Venus Cazimi: The Purification Of Venus.
"The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love." - Henry Miller
Venus, the hottest planet in the solar system (Pun intended) and a quite adventurous Greek Goddess has an interesting cycle. Venus rules over love, beauty, desire and social dynamics and her movements affect those areas in our life. Venus in your chart rules over how we relate to others and how we accept love, maintain relationships and express creativity.
In The Venus retrograde cycle, we mark important points of the cycle beginning, reaching its halfway and ending. Venus retrograde begins with Venus reaching its maximum elongation West and is known as “the morning star” (appearing in the sky before Sunrise) and until it goes back to a conjunction with the Sun, this phase is called after one of the Erotes “Himeros”
Himeros is the Greek God of unrequited love and desire and it marks a period of questioning our love and social lives, desire and where it is not reciprocated. The longing and pain of those experiences are highly pronounced during the first half of Venus retrograde and this period is often the most riddled with feelings of jealousy, power struggles and painful fears of rejection.
This period started on July 22nd 2023 and ended with Venus’ conjunction with the Sun on August 13th.
The event of Venus’ conjunction with the Sun is known as the purification of Venus because the Sun is the greatest force of heat and fire, it allows Venus to be born anew while shedding feelings of jealousy, fear and longing for what no longer works for us.
This is all quite general for the retrograde cycle. We have to look at the specific side of Venus retrograde in Leo, a passionate sign that represents individuality and breaking out of one’s shell to have a defined sense of self, so how does that affect us? read on to find out.