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Venus retrograde and the significance of 40 days

(This article first appeared in 2014.)

Astrologer Marina Macario makes an interesting point – that the 40 days and 40 nights of the Venus retro period corresponds to the 40 days and 40 nights that Jesus traveled in the wilderness.

Forty is mentioned in the bible often, but most famously when Jesus was tempted by Satan in the wilderness for forty days. Could this be referring to the astrological phenomena of Venus retrograde? After all, Venus has two sides to her. She is the goddess of […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-11-10T19:26:52-05:00October 6th, 2018|Uncategorized|4 Comments

A very wicked Mercury Retrograde! And “Mercury Max”

Am I the only one who has had a miserable time over the past three weeks? I’m usually pretty good at navigating through Mercury retrograde periods, but this one really did wreak havoc in many areas of my life. I can’t count the number of appointments that I either didn’t enter into the calendar or put in the wrong place. Confusion in communication was rampant, including changing my mind and redoing certain things over and over.

All of this was made worse by the fact that Mercury (communication) aligned with […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-11-10T18:46:25-05:00September 10th, 2017|Astrology in my world|12 Comments

Venus retrograde – the significance of 40 days and 40 nights

Venus turns retrograde only every two years or so which makes it one of the more rare astrological events (the outer planets retrograde every year and Mercury retrogrades four times a year). When a planet is retrograde, meaning it APPEARS to be moving backwards from our perspective on earth, its influence tends to be more hidden and we generally are urged to look backwards and rectify matters from the past.

Astrologer Marina Macario makes an interesting point – that the 40 days and 40 nights of […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2020-05-15T15:45:39-04:00October 5th, 2014|Planetary cycles, Religion|8 Comments

Venus Transit wrapup

by Lynn Hayes With Venus retrograde and having just transited the Sun, its energy is still powerful and I wanted to share some other articles and viewpoints that may be of interest.

In my own article on the 2012 Transit of Venus I wrote about the ancient archetype of Venus as the more powerful Innana and Ishtar. Beth Owls Daughter has a wonderful article offering even more details about the deeper layers of the Venus archetype. Innana was also associated with the planet Venus […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2023-08-13T13:03:44-04:00June 8th, 2012|Astronomy|8 Comments

Venus of the Evening

Many many years ago, back in the mists of antiquity, ancient astronomers thought that Venus was actually two separate bodies, one called Phosphoros, “The bringer of light” also known as Lucifer or the Morning Star; the other they called Hesperos, the Evening Star.

From our perspective on earth, the orbit of Venus is always fairly close to the Sun. When Venus is at her brightest she becomes visible just after the Sun goes down, and is then called the Evening Star.

Astrologer Dana Gerhardt writes: