The Celestial Nurse

That may be the real question arriving with Venus retrograde in Scorpio. On October 3, Venus turns retrograde, beginning a journey through some of the most intimate territory of the zodiac. Venus speaks to love, desire, pleasure, beauty, values, relationships, and the ways we give and receive affection. Scorpio, meanwhile, does not really do anything halfway. It wants to know what is underneath the attraction, underneath the attachment, underneath the story we have been telling ourselves. And when Venus moves backward through Scorpio, we may find ourselves doing the same. This isn’t necessarily about an old lover suddenly appearing at our door, although retrogrades can sometimes coincide with people or…