on the object of her love and lights it up, no matter how far out to sea it is. Neptune in Pisces, though, stirs up some fog. Is that really her ship coming in? Or is it a craggy rock, shifting shape in the moonlight but never coming any nearer?

Neptune moves slowly. He will be in his current spot for about half a year. But quick Venus moves on. She finds her time is better spent in a place where there is no obscuring fog.

(NOTE: This does not mean you need to give up on your love if things are foggy today. Wait until Venus moves to a spot where fog does not obscure that object, where she can turn her searchlight and tell whether it’s a rock or really the ship she has been waiting for. Tomorrow things will be clearer, and in a week clearer yet.)