Last week’s rare transit of Venus took place in your own Venus sign. That, all on its own, is a clear sign from the sky that you’re going through something exceedingly special. As the second rare Transit, in 2012, will also be in Gemini, we can safely conclude that you’re entering a long, exciting phase of positive, personal growth. Er.. hang a minute. Personal growth? Isn’t that a sort of 'new-age, psychobabble euphemism for inner conflict and awkward experience?' Well, yes, it is... and no, I won’t pretend that your journey through the next eight years is due to be entirely free of challenge. But grow, you will. And as you acquire greater psychological height, so you will easily start to rise above emotional problems that currently seem to loom dauntingly over your head. You’ll go far past the limitations that currently confine you. You’ll become much more of the person you were always destined to be. And that will make it much easier to recognise and respond appropriately to the person you were always destined to be WITH. The learning curves you encounter on your journey towards a happier future may be steep at times but they’ll never cause you to slide back down the slippery slope towards ignorance. The changes may take a bit of getting used to but once you do adapt, you’ll never look back.
All the events you encounter will have but one simple purpose. To help you fulfill your potential. So prepare to develop more of your talent. To release the gift you were born blessed with. To learn who you really are and what you’re capable of. To impress yourself and others in the process. To win friends and influence people. To become more creative, more inspired, more attractive and more able to weave spells of enchantment. Oh, and one more thing. To enjoy yourself. Next, we will look at more of the blessings that this transit of Venus is due to bestow on you.

Some people believe you can’t know true pleasure until you have known real unhappiness. They say, "There's no gain without pain." and, as we all know how it feels to have a hard time and we don’t want to feel that such experiences are futile, we concur.
Yet we don’t actually know that it is true. No carefully controlled laboratory experiment has taken place, involving volunteers separated by scientists into two groups. Group A has not been made deeply miserable while Group B has been kept cheerful. A series of tests have not then established, beyond doubt, that the ones who went through sadness wound up more able to enjoy life than those who had it easy.
Whatever science thinks or finds, the laws of the universe have not all been understood. Even Newton’s assertion, that what goes up must come down, is not true under all circumstances. The psychological statement that parallels this is most certainly unproven. Between now and at least the next Venus Transit in your sign in 2012, you may have your ups and downs. But what goes up may, even if it does dip briefly down from time to time, keep on rising steadily for many years to come.