Venus Enters The Underworld

A type of Subterranean Alchemy occurs

As Venus enters Scorpio, the surface world is left behind and we descend into underground territory.

Here, desire, intimacy, values, money and attachment are rarely straightforward. What lies beneath the surface begins to reveal itself.

Finding value in unlikely places

If you're willing to go there, Scorpio can uncover treasures in unlikely places. What has been overlooked, buried, discarded or shaped by difficult experiences may contain something of genuine value.

Pain itself can become a creative force here, alchemised through art, beauty, music, writing, sexuality or other forms of expression into something that carries viceral depth and meaning.

Scorpio knows that something does not have to be untouched or unscarred to be precious.

Sometimes the most compelling beauty is found in what has survived the descent.

When lives become intertwined

Venus in Scorpio is also concerned with what happens when our lives become intertwined with another person’s.

Shared finances, debts, investments, inheritances and other merged resources can come into focus, alongside the less tangible things we exchange through intimacy: trust, power, vulnerability, energy and emotional investment.

Venus in Scorpio can therefore expose the dynamics beneath our attachments.

Where are we holding on because something is genuinely valuable and where are fear, control, possessiveness or the fear of loss keeping us bound?

What happens when desire becomes entangled with power?

Venus without the veneer

There is an opportunity here to reclaim value from places we would rather not look.

This is Venus without the veneer: intimate, creative, uncompromising and willing to search the depths for what has real value.

This is also the prelude to Venus retrograde in Scorpio. As the retrograde approaches, scorpionic themes and experiences may ask for a closer look, greater honesty and review.

The Qs

What is being revealed beneath the surface?

What has changed?

What still has value?

And what are we holding onto simply because letting go would mean admitting that something has already changed?

Shadow Expressions:

Possessiveness • suspicion • testing others’ loyalty • fear of vulnerability • difficulty trusting • confusing intensity with intimacy • control around shared resources • holding onto what has already changed.

Medicine:

Emotional honesty • discernment without suspicion • trusting what is revealed • allowing vulnerability • conscious sharing • releasing control.

Subterranean Alchemy

Venus in Scorpio does not ask us to make the descent beautiful. Quite the contrary. It can be brutal, uncomfortable and unpalatable.

Instead, It asks us to look closely enough to discover what is actually there and to recognise that value can survive the places that have fundamentally changed us.