Venus retrograde July 22: essay by astrologer Michael Zizis

 

Venus retrograde July 22, 2023

Michael Zizis

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By Mike Zizis

“You need to calm down.” — Taylor Swift

Venus begins her retrograde in the sign of {28 degrees Leo} on July 22, 2023, and stations direct on {12 degrees Leo} September 3, 2023. Venus retrogrades every 18 months, spending approximately 40 days in her descent.

For a change for now — let’s skip the drama. Venus RX is 100% natural in the rhythms of the living. The planets are not a plague or a curse sent to make us worse. Sometimes the tide is out and the fish are gone, for a while.

In myth, Persephone the beautiful 11-year-old girl was abducted and plunged into the underworld by the rapist God Pluto. The underworld that was a place of departed souls, death, jewels, precious metals, and moaning. Venus RX resembles this story. Venus direct favors being social, dinner parties, thank you cards, being attractive and attracted, and All the pretty and luxurious things. When she goes retrograde she folds into herself. Thus we can feel a little unloved and unappreciated during this transit.

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FROM: https://foreverconscious.com/intuitive-astrology-venus-retrograde-july-september-2023

Venus Retrograde in Leo can also get us questioning the relationships in our lives and what we truly value. We may feel like certain relationships are no longer speaking to us on a heart level. We may also find our ideas around what love is changing and evolving.

The things we value may also be up for a change, and it’s possible we could find ourselves questioning what is truly important to us.

Venus Retrograde is also a deep time of heart healing, and can guide us to look over past relationship dynamics or issues around love to see what needs to be cleared.

 

There are times in the experiment of living for all of us — when one or two more straws breaks the camel’s back. You will find the easiest thing you will do is to possibly hurt those closest to you, sever the bonds of a relationship, buy stuff you don’t need, undergo the ugly truths of cosmetic surgery gone bad, get the tattoo in haste and regret it and the pain that comes with removing it, and that new or electric car that’s more trouble than it’s worth but it was pretty and the salesman was nice to you.

Let’s be clear; 100 percent of this is avoidable. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with being cautious and humane. There’s nothing wrong with being prudent and careful. We can all do better. I can do better.

All the space not taken up by knowledge in our psyche will be taken up by ego. Life on this plane is one of often quick karmic returns. Saying you don’t care doesn’t change a thing except it encourages self-sabotage. After all, in the matter of self-care who wants to check the amount of gasoline in that tank, or the battery levels in their new electric car?

We are all cordially invited during this time to be thoughtful. Our collective war on adulthood does have consequences. Venus retrograde always favors, in all circumstances, a return to the five senses. Put on your favorite music, listen, sail a paper airplane across the room, listen again to the birds and the wind, let ice cream linger a little longer on your palate, actually look at the color of someone else’s eyes, breathe in the aroma of saffron or the lentils churning in the pot, actually lift up your feet and rotate your ankles, three or four times left, five or six times right, find someone who trusts you and put your hand gently in the middle of their back. You get the drill.

Many people bought Tesla vehicles a week and sometimes the day before the price dropped. Wait until Venus turns direct, and you may be pleasantly surprised. Got it?

 

AND here is THAT list:

Venus rules beauty, ideals, love, relationships, luxury, and hygiene. During Venus Retrograde:

DO

Cultivate your own company

Repair and mend anything

Listen MORE than talk

Go on silent retreats

Be fine about thoughtful apologies

Read a book

Quit an addiction

Notice the colour of a close relative’s eyes instead of obsessing on their toxic presence

Write inclusively

Speak calmly and slowly

Add a word a day to your vocabulary

Choose foods that enhance health

Allow friendships, etc. to end without misery,

Take old clothes to charities.

 

DON’T:

Get a tattoo

Have cosmetic surgery

Buy pretty and expensive things

Blame a partner for your own shortcomings

Experiment with non-traditional or polyamorous sex and sexual partners

Join the why-not club of self-sabotage

Join a cult

Use the word, ‘But’

Start a negative addiction.

Astrology

Love

Relationships

Psychology

Myths And Legends

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When I Buy Your Book

 
I was also the artist
who ate no meat
unfortunately I had no stipend
or wealthy friends
fame is coming
too late
sesame seeds and honey
were no longer enough
I had to do hard labour to survive

The first bite of meat
gagged me
the artist in me
almost choked to death
when I rejoined mankind

 

Chris Faiers

 

This was the lead poem in the 1983 White Wall Review, the annual literary
publication of the former Ryerson College. I was about to donate this copy
to the local small library by the Marmora dam when I decided to
take a final peek at the contents and decided to share this memory.

Who's Causing Record Canadian Wildfires

 

Chris,
You have most likely witnessed destructive wildfires ravaging forests across Canada. You may have even breathed toxic fire smoke, and seen the sky turn grey or orange. It’s scary. And yet, it’s our reality.
 
As the planet is warming, fires are starting earlier, and burning longer. This year, Canada is set to break the record for the country’s worst-ever wildfire season. [1] And while politicians are telling us to close our windows and wear masks, they are not addressing the real cause of this crisis.
 
Fossil fuels are the main drivers of climate change.  Huge companies are knowingly inflaming climate disasters, and have been aggravating wildfires in North-America for decades. [2] They’re profiting off the destruction of lives, livelihoods, ecosystems, and ultimately the planet.
 
It is time we hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the damages they are causing.

You can raise your voice now  to demand Canada’s big polluters pay for the climate disasters they are fuelling.  

Sign the petition
 

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Add your voice now
 

As I’m writing this, authorities are forecasting a particularly severe fire summer, with the potential for wildfire smoke to affect us for weeks to come. [5] Indigenous and rural communities are on the frontlines of these wildfires and the smoke is disproportionately impacting populations with preexisting health conditions, outdoor workers, people experiencing homelessness, and marginalized communities. [6]

The situation may still get worse. With wildfires historically peaking in July and August, it’s time we take action for accountability and justice. [7]

[Name], we need to send a clear message: polluters need to be held accountable for fuelling climate change, aggravating extreme weather, and worsening wildfires, which are impacting people here and beyond.

Take action now
Thank you for joining the fight for climate justice and a just world for all.
 
Salomé Sané
Climate Campaigner, Greenpeace Canada
 

 

Sources:
 

[1] Canada wildfire season is now the worst on record
[2] The fossil fuels behind forest fires
[3] COP27 reaches breakthrough agreement on new “loss and damage” fund for vulnerable countries
[4] These oilsands companies raked in $35B last year. Now, they’re asking for public money to help fight climate change
[5] Canada’s wildfire season may impact the US all summer. Here’s why.
[6] Inequitable health impacts from wildfire smoke increased by danger season
[7] Canadian wildfire smoke reaches Europe as Canada reports its worst fire season on record
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Vietnam War resister Michael Zizis interview on CBC Radio and TV

 
This is just a little heads-up to let you know i'll have my seven minutes of fame tomorrow Sunday on CBC radio's cross country check-up. The topic will be the immigrant experience in Canada. The website search is CBC Radio One - then go to cross country check up.

If you are interested here are the details;

"Our host Will be Ismaila Alfa at 4:20 pm ET this Sunday, July 2nd. The interview will last 5 - 7 minutes and be on both audio and video over Zoom. The audio will air on CBC Radio One and the video will be on CBC News Network (television) Facebook LIVE and on CBC Gem. We're asking callers 'When did Canada become your new home? How did that move change you?' We'll be speaking to you specifically about your own experience coming to Canada."

Cheers!

Michael

 

from the bio note in Crossing Lines: Poets Who Came to Canada in the Vietnam War Era (Seraphim Editions, 2008)
edited by Allan Briesmaster and Michael Berzensky

Michael Zizis was born in Pittsburgh in 1949. He arrived in Canada in 1969. He came to Canada the day he was to report for boot camp. A friend commented he shouldn't get in the car because it was a jinx. The car hit a deer near Erie, Pennsylvania and was towed back. In Canada he taught creative writing at Humber College  and established INTRINSIC: a magazine of poetry  &  poetics. He published two books of poetry, each well received by many readers. But the more successful he was in the literary world, "the darker my spirit became." Zizis has worked for 30 years to  become a full time Astrologer, "a helping and healing profession." He had abandoned "his literary life after three decades of struggle." He is now writing again.