Venus Retrograde in Scorpio in History

0:00Hey, my name is Chris Brennan and you're

0:01listening to the Astrology Podcast. In

0:04this episode, I'm going to be talking

0:05about Venus retrogrades in Scorpio in

0:08history. And I'm going to go through the

0:10past century or so of Venus retrogrades

0:14that happen every eight years in the

0:16sign of Scorpio and talk about some of

0:19the main events that happened during

0:21those previous retrogrades in order to

0:24give us some insight into uh some of the

0:27events that will will take place over

0:28the next few months as Venus once again

0:31goes retrograde in Scorpio here in late

0:332026.

0:36All right. So I kind of uh established

0:40this approach and methodology about a

0:42year and a half or almost two years ago.

0:45The last time there was a Venus

0:46retrograde, which was in Aries, where um

0:50I went through ahead of time before the

0:53Venus retrograde started, and we just

0:56like went through these 8-year periods

0:59over the previous uh century and studied

1:03what kind of events came up during those

1:06periods. And then what ended up being

1:08interesting is that many of the themes

1:11and sometimes literal events would recur

1:14or repeat in different ways once that

1:17retrograde repeated of the sky. So um

1:20I'm going to follow a similar approach

1:22here today now that we've defin sort of

1:25worked out that methodology because it's

1:28actually really effective in

1:29understanding and getting to the core of

1:32what Venus retrograde means what the

1:34sign Scorpio means and uh what it means

1:38when those placements are together and

1:40what kind of themes emerge in the world

1:42in general uh including not just in

1:45personal lives but also in in politics

1:49in art and culture and music and all

1:51sorts of different areas.

1:54All right, so um let's define a little

1:58thing. Let's do a very quick

1:59introduction. We got a lot to go over

2:00today. This is going to be a very

2:01ambitious episode. I'll try to break it

2:04up using some timestamps, especially on

2:07the YouTube version or on the audio

2:09version on the podcast website to make

2:11it more manageable. Um, last time with

2:13Aries retrograde, we went through

2:15chronologically in 8-year increments,

2:17but this time I'm going to try to break

2:20it up and group them based on topics or

2:23based on similar themes in order to make

2:26it a little bit more approachable. But

2:28nonetheless, I have a very ambitious

2:30episode today because uh when I did this

2:32research in the history, I ended up with

2:34something like 175

2:37separate events that were like notable

2:40events that I wrote down during each of

2:42the different Venus retrogrades. Uh

2:44where I did like 10 to 15 major events

2:47that occurred under each retrograde over

2:50the past century. So, um, I've paired

2:54that down a little bit, but sometimes

2:55it's only by seeing the big picture and

2:59seeing everything at once that you can

3:01truly understand like how impressive it

3:03it is to study some of these historical

3:06cycles and in which you can get the most

3:08from it. So, as a result of that, I'm

3:10going to try to pack a lot in here today

3:12and uh, yeah, let's get into it. So,

3:14let's do a little introduction about the

3:16current Venus retrograde and then talk

3:18about some of the cycles. All right. So,

3:20the current Venus retrograde coming up.

3:24I have this diagram that was made by my

3:27graphic designer, uh, Paige Allison, who

3:30who worked with me to put together this

3:33new Venus retrograde graphic. And what

3:34it shows is

3:37my definition of the Venus retrograde

3:39itself. So the actual retrograde starts

3:42on October 3rd when Venus stations

3:46uh in the sky and turns around and

3:48starts moving backwards in the zodiac

3:50for 40 days. So Venus stations

3:53retrograde October 30th and it station

3:55it will station direct on November 13th

3:58in Libra. So it stations retrograde in

4:00Scorpio and then it goes direct in

4:02Libra. Uh the Kazimi with the the

4:05conjunction with the sun is right on in

4:07the middle on October 23rd at zero

4:09Scorpio. And this is actually the last

4:11kazmi that's going to take place in

4:13Scorpio because after this all

4:15subsequent kazmis will be in in Libra

4:18for like a century.

4:20But um for me there's also the shadow

4:24period which is when Venus first passes

4:27over the degree that it will later

4:29retrograde back to which um in this

4:32instance occurred on August 31st when

4:36Venus passed over 22° of Libra and then

4:40it will exit its post- retrograde shadow

4:43on December 15th when it passes 18° of

4:46Scorpio. But what I've noticed over the

4:48past few years, and one of the things

4:50that I think I demonstrated pretty

4:51compellingly in the last Venus

4:53retrograde a year and a half ago, is

4:55that really because part of what Venus

4:58retrograde is in one way is that it's an

5:02extended trip where Venus will spend an

5:06abnormal amount of time in one or two

5:09signs of the zodiac for a few months.

5:12Um, it means that as soon as Venus goes

5:15into one of the signs that it will

5:17retrograde back to, you really start

5:19seeing some of the events and

5:21circumstances surrounding the retrograde

5:23starting to build up. So that began for

5:26us in this current cycle on August 6th,

5:292026 when Venus first ingressed into the

5:32sign of Libra. And then that period will

5:36not end

5:38until January 7th when Venus finally

5:41departs from Scorpio for the last time

5:43and moves into Sagittarius. So, as a

5:46result of that, the time period for this

5:48current Venus retrograde is, you know,

5:51several months in the later part of 2026

5:55that we're paying attention to in terms

5:57of how Venus retrogrades are often the

6:00unfolding of a sequence of events over

6:03the course of that entire period of

6:05time. And while sometimes there can be

6:07certain events that really stand out,

6:09especially around the exact retrograde

6:12or direct stations or even the Kazimi

6:15that really if you pay close attention

6:17that entire period that it's transiting

6:20those two signs will sort of like

6:22contain a whole sequence of events.

6:25Especially because for each of us in our

6:27personal lives, it's it's going to be

6:28transiting through two whole signed

6:31houses in our charts for an extended

6:33period of time. And in that context, you

6:35can understand why that entire period

6:37would be important because it means

6:38Venus is really hanging out in those two

6:41sectors of your chart or those two

6:44houses and activating the topics

6:45associated with those houses in some way

6:48for this extended period of like a few

6:50months, which is different or abnormal

6:53compared to usually like the 3 weeks or

6:56something that Venus normally spends in

6:58a sign when it's going its normal speed.

7:02All right. So that's how I am going to

7:04define most of these Venus retrograde

7:07periods that I'm talking about through

7:08the first ingress and last ingress. And

7:12when you define them in that way,

7:16uh, one of the things I should say

7:17really quickly is, um, Venus

7:20every 8 years, Venus will go retrograde

7:23in approximately the same spot in the

7:26sky and it just shifts gradually about

7:292° earlier each time. But as a result of

7:33that um here on the screen for those

7:35watching the video version right now is

7:37the the list of years over the past

7:40century or so in which Venus went

7:42retrograde in this 8-year cycle in the

7:46sign of Scorpio. So the first one was in

7:491906 and that's when Venus it had been

7:53retrograding in Sagittarius for most of

7:55the previous century but then for the

7:58first time in 1906 Venus retrograded

8:01back into Scorpio and stationed direct

8:03there and then from for every like

8:06subsequent

8:088-year period basically Venus would keep

8:11moving every 8 years about 2° or so

8:15further and further into Scorpio at the

8:17direct station until eventually it was

8:20like spending its entire time in there.

8:23So with that in mind, here's the Venus

8:26retrograde in Scorpio years. I'll read

8:28them off for the audio listeners real

8:30quick. So it is 1906, 1914,

8:351922, 1930, 1938, 1946,

8:411954,

8:421962,

8:441970, 1978, 1986, 1994,

8:492002, 2010, 2018, and 2026.

8:55So keep these years in mind because

8:56these are going to be the years we're

8:57going to focus on. And because of how

9:01closely Venus retrograde repeats itself

9:04every 8 years in the same spot in the

9:06zodiac, um it does it not just in the

9:09same sign like let's say in Scorpio in

9:11this instance, but also it does it in in

9:14very closely or roughly the same part of

9:16the year. So the Venus retrograde in

9:20Scorpio in all of these years is

9:23basically taking place in the last few

9:26months of that year. So, we're going to

9:28be talking about the last few months of

9:30each of these years that I just

9:32mentioned in 8-year increments.

9:36And

9:38when you take into account the first

9:40ingress and the last ingress, it gives

9:43the following set of dates

9:47uh that I will list here for the video

9:49people. I'm not going to read all of

9:51these off. Maybe I'll just read like the

9:53first two. So in 1906, for example, on

9:56September 7th, 1906, Venus first

9:59ingressed into the sign it would later

10:01retrograde back to. Um, and then it

10:04finally

10:06left or departed or made its final

10:08egress from the sign it retrograded in

10:11on February 6th, 1907.

10:14And what's cool is that because of the

10:17way the signs work out and shift over

10:21the years, it means these dates were

10:24relatively stable. And you have a block

10:28of signs where it was retrograding in

10:31Sagittarius and Scorpio and then another

10:34when it was retrograding from in just

10:36Scorpio and then another block where it

10:38was retrograding in Scorpio and Libra,

10:41which is the current one that we're in.

10:44So okay so here's the first block which

10:47is basically from 1906 to 1954

10:51these retrogrades were taking place in

10:54Sagittarius where Venus would station

10:55retrograde in Sagittarius and then it

10:57would retrograde back into Scorpio and

10:59station direct there. So all of the the

11:038-year increments from 1906 until 1954.

11:08Then

11:10for the next block of time, Venus

11:13started retrograding just in Scorpio

11:16from 1962 until 2002 where it would

11:20station retrograde in Scorpio and then

11:22it would station direct in Scorpio.

11:25Then the current one that we're in now

11:28at Venus has it keep it it keeps like

11:32gradually shifting back and now Venus

11:34stations retrograde in Scorpio but then

11:37it stations direct in Libra and that

11:39started in 2010 and then 2018 and

11:43finally now in 2026.

11:47All right. So that gives you some idea

11:48of the data that we're going to be

11:49looking at in terms of the dates here.

11:51And um I could do other prelim

11:53preliminaries, but why don't we just

11:55jump right into it with the dates

11:56because we got a lot to cover and I want

11:58to see how much we can actually get

12:00through dur during the course of today.

12:01So let's get to it.

12:04All right. So the first category I want

12:05to touch on is I kept noticing this

12:08theme of um unearthing the underworld

12:13and there being buried discoveries and

12:15hidden secrets that would come out

12:18sometimes during the Scorpio retrogrades

12:21of Venus. So the first one is in 1922 in

12:25the Venus retrograde in Scorpio. It

12:27started in Sagittarius and on the exact

12:30day that Venus stationed retrograde in

12:32Sagittarius on November 4th, um

12:35archaeologists who were working in Egypt

12:39discovered the steps to the completely

12:42untouched tomb of the ancient Egyptian

12:45pharaoh Tutin Common. And what happened

12:49is over the course of the subsequent

12:52Venus retrograde where it stationed in

12:54Sagittarius and then it backed up and

12:56stationed direct in uh Scorpio, they

12:59basically found this ancient Egyptian

13:01tomb that had had never been raided by

13:05grave robbers basically which had been

13:07really common up to that point over the

13:10like 2,000 plus years or more since many

13:13of those pharaohs were were buried. And

13:16so it ended up being this like media

13:18sensation where it's like this ancient

13:21thing that gets unlocked or discovered

13:25in this really opulent um ancient

13:27Egyptian tomb. And what was interesting

13:30is that a bunch of um the media like

13:32sort of went crazy over this and

13:35eventually it ended up causing there to

13:37be like um this it ended up influencing

13:42aesthetics and fashion trends and

13:46architecture and other design trends

13:48during the course of the 1920s where

13:51there was something called like there

13:53was they sometimes called it like

13:56Egyptomania where like Egyptian themes

13:58and stuff started getting incorporated

14:01into western art and fashion and design.

14:04Especially the art deco movement was

14:06very much inspired by some of these

14:10discoveries that had just taken place in

14:12the publicity surrounding them. So Venus

14:15retrograde when Venus stations

14:17retrogrades and starts moving backwards

14:20in the order of the zodiac and in the

14:23order of the signs sometimes there's

14:25this backwards looking orientation where

14:28things from the past come back into the

14:30present.

14:32Um so similarly under the 1938 Venus

14:35retrograde in Scorpio there was this

14:39prehistoric fish that was discovered

14:42that was thought to have gone extinct

14:44like 66 million years ago with the

14:46dinosaurs and a fisherman caught it and

14:51dragged it out of the ocean and then um

14:54some scientists basically got wind of it

14:57and then it completely rewrote

14:59scientific history through the discovery

15:01of this ancient fish.

15:04Or later on during the 1994 Venus

15:07retrograde in Scorpio, um there was this

15:10group of explorers in France who

15:13stumbled upon this perfectly sealed

15:15underground cave system which contained

15:18the oldest and most beautifully

15:21preserved uh paleolithic art in the

15:24world. So, it was actually an art

15:26discovery

15:28of ancient Paleolithic art from

15:31thousands and thousands of years ago

15:33that was hidden in a cave that was

15:36discovered during the course of the

15:38Venus retrograde in Scorpio in late

15:401994. And I thought the symbolism of

15:43that was so brilliant and so beautiful.

15:46And then similarly, one other event that

15:49happened in the 2010 Venus retrograde in

15:52Scorpio is that um there was this

15:56disaster that happened with a group of

15:58miners in Chile where 33 miners were

16:02trapped um like like really far like

16:05half a mile underground in pitch

16:07darkness and they were trapped for 69

16:11days but then they're they're

16:12miraculously were pulled to the surface.

16:16alive and their rescue was globally

16:20broadcast and and supposedly more than a

16:23billion people were watching the

16:27uh not discovery, the rescue basically

16:30of these 33 miners. So that it became

16:33one of the most watched televised events

16:36in history. So, that just gives you

16:39that's my final one for this section,

16:41but it just gives you an idea of some of

16:42the things that can come up when we're

16:44talking about Venus going retrograde in

16:47the sign of Scorpio. And sometimes it

16:50can be very literally like underworldly

16:53themes being pulled up from un from

16:57under the ground into the surface. And

17:00that's in like a very literal sense, but

17:01as we'll see, that can also happen more

17:05metaphorically

17:06in society and art and culture. It can

17:09also happen in relationships and

17:11personal dynamics when it comes to Venus

17:13retrogrades in Scorpio. And we'll see

17:16the full range of that. But I wanted to

17:17start with showing that sometimes these

17:20retrogrades can work out very, very

17:22literally.

17:24All right. In the next section, I want

17:25to talk about themes having to do with

17:27high stakes diplomacy, brinkmanship, and

17:31sometimes even uh in extreme cases

17:34so-called deals with the devil. So, the

17:37first two I want to start off with was

17:38uh 1906, and this was still when the

17:41Venus retrogrades were largely in

17:42Sagittarius. And so you do get a

17:44dominant Sagittarius theme, but

17:47nonetheless, there are a couple of

17:48interesting ones where um in 1906 under

17:52this retrograde, President Theodore

17:54Roosevelt embarked on an overseas

17:57journey aboard a ship to inspect the

18:00construction of the Panama Canal. And

18:03this was actually a a major historical

18:06event because it was the first time a

18:08sitting US president traveled outside of

18:11the United States while he was in

18:13office. And what was interesting and

18:15cool about this is that this was the

18:17very day that Venus stationed retrograde

18:19in Sagittarius.

18:21So, it's kind of striking to me that you

18:23get this president traveling overseas

18:27for the first time, like making a

18:29historical precedent um on the day that

18:32Venus stations retrograde in

18:33Sagittarius. And then, interestingly, a

18:36few months later, on December 10th,

18:391906, Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel

18:42Peace Prize for brokering um like a

18:46treaty in a in a war between Russia and

18:48Japan the previous year. And this marked

18:53another first because this was the first

18:55time that an an American was honored

18:58with the Nobel Prize. So, that was

19:01towards that was in December. So that

19:03was towards or like after uh Venus

19:05stationing direct in Scorpio.

19:08All right. So other themes though,

19:10another big one that stood out was the

19:121914 Venus retrograde in Scorpio because

19:16this retrograde basically took place in

19:19the the last months of of 1914

19:22just after World War I had broken out

19:24over the summer. And initially like

19:27everybody went into World War I thinking

19:29it would be like an easy and quick war.

19:32But then they were confronted with the

19:34way that technology had changed the the

19:38the the nature of war at that time and

19:41it became way more brutal and

19:44intractable and it quickly ended up

19:46settling into trench warfare and just

19:50lots and lots of people dying due to the

19:53use of machine guns and things like

19:54that. But then later on in December,

19:59there was this really special and unique

20:01moment that occurred that's often talked

20:03about in history books, which is the

20:06famous Christmas truce, where during um

20:10Christmas, basically a little bit after

20:13I think when Venus was like stationing

20:16direct um the soldiers at Christmas time

20:19who'd been like fighting this ter these

20:22terrible battles and like and murdering

20:23each other for months now spontaneously

20:27had a ceasefire around the Venus direct

20:30station and what happened is they

20:33started crossing over the trenches into

20:37no man's land and exchanging gifts and

20:40singing carols together and basically

20:43having a really brief very brief piece

20:46in what was otherwise like a really

20:48brutal context of this this terrible war

20:52of of literally the first world war

20:55which had just started months earlier

20:57and they were still in the very early

20:58stages of. So that's one of my favorite,

21:02you know, little positive examples of of

21:04a little truce for just a matter of like

21:07a day or two. Um that did not last very

21:10long, but nonetheless was one for the

21:12history books. Um, okay. So, moving on.

21:151922, I was really surprised to learn, I

21:18guess I hadn't focused on this a lot,

21:19but um, in the 1992 Venus retrograde in

21:22Scorpio, delegates from Russia, Ukraine,

21:25Bolaris, and, um, other regions signed a

21:30declaration and treaty for the creation

21:34of the USSR.

21:36So this is basically the the

21:38foundational treaty to centralize power

21:42and to give birth to uh what became the

21:45Soviet Union basically during this Venus

21:47retrograde in Scorpio in uh 1922. And

21:52what was interesting is it was like

21:54Venus retrograde in Scorpio that year

21:55that stationed direct conjunct Jupiter

21:58which was very similar to the Venus

22:00Jupiter conjunction in the United States

22:02birth chart. And then additionally um

22:06there was also a Mars Uranus conjunction

22:08at that time which is also similar to

22:10the Mars Uranus conjunction of the US

22:12birth chart which I've talked about

22:14extensively in recent episodes over the

22:16past year. And then what's interesting

22:17about that with the Soviet Union having

22:20a Mars Uranus conjunction in its birth

22:23chart is that the first time that the

22:25Soviet Union detonated an atomic bomb

22:29was on a Mars Uranus conjunction. Um,

22:32just like the United States having a

22:35Mars Uranus conjunction in its birth

22:37chart detonated its first atomic bomb on

22:40a Mars Uranus conjunction in 1945

22:43u or or at least used the first atomic

22:46weapon in battle than um when they were

22:50dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

22:53in 1945. So, there's more to go into

22:56there, but it was just a striking

22:57instance of like a union coming together

23:01under a Venus retrograde that stationed

23:04direct in the same sign of Jupiter,

23:07which is Scorpio, which uh just provided

23:10a very interesting parallel with the

23:11United States.

23:13And of course, the US and the Soviet

23:15Union for much of the 20th century would

23:17become the two biggest global global

23:20superpowers as well as global enemies

23:23that would kind of like fight during the

23:24course of the rest of the 20th century.

23:27All right, moving forward. 1938. This is

23:30a really important Venus retrograde one

23:32that's important for astrologers to

23:33internalize because this one uh was

23:36really about the Munich agreement and

23:38this period of appeasement basically

23:42where um the prime minister of Britain

23:47of the United Kingdom uh Chamberlain and

23:50Hitler. So Hitler was in power in

23:52Germany and Hitler was already making

23:54military moves and the Europeans were

23:57trying to avert another world war and

24:00they thought that they could. So they

24:01started appeasing Hitler and basically

24:03just giving him whatever he wanted. So

24:06under this Venus retrograde in 19 in the

24:08fall of 1938

24:10um Chamberlain and Hitler signed this

24:12desperate treaty of appeasement to to

24:15avoid war. And it was, this is

24:17essentially the shadowy sort of like

24:19deal with the devil that brought a very

24:22temporary peace for like the next few

24:24months, but ultimately failed

24:26catastrophically because the next world

24:28war would begin basically the next year

24:31when when Hitler invaded Poland and then

24:35all of the different treaties with the

24:38allies in Poland started kicking in. Um,

24:41additionally, this is also a failure

24:44because right not long after um the

24:47Munich agreement in early November

24:51um in Germany crystal knocked happened

24:54where there was like um

24:58the the Nazis used

25:00somebody being killed like a a

25:02mid-ranking Nazi was killed and the

25:04Nazis used this as an excuse basically

25:08in order to orchestrate what's called

25:10the night of broken glass where all

25:13across Germany and Austria and other

25:16places they started destroying hundreds

25:19of synagogue of Jewish synagogues

25:21looting thou th th th th th th th th th

25:22th th th th th th th th th th th th th

25:22th th th th th th th th th th th th th

25:22th th th th th thous thous thousands of

25:23Jewish businesses killing nearly a

25:26hundred Jews and in turning 30,000 men

25:29in concentration camps so this Venus

25:33retrograde in Scorpio in 1938 was not

25:36just just dark because of it was like

25:38the period of appeasement of some of the

25:42western powers attempting to plate

25:44Hitler to put off a world war. They

25:46thought even though Hitler was fully

25:48intent on military expansion at this

25:51point. But this was also the point

25:53during this Venus retrograde where what

25:56had been largely political persecution

26:00of Jews and other figures up to this

26:03point under Nazi Germany suddenly turned

26:06to very tangible extreme um actual like

26:10physical persecution and the early

26:12phases of what would become essentially

26:15the Holocaust. So that's a really dark

26:18Venus retrograde there in the later part

26:20of 1938.

26:22All right, so moving on. 1954 was the

26:25Formosa resolution. This is when um the

26:29US basically signed a mutual defense

26:32pact with um Taiwan in or and this ended

26:38up averting what's called the first

26:40strait crisis where China um was

26:45potentially going to move into more of a

26:47direct military confrontation or

26:49invasion of Taiwan and then the US

26:52signed a pact basically saying that they

26:54would defend Taiwan if they were um if

26:58they were invaded. And that ended up

27:02basically putting off or making it so

27:04that China didn't invade Taiwan at the

27:06time. But this one's kind of important

27:09just because of that means there's a bit

27:11of a signature here for Venus retrograde

27:13in Scorpio and the complex relationship

27:16between China, Taiwan, and the United

27:19States, which is, you know, an ongoing

27:22issue today and and will very obviously

27:26continue to be uh as world events un

27:29evolve and unfold over the next few

27:31years. So, we'll see how that goes

27:33during this upcoming Venus retrograde in

27:34Scorpio later this year.

27:37All right. Um, another major one,

27:39perhaps the actually the biggest one on

27:41this list is 1962

27:43during that retrograde later in the year

27:45was the Cuban missile crisis. So this is

27:48basically like the absolute peak of cold

27:52war brinkmanship between the US and

27:55Russia where there was this incredibly

27:58tense 13 days around the time of the

28:01Venus retrograde in Scorpio where

28:04humanity was on the brink of just allout

28:07thermonuclear war between the the

28:09world's two main nuclear superpowers

28:12and then it was only resolved through

28:16these really highly secretive

28:18back channel diplomacy agreements

28:22between the the leaders of of the US and

28:26Russia, between JFK and Kruev and um and

28:31it involved an agreement that the US

28:33made to like take some missiles out of

28:36out of Turkey and and in exchange um

28:40Russia turned some ships back that were

28:42headed towards Cuba and it was it was

28:45basically a big mess. You can look it

28:47up. I don't have to go into it, but it

28:48was it was basically the closest that

28:52the US and Russia ever came to an open

28:54nuclear war during this Venus

28:56retrograde, but then it was like turned

29:00around suddenly at the last minute

29:03through back channel agreements.

29:06All right. So um similarly 1978 had

29:10something similar happen with a couple

29:12of things involving Jimmy Carter's

29:15investigation where on the one hand he

29:18um during the course of this retrograde

29:20in the later part of 1978 he basically

29:22sequestered the leaders of Israel and

29:24Egypt for these intense highly secretive

29:27negotiations

29:28which resulted in a historic Middle East

29:31peace treaty between the two countries

29:34and then interestingly that wasn't the

29:36only like back panel secret negotiations

29:38he was involved in. But it turned out

29:40that weeks later um around the time of

29:42Venus's direct station in Scorpio in

29:45December, which was actually conjunct

29:47Uranus that time, the US shocked the

29:50world by announcing that they'd been in

29:53secret negotiations

29:55which eventually led to having full

29:57diplomatic relations with China. Um but

30:01it also involved pulling back on some of

30:04their rel with some of their

30:05relationship and agreements with Taiwan

30:08which then caused um a bunch of like

30:11political

30:13um issues in the US and like parts of

30:16Congress rebelled against Carter's

30:18agreement and and set up alternative

30:20agreements with Taiwan. But again, it's

30:24another one of those basically those

30:25repetitions

30:27where um it's a repetition of the 1954

30:31one where things are happening under the

30:34Venus retrograde in Scorpio in terms of

30:36the relationship and the shifting

30:38alliances and agreements between the US,

30:42China and Taiwan.

30:44So that further heightens the likelihood

30:47of other similar things like that in the

30:50future especially with this upcoming

30:51Venus retrograde. And um one of the

30:55reasons for that is that v uh China with

30:57the current chart of China from the mid

31:0120th century has Venus in Scorpio. It's

31:04not retrograde but if the time is

31:06correct it may be in the 10th house of

31:08the chart. So that may be one of the

31:09reasons why um China in particular could

31:12be sensitive to Venus retrograde through

31:14Scorpio transits.

31:16Um okay so two more. One of them in 1986

31:20was the Reiki summit between Reagan and

31:23Gorbachov where they met for this

31:26dramatic like allight set of

31:28negotiations

31:30that unexpectedly almost came to the

31:33very brink of eliminating all nuclear

31:36weapons. like the negotiations came

31:39incredibly close to making major

31:42sweeping

31:44um not just motions but basically like

31:47actions to remove nuclear weapons from

31:50the table after decades of building up

31:54to the brink of potentially like

31:55destroying humanity if if the two

31:57countries had started shooting at each

31:59other due to the doctrine of mutually

32:01assured uh destruction.

32:04But then basically at the last minute

32:06they got hung up on one point that they

32:08couldn't get through and the

32:11negotiations like fell apart at the last

32:13minute. So it was like an agreement that

32:16almost happened but then it was averted

32:19or or aborted or or cancelled out in

32:22some way with the Venus retrograde.

32:24Although this agreement did end up

32:28setting the stage for some subsequent

32:30agreements that would take place over

32:32the next few years that would li put

32:34some limits on nuclear weapons between

32:37the two countries. So it wasn't a

32:39complete loss. And then finally in 1994

32:44um similarly during that Venus

32:46retrograde in Scorpio you the Ukraine

32:50not the Ukraine Ukraine the country of

32:52Ukraine formally surrendered the world's

32:55third largest nuclear arsenal in

32:58exchange for guarantees about its

33:00borders which famously became really

33:04tragic and unfortunate later when those

33:07agreements would be violated years later

33:09when Russia would invade Ukraine, which

33:11is the the war that we're dealing with

33:14now. And weirdly, around the same time,

33:19uh, Jimmy Carter negotiated a peaceful

33:23stepdown of a military juna in in Haiti

33:27when the US had planes literally in the

33:30air mid-flight to do a violent like

33:34military invasion of Haiti to overthrow

33:37the military Ja. And Jimmy Carter as

33:40former president was somehow able to do

33:42some back channel negotiations in order

33:46to arrange a peaceful solution and

33:49stepdown of the leadership which averted

33:52major bloodshed that otherwise would

33:54have happened so that when the US forces

33:57landed in Haiti shortly after that it

34:00ended up being a peaceful transition of

34:02power. So that was a positive one to

34:05sort of like end out this section on how

34:08different types of back channel

34:11negotiations can sometimes go sometimes

34:14in being successful and helping to avert

34:17disaster and other times um not being so

34:21successful or resulting in situations

34:24like appeasement with Hitler that just

34:26kick the can down the road or put things

34:28off until later.

34:31Okay, the next section I want to talk

34:33about has to do with state secrets,

34:36themes of espionage, and also covert

34:38operations.

34:40So, it's kind of like adjacent to the

34:42previous one, but less in a diplomat

34:44diplomatic sense and more in the

34:46recurring themes of like

34:49spies and things behind the scenes

34:51coming up. So, for example, in 1970

34:54during that um Venus retrograde in

34:58Scorpio, the the US and the CIA

35:01interfered in the government of Chile.

35:05And exactly as Venus was stationing

35:07retrograde, the CIA basically launched

35:09this massive covert campaign to

35:12destabilize the democratically elected

35:15government uh in Chile at the time

35:18through political assassinations and

35:20through shadowy invisible uh blockades

35:24of economic sabotage

35:27where they kind of like tried one set of

35:30things to overthrow a government the

35:32government and it didn't work at the

35:34beginning of the Venus retrograde in

35:36Scorpio and then by later once it was

35:38stationing direct the US shifted to a

35:41covert strategy of doing like economic

35:45espionage which eventually like a few

35:48years later was successful and

35:50eventually led to that government being

35:52overthrown and a new I think like

35:54dictatorship coming to power basically.

35:58So that one may be relevant coming up

36:00because we know like for example the US

36:02recently announced heightened economic

36:06blockades basically and sanctions of

36:09Iran this summer and so it'll be

36:12interesting to see I I guess to what

36:14extent some similar themes come up over

36:16the course of the next few months as

36:18Venus is retrograde in Scorpio again.

36:21All right. elsewhere. 1978 during that

36:24retrograde, eight years later, there was

36:27this famous incident in like spy lore

36:32where there was this Bulgarian

36:33dissident, journalist who was jabbed in

36:37the leg suddenly by somebody with he was

36:40jabbed in the leg in London by an

36:43operative like a secret agent who was

36:45using a modified umbrella and the

36:48umbrella um shot or injected this lethal

36:52like pellet of Ryasin into his leg which

36:57subsequently killed this dissident

36:59journalist. So it was um known as like

37:03the famous like Ryasin umbrell umbrella

37:06assassination because it was such a

37:08weird situation in terms of how it was

37:11done.

37:12Um, other times, another really major

37:15one, probably one of the biggest ones,

37:17was the 1986 Venus retrograde in

37:20Scorpio, which is when the Iran Contra

37:24affair broke basically in the news and

37:26in the government, where what happened

37:29is that there was this massive shadowy

37:32conspiracy involving the US secretly

37:34selling weapons to Iran in order to fund

37:38the Contra rebels in Nicar Nicaragua,

37:41which was then during the course of this

37:44Venus retrograde got exposed to the

37:46public through this like series of

37:49events. I think it was first um exposed

37:52through like a Lebanese newspaper and

37:55then other reporters picked up the trail

37:57and it eventually blew up into this

38:00entire scandal basically which um really

38:05almost brought down the Reagan

38:06administration and did lead to some

38:09members of the Reagan administration

38:11being prosecuted.

38:14So that was a major one during the Venus

38:16retrograde in Scorpio and and what was

38:18so weird it is it was just like shadowy

38:20backroom deals coming to light basically

38:24that shouldn't have been happening based

38:27on the public relationship and

38:29antagonism between the US and Iran up to

38:32that point but then it turned out that

38:35um behind the scenes they were sort of

38:37like doing deals with each other. Uh

38:40similarly, another one that happened in

38:422010 was the Wikileaks cablegate, which

38:45is when um Wikileaks basically

38:48published, if people remember, this is

38:51like not that long ago now, this this

38:52huge trove of something like 250

38:56classified US State Department dipl

39:00diplomatic cables and documents. And it

39:03basically dragged a bunch of backroom

39:07global diplomacy into the light.

39:09Especially because some of the things

39:11they published early on that got a lot

39:13of press were like what different

39:16diplomatic people were saying about

39:18different world leaders and stuff like

39:20that behind the scenes as well as some

39:23of the different efforts the US was

39:25making in different agreements or

39:26different ways they were putting

39:28pressure on different countries and

39:30different things like that. So it was a

39:32huge disclosure during the course of

39:34that Venus retrograde and um but then

39:38that also led to all sort of stuff with

39:40like Julian Assange the leader of

39:42Wikileaks and I think by the end of that

39:44Venus retrograde he was like arrested in

39:47in December and it was a whole thing.

39:51It's like there's some of these

39:52retrogrades where I'm mentioning it, but

39:55one of the things you have to understand

39:57or or what anybody will realize if

39:59they're familiar with that news story,

40:00if they remember being there at the

40:02time, is it's often times like a series

40:06of disclosures and other things that

40:10happen over an extended period of time.

40:13uh that brings to light some like hidden

40:16or like underworldly back dealings that

40:18are happening behind the scenes.

40:21Um and then similarly under the 2018

40:24Venus retrograde was the assassination

40:27of of of

40:29Jamal Kosigible who was a dissident

40:32journalist for the Washington Post who

40:35went into a a Saudi consulate and then

40:39um was was killed and and dismembered

40:42behind closed doors. And the reality of

40:46that, it's like the event happened, but

40:49then the news reporting and the reality

40:51of it slowly came out over the course of

40:54the next few months during the course of

40:55the Venus retrograde. So, it was a

40:58really grizzly

41:00story in terms of of of that time period

41:03that evolved over over a period of time.

41:07All right, so let's keep it moving. So,

41:09we're doing pretty good so far with

41:10time. Uh there's a lot, but we're

41:12getting through it pretty quick. So

41:14let's keep I'll try to keep this pace

41:16up. All right. So the next section I

41:18want to talk about has to do with

41:20something I kept noticing which was

41:22major political power shifts and

41:24sometimes massive wave elections that

41:28take place where um for example the two

41:31early ones in the 20th century were not

41:34pleasant were were pretty bad which is

41:36in 1922 during that Venus retrograde in

41:39Scorpio uh Mussolini's national fascist

41:42party orchestrates this march on Rome

41:46home and it was like this massive

41:49psychological bluff. But what ended up

41:52happening is they get there and the king

41:54basically just like de refuses to

41:58declare martial law and instead appoints

42:02Mussolini as prime minister which

42:05officially birthed the modern fascist

42:07state or or the the fascist state in

42:10that in that era of the 1930s in Italy

42:121930s and4s and then subsequently that

42:16allowed him to start just systematically

42:19uh dismantling ing all of Italy's

42:22democratic institutions from within. So

42:25that was during the Venus retrograde in

42:26Scorpio 1922. Similarly, eight years

42:29later during the Venus retrograde in

42:32Scorpio in 1930, um the Nazi party in

42:35Germany achieved this massive electoral

42:39breakthrough.

42:40um where this is in the middle of like

42:43the Great Depression and they basically

42:45uh capitalized on the collapse of the

42:48way economy in Germany and their through

42:53the votes their party skyrocketed from

42:56basically having like 12 people in the

42:59government to 107 parliamentary seats

43:03which virtually overnight just like

43:06shifted the Nazi party from a fringe

43:09faction for most of the 1920s to all of

43:13a sudden being the mainstream power that

43:17was then able to start permanently

43:19dismantling the democratic government

43:22that had been there up to that point and

43:24basically turning over o over taking

43:26over Germany. So those are two pretty

43:29dark ones in the 1920s and 1930s.

43:33And then in the United States, the Venus

43:37retrogrades in Scorpio often have to do

43:39with midterm elections. And there were

43:41some pretty notable ones. I'm not going

43:43to do a whole study of all of them here.

43:46Well, maybe I'll save that for another

43:48episode. But some of the ones that

43:49really stood out were uh 1946 there was

43:53this massive shift that were called the

43:56had enough mid midterms where um

44:00basically um the Republicans capitalized

44:03on post-war inflation and fatigue

44:07because the Democrats especially with

44:09with Franklin Delano Roosevelt had been

44:12in power for a really long time up to

44:14that point and then Roosevelt had just

44:16died in 1945. five. And um what happened

44:20is during the 1946 election when Venus

44:23was retrograde in Scorpio, the

44:25Republicans swept both chambers of

44:28Congress for the first time since 1928

44:31um in one of the the most historic

44:33midterm elections of the in the United

44:35States history. So this basically

44:38ushered in a really fiercely partisan

44:41what's sometimes referred to in history

44:42books as like the do nothing Congress

44:45which actively challenged President

44:48Truman and dismantled some of the World

44:51War II economic controls that had been

44:53in place up to that point. So that was

44:561946

44:58where basically like the Democrats had

45:00been in power for a long time and then

45:02suddenly the Republicans um the party

45:05that was not as much in power suddenly

45:08came more into power at that point.

45:10Similarly, in the 1954

45:13midterm elections, when Venus was again

45:15retrograde in Scorpio, Democrats flipped

45:18the House um during the course of

45:21President Eisenhower's first term. And

45:25this election established what became a

45:2940-year streak of unbroken Democratic

45:33majorities in that chamber of Congress

45:36that lasted for a really long time. all

45:39the way until the 40-year anniversary of

45:43that, which was a subsequent Venus

45:44retrograde that happened in 1994.

45:48And so this Venus retrograde in Scorpio

45:51in 19 1994 was not long after Bill

45:54Clinton was elected. There was what's

45:57called the Republican Revolution, which

46:00was led by N. Gingrich and his so-called

46:03contract with America. And what happened

46:06is they flipped 54 seats uh that that

46:10ended the the Democratic streak that had

46:13been lasting for like 40 years at that

46:15point since 1954.

46:17And this um sweeping wave sort of

46:20ushered in this new aggressively

46:23partisan and sort of confrontational era

46:26of modern politics where usually like

46:28most historians at this point or most

46:30political commentators look back to the

46:321994 election as being part of where

46:35that shift took place.

46:38Um similarly in 2010 you know it's like

46:41Obama had just been elected in 2008. So

46:45then 2010 is the f is the midterm that

46:47takes place after that and this was the

46:50Venus retrograde in Scorpio in the later

46:53part of 2010. And what happened is that

46:55the Tea Party movement had really taken

46:58off especially early that year and the

47:01midterms had this massive wave where

47:04there was a 63 seat Republican swing in

47:08in Republicans favor. So that was

47:11actually historically the largest single

47:14legislative swing since 1948.

47:17um which even President Obama at the

47:20time he he commented on it and he said

47:22that they had taken a real shellacking

47:25basically at the at the polls in terms

47:27of the push back in the number of

47:30Republicans that were brought into

47:32office at that time which then really

47:35ground to a halt a lot of his ability to

47:37push through new legislation after that

47:40time.

47:42Um similarly the other one I wanted to

47:43highlight that really stood out was

47:452018.

47:46So this was the midterm election after

47:50Trump had been elected the first time in

47:522016. And in 2018, this was the the

47:56what's sometimes called the pink wave or

47:58the blue wave election where the this

48:02this set of midterms handed control of

48:04the House back to the Democrats who

48:07picked up 41 seats. And this was the

48:11first election that took place after the

48:14the MeToo movement had really exploded

48:17the previous year. And there was also at

48:20the time outrage over the uh Kavanaaugh

48:24hearings for the Supreme Court where

48:27around that Venus retrograde station

48:29some some dark stuff came out about his

48:31past or some dark allegations were made

48:33about things he may have done in the

48:35past. And um as a result of that, this

48:39election ended up shattering a lot of um

48:43like history books levels because what

48:45happened is 102 women were ushered into

48:49Congress at this time. So there's not

48:51just it was not just a shift in the

48:53Democrats favor, but during this Venus

48:56retrograde in Scorpio, a huge amount of

48:58women were brought into office in

49:01Congress at this time. And that actually

49:05ties in with the very next event that

49:07I'll mention in the very next section,

49:08but I'll wind that down here and we'll

49:12we'll switch to the next section after

49:14this.

49:16All right. The next major topic I saw

49:17come up a lot was uh women's rights,

49:21queer liberation, and cultural

49:23reckonings during these Venus

49:25retrogrades in Scorpio over the past

49:26century. So, the first one was was

49:29really early on. And it was a really

49:31cool one that I saw which was in 1915

49:36when Venus was retrograde in Scorpio

49:38during the later part of that year. The

49:40US House held its first ever floor vote

49:44on a federal constitutional amendment to

49:48grant women the right to vote. And it

49:50ended up um failing at the time. it

49:53didn't go through, but it ended up

49:55laying the groundwork so that that would

49:57actually happen over the course of the

49:59next decade. And it was a major step um

50:03[clears throat] because partially at

50:04that point they were able to get

50:05everybody to commit to voting one way or

50:08another. And then the suffrage the

50:10women's suffrage movement could then

50:12sort of like target, you know, which

50:15seats to focus on in the future, which

50:18then was was successful uh over the

50:21course of the next decade. in in

50:22eventually getting women the right to

50:24vote. So that's a really interesting

50:27connection with our last one from 2018.

50:29If you think about it, it's like 1915 is

50:32like the US holding its first ever um

50:36vote basically on on whether to give

50:39women the right to vote. Whereas in 2018

50:42during the Venus retrograde in the same

50:44sign in in a repetition

50:47literally a century later we get this

50:49historic wave of 102 women being ushered

50:52into Congress which is pretty cool.

50:56So similar thing the themes in like 1947

51:00for example um in Canada there was this

51:04um citizenship act which came into

51:07effect during this Venus retrograde and

51:09it created this groundbreaking shift in

51:12terms of civil rights by allowing

51:14married Canadian women to hold their own

51:16independent citizenship status rather

51:19than automatically losing it if they

51:22married a non-citizen.

51:24So again, it's more specific to to a

51:27certain country, but it's like women

51:29getting more rights basically and

51:32getting more civil rights during the

51:33course of a Venus retrograde and having

51:36some old rules revisited and revised or

51:39in some instances rejected in order to

51:42grant uh women greater freedoms and

51:45greater civil liberties.

51:48So elsewhere, um, a really sad one was

51:52in 1978 and during the course of this

51:54Venus retrograde in Scorpio, this was

51:57the the Harvey Milk assassination

52:01where um there was this former

52:04supervisor who snuck into city hall and

52:08he basically assassinated the mayor as

52:11well as the supervisor of San Francisco

52:14who was Harvey Mil. And Harvey Mil is

52:17famous today in like the history books

52:19for being uh the very first openly gay

52:22elected or one of the first openly gay

52:25elected officials in in the United

52:26States. And then this plunged the city

52:29into major uh civil trauma and protests

52:34and other things like that. So that's

52:37more of a negative or or sort of

52:39depressing in instance of a Venus

52:41retrograde, but it was an important one

52:44because of of what happened and how it

52:46impacted people, but also then how it in

52:50in some ways um energized people to make

52:54more change in the future and to change

52:57things.

52:59All right, so moving on. Another similar

53:01one, the the 1986 one, one I really

53:04loved learning about was this was the

53:07Venus retrograde where during the course

53:10of that fall, um Oprah Winfrey starts

53:14her nationally syndicated show. And what

53:17was cool about this is that eight years

53:19earlier, Oprah started like a local

53:22show, like a local television show or

53:26talk show. But then what happened when

53:28that same Venus retrograde recurred

53:30eight years later in 1986

53:33is suddenly she got a nationally

53:35syndicated talk show which was seen by

53:39uh uh people all over the country by by

53:42viewers all over the country. And one of

53:45the things about this that was very

53:46Venus retrograde in Scorpio is that

53:48Oprah was willing to talk about really

53:52difficult things especially in the lives

53:55of women. And at one point during the

53:57course of this Venus retrograde, she um

54:00she spontaneously like opened up and

54:03revealed her own um experience of

54:06childhood abuse on national television.

54:10And this kind of um set a new precedent

54:12in terms of shattering this precedent of

54:15like silence and deep social stigma

54:19surrounding those topics. and she um

54:23Oprah in her birth chart has Mars and

54:25Saturn and Scorpio in the same sign. And

54:28I think if I remember correctly, Venus

54:31was like retrograde and exactly

54:32conjoining her natal Saturn when she

54:35made that disclosure.

54:37But um so that was part of what that was

54:39about, but it was also a broader thing

54:41about her talk show during that that 3

54:44or 4 month period at the end of 1986

54:47just becoming this national sensation.

54:50And she was willing to talk about

54:53sensitive stuff like that or or other

54:55things. And that was one of the things

54:57that uh especially women at the time

54:59found really endearing for her and

55:01eventually turned her into um like her

55:04openness and and willing to go there was

55:06part of what turned her into the

55:08national sensation that she would become

55:10by the end of the century where I

55:12believe by the end of the century she

55:14became the richest

55:17um black woman of like the 20th century

55:20basically.

55:21And there's some other interesting stuff

55:24there about like in December she did

55:26like a 60 Minutes interview. So it was

55:28like her profile had raised enough that

55:31by the time Venus is stationing direct

55:34um she's being interviewed on 60 Minutes

55:36for being this like sudden sensation.

55:38And even um during the course of that

55:40Venus retrograde, I think she she also

55:43started dating her what would become her

55:46long-term partner named Steedman. So,

55:49there's lots of like cool stuff there

55:50that would make for an interesting study

55:51about Oprah at some point and how the

55:54Venus retrogrades in Scorpio have been

55:55important for her.

55:58All right, moving forward, jumping eight

56:00years forward to 1994, there were a

56:02couple of sort of parallel things that

56:04happened under this Venus retrograde in

56:05Scorpio that were tough but important.

56:08One of them was the landmark Violence

56:11Against Women Act was signed into law at

56:14this time.

56:16And one of the primary senators who was

56:18like promoting it at this time was a

56:21younger Joe Biden who had not just a a

56:26stellium in the sign of Scorpio but also

56:29was born with Venus in Scorpio. And this

56:33event kind of dovetailed with another

56:36one that was taking place in the media

56:37at the same time, which is that uh

56:40during the course of that Venus

56:41retrograde, jury the jury selection

56:44process began for the OJ Simpson trial.

56:48And um there was a lot of national

56:51discussions that were taking place about

56:53like domestic violence and and abuse and

56:57different things like that that were

56:59sort of like really dominating the media

57:01headlines during the course of this

57:02Venus retrograde in Scorpio. And OJ

57:06Simpson later was famously like

57:08acquitted but then um found guilty in a

57:12civil trial I believe for murdering his

57:15wife um Nicole Simpson or Nicole Brown

57:19Simpson.

57:20So that was a tough one but it gives you

57:23an idea of some of the themes that can

57:25sometimes come up during some of these

57:26Venus retrogrades. And sometimes there's

57:29difficult things, but then al also

57:31sometimes there's progress like the

57:33passage of this um violence against

57:35women act, which was pretty landmark at

57:37the time. Of course, there's other

57:39parallel things because also issues of

57:41like like racism with with the police

57:44came up during the course of the OJ

57:46Simpson trial. And that's another topic

57:48in terms of um racial racism and issues

57:53surrounding it coming up sometimes

57:54during Venus retrograde in Scorpio that

57:56I'll talk about I think in in one of the

57:58next sections.

58:01All right. So, moving forward, 20210,

58:05um Obama signed the repeal of the don't

58:09ask, don't tell policy, basically where

58:12he got rid of don't ask don't tell,

58:15which permanently allowed uh gay,

58:18lesbian, and bisexual Americans to serve

58:21openly in the armed forces where up to

58:24that point there was like this bizarre

58:27rule where it's like you could be gay as

58:30long as you kept secret or something

58:32like that in the military for the past

58:34like 17 years leading up to that point.

58:38Um, but finally in December after Venus

58:41station direct in Scorpio, Obama

58:43repealed it, which was one of his like

58:45campaign promises in 2008. And one of

58:48the things that's interesting about that

58:49from earlier in that fall with the Venus

58:53retrograde in Scorpio just before before

58:55it went retrograde is that Lady Gaga did

58:59the famous she showed up at like the MTV

59:02Video Music Awards famously with this

59:04like meat this dress made out of raw

59:06meat and it's always remembered as like

59:08the meat dress at the time. But what's

59:11often not remembered is she actually

59:13said it was she was protesting the don't

59:15ask don't tell policy and I believe that

59:18she she showed up with or was

59:20accompanied by four uh former members of

59:24the military who were were gay or

59:26lesbian who had been um discharged from

59:30the military as a result of their sexual

59:31orientation. So, so part of what was

59:34happening is like at the beginning of

59:35this Venus retrograde in Scorpio earlier

59:37in the fall, Lady Gaga is like

59:39protesting don't ask, don't tell, and

59:42she's also trying to like contribute to

59:45the the effort by putting pressure on

59:48certain senators that were going to be

59:50important in terms of not blocking that.

59:52And then by a few months later, by the

59:55end of the Venus retrograde in Scorpio,

59:56once it's stationing direct, Obama

59:58officially signs the the repeal of that

1:00:01policy.

1:00:03All right, moving on. The next one was

1:00:05pretty tough. And this was in 2018. One

1:00:08of the main like hallmarks of that Venus

1:00:10retrograde in Scorpio was that um the

1:00:14the the nation was really gripped by the

1:00:17Brett Kavanaaugh hearings where uh Brett

1:00:21Kavanaaugh was like nominated to become

1:00:23a Supreme Court justice. But then there

1:00:27were these hearings for it basically and

1:00:30a woman named Dr. Christine Blazley Ford

1:00:33came forth and she testified about past

1:00:36sexual assault during the Supreme Court

1:00:39uh confirmation process which exposed

1:00:43um you know some of the real raw

1:00:45cultural divisions that were really

1:00:48coming up in the the postme era which

1:00:52had really emerged over the past year

1:00:54prior to that. Um but then you know but

1:00:57then he was still nominated basically or

1:01:00or still approved and became a Supreme

1:01:03Court justice despite that in the middle

1:01:05of the Venus retrograde subsequently.

1:01:09So that Venus retrograde though as I

1:01:11said was the same retrograde in which

1:01:15102 women were elected to Congress which

1:01:19was historic and that was partially fed

1:01:22by the Kavanaaugh hearings that were

1:01:24happening at the same time and just the

1:01:26sense of outrage that many women had

1:01:29that there was a woman uh sort of coming

1:01:30forward and reporting this and then the

1:01:34that the nomination still took place.

1:01:39Um, and then one other smaller but still

1:01:42important and relevant story that I

1:01:44found while I was researching that also

1:01:46happened during the the course of the

1:01:482018 Venus retrograde in Scorpio was the

1:01:51Tokyo Medical University scandal where

1:01:55um it early on in the retrograde, it got

1:01:57exposed that there was this prestigious

1:02:01medical university in Japan that was

1:02:04systematically altering the entrance

1:02:06exam scores for like more than a decade

1:02:10in order to intentionally suppress the

1:02:13enrollment of of more women into their

1:02:16program and in order to bring more men

1:02:18into it instead. And this came out and

1:02:21then it became a whole controversy

1:02:23during the course of that Venus

1:02:24retrograde in Scorpio in 2018.

1:02:28So, um, that's, yeah, that's one of the

1:02:30major themes of sometimes these major

1:02:33scandals coming up, but then also

1:02:35sometimes major progress being made in

1:02:38certain areas as well.

1:02:42All right, let's move on to the next

1:02:43section, which has to do with themes I

1:02:46was see seeing that kept coming up that

1:02:48involved racial justice, desegregation,

1:02:51and civil rights struggles.

1:02:53So um right at the beginning in 1906 one

1:02:58of the interesting ones I noticed was

1:02:59that Mahatma Gandhi coined the term

1:03:03Satya Graha which essentially means

1:03:06nonviolent resistance in order to

1:03:08characterize his political movement

1:03:11while he was living in South Africa. So,

1:03:14I thought that was really interesting

1:03:15like the Venus retrograde in Scorpio and

1:03:17and this one was also still in Sagge,

1:03:19but that but that idea of nonviolent

1:03:22resistance emerging at this time

1:03:25under what was essentially the first

1:03:28Venus retrograde where it started in

1:03:30Sagittarius and and went back into

1:03:32Scorpio. And then there was there was

1:03:34actually a lot of there was like at

1:03:35least two or three subsequent things

1:03:38subsequent Venus retrogrades in Scorpio

1:03:40over that century that ended up being

1:03:42really important in terms of Gandhi and

1:03:45in terms of um some of the efforts to uh

1:03:49liberate India basically from from

1:03:52colonialism.

1:03:54um under the same 1906 Venus retrograde

1:03:56in Scorpio, the Atlanta

1:03:59race massacre basically occurred at that

1:04:02time where uh a a group of thugs

1:04:06basically who were spurred by

1:04:08sensationalist local newspaper reports,

1:04:12this whole like armed white mob went and

1:04:15terrorized this black community in

1:04:17Atlanta and massacred a bunch of people.

1:04:21And this tragedy though, one of the

1:04:23positive things that happened subsequent

1:04:25to it is it galvanized some figures

1:04:27which ended up leading to the creation

1:04:30of some things such as the Alphafi Alpha

1:04:34uh fraternity which is the first black

1:04:36inter college fraternity in the US and

1:04:40this then became a cornerstone of black

1:04:42civil leadership. So, um, that was a

1:04:46theme I saw come up a few different

1:04:48times. And this Venus retrograde 1906 is

1:04:51still largely in Sagittarius.

1:04:54So, I saw a few different times like

1:04:56more um, educational and travel and

1:04:59other themes coming up during this time.

1:05:02So, for example, under the same 1906

1:05:04Venus retrograde in Sagittarius and

1:05:07Scorpio was the San Francisco

1:05:09segregation crisis, where for some

1:05:12really stupid reason, the San Francisco

1:05:14public school board triggered this

1:05:17international diplomatic crisis by

1:05:20ordering Japanese students into

1:05:23segregated schools. And this ended up

1:05:25during the course of the Venus

1:05:27retrograde causing an international

1:05:29incident with Japan. and the President

1:05:32Theodore Roosevelt ended up having to

1:05:34intervene in order to prevent a greater

1:05:37escalation with Japan at that time. And

1:05:41so it had to do with racism not just

1:05:44against Japanese people but also um

1:05:47Korean people were targeted as well as

1:05:49Chinese people who had historically been

1:05:52the subject of of racism and segregation

1:05:55for for decades up to that point as

1:05:57well.

1:05:59All right. So, jumping forward, um,

1:06:01another big one was in 1992

1:06:05was the Rosewood massacre where there

1:06:08was this this false allegation that took

1:06:11place and then an armed white mob um

1:06:14stormed and systematically burned down

1:06:17this entire prosperous black town of

1:06:21Rosewood, which is in the state of

1:06:23Florida, and basically burnt the entire

1:06:26town to the ground, erasing it from the

1:06:28map. And this massacre interestingly was

1:06:33actively suppressed like the

1:06:35documentation and knowledge of it was

1:06:37was suppressed after that point

1:06:40especially by the state all the way

1:06:42until 72 years later in 1994 where there

1:06:46was a Venus retrograde in Scorpio

1:06:49and Florida during that Venus retrograde

1:06:51in Scorpio which was a recurrence became

1:06:54the first US state to offer financial

1:06:57rep reparations ations to survivors of

1:07:00the massacre.

1:07:01So, um there was also like a a movie

1:07:04that was made about that in the 1990s

1:07:06and other things like that, but it was

1:07:08like a long process of eventually

1:07:12documenting what had happened and like

1:07:14greater awareness of it coming about

1:07:16later in the century after occurring,

1:07:19you know, way earlier in the 1920s in

1:07:211922.

1:07:23Um, another interesting one that I saw

1:07:25that I didn't know a lot about before,

1:07:27but I thought I found fascinating was

1:07:28the Venus retrograde in Scorpio in 1930.

1:07:33And what happened is on the exact day

1:07:35that Venus stationed retrograde, there

1:07:38was uh a king in in in Ethiopia named

1:07:42Ross Tafari Mcnonan

1:07:46who was crowned as Haley Salasi

1:07:48Imperthia.

1:07:52And this crowning of him as emperor was

1:07:55like widely covered and publicized in

1:07:58the media where it became like this

1:08:01global almost spectacle. It was

1:08:05interesting because the um the the

1:08:08publicization of it had some unintended

1:08:11side effects where um later on over the

1:08:14course of that decade, it ended up

1:08:16directly inspiring the Rostafarian

1:08:20movement in Jamaica who viewed this

1:08:23emperor as a religious figure and as a

1:08:25source of of inspiration and then it

1:08:28ended up inspiring um anti-colonial

1:08:33resistance and and black pride and other

1:08:35themes like that. But it was interesting

1:08:37that the the coronation happened exactly

1:08:41the day of the the Venus station and it

1:08:44was something that was like widely

1:08:46publicized and known about and it was

1:08:48one of those events that really caught

1:08:51my eye similar to like how for example

1:08:54the day of the Venus retrograde station

1:08:58um in Sagittarius in another year was

1:09:01when they found like the first steps to

1:09:05the entrance to the tomb of the ancient

1:09:08Egyptian pharaoh toutin common. So

1:09:11sometimes these themes of like eminence

1:09:13and and people in power, but also the

1:09:17royal regalia and different things like

1:09:19that are are some of the themes that can

1:09:22come up during the Venus stations. But

1:09:24also one thing I kept noticing is that

1:09:26sometimes something will happen on a

1:09:28Venus station like an event but there

1:09:30will be artistic or cultural or

1:09:34religious or other things that that will

1:09:37influence that won't become visible

1:09:40until years later until se several years

1:09:43later. So for example with that one uh

1:09:45inspiring the Rostafarian movement or

1:09:49even aesthetically like the discovery of

1:09:52that Egyptian pharaoh causing um or or

1:09:55leading to the art deco movement or

1:09:57influencing artistic directions in the

1:09:591920s for example.

1:10:02All right, jumping forward 1962 during

1:10:05that Venus retrograde. This was the

1:10:07integration of a college where a student

1:10:12named James Meredith registered as the

1:10:14first black student at the University of

1:10:16Mississippi. And this was during

1:10:19Kennedy's administration. And it and

1:10:22what happened is it required federal

1:10:24troops and US marshals to basically like

1:10:28overpower defiant state segregationists.

1:10:32And um as a result of that, he was able

1:10:35to attend college there and finish his

1:10:37degree his degree. Um so this is a like

1:10:41a major turning point in terms of um

1:10:43segregation and especially school

1:10:45segregation and breaking that up in the

1:10:481960s.

1:10:49And then weeks later towards the end of

1:10:51the Venus retrograde, I think once it

1:10:53had stationed um after facing mounting

1:10:56pressure from civil rights leaders,

1:10:58President Kennedy signed an executive

1:11:00order that officially banned racial

1:11:03discrimination in federally funded

1:11:05housing. So that was another really

1:11:07important one that was happening again

1:11:10during the course of this Venus

1:11:11retrograde where oftent times it's like

1:11:13a series of things that are happening

1:11:16rather than just a singular event.

1:11:19Um elsewhere jumping forward to 1986

1:11:22uh when anti-aparttheid leader Desmond

1:11:25Tutu was enthroned as archbishop in

1:11:28South Africa and then he subsequently

1:11:31used his international pulpit to demand

1:11:34sanctions against the apartheid regime

1:11:37in South Africa. So this was um again

1:11:41similar and it was kind of it was

1:11:42reminiscent to me of um earlier when

1:11:46when the when Haley Salassie was um

1:11:50crowned as emperor of Ethiopia. you have

1:11:53this interesting like similar like

1:11:55figure here being crowned but in this

1:11:56instance like a religious figure and one

1:11:59of the things it reminded me of seeing

1:12:01some of the religious things come up

1:12:03sometimes is um that in some of the

1:12:06Hellenistic astrologers like Vadius

1:12:08Valins they actually associate some

1:12:10elements of the religious functions and

1:12:13religious priests with Venus with the

1:12:16planet Venus that had more of a

1:12:18religious function in ancient astrology

1:12:20than we sometimes think of it today But

1:12:22these are some instances where where

1:12:24sometimes that really can come up. Um,

1:12:27all right, jumping forward two more.

1:12:29There's one in 2002. This was when um US

1:12:33Senator Trent Lot resigned

1:12:36even though he was the incoming Senate

1:12:38majority leader after this bipartisan

1:12:41uproar took place when he praised like

1:12:44the the 1948 segregationist presidential

1:12:48campaign of another senator or or of not

1:12:52another senator but another politician.

1:12:54So he basically like praised this

1:12:56campaign, but then everybody pointed out

1:12:59that that was a campaign that was really

1:13:01much focused on on segregation being a

1:13:03good thing. So it drew widespread

1:13:06condemnation and then he he was forced

1:13:09to resign.

1:13:11Uh elsewhere, one last one. Um, this

1:13:14ties back in with the previous story

1:13:17where um, James Meredith was able to

1:13:20register at the University of

1:13:22Mississippi as a student in 19 1962.

1:13:26Um, but what happened is in 2018 on

1:13:29October 5th of that year when the Venus

1:13:32retrograde in Scorpio recurred exactly

1:13:3556 years later um he was formally

1:13:39inducted into the university's alumni

1:13:43hall of fame. Uh basically recognizing

1:13:48him as being the first student that was

1:13:50like integrated into the school at that

1:13:52time during the course of of

1:13:54desegregation.

1:13:55So this is an important thing that we

1:13:57sometimes see in terms of recurrences is

1:14:00sometimes

1:14:01um something will happen or somebody

1:14:03will do something or be the first to do

1:14:06something during a Venus retrograde in

1:14:07Scorpio and sometimes it'll be something

1:14:09that's really difficult or or dangerous

1:14:12but then um it'll set a precedent and

1:14:15then years later when the Venus

1:14:17retrograde in Scorpio recurs they'll

1:14:20sometimes be recognized for that or

1:14:22receive some recognition for it and we

1:14:25see that here or we see that with um as

1:14:28I said with like Florida in one of the

1:14:30previous ones recognizing

1:14:33um that town and paying restitution to

1:14:36to the survivors or some of the

1:14:38residents who were survivors of that

1:14:40massacre at that time. And I'll do a

1:14:43little section later if I have time and

1:14:45don't run out of steam on other

1:14:47repetitions in order to collect some of

1:14:49these together to show you other ones

1:14:51that I found as well cuz I actually

1:14:52found a bunch.

1:14:55All right, let's keep things moving. So,

1:14:57I'm um I'm kind of doing just like a

1:14:59very top level initial description of

1:15:03each of these events cuz I decided to do

1:15:05that rather than almost any one of these

1:15:08I could drill into much more to talk

1:15:10about the details and the nuances. But I

1:15:13thought it would be better to to give an

1:15:15like a brief overview of as many as

1:15:17possible rather than just focusing on

1:15:20individual ones to give you more of a

1:15:22sense of the full scope and breadth of

1:15:25of what these Venus retrogrades can mean

1:15:27in Scorpio.

1:15:29So let's move on to the next section

1:15:31where some themes I kept seeing come up

1:15:33involved poisons, pollution, and

1:15:36ecological reckonings.

1:15:39So for example the very first one this

1:15:42is towards the very tail end of like the

1:15:44signbased Venus retrograde but it may

1:15:47still be relevant which is in 1915

1:15:51Germany makes the first largecale use of

1:15:54poison gas in warfare where they

1:15:56deployed uh tear gas against Russian

1:15:59troops at the battle of Bolau. So, this

1:16:04was the first major widespread use of

1:16:06poison gas um just after this Venus

1:16:09retrograde had taken place. And so,

1:16:12sometimes it's like when you see an

1:16:14event happening towards the end of the

1:16:15retrograde or the later part of that

1:16:17cycle, it means that there was like a

1:16:19period of of intense development and

1:16:21stuff that led up to it in the few

1:16:23months before that, which is probably

1:16:25what took place here. All right. So,

1:16:27moving forward, a big one, one of the

1:16:30most impressive ones I found, which

1:16:32connects two 8-year cycles, was in 1962,

1:16:37there was a marine biologist named

1:16:39Rachel Carson who published a landmark

1:16:42book which exposed the hidden and deadly

1:16:46effects of toxic and especially um a

1:16:49aerosol pesticides like DDT

1:16:54and the effect that these pesticides

1:16:55were having on the natural world and

1:16:58this basically like kickstarted the

1:17:00contemporary grass move grassroots

1:17:03movement for um environmentalism.

1:17:07So she basically cuz up to this point

1:17:10this is like ever since like World War

1:17:13II and after that um pesticides and

1:17:17stuff were just being used like crazy to

1:17:19get rid of mosquitoes and other things

1:17:20like that and there was an assumption

1:17:22that these things were were safe

1:17:25basically. But all of a sudden, this

1:17:28scientist publishes this book, and it's

1:17:31one of the first books. It's one of the

1:17:32like few books in American history where

1:17:35there's a few books like this or like

1:17:37Uncle Tom's Cabin for example in the

1:17:391800s that really um are are so big that

1:17:45they actually cause major it's such a

1:17:48big expose that they cause actual

1:17:52tangible and lasting political change

1:17:55because over a very short span of time

1:17:58it it alerts people to like dangers that

1:18:01are happening to bad things that are

1:18:03happening that they didn't know

1:18:04otherwise. And in this instance, it had

1:18:06to do with uh basically toxic pesticides

1:18:10and how that was destroying

1:18:12um entire ecosystems, but how that also

1:18:16then could affect humans in negative

1:18:18ways. And so what's interesting is that

1:18:20was the Venus retrograde in Scorpio of

1:18:221962, but then eight years later in

1:18:261970, that Venus retrograde in Scorpio

1:18:29repeats. And then um what happens is is

1:18:33that the Environmental Protection Agency

1:18:37is established in the United States

1:18:39specifically for the purpose of cleaning

1:18:41up pollution and and toxicity in the

1:18:44earth and in the air and in the water

1:18:48uh in in reaction to the the movement

1:18:52and to the disclosures that started

1:18:55eight years earlier in 1962 with the

1:18:57publication of Rachel Carson's book

1:19:00Silent spring. So, that was that's one

1:19:02of the most brilliant connections

1:19:04between two

1:19:06um an eight-year cycle basically of like

1:19:09Venus retrograde h happening and then a

1:19:12major event taking place and then it's

1:19:14starting a movement in this instance

1:19:16like an environment the environmental

1:19:18movement which then culminates in like

1:19:20this really major government entity of

1:19:23the the EPA being formed exactly 8 years

1:19:26later at the repetition of that same

1:19:29Venus retrograde in Scorpio.

1:19:31So, I thought that was really cool and

1:19:32that was one of the most compelling

1:19:35repetitions basically in an 8-year

1:19:38period that I found in researching this

1:19:40particular cycle.

1:19:42Um, all right. Other there's a couple

1:19:44somewhat related ones. One of them was

1:19:46in 2002 involving toxic gas where in

1:19:50Russia there was this hostage crisis

1:19:53that took place in a theater that ended

1:19:56catastrophically when the Russian

1:19:58special forces um pumped an undisclosed

1:20:02amount of this lethal what turned out to

1:20:05be a lethal chemical agent which was

1:20:08supposed to be a knockout gas into the

1:20:10building's ventilation system but then

1:20:14it ended up uh killing like over a

1:20:16hundred of the hostages or something

1:20:17like that. So, it ended up being seen as

1:20:20as sort of a a catastrophic disaster

1:20:23even though it was supposed to be like a

1:20:25rescue operation, but it was a rescue

1:20:27operation that went arry. So, that's

1:20:30part of the symbolism I think of like

1:20:31the Venus retrograde in Scorpio is like

1:20:33a res a rescue operation that goes ary,

1:20:36but in this instance, that also involved

1:20:38um what turned out to be uh poisonous

1:20:42gas.

1:20:44All right. And finally, the last one,

1:20:46which kind of ties in, I think in

1:20:48interesting ways to the environmental

1:20:50theme that we saw in the 1962 and 1970

1:20:54Venus retrograde in Scorpio, is in 2018.

1:20:58this Venus retrograde in Scorpio in the

1:21:00last several last few months of that

1:21:02year coincided with the um the emergence

1:21:06of the young at the time just

1:21:0915-year-old Swedish high school student

1:21:12Greta Thunberg who um started protesting

1:21:16and started a campaign that was called

1:21:20the school strike for climate campaign

1:21:23where she was like holding a sign and

1:21:26one of the things that was really

1:21:27interesting about this and about her and

1:21:30as she like emerged basically onto the

1:21:33world stage during the course of the the

1:21:363-month period of this Venus retrograde

1:21:38in in late 2018 was that like she was

1:21:41really fueled by a deep anger over

1:21:44ecological collapse as well as um

1:21:47invisible carbon emissions and her

1:21:51protest ended up igniting what's called

1:21:53the Fridays for future movement where

1:21:56millions of students ended up uh or

1:21:58began striking from school over the

1:22:02environment. And what was interesting is

1:22:04that the the movement of this, which was

1:22:06really explosive at the time, if you're

1:22:08around back then, ended up resulting in

1:22:10her getting invitations.

1:22:13Um first in November during the course

1:22:15of the Venus retrograde, to give this

1:22:17really famous TED X talk and then from

1:22:20there she was actually invited to give

1:22:22this really highly publicized speech in

1:22:25December. Um, I think around the time

1:22:27that Venus is is stationing direct or

1:22:30maybe just after it's already stationed

1:22:32direct, she gives this speech for the

1:22:34United Nations at a a climate summit in

1:22:38Poland. And she basically during these

1:22:41speeches ended up like like channeling

1:22:43this generational anger which is very

1:22:46Scorpio. It was directed at the

1:22:48establishment and and at the government

1:22:50and politicians where she fiercely

1:22:53criticized global leaders for their

1:22:55inaction and basically bluntly told them

1:22:58that they were stealing their children's

1:23:00futures.

1:23:02So, I thought that was a really

1:23:03interesting one in terms of Mar Venus

1:23:06retrograde in Scorpio and the emergence

1:23:09of a new um environmental activist

1:23:14figure in a similar way that like 1962

1:23:18saw the emergence of uh Rachel Carson in

1:23:21her book Silent Spring and then 1970 saw

1:23:25the creation of the Environmental

1:23:27Protection Agency as a result of that.

1:23:29So, um, interesting themes coming up

1:23:32with these these Venus retrogrades in

1:23:34Scorpio where sometimes it's it's

1:23:37identifying something that's like

1:23:39killing people, but it's doing so

1:23:42quietly or silently in the in the case

1:23:44of Rachel Carson's book, it's literally

1:23:46called Silent Spring and bringing that

1:23:49to people's attention in order to try to

1:23:51fix it or make it better or to resolve

1:23:55or restore it in some way.

1:23:59All right, so shifting gears in the next

1:24:01section, one of the major themes that I

1:24:03started to see come up over and over

1:24:04again were themes having to do with true

1:24:07crime, cults, and psychological terror.

1:24:10where sometimes these themes involving

1:24:13like mass cultural panic surrounding

1:24:15toxic relationships or psychological

1:24:18manipulation or even high-profile

1:24:22murders that sometimes um shatter the

1:24:25the illusion of safety in society.

1:24:29So, for example, the very first one was

1:24:30in 1947,

1:24:32and this was the the Black Dalia murder

1:24:36where there was this gruesome but also

1:24:38really highly sensationalized

1:24:41um murder in Hollywood of an aspiring

1:24:44actress named Elizabeth Short. And prior

1:24:48to this, it's like Hollywood had this

1:24:50like glamorous like beautiful

1:24:53picturesque sort of um veneer to it to

1:24:57especially to outsiders. But then this

1:24:59highly um publicized death just kind of

1:25:03like shattered the American post-war

1:25:06idealized dream about Hollywood. And

1:25:09instead what it um substituted in its

1:25:12place was part of the modern obsession

1:25:16with like true crime stories and it

1:25:19showed this like gritty sort of

1:25:22underworld side to Hollywood basically

1:25:25and and to California and that area in

1:25:28general. So, we sort of take this for

1:25:31granted nowadays in terms of the like

1:25:34the podcasts and the the YouTube

1:25:36channels and other things like that that

1:25:38focus on true crime stories, but this is

1:25:41really one of the the first really big

1:25:43ones in America was this murder in 1947

1:25:46under a Venus retrograde.

1:25:49All right. So, jumping forward to 1978.

1:25:52This was the Jonestown Massacre during

1:25:54the course of this Venus retrograde in

1:25:56Scorpio when there was this cult leader

1:25:58whose name was uh Jim Jones. And he

1:26:02directed this horrific mass murder or I

1:26:05should say mass suicide of over 900

1:26:09people who famously um drank this

1:26:13cyanide laced punch and then and then

1:26:17died. And this led to the famous like

1:26:21eventually the famous um phrase like

1:26:24don't drink the Kool-Aid became like one

1:26:26of the phrases that came out of this.

1:26:28Although they it turns out they weren't

1:26:31drinking Kool-Aid, but they were

1:26:32drinking some like cheaper knockoff

1:26:34version of it. Not that that matters,

1:26:36but um it kind of illustrated the

1:26:40darkest extremes of themes of like toxic

1:26:43devotion and psychological control. And

1:26:46once this happened again, it was really

1:26:48highly publicized

1:26:50massacre and like mass suicide. So a lot

1:26:53of these themes were just all over the

1:26:55media and the news for for weeks after

1:26:58this during the course of the retrograde

1:27:01as the

1:27:03people in the country and around the

1:27:05world are sort of like discussing themes

1:27:07of like what would lead cult members to

1:27:10like follow a charismatic leader into

1:27:12death and and different things like

1:27:14that.

1:27:16Um, similarly a dark one. I originally

1:27:18had this in the like first section on

1:27:20digging up old things, but this one was

1:27:23a little different, a little bit more

1:27:24gruesome. This was in 1978 was the

1:27:27arrest of John Wayne Gayy who was this

1:27:31famous um serial killer basically in in

1:27:34the United States when police there was

1:27:38like um a disappearance of somebody and

1:27:42and John Wayne Gayy became the primary

1:27:44suspect and eventually they went and

1:27:47they searched his house and they they

1:27:49uncovered a mass grave in his crawl

1:27:53space that was in the dirt that was

1:27:55concealing

1:27:57um a lot of of people basically that he

1:28:00killed. And it really shocked the public

1:28:02at the time because he turned out to be

1:28:05like one of the most prolific serial

1:28:07killers in the country. But to his um

1:28:11his community, he they he was known as

1:28:14somebody that was thought to be like a

1:28:15good good guy or something like that

1:28:16because he actually played a clown. Like

1:28:20he went to parties and acted as as as a

1:28:23clown at parties in his suburban

1:28:25neighborhood. So it's like his local

1:28:27community was absolutely shocked, but

1:28:29then the country and the world was

1:28:32shocked as well when he turned out to be

1:28:33a a serial killer.

1:28:37um similar was in 1994. This is like I

1:28:40said, um the jury selection process for

1:28:43the O.J. Simpson trial and then um the

1:28:47jury process itself became really highly

1:28:49publicized due to the the double murder

1:28:52and due to how um famous OJ Simpson was

1:28:55at this point both as a famous football

1:28:58player, one of the most famous football

1:28:59players in America, but also as an actor

1:29:01where he'd become like a successful

1:29:04actor in the 1980s as well, playing in

1:29:07comedies and other things like that. And

1:29:10um it raised like the jury selection

1:29:13process itself

1:29:16because the whole trial was later

1:29:18televised the following year once it got

1:29:21started. But with the jury process

1:29:23selection process itself, there was this

1:29:26national discussion and reckoning at the

1:29:28time about themes of like domestic abuse

1:29:32and toxic relationships in particular.

1:29:35And because the um the lawyers at the

1:29:39time during the jury selection were also

1:29:41arguing about whether certain evidence

1:29:44could be like submitted at trial about

1:29:46like previous abuse allegations or about

1:29:49like the phone call that his wife or

1:29:52ex-wife made when he was breaking into

1:29:56the house to like murder her and the the

1:29:58guy that she was with. Um there was a

1:30:01lot of discussions at the time that were

1:30:02pretty intense and pretty dark during

1:30:04the course of that Venus retrograde.

1:30:07And then finally, another one um I

1:30:10remember really vividly from 2002 during

1:30:12the course of this Venus retrograde was

1:30:14the beltway snipers where there were

1:30:17these two um guys. There were these two

1:30:20snipers who went around on the east

1:30:23coast around Washington DC and they

1:30:26executed this seemingly random set of

1:30:29killings where they were like concealed

1:30:33and they put the the gun through a hole

1:30:35in the car in the trunk and then they

1:30:38were just like shooting people over this

1:30:403-w weekek um essentially what became

1:30:43like a psychological terror campaign

1:30:45because this was late 2002 so this is

1:30:48only like a year after 9/11 and the

1:30:50country was still very much on edge and

1:30:53very paranoid about terrorism and all

1:30:56sorts of things like that. And then

1:30:58there's like these two guys that go

1:31:00around the Washington DC metro

1:31:03metropolitan area just like um shooting

1:31:07people with with sniper rifles over the

1:31:09course of a 3-week period. So it was a

1:31:11very um crazy time. And yeah, that was

1:31:15the last in terms of that and in terms

1:31:17of how sometimes events like this can

1:31:20cause feelings of like psychological

1:31:23terror in the in the news and in terms

1:31:24of people being worried about like am I

1:31:27next or or what precautions should I

1:31:30take not to be the um subject of the

1:31:33victim of something like this and so on

1:31:35and so forth.

1:31:37Next section I want to talk about some

1:31:39themes that I saw come up repeatedly

1:31:41about economic control uh economic

1:31:44sabotage and also sometimes economic

1:31:48structural revolutions.

1:31:50So for example in 1914 around the Venus

1:31:53retrograde in Scorpio that occurred that

1:31:55year the US government officially

1:31:58established the Federal Trade Commission

1:32:01and the goal of this was to protect

1:32:03consumers to crack down on corporate

1:32:06trusts and also to prevent

1:32:08anti-competitive business practices.

1:32:12So, it's like Venus going through

1:32:14Scorpio and setting up a thing that was

1:32:16set to help consumers avoid being ripped

1:32:21off basically by crooks or by criminals.

1:32:24And sometimes

1:32:26that criminal element can sometimes come

1:32:28up when you have things going on with

1:32:30with the sign of Scorpio, including

1:32:33attempts to sometimes fix that criminal

1:32:36element. Like I think you know in

1:32:38another context like the FBI I think

1:32:40what the f I think the federal bureau of

1:32:42investigation was created under Saturn

1:32:45and Scorpio or maybe it was that like

1:32:47maybe it was Jed Garoover that had

1:32:49Saturn in Scorpio or something like that

1:32:52but in this instance it was a Venus

1:32:54retrograde in Scorpio. Um similarly

1:32:57under the same Venus retrograde in 1914

1:32:59in Scorpio the Federal Reserve banks

1:33:02opened or the very first set of 12 banks

1:33:05uh which were regional Federal Reserve

1:33:07banks officially opened across the

1:33:09United States

1:33:11and the the point was to um decentralize

1:33:16the central banking system in in order

1:33:19to pull reserves and stabilize the

1:33:22nation's fractured financial sector And

1:33:26this would actually become really

1:33:27important later on because that that's

1:33:291914 when the Federal Reserve banks

1:33:31open. But then what happened is that in

1:33:341930 when there was another Venus

1:33:37retrograde years later like two cycles

1:33:39later we h we had the collapse of the

1:33:42bank of the United States

1:33:45where um in the in the east coast I

1:33:48think it was in New York there was these

1:33:50panic panicked depositors who basically

1:33:53triggered a bank run that that triggered

1:33:56the collapse of the bank of the United

1:33:58States and this was the largest

1:34:00commercial bank failure in US history up

1:34:03to that point. So it was ironically

1:34:07happening on a a retrograde recurrence

1:34:09of Venus retrograde two cycles after the

1:34:12Federal Reserve was created. It was

1:34:15actually a really notorious um failure

1:34:18of the Federal Reserve to step in and

1:34:21act as a lender of last resort because

1:34:24the Federal Reserve basically like

1:34:25refused to step in and let let the bank

1:34:28fail, which in retrospect was seen to be

1:34:32um a bad call that was motivated by uh

1:34:36really bad things or really stupid

1:34:38things.

1:34:39So there's some sort of history there in

1:34:42terms of just the fact that the Federal

1:34:43Reserve was created or that the banks

1:34:46were opened at least um under that Venus

1:34:49retrograde sets up some sort of

1:34:51important precedent whenever that Venus

1:34:53retrograde recurs again in the future.

1:34:56All right, moving on. 1938 that Venus

1:34:59retrograde there was the landmark New

1:35:02Deal economic legislation took effect

1:35:06where basically it established um this

1:35:08was during Roosevelt's presidency. It

1:35:11established the first federal minimum

1:35:13wage. Uh it mand mandated overtime pay

1:35:17and then it also outlawed oppressive

1:35:20industrial child labor. So it was like

1:35:23during the course of the New Deal when

1:35:26Roosevelt's like implementing all of

1:35:27these economic policies during the

1:35:31course of the Great Depression basically

1:35:33the 1930s

1:35:35this was like one of the major things

1:35:36that was implemented at that time in

1:35:38order to attempt to offset or help

1:35:40things in order to put some rules and

1:35:43guidelines in place which to to help

1:35:46people and and to help the the little

1:35:48people which is more of a a Venus type

1:35:51thing.

1:35:52Um but then later on in 1946, so this is

1:35:57postw World War II and something

1:35:58interesting that happened was um it was

1:36:01like right towards the end of this Venus

1:36:04retrograde in Scorpio in 46, President

1:36:07Truman officially proclaimed the

1:36:10sessation of World War II hostilities.

1:36:13So it's like World War II had

1:36:14technically ended like a year year and a

1:36:17half earlier in mid 1945 in terms of the

1:36:21actual fighting in Europe and and in the

1:36:24Pacific. But then what happened is um at

1:36:28the end of this Venus retrograde in late

1:36:301946, he officially on paper and for

1:36:34economic and financial reasons declared

1:36:37the war officially over. And what this

1:36:40did is it it systematically started

1:36:42dismantling some of the emergency

1:36:45federal controls that had been in place

1:36:47during the course of the war during the

1:36:49course of World War II about things like

1:36:51um domestic prices, wages, and also

1:36:55manufacturing.

1:36:57And this transition then helped make the

1:37:00economic transition to ignite the

1:37:03post-war civilian consumer economy.

1:37:06>> [clears throat]

1:37:07>> So that's really important in terms of

1:37:11sometimes Venus has more to do with

1:37:14regulation and like economic regulation

1:37:16and things like that than we really

1:37:17think of. And you can really see that

1:37:19sometimes during these Venus retrogrades

1:37:22in Scorpio.

1:37:24um both in terms of like when

1:37:27regulations are put in place in a in a

1:37:29good or helpful way or sometimes when

1:37:31regulations

1:37:33fail or or are not put in place or used

1:37:36appropriately.

1:37:38Um and finally there was one other

1:37:39economic one that came up. It was the

1:37:411970 Venus retrograde and this was when

1:37:45um the US government ended up or

1:37:48orchestrating this like invisible

1:37:50blockade in order to destabilize Chile's

1:37:53economy. And what they did is they

1:37:56pressured international lenders like the

1:37:58World Bank to completely halt

1:38:00development loans. And I think I

1:38:02mentioned this already, but it may just

1:38:04be relevant in terms of some of the

1:38:07recent heightened economic blockades in

1:38:10terms of Iran that were announced this

1:38:12summer. And then we'll see what happens,

1:38:15how that plays out over the course of

1:38:17the next several months as Venus goes

1:38:19retrograde in Scorpio again and we get a

1:38:21recurrence of something similar to 1970.

1:38:26All right, moving on to the next section

1:38:28to keep things going. So I I found some

1:38:30major themes.

1:38:33We'll sort of shift gears at this point

1:38:34because the next section has to do with

1:38:36themes involving the media broadcasting

1:38:39and global icons. So for example in 1906

1:38:44during the very first Venus retrograde

1:38:46that dipped into Scorpio the um there

1:38:49was there was an international

1:38:51conference that took place and they

1:38:53formally adopted the Morse code sequence

1:38:57SOS as the universal maritime distress

1:39:00signal for basically if you need help.

1:39:03And I thought that was a really

1:39:04interesting like Venus retrograde thing

1:39:07of like having a signal that's now like

1:39:10universally recognized. Like even if you

1:39:12don't know Morse code, everybody knows

1:39:14that like SOS is like that distress

1:39:17signal that ships will put out if

1:39:19they're in trouble. And I thought that

1:39:20was really interesting Venus retrograde

1:39:23like symbolism of like going retrograde

1:39:25and like asking for help or alerting

1:39:28others that you're in need of

1:39:30assistance.

1:39:31Similarly, this under the same

1:39:33retrograde, there was another first

1:39:35where um at this time

1:39:39a a person transmitted what is widely

1:39:42recognized as the first audio radio

1:39:44broadcast during this Venus retrograde

1:39:47in Scorpio. And what was interesting is

1:39:50it brought he used both his human voice

1:39:53but also used music. This guy played

1:39:56music over the the radio and he um

1:40:00astonished it like really surprised some

1:40:02of the wireless shipboard operators at

1:40:05the time and the person who did it his

1:40:07name was Reginald uh Fascenden.

1:40:10So the very first basically like human

1:40:13voice and music over the radio occurred

1:40:16under this Venus retrograde in Scorpio

1:40:19and the significance of that will become

1:40:21clearer as I go through some of the

1:40:23repetitions.

1:40:24So we jump forward one cycle to um 1915

1:40:30when Alexander Graham Graanbell

1:40:33inaugurated the first commercial

1:40:35transcontinental telephone line by

1:40:38calling his former assistant from New

1:40:41York to San Francisco and he repeated

1:40:43his iconic phrase or then iconic phrase

1:40:46quote Mr. Watson come here I want you

1:40:49end quote. So the first basically

1:40:52opening up at towards the end of the

1:40:54Venus retrograde and I think they were

1:40:55like testing it and working it out

1:40:56during the course of the Venus

1:40:58retrograde and then by the time it

1:40:59stationed direct they did this big

1:41:01publicized like first call on this

1:41:05transcontinental telephone that that was

1:41:08calling from New York to San Francisco.

1:41:12All right, moving on. 1922 Venus

1:41:14retrograde in Scorpio. Um this was when

1:41:18this was the start of technicolor cinema

1:41:21basically where there was this movie

1:41:24called the toll of the sea and it

1:41:27premiered as the first feature film that

1:41:30was produced in twocolor subra

1:41:33subtractive technicolor that could be

1:41:35screened without specialized production

1:41:37equipment. So, it was a really huge

1:41:40turning point in terms of of starting to

1:41:44bring color basically into film, which

1:41:46had largely just been black and white up

1:41:48to that point, but also in terms of

1:41:51pushing the technology forward to make

1:41:53it easier to make color films, which

1:41:57eventually would come to dominate um

1:41:59movies and television and everything

1:42:01else today. But this is really a crucial

1:42:04turning point in terms of being the

1:42:06first feature film that did this with

1:42:09that specific approach. Um, jumping

1:42:12forward to 1954, a really interesting

1:42:15one that had a repetition that I found

1:42:17is that it turns out that during the the

1:42:20Venus retrograde in 1954,

1:42:22the very first episode of the Tonight

1:42:25Show debuted with uh Steve Allen, who

1:42:29who was the host originally on uh NBC of

1:42:33the Tonight Show. And it and the Tonight

1:42:35Show ended up becoming this like

1:42:38American institution because it set this

1:42:41standard for like like late night talk

1:42:43shows basically. And

1:42:47uh that that all subsequent talk shows

1:42:49would would imitate after that. And

1:42:51what's cool about this one is is so the

1:42:54Tonight Show starts under the Venus

1:42:56retrograde in Scorpio in 1954.

1:42:59And then get this, exactly eight years

1:43:01later when the Venus retrograde in

1:43:03Scorpio repeats in 1962, that's when

1:43:06Johnny Carson took over the Tonight

1:43:08Show, which he ran for like the next, I

1:43:11think, three decades or something like

1:43:13that. And at that point, it really took

1:43:16off and the Tonight Show became sort of

1:43:19like the primary hit uh late night show

1:43:22in television that just dominated the

1:43:25ratings for decades. And um I thought

1:43:28that was interesting cuz I've I've used

1:43:30Johnny Carson's chart for other things

1:43:32at other points and I know that he has

1:43:34Scorpio rising with Mercury and Saturn

1:43:37in Scorpio in the first sign house. So

1:43:40that means that that Venus retrograde

1:43:42that happened in 1962 when he was taking

1:43:45over the Tonight Show was going through

1:43:48his his rising sign in his first house

1:43:50and like activating his Mercury and his

1:43:53Saturn in the in the first house and he

1:43:55became like a household name as a talk

1:43:58show host. So I thought that was pretty

1:44:00cool. Actually, now that I think of it,

1:44:02that's actually similar to my own chart

1:44:05and situation because I I also have uh

1:44:09Mercury and Saturn in Scorpio.

1:44:13And I took over as host of a podcast on

1:44:19my birthday in 2010 in the middle of a

1:44:22Venus retrograde in Scorpio in my 10th

1:44:25sign house. Um, there was this this old

1:44:28podcast I took over called Traditional

1:44:29Astrology Radio that I took over from my

1:44:32friend Jackie Minky's and I ran that for

1:44:35like a few years and then eventually um

1:44:39launched the astrology podcast in 2012

1:44:44actually under a subsequent Venus

1:44:45retrograde because I wanted to not just

1:44:48talk about traditional astrology but I

1:44:50wanted to talk about lots of different

1:44:52forms of astrology and that's why I

1:44:53broadened it. But now that I think about

1:44:55it, it's funny that I also got started

1:44:57under a Venus retrograde in Scorpio in

1:44:58the 10th house over my Mercury Saturn

1:45:01conjunction at the time.

1:45:03All right, good. Always finding new

1:45:06things even in the process of of talking

1:45:09about them. All right, so jumping

1:45:12forward um 1962

1:45:16that same Venus retrograde where um

1:45:19Johnny Carson is like taking over the

1:45:21Tonight Show. One of the things I found

1:45:23really fascinating is that the band, The

1:45:26Beatles, released their debut single at

1:45:29this time, which was this the song Love

1:45:32Me Do. And this was basically like their

1:45:36first commercial single and was the

1:45:38start of what would become like massive

1:45:40commercial success where they became the

1:45:44most successful band in popular music

1:45:47history. And it all started with this

1:45:49Venus retrograde in Scorpio in 1962.

1:45:54All right, moving forward to jumping

1:45:56forward eight years to 1970. That Venus

1:46:00retrograde in Scorpio was particularly

1:46:02depressing for some reason. And in some

1:46:05instances, this has to do with like what

1:46:07planets are aspecting the Venus

1:46:10retrograde either by being in the same

1:46:13sign as Venus, like being in Scorpio for

1:46:16example, like um

1:46:19there was one where there was like a lot

1:46:20of surprises and it was because Venus

1:46:22was like stationing with Uranus

1:46:25conjuncted and that was um like what was

1:46:29it? That was the president. And I think

1:46:31that was like Carter or somebody

1:46:34announcing the agreement with with

1:46:37China. Um, but there's other times where

1:46:41it's with Jupiter and it's like a little

1:46:43bit more easy or favorable. There's

1:46:45other times where there's other planets

1:46:47like Mars aspecting Venus by like a hard

1:46:50aspect and you can see those ones being

1:46:52a lot more rough in terms of certain

1:46:54stories. Anyways, the 1971 um just two

1:46:58weeks apart during this Venus retrograde

1:47:01in Scorpio, both Jimmyi Hendris as well

1:47:04as Janice Joplain ended up dying

1:47:07tragically at the age of 27 years old

1:47:11and both of them died from tragic drug

1:47:14overdoses. So this was um you know I was

1:47:18around around at the time but that must

1:47:20have been really rough I imagine

1:47:22especially for a lot of the younger

1:47:23people and a lot of the cult

1:47:24countercultural people that listen to

1:47:27their music. And then um yeah this is

1:47:30also cementing the idea of the the 27

1:47:33club of sometimes like famous musicians

1:47:36passing away around the age of 27.

1:47:39Um which later musicians like Kurt

1:47:42Cobain would would continue. Uh,

1:47:44unfortunately.

1:47:46All right, moving on. So, um, in 1986, I

1:47:52talked about the debut of the Oprah

1:47:54Winfrey show when she started her

1:47:56nationally syndicated show and then just

1:47:58like became this national sensation over

1:48:01the course of the next few months by

1:48:03talking about uh, tough things, but al

1:48:06and being really empathetic and open and

1:48:10like willing to go anywhere with her

1:48:11audience. And that's a really important

1:48:14one

1:48:15where sometimes there's like figures

1:48:17that rise into prominence during these

1:48:19Venus retrogrades. So in terms of like,

1:48:22you know, Oprah rising into prominence

1:48:23there or the Beatles releasing their

1:48:26first single in 1962 or like Johnny

1:48:30Carson taking over the Tonight Show in

1:48:331962 under the Venus retrograde. And um

1:48:37often times it's because like Scorpio is

1:48:39falling in an important spot in the

1:48:42chart or it's because the people

1:48:45involved have important placements in

1:48:47Scorpio.

1:48:50Um okay, the last two I wanted to have

1:48:52in this section are 1984

1:48:54when Netscape Communications released uh

1:48:57Netscape Navigator 1.0 0. And this was

1:49:00the first widely successful commercial

1:49:03web browser which basically gave like a

1:49:06a visual user interface that was easily

1:49:09accessible for accessing the internet.

1:49:12And this this helped to transition the

1:49:15internet from like this sort of like

1:49:17academic curiosity into the

1:49:20indispensable global medium that

1:49:23everybody uses today that's like really

1:49:25easy to access. And part of that

1:49:28turning point was like having a a visual

1:49:32way to access the internet that was like

1:49:35easy and accessible. And that partially

1:49:37really started here with the release of

1:49:40of Netscape in 1994 during that Venus

1:49:43retrograde. And my very last one, which

1:49:46is one of my favorites, um happened in

1:49:482010. And this is when during this Venus

1:49:51retrograde in Scorpio, like early in the

1:49:54retrograde, software engineers released

1:49:56the photo sharing app Instagram. And

1:50:00Instagram was released during this Venus

1:50:02retrograde in Scorpio in late 2010. And

1:50:04then it just like quickly became wildly

1:50:07popular. And it attracted something like

1:50:10a 100,000 users in just its first week.

1:50:14And then by the end of the retrograde,

1:50:16by the time Venus stationed direct um in

1:50:20Libra in December, in November and

1:50:24December, um Instagram had hit over a

1:50:28million followers basically by December

1:50:31by the end of the retrograde. And it it

1:50:33essentially like completely

1:50:34revolutionalized

1:50:36the idea of visual social media as well

1:50:39as mobile photography

1:50:42because 2010 was still like the very

1:50:44early days of smartphones and like

1:50:47iPhones and other stuff like that. And

1:50:50Instagram being a social networking

1:50:55platform that was entirely focused on

1:50:57photos was really novel at the time,

1:51:00especially because it had a unique

1:51:02feature of being able to put different

1:51:05um filters on your photos. And back

1:51:08then, people were putting all sorts of

1:51:10like, you know, dark and mysterious and

1:51:12other kind of like um filters on all of

1:51:14the photos that they were posting on

1:51:16Instagram. So, I thought that was

1:51:18amazing. And the other thing that's

1:51:19amazing about that is 2010 was the first

1:51:22time that Venus retrograded that it

1:51:26started the retrograde in Scorpio but

1:51:27then it stationed direct in Libra

1:51:31and then when Instagram itself was

1:51:33launched there was a stellium of planets

1:51:35in Libra involving like the sun and

1:51:38Mercury and something else I believe.

1:51:40So, I think that's part of the shift and

1:51:42that's like an early preview and like

1:51:44intimation of the larger shift that

1:51:47we're going to be see seeing emerge over

1:51:50the course of the next century as the

1:51:52Venus retrogrades continue to drift from

1:51:55Scorpio into Libra more fully and

1:51:59potentially this being an early example

1:52:01of that just in terms of the power of

1:52:04images, the power of video, the power of

1:52:09aesthetics and different things like

1:52:11that, which is a is a very venujian

1:52:14thing.

1:52:16All right. Uh, digression. So, yeah, I'm

1:52:19working through these pretty good so

1:52:20far. I'm going to try to keep the

1:52:21momentum up. This is obviously a lot,

1:52:24but hopefully you're starting to get

1:52:26some perspective on, you know, how it

1:52:28all comes together when you start seeing

1:52:30the big picture. Um, I meant to say that

1:52:33obviously it started off with some of

1:52:35the more challenging stuff

1:52:38and I'm treating these mundane studies

1:52:42as separate from a natal study. So, it's

1:52:45not like, you know, anything in this

1:52:48that we're talking about in a natal

1:52:50context. It doesn't mean that that's

1:52:52necessarily how it's going to manifest

1:52:53in a private or a personal context

1:52:56because it really depends on how the

1:52:57birth chart is set up in different ways.

1:53:00Um, but if people would like, let me

1:53:02know in the comments and I may do a

1:53:04separate episode talking about examples

1:53:06of different people that natally have

1:53:08Venus retrograde in Scorpio and that

1:53:11could be an interesting additional

1:53:12avenue

1:53:14that I largely decided to leave out of

1:53:16this treatment just for for time and

1:53:18space. And um, yeah, what else? What

1:53:21else did I meant to say? I meant to give

1:53:23the date that I'm recording this on

1:53:25September 17th, Thursday, September

1:53:2817th, 2026. Uh I used an election with

1:53:31Sagittarius rising. I think I it's a

1:53:34little delayed. I was shooting for

1:53:35midheaven in Virgo, but I think it ended

1:53:37up being midheaven at zero uh Libra, but

1:53:40I had a nice moon Jupiter trine today

1:53:42that I wanted to take advantage of for

1:53:44recording this. And um

1:53:48um I'm a little struggling cuz I'm

1:53:50getting over being sick with COVID this

1:53:52month that's been lasting for like 2 or

1:53:533 weeks that has um exacerbated some of

1:53:57my existing like long COVID symptoms

1:54:00with like fatigue and brain fog and

1:54:02memory loss. So I'm relying a little bit

1:54:04more on the extensive notes that I wrote

1:54:06down I I might normally. But that's why

1:54:09just in order to make sure I'm saying

1:54:12all of the main things that I meant to

1:54:14say in terms of all the research,

1:54:16although this is still in many

1:54:17instances, I'm just giving like the the

1:54:20bare minimum or like highlights of of

1:54:23some of the research.

1:54:25All right, let's get back into it. Let's

1:54:27move into our next section, which is one

1:54:28of our more fun sections, which has to

1:54:31do with movies, media, and dark themes

1:54:34in pop culture.

1:54:36So, um, going all the way back to 1906,

1:54:40I found this fascinating because during

1:54:42this Venus retrograde in Scorpio, where

1:54:44it just barely dipped into Scorpio for

1:54:46the first time, we had a a first, a

1:54:50world's first, where the world's first

1:54:52featurelength narrative film premiered

1:54:55and it was titled The Story of the Kelly

1:54:58Gang. And this film, what what's funny

1:55:01about this film is that it actually

1:55:03chronicles the notorious exploits uh and

1:55:07anti- athoritarian rebellion of as well

1:55:11as the tragic downfall of this 19th

1:55:13century Australian

1:55:16um person and his like outlaw gang. And

1:55:19it was like a the the leader of a gang

1:55:21named Ned Kelly. So, what's funny about

1:55:24this this being like the the world's

1:55:26first featurelength narrative film is it

1:55:30was like kind of about like crime and

1:55:31and criminal acts and like gangs and

1:55:34underworldly stuff like that. And what's

1:55:36funny is that will set up a precedent

1:55:38that we're going to see recur in

1:55:40especially a major uh recurrence of

1:55:43Venus retrograde later later on in 1994

1:55:46um that I'll mention here in just a

1:55:48little bit. Okay. But but world's first

1:55:51featurelength narrative film. So it sets

1:55:53up an important precedent for doing long

1:55:57featurelength films and that something

1:55:59like that can actually be successful.

1:56:02All right, so jumping forward to 1938.

1:56:05This one was really funny because this

1:56:06is when um Orrison Wells broadcast a

1:56:10fake alien invasion over the radio which

1:56:14caused widespread psychological panic

1:56:17because he he basically did like an a

1:56:19radio version of the War of the Worlds

1:56:23book and story, but he played it like it

1:56:27was like a newscast that was like live

1:56:29and unfolding. And they did like a

1:56:31little I think they did a little

1:56:32disclaimer at the beginning, but like

1:56:34since some people tuned in late, they

1:56:36didn't hear that. They thought this was

1:56:38like live like an alien invasion was

1:56:40taking place and like destroying things

1:56:43and taking over the world. So, it

1:56:44freaked out a bunch of people and it set

1:56:47a really interesting precedent in terms

1:56:49of mass media and the potential for

1:56:51panic or or misinformation or like

1:56:54paranoia and fears and different things

1:56:56like that with this Venus retrograde in

1:56:58Scorpio in 1938.

1:57:01All right, jumping forward, there were

1:57:03some different movies that came out

1:57:05during Venus retrogrades in Scorpio that

1:57:07were really interesting and iconic for

1:57:10different reasons. And one of the ones

1:57:12that I found the most fascinating is the

1:57:14Venus retrograde of 1946.

1:57:17The movie It's a Wonderful Life came

1:57:19out. And this this was interesting

1:57:22because it actually premiered shortly

1:57:24after Venus stationed direct in Scorpio.

1:57:27And the the film itself, even though

1:57:30it's like usually viewed, you know, like

1:57:32a century almost a century later, is

1:57:34like this um Christmas movie and like a

1:57:37Christmas classic at this point. Um,

1:57:40when it first came out, it didn't do