When in a relationship, do you see the reality of the person/situation? The day-to-day? Or do you get lost in fantasy/daydream. POTENTIAL.
Venus in Pisces, Venus in the 12th House, Venus Neptune… they can see what’s Not There Yet but what Could Be There. If only! They see inside you. They see what you don’t see, what you don’t know. And they love you for it and inwardly take the challenge: I shall bring it out! This person’s potential will be born through ME!
There’s some pride there, don’t you think? Pisces Pride? Pride in the ability to sacrifice, to pine, to wait.
It reminds me of this quote from Kierkegaard (really, it does!) from his book Works of Love and it was soooo long ago that I don’t rememeber the quote but I remember a poem I wrote that incorporated the idea from the passage that I am remembering: Time comforts the waiting girl by coming and going.
See? That’s all she has. Time.
When Neptune is bound up with your love nature (Venus) no matter how slippery the tie, you are that girl (or boy) on the high seas. She (or he) may be separated from his (or her) love, but the wait is, can be, thrilling in and of itself. TOO satisfying in and of itself.
It’s as though the other person doesn’t exist. And they cease to need another person! Their fantasies are where it’s safe.
Now I do believe that Venus in Pisces, Venus in the 12th, Venus Neptune… they do see the truth about their lover but who the fuck cares when the person is 1000 miles away and fucking someone else? Their potential doesn’t really matter much then. Their potential = your ACTUAL misery.
Your thoughts?
xo
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Yeah, as Bella says “no expectations = no misery”. I think that’s the really positive thing about Pisces, and Venus in Pisces in particular – unconditional love. Not needing anything back, not needing a result, just being willing to send love out, and let it go (like the saying of setting what you love free). I think this is because an essential aspect of Pisces is surrender, merging with the flow of the Oneness, and letting what will happen happen (trusting the Great Mystery and accepting what comes – or doesn’t come).
So I see the most positive potential of Venus/Neptune as unconditional love of another, loving them for their potential, WITHOUT expecting them to live up to that potential or needing them to do so. So I guess, loving someone’s potential AND loving them the way they are in the moment, at the same time (the whole package = higher self + actual, flawed self).
totally agree.
It hits home for me, too, only I have Mars in Pisces, square my Venus. I vacillate between the two, and when someone told me something that scared me, I told him that I trusted him to get the help he needed. Even though I can feel that pull, and didn’t keep my boundaries strong enough where he was concerned (I would have, if I’d had more going on, and been feeling better), I have known my whole life that one person can’t save another through love.
With this person, there is still a small part of me that wishes things could be different, because I had a real thing for him, but he broke my heart, and continued to do so, through his words and actions.. and he didn’t give a damn what he was doing to me. He dragged me down, and crushed my self-esteem, all the while acting as though I was the problem and suddenly like he was trying to help me, when I’d been okay before – socially anxious but okay – and he, it turned out, was really unhealthy. I say this and I mean it: if I could cut his balls off, and get that time back, I would, because the ball-less wonder doesn’t deserve to possess them. And this comes from someone who hates to hurt anyone, and was oh so concerned about doing the right thing.
Potential. Definitely potential. I date their potential. Guess how well that works out for me? Because I end up pushing them to be more than they are, what I think they could be, should be and guess what…they end up resenting me. Of course. My goal for the year is to NOT date their potential but to date who they are right here, right now. Wish me luck!
..and yet, sometimes, they step up to their potential and become “it”.
I was with a wonderful man for over 8 years and did he grow into his skin, or what! Early on others wondered what I saw in him and I saw potential, untapped, waiting to be born.
It was not one sided. He supported me like no one else. Dare I say: not even like my family whom I love and respect. He “got” me.
So Venus in 12th can be magic.
I don’t have Venus in the 12th, I’m just stubbornly optimistic 😉
defiantly so 😀
That’s all well and good (true), but I’d like to call attention to another (IMO, huge) aspect of Venus/Neptune that seems to be constantly overlooked, in the focus of Venus = romantic relationships. Basically, I see Venus as relationship in general (the process of relating), and what I think gets forgotton is that our whole experience of living on Earth is a continual process of relating. We relate with every thing and every being that exists – with our food, with our possessions, with our community, with the elements, etc. And since the strongest association of Neptune, to me, is the realm of spirit (the unseen), then it makes sense to me that Venus/Neptune = our relationship with spirit.
I think it’s a sign of the times – most people’s total disconnection/ignorance/denial of spirit – that this aspect of Venus/Neptune so rarely gets acknowledged. That’s unfortunate, because whether we acknowledge the realm of spirit or not, it’s there, and all of constantly relate to it in our lives.
LOVE IT!!!!
i have 12H virgo venus squared by neptune. i am so glad you give the up side to this placement, as well as the down.
sick of astrologers who only speak of the delusion and pain.
thanks!
this hits home for me in so many ways at the moment….and this: “they do see the truth about their lover but who the fuck cares when the person is 1000 miles away and fucking someone else? Their potential doesn’t really matter much then. Their potential = your ACTUAL misery.”
is completely true!
Their potential just becomes your pain if your are not with that person or that person is with someone else….I’m going through this now and as of yesterday, I have turned my heart off because of this pain…..I was swollowed up by pain the past couple weeks until yesterday I turned on my defence mechanism and decided “fuck him, he’s not here with me and thats his decision not mine…..in that case, I don’t really give a shit, or want him.”
Plain and simple, no expectations = no misery. 🙂