Venus in Leo - Ra Ra Ra Wonders, Miracles & Fallen Angels

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso has Venus in Leo
One of the readers of I Had A Dream Revisited 50th anniversary 28th August 1963
The current High Lama of the yellow hat school of Tibetan Buddism and Tibet's spiritual leader in exile. Escaping to India in 1959, he denounced the People's Republic of China and establishing a Tibetan government in exile. He travels the world for the welfare of the Tibetan nation, underlining the importance of compassion as the source of a happy life. However, world leaders and various institutions face pressure from a economically burgeoning China not to accept or recognise him as he continues to voice an opinion on contentious subjects for China and for repressive regimes in the World, including women's rights, the environment, and sexuality. It has been reported on the 13th August 2013 that the Chinese language website of the Tibetan government in exile was hacked and infected and software used to spy on visitors.
Dalai Lama's Chinese website hacked

From the 27th June 2013 until the 22nd July 2013 Venus was playing around to her hearts content in the sunny, vain-and-glorious Leo the Lion sign. This sign will want to
Ra and Roar itself around the cosmos at the drop of a hat. Ra being the Egyptian Sun god usually depicted with a massive solar disc atop his head mimicking a head-turning hairstyle in a most flamboyant display.

Artist Andy Warhol has Venus in Leo
Born Andrej Varchola into a family that practiced Byzantine Slavic Catholicism. He was deeply religious throughout his life apparently, lighting a candle, and praying for 15 minutes everyday. He also had an alter, crucifix and prayer book on his bedside table and used to volunteer at a shelter serving meals to the homeless.Warhol was also openly gay which is unacceptable to the church unless one is celibate, apparently.

Venus likes to indulge, feed the body, anoint it, make it look, smell and feel ‘ohh la la’ that is what she is about.Venus Come Out Of Your Shell  There are so many things Venus just loves, such as beauty in all it's forms, an appreciation of the finer things in life, like art, culture and social bonds. Relationships are a Venus speciality but money and fairness also part of the desires of Venus. A run through your own list will give you a clue on just how fundamental and central Venus is in our daily life. Love and Money are the two things we all want sorted and in place in order to feel they have got a good handle on life. You can deny one but it is unusual to deny both, at least not intentionally. So what was has it been like with the Lion running the ‘Love ‘n Money Show’? Perhaps we all had to dip deep into our reserves of benevolence and patronage.

Abbé Pierre has Venus in Leo
Born Henri Marie Joseph Grouès he was a French Catholic priest who a member of the  French Resistance during World War 2 and praised as a living legend. He also founded the Emmaus movement that helps the poor, the homeless and refugees. 

We would have demonstrated affection and desires in a very open hearted way but really, as a rule of thumb or just take the whole issue of hairstyles very seriously indeed ha! Venus here in this flamboyant, irrepressible and emotionally buoyant sign will have relatively few issues with displaying itself in its own inimitable way, regardless of the audience response. Regardless only because actually it somehow knows there is a very high chance of the reception will be positive or then maybe not. 

Singer/Actress/Diva Madonna has Venus in Leo
Everything including her name has involved religious iconography, including a cross on stage.

Those who view Venus in Leo with a negative eye are, well frankly, wrong and can be easily dismissed with a flick of the fringe or a rear swaying sashay. Venus in Leo time was all about the warmth, affection, lavish demonstrations, generosity, well so those with Venus in Leo may have told you. Actually these traits will apply whether to those born with this natally, or at any time Venus in Leo sashays on through. 

Singer/Dancer/X Factor Judge Cheryl Cole has Venus in Leo
Her tattooist displayed his work on her bottom in Instagram 2013 in the tattoo parlour temple.

If you wanted to attract, it would have been in your best interest to have been aware that during this time flattery WILL get you everywhere, don’t hold back by the way. Personal charisma, our physical appearance and how we show ourselves will get a boost of juice during these few Venus in Leo weeks as these issues would have risen up the notches. Venus in Leo is excellent for cheerleaders.

Actress Pamela Anderson has Venus in Leo
Famously discovered at a football game, when her face showed up on big screen she is a vegetarian endorsing PETA who ask us to consider the impact our actions have on animals

We would all have had a month where our relationships may have got a bit more dramatic or melodramatic depending on your bias, and Venus in Leo comes from a very deep bias which basically is: This is beautiful world lets get out and play in it to our hearts content. Self-indulgent, big-hearted and eye-wateringly charismatic, Leo is not one of those signs which says ‘Moi, non!’, therefore when Venus the Goddess of gorgeousness comes to visit this is quite a combo and can be a tour de force!

Mother Theresa of Calcutta has Venus in Leo
Born Agnes Gonxha in Albania, she spent most of her life in the Indian city of Calcutta caring for the sick and poor, especially children and founding the Missionaries of Charity. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and beatified by the Vatican only just one miracle away from sainthood. In 2013 doctors Serge Larivie and Genevieve Chenard, in the journal Studies in Religion/Sciences have criticised her reputation finding her ways 'rather dubious' and that her 'way of caring for the sick, her questionable political contacts, her suspicious management of the enormous sums of money she received, and her overly dogmatic views regarding, in particular, abortion, contraception, and divorce.' Dr Larivie has gone so far as to say
 'Given the parsimonious management of Mother Teresa's works, one may ask where the millions of dollars for the poorest of the poor have gone?'

Before we get too carried away with Venus in Leo it may also be the case that we all may have been much more pompous, vain and dominating and our egos hurt too easily if we did not receive our rightful worship. 
Key to understanding what is going on for us is to look at where in ourselves we are ‘Leo-attuned’, we all have degrees in our birth chart which looks out for any Leo vibration. Where is your personal Leo antenna? It will be good to look at how smoothly do the matters connected to your Leo house and/or planets run? Are they functioning as well as they could, or is there room for improvement?

Scientist Franz Halberg has Venus in Leo
He first used the term 'cicadian' describing the cicadian clock, a biochemical mechanism that drives adaptations to solar & lunar rhythms over 24 hour periods creating cicadian rhythms the optimum feel good. 

If you have Leo spanning the 5th zone of Romance & Creativity, you may find your ‘fun time’ gots a perk as what you do for the sheer love of it deepens and may go to another deeper level. The Guru Purnima गुरु पूर्णिमा is celebrated by both Hindus and Buddhists to give thanks to spiritual and academic teachers. This year it was the 22nd August 2013.
                 
Musician Andy Desmond known as Miten has Venus in Leo 
He performs with musical/ life partner singer Deva Premal after meeting at controversial guru, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh's (known as Osho), ashram in Pune, India when he was 48 and she was 20. They have gone on to become the 'Johnny & June Cash' of sacred music and are highly respected in the spiritual and yoga world for Premal's chantings of Indian Sanskrit mantras and Desmond's musical arrangements. 21 day mantra meditation

French Diet Guru Dr Pierre Dukan has Venus in Leo
Accounting for the best-selling success of his diet book in the UK he acknowledges 'It works and Carole Middleton' after she began the diet the engagement of her daughter Kate Middleton to Prince William was announced and her other daughter, Pippa Middleton also Venus in Leo, swayed her bottom into the press. Dukan was rich and famous.

Is your own Venus is in Leo, was this a time for you to welcome in new arrivals in the form of people or coins? Was this your time to have that ‘Wow factor’ and work it?
If you are a Sun sign Leo then this stuff was easy, right? Well to a point, even a bright shiny leader and ruler needs some down time to re-position the crown, work the hairspray and put in some curlers or gel for that extra bounce other Sun sign may just bounce at the wrong time.

Actor Tom Cruise has Venus in Leo

Looking back on the time that Venus was in Leo we may have had a glimpse of what life is like being so public, noticed and ‘on display’, we may have enjoyed much of it but then realized that actually there is a time and place for some hidden away, quiet me time, just to get things straight, which brings us right into Venus in Virgo which is where Venus has made her next move. With true Venus in Leo style demonstrated by actor Daniel Radcliffe, Venus in Leo as Harry Potter, when we are looking for the wonders we will often also have to battle our own Dementors.

UK Singer/Songwriter James Blake has Venus in Leo

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Venus in Cancer - Big Old Family Line

Former President of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed has Venus in Cancer

Rolling the words around our tongues, engaging in light hearted flirtations and spreading our wings were just some of the delights that Venus gifted to us during her stay in the sign of Gemini, The Twins. From the 3rd June 2013 until 26th June 2013 Venus immersed herself in the waters of Cancer The Crab. 
             

Former President of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed is famous in the West for his strident environmental stance on climate change and being the first democratically elected leader of a Muslim country, overthrowing a 30 year dictatorship in 2008. He has also presided over the first underwater cabinet meeting four years ago to draw attention to the environmental problems. He claims he had to relinquish democratic government at gunpoint in 2012 but is running for office again despite threats to his family. Speaking on the 27th July 2013 during the launch of the Maldivian Democractic Party's (MDP) foreign policy for the upcoming presidential elections, Mohamed Nasheed stressed the importance of good relations and co-operation with other countries of the World for the future of the Maldives.

'Other countries want human rights to be respected. Other countries want only an election to change a government. There are such principles held in high regard...'

Cancer delights in grabbing hold of things, hugging them close to the chest and sometimes transporting them away, off into infinity. For that short period of time when Venus was in that sloppy old sense of delight the cosmos will have urge us to surf the breaking waves for the ride. Venus's visit here in Cancer with the crustacean would have wanted us to squeeze our loved ones tight and to shower them with oodles and oodles of sweetness and just generally make sure they are safe and this applies whether to those of you born with this natally, or  just at any time when Venus passes through the sign of Cancer or any Cancer activity. Sun in Cancer - Emotional Pitstop

41st President of the United States George H W Bush has Venus in Cancer
He shaved his head in support of the 2 year old son of one of his Secret Service detail, 'Patrick's Pals',
who has Leukaemia, 26th July 2013.' George 41' & his wife Barbara lost their 2nd child Robin at 4 years old to Leukaemia 40 years ago. His son Jeb Bush was Governor of Florida and his other son George W Bush was Governor of Texas then the 43rd President of the United States of America.

A word about Venus, Venus Come Out Of Your Shell basically she likes to indulge. Feeding the body, anointing it, making it look, smell and fee lovely is what she is generally all about. There are other things she loves, such as beauty in all it's forms, and an appreciation of the finer things in life, art, culture and social bonds. Relationships, money and fairness are part of the things Venus desires. A run through that list gives us a clue on just how fundamental and central she is to our lives. Love and Money, get those two things sorted and most people feel they have a good handle on life. You can deny one but it is unusual to deny both. Unless you just deny everything.

Victim of Domestic Abuse & Murder Nicole Brown has Venus in Cancer
Former wife of Professional Footballer O J Simpson, who was accused of viciously butchering her
and her friend Ronald Goldman to death with a knife and getting away with it in a media fuelled
 'Trial of the Century' 19 years ago but was later found liable in a civil suit filed by the victims families.

Venus had been teasing, light and curious during her time in Gemini which got us all kind of used to that way of being, taking things on face value, using detachment but what happened when she moved to Cancer, how different was it with The Squeezy Squeezy Crab running the ‘Love ‘n Money Show’? As a word of advice, don’t stray too far, don’t push a joke, operate caution and stick around. Do this and you could have navigated your path through easier than had you played around, expected to be excused or tried to keep things on the low-low.

President Barack Obama has Venus in Cancer In the wake of his climate change speech, Obama has expressed reservations about the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline project in the New York Times on the 27th July 2013, stating that it would not create many jobs and could raise gasoline prices. He disputed the economic benefits justification for the pipeline and confirmed that he would reject the project if it were to 'significantly exacerbate' carbon pollution. 'Republicans have said that this would be a big jobs generator. There is no evidence that that's true'

If you wanted to attract, it would have been in your best interest to have been aware that during this time, emotional intelligence, for everyone, would have been amped up to the max. From whatever base level we started from, during these few Venus in Cancer weeks it would have risen up quite a few notches. Hiding would have been pretty impossible although what we many of us may have secretly wanted to. There would have been very few emotional hiding places.

Accused Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has Venus in Cancer

His older brother Tamerlan died in a police shootout after the bombing, leaving an American widow, who is reported to have been completely subservient to him, leading others to believe his brother may have also felt equally intimidated. Dzhokhar's old teacher exclaimed 'I knew this kid. He could not have possibly have done this. He could not have been a sweeter more gracious young man. I cannot believe he was capable of such a heinous crime and of so many murders.....as the old Hebrew expression goes. You got to be f......me.' Classmates also could not come to terms with his behaviour.'I don't believe I know that bomber…And I've known him for yeaaaarssss!!!! Dzho this is ridiculous man .. what happened bro, daaaamn I thought u loved us dude!!!!'

We would all have had a month where our relationships may have got a bit more ‘cozy’ or claustrophobic depending on your bias, and Venus in Cancer comes from a very deep bias which basically is, To Have And To Hold Is The Only Way. Gooey, sensual, slurpingly indulgent and wickedly physical Cancer is not one of the signs which says No! to self indulgence, so when Venus the Goddess of indulgence comes to stay this can be quite a combo.

Actress Angelina Jolie has Venus in Cancer
She has thre biological children and three adoptive children with actor Brad Pitt in a media spotlighted 'rainbow family. Her mother Marcheline Betrand was co-founder of the All Tribes Foundation, culturally and economically benefiting Native Americans, and the Give Love Give Life organisation, which raises public awareness of women's cancers. She died of at the age of 56 after an eight year battle with ovarian cancer, Angelina's grandmother also died of ovarian cancer at 45 and her maternal aunt who died at 61 also had the same BRCA defective gene, causing Angelina to undergo a preventative double mastectomy after finding out that she had a 87% chance of developing breast cancer. Her positive influence is highlighted in the
 Time magazine article The Angelina Effect 

Before we get too carried away it may also be the case that we became much more insecure, clingy and hypersensitive as our feelers are on full alert for any sign of danger or threat whether to ourselves or our loved ones. This could have made us all too weepy or a bit childish, scary and scared. Or our instinct may have been on red alert.

'Father of Fracking' George Phydias Mitchell has Venus in Cancer
Born in Texas to Greek immigrants he started his working life as a 'wildcatter' drilling exploratory wells and became a billionaire. Mitchell also drilled for natural gas using hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking. Where sand, water and other liqiuids are blasted into rock formations at high pressures unlocking trapped oil and gas. Environmentalists fear chemicals used to crack the rock endanger the environment and threaten groundwater. Mitchell who died on the 26th July 2013 aged 94 also voiced concerns himself,
'The administration is trying to tighten up controls. I think It’s a good idea. They should have very strict controls. The Department of Energy should do it...because if you don't do it right there could be trouble'

Key to understanding what is going on for us is to look at where in ourselves we are ‘Cancer-attuned’, we all have degrees in our birth chart which looks out for any Cancer vibration. Where is your personal Cancer antenna? It will be good to look at how smoothly do the matters connected to your Cancer house and/or planets run? Are they functioning as well as they could, or is there room for improvement? What do you think?
Mercury in Cancer - Postcards From The Water's Edge

Footballer Mario Balotelli has Venus in Cancer
Has suffered racial abuse from Italian football fans and Italian football clubs Roma and Inter Milan have both been fined for racists chanting and throwing bananas. On his debut for AC Milan, owned by ex Italian president Silvio Berlusconi his brother Paolo Berlusconi said in paraphrase 'Right we are all off to see the family s little n***** he's a madhead' 

If you have Cancer spanning the 5th zone of Romance & Creativity, you may find your ‘fun time’ gots a perk as what you do for the sheer love of it deepens and may go to another deeper level. Who or what do you love the most?

If you are a Sun sign Cancer then hey this stuff is easy right? Well yes, but to a point, even a sensual, emotionally aware Crab needs to have a hug and have its own demons shooed away. If your own Venus is in Cancer, lovely, a time to welcome in new arrivals.

Italian Integration Minister Cecile Kyenge has Venus in CancerOriginally from Democratic Republic of Congo she had bananas thrown at her at a political rally on the
26th July 2013. She has faced racial slurs and threats on a regular basis since joining the Italian government.  Robert Canteroli a member of the Italian senate and a member of the anti-immigration Northern League party likened her to an orangutan. Another Northern Leaguer Doloros Valandro wrote on her Facebook page in response to an article about the alleged rape of two women by a Somali man.'Why no one ever rapes her, so that she understands what the victims of this heinous crime go through! Shame!'. Kyenge who is Italian and Congolese replied 'I don't want to comment because everyone should feel offended, not just me. This language instigates violence and doesn't belong to me.'

For the time of Venus in Cancer we may have had a cupboard stacked full of emotional pot-pouri, our senses may have been sharpend to a fine point and we could have dived deeply into the embraces and cooing sweet nothings from those close to us. When Venus moves in with the Lion in Leo we were ready to switch our desires towards a more outward focus but very much on ourselves contrasting very much with Venus in Cancer. As always its been emotional.

Singer/Songwriter Ben Howard has Venus in Cancer

Music from Jane Campions Top of the Lake with Actress Elizabeth Moss who has Venus in Cancer

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Venus in Gemini - The Power of Choice

 WindFarms, Windfalls or Windbags June 2013
The Conservative/Liberal Democrat UK Coalition Government are showing us both sides of their weakened coin and throwing in their very different hands, fuelling growing tensions in their energy debates. They appear to be putting forward measures to give local communities more of a say and more powers to block the development of onshore wind farms whilst at the same time offering greater incentives in the form of subsidies and reductions in energy bills for embracing them.

Tasting the honey, chewing the cud, taking the air and feeling the breeze against her skin was just a few sensual of the delights and gifts Venus enjoyed with her stay in the earthy sign of Taurus the Bull. From the 9th May 2013 until the 3rd June 2013 Venus began to dodge and dart around into the flibbity-jibberty style of Gemini. The Mutable Air sign Gemini is the sign of The Twins and everything could have appeared as double-barreled, two pronged, with mixed messages, dual meanings, general truths tied up as apparent nonsense, or just puzzles in a mixed media delivery format. 

             
Australian Activist, founder of controversial website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange has Venus in Gemini. 

He made available secret information and classified media gained from whistleblowers and anonymous news sources. WikiLeaks became well known or infamous, depending on your point of view, internationally when it published U.S. military and diplomatic documents and media. Proponent of free speech or a dangerous maverick, both Gemini twins are often cited in descriptions of Assange. The Swedish police have requested assange to appear for questioning in a sexual assault inquiry but he absconded the British governments intention to extradite him by staying inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since the 19th June 2012.

Mars in Aquarius - Idealistic Battles & Contradictions Assange has praised the latest serious whistleblower of the covert NSA Prism surveillance Edward Snowden, calling him 'a hero'  and someone who has revealead 'one of the most serious events of the decade, the creeping formulation of a mass surveillance state' 10th June 2013

Simply put, which is never easy with Gemini involved, Venus during her quick visit here would have loved the word play, loved some flowery language, and loved to ‘mix it up’ by thowing in the odd communication or two, some very odd communication indeed.We may have expected the rhetoric to flourish and with any flourishing rhetoric perhaps also the chance of some confusing speech, disguised as simple and simple speech disguised as complex. When Venus is playing in Gemini, whether natally, those of us born with this position, or at the time of the year when Venus rushes by just passing through....

Tennis Wimbledon Champions American Venus Williams & French Amelie Muresmo have Venus in Gemini
Venus and her sister Serena, currently World No1 in singles tennis came up the hard way 'straight outta
Compton', downtown Los Angeles, notorious for its gang violence, gansta rap/hip-hop and crack cocaine. They both encountered racial prejudice early on in tennis and were coached by their father Richard.
A protester, waving a lit flare, bare chested and masked ran onto the court at the Mens single final at Roland Garros, Paris 9th July 2013 and was restrained by security with two men holding a banner accusing France of trampling on children's rights earlier. These protests were against the legalisation of gay marriage in France. The director of the French Open condemned the protests as 'pathetic' and did not want to give them any more publicity. A sporting heroine of France, Muresmo came out as gay in the full glare of the press aged 19.Her Twitter account proclaims 'It's me! Nowhere and everywhere' As France's Fed Cup Captain she  supported Wimbledon Women's Singles Champion Marion Bartolli 2013

A word about Venus Venus Come Out Of Your Shell basically she likes to indulge herself by feeding the body, anointing it, making it look, smell and feel special is what she is about. Venus loves beauty in all it's many forms, and she has an appreciation of the finer things in culture, art, music, social bonds, relationships and devotions although we have to accept that not everyone loves in the same way or indeed the same things.

Jailed Pussy Riot Prisoner of Conscience Maria Alyokhina 'Masha' has Venus in Gemini
A 4th year student of Journalism and Creative Writing in Moscow she was jailed for 'hooliganism and religious hatred' after a protest performance in a Moscow Cathedral and as been recognised as a political prisoner since. (Other prisoners Nadezhda Tolokonnikova & Yekaterina Samutsevich)
An HBO documentary aired on 10th June 2013 HBO Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer
After asking for parole she went on a brief hunger strike that ended in June 2013. International criticism continues as new Russian anti-gay laws, including one on ' propaganda for non-traditional sexual relations' appear to serve as encouragement for harassment, violent attacks and recently two murders.

Relationships are very high on a Venus list but money and fairness also come under the remit of our Venus desires. A run through our personal list will give us a clue as to just how fundamental and central Venus style demands and priorities are in our lives. We all know that if we get Love and Money sorted out that we have a chance at getting a good handle on our life. We can have a try at denying the need for one but it is unusual to deny both, at least not intentionally.

Jack & Jackie Kennedy both have Venus in Gemini
11th June 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of President JFK's Radio & TV 11th June civil rights address to the nation when attitudes to racism was still in its infancy and the 26th June 1963 his Berlin speech delivered to a divided city during the height of the Cold War, where he memorably proclaimed 'Ich bin eine Berliner', siding with West Germany over Soviet support of East Germany, the Gemini twins at war and threatening to throw things at each other over the wall. President Obama re-visiting Berlin in June 2013 amid outrage over the US secret internet spying programme and Edward Snowdon leaking documents to the Washington Post and Guardian newspapers. The NSA PRISM programme gives US officials covert access to  emails and web chats communications from companies such as Google, Facebook, Twitter and Skype. Data privacy will continue to be a major cause for concern in Europe as there appears to be no choice involved, Europeans are not protected from this type of US surveillance programme intrusion in any way and American laws of protection only appear to be applying to Americans. 

Venus may have had felt sensual, measured and deep during her time in Taurus which got us all kind of used to that way of being, taking our time, having concern for the wider community and indulging our senses. What appeared to change when she moved to Gemini, just how different was life for us with The Naughty Twins running riot around the ‘Love ‘n Money Show’? Did we use languages expertly, adapt to the sudden changes, and up our levels of dexterity? Maybe we could have navigated our path through the merry month of May 2013 a little easier by being flexible rather than stuck rigidly to our guns or floundered in the complacency of some of our habits and changed nothing at all.
                 
Marathon Runner Joan Benoit has Venus in Gemini (Sun in Taurus)
She won Gold in the 1st Womens Marathon at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles 1984.
'When I first started running I was so embarrassed I'd walk when cars passed me. I'd pretend I was looking at the flowers' Sun in Taurus - Tending To Our Gardens
Professional Basketball Player with 4 Olympic Gold Medals  Lisa Leslie also has Venus in Gemini
During her initial basketball trials when team members were told to split into two groups for left handers and right handers she was the only 'lefty', she decided to use her right hand so she would not have to be by herself. That choice worked to her advantage as she is now ambidextrous, in true Gemini form.
If we wanted to attract or to appear more attractive during Gemini Venus time we may have had to become aware of 'the more the merrier' adage. Wanting to be 'in there' and among the crowd, chopping and changing our object(s) of fascination or just shifting to another groups, preferably groups of admirers. All this could have appeared to have been a breeze and as natural as breathing. We may also have been trying hard to impress with our clever use of information, just dazzling with our communication skills or regretting saying just a little too much.

Danish Film Director Lars von Trier has Venus in Gemini
co-founder of Dogma95 with friend Thomas Vinterberg, extolling the vitues of simple storytelling and excluding elborate special effects in filmmaking, perhaps contradicting himself a little in Melancholia and expending some 'hot air' about the Third Reich that did not go well at the Cannes Film Festival.' What can I say? I understand Hitler, but I think he did some wrong things, yes, absolutely...He's not what you would call a good guy, but I understand much about him, and I sympathise with him a little bit. But come on, I'm not for the Second World War, and I'm not against Jews...I am of course very much for Jews, no not too much, because Israel is pain in the ass, but still how can I get out of this sentence. Later in answer to another critic who questioned whether Melancholia was an answer to Hollywood blockbuster films asking von Trier if he could imagine doing a film on a grander scale, von Trier replied, 'On a grander scale? Yeah. Yeah that's what we Nazis, we have a tendency to do things on a greater scale. Yeah, maybe you could persuade me into the final solution with journalists' 
His press release photo attached to his 2013 film Nymphomanic is an ironic reference to this.

We would all have all had a month where our relationships may have got a bit more unsettled and/or playful. Freedom and ‘space’ concerns could have dominated our relating and we examined multiple view points and new areas of interest. This would have been most enjoyable with a twin soul but if not then we would have gladly pursued the interest solo. Looking out and being on the look-out for our one true love, our soul mate, our other half would have become quite energised and for those already with ‘their one’ this time would have been an explosion of shared mutual interests. 
Before we get too carried away with the excitement and pleasure of all this variety it may also be the case that we became much more aware of unreliability, demonstrations of a side of the mouth expression, even two-faced behaviour style or simply a one-sided, uncompromising one. 

French National Front Founder/Leader & Presidential Candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen has Venus in Gemini
'Ni Pote, Ni Black, Ni Blanc, Ni Beur, Francais' (neither friend nor black nor white nor arab French)
His daughter Marine Le Pen now leads the French National Front and wrote on Twitter after the protest suicide in Notre Dame 'All our respect to Dominique Venner, whose final gesture, eminently political, was to try to awaken the people of France' She is now also demanding political asylum for US whistle blower 
Edward Snowden.

Our facility to see more than one side of any situation, coupled with a keen articulation of possibility could have been frustrating to those just wanting a straight answer! There is always more than we bargained for in sort of Gemini presentation, given that they always come as a pair.

'Mandiba' South Africa's 1st Black President Nelson Mandela has Venus in Gemini
His friend Mac Maharaj who also has Venus in Gemini, described by Mandela as 'the cleverest chap I've ever met',was also imprisoned with other ANC supporters on Robben Island during the apartheid. Maharaj, transcribed and smuggled out a draft of Mandela's autobiography, Long Walk To Freedom is still acting as spokesman, buffering 95 year old Mandela, in failing health, from unnecessary outside world intrusions. Mandela was rushed to hospitalon the 7th/8th June 2013 in the early hours with a long-term lung infection, contracted working in the prison quarry and Tuberculosis developed during his 27 years incarceration . 

Key to understanding what is going on for us is to look at where in ourselves we are ‘Gemini-attuned’. We all have degrees in our birth chart which looks out for any Gemini vibration, our personal Gemini antenna. It will be good to look at how smoothly the matters connected to our Gemini houses and/or planets ran at this time? Did they function as well as they could, is there room for improvement or even some room to manoeuvre, reverse, revise and try a new perspective or two. 

 Right-Wing French Historian Dominique Venner has Venus in Gemini
On 21st May 2013 on a busy day, amid tourists and people praying he shot and killed himself in front of the altar in Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris after placing a sealed envelope on the steps. In his youth he had been jailed for violence against Communists. Nearly 80 he felt that French civilisation was being replaced by an 'Afro-Maghreb culture' and would end up with Sharia Law as former French colonies were overwhelming the Republic shown in his final blog message 'Peaceful street protests will not be enough to prevent it...It will require new, spectacular, and symbolic gestures to wake up the sleepwalkers, to shake the slumbering consciousness and to remind us of our origins … and rouse people from their complacency … We are entering a time when words must be backed up … by new, spectacular and symbolic actions.' His extreme symbolic action was prompted by the passing of the law legalising gay marriage in France. He regarded this as another dismantling of French culture as did the immigration of millions of Muslims and the white French culture also being overwhelmed by Americanism, predicting a ''total replacement of the population of France and of Europe'

If you have Gemini spanning the 5th zone of Romance & Creativity, you may have found that things may not have been that bad and that your ‘fun time’ got a perk as did what you do for the sheer love of it. All may have gone to another deeper level. Is your own Venus is in Gemini was it a time to welcome in new arrivals.

Italy's Senate Vice President Roberto Calderoli has Venus in Gemini
Commenting on Italy's first black cabinet minister Congolese born Cecile Kyenge 'I love animals, bears and wolves, as everyone knows but when I see the pictures of Kyenge I cannot but think of, even if I’m not saying she is one, the features of an orangutan.'

If you are a Sun sign Gemini then this stuff may seem easy. Well to a point, because even a cheeky, clever Gemini knows the value of engaging the mind before the tongue and the heart before the mind!

Astronomer Frank Kameny has Venus in Gemini
'One of the most significant figures' in the Gay right Movement in America he was dismissed from the US Military for his open homosexuality beginning his struggle with the American establishment in the '60's.
He now has a minor planet named in his honour Frankkameny  

For this Venus in Gemini time we may have had a vista of possibilities that opened up before us and a plethora of choices that serve to entice and revel. The anxieties could have been about exactly which ones to choose, what to leave and sacrifice and which ones to pick up and develop. As Venus moved on into Cancer we will be hoping to try and enrich, deepen and nurture those ideas we have decided to bring with us on our continuing journey. Choice is power and the more the merrier, or is less more, right or left, green or red, crescent or cross, rainbow or jackboot......decision decisions,
ad infinitum.
                                     
Singer/Writer/Icon Bob Dylan has Venus in Gemini
credits:indieWire & reuters & BBC & maximeshematov& charismanews & the tribune online
posted by pippa ponton & jphibbs