As sugar cuts the bitterness of coffee, Venus is bringing sweetness to a terrain that has endured years of turmoil and exposing what was rotten. What a relief and a joy, almost like a feeling of victory. But is it just adding sugar to cover over the flavors of what is rancid? Or is it bringing liberatory softness to sweep away those final toxic ingredients to restore a hardy and fertile land? One cannot quite tell, but the shift in tone is palpable.

What Venus says today is that change is coming, and we can grow with the change or not. Change is neither progress nor decline, it is just change. Some things get better and some things get worse. Look to any deep ambitions you have and see what the moment offers them.