Venus-Saturn Quincunx

(Transit Venus → Natal Saturn)

Avelom Podvodnyi. Aspects

Venus quincunx: A good artist strives to convey divine love to people, a bad one — to himself. This aspect produces a significantly more painful sense, compared to the semi-sextile, of the difference between social and generally earthly ethics and aesthetics versus cosmic ones, while both will be represented in the planet’s spheres as if independently within the person’s subconscious, and their karmic task will be to reconcile them, for which the individual must learn to renounce the planet’s sphere from a cosmic perspective and only then judge earthly matters. At a low level, the person lacks the strength and wisdom for this, and their ethics and aesthetics reveal a strange mixture of earthly and cosmic elements, which they themselves cannot sort out, sometimes causing partial confusion. At a medium level, however, strong inner conflicts are possible, since earthly bumps turn out to be avoidable only with the help of cosmic ski poles, which may seem to the person insufficiently correct or even impossible from the standpoint of social ethics, whose boundaries already appear clearly restrictive, yet to abandon them seems premature and disorienting. For example, the Venus-Mars quincunx will produce unique social problems related to aggression—external, internal, and hidden—and the person will encounter situations where, according to earthly ethics, one must resist evil with force, but not the force they possess, rather one of much higher vibrational level, which they will need to develop throughout life. Saturn quincunx: A person who lacks inner freedom has no moral right to demand civil freedoms. This aspect causes dissatisfaction with ordinary earthly means of deepening within the planet’s spheres, no matter how deeply one penetrates them, and the same applies to working with its principle in the inner world: here the person needs to hear the cosmic resonance and perceive the unearthly depth, which they sense they are capable of. At a low level, the person naturally remains unaware of all this, and their Saturn quincunx manifests as minor discomforts and limitations within the planet’s spheres, related to their orientation toward ordinary earthly methods of handling corresponding issues and inability to view them from a cosmic perspective, and although subconsciously the quincunx will be quite difficult. Generally, this aspect produces dissatisfaction with earthly wisdom and a desire to attain cosmic wisdom within the planet’s spheres; sometimes the person will feel they are gaining insight, but initially with strong distortions, since cosmic laws can be grasped only through conscious and subconscious departure from geocentric positions and the majority of social views, which hold people very firmly, especially in serious matters. Therefore, here probable are poorly conscious jumps from cosmic orientations, which are attractive to the subconscious yet suspicious, to earthly and established ones, which are reliable but unsatisfying; as a result, the issue becomes repressed, leaving a general vague feeling of dissatisfaction, or, especially if the quincunx is afflicted, stress develops. The inner work here is difficult, but yields cosmic wisdom, karmic vision, and the ability to harmoniously weave cosmic karma into earthly life.