AQUA VENUS SASS
Love Goddess Venus is now in Aquarius (from Dec 8th-Jan 4th), where we are enjoying a more liberated approach to love, mating, beauty and art.
Venusian values tend to favour prerogatives like giddy romantic attraction and personal desirability in relationships whilst Aquarius is possibly the most platonically inclined sign of all; tending to prioritise things like loyalty, friendship, intellectual compatability, high-end principles, personal space and permission to be kooky/fabulously individualistic/queer/gender fluid/unpredictable/un-pindownable in all personal relations.
Not to mention kooky as fuq in our aesthetics, appearance, personal expression and arty creativity.
Image: Rosalind Russel, Auntie Mame
Tis the season to be gloriously liberated and we don't care who knows it!
So when it comes to love and romance, any new connections seeding or beginning to flourish right now are built on a solid bedrock of geniune friendship: many a 'platonic buddy but with deeper chemistry simmering under the surface' connection will be revealing itself more fully right now. Or perhaps you're in an established romance and realizing you have to be better friends and offer a bit more unconditional support/emotional breathing space right now in order to allow each other, and your shared love to evolve and thrive at this point? Or it's your gorgeous, purely platonic friends and fab social life that's turning you on right now?
This requires a certain kind of emotional detachment; which preferably doeasn't mean we care or feel less, but that our love is so genuine and grand that we give it with a truly unconditional, fearless generosity. Which is the opposite of the kind of obsessively limbic, sexually adrenal, fear-based (fear of not being loved enough, that is), turbulent, demanding passion we often mistake for true love. It's an interesting lesson, to love a little more lightly and freely; and one we are all having a little look at right now.
It's also worth noting that Venus is joined by her lover, Mars in Aquarius until Dec 19th, so for the rest of the week she is energised to chase cool, inspiring connection rather than distracting drama...
And Venus rules beauty and style. Aquarius doesn't dress like everyone else (or so they say). We're fashion forward/switched on to the latest zeitgeist and rocking our own, unique look with a bold fuq-you to whatever the high street boutiques say this season is supposed to look like.
Image: Helmut Newton
The Aquarian look can swing from wildly, flamboyantly, rebelliously aesthetically flashy/provocative to quite utilitarian, unfussy clean lines. In any case Aqua is usually quite a modern, edgy, streamlined look as opposed to re-hashing anything too sentimentally vintage or busy with fussy detail. Lighter/brighter colours, and anything in the blue/aqaumarine/silver palette range, in clothes or jewellery, are good.
Image: Helmut Newton
And hair. Leo is officially the sign of big, shiny hair consciousness but it turns out that it's usually Aquarians who have the most fabulous manes. If you are thinking about a new hair thing or making an extra effort to show off your locks, Venus in Aqua is auspicious.
And skincare is cutting edge dermatalogical technology and ethical- Aquarius is big on principles, which of course includes animal rights; so if you still have any animal tested gunk in your beauty cabinet (and don't forget that hair dye and any eyeliner/mascara/eye products are highly likely to be thus compromised), now is a great time to clear it out and replace it all with lovely, cruelty free brands. Now that is real beauty!
And scent is not so much animalistic musks/heavy florals as something light, crisp, unobtrusive.
And Venus rules art, and in Aquarius we express our highest principles/political convictions via creative expression. Let's endeavour to say something meaningful, and constructively engage in whatever collective discussion is currently turning us on intellectually -and there's plenty going on out there to engage with in these wild political times!
Happy Venus in Aquarius x