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WITHDRAWING THE PROJECTIONS Daily Astrology Fri 13th November Venus in Libra is at the end of her retrograde journey. She is standing still, asking us what we have learned over the last 4 weeks. Where have you idealised others and not seen them for who they are? Who were the cool guys you looked up to in your youth? Do they still carry that glamour for you 30 years later? Or parents, teachers, bosses, lovers, celebrities, royalty, authority of any type? Have you, at long last, grown up? It is a lifetime's work. If you are religious, have you taken back some of your projection onto Jesus or the Buddha or the Virgin Mary, and found the sacred within, that had always been there? That is the great thing about the Greek astrological gods, or the Norse gods, and perhaps pagan gods generally: they have human faults. So they remind us every day of the sacred, but we are always thrown back on finding it within. Relationships capital R are the big area of Venusian projection. It seems to be a necessary stage for most of us, and it may only shift a little bit in the course of a lifetime, depending on the drive you have to become whole. The significant Other can carry both our light and our shadow, both our potential and the venal stuff that we don't want to admit to. It can be hard to admit to anything. Certainly in front of others we don't want to admit to having someone else on some kind of pedestal. No, you are entirely your own, independent person, aren't you? But how do human collectives hold together without a mass handing over of judgement to the designated authorities? Look at the way so many people implicitly trusted the government during Covid, they loved being told what to do? Or, which amounts to the same thing in reverse, distrusted everything the government said? There is a fair chance, if you are reading this, that you were in that camp, where governments and political figures are demonised. As this retrograde period ends, in the UK we are having a round of celebrities being knocked off their pedestals for sexual crimes and misdemeanours. Don't we just love seeing them brought low? Within the schadenfreude, there is perhaps an opportunity to see celebrity, at least for a short while, as ordinary human beings in disguise.