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Venus & Beyond

Love on the outer planets.
Venus & Beyond 

The Most Important Relationship You Will Ever Have

June 25, 2009 11:45 AM by Jessica Shepherd
 

This column is about Venus, about love - and beyond. To me, the beyond part is going beyond the romantic fantasy of love, those messy complications that we call complex (but are often just really difficult to face), cutting through... Keep Reading >>

 

Gemini: Duality, Dopplegangers & Double Lives

June 16, 2009 9:59 AM by Jessica Shepherd
 

During Gemini, the season of doubles and duality, I often find myself thinking of unlived lives, parallel universes and paths not taken during this time. Questions pop pop into my mind like: Am I really meant to be on this... Keep Reading >>

 

Neptune & The Price of Our Fantasies

June 9, 2009 5:26 PM by Jessica Shepherd
 

The Sagittarius Full Moon continues to emphasize our world view - how we evaluate our world through our perceptions. I've personally been amazed at the number of folks doing this in a really weird way. They're using their history, prejudice,... Keep Reading >>

 

That Prick o' Poison - Neptune, Jupiter & Chiron Conjunction

June 2, 2009 11:32 AM by Jessica Shepherd
 

I received a few enlightened emails about my last post about V. I like to call V my 'prick' of poison because he administered my own personal pain so beautifully that I couldn't ignore it any longer. I imagine, had... Keep Reading >>

 

Invite Your Spirituality Out On a Date - The Neptune/Jupiter/Chiron Conjunction

May 28, 2009 11:29 AM by Jessica Shepherd
 

I remember when I first realized I could take a loving, neutral Third presence out on a date with me. It coincided with an incident originating with a man who superficially hurt me, and a 'type' who had deeply hurt... Keep Reading >>

 

Famous Love Triangles

May 20, 2009 12:04 PM by Jessica Shepherd
 

They say three's a crowd. Three may indeed be a crowd, but three is also a divinely inspired number, ie the holy trinity. In numerology, three belongs to the ancient practice of alchemy (the conversion of one thing into, an... Keep Reading >>

 

Love & Betrayal - Love Triangle as Catalyst

May 20, 2009 11:36 AM by Jessica Shepherd
 

Under the waning light of the Scorpio Full Moon, I've been exploring love triangles - coolly, objectively, as a surgeon might, I've been psychologically typing the players and types of triangles through astrology. Retrospectively, I might've titled this series 'the... Keep Reading >>

 

Love & Betrayal - Types of Triangles

May 13, 2009 8:41 PM by Jessica Shepherd
 

Obviously no one is exempt from feelings of betrayal, and the fallout can be devastating for all involved. Oprah recently apologized to James Frey for 'lambasting him' on her show, and she did so because Vanity Fair reports, she felt... Keep Reading >>

 

Love & Betrayal - Unravelling Love Triangles Part 2

May 7, 2009 4:17 AM by Jessica Shepherd
 

Relationships, love them and leave them, throughout life you can't escape them. Love is sometimes anything but simple, especially in the case of love triangles - one of the messier realities of relationship.Roles in a love triangle vary, and people... Keep Reading >>

 

Love & Betrayal - Unravelling Love Triangles

May 7, 2009 3:35 AM by Jessica Shepherd
 

The painful experience of an emotional triangle is one which occurs in virtually all lives, although the 'third point' of the triangle is not always a human one. This article explores the triangle from several different perspectives: the early family... Keep Reading >>

 

To Hell & Back Again - The Final Square of Venus/Pluto

May 3, 2009 1:04 AM by Jessica Shepherd
 

It's been one hell of a journey. This weekend Venus in Aries met Pluto in Capricorn for the third and final time, the trajectory of our three-part journey can be compared to that of Inanna, who passed through seven consecutive... Keep Reading >>

 

Smother Love & Mother Love - Ceres

April 28, 2009 7:45 PM by Jessica Shepherd
 

I've covered the Temptress, and the Queen, so now this Cancer Moon day is perfect for sharing the gifts of the Great Mother asteroid, Ceres.The Mother Goddess is alive in all of us. Men have a Ceres too, but as... Keep Reading >>

 

The Venus Diaries: How Women Screw Up a Great Relationship, Part 2

April 24, 2009 11:29 AM by Jessica Shepherd
 

In my last post I told a story about a beautiful woman who met a gorgeous guy (my husband) who was really attracted to and into her, and how she screwed it up. What was the moral of that story?... Keep Reading >>

 

The Venus Diaries: When Venus Meets Mars -or- How Women Screw Up a Great Relationship Part 1

April 21, 2009 1:07 PM by Jessica Shepherd
 

We women have the uncanny ability to be tempting and exciting, and also change into whoever a man wants us to be. We're pretty magical this way. And this is no small feat - we've learned how to be... Keep Reading >>

 

Pleasure-oh!-scopes for Libra-Pisces

April 15, 2009 11:02 AM by Jessica Shepherd
 

Pleasure-oh!-scopes. Venus here and exalted (ta-dah!) in Pisces, I'm getting out my pleasure toys and handing them out to all the signs. While fingering through my drawer of delights, deciding what to give and to whom, I couldn't describe my... Keep Reading >>

 

Pleasure-oh!-scopes for Aries-Virgo

April 15, 2009 10:51 AM by Jessica Shepherd
 

Pleasure-oh!-scopes. Venus here and exalted (ta-dah!) in Pisces, I'm getting out my pleasure toys and handing them out to all the signs. While fingering through my drawer of delights, deciding what to give and to whom, I couldn't describe my... Keep Reading >>

 

Easter Week Forecast: Crucifixes & Chocolate, Awakening the Dead

April 12, 2009 10:54 AM by Jessica Shepherd
 

Happy Easter, bunnies! After the entry of Sun into Aries, Easter will always fall on the Sunday following the first full moon- and that's today. The Spring Goddesses Oestre, Astarte, Ishtar, Osatara charge this time of renewal, revival and (chocolate)... Keep Reading >>

 

The Venus Diaries: The Blade & The Babe

April 2, 2009 7:24 PM by Jessica Shepherd
 

In this diary series, Jessica, a Libra rising speaks as the inner life of the Goddess of Love -Venus. Earlier this week, I attended a women only seminar called 'understanding men.' I left about an hour into it, not because... Keep Reading >>

 

The Venus Diaries: Beauty & the Beyooch

March 29, 2009 8:10 PM by Jessica Shepherd
 

In this new diary series, Jessica, a Libra rising speaks as the inner life of the Goddess of Love -Venus. Times are hard. It isn't easy being Venusian thus having all your money tied up in retrograde limbo. The money... Keep Reading >>

 

The Venus Diaries - Agent Provocateur Venus in Aries RX

March 26, 2009 1:04 PM by Jessica Shepherd
 

In this new diary series, Jessica, a Libra rising speaks as the inner life of the Goddess of Love -Venus. Am I too fat? Am I too skinny? Am I too pretty? AM I good enough? It's the inverse of... Keep Reading >>