On this episode of the Venus & Vesta podcast your host, Ann-Louise Holland, explains the August stars for 2022 which kicks off with the biggest aspect of the year, between Mars, the North Node and Taurus, the effects of which will last for the first two weeks of August.
Mars is hugely dynamic, can cut things off, can cut through things, can see the certainty in things and adds a huge dynamic thrust. Uranus has been in Taurus now since May 2018 and is edging is way closer to Taurus, whereas the North Node (where the Moon crossed the elliptic) has only been in Taurus for six months and is coming the other way, because it works backwards, so they ‘re slowly converging. This is about the earth and farming, our physical bodies, our fertility and sexuality.When the North Node comes along it’s like a doorway we can open and if there’s planets around it or things happening at the North Node, sure, you’re going to go through. But if there isn’t it might take more effort. But with Uranus around it’s going to blow the bloody doors off! Especially now Mars is joining these two. I’m expecting some explosions.The Great Train Robbery took place in August 1963 where huge amounts of gold bullion was stolen worth millions today. It was completely audacious. Its Taurus theme was that the robbers took the gold (it’s so Taurean – or Leo – physical gold) out of the safe and put lead back inside so when it was weighed it would always weigh the same. The reason they got caught was that they got the weights wrong. It’s such a Taruean thing, the weight of the minerals from the earth. I was thinking just how much we’re having a robbery now of our fertility and body autonomy or paying for a war that could be preventable, not to mention governments around the world stealing land off farmers.The asteroid Niobe was joining this triple conjunction. Mythically, Niobe had seven daughters and seven sons, she boasted to whoever would listen that she had these wonderful children, and the gods came and took each one from her and they were killed so now, in myth, she sits on a rock weeping for her lost children. In Taurus this is absolutely going on in the nutrition that we give our children, we are sexualising them too early, taking their body autonomy and saying they can be a different gender and there’s a whole lot of confusion around that with Uranus’ rule of confusion, they’re not connected to nature, they’re in front of screens much more than any generation before them.
‘Uranus is the enlightenment planet, he comes along and gives us curve balls, changes direction and is a crazy, disruptive planet to deal with when it comes to give you a transit. It really does push things around.’
‘The last time these three aspects converged was in May 1855 during the Crimean War between the French and English (the Allies) against Russia. Does that ring any bells?’
‘Basing a currency on gold or other precious minerals, like China and Russia are doing, encourages people to go mining for them. That happened on the 1st of August.’
‘The Leo Sun wants to ignite our passion and interest in one or all of the things I’ve been talking about so people get interested and want to do something about it, like an “I’m Spartacus” moment.’
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Ann-Louise Holland is a shamanic homoeopath, herbalist and astrologer. She teaches astrology along with Steiner based anthroposophy, both of which are concerned with cultural events that bring about humanity's evolution and awareness to the soul's journey.
Venus & Vesta is a podcast about astrology for astrologers, monthly updates on the movements of the planets and asteroids, weekly detailed discussions, aligning the stars with what is happening in the world. Interviews with astrologers and mystics who have book launches, interesting theories, special events such as eclipses, and celeb horoscopes.