Venus and Mars form an opposition this week, each in their home signs (Venus in Libra and Mars in Aries). Venus-Mars contacts can be significantly *felt* transits, often through our relationships or at least our inner-orientation to the relationships that we have or wish to have. Love has always existed side by side with conflict – from the courage that it takes to open the heart and the question of how to guard it, to clashing wills with people we love, to feeling the sting of unrequited love, to being called forward to a better version of ourselves and having to face our blindspots when in connection with others. Watch a video version of this forecast on YouTube, or keep reading below: At another level, Venus and Mars always co-exist in many other phenomena – take for example, the way that anger (Mars) is connected to knowing what we value and desire (Venus). The less preference we have, the more go-with-the-flow we are going to be and therefore not easily angered (until enough is enough perhaps!). Venus invites lessons of self-worth and knowing just who we are, and with that knowledge we can properly defend and protect it. Mars invites […]