Sun–Venus Cazimi in Scorpio: How Love Transforms You
A mural of Mary Magdalene beside a flowing fountain in Rennes-le-Château, France. Dressed in white with a golden halo, she rests her head on one hand while holding a skull in her lap, surrounded by flowering vines. A rose and stalks of wheat lie across the fountain’s weathered brick edge—offerings of devotion and spiritual sustenance.
Photo credit: Ally Ayala
Take a moment to be here now.
Let the buzz of doing things start to settle.
Let all of the expectations and responsibilities fall away.
Drop into the silence of your own being.
Find your heartbeat. Feel your breath as it comes and goes in waves.
Feel the breath softening the center of the chest. Receive the beauty of this moment.
Allow yourself to enter The Temple of your own Heart.
Upon entering you find a love and a light that is so pure and so vast, you could never step outside of it.
This light, this love is at the center of your being.
It is a light that never ends. It is a love that never ends.
It sparks a remembrance of a truth often forgotten, and long buried-
You are worthy of love simply because you exist.
The Retrograde Cazimi: Seed of Light & Beauty
The Sun-Venus cazimi is a special moment that is meant to be treasured.
This is a moment of divine union, one that brings together the central light and essence of the Divine Masculine with the beauty and love of the Sacred Feminine.
Together, they remind you: at the core of your being, you are made of Love.
The Sun is the creative life force that shines on all things equally without review, requirement or expectation.
The Sun is a luminary, and its primary gift is that of illumination. It is a steady, constant source of light.
Venus is the love that is inherent to all life.
Throughout time, in many mythologies and religious traditions, Venus is referred to as the Goddess of Love, or the Queen of Heaven.
She has been called by many names- Inanna, Ishtar, Aphrodite, Lakshmi, Mary, and many more.
Each one carrying a story about love, the loss of love, and the resurrection of love.
Venus teaches us so much about relationship.
She bestows the gifts of beauty, attraction, pleasure, and desire. She draws your attention to what you love and long to experience.
Through her, you discover the pleasure of receiving and the ache of longing.
When what you desire remains out of reach, or cannot stay, you may begin to notice where desire becomes craving, and where your happiness has become attached to a particular outcome.
But what if you let desire soften and melt within your heart and breath?
You cannot hold on to one breath forever; it must flow in and out. You cannot hold a heartbeat in place; the heart carries on, beat after beat.
Perhaps you can allow what you love to move in its own rhythm, receiving its beauty without needing to hold it still.
What if you let desire soften and melt inside the light of the Sun?
When the Sun and Venus come together during a retrograde cycle, they plant a beautiful seed of pure light in your heart.
This seed is one of unconditional love.
There is nothing you have to do to earn this love.
There is no grasping, clinging, or withholding of this love, because this love is who you are at the center of your being.
The deepest love does not exist outside of you. It is within you.
0° Scorpio: At the Bottom of the Well
When the Sun and Venus come together at 0° of Scorpio, their union conveys a message about the transformative power of love.
Like the water at the bottom of a deep well, Scorpio is a sign that has the capacity to draw upon the hardest places to reach.
The invitation is to lower the bucket down into the darkest parts of your heart, where the deepest emotions pool, and carry them up into the light of awareness.
Revisit the experiences that made you feel unworthy of love. Or the moments when you learned to hide parts of yourself to keep someone’s love. Or the moments of loss that broke your heart.
Offer your bucket of memories up to the light of Venus resting in the heart of the Sun.
This Cazimi teaches you how to face the shadows you resist, how to acknowledge power struggles in relationships, how to let a version of life that is no longer sustainable collapse into dust and ash, and from there, to resurrect life into a new, healthier expression of love.
This moment invites a willingness to accompany loved ones through grief, vulnerability, and intimacy deep enough to hold the experiences we so often hide.
Meeting these experiences honestly requires compassion for the pain and suffering beneath them, alongside responsibility for how you treat others.
From that deep, hidden well of emotion, begin to explore intimacy with greater honesty, trusting that your needs, your voice, and your emotional depth are totally and completely lovable.
Square Pluto: How Has Love Changed You?
When true love touches the heart, it is impossible to remain unchanged.
Love, with the beauty and the pain it brings into our lives, changes us on the deepest levels.
As Venus has made this really pivotal retrograde journey through the collective consciousness, Pluto has been there every step of the way, bringing the qualities of love, worth, and reciprocity into direct conversation with power and transformation.
With Venus in Scorpio (Fixed Water) and Pluto in Aquarius (Fixed Air), the fixed nature of this pattern can make change difficult. You may recognize that something hurts and still struggle to loosen your grip.
Venus’s retrograde offers time to examine those attachments and consider whether they still reflect who you are at the core of your being.
Questions for Reflection:
How has love changed you?
How has the loss of love changed you?
What does it mean for love to be unconditional?
Who taught you the most about love? What would you say to them today if you could?
Where has love become entangled with control?
Where have you silenced yourself to preserve a connection?
What is your heart’s deepest desire? Listen.
What do you really want?
If tomorrow was not guaranteed, how would you spend today?
These are the kinds of questions that this moment is asking for.
Listen with your heart.
The answers may be at the bottom of the well, and it is time to draw them up into the light of the Sun.
