The Astrology Podcast
Transcript of Episode 554, titled:
Venus Retrograde in Scorpio Repetitions in the News
With Chris Brennan
Episode originally released on October 22, 2026
Original episode URL:
https://theastrologypodcast.com/2026/10/22/venus-retrograde-in-scorpio-repetitions-in-the-news/
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Transcribed by Teresa “Peri” Lardo
Transcription released November 10th, 2026
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CHRIS BRENNAN: Hey. My name is Chris Brennan, and in this episode I’m going to be talking about Venus retrograde in Scorpio repetitions in the news, focusing in on the eight-year cycle of Venus and how some of the news stories today in the headlines are actually connected with previous times that Venus was retrograde in Scorpio in eight-year increments going back as far as the 1930s.
All right, so I’ve done a few episodes on Venus retrograde in Scorpio over the past month or two, starting with one where I went through Venus retrograde in Scorpio in history over the past century and noted important news events. And part of the reason I did that initial episode was because I knew that once Venus actually started going retrograde again, as it is now in the last broadly by sign the last three to four months of the year, but especially the 40-day retrograde period from early October through mid-November, that some of the stories that would come up in the news would be connected with events that happened in the past during previous Venus retrograde in Scorpio cycles.
So today what I’m going to do is I’m going to go through a bunch of news stories I’ve collected over the course of the past month or so that have been headlines in the news, and I’m gonna show how some of those headlines are actually connected to previous Venus retrograde periods. I’ll also later highlight some stories that are just good archetypal examples or thematic examples of Venus retrograde in Scorpio as well, just because I think they give good examples of things that we can learn.
So really quickly, let me share a couple of diagrams. First, here – for those watching the video version, here is the diagram that shows the current Venus retrograde period in Scorpio and Libra where the actual retrograde itself started October 3rd when Venus slowed down and stationed retrograde at eight degrees of Scorpio. Then it retrograded back through Scorpio and will station direct in Libra on November 13th. So that’s the actual retrograde period itself, but the shadow period dates started August 31st when Venus passed 22 Libra, and it won’t end until it exits its shadow degree on December 15th at eight degrees of Scorpio. And then more broadly, by sign Venus first entered one of the signs that it would retrograde back to, which is Libra, on August 6th and then it will not finally depart from Scorpio for the last time, the sign it went retrograde in, until January 7th when it moves into Sagittarius. So more broadly speaking, we’re looking at that entire period, but especially the 40-day period in the middle when Venus is actually retrograde and moving backwards in the sky.
And as I’ve talked about in previous episodes, Venus goes retrograde in Scorpio every eight years. So some of the years then that we’re gonna be paying attention to is we know that since Venus is retrograde in Scorpio now in the last three to four months of 2026, we know then that eight years earlier in the final three to four months of 2018, Venus was also retrograde in Scorpio. So it always happens not just in the same, in that year eight years earlier, but it happens in the same roughly span of three to four months, basically, which is part of what makes it so interesting is that it’s a repetition in the year and a repetition in the months and a repetition in the zodiacal degrees.
So the repetition years are 2026, 2018, 2010, 2002, 1994, 1986, 1978, 1970, 1962, 1954, 1946, 1938, 1930, 1922, 1914, and 1906. So I think the earliest date that we’re gonna talk about is, like, 1938, but I wanted to read those out again just so you have those years in your mind when I start mentioning some of the repetitions.
And in terms of why this is important, I think it’s really important because when Venus goes retrograde in a certain sign like Scorpio, it gives us a really rare opportunity to study how planetary cycles can connect the past with the present. But the trick is that you really have to pay attention to the news stories that are coming up at that time, and what the feel and what the essence is of what people are experiencing at that time in order to truly understand it. And in that way, it can help us to sharpen our understanding of the nature of Venus, the nature of Scorpio, the nature of a planet in detriment, and the nature of a planet in retrograde.
So what we’ll find is a lot of the major news stories, especially the ones happening within the retrograde itself or around the stations, whenever you see a notable story in the news, oftentimes even if it initially doesn’t seem like it should be connected with the Venus retrograde, sometimes when you pay attention to or look into the past of that news story, you’ll find that it did have prior precedents that happened under previous Venus retrogrades in Scorpio.
All right, so why don’t we just jump right into the news stories then and I can start demonstrating what that actually looks like in practice?
All right, before we jump into the news stories, though, I meant to say that there’s a – I should put a content warning at the beginning that, because we’re talking about some of the news stories lately, anybody that’s been paying attention to the news knows that there’ve been some really, really heavy stories lately since Venus has been retrograde in Scorpio. And so in order to cover and talk about some of that, we’re gonna have to talk about stories that deal with some pretty heavy or pretty dark themes. So these are things like including true crime, intense court cases, messy relationship fallout, mental health struggles, and a bunch of other pretty heavy or serious topics. So please take care when listening, and if you feel like you need to either use the timestamps to skip ahead from a story or skip this episode entirely, that’s okay. But I just wanted to give a head’s up ahead of time.
All right, so I want to start this section with some headlines of different eight-year repetitions that I noticed in the news, especially focusing on mysteries, legal reckonings, and crime, which are in many instances Venus retrograde in Scorpio themes.
So the first one that I find really interesting is one that I actually found originally when I was researching the history episode because what I noticed in the history episode and I just forgot to mention it or didn’t include it, but I did end up mentioning this one in a private Secret Astrology Podcast just for patrons later that same month of the history episode was I discovered that back in 1938, that Amelia Earhart was declared officially dead. So her plane had disappeared, and they were doing searches but she was presumed dead for an extended period of time after her plane vanished in July of 1937. But what happened is that normally it would take a few years for a judge to declare a missing person dead back in that time period, but her husband went to court and encouraged the judge to basically declare her deceased because she’d been missing for a year and a half or something at that point, or she’d been missing for about a year and a half at that point. And so by late 1938, during that Venus retrograde in 1938, it culminated with the judge officially declaring her death just as Venus was coming out of that retrograde on January 5th, 1939. So and this was notable to me at the time because we actually have a birth chart for Amelia Earhart, and she has Taurus rising and Venus back then was retrograding in Sagittarius and Scorpio, so it was actually going across her 8th house of death and her 7th house of marriage and relationships, and it was literally her partner asking the court or the judge to declare her dead so that he could continue her business affairs or deal with the aftermath of her death and different things like that.
So why this is important and relevant is all of a sudden on September 29th, I saw an ABC News report saying that researchers believe that they spotted fragments of Amelia Earhart’s plane through satellite imagery, and they announced plans to send out an expedition in order to go investigate to see if this is the actual plane. And that crew of investigators is actually out there right now as I’m recording this today on October 18th, 2026.
So that’s a crazy repetition, and that’s a good example of, you know, when I do the history episodes, I go through and I note what seem to be some of the most important news stories at the time. And sometimes – I mentioned maybe half of the news stories that I found or maybe a third of the news stories that I found in that episode, because I was trying to do it as a quicker, more concise solo episode – but it sort of demonstrates the importance of doing that historical research, because then sometimes stories in the past that don’t look like they should have any reason to come up in the present will sometimes in fact repeat, or there will be an echo of that story when the same retrograde comes up again in the future. So we’ll see how that goes over the course of the next few weeks and what that expedition finds, basically.
All right, so moving on. Another major news story was in Tennessee, the botched execution of a woman named Christa Pike was all over the news September 29th through the 30th and October 7th. Specifically I wrote down a headline on – because it’s been a whole unfolding drama where on The Washington Post on September 29th had a headline that said, “Tennessee to Execute a Woman for First Time in Over 200 Years,” which was striking in and of itself just because we’re talking about Venus was just days away from stationing retrograde in Scorpio on October 3rd. And to have this headline about a woman being executed for the first time in over 200 years in that state. And she had been convicted for this brutal 1995 murder that she committed at age 18 that involved, like, carving a pentagram into the victim’s chest, and advocates have pushed to spare her life sentence and pointed to severe childhood abuse that she suffered, and there was a big court battle and drama over it all the way in the lead-up to the execution. And it was briefly paused on September 30th, but then it ended up proceeding I believe on September 30th, but then the execution failed after two injections. And she ended up in the hospital after that, and the governor of the state halted all future executions for the rest of the year, basically, pending some sort of review. And initially, she was believed to be braindead and on life support, but then all of a sudden on October 7th, she woke up and began talking. So this is still an ongoing and very bizarre and tragic in many ways cases, but it was incredibly striking that it happened right on the Venus retrograde in Scorpio. And what made it a more striking repetition story is two things – one, I learned in looking at her story that back on October 1st, 2018, so almost exactly eight years earlier around that Venus retrograde in Scorpio station within just four days before Venus went retrograde in Scorpio in 2018, that the US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments about her case, basically. But then they ended up denying her a stay of execution or something like that, which cleared the path for her eventual – the attempt to execute her, which then was carried out exactly eight years later in September of 2026. So that was a repetition in terms of the legal cases and some of her last remaining legal defenses sort of being cleared away about eight years ago.
Additionally, this story was really striking because as one – I think the first astrologer I noticed who pointed this out was Lady Cazimi on Threads pointed out that there’s a huge parallel with 2002. And that was when on October 9th, 2002, right on the Venus retrograde station in Scorpio, a woman named Aileen Wuornos was executed at that time. And as a result of that, there was a lot of media focus on it at that time, and especially focus similarly about her background and history and just terrible abuse and other things that she suffered at the time and debates about the death penalty and other things like that. But then she was still executed. And she actually came up and a lot of people were talking about her again, and her name was trending a lot around September 30th or so when this execution was happening. So there was a very striking repetition there, because people were actively talking about the parallels and bringing up that case from 2002 and both of them happened to be connected by this Venus retrograde in Scorpio theme.
So that was really, really striking as well as really heavy and really tragic in different ways, and we’ll see how that continues to unfold, because we’re still relatively early in the Venus retrograde. We haven’t even hit the cazimi yet. I think it just in a few days here. And so a lot of these stories that we’re mentioning are still in process because we’re still in the first half of the retrograde. And a lot of them we’ll see a number of additional things happen and the unfolding of some of these stories over the course of the next couple of months, especially in November and December, before some of them are wrapped in some way.
All right, so moving on. A major thing that came up was on September 28th, there was a headline in The Washington Post that said, “Education Department Officially Scraps Biden Era Title IX Rules.” So the Title IX rules were protecting things related to sexual orientation and gender identity and returning to some of the regulations from the first Trump administration where especially some of the new rules set a stricter definition for sexual harassment, and they bolstered and put more rights towards the accused in sexual harassment cases rather than to the victims, basically. And this was notable, because this was an exact repetition of what happened in 2018 where eight years earlier during the first Trump administration, the Education Secretary Betsy DeVos originally unveiled and proposed these exact same rules on November 16th, 2018, and that was the exact day that Venus stationed direct at the end of the 2018 Venus retrograde cycle. So what’s happening now functionally is it’s like, they introduced these rules to Title IX, and Title IX originally was introduced decades ago about that schools couldn’t discriminate based on gender. And then they were expanded to include some other things related to that, related to gender-based discrimination and different adjacent things in subsequent years. And basically in 2018 during the first Trump administration during the Venus retrograde, some of those rules and restrictions were rolled back significantly. And then when Biden was elected in 2020, he reversed and reinstituted some of those Title IX rules, erasing the Trump era ones, and now that we have a repetition of Venus retrograde in Scorpio basically they’re reinstituting some of those Title IX rules – or the Trump administration is.
So this is relevant, of course, because it’s almost bizarrely simultaneously it’s occurring in the context of when the Cornell assault case has been taking place of a college sexual assault case that just dominated the news over the past month. And that in and of itself is a repetition of eight years ago where in September and October, there was a similar national discussion about college assault allegations taking place when in the autumn of 2018 the Brett Kavanaugh hearings were taking place, and Christine Blasey Ford gave testimony about an alleged college-era assault that she was alleging took place at that time. But then Kavanaugh still became a Supreme Court Justice, and it was a huge controversy at the time for obvious reasons. And why the Title IX thing ties in is just because part of what Title IX does is it puts more rules and restrictions, or at least before some of those things were rolled back, it put more rules and restrictions in place in order to attempt to protect the victims of college assaults, essentially.
So these two things are connected in a weird repetition way, and there’s actually a much longer history of repetitions related to Title IX that I found that go back, if you study its history in eight-year increments, it’s actually very interesting. But it would take way too long for the purpose of this episode, so I’m gonna skip it for today. But yeah, it’s worth checking out to understand the context of how that developed and evolved and got to the point that it is today, as well as some of the ongoing debates about it that are swinging back and forth between sometimes trying to put greater protections on the victims of assault, the potential victims, versus other times trying to focus more on the perpetrators and things like that.
All right. So moving on. Another major one – this one just broke I think today where the New York Times on October 18th had a headline saying, “OJ Simpson: A Secret Informant and a Decades Old Mystery” where they’re talking about there potentially being an accomplice that helped OJ Simpson during the course of the murders that occurred in 1994. And basically, there was an informant who said that their sibling basically was at the crime scene or something like that. And there had long been speculations that OJ may have had an accomplice, but this was the first time that it seems like there’s real confirmation coming out that that may have actually been the case.
So I found this really striking, because in the history episode, I talked about how the OJ murders took place earlier in 1994, which was a Venus retrograde in Scorpio year, and then by the time Venus actually goes retrograde in Scorpio later in 1994, they’re actually putting together the entire court case, and they’re starting to do the jury selection process, basically, for the OJ Simpson trial, which would then take place in 1995. So the entire courtroom drama surrounding that was starting to play out and was really starting to just dominate the news headlines in the later part of 1994, and then all of a sudden here we have a major potential revelation about it that’s coming up in 2026 when Venus again goes retrograde in Scorpio.
And in the New York Times article, it was weird because it said that the prosecution may have actually learned or gotten this evidence about an accomplice late in the trial, but they’d already presented most of their evidence or made their closing arguments or something like that by the time they got it, so it wasn’t included in the actual trial itself. But that’s a pretty crazy revelation if that’s true, and it’ll be interesting to see if anything else develops from that, or if this New York Times story is really the main thing.
All right, so moving on. Another story like that in terms of true crime was on October 13th and during the course of this Venus retrograde, the killer of the rapper Tupac, whose name is Keffe D, was sentenced to 40 years to life. And so he’s sentenced to 40 years to life for the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur. So this was important and notable because primarily in 2018 there was a repetition where he had, like, a cancer diagnosis, and he ended up going on a couple of television programs and bragging about handling the gun, handing the gun to his nephew – the murder weapon – in the car the night of the murders and basically being involved in the murders. And he had earlier done a deal with the police where he had gotten immunity in order to say some things, and he thought that he was immune, basically, so he ended up just confessing to it in 2018, which was a Venus retrograde in Scorpio year. But then this ended up giving prosecutors the evidence where he ended up then later being tried and eventually now during this retrograde convicted of the murders in 2026, which is pretty wild.
So the only other thing related to this that I found interesting was that later in 1994, on November 30th, 1994, during a Venus retrograde in Scorpio, Tupac was shot five times at a music studio in New York. And this ended up kind of starting the entire violent, like, East Coast/West Coast feud. And while that wasn’t the one that killed him, it was part of the thing that then set off this chain reaction back and forth that partially resulted in the murder of Tupac and Biggie Smalls around that time period, which were the two big cases that kind of dominated that entire tension in the middle of the 1990s. So there’s some interesting stuff there in terms of repetitions.
Another one that just happened – a seemingly minor one, but I noted it because it seemed like a historical connection where Pope Leo was found to have lung cancer during surgery on October 13th, 2026. And on October 13th, I found this headline by the New York Times that said that the Vatican announced that surgeons had removed the lower lobe of Pope Leo’s right lung after finding a cancerous nodule during surgery. And the reason this struck me as a little bit notable is that in the history episode, when I was doing that research at least, one of the notable Venus retrograde periods that happened was in 1978 which is known as the Year of the Three Popes. Because there was like, one pope that died, and then a second pope was elected and came in, but this was Pope John Paul I, but he died unexpectedly on September 28th, 1978, as the Venus retrograde in Scorpio was just about to get started after only 33 days in office. And then this triggered a new papal conclave in October of 1978 around the Venus retrograde just as Venus was stationing retrograde in Scorpio, which then brought into the election Pope John Paul II.
So it was just a little weird that you had that during that Venus retrograde in Scorpio back in 1978, like, that one pope that died under mysterious circumstances very early in his residency as pope, and then we have this repetition here where the pope had a really serious medical issue, it seemed like, where while he’s still relatively early in terms of having become pope not that long ago. So that’s a notable one I just wanted to point out.
Moving on. Another one that was coming up around October 12th was this viral video of an engineer who had poisoned somebody where CBS News was showing this footage on October 12th of a spycam video that showed a Berkeley engineer that was secretly poisoning a female coworker’s water bottle with toxic cadmium. And this was happening between 2017 and 2019, but the part that’s relevant and interesting that I found when I was looking into it was that the poisoning crisis was discovered through a hidden camera in late November of 2018 during a Venus retrograde or around a Venus retrograde in Scorpio just after Venus had stationed direct when the victim basically started realizing what they suspected was happening and they installed a spy camera at her desk at work and then got a really clear shot of this guy that was poisoning her basically over an extended period of time. And then he ended up being convicted of it.
So that was just a weird and interesting one, because it’s a good example where sometimes you see something in the news and that seems really weird, but then if you look into it or start reading the news article, you realize that it connects back to the previous eight-year cycle in some very direct way. And I think the reason why this is surfacing now is because he’s completed his probation after two years and is petitioning to have his felony conviction dismissed. So I think that the video got released as part of that whole drama that’s unfolding surrounding that.
All right, I want to move onto the next section where I saw – because it’s Venus retrograde, of course, I saw a bunch of high profile relationship and interpersonal dynamic repetitions coming up in the news, especially with celebrities, over the course of the past few weeks. So one of them came up with Shia LaBeouf where there were these back-to-back headlines on October 6th and October 7th. The October 6th headline was that the actor Shia LaBeouf had settled with FKA Twigs and a lawsuit over an unlawful NDA or non-disclosure agreement where they had been in a relationship and she had signed an NDA that was keeping her from talking about details of their relationship and I think some alleged abuse or different things that happened that were not good within that relationship. And somehow, their lawyers came to some sort of agreement around just after the Venus stationing retrograde in Scorpio to void the NDA agreement. And that leaves her – the headlines were that that was leaving FKA Twigs fully free to speak publicly about surviving sexual battery and abuse or other things in that relationship. So that happened on October 6th, and then the very next day on October 7th, his wife, Mia Goth, an actress, filed for divorce from Shia LaBeouf after a decade-long marriage. And this was notable because when I started looking into both of these cases, it turned out there was a very strong eight-year repetition where if you go back to the September-October 2018 timeframe around the last Venus retrograde in Scorpio eight years ago, what I found was that Mia Goth and Shia LaBeouf had already filed for divorce once before, and it was during that previous Venus retrograde in Scorpio. They had been in a relationship for years, and they had been married, and then they basically separated for a period around that Venus retrograde in Scorpio and filed for divorce. And then at that exact same time period is when he began dating FKA Twigs. But then that relationship didn’t last, and then eventually Shia LaBeouf got back together with Mia Goth, and I think they had children or something like that and got back in a relationship for several years, and now this is their second time filing for divorce, although now it’s fully obviously gonna be final, presumably.
So that was a really striking repetition because it ties in both of those relationships in that eight-year cycle of Venus in a really critical way. And there’s different natal reasons for some of that in some of their charts I’m not gonna go into; I’ll skip that for now. But just suffice it to say that was really significant and notable one that was in the headlines right now.
All right, the next one – this wasn’t a major one, but I just noticed it in the news around September 30th. Pete Davidson, the actor and comedian, gave an interview to Variety where he gave this rare discussion about some of his past relationships dating other highly prominent people. And he talked about his ex Ariana Grande and also his ex Kim Kardashian and what it was like being in those relationships that were so high-profile, including like, paparazzi or being attacked by Kim Kardashian’s ex Kanye West. And what I thought was notable is that he got upset towards the end of the interview, saying that he felt like the tabloid focus on his relationships had sort of overshadowed his other actual career accomplishments in some ways. And I thought that was interesting, but then what was really striking about it is that there was a repetition there. Because exactly eight years earlier, I actually remember this one, Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande were together but during that Venus retrograde in Scorpio on October 14th, 2018, they called off their whirlwind engagement at that time. And this was just nine days after Venus stationed retrograde in Scorpio in 2018. So that means that it’s like, during a previous Venus retrograde in Scorpio, Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande called off their engagement and then, like, eight years later he’s giving this rare interview where he’s actually talking kind of openly about that past relationship, which I don’t think he typically does. So that’s a common Venus retrograde thing in terms of reflecting on past relationships or relationships from the past coming back into the present. But it was a very striking one there because that one was so public eight years ago when that break-up occurred.
All right, so similarly, on October 2nd, there was an announcement that Elon Musk had broken off a relationship with Shivon Zilis. And The Washington Post ran a headline about this on that day on October 2nd where she was – they were in a relationship, and she was an executive connected to one of his companies, and she posted this heartfelt post that said something about going from being in love to being let go with no warning or something like that within a week. And it sparked some different discourse about some of that and about him having different women that he had children with because he has this goal to have as many children as possible. And I thought that was striking that that discourse was happening, because Scorpio is his 5th house where he has Jupiter there, and Venus was going retrograde in his 5th house. And this woman was one of the people that he had had children with over the course of the past decade.
So yeah, that was a notable one just because it’s like, you know, right the day before Venus stationed retrograde, the richest person in the world had a very public break-up basically just as that station was happening.
All right, moving on, and yeah – I forgot this whole series, a lot of them that were around the Venus retrograde station were not super pretty. So just a head’s up about that, I guess I should say ahead of time. But one of the ones that happened on October 1st is Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s partner or ex-fiancé Ken Urker died suddenly at that time as TMZ reported in the news on October 1st. And he was her ex-partner or ex-fiancé, and he died suddenly on his 33rd birthday. And she was the woman who became famous in the news because she had been involved in the murder of her mother and went to jail for it, although there was this very crazy story about how she was being abused by her mother and kept sick for this extended period of time. Her mother was making her sick to keep her captive or something like that. And then she ended up with a previous partner being involved in her mother’s murder and went to prison for it, but then was released somewhat early after serving a few years due to the circumstances surrounding what her mother had done to her. And that was one of the first times, because some of that happened – I think she was released during a Venus retrograde a few years ago. And so her case was one of the first instances where I saw a Venus retrograde really coinciding with mother issues, and that’s a theme that we’re gonna return back to later that I have a section on that’s come up very strongly during this one.
So this was a repetition, because Ken Urker back in October of 2018 during that retrograde eight years ago proposed to Gypsy Rose Blanchard during a prison visit right in the middle of that Venus retrograde in Scorpio. And simultaneously during that Venus retrograde in 2018, on November 16th, 2018, her former boyfriend and codefendant prior to this guy was convicted of murder on the exact same day that Venus stationed direct in 2018. So she was born very close to a Venus retrograde, I think in Virgo; I believe it’s ruling her Ascendant. And so these Venus retrogrades are very important for her, and it came up again in this very tragic way here.
All right, two additionally heavy ones – on September 30 – these happened the same day, interestingly. On September 30th, Evan Rachel Wood, the actress, went on a podcast to discuss the heavy personal cost of having spoken out against her ex-boyfriend Marilyn Manson. And I thought this was interesting because it didn’t match up in terms of months, but it did match up in terms of years where it seemed like they may have broken off an engagement back in the summer or autumn of 2010, which was a Venus retrograde in Scorpio year. And then in 2018 earlier in that year, she did testify before Congress about the abuse that she received in that relationship during, again, another Venus retrograde in Scorpio year. So there’s something striking about that here when Venus – it’s like, September 30th, so it’s just days before Venus stations retrograde in Scorpio, and she’s again talking about that and talking about the abuse but also talking about the cost of speaking out.
So interestingly, the same day on September 30th, Courtney Stodden attended the signing of a new law that was signed into law in California that day that ended child marriage in California. So it was September 30th; it was a new law banning child marriage. And her backstory was that she attended and competed in beauty pageants in her home state of Washington and also released music, and she was 16 years old and she came to international attention at that time because she ended up – she got in a relationship with this 51-year-old actor named Doug Hutchison in 2011. So she kind of became known for this because it was a huge, really – yeah, kind of gross thing that was happening back then at that time in the headlines. And then there were a couple of repetitions I noticed, which is that evidently she first began corresponding with him in late 2010, which would have been around the time of the Venus retrograde in Scorpio. And then she officially filed for divorce from him in 2018, which was another Venus retrograde in Scorpio year. And here she is right as Venus is stationing retrograde in Scorpio and she’s attending this law banning those types of underage marriages, basically, that she was involved in or was the victim of earlier in her life. So that’s, while a gross one, it’s also a little bit more encouraging in both instances, because in both instances it’s like, women speaking out or helping to contribute to something that helps to ensure that some of the things that they went through other women won’t have to experience in the future. So in that way, they’re actually kind of encouraging.
Okay, so this one’s less of a repetition, but it was one that was just, like, all over the news and I kept seeing headlines of for like a week on October 2nd and 6th and 7th all right around the Venus retrograde station. It had to do with Michael Douglas, who released a memoir at that time. And little headlines from the memoir kept dominating the headlines on Reddit and other websites for several days, but they were all about his relationships and past relationship stuff with him where the headline on October 2nd was that in the memoir he confessed to a secret affair with a costar that was kept hidden for 40 years. So going back to the mid-1980s. On October 6th, there was a headline about him being ready to leave his wife for a 20 years younger actress at some point in his life. On October 7th, People magazine had a headline about him recalling ending five different relationships he was having at the time in order to be with Catherine Zeta-Jones, who was demanding exclusivity. And he agreed to that and then they became exclusive for a long time and I think still into the present, if I understand correctly.
So I’ve talked about him because, for example, the Venus retrograde in 1994 was important for him because he was in the movie Disclosure with Demi Moore, which was a major one at that time and was thematically resonant. But I primarily wanted to mention that one just because it was striking how much it was an instance of past relationships and relationship dynamics and other things like that coming up very strongly right as Venus was stationing retrograde, and that we always have this backwards-looking orientation because when Venus starts moving backwards in the order of signs, it starts looking to the past, essentially. So this is why sometimes astrologers say, you know, when Venus goes retrograde, sometimes relationships from the past come back into the present. But in this instance, it’s more like the person reflecting on those or sharing those or those becoming more widely known, I guess, in this instance.
Okay, so those are more heavy ones, so here’s a lighter one that I just found yesterday where on October 16th, Ethan Hawke went on Drew Barrymore’s talk show and he confessed that he had a crush on her in the 1990s. So this was the very first time, evidently, that they ever met in person, but there’s this incredible clip that I saw that you can find online if you search for “Ethan Hawke Drew Barrymore” right now. They met on this talk show for the first time; he was promoting something, and right at the beginning, he confesses that he had a huge crush on her in the 1990s, and that he, instead of reaching out directly or overtly, he just sort of like, hoped that he would run into her at some point at a party, and he was trying to play it cool. And Barrymore asked why he never called, because she said she totally would have been into that, and he said he was just trying to play it cool. And then she was like, well, unfortunately, that didn’t – she seemed like, really not sad, but just kind of exclaiming that she totally would have been open to a relationship with him back at that time. So I thought that was a cute one, just because it’s an instance where, again, there was that backwards-looking orientation about a relationship, but in this instance, it was like, two people who could have had a relationship in the mid-’90s – like, especially let’s say around that 1994 retrograde where both of them were peaking in different ways in Scorpio in their careers or other things like that. But in this instance, yeah, it didn’t work out, and their paths later crossed during a subsequent Venus retrograde in Scorpio.
So there’s some repetitions there, but I don’t need to go into it. Like, she had a six-week marriage in 1994, I believe, but it was earlier in the year, but it was a Venus retrograde in Scorpio year that may have been tied in with that retrograde to some extent. But I just thought that was kind of a cute one, especially if you search for that video clip you’ll sort of see.
All right, so quick interjection that I wanted to add in post, but I meant to mention that one of the reasons I thought this story was so striking that it was coming up right now, even though it’s relatively minor, is it’s because Ethan Hawke was born with Venus retrograde in Scorpio on November 6th, 1970, right in the middle of the Venus retrograde in Scorpio that was happening that year. So he was actually one of the cases that came up in my file that we almost used as a natal example of Venus retrograde in Scorpio but that I didn’t end up picking when we did the Venus retrograde in Scorpio natal example a few weeks ago. But that was why it was like, another one of those instances like the Amelia Earhart one where it’s like, we almost mentioned a story or used an example because it came up, but then didn’t end up using it, but then still nonetheless because that person had Venus retrograde in Scorpio, they came up in the news again at that time when Venus was again retrograde in Scorpio. And I just thought it was something – it was funny that thematically it fit, but of course the reason why he’s doing talk show appearances, for example, on Drew Barrymore’s show is that he’s out promoting three different things right now that are important to him. So that’s the other context in which this Venus retrograde is important to him right now as a recurrence transit.
All right, other ones that were kind of positive or cute – one of them was on September 30th as Venus was stationing in Scorpio, Jim Carrey got married. And I thought this was interesting because he has Scorpio rising, so Venus stationed retrograde in his rising sign, and that’s one of the ways that you know when a certain Venus retrograde in gonna be more important for a person when it happens in their rising sign or their Midheaven or to a lesser extent one of the other angular houses. It can be much more personal and much more important because those are the most prominent spots in the chart. And his I thought was interesting because he was born in 1962, which was a Venus retrograde in Scorpio year, but he was born super early in the year way before the Venus retrograde. But for some reason, the Venus retrogrades in Scorpio seem to be really important for him, I think because they’re occurring in his rising sign. And another example of that is, like, 1994 is famously talked about as his massive breakout year where he had these three huge movies come out that all were super successful, and he became one of the biggest and I think eventually highest paid actors in Hollywood as a result of that year. And that, again, was the year where later in that year Venus went retrograde in Scorpio in his rising sign. So I thought that was an interesting one.
Moving on, like, a lighter one just in passing was that on October 5th, 2026, just a few days after Venus stationed retrograde, Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel celebrated their 14th wedding anniversary. And the astrologer Celeste Brooks noticed this one, so shout out to Celeste. But they shared some rare photos from their wedding which happened in October of 2012. So it was just, like, a cute little thing where they decided for some reason that they felt like sharing and sort of celebrating their wedding during this Venus retrograde time where they have this backwards-looking orientation and just showing appreciation for each other.
Another really cute one I saw was on October 11th, Tobey Maguire, who is famous for playing Spiderman in the Spiderman movies, especially in the early 2000s, there were these pictures of him where his ex-wife was getting married to a new guy after years ago separating from Tobey Maguire. But Tobey Maguire officiated their wedding. And so there were like, these amazing pictures of Tobey Maguire standing there as his ex-wife is kissing her new husband, and it was just really cute and really sweet to see that as a type of – a very unique – Venus retrograde manifestation that I would not have thought about previously. But it completely makes sense archetypally. It’s, again, that archetype of looking back to a past relationship, but evidently, it’s like, having an ex or a past relationship or somebody that was important for you and having them still in your life and being so comfortable with that that you give them away in some sense or help them to move on into another marriage. I thought that was a really cool and really sweet one. And there wasn’t really a repetition there that I noticed; I just noticed that the first Spiderman movie did come out in 2002, I believe, earlier in that year, which was a Venus retrograde in Scorpio year. So there’s something about that that may be important for him in terms of these Venus retrogrades, but that was the main thing I noticed.
All right, and the last one I wanted to mention in this section was I noticed a headline on October 8th just after Venus stationed retrograde in Scorpio that the AI company Anthropic announced a new policy change to prohibit users from bullying or abusing their AI chatbots. And the new policy prohibits “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior towards our models,” and it lets the AI Claude end abusive chats. And I thought that was really striking because they made that announcement October 8th right after Venus went retrograde in Scorpio, and then it goes into effect on November 12th, which is exactly one day before Venus will station direct in the sign of Libra. So I thought that was really interesting thematically, because under the Venus retrogrades in Scorpio, sometimes we see toxic relationship dynamics come up. And in several of our stories we’re seeing some of those types of toxic relationship dynamics. But in this instance, it’s interesting because it’s that same archetype, but it’s kind of being applied in the context of human and AI interactions and setting boundaries for what’s appropriate or what’s inappropriate in that context. And I have to imagine that that’s important or sets then a new foundation for different types of repetitions that we’ll see in the future under subsequent Venus retrogrades in Scorpio in eight-year increments over the course of the next century.
So yeah, so that’s the relationship section, and one of the things I should mention as I close this one up is just we can see there’s a wide variety of different experiences from extremely negative and toxic ones to much more positive versions of that, as well as different shades of gray in between. And a lot of it has to do with the birth chart itself and how the Venus retrograde is hitting the birth chart, what kind of repetitions you’ve had in the past, how it’s activated or not activated by annual profections and different things like that. So that’s one of the reasons for some of the variations, but that’s why I wanted to give the full spectrum of a bunch of the different stories I was seeing, because thematically it gives you different pieces of that archetype to understand and work with and to learn from.
All right, moving onto the next section. I had seen a little bit during some previous Venus retrogrades, as I mentioned, sometimes mother issues and toxic mother relationships coming up during Venus retrogrades. But it’s become especially prominent in the Venus retrograde in Scorpio cycle. Especially when we were doing the movies episode recently, it kept coming up thematically in a bunch of movies during Venus retrograde in Scorpio eras. And I did notice some instances of that under this recent retrograde.
So the primary one, of course, was the Lindsay Clancy case where on September 4th, there was a trial, and it ended in a mistrial on September 4th as Venus was building up to the retrograde. And right now we’re waiting to see if there will be a second trial during the course of the next month or so. And the deeper significance of this that was important was that it was, like, a woman that was accused of murdering her children, and the case sparked these really massive, painful national conversations about things like severe post-partum depression, post-partum psychosis, and maternal psychiatric care and different things surrounding or adjacent to that. And that’s one that’s still sort of lingering in the news because of the mistrial on September 4th and because the ongoing legal things surrounding it are still up in the air.
So similarly, there was another one – this was more on social media, but I thought it was really striking and I noticed and I wrote it down on October 10th where on TikTok there was this trend that went viral called the ghost filter. And it was specifically a prank that was having a massive resurgence around the Venus retrograde station where I saw it come up in my feed at one point, and it was like, the format was like a mother would take a young children that were five or under 10 or something like that and put them in a bathroom and close the door and put the phone in front of the mirror and then tell them to, like, say – the prompt was to either tell the camera your favorite thing about your mom, or tell the camera how much you love your mom. But then the filter would show a scary ghost that would pop out of nowhere behind the kid, and the kid would see it in the screen and just like, freak out and ask to be let out of the room or something like that. And it was, like, really crazy and traumatizing, and it sparked this intense backlash that was calling out some of the mothers for exploiting their child’s trust and the safe space in order to sort of like, traumatize them for views. And so I thought that was really crazy because it was like, there were different versions of that in the past over the course of the past decade, but this one was much more specifically geared towards mothers because the prompt was, like, tell the camera your favorite thing about your mom, and in some of the videos you see them start saying that and then they get scared by this traumatizing ghost thing. So that’s one of the ways I was noticing some of the toxic mother themes coming up through that social media thing and some of the backlash.
Another instance – there was a really tragic case of an actor who passed away on October 12th who may have taken his own life, reportedly, and that the headlines in TMZ were saying that he had been given some sort of ultimatum where he had a fiancé, but the fiancé didn’t get along with the guy’s mother, and that the fiancé gave him an ultimatum to cut the mother off, basically, otherwise they would have to break up. And so this weighed really heavily on him and he was really distraught in the weeks before his death, and then passed away on October 12th. And I thought that was a really tough and tragic one, but I wanted to mention that here because it weirdly overlaps two separate themes, and one of them is the relationship theme and sometimes difficult relationships issues, and the other one was sometimes the relationship with the mother and sometimes difficult issues with the mother, and to have both of those overlap in that way was incredibly tragic and striking. But I wanted to mention it because as astrologers, part of what we do in studying these is just understanding some of the most extreme scenarios and sometimes having insights and understanding better what some of the potential dynamics can be underlying some of these things, even if in most instances, obviously, things will never be that extreme or that dark or that terrible. But it was a really tough one in the news.
The only other one I noticed was on October 9th just after Venus stationed retrograde, a horror movie came out that was titled The Other Mommy. And this was kind of dominating its opening weekend, which I think ended up beating out the other movie, which was The Social Reckoning, which itself was a sequel that came out on the Venus retrograde station to a movie The Social Network that was originally released on the Venus retrograde station in 2010. But it was interesting to me that there was, like, a literal big screen horror manifestation of this dark maternal archetype right on the Venus retrograde station in Scorpio that sort of goes to that point about sometimes difficult or scary or dark themes involving the mother or the sort of like, maternal or caretaking figure coming up sometimes, especially with these Venus retrograde in Scorpio transits.
All right, I want to move onto the next section where I want to talk about some different pop culture cinema and art repetitions that I noticed in the news. So I already talked about this a little bit in the movies episode, but it was really striking involving Dakota Johnson calling out the movie Black Swan and the director of that and its connection to an earlier anime film. So this happened on October 8th – actually October 3rd, I think it was right on the station. While Dakota Johnson was promoting a new thriller movie named Verity that came out right on the Venus retrograde station, in an interview, she sort of subtly called out the director Darren Aronofsky saying that his 2010 film Black Swan, which came out during the Venus retrograde or around the Venus retrograde in Scorpio of 2010, was either ripped off or partially derived from the 1997 anime filmed titled Perfect Blue. And it was kind of like, a minor comment in passing that was a little spicy, but then what was crazy is a few days later on October 6th, the official Academy Awards account on Twitter or X ended up kind of like, blowing up the controversy by posting this side-by-side video comparison with a caption where it showed some of the specific scenes from the anime film, and then it showed how some of those specific scenes were kind of copied or imitated or paid homage to or however you want to frame it in Black Swan with a caption that said, “Two psychological spirals told more than a decade apart.” So that was kind of crazy. And then even on October 11th, completely different actress Mikey Madison also ended up mentioning the movie Perfect Blue and how it inspired Black Swan in a completely separate interview several days later. So it was really striking to me, because Black Swan itself, as I said, came out around the Venus retrograde in Scorpio in 2010, and then here it was coming up again all of a sudden on a repetition 16 years later or two eight-year Venus retrograde cycles later right when Venus was stationing retrograde. And it was specifically reframing it, and a lot of people didn’t know about that connection up to that point, which caused a lot of different discussion and discourse about it.
So that was striking. And then the other thing that was striking about it was that I already talked about the repetition with The Social Network, but there was another repetition that was in there as well where Dakota Johnson was promoting the movie Verity, which just came out as Venus was stationing retrograde in Scorpio, and that was based on a novel that was titled Verity. But get this – it was published in December of 2018, which was just as Venus was coming off of the retrograde in Scorpio eight years earlier. So I thought that was incredible that it’s like, the book comes out around a Venus retrograde in Scorpio in 2018, and then the movie based on the book comes out just as Venus is stationing retrograde in Scorpio eight years later. And of course, that’s like, tied in Dakota Johnson’s chart in interesting ways because her Midheaven is at five degrees of Scorpio, and that’s part of the reason – she also has Venus in Scorpio – and I think that’s part of the reason that she was kind of having a moment right now, now just with that move coming out, but also just with different things surrounding the promotion of that movie as well.
All right, the next one is a callback to one of the natal examples that I used in the Venus retrograde in Scorpio in birth charts episode where I mentioned one of my examples of an artist with Venus retrograde in Scorpio was Marina Abramovic who does kind of like, darker art and different pieces like that and different performance pieces. And after I released that episode, on October 9th just a week ago, The New York Times ran this major story about her where it was titled “Marina Abramovic Can’t Be Ignored: On the Cusp of 80, the Most Influential Performance Artist of Our Time Considers Her Legacy.” So I thought that was really, really striking just that she has Venus retrograde in Scorpio natally, Venus stations retrograde in Scorpio, and then right at that time, The New York Times does this major piece about her. And there were interesting repetitions there in terms of some of her different exhibits that also happened in Venus retrograde in Scorpio years, like 2010, 2002, and 1978, but I’ll skip that for now and just mention that as an interesting story.
And it’s interesting because the point is just that sometimes when a person has Venus retrograde in Scorpio natally, when Venus goes retrograde in Scorpio again in the future, sometimes they have important things happen in their life or they have important turning points or you just see them coming up in the news for some reason in some prominent way.
All right, another interesting one – and shout out to on The Astrology Podcast patreon forum Kiana Velaryon pointed out that Megan Thee Stallion is reviving her Tina Snow alter ego in a new album. And what was interesting is this was a repetition from eight years ago where her original Tina Snow alter-ego album came out in December of 2018, just after the Venus retrograde in Scorpio as it was in the process still of wrapping up and starting to move out of the direct station. And then eight years later, recently in 2026, she’s announcing that she’s reviving that alter ego in new videos that are talking about confronting betrayal and projecting unapologetic behavior and other themes like that. So it was really interesting of like, a revival in some sense of an alter ego or of a character or a return to a previous sort of artistic mode of expression. And that’s kind of similar in a way to last year during the Venus retrograde in Aries in early 2025 where we saw – I documented the case of Lady Gaga putting out an album at that time and releasing a song which a lot of people were saying was returning back to an era from a previous Venus retrograde in Aries like, one or two cycles earlier, and the phrase that she was “reheating her nachos” became common at that time, which was a really interesting keyword for Venus retrograde, although it was in a positive sense of going back and reviving something that was good and returning to it for a period and being successful in doing that because there was something still valuable about that and bringing something from the past back into the present.
All right, another really important one that occurred on October 6th and 7th was that Paramount closed this 81 billion dollar purchase of Warner Brothers Discovery, forming a new super giant studio with Skydance. And there’s different repetitions with that, but the main one that I thought was striking was just that in 1994, there was a parallel repetition when Steven Spielberg formed DreamWorks Pictures on October 12th, 1994, within 24 hours of Venus stationing retrograde in Scorpio. And this was really important at the time, because this was the first time a new studio had been founded in many decades at that point, and it went on to be a really successful studio that just a few years later by the late ‘90s had, like, three Best Pictures in a row that they made I think in like, 1999, 2000, and 2001. So there’s other repetitions that tie into that in, like, 1914, 1922, and 2018 with the history behind some of these studios that are now being consolidated. But I just wanted to mention it primarily because I was struck by that parallel of big studios being created or like, a conglomeration of studios being created in those two parallels in 2026 and 1994.
All right, the next one to mention briefly is that I noticed in one of the previous episodes that the book that the movie Hellraiser was based on was written and published in the Venus retrograde in Scorpio in 1986, and that the movie Hellraiser was filmed under that same Venus retrograde in Scorpio in 1986, and the movie was released the following year in ‘87. But what I thought was striking is all of a sudden in early October, on October 8th, there was a video game that was launched titled Hellraiser: Revival, and it was a whole Hellraiser video game. And they had the original actor who played the lead monster, Pinhead – the actor’s name is Doug Bradley – return to voice that character again for this revival game. And the game has a ton of really dark themes and things in it, and why it was coming up in the headlines is that YouTube was banning some gaming streamers who were streaming the game on their platform because the game was so graphic and so dark. But I was primarily fascinated by that on the 40-year anniversary of the original founding of that sort of series in some sense, of that book or that movie, that you are having a repetition of Venus retrograde in Scorpio and then it was coming up again by them releasing a video game so that it was, like, the story was being told through a different artistic medium of video games rather than movies.
All right, other quick ones to hit really quickly. I noticed on October 9th, 2026, there was a story in the headlines that two stolen Renoir paintings had been recovered. And they were originally stolen on September 8th in the build-up to the Venus retrograde in Scorpio, but then they were recovered right after Venus stationed retrograde on October 9th. And that one – I actually wanted to give a shout out to someone on Reddit named ArcwalkerLivia who first noticed that one and posted about that. I thought that was a really good catch in the headlines.
Another one – and shout out to patron Natalee Fish who noticed this one on the Patreon forum, who noted that there was a guy who competed in the television show Survivor back in 2018 and lost. So he lost back then in 2018, the show, famously. But he came back recently in the Venus retrograde in Scorpio October 1st through the 2nd, and then we won the show Big Brother, and he won like, a large cash prize of 750,000 dollars, so it was kind of a big deal, in a sort of time travel themed season. So this happened on October 1st, 2026, right before Venus stationed retrograde in Scorpio, but it called back to that major time that he competed but then lost out in a major game show eight years earlier.
I’m gonna skip a few because I realize I’m going over time and some of these are more minor, although still thematically relevant. I’ll mention one last one, which is I noticed an announcement locally here that Denver Art Museum opened a DIVA exhibition on October 4th, 2026, the day after Venus stationed retrograde in Scorpio. And I thought it was really cool, because it was advertising how there would be – it would be showing off costumes of famous women and divas like Marilyn Monroe, Dolly Parton, RuPaul, Aretha Franklin, and Lady Gaga. So I thought that was just, like, an incredible one right on the Venus retrograde station that they’re launching a diva exhibition at an art museum.
All right. The next section I wanted to do was kind of rapid-fire, but I noticed – because this is Venus retrograde in Scorpio – a bunch of news stories having to do with espionage, surveillance, poison in some instances – we saw one story of that earlier – as well as buried secrets. So this came up in some of the previous episodes, like for example, I talked about how the first James Bond movie came out under the Venus retrograde in Scorpio in 1962. And there were lots of like, spy themes and different things like that that came up under previous historical eras.
So one of the interesting ones is on October 2nd, there was this headline that said that artificial intelligence had been used to crack a 217-year-old mystery of a coded message that Napoleon had sent somebody where Napoleon sent this encrypted military letter to somebody 217 years ago, and somebody used artificial intelligence and it was able to crack it and finally read the letter. So I thought that was an interesting example, because that was right on Venus stationing retrograde in Scorpio, and having something that was written in code suddenly become decrypted.
Similarly, on October 13th, there was an announcement that OpenAI had discovered a hidden recording device that had been planted in their office behind a television. And there was, like, a whole breakdown in terms of the dates of this, but it was all around the Venus retrograde station where on September 8th, an employee secretly planted this sophisticated recording bug inside an OpenAI office. And then on September 30th, OpenAI staff found the bug and then used their own AI models supposedly to identify the device and trace it to the employee. And then on October 5th, the employee is seen looking behind the TV where the device was hidden, and then he was arrested by the FBI on October 9th and appeared in federal court on October 13th. So that was kind of a good example just in terms of how oftentimes even though I’m often mentioning a singular event, often with each of these, it’s like a series of events or a sequence of things that’s playing out over an extended period of time.
Similarly, a little bonus one – on September 28th, just before the Venus retrograde station, there was a headline about the Anthropic Claude AI. They had a model that went rogue, and during testing it submitted a false homicide report to the Philadelphia police and specifically to their unsolved murders website. So this was disclosed on October 7th through the 9th, and then it was reported in the news then.
Elsewhere on October 6th, there was a headline about a former CIA officer pleading guilty after 40 million dollars in gold bars were found in his home. And he apparently was, like, had been inventing fake classified programs in order to divert nearly 200 million dollars in government money to his own accounts. And he ended up forfeiting 194 million dollars, 298 gold bars were found in his home, and a bunch of other luxury watches and different things like that.
And then the final one – and this one was kind of cool – on September 23rd, there was a major headline that there was a break potentially in the 1982 Chicago Tylenol cyanide murders cold case where there were these investigators in Idaho who used DNA to identify a previously unknown person who had died by suicide in a church on December 4th, 1982, as a chemist. And they are saying that this guy is potentially a major suspect, because he had a fascination with cyanide and a hand-drawn map of Chicago from before the 1982 Tylenol poisonings. So I thought this was amazing because it was a case of identifying something that had been a mystery where in the 1980s, there was this issue where somebody started putting cyanide basically in Tylenol and people started dying, and it was a big mystery about who was doing it, and it led to a lot of changes in terms of packaging and different things like that with actually some interesting milestones in 1986 and 2010 that I’ll skip over for today. But to have basically a mystery from the past potentially be solved or revealed in some sense was an interesting thematic connection with both this story as well as, for example, the Napoleon one where it’s a message that’s been encrypted for more than two centuries suddenly being revealed. And in some sense, that’s sometimes the benefic nature of Venus kicking in there where it’s taking something from the past and it’s sort of resolving a mystery in the present.
All right, so that’s all my news stories, and that brings me to my conclusion where, yeah. I hope you can see and you can understand now why it’s important to document these periods sometimes as they’re happening, because sometimes you can just learn so much about the different components that are involved about the nature of the planet Venus, the nature of the sign Scorpio, the nature of what it means for a planet to be in the sign of its detriment or antithesis or exile, as well as what it means for a planet to be retrograde, as well as what it means when all four of those are combined together to create complex delineations and a certain archetype that can manifest in different ways, but in which we can see clearly the underlying archetype coming forth into public consciousness at that time in different ways that are both constructive or more problematic in this very wide spectrum.
So yeah, and also that sometimes there’s stories where if you see something coming up in the news around when Venus is stationing, obviously some of these stories are tied in with other cycles as well. Like the Mars retrograde in Leo and Virgo is already building up because Mars is already in one of signs that it will retrograde back to later this winter. Or there’s other larger cycles happening, like the Saturn-Neptune conjunction this year, and different things like that. So not everything is just Venus retrograde in Scorpio per se. However, one of the things that’s interesting about this research is that it’s fascinating how sometimes there’ll be a story that comes up in the news around the time that Venus is stationing, and when you look into it, even if it doesn’t initially appear to be very much of the nature of Venus retrograde, if you look into it, sometimes you’ll find that it’s tied in with these repetitions and eight-year increments in the past. And sometimes there can be stories that don’t initially look like a Venus retrograde story, but then when you look beneath the surface, you realize the ways in which it is in some striking way that may not have been evident at first.
But the underlying point of this and what I hope I’ve demonstrated here is that this work sets a real empirical basis for astrology, because then it’s not just about, like, having these keywords of these symbols of Venus, Scorpio, detriment or retrograde, and kind of like, riffing on or combining different keywords connected with those in our head abstractly, but here by doing this, we’re actually looking at what events are happening in the sky as Venus is stationing retrograde or going retrograde in Scorpio, and what kind of news stories or circumstances or themes are manifesting in the world at that time, and then being able to draw much more clear and firm conclusions about the meanings of some of those astrological placements in practice. And that’s really part of why this work is so important and why I wanted to do this episode today to check in on some of those news stories.
So this is important also because it really connects us back to the foundations of astrology, because this is how astrology was first developed in Mesopotamia in ancient times 4,000 years ago at this point where astrologers had this very long, empirical tradition of tracking earthly events alongside some of these long-term repetitions and astrological cycles, especially the eight-year period of Venus, and the ancient astrologers would have been seeing similar repetitions as we’re seeing today in modern times. And that was originally a large part of the basis of how they originally came to develop some of the standard keywords and understandings and notions of some of the meanings of the planets or the meanings of the signs of the zodiac or what have you through that sort of empirical approach.
So by doing that, and by doing this again in modern times, I think we are able to carry astrology forward into the future by clarifying some of the underlying phenomenon that astrology represents and especially its core focus on time. Because underneath everything, astrology is primarily pointing to some sort of underlying property of time, both in the sense of time having qualitative properties but also of there being these underlying interconnections between different moments in time that otherwise shouldn’t be connected, but because they’re occurring under similar astrological or planetary cycles and repetitions, there is a repetition of similar events or themes that are echoing at different moments in time. And I hope I’ve demonstrated a piece of that here today, because that’s really a large part of the research that I’m trying to accomplish when I take advantage of these times, because it provides such a great opportunity to learn so much more about astrology and how it works and what the different symbols in astrology mean.
So yeah. I hope I’ve made that clear today, and I hope you’ve learned something from it. And this is the first news thing; we’ll see – I’m gonna keep writing down stories, because I’ve just been writing down these stories and writing down notes and was drawing on some of those notes today as I was reading through and sort of talking about this with you and trying to share some of my reflections that I’ve had over the course of the past month or two as I’ve been tracking some of this stuff. So thanks a lot for watching; I’ll probably check in and perhaps do another one of these episodes. I think I did like, three of them at least during the last one – during Venus retrograde in Aries – which really set up the paradigm and helped me to get excited about tracking these cycles. So I may check in again at some point in the future and do more news episodes as events continue to unfold during the course of the Venus retrograde over the course of the next month or two.
So I think that’s it. So thanks a lot for watching this episode of The Astrology Podcast, and I’ll see you again next time.
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