As one of only two planets that orbits between the Earth and the Sun, Venus holds a unique position in relation to the Earth. Sometimes called Earth’s “sister planet,” Venus completes its synodic rhythm in 584 days, which is when it comes back to the same place relative to Earth and Sun, kind of like new moon. During that time it moves in a rather tricky fashion.
Here’s what happens: Venus will spend about 263 days as our morning star, then the planet will disappear in the light of the Sun for about 50 days. During this time, Venus will come to superior conjunction, on the other side of the Sun from the Earth. Then, Venus will emerge in the evening sky, and spend another 263 days or so as our evening star. After this, Venus slips away into the Sun’s light again, and will, after only eight days, emerge as morning star. Venus is always moving retrograde when it makes this quick change from the end of the day to its beginning.
Venus will emerge in the West after sunset any day now, to grace the sky as our evening star, where the planet of love and beauty will shine from now until mid-March next year.
What is Venus as evening star? Here’s food for thought from DH Lawrence:
The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts.
The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins.
The moon is a great nerve center from which we quiver forever.
Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus?
But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.
