Rx Venus Trine Rx Pluto: Pleasure-seeking Behavior
As long as retrograde Venus in Leo is conjunct Saturn and trining retrograde Pluto in Sagittarius, and Jupiter’s turned direct on my Mercury-Moon:
I’m being reminded of the health issues/epidemics we’re facing because of how we eat. A few years ago I for some reason was up on a soapbox re the reversability of Type II diabetes (which both my parents have) with my mom, and when I stopped to take a breath, she excitedly told me I should go on tour as a motivational speaker to get people revved up about taking control of their lives by learning about what their bodies actually need.
Venus is our values, and also pleasure-seeking behavior, and Pluto’s about digging. In Leo and Sagittarius, respectively, and we’re talking about a deepening of review of our personal relationship to pleasure-seeking behavior. What’s the truth of what you’re doing to please yourself? What are you learning about what you think makes you happy? There’s truth trying to come out of underneath your expectations and desires – are you open to hearing it?
Some other questions: Are the old things still working for you? What are you eating? Why did you eat it? Does it still work? What feels right for you right now? Can you open to changing your behavior to see if there’s something better for you in this moment? Can you listen to the signals your body gives you about what you actually eat? How does your body react as you chew it? Swallow it? After it lands in your stomach? What about five minutes later? Twenty? Two hours? The next morning?
The key to feeding your body what it needs is choosing awareness of what you’re eating. That’s the bottom line. And the key to health in large part is developing this kind of relationship to your body…and honoring it. Venus retrograde is a great time for Venus-related course corrections, by the way…
Currently (& inexplicably), I’m eating a lot of Mexican food. I’m not sure why this is happening, but it’s what feels right. Recently I was transplanted to an area of the city that seems predominantly Mexican, prompted to learn Spanish and eat what the locals are eating. I’m not sure I’m fully clear on what this immersion is about, but deviating from my mostly-raw diet of the last 18 months or so has been interesting. It’s become fully inconvenient to travel to get the raw dairy & meat I’m used to, and even for a while to get to farmers’ markets. So, I get to review why I eat what I do and why, what makes me want to eat what I’m used to. And it just hit me a few minutes ago that the trine between these two retrogrades is an opportunity to do it.
I’m currently a human, so being led away from my habits is the opposite of comforting. But I have to believe there’s something useful to learn with this, since it’s so insistent on happening.
During the recent new Moon of Leo, in my 11th house and squaring my Sun and sextiling my 1st house Uranus, I was at a talk given by a raw vegan dude screening the teaser for a documentary he made about reversing diabetes with 30 days of a raw food diet. It reinforced what I’ve been harping about for years but had kind of forgotten about of late, and now I’m living in an area with people who are either in the diabetes ranks or likely to be in danger of it. If you know me, you may have heard my dinner party soapboxing about the reversability of diabetes or the connection between what you eat and how you feel. (And if you’re a client and heard this in your session, I hope I relayed it with love as an invitation to live in a deeper state of compassionate awareness with yourself.)
In my philosophy studies in college, I ran across an idea of Nietzsche’s (in some book - I can’t remember which - The Genealogy of Morals?) that the problem with the German-speaking philosophers’ ideas is that what they eat is heavy, deadening, the opposite of life-affirming – in other words, the problem with the thought coming out of those cultures is what the people in them eat. Their philosophy is dead because what they eat is deadening. That it leaves them with a general and persistent indigestion that adversely affects their ability to think clearly. I remember putting N. on my list of favorites forever when I read this (especially as I wondered why the people he was criticising always made me feel like I’d eaten too much of the wrong thing – I mean, have you read any Schopenhauer lately?! I have to tell you that I repeatedly endangered my life by nearing comatose states as I parsed line by line of several chapters of some impenetrable English translation of an even more impenetrable German original work of his that I’m content to report I’ve blessedly forgotten even the title of).
It’s a good thing I’m too hopped up on this fine Mayan mocha to focus any of my rambling – we could be here all day…
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