The Venus Archetype: The Functions of its Life Cycle

The Venus Archetype: The Functions of its Life Cycle

Note: In astrology, the combined unique functions of the seven visible planets, Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn, create a fourfold life cycle. This cycle is comprised of nourishment, production, distribution, and rest. Each of these planets expresses each of these four stages in its respective cycle, setting up a fractal-like pattern reflected in the whole (nature's life cycle) and each part (the life cycle of each planet).

Venus primarily represents a vessel for consciousness, such as the body. It provides a healthy body for one's soul, beauty throughout nature, and vigor to accomplish one's tasks in life. Without Venus, one could not have a body to hold the soul on Earth, nor have enough energy to complete tasks, nor experience inner or outer beauty. 

Venus becomes manifest at 27 degrees of Pisces (commonly known as Venus' exaltation degree) just as spring is about to commence. The season a planet is born into nurtures the planet with that season’s own characteristics. Spring bestows Venus with its qualities of warmth, beauty, and new life. It is a time when fresh bodies are born into nature.

Once spring is complete, Venus then goes forth into summer, using these attributes to lift nature up, gracing it with beautiful vessels to hold nature’s abundance. Also thanks to Venus, there will be plenty of energy for all the work that needs to be done. By this time, Venus comes of age in the range from 27 degrees of Gemini to 27 degrees of Virgo, and gives the day, year, and human life what they need for a peak productive period. The productive part of the day is in full swing in the afternoon, the annual growing season is at its peak baking under the hot summer sun, and an adult is at his/her most vigorous and able to accomplish his/her tasks. Venus allows the consciousness of nature to express itself via vibrant, strong, beautiful bodies. Without Venus, there would be no vehicle or physical form for consciousness in nature to express itself. Life would be flat, ugly, unrefined, and lazy.  

At 27 degrees of Virgo, Venus has completed production and is ready to bestow and distribute its harvest, or results, of its productive season through its functions of vigor and aesthetics in nature. At this time, the harvest of a day, year and life will be well underway with they daily work ending, the annual harvest being gathered up, and the intense adult life of raising children and physical work winding down. One will begin to see the benefits of one's labors from the productive part of life. This quarter for which Venus gives its results runs from 27 degrees of Virgo to 27 degrees of Sagittarius. A huge chunk of this quarter in the grand life cycle is the first quarter of the non-productive period of a workday, year, and human life. One will see what they have reaped from his/her sowing. Vigor and health will decrease in nature as the ripe incarnations are distributed according to their value. 

When Venus reaches its anti-climax point of death at 27 degrees of Sagittarius, it has completed its life cycle and is ready to rest and recuperate until it will rise again at its manifestation. This quarter will span from 27 degrees of Sagittarius to 27 degrees of Pisces. It is a time when people will sleep from exhaustion of the day’s work and play, when the fields will lay barren, and humans will die when their body can no longer endure to hold their soul. They will commit the final acts of the day, year and life before being brought back to another cycle of productivity and work.

Venus rises to allow nature to have a vehicle for its consciousness and provides it the vigor to complete its tasks. After it is nourished in spring and productive in summer, it distributes its results of ripe bodies and food in the fall. Nature can thus be sustained throughout the non-productive seasons. When Venus rests right before winter, when life dies, hibernating in the abyss. Venus rises again for nourishment right before spring, just before spirits are ready to reincarnate within various bodies that get the work of a day, year and lifetime done. 

Image Source: By Henri-Pierre Picou - http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artwork.php?artworkid=7062, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10733654