It's called a Venus Transit Cycle, which is complex involving Venus' waxing and waning over a period of eight years, where Venus creates a sacred geometric path in the sky. I suggest reading up on it. I like Anne Massey's book, Venus: Her Cycles, Symbols, and Myths.The cycle only occurs every 108 years or so and it occurs in pairs. Through the history of these cycles, new discoveries or new ways of collective functioning occur. The dates of the one we are in now are 2004-2012. During the last cycle, 1874-1882, Alexander Gram Bell invented the telephone and the postal service was established. The current cycle has to do with Quantum Physics, healing, enlightenment, and following right brained intuition. You can read more about this cycle via Jose Arguelles and John Major Jenkins. The next pairs will occur in 2117-2125 and 2247-2255.
There are five phase cycles, which create the five eight-year cycles.
Venus orbits the Sun in 224.695 days, and the Earth orbits the Sun in 365.242 days, creating a ratio of 8/13. The ratio of the orbit of Venus in her dance with the Sun and the Earth equals the golden mean of 1.625--13 divided by 8. Five conjunctions of Earth and Venus take place every eight orbits of the Earth around the Sun and every thirteen orbits of Venus.
The Sacred Geometry of Venus in Venus by Anne Massey
Click here for another good resource of cycle
I believe each period within the cycle involves a retrograde of the sign Venus stations in. During these cycles Venus creates a sacred geometric pattern in the sky, a dodecahedron or five pointed star~an ancient pagan symbol for the elements, related directly to divine proportion--the golden mean.
I believe each period within the cycle involves a retrograde Venus in whatever sign she stations in. During these cycles Venus creates a sacred geometric pattern in the sky, a dodecahedron or five pointed star~an ancient pagan symbol for the elements, related directly to divine proportion--the golden mean.
The number five is significant to Venus and the Pentagram which symbolizes the elements and ancient Goddess pagan religions, and both Venus and the Pentagram have significant connection to Virgo and Demeter, and thus Mary (Magdalene and Mother Mary). The 2004 cycle began in Gemini, then Capricorn, to Leo, Aries (the last Venus retrograde last year) and this autumn Venus will enter Scorpio and retrograde. Venus will then return to Gemini in June of 2012. As Venus moves through the sky her movements imbue a sacred geometric rose pattern in the sky.
I did a study of Venus and Mary for an entire semester at school. Really interesting stuff.
Hey I just read this in Anne's book: If we observed Venus through a telescope or powerful binoculars, we could see a continuously visible thin crescent.
