Looking into the sky this week from the perspective of the mystery wisdom that was cultivated at mystery centers around the ancient world, then we can find a beautiful story unfolding overhead.
The two planets that are closest to the Sun, the planets Venus and Mercury, always held a special relationship to the human being on the Earth, according to the sages that taught in these mystery centers.
Mercury, closest to the Sun, is never seen very far away from the Sun. Mercury moves very quickly, and was always regarded as bearing a message, not only from the sun to the Earth, but from the many spiritual beings that were thought to have inhabited the celestial environment around the Earth. Mercury will come to the same place in the Zodiac as the Sun overnight Thursday, and though we can't see it, this is the time, or so it was believed, for messages between man and gods to be delivered.
Venus, the brightest object in our sky after Sun and Moon, was always regarded as the bringer of harmony and love. Venus was also thought to reflect what lives in the heart of the human being.
These two planets, Venus and Mercury, we only ever see at the horizon at sunset or sunrise~though Venus can get further away than Mercury.
On Friday we'll see the planet Venus very close to the star cluster of the Pleiades, which is the shoulder region of the constellation Taurus, the Bull. This will be visible Friday night, about an hour after sunset looking west.
According to many ancient mysteries, Pleiades was regarded as the course of beginnings for everything in our universe.
If we put all of these pieces together: Mercury as messenger meeting the Sun; Venus as love; and Pleiades as the source, then it could be that at week's end, there is a message of love streaming toward us from the deepest place of our own beginnings. Or so that's the gesture in the stars this week, if we look into the sky from the ancient understanding that was cultivated in the mystery centers.